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Speaker 1: Face app privacy concerns. CS makes some progressive changes. Amazon

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Speaker 1: answering your pressing tech questions.

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Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm Rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk

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Speaker 1: about the stuff I think you should know about happening

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Speaker 1: in the tech world. Plus, I'm answering your tech questions.

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Speaker 1: You send a lot of them to me. This is

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Speaker 1: where I answer them. Producer Megan is joining me today.

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Speaker 3: Hello, how's it going.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while.

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Speaker 3: Welcome back, I know, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I feel like I've been gone forever.

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Speaker 1: You ever feel like that when you go on vacation

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Speaker 1: like that, it's just like you'll never come back.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that's the way I feel.

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Speaker 3: And then you kind of miss it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh I do.

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Speaker 1: I miss it a lot. I definitely definitely miss work.

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Speaker 1: In fact, when i'm I'm such a creature of like

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Speaker 1: I wasn't. I actually deleted Instagram and Facebook off my

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Speaker 1: you the weirdest thing about deleting Instagram was that I

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Speaker 1: did not miss it. Like, so I figured out what

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Speaker 1: happens every picture I take when I have Instagram my phone,

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Speaker 1: I think, could this be an Instagram picture without it?

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Speaker 1: Never thought about that. I just took pictures and it

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Speaker 1: was really sad because I wanted them to be Instagram pictures.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh, this would be so good, but

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Speaker 3: But that's good to detox a little bit.

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Speaker 2: It was.

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Speaker 1: It was good, and then I came back towards the

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Speaker 1: end of the trip and put it back on my phone,

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Speaker 1: posted a couple of pictures. It was fun, but it's

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Speaker 1: weirdest one of those things that when you don't have it,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of nice to get a break that's

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Speaker 4: like a vacation in and of itself.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I do check like my email like a little bit,

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Speaker 1: like not as much. And that's the other thing I've

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Speaker 3: Gone, you know, except for face App.

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Speaker 2: Just kidding, yeah, face app. Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: So of course I started seeing all the people posting

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Speaker 1: So I searched my email and I actually remember doing

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Speaker 1: The date of the email was Tuesday, April twenty fifth,

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Speaker 1: Producer back then was Vanessa, and uh it was here's

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Speaker 1: the app everyone is using to make themselves look older, and.

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Speaker 1: I think I feel I forget how I learned about

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Speaker 1: But the the big concern over this app, And as

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Speaker 1: If you take ten pictures, they analyze you know your

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Speaker 1: like next level, like come on, so cool. The big

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Speaker 1: You can't just like you have to send them like

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Speaker 1: use this app? Yes, it's on my phone. No, I

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Speaker 1: did not allow the camera roll access. You did, right,

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Speaker 1: So the way that I would be okay with this app,

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Speaker 1: and the way that I did it on my phone

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Speaker 1: is there's a way to allow access to your camera

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Speaker 1: you say, Rich I mean, isn't that worse to give

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Speaker 2: But I don't think they're gonna do that either, So

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Speaker 1: But you know, when it comes to any of these apps,

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Speaker 2: What do you make of the app? Do you think it?

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Speaker 3: But I'm probably going to delete it in a week.

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Speaker 4: And if I delete it, do they still have access

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Speaker 1: If you think that as soon as you gave them

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Speaker 2: The damage is done. I don't think that's happening.

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Speaker 1: But again, I think it's good that people are aware

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Speaker 1: But I think if you want to look at some apps,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I agree. Let's start with a question from you, Megan.

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Speaker 4: Okay, so our first question comes from Shirley Lopez. Which

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Speaker 4: smartphone is best for starter? I am seventy nine and

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Speaker 4: I'm preparing to move to a smartphone from a flip phone.

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Speaker 4: After researching, I'm thinking IP seven looks best for my

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Speaker 4: needs sell, email, texting, FaceTime, camera, just the basics.

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Speaker 3: Am I on.

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Speaker 1: Target IP seven? When you first said that, I thought

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Speaker 1: that she meant so. In the tech world, there's something

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Speaker 1: called an IP rating, like or is it IPX?

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Speaker 1: IPX, So it's like, you know that basically says like

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, what she wants a waterproof phone?

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Speaker 1: But no, she means iPhone seven. Oh, so okay, iPhone seven.

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Speaker 1: It is insane because you think everyone has Netflix, everyone

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm not an investor, you know all this stuff,

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of this show?

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Speaker 1: The dumbest name since the iPhone Max. NBCU is launching

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Speaker 1: You don't want Netflix to become a thing that people

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Speaker 4: Have right and I have and my parents have the

445
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Speaker 4: Amazon Fire TV Stick.

446
00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:23,520
Speaker 2: Okay, they have the stick.

447
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:27,159
Speaker 1: I have the Fire TV Stick four K plus the

448
00:18:27,160 --> 00:18:30,359
Speaker 1: their box which is a DVR under my TV. So

449
00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:33,399
Speaker 1: the way I see Amazon versus Roku, I think you're

450
00:18:33,440 --> 00:18:35,800
Speaker 1: gonna be fine with either, especially due to the fact

451
00:18:36,080 --> 00:18:39,720
Speaker 1: that Amazon just made nice with Google again. Because for

452
00:18:39,760 --> 00:18:41,960
Speaker 1: a while you could not get the YouTube app on

453
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Speaker 1: the Fire TV. Now you can. Everything's good.

454
00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:47,480
Speaker 2: My kid just downloaded it yesterday unbeknownst to me, but

455
00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:49,840
Speaker 2: it's there again, so now you have full YouTube.

456
00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,880
Speaker 1: Plus Amazon has access to all the major streaming services.

457
00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,840
Speaker 1: There's nothing at this point. There's really none of the

458
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Speaker 1: major stuff that you can't get on either. So when

459
00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:01,360
Speaker 1: you look at Netflix on Roku versus versus Amazon, it's

460
00:19:01,400 --> 00:19:04,400
Speaker 1: going to be pretty much the same experience now because

461
00:19:04,400 --> 00:19:07,520
Speaker 1: you're on two major platforms, and she says, especially Netflix,

462
00:19:07,800 --> 00:19:10,280
Speaker 1: your Netflix app is going to be great on either

463
00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,440
Speaker 1: one of those because they're always updating it. Roku is

464
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Speaker 1: a huge platform for Netflix. In fact, Netflix's first or

465
00:19:17,280 --> 00:19:20,720
Speaker 1: Roku's first box, was a Netflix streaming box. A little

466
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Speaker 1: bit of trivia for you. Back in the day before

467
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Speaker 1: Roku is Roku, they basically made a box that was

468
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Speaker 1: I forget what it's called, but it was a Netflix box.

469
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:32,359
Speaker 1: It only did Netflix basically. They since expanded obviously, So

470
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Speaker 1: my advice is, if you're an Amazon shopper and you

471
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Speaker 1: love Amazon and all things Amazon your prime, I would

472
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Speaker 1: go with the Fire platform. If not, then go with

473
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Speaker 1: the Roku platform. And Roku, like I said, is kind

474
00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,440
Speaker 1: of like the Switzerland of streaming. They just want to

475
00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:51,679
Speaker 1: please everyone. Pretty much everything is available on there, and

476
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Speaker 1: I think she's gonna be very happy with both. I

477
00:19:53,840 --> 00:19:56,280
Speaker 1: think it comes down to the features you want. So

478
00:19:56,800 --> 00:19:59,040
Speaker 1: if there's a feature on one of those that you

479
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,679
Speaker 1: don't see on the other, then go that. Let that

480
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:04,399
Speaker 1: be your dividing line. But when it comes to apps,

481
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,800
Speaker 1: you're pretty much going to be covered on both of

482
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Speaker 1: those platforms.

483
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Speaker 2: So hope that answers your question. So you went to

484
00:20:11,720 --> 00:20:12,880
Speaker 2: CS with me last year?

485
00:20:12,960 --> 00:20:14,000
Speaker 3: Correct this year?

486
00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's right, it was this here. So

487
00:20:15,920 --> 00:20:18,960
Speaker 1: we're looking forward to CS in twenty twenty. And I

488
00:20:19,040 --> 00:20:22,200
Speaker 1: get this email from CTA, which is the Consumer Technology

489
00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:27,080
Speaker 1: Association which puts on CS, and here's the headline. CTA

490
00:20:27,160 --> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 1: announces policy updates, new partnerships, and new programming track for

491
00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,320
Speaker 1: CS twenty twenty.

492
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:34,560
Speaker 2: If you saw that email, what would you do? You

493
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:35,200
Speaker 2: would hit.

494
00:20:35,160 --> 00:20:39,440
Speaker 1: The delete button right because it sounds so boring. Well,

495
00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:42,280
Speaker 1: I just happened to open this email out of due diligence,

496
00:20:42,560 --> 00:20:46,399
Speaker 1: and guess what it announces in not so unto certain

497
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,359
Speaker 1: terms about CS twenty twenty.

498
00:20:48,600 --> 00:20:49,520
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, there will be.

499
00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:54,959
Speaker 1: Tech based sexual products at CS. Okay, that's a bomb

500
00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:58,000
Speaker 1: that they just drop inside this email that you know,

501
00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:02,720
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, wait what so CS has always had

502
00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,080
Speaker 1: this weird thing where, you know, there's been one thing

503
00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,960
Speaker 1: at CS that is always kind of weird, and it's

504
00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:14,760
Speaker 1: this one company that does like virtual reality adult movies, right,

505
00:21:15,040 --> 00:21:16,800
Speaker 1: and so they always pitch me, They're like, come to

506
00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,359
Speaker 1: our booth and experience it, and I never do so,

507
00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:21,240
Speaker 1: but some people do. And it's like kind of like

508
00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:23,879
Speaker 1: the undercurrent talk of the town that these people go

509
00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 1: and they you know whatever. So now you have sex

510
00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,919
Speaker 1: Tech will be a part of CS twenty twenty on

511
00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:35,160
Speaker 1: a one year trial basis, because number one, you got

512
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,840
Speaker 1: to imagine if you're CS, You've got two things happening here.

513
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,600
Speaker 1: You've got a lot of money being thrown your way

514
00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: by these companies. Yeah, and there's a lot of them

515
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:44,800
Speaker 1: that make these products. On the other hand, you're kind

516
00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,040
Speaker 1: of like, we don't really want to be known as

517
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:50,600
Speaker 1: like a sex show. And so because there used to

518
00:21:50,600 --> 00:21:52,800
Speaker 1: be a show in Vegas which I did cover for

519
00:21:52,880 --> 00:21:55,399
Speaker 1: c NET called I forget what it was called, but

520
00:21:55,440 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: it was some sort of like basically the Porn Convention.

521
00:21:57,760 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: It was. It was pretty crazy. I did it, and

522
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:02,280
Speaker 2: it was we did three stories and it was.

523
00:22:02,880 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 3: Like, they're gonna have like porn stars.

524
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: Well they will not, So they said porn is still banned.

525
00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:12,400
Speaker 1: The existing CS ban on pornography will be strictly enforced

526
00:22:12,440 --> 00:22:15,760
Speaker 1: with no exceptions. So they're taking this as a health

527
00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:19,760
Speaker 1: and wellness thing, and they're gonna have products that must

528
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 1: be innovative or products must be innovative and include new

529
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: or emerging tech to qualify, and this will be part

530
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 1: of the startup area and the health and wellness area

531
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Speaker 1: of Eureka Park, which Eureka Park I believe is not

532
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: at the main convention floor.

533
00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 2: I think it's like off site all the Yeah, so

534
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 2: you will have to go seek this stuff out.

535
00:22:39,040 --> 00:22:41,760
Speaker 1: But I'm saying that I think this is gonna make

536
00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: headlines for CS because it is a change. There will

537
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,040
Speaker 1: be now CES will be associated with these products, and

538
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,919
Speaker 1: it will be in the same headline. So and of

539
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: course it's going to be you know, it's going to

540
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,320
Speaker 1: be headline capturing because it's link baity, it's click baity,

541
00:22:57,400 --> 00:23:00,080
Speaker 1: it's it makes for good pictures, it makes for good story,

542
00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 1: it makes for good videos. So CS has this really interesting,

543
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 1: interesting thing happening in twenty twenty.

544
00:23:05,960 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with that. Yeah, so that's how.

545
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:09,600
Speaker 3: Much we can actually cover with that.

546
00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:13,000
Speaker 2: I don't see us covering it for the morning news.

547
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:16,359
Speaker 1: Maybe it's a it's probably if I had to guess,

548
00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:18,960
Speaker 1: it's a web only thing, you know, it's a it's

549
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:20,680
Speaker 1: a web slide show or something like that.

550
00:23:20,760 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 3: Yeah.

551
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,280
Speaker 2: But anyway, so I thought this was so interesting that

552
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:23,880
Speaker 2: they sent out.

553
00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:26,119
Speaker 1: This email that basically doesn't really say anything, and then

554
00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you get to this line, you're like,

555
00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:30,000
Speaker 1: wait what now. The other thing they're doing is they're

556
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:34,520
Speaker 1: basically banning booth babes, which you went to CS I

557
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: didn't really see that many this year, and booth babes

558
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,600
Speaker 1: for the uninitiated is kind of like these women that

559
00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:46,440
Speaker 1: stand outside booths and basically scantily clad bikinis or less

560
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,760
Speaker 1: and you know, less, well maybe not less, but you know,

561
00:23:49,840 --> 00:23:51,360
Speaker 1: really like a lot.

562
00:23:51,280 --> 00:23:53,560
Speaker 3: Is going on a lot, Yeah, trying to get attention.

563
00:23:53,760 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: They're trying to get you to come to the booth,

564
00:23:55,760 --> 00:23:57,439
Speaker 1: and to me, I always see that as like the

565
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,440
Speaker 1: saddest way of getting me to the booth, because that's

566
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: it's a booth. I'm basically not going to visit because

567
00:24:03,040 --> 00:24:04,480
Speaker 1: it's really sad that they have to go to.

568
00:24:04,359 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: That measures, you know, totally.

569
00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:09,199
Speaker 1: Yeah, So they are banning booth babes by doing this.

570
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: Booth personnel may not wear clothing that is sexually revealing

571
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,440
Speaker 1: or could be interpreted as undergarments.

572
00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 2: That's the less I was talking about, like.

573
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 3: Lingerie based okay, okay.

574
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,000
Speaker 1: Clothing that reveals an excess of bear skin or body

575
00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:25,040
Speaker 1: conforming clothing that hugs hugs genitalia must not be worn.

576
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:31,040
Speaker 1: These guidelines are applica applicable to all staff, regardless of gender.

577
00:24:31,840 --> 00:24:35,520
Speaker 1: So anyway, interesting, kind of interesting for CS. You've got

578
00:24:35,520 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: the toys on one side, but no booth babes on

579
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:39,360
Speaker 1: the other right, So.

580
00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 2: CS, Yeah, they're trying to you know, controversial this year,

581
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,000
Speaker 2: I think. So we'll see what happens with that.

582
00:24:47,080 --> 00:24:50,240
Speaker 4: All right, so switching gears. Our next question comes from

583
00:24:50,480 --> 00:24:56,439
Speaker 4: Patty Edstrom. Subject is videophone for elderly Hi rich, we

584
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Speaker 4: enjoy your segments in Sacramento. I have an elderly mom

585
00:25:00,480 --> 00:25:03,000
Speaker 4: ninety two years old who lives in Tennessee and we

586
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 4: chat daily, but would like to have a video device

587
00:25:06,119 --> 00:25:09,200
Speaker 4: so we can do something similar to Skype. Her vision

588
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:13,280
Speaker 4: and hearing are good. I've looked at view clicks, grand

589
00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:17,399
Speaker 4: Pad connect portal from Facebook. There does not seem to

590
00:25:17,440 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 4: be much out there as far as reviews. It would

591
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:25,439
Speaker 4: have to be super simple to use and reliable. And

592
00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,040
Speaker 4: she lives she lives in an assisted living facility and they.

593
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:30,720
Speaker 3: Do have Wi Fi.

594
00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:34,800
Speaker 1: Okay, so she wants a video chat device, which to me,

595
00:25:35,040 --> 00:25:38,879
Speaker 1: I'm still confused why there is not a good video

596
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 1: chat device that sits on top of your TV, because

597
00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:44,560
Speaker 1: to me, the simplest way to do video chat is

598
00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: to sit at your TV and you have a camera

599
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: on the top of your TV and you just chat

600
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Speaker 1: with the person on the other end. The problem I

601
00:25:52,000 --> 00:25:54,040
Speaker 1: find with FaceTime and all these other ones that use

602
00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,359
Speaker 1: your phone is that people don't really understand how to

603
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: video chat. I don't want to be moving around your house.

604
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: It's tough to hold your phone there. And I know

605
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: you're you're probably I don't know if you FaceTime a lot,

606
00:26:05,119 --> 00:26:07,560
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean I don't. And I have family

607
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 1: across the US, and it's always been like this dream

608
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,200
Speaker 1: of like being able to face to face with them, right,

609
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,760
Speaker 1: but we never do it because it's just kind of annoying. Plus,

610
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,639
Speaker 1: when you're video chatting with someone, you don't really know

611
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:18,920
Speaker 1: where to look. You're like kind of holding your phone.

612
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:20,920
Speaker 1: Then you kind of like you look at different parts

613
00:26:20,920 --> 00:26:21,520
Speaker 1: of your screen.

614
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Speaker 2: It's kind of weird.

615
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,640
Speaker 1: You're you're wishing you could be checking Instagram while you're

616
00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:25,760
Speaker 1: talking or your mom's talking, and.

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00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,720
Speaker 4: Then when you check Instagram, it's like where'd you go exactly?

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00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, it's a weird thing. It is, so

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00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:33,760
Speaker 1: nobody has really cracked video chatting. Of course, you know

620
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,480
Speaker 1: in the business world people do it, and FaceTime is

621
00:26:36,560 --> 00:26:39,960
Speaker 1: very popular, and so Skype. But to answer your question,

622
00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: I think that something like the Echo Show would probably

623
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,720
Speaker 1: be your best bet. The Facebook Portal is probably great

624
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,920
Speaker 1: as well. And then there's also so the main options,

625
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,800
Speaker 1: all those other ones she mentioned, like the view click

626
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: and all those things, the ones that are made for seniors,

627
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: I would stay away from. And the reason I'd stay

628
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: away from them is because they probably made them simple

629
00:26:58,520 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: for seniors, but because nobody's really using them in a

630
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,760
Speaker 1: big way. I just don't see them as being very good.

631
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,560
Speaker 1: The software is probably wonky, it's probably not updated as

632
00:27:06,640 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 1: much as I'd like. It's also Mike Mike go out

633
00:27:09,600 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: of business and you rely on their backbone to do

634
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: your video chatting, so like, if that happens, you just

635
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,159
Speaker 1: wasted all this money. So I would stick to one

636
00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:19,000
Speaker 1: of the big ones, which is Facebook Portal, which is

637
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:23,440
Speaker 1: Amazon's Echo Show. Or there's an upcoming one from Google

638
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,439
Speaker 1: that we did a story on. Do you remember this

639
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: was the Google nest Hub Max, Yes, And it's kind

640
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 1: of like their Google Yeah. It's like a big screen. Yeah,

641
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:34,360
Speaker 1: it's like a big iPad. Now, I think that one

642
00:27:34,400 --> 00:27:36,639
Speaker 1: would be your best bet, but it's probably too expensive.

643
00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: I don't know what the pricing is. I think it's

644
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: over two hundred for that. And it's also supposed to

645
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: be coming out any day now, because Google told me

646
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,200
Speaker 1: that it would come out mid June. They actually missed

647
00:27:46,240 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 1: the date that they told me, but that was not official,

648
00:27:49,119 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: so they said it could be you know, could be

649
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,760
Speaker 1: anytime in the summer basically. So the reason why I

650
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: like the Echo Show five. It's brand new, it's small,

651
00:27:57,160 --> 00:27:59,920
Speaker 1: it's just like a five inch display. It works with Sky,

652
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: which is a common thing that a lot of people have.

653
00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:04,719
Speaker 1: You sign up once. It works on both yours and

654
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,160
Speaker 1: your mom's. That's funny to say that, right, it works

655
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: on your mom's.

656
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 2: I know. I'm also a kid at heart.

657
00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:14,760
Speaker 3: You'll be able to use this too.

658
00:28:15,280 --> 00:28:19,040
Speaker 1: It's ninety dollars for one, or if you buy two,

659
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:20,919
Speaker 1: which you probably want to do in this case, it

660
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,479
Speaker 1: will be nine times two is one eighty minus thirty dollars,

661
00:28:24,520 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: so it's one.

662
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Speaker 2: Fifty for two.

663
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Speaker 1: That's a pretty good deal for video chat. You set it,

664
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Speaker 1: you forget it. Don't forget. This also has all the

665
00:28:31,800 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: benefits of an Alexa, so she can use it to

666
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:37,440
Speaker 1: play music when you're not doing video chatting. There's also

667
00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 1: a feature called drop in, so if she, if mom

668
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:43,000
Speaker 1: approves it, you can actually drop in to her room

669
00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:44,840
Speaker 1: and see the camera at any time. Now, I don't

670
00:28:44,880 --> 00:28:46,680
Speaker 1: know if Mom's gonna go for that, but that's a

671
00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:47,680
Speaker 1: feature that's available.

672
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Speaker 3: Can Mom do the same to you?

673
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you set it up, Yeah, of course. Yeah,

674
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 2: so you can just drop in.

675
00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: And basically, I think the way it works is that

676
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:57,400
Speaker 1: the drop in doesn't let you see their camera immediately.

677
00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:00,240
Speaker 1: So let's say you had this in your office. You

678
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,280
Speaker 1: can drop in by being like, I'd be on your screen.

679
00:29:02,320 --> 00:29:03,960
Speaker 1: You would see me on your screen. I'd be like, hey,

680
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:04,600
Speaker 1: what's up, Megan?

681
00:29:04,640 --> 00:29:05,160
Speaker 2: You around?

682
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 1: You would be at your desk and you would see me,

683
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,000
Speaker 1: and then no, you would approve it, so I wouldn't

684
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: see your camera without you being like, oh, yeah, I'm here.

685
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 1: And I think that's how it works. I should test

686
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: that because I haven't actually tried it, but I think

687
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty much the way it work. Yeah, so

688
00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: drop in is kind of fun and it's cheap and

689
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: it's Amazon's you know, it's going to be around for

690
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: a while. It uses Skype, or if you don't want

691
00:29:25,560 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: to use Skype, you can just use their built in

692
00:29:27,720 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 1: video chat. They have their own, so either way you're covered.

693
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: But I think for ninety bucks, I was thinking after

694
00:29:33,800 --> 00:29:35,720
Speaker 1: I It's like, I was planning on getting my mom

695
00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:39,040
Speaker 1: the Amazon or the Google one, because I want to

696
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:41,080
Speaker 1: be able to do this with her. But I was

697
00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 1: thinking because I'm not really in the Alexa ecosystem right now.

698
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: So right now I'm in the Google ecosystem, So I'm

699
00:29:46,920 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: waiting for that one to come out with my mom

700
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: because I think that'd be perfect.

701
00:29:49,920 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 3: That's two hundred and thirty dollars.

702
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:53,479
Speaker 2: Two thirty okay, so there you go.

703
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:56,840
Speaker 1: That's the Google Nest Hub Max, which has not come

704
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: out yet right No, still being released.

705
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 3: So yeah, it says release date summer.

706
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, so some of they said June or July

707
00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 2: mid July, but I guess that's.

708
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,680
Speaker 1: Uh, it could be any day now. Okay, So that's

709
00:30:07,720 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: that's the way i'd go with that. Let me tell you,

710
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: have you ever had this happen to you where you

711
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: sign up for something and you forget you say you're

712
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: going to cancel, but you forget and you get that

713
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: charge on your credit card, and next thing you know,

714
00:30:19,800 --> 00:30:22,520
Speaker 1: you're like, ah, and now some companies are really good

715
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:23,800
Speaker 1: about giving you the money back.

716
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 3: This just happened to me. Oh yeah, class pass.

717
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 2: Oh with class Pass, I forgot. I forgot.

718
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, but then I ended up actually using the credit.

719
00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:32,880
Speaker 2: So how much was it?

720
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:33,600
Speaker 3: Eighty dollars?

721
00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a lot.

722
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:34,680
Speaker 3: That's a lot.

723
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Speaker 2: That's a lot. Yeah.

724
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Speaker 1: And if it's on a debit card where you're right

725
00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: in the line of like do I have that money

726
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,560
Speaker 1: in my account, it could be an overcharge, which you know,

727
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,560
Speaker 1: hopefully your debit card is connected to some sort of

728
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: savings account that like will overflow or I guess overdraft

729
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: into there, yeah, and not charge you like thirty five dollars.

730
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 1: But that can happen too, you know. And that's why

731
00:30:51,960 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't do my auto pays on my debit card.

732
00:30:54,480 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 1: That's why I do use a credit card because if

733
00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 1: something is on there, I have a little bit of time,

734
00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: and I can also kind of what's it, debate the

735
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,360
Speaker 1: charge if I.

736
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: Need to, or what's the word dispute the charge? Yeah,

737
00:31:04,880 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 2: So in a lot of times.

738
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Speaker 1: I will tell you these companies, even though they do

739
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,720
Speaker 1: the automatic, they will almost a majority of the time

740
00:31:11,920 --> 00:31:14,200
Speaker 1: will give you a credit like if you forget and

741
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,160
Speaker 1: you say, oh I forgot.

742
00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 2: It might take some getting in contact with them. But anyway,

743
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 2: I digress.

744
00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: The reason I'm telling you about this is because this

745
00:31:20,880 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: twenty two year old entrepreneur called or named Joshua Browder

746
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,320
Speaker 1: has come up with something called a free trial card,

747
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,400
Speaker 1: and this is through his app called Do Not Pay.

748
00:31:29,760 --> 00:31:31,760
Speaker 1: This guy has come up with all kinds of stuff

749
00:31:31,800 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: and Do Not Pay. This is like a one stop

750
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: shop for like if you get a parking ticket, if

751
00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,480
Speaker 1: you have all these different things, Like, they do a

752
00:31:39,520 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: lot of different things inside this app.

753
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 2: But the main thing that he got famous for.

754
00:31:43,480 --> 00:31:45,760
Speaker 1: Was the ticket dispute, which was if you get a

755
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 1: parking ticket, you can have him kind of dispute it

756
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,800
Speaker 1: for you through this app. So anyway, he has this

757
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:55,880
Speaker 1: new thing where you basically use their virtual credit card

758
00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:57,920
Speaker 1: to sign up for the free trial, and at the

759
00:31:58,000 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 1: end of the free trial, they can't charge you because

760
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,320
Speaker 1: the credit card doesn't work. Now, if you do want

761
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: to continue with the trial, there's an option they will

762
00:32:04,360 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: send you an email before the end of the trial,

763
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: saying like, hey, if you want to keep this, switch

764
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: to your own credit or debit card and it'll just

765
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: continue on. So it's a good idea. I have not

766
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,080
Speaker 1: tried this, so I don't know how simple it is.

767
00:32:15,480 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: But a writer for Wired, Emily Dreyfus, she did try

768
00:32:18,360 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: it out and she said it was pretty simple and

769
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: it did work. And so in fact, they give you

770
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,280
Speaker 1: a fake email address as well, so they give you

771
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 1: like entirely free credentials.

772
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 2: Wow.

773
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: So the good news about that is personally, the way

774
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,280
Speaker 1: I would do it is sign up for the free trial.

775
00:32:33,680 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: You get a free trial, and then if you like it,

776
00:32:35,560 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: sign up with your own and you basically get two

777
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: free trials.

778
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's actually smart, and that's.

779
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: Part of the cost of business of these companies, Like

780
00:32:41,920 --> 00:32:43,880
Speaker 1: they know if they're doing a free trial that a

781
00:32:43,880 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: lot of people are going to, you know, sign up

782
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:47,680
Speaker 1: for the system, like using like a lot of people

783
00:32:47,720 --> 00:32:50,160
Speaker 1: have two email addresses. She might sign up with one,

784
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:52,520
Speaker 1: like with class Pass, and then go into a second

785
00:32:52,880 --> 00:32:55,000
Speaker 1: do that. The thing I don't like about this, and

786
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: this happened to me with Aptive because I signed up

787
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,040
Speaker 1: first with my KTLA email because testing it out for

788
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 1: a story, but then I wanted to continue on my

789
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 1: own and I had to sign up again and it

790
00:33:04,600 --> 00:33:06,719
Speaker 1: lost all my data for like the month, which I

791
00:33:06,840 --> 00:33:09,080
Speaker 1: kind of didn't like. So let's say you sign up

792
00:33:09,080 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: for Netflix on a free trial, you add all this

793
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: stuff to your watch list, and then all of a

794
00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:13,840
Speaker 1: sudden you have to get rid of it and start

795
00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:14,280
Speaker 1: over again.

796
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:15,360
Speaker 2: You lose all that stuff.

797
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,920
Speaker 1: So there is a catch twenty two with kind of

798
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: scamming these companies totally. My trick is, and I just

799
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:25,640
Speaker 1: started doing this on iOS thanks to a life Hacker article,

800
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: is to cancel the subscription as soon as you sign up.

801
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 2: So as soon as you sign up, you go.

802
00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: In and you cancel right away, and a lot of

803
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: them will let you use it until the end of

804
00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:39,720
Speaker 1: your free trial. Some of them won't, but a lot

805
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: of them do. And so like for the instance I

806
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: did for my last trip to China, actually I sign

807
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: up for I think it was like HBO or Cinemax

808
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: or one of those, or Showtime through Apple, and I

809
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 1: immediately canceled, so I'd have a week of using the

810
00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 1: app to watch shows and then I could you know,

811
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: i'n't have to remember to cancel it. I did this

812
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: for you can do this for iOS. I did for

813
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: Amazon when my kid wanted to watch something on PBS.

814
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: Kids subscribe to the app, and I immediately canceled it,

815
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 1: but I still had a use of the app for

816
00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: a week.

817
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 2: And so again a lot of things.

818
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: So you're if you're in the mindset of like, let

819
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:14,560
Speaker 1: me do the subscription and then let me cancel it,

820
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:15,000
Speaker 1: you know.

821
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:16,439
Speaker 2: Or fine, you'll be fine.

822
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:17,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, So just remember to do that.

823
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,439
Speaker 1: And you might think that it's stupid and you're like, oh, rich,

824
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: well that's so mean to the companies. I actually think

825
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: it's a better thing because you remember, you do it,

826
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 1: and if you like it, you'll just resubscribe, So it's fine.

827
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 2: I think it works all around, all right.

828
00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 4: So this next question is from Facebook.

829
00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 3: Her name is Karla Abu Lahian.

830
00:34:39,360 --> 00:34:42,239
Speaker 2: She asks, I'll just assume you didn't pronounce that properly.

831
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: But I mean there's h oh lash Carla abu lashin, yeah,

832
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,920
Speaker 1: lash and lashin lashing.

833
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, So anyways, I saw in the morning News

834
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:54,799
Speaker 4: that you noted Apple laptops, and I was wondering the

835
00:34:54,800 --> 00:34:58,880
Speaker 4: best place to purchase their products directly.

836
00:34:58,960 --> 00:35:02,600
Speaker 3: From them, maybe Amazon Prime Day, Best Buy.

837
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 4: Oh this is a little dated, but she's asking the

838
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:07,719
Speaker 4: best place to buy the new Apple laptops.

839
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 1: Okay, So my thoughts on this is I will tell

840
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: you one story. So Amazon used to sell Apple laptops

841
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: for a little bit cheaper than your regular you know,

842
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: the Apple store, right, and.

843
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:19,920
Speaker 2: They all do.

844
00:35:20,040 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 1: Basically, if you go through anywhere except the Apple Store,

845
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:25,840
Speaker 1: you're going to find the prices for Apple products fluctuate

846
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:27,280
Speaker 1: and there's usually deals.

847
00:35:27,320 --> 00:35:28,280
Speaker 2: They're usually cheaper.

848
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 1: Like right now, I'm looking at this Apple MacBook Air

849
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:35,960
Speaker 1: on Amazon's website. It's nine nine ninety three versus nine

850
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:39,720
Speaker 1: ninety nine on Apples. Okay, or here's the yeah, okay,

851
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: so but the main thing, Okay, there's two things to

852
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 1: look out for here. You have to think about if

853
00:35:45,040 --> 00:35:47,359
Speaker 1: you're getting this thing service. So where this bit me

854
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: in the in the in the behind is bit you period?

855
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 2: Where it bit me was?

856
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: I had a logic board failure on the laptop that

857
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 1: I bought from Amazon, and I brought it to the

858
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:01,799
Speaker 1: Apple Store and they started doing all this stuff, Oh yeah,

859
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:04,080
Speaker 1: you need a new logic board. It's failed, blah blah blah,

860
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, they were ready to

861
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,279
Speaker 1: hand me a new laptop, and they said, oh, you

862
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: bought this not through an Apple authorized reseller, and I

863
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:14,400
Speaker 1: was like, oh shoot, I didn't realize there was a distinction.

864
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,680
Speaker 1: So they said, you have to return this sto where

865
00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 1: you bought it. So I had to return it through Amazon,

866
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: which was fine, I mean, big deal. I had all

867
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,040
Speaker 1: my stuff on there. Is kind of annoying because I

868
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: had to get a new one, so I returned it

869
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: to Amazon without buying a new one through them.

870
00:36:26,400 --> 00:36:27,799
Speaker 2: I bought the new one through the Apple Store.

871
00:36:27,840 --> 00:36:30,320
Speaker 1: Because I learned my lesson, I said, Okay, in the future,

872
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:31,879
Speaker 1: if something happens to this, I want to be able

873
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: to service it at the Apple Store. And of course

874
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 1: they can always service things there. It's just how much

875
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: it's going to cost you. But if you get it

876
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:40,760
Speaker 1: through you know your official warranty whatever. That's the long story.

877
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: The short story is, I do believe at this point

878
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 1: that Apple and Amazon have made up, and I think

879
00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: that if you buy things through Amazon they are authorized.

880
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,080
Speaker 1: At this point it should say on there. But that's

881
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Speaker 1: my main thing is always make sure that wherever you're

882
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:59,600
Speaker 1: purchasing your laptop or Apple product it is from an

883
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: Apple authorized reseller, because I did buy my second one

884
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 1: through B and H and they are an authorized reseller,

885
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: so I still I made sure I emailed them. I said, hey,

886
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: if I buy this through you, because it was like

887
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,800
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars less, do I still get the ability

888
00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: to bring it to an Apple store for warranty issues,

889
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: right if something goes wrong, you know whatever?

890
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 2: And they said yes.

891
00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: And with that laptop, my kid threw a toy at

892
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: it and broke the screen and I had to replace

893
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: it was like six hundred dollars.

894
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 2: But that was my fault. It was not.

895
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: It was not defective, even though I brought it to

896
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:33,840
Speaker 1: the Apple Store and I'm like, I don't know what happened,

897
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:36,240
Speaker 1: can you It just cracked.

898
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:37,960
Speaker 2: I didn't say that. I didn't lie.

899
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,840
Speaker 1: I just said, here's my screen, and you know, I

900
00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: let them go through the things. They're like, yeah, this

901
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,560
Speaker 1: is clearly damaged on your part. And I had to

902
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 1: pay the six hundred dollars, which is fine. I knew

903
00:37:46,239 --> 00:37:47,680
Speaker 1: I would, but I was like, you never know, maybe

904
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: they looked at it and they're like, oh, this screen,

905
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: it's the We knew there was a problem with this

906
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,320
Speaker 1: glass on this screen.

907
00:37:54,360 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 2: So here's a freedom that would have been nice.

908
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: That's not the way it happened. So my recommendation is

909
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:02,560
Speaker 1: shop get the best price. But at the end of

910
00:38:02,600 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: the day, I tend to buy my stuff through the

911
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: Apple Store just because it's the most seamless when you

912
00:38:08,160 --> 00:38:10,840
Speaker 1: need to get things fixed, if it's an authorized reseller.

913
00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:13,960
Speaker 1: And now the best Buy is also an authorized repair

914
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:16,480
Speaker 1: center for Apple stuff, I'm sure if you buy it

915
00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:18,760
Speaker 1: through best Buy you can get it repair there, no problem,

916
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,239
Speaker 1: and it's just as if you brought it to the

917
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: Apple Store. So things have gotten better since that time

918
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: when I bought on Amazon. Yes, but I'm looking on Amazon.

919
00:38:26,880 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 1: Well I'm trying to see, like what it says on Amazon,

920
00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,600
Speaker 1: like where you know, if it says on here, we're

921
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 1: an authorized reseller or reseller, but I think they are

922
00:38:35,080 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: just based on what I'm seeing here, it looks like

923
00:38:37,640 --> 00:38:41,120
Speaker 1: they have made amends with Apple and everything's okay.

924
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:43,479
Speaker 2: So yeah, that's the good news.

925
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:43,960
Speaker 3: That's good.

926
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 2: Speaking of Amazon, did you do any Prime Day shopping?

927
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: No, we messed up.

928
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 4: We were supposed we should have gotten the ero I

929
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,279
Speaker 4: know price, and it was the we were like, okay,

930
00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 4: let's do it.

931
00:38:57,920 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 3: And then it was gone, Yeah, that was.

932
00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,600
Speaker 1: The best deal, like two hundred dollars off. I tweeted

933
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:03,759
Speaker 1: about that. I know that I came out of retirement

934
00:39:03,840 --> 00:39:08,200
Speaker 1: for that, for that, I was totally on vacation during

935
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: during Amazon Prime Day. So Prime Day, I think is

936
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: a big letdown every year. I think that people search.

937
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: I'm so negative. I talked crap about Netflix, I talk

938
00:39:18,760 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: crap about Amazon, but.

939
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,040
Speaker 3: The reality is critical of it.

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00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:26,160
Speaker 1: I'm I am a consumer like everyone else. And what

941
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:28,759
Speaker 1: did I do on Amazon Prime Day? I looked at

942
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: Amazon on Monday and I was like, eh, I looked

943
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: on Tuesday, Eh, all the stuff that I had my

944
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:35,879
Speaker 1: shopping cart e, I did that.

945
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: Nothing. Nothing really went down in price.

946
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: I haven't looked at my Amazon Essentials pants, my joggers

947
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: that I love now that were like twenty two dollars.

948
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: They were twenty two dollars on Prime Day. And I

949
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 1: looked at my receipt from my original order to see, like,

950
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 1: are these two dollars off?

951
00:39:48,760 --> 00:39:49,800
Speaker 2: Are they a dollar? Nothing?

952
00:39:50,280 --> 00:39:53,839
Speaker 3: I like that. You're like going, yeah, I had to Yeah.

953
00:39:53,840 --> 00:39:55,000
Speaker 2: I didn't remember how much played.

954
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:59,160
Speaker 1: So Prime Day twenty nineteen, of course, in Amazon's world

955
00:39:59,280 --> 00:40:01,439
Speaker 1: was like the best day ever. But here's what Prime

956
00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 1: Day does. It drives Prime Day subscriptions, which they said

957
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:07,440
Speaker 1: on July fifteenth and sixteenth, more people sign up for

958
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:08,359
Speaker 1: Amazon Prime than.

959
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 2: Like any other day in history. But I'll tell you

960
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:10,600
Speaker 2: what they did.

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00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 4: So.

962
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,480
Speaker 1: Top selling items include the i Robot, Rumba, the MiQ

963
00:40:14,760 --> 00:40:17,839
Speaker 1: Smart garage door opener, and Amazon Smart Plug. They also

964
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 1: purchased two times as many ring and blink.

965
00:40:20,440 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 2: Devices this year.

966
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:24,359
Speaker 1: They also purchased one hundred thousand lunch boxes, one hundred

967
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: thousand laptops, two hundred thousand TVs, three hundred thousand headphones,

968
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:30,600
Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand luxury beauty products, four hundred

969
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: thousand pet products, six hundred fifty thousand cleaning supplies, and

970
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,239
Speaker 1: one million toys. Prime members purchased more than two hundred

971
00:40:37,280 --> 00:40:39,480
Speaker 1: thousand life straw personal water filters.

972
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,160
Speaker 2: Gross never using that unless I had to.

973
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: You know, those are four like drink out of like

974
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:46,600
Speaker 1: a river, which, by the way, I went on a

975
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: couple of hikes over my trip and I did see

976
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:51,280
Speaker 1: people using those, and I was explaining to my family,

977
00:40:51,320 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: like what they are, and the water in the bottle

978
00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: was like brown, and you drink it through the thing

979
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: and it's miraculously cured. Now I get it if you're

980
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,520
Speaker 1: in a country that does not have clean water, these

981
00:41:00,520 --> 00:41:03,759
Speaker 1: things are amazing. Yeah, and if you're a backpacker for

982
00:41:03,800 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 1: four months, you need to get them.

983
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: But I personally don't want to like use that.

984
00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 4: That's funny because I randomly watched your package from like

985
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 4: two two years ago because I was going through our

986
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 4: camping one. No, no, the one the story about the

987
00:41:14,960 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 4: like the just like the gross water turned into water

988
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 4: like clean water.

989
00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 2: Oh, that was my favorite story every Yeah, if you ever,

990
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,640
Speaker 2: that was one of my apps, was favorite story.

991
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:28,040
Speaker 1: It was called watch this tap water turn into watch

992
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:30,000
Speaker 1: this toilet water turn into water.

993
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,600
Speaker 2: I still watch that story. I love it.

994
00:41:33,239 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: They literally take water that is flushed down the toilet, yeah,

995
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: clean it, and I drank it at the end.

996
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 4: Of the piece, I know, which was really hard to

997
00:41:39,560 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 4: watch because I was like, I can't believe he's.

998
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 2: Doing I felt sick for two days after that. Of course,

999
00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:45,160
Speaker 2: it was all my.

1000
00:41:45,200 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: Head totally back to Prime day. Anyways, This was a

1001
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: big shopping day I did. There was four items in

1002
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,759
Speaker 1: my basket that were cheaper than normal that I did

1003
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: not buy. And we actually bought them today. So I

1004
00:41:57,600 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: told my wife, I was like, why don't we just

1005
00:41:58,880 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: buy these on Prime Day? It's like you almost don't

1006
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 1: want to because you're like, eh.

1007
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,160
Speaker 2: Prime Day. Yeah, So I didn't.

1008
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, I didn't. I didn't buy anything. But apparently it

1009
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:09,960
Speaker 1: was a big success for Amazon. But all the stuff

1010
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:11,880
Speaker 1: they sell, the stuff that I found that has the

1011
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,759
Speaker 1: biggest discounts is their own products, which is great if

1012
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: you need like a ring, doorbell or a video camera

1013
00:42:17,280 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 1: or anything, Amazon, fire stick, fire TV, They're always a

1014
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 1: great deal. The rest of the stuff you really have

1015
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: to hunt, you know, and you have to see like

1016
00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: is this a good deal? Is this is this worth

1017
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,840
Speaker 1: my time and effort, or just buy stuff.

1018
00:42:29,560 --> 00:42:30,160
Speaker 2: When you need it.

1019
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,960
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's about it. All right, that's gonna do

1020
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,759
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1040
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 2: Your life will go on. You do you say, oh

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00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 2: my gosh.

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00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:27,520
Speaker 1: That's my brother and I were saying that the whole

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Speaker 2: Producer Megan, did you enjoy the show? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: That was fun?

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00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:34,879
Speaker 2: You glad to be back in the saddle here?

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00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,240
Speaker 3: Yes, it's been it feels like forever.

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00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 1: Did you sad listen to the show that you weren't

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00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: a part of and be like I could have been there.

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Speaker 3: I just didn't even listen.

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00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:43,960
Speaker 2: I know, I don't want to.

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00:43:44,000 --> 00:43:45,720
Speaker 3: I don't want to listen to just Rich.

1053
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for listening. Find producer Megan

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Speaker 1: on Twitter at producer Megan. You can find me at

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. I'm Rich tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Have a great day. We'll talk to you real soon