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Speaker 1: Yet another streaming service raises prices. Another Apple event will

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Speaker 1: be online only. Tips from my Disneyland adventure plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions Answered? What's going on on Richidimiro And this

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

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

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Speaker 1: also the place where I answer the questions you send me.

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Speaker 1: I'm the tech reporter at Channel five KTLA in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Welcome, Welcome, Welcome to the show. Welcome.

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Speaker 1: If you are watching on Facebook Live, thanks for tuning

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Speaker 1: me in. I mentioned I went to Disneyland?

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Speaker 2: Was it last week?

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Speaker 1: So I will give you a couple of my takeaways

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Speaker 1: from Disneyland later in the show. You typically I do

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Speaker 1: that at the beginning of the show, kind of my

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Speaker 1: personal whatever you know, I don't know what you call it,

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Speaker 2: Whatever you want to call it.

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Speaker 1: But I'll do that at the end of this show,

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Speaker 1: or maybe not the end, but just somewhere somewhere in

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Speaker 1: the middle of the show. Let me talk about what

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Speaker 1: I've been testing out this Let's see, we've got two

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Speaker 1: next week. But I'll show you the phones here this week.

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Speaker 1: So this is the iPhone S I've got in my

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Speaker 1: The main appeal is that it's cheap and it has

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Speaker 1: This is the Samsung what's this called. This is the

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Speaker 1: And the big difference here is that look at the

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna spend a whole bunch of time on this,

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Speaker 1: So Elon Musk, you know, he's kind of like a

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Speaker 1: But Elon Musk has about eighty million followers on the platform.

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Speaker 1: But why does Twitter want him? I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: Helping Twitter from Elon Musk make significant improvements in the

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Speaker 2: So I don't have a lot of followers on Twitter,

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Speaker 1: Victoria says, I keep receiving texts about selling my home.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna get a whole lot more spam texts. So again,

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Speaker 1: for just thirty dollars a month. That includes a modem

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi and oh I like this self installation is

438
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Speaker 1: included at no charge.

439
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Speaker 2: Oh thank you.

440
00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: I can install my own internet for at no charge.

441
00:21:16,440 --> 00:21:18,280
Speaker 1: Now if you charge me for that, I would really

442
00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:20,159
Speaker 1: have a problem. But remember back in the day, they

443
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:23,119
Speaker 1: would come to your house and install it for free.

444
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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe they don't do that anymore. It's

445
00:21:25,280 --> 00:21:27,840
Speaker 1: been a while since I got internet installed. But it's

446
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,200
Speaker 1: just funny. It says self installation at no additional charge,

447
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,680
Speaker 1: like we are privileged to get that? Like I don't

448
00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:38,280
Speaker 1: think so okay, So here's the deal. You can get

449
00:21:38,320 --> 00:21:40,280
Speaker 1: this now for thirty dollars a month. This is only

450
00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,960
Speaker 1: available to low income households, but you can also qualify

451
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Speaker 1: for what this government. The government has what's called the

452
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Speaker 1: Affordable Connectivity Program and that gives you a thirty dollars

453
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Speaker 1: monthly credit. So effectively you can have internet for free indefinitely.

454
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Speaker 1: So right now, the government they came up with this

455
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Speaker 1: program during the pandemic. It was called the Emergency Broadband

456
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Speaker 1: Benefits because all the kids were at home and people

457
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Speaker 1: are working from home and they needed internet and the

458
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Speaker 1: government wanted to make sure everyone had it, even if

459
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Speaker 1: you know, you didn't have enough money to buy it,

460
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Speaker 1: and so that's fine. But then they realized after this, like,

461
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Speaker 1: well we should probably have a program like this that

462
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Speaker 1: that runs indefinitely, and so they approve this and this

463
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Speaker 1: is what it's called. It's called Affordable Connectivity Program. So

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Speaker 1: if you know someone that's on SNAP, Medicaid, public Housing

465
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Speaker 1: Assistance Lifeline, WICK, is a you know on a tribe

466
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Speaker 1: tribal land, is on the school lunch program, had a pelgrant,

467
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Speaker 1: all these things will all of these things will will

468
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Speaker 1: approve you for this and you can basically get this

469
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Speaker 1: for free. So that's what you need to do is

470
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Speaker 1: just first go to the website FCC dot gov slash

471
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Speaker 1: ACP and then you can contact Spectrum and see what

472
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Speaker 1: the deal is to make sure you're eligible. But basically

473
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Speaker 1: you can get internet for free for thirty dollars a

474
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Speaker 1: month credit.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so oh, let's get.

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Speaker 1: To another question. Sorry, I was on something else. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's see. Hi, Rich, I realize you are extremely busy.

478
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Speaker 1: I'm hoping you can please recommend an app that I

479
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Speaker 1: can use to remove duplicate photos on my Apple devices

480
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Speaker 1: I have over don't fall off your chair forty four

481
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Speaker 1: thousand pictures. I am almost seventy years old and I

482
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Speaker 1: really need to remove so many photos. And I trust

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Speaker 1: your opinion. We watch you on KTLA. Thank you in advance.

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Speaker 2: Robert.

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Speaker 1: Well, Robert, I did not fall off my chair, so

486
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Speaker 1: I'm okay. And you know, forty four thousand photos that.

487
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Speaker 2: Is a lot.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I'm not even sure I have that many. I

489
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Speaker 1: think I have like thirty thousand. But you know, you're

490
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Speaker 1: seventy years old, so you're a little bit older than me,

491
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Speaker 1: so you've had some more time to.

492
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Speaker 2: Collect these pictures. But here's what I would say.

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Speaker 1: Number one, whenever you are trying to get rid of

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Speaker 1: duplicate photos. Number one, This is what I do on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis. At the end of the night, at

496
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, I will just go ahead

497
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Speaker 1: and just kind of thumb through my Google Photos collection

498
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Speaker 1: and I will just kind of prune my collection, right,

499
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Speaker 1: like I'll delete things. You know, I'll look at multiple

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Speaker 1: photos and I'll say, Okay, I don't need that one.

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Speaker 1: I don't need that one, and I'll delete those. I'll

502
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Speaker 1: especially sort by video because those take up a lot

503
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Speaker 1: of space in my account, And so I will go

504
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Speaker 1: through and delete some videos that I know I don't need,

505
00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,679
Speaker 1: like if I just shot something. But the reality is

506
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Speaker 1: this should be an ongoing process. And yes, there are

507
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Speaker 1: some apps that can help, but there is not one

508
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Speaker 1: main app that I can recommend that will do this

509
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Speaker 1: all for you magically and pick all the best pictures.

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Speaker 1: So the app, though, that I do recommend is called Gemini.

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Speaker 1: And so this is an app that is Gemini. It's

512
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Speaker 1: called Gemini Gallery Cleaner, Gemini Photos. And so you can

513
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Speaker 1: use this on your iPhone. I don't think they have

514
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Speaker 1: an Android version. Did you say you have an iPhone?

515
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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure. Oh yeah, on my Apple devices.

516
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Speaker 2: So now here's the thing.

517
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Speaker 1: You just have to be really careful when you're deleting

518
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Speaker 1: pictures in bulk with an app like this, because you

519
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: may delete something that goes away forever. Most of the time,

520
00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: when you're deleting pictures on the iPhone, they go into

521
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Speaker 1: a recently deleted folder and so you can get back

522
00:25:19,560 --> 00:25:22,720
Speaker 1: those pictures. But if you're deleting five ten thousand pictures,

523
00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:24,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be really tough to go through all those

524
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Speaker 1: pictures and you're recently deleted and get back the ones

525
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Speaker 1: that you need.

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Speaker 2: So just be aware of that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, if you want to clean up your

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Speaker 1: photos with an app like this, it will do a

529
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Speaker 1: good job. It will look for screenshots, similar photos, all

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Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. And I believe it is free to try,

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Speaker 1: and then let's see how much it costs regularly. So,

532
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Speaker 1: by the way, and what I do with every app

533
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:52,200
Speaker 1: is that you just go to the app Store and

534
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Speaker 1: scroll all the way down until it says in app purchases,

535
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:56,880
Speaker 1: and this will give you an idea of how much

536
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Speaker 1: a quote.

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Speaker 2: Unquote free app actually costs.

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00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: So this app is free, but yearly access is twenty dollars.

539
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: Monthly access is five dollars and you can get unlimited

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Speaker 1: access for about thirty five dollars, so that I guess

541
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Speaker 1: means it works forever. By the way, this is one

542
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Speaker 1: of the companies that is based in Ukraine. So this

543
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: made by Macpaul, which is one of my favorite software developers.

544
00:26:23,400 --> 00:26:26,440
Speaker 1: They also may clean my MacX. It's a great clean

545
00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:30,639
Speaker 1: up app for your device, your Mac or your PC.

546
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: I think it's called clean my Pc for the PC one.

547
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: But they are based in Ukraine, so thinking to them,

548
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:40,320
Speaker 1: and if you're buying this app from them, you're actually

549
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,399
Speaker 1: supporting them as well, which is kind of nice, but

550
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 1: good question. Just be careful, make sure that you've got

551
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Speaker 1: a backup if you can before you do anything like this.

552
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,560
Speaker 1: But it removes blurry photos, similar photos.

553
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Speaker 2: And also screenshots. All right. Well, I hate to be the.

554
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Speaker 1: Bearer of bad news, but Amazon is is raising prices

555
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,560
Speaker 1: on its music unlimited plans. Now, this is a little

556
00:27:05,600 --> 00:27:10,479
Speaker 1: confusing because Amazon has several different types of music. If

557
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:14,359
Speaker 1: you are a Prime subscriber, you get a whole bunch

558
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 1: of music included in Amazon Prime. Now it's about two

559
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: million songs that you can play for free without ads

560
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,639
Speaker 1: and you may never even realize that you're not getting

561
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:28,240
Speaker 1: the whole collection until you ask alex A to play

562
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: a specific song and she says, oh, sorry, that's not

563
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,439
Speaker 1: included in your collection for free, and then maybe she

564
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:39,520
Speaker 1: tries to upsell you to the Amazon Music Unlimited. So

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00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:43,080
Speaker 1: Amazon Music Unlimited is a paid service, and this will

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Speaker 1: give you access to all of the songs in the catalog,

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00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:49,440
Speaker 1: very much like a Spotify or a YouTube Music or

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Speaker 1: an Apple Music.

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Speaker 2: It's the same thing.

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Speaker 1: Now, up until now, this was two dollars less than Spotify,

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Speaker 1: Apple Music, and YouTube Music, and that's that's what drew

572
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:04,560
Speaker 1: a lot of people to it. So, uh, even just

573
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,879
Speaker 1: because it was two dollars less a month, and so

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Speaker 1: it was, it was seven ninety nine a month versus

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Speaker 1: Spotify's entry level is nine ninety nine a month. So

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00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 1: a lot of people are like, look, I have an Echo.

577
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: I've got you know, a fire TV. It integrates nicely

578
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:20,760
Speaker 1: with my device and it saves me two dollars a month.

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00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: That's twenty four dollars a year. So hey, over five years,

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00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,440
Speaker 1: that's over one hundred bucks. And so yeah, over over

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00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,480
Speaker 1: four years, that's one hundred dollars. So again, you know

582
00:28:30,560 --> 00:28:33,200
Speaker 1: people like this, but now the price is going from

583
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: eight dollars a month to nine dollars a month for

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Speaker 1: Prime subscribers, and so the savings is not as big.

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00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: So now you're only saving a dollar a month.

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Speaker 2: And Spotify, I will say.

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00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: Is probably a superior experience to the Amazon Music. Amazon

588
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: Music is pretty basic but it works. But you know,

589
00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: now you're only saving a dollar a month. So I

590
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,239
Speaker 1: feel like a lot of people are probably gonna move

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Speaker 1: over to Spotify because of this. Now, you know, saving

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Speaker 1: two dollars a month versus a dollar. Look, it's it's all,

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00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: it's you know, it's it depends on what you're what

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00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: you feel like that's worth to you. Right, if you

595
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: feel like a buck a month is a good deal

596
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,720
Speaker 1: to save then, which it is over time, sure, stay

597
00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:15,320
Speaker 1: stick with it. But again this is for their Prime Unlimited.

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00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: Now they also to make things even more confusing, they

599
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: have a single device plan and this single device plan

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00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: goes from four dollars a month to five dollars a month.

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Speaker 1: And what that does is, let's say you just have

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Speaker 1: an Echo speaker. One Echo speaker, you can get unlimited

603
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:34,280
Speaker 1: music on that speaker for five dollars a month. So

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00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: let's say you're not using Amazon Music on your phone,

605
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,480
Speaker 1: in your car, on any other device. You just want

606
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: that one echo speaker, like maybe in your office to

607
00:29:41,880 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: have music. You could pay five bucks a month, And

608
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,120
Speaker 1: that's actually a pretty good deal because why pay for

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00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 1: all these other devices if you don't really need it.

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00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:54,120
Speaker 1: So again, Amazon Music Unlimited price increase starting on May fifth.

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Speaker 1: If you're just using the free level of Amazon Prime

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00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,240
Speaker 1: Music on your devices and you don't pay anything except

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Speaker 1: for Amazon Prime, that will not change.

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Speaker 2: That's still free.

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00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 1: It's just sometimes you might run into a situation where

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Speaker 1: it does not include the music that you want to hear.

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Speaker 1: Ada says on Facebook, what do you think about the

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Speaker 1: new T mobile Internet service? I think it's great if

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Speaker 1: it's available in your area and it's fast.

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00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: We talked about this on the podcast a couple of

622
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. I tested the Verizon Home Internet and it's

623
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Speaker 1: fantastic if you have the signals at your house.

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00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 2: Absolutely. You put this little box.

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Speaker 1: By your window, it pulls in a wireless signal and

626
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: it broadcasts it out to your entire house over a

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi.

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Speaker 2: It's basically like a giant.

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Speaker 1: Hotspot for your entire house, and for T Mobile it's

630
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Speaker 1: like fifty bucks a month. For Verizon it's anywhere from

631
00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:47,840
Speaker 1: twenty five to like eighty bucks a month. But yeah,

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00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 1: if you have that available in your home. Absolutely where

633
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: I live, I don't have it available. I tried testing

634
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Speaker 1: it in my house. I do not have the right signal,

635
00:30:57,240 --> 00:31:00,360
Speaker 1: and at my office I did and up in Sevenrancisco,

636
00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:01,520
Speaker 1: I brought it to a hotel room.

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:02,480
Speaker 2: It was amazing.

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00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's so cool that you can have a

639
00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: five G signal that powers the Internet in your entire house.

640
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:10,960
Speaker 1: So definitely, that's another way you could save money on

641
00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: your Internet is those are significantly cheaper than the wired

642
00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: internet most of the time. The problem with the wired

643
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: internet from these cable companies is that the price goes up.

644
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: So mine started at a certain price.

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00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,800
Speaker 2: It just keeps creeping up and the deals get less

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00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: and less.

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00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:28,120
Speaker 1: Although I still will tell you make sure you call

648
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:30,960
Speaker 1: every single time your price goes up, and you've got

649
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: to You've got to wheel and deal with these people.

650
00:31:33,160 --> 00:31:34,680
Speaker 1: You've got to talk to them. You've got to and

651
00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:36,680
Speaker 1: do your research, see what your other options are, and

652
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:40,720
Speaker 1: be willing to switch. So, for instance, mine went up

653
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:42,960
Speaker 1: to eighty bucks a month, and I called in and

654
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 1: I said, hey, look I can get this for you know,

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Speaker 1: a better deal. And they you know, I didn't really

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Speaker 1: want to switch, and so they said, look, we can

657
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Speaker 1: give you ten bucks off for the next year, and

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Speaker 1: I said, perfect, seventy bucks a month sounds good. I'm

659
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Speaker 1: getting a really good speed. And you know, I didn't

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Speaker 1: have to switch services, but I was willing to switch.

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Speaker 1: If I had to, I would switched back to my

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Speaker 1: old service that I had instead of my new service.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see, Alexis Oh, I almost said the

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Speaker 2: other word, Hey, Rich, I need your help.

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Speaker 1: My phone was recently stolen, along with a few important items.

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Speaker 1: I have the iPhone ten s and this person turned

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00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,640
Speaker 1: my phone off. Is there an alternative way to locate

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00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,480
Speaker 1: my phone? I did try track my phone through other

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Speaker 1: family members' devices. If you could help me, you don't

670
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Speaker 1: know what that would mean to me. I look forward

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Speaker 1: to hearing from you, Alexis. Okay, So a couple of things.

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Speaker 1: If you lose your phone number one. I wrote about

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Speaker 1: this in my book one hundred and one iPhone Tips

674
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: and Tricks. I wrote that you want to make sure

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Speaker 1: that find my for your iPhone is turned on and

676
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: properly set up before you lose your phone, because it's

677
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Speaker 1: not the time to set it up once you lose

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Speaker 1: your phone. If it's not properly set up, your phone's

679
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Speaker 1: gonna be gone.

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Speaker 2: Now. I don't know what these people do with the phones.

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Speaker 1: They probably chop them up for parts, because there's not

682
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Speaker 1: really much you can do with a phone that's been

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Speaker 1: activated on a different account. But what I want you

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Speaker 1: to do is go into the Find My app on

685
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Speaker 1: your iPhone and just go through the settings there and

686
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:11,880
Speaker 1: just make sure that everything is set up properly. And

687
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: that way, before you lose your phone, you can make

688
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Speaker 1: sure that you have these things set up. There's a

689
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Speaker 1: couple of little options in there, and so just make

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Speaker 1: sure that you've looked through those options and they're properly

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Speaker 1: set up. Now, with the latest iOS fifteen, even when

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Speaker 1: your phone is turned off, it still reserves a little

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Speaker 1: bit of power. And this is pretty sneaky, it's actually

694
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Speaker 1: pretty smart on Apple's part, but it still reserves a

695
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: little bit of power that will power find my phone.

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Speaker 1: So even if the bad people turn off your phone,

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Speaker 1: it can still use the network to ping Apple servers

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Speaker 1: and say and give a location of that phone. Now,

699
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: this may not always work depending on what the bad

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Speaker 1: people do to your phone, but they could put it

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Speaker 1: in a Faraday cage and you know, next thing, you know,

702
00:33:58,200 --> 00:33:59,800
Speaker 1: nothing comes in or out, no signals.

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00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 2: Phone would not be able to see where it is.

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Speaker 1: But I would definitely make sure you're going to find

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Speaker 1: my and just make sure that your your your lost

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00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:11,399
Speaker 1: settings are set up before I wish. Uh, I should

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Speaker 1: actually refer to my book because I have it in there.

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00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:17,480
Speaker 1: I have this tip in there, and it's you know,

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00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's you know, it's a very important thing

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00:34:20,920 --> 00:34:23,360
Speaker 1: to do because you want to make sure that everything

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Speaker 1: is set up before you lose this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I've got to look at my book. Oh gosh, I

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Speaker 2: have so many things.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, the main question that Apple is going to

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Speaker 1: ask you is if you want your phone to like,

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Speaker 1: you know, basically use the battery even though it's off,

717
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,359
Speaker 1: reserve a little bit of battery, and also it'll it'll

718
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: you can display a message. Just to just go in

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Speaker 1: there and make sure that everything is turned on and

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Speaker 1: properly done. That's the main thing you want to do now,

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Speaker 1: if you lose your phone, Alexis, it was pretty smart

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Speaker 1: of you to use someone else's phone to look for yours.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to find my on someone else's phone,

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Speaker 1: they will. It has a little link at the bottom

725
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Speaker 1: that says, hey, are you someone else that needs to

726
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: find your phone? You can click that link and then

727
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 1: it will basically just bring you to a website to

728
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Speaker 1: log in with your iCloud password and then try to

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Speaker 1: locate your phone.

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Speaker 2: If you're on and so.

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Speaker 1: Number one, you can always go to iCloud dot com

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Speaker 1: slashed iCloud dot com slash find. So yeah, iCloud dot

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Speaker 1: com slash find from any website and you can find

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Speaker 1: your phone that way. This happened to me the other day.

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Speaker 1: If you have Android, you can actually just go ahead

736
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Speaker 1: and ask Google where's my phone, and so it will

737
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Speaker 1: just it will show you. I had to do this

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Speaker 1: the other day I lost a phone, And you can

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Speaker 1: just say to Google where's my phone, and it will

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Speaker 1: show you on a map where your phone is. And

741
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: so that's really cool. And then you can also ring

742
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Speaker 1: your phone or you can recover your phone. You can

743
00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 1: do that from any just literally type that into Google.

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00:35:56,920 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: Where's my phone? Now, if you want to go to

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00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,400
Speaker 1: the eggs exact website. It's actually Google dot com slash

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00:36:04,480 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: Android slash find and so that will show you all

747
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Speaker 1: your different devices on a map as well. So you know,

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00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: these are little things that I try to talk about,

749
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,759
Speaker 1: is that you know in advance, so that you can

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Speaker 1: figure this stuff out and you're not kind of searching

751
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:20,239
Speaker 1: the internet looking for all this stuff. You kind of

752
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: have a heads up as to you know, how you

753
00:36:22,120 --> 00:36:24,080
Speaker 1: can do this stuff before it actually happens to you.

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00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: Hopefully it doesn't happen to you, Hopefully no one's out there.

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00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: Typically when people lose their phone, it's you know, it's

756
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Speaker 1: either left behind.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: I guess people are still stealing iPhones and androids and

759
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,279
Speaker 1: not really sure why, but because once they're activated, it's

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Speaker 1: really tough to to do anything with that device. So

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00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,839
Speaker 1: if you're thinking of stealing someone's phone, not a very

762
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:45,280
Speaker 1: good idea.

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Speaker 2: There's not much you can do for it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could probably take the screen and the

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Speaker 1: you know whatever, take the parts inside.

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Speaker 2: And am I giving you ideas now what to do

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00:36:53,480 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 2: with stolen phones? I hope not.

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Speaker 1: But you know, if you were to do that, I

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Speaker 1: guess that's what you would do but I I personally

770
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,359
Speaker 1: try to remain on the up and up in my life,

771
00:37:03,400 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: and so I'm not stealing phones on.

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Speaker 2: A regular basis.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some new features on Google Maps.

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Speaker 1: So Google Maps just in time for your spring break

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Speaker 1: road trips. Gas prices in California actually went down a

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Speaker 1: little tiny bit.

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Speaker 2: There's still about six bucks.

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Speaker 1: But they're down just like ten cents for the week

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00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: or something like that. So that's a nice thing, right,

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00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: Gotta look on the bright side, folks. But okay, a

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00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: couple of new features in Google Maps. Number one, instead

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Speaker 1: of just showing you that there's a toll road in

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Speaker 1: Google Maps, it will now tell you how much that

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Speaker 1: toll road will cost you. So this is really handy.

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Speaker 1: You might be saying, rich, give me a break. If

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Speaker 1: I'm driving an Orange County, I know exactly how much.

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Speaker 2: The toll road is. Well, let me tell you.

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Speaker 1: As someone who travels frequently, sometimes I'll see a toll

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00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: road and I'll be like, ah, how much is it?

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00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: And they like never even tell you anymore, just says

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00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,960
Speaker 1: pay your toll three days later. Like I went across

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00:37:58,000 --> 00:37:59,399
Speaker 1: the Golden Gate Bridge the other day and they don't

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Speaker 1: even tell you how much the toll is, and there's

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00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,839
Speaker 1: I'll tell you that story in a second, but so

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00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,480
Speaker 1: this will now show you the estimated toll price before

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00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:12,560
Speaker 1: you actually start navigating. Now, personally, I avoid toll roads

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00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 1: at all costs. I grew up in New Jersey. Toll

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00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 1: roads are a way of life there. I think they're silly.

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00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 1: The roads there are not any better than anywhere else

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00:38:20,680 --> 00:38:23,440
Speaker 1: in the US, and they're collecting tons of money from

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00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 1: people on a daily basis. Not really sure where that

802
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,720
Speaker 1: money's going, but it's definitely not going back into the roads,

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00:38:29,280 --> 00:38:31,839
Speaker 1: so you know, and they're expensive. You know, you drive

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00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:35,440
Speaker 1: a New Jersey, you're gonna pay a toll. So I personally,

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00:38:35,480 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: on my Google Maps have the little toggle selected that

806
00:38:38,200 --> 00:38:40,640
Speaker 1: says avoid toll roads, and so that way I don't

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00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,960
Speaker 1: have to ever even come up to these tolls. Because

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00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:45,120
Speaker 1: there's the other thing that they do where a lot

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00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,680
Speaker 1: of these toll roads now you can't pay someone at

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00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:49,399
Speaker 1: a booth. I like to just pay and be done

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Speaker 1: with it, because if you've ever rented a car with

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00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 1: one of these little toll transponders on it, I've gotten

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00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: my bill and it's absolutely, absolutely, just ridiculous. It's like

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00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:03,520
Speaker 1: a twelve to twenty five dollars charge just to use

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00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: that little transponder every day. And I'm like, okay, that's

816
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 1: that's just not acceptable. That's way the convenience does not

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00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:13,040
Speaker 1: outweigh the cost of how ridiculously expensive it is.

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Speaker 2: So I always.

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00:39:13,760 --> 00:39:16,840
Speaker 1: Try to pay for the toll at the time of

820
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,040
Speaker 1: the toll if I need to take a toll road.

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Speaker 1: I was up in San Francisco the other day a

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00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and you know, I was coming back.

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00:39:24,680 --> 00:39:26,360
Speaker 1: I guess you can go one way over the Golden

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00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: Gate without paying the toll. When you come back, you

825
00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:31,440
Speaker 1: have to pay the toll. And so I'm, you know,

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Speaker 1: navigating on my maps, and it's like it'll take you

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Speaker 1: two hours.

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Speaker 2: And I'm literally fifteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: Across the bridge, and I go to navigate back and

830
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: it's like, it'll take you two hours and fifteen minutes

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Speaker 1: to get back to San Francisco.

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00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 2: And I said, what the traffic is that bad?

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00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:47,799
Speaker 1: Two hours and fifteen minutes, And I realized that I

834
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 1: still had the toggle on my Google Maps that said

835
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: avoid tolls, and so it was routing me around the

836
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Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge somehow, and whatever route that would take

837
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Speaker 1: you without tolls, and so I I was like, oh

838
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:04,200
Speaker 1: my gosh, I'm not spending. So in that case, yes,

839
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Speaker 1: I broke down and I paid the toll, But it

840
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: was one of these situate because it was a ten

841
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:11,120
Speaker 1: minute drive. In this case, it was one of these

842
00:40:11,160 --> 00:40:14,400
Speaker 1: tolls where there are no humans anymore. It's only one

843
00:40:14,440 --> 00:40:16,920
Speaker 1: of those license plate readers, and then you have to

844
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Speaker 1: remember in a couple of.

845
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Speaker 2: Days to pay.

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Speaker 1: Now, it was a little bit better than what I

847
00:40:20,680 --> 00:40:23,000
Speaker 1: experienced in Orange County once, where it's like, oh, pay

848
00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: in five days or whatever, and you forget and next

849
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:27,719
Speaker 1: thing you know, you get this giant bill and it's

850
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: like a two hundred dollars fine along with the fee

851
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 1: of like two dollars for the toll and so and

852
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,440
Speaker 1: then you have to call them and they bring down

853
00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:38,480
Speaker 1: the fee and all this stuff. But anyway, this one

854
00:40:38,520 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: was a lot easier. They sent you a bill on

855
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,319
Speaker 1: the mail and you pay that bill when you get

856
00:40:42,360 --> 00:40:45,360
Speaker 1: it. It was like nine dollars and five cents. What was

857
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:47,160
Speaker 1: my point of all this? My point is that I

858
00:40:47,200 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: do try to avoid these things, but sometimes I like

859
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Speaker 1: to pay them.

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00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, if you.

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Speaker 1: Want to download an app that's pretty handy for using

862
00:40:54,680 --> 00:41:02,120
Speaker 1: toll roads. It's called uproadp up Road, Uproad, up Road

863
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 1: Toll toll app and I featured this yeah, uproad. So

864
00:41:06,719 --> 00:41:09,239
Speaker 1: it's a pay as you go toll app. It recognizes

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Speaker 1: a lot of the tolls in the US on a.

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Speaker 2: Lot of the roads.

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Speaker 1: You put your credit card or Venmo or however you

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Speaker 1: want to pay, and when you go through the toll,

869
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 1: your phone somehow figures it out and it pays the toll.

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Speaker 2: And it's really pretty slick.

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Speaker 1: But you do have to pay a little premium on

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00:41:25,719 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 1: top of the toll price, but in that case it's

873
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: not as wild as the price you would pay if

874
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 1: you're in a rental car. It's like, I think fifteen percent,

875
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: depending on a plan. They have a bunch of different plans.

876
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,880
Speaker 1: But anyway, just again, this show is all about giving

877
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:42,520
Speaker 1: you information, giving you options, helping you understand what's out

878
00:41:42,560 --> 00:41:45,440
Speaker 1: there in life, and this is just one of those things.

879
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:49,759
Speaker 1: Uproad Toll app is just one more option. Oh, i'd

880
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 1: even finish what Google is gonna do with maps. So

881
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 1: in addition to the toll estimates are also going to

882
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: show traffic lights and stop signs and that's something that

883
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 1: Apple Maps has had for a long time, which my

884
00:42:01,680 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: kids in the car whenever they see that, they're like,

885
00:42:03,560 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: Apple Maps is so much better a show stop signs

886
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:08,279
Speaker 1: than traffic lights. I'm like, that makes it better, Like

887
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,879
Speaker 1: come on, I mean, it does look prettier for.

888
00:42:10,880 --> 00:42:13,360
Speaker 2: Sure than than Google Maps. Google Maps looks like.

889
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:17,760
Speaker 1: I will never forget the So I switched to Android

890
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:20,480
Speaker 1: because of Google Maps. This is a very old story,

891
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: but I will never forget back in the day, and

892
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, some of you may remember this, some of

893
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 1: you may not. Back in the day, when the iPhone

894
00:42:28,520 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: first came out, it did not have turn by turn navigation.

895
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: It had turn by turn directions built into the app.

896
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,319
Speaker 1: It did not have turn by turn navigation, so it

897
00:42:38,360 --> 00:42:42,520
Speaker 1: had Google Maps built in. But it was the Droid

898
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: Bionic smartphone from Verizon that was the first to have

899
00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 1: turn by turn navigation maps in your car. It came

900
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: with this fancy little holder, and that caused me to

901
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:56,840
Speaker 1: wait in line outside the Verizon store, purchased that Droid

902
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,360
Speaker 1: Bionic and switched to Android because I thought it was

903
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 1: a superior system because it had those turn by turn directions.

904
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: And so we take for granted now that turn by

905
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,320
Speaker 1: turn is available on every phone in five thousand different apps.

906
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:13,720
Speaker 1: But my point of that story is that the maps

907
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: today on Google pretty much look the same as they

908
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:19,520
Speaker 1: did back in the day. I'm sure they have changed.

909
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: Don't get mad at me for saying that if you

910
00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: work at Google, but yes, they've improved and the information,

911
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:28,240
Speaker 1: all the stuff is so much better. But at their core,

912
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: they kind of have the same look and feel that

913
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:31,799
Speaker 1: they did back in that.

914
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: Day, which is still pretty great.

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00:43:33,960 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 1: I love Google Maps, but Apple Maps definitely has a

916
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: superior looking map. I think that when it actually comes

917
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: to using the maps, it's a different story. I'm not

918
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Speaker 1: going to get into that. My preferred is Google Maps.

919
00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:46,719
Speaker 1: Let's just put it that way. One more thing you'll

920
00:43:46,719 --> 00:43:49,440
Speaker 1: be able to do is navigate from your Apple Watch

921
00:43:49,480 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: on Google Maps, which is really nice. You don't need

922
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: to actually open up the Google Maps on your phone

923
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Speaker 1: before you navigate on your Apple Watch. You'll just be

924
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: able to use the mapping app on your Apple Watch directly,

925
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 1: which is kind of a big deal. I'm still waiting

926
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Speaker 1: Apple for the ability to just go ahead and set

927
00:44:08,440 --> 00:44:11,160
Speaker 1: a default mapping app. That is my biggest pet peeve

928
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,200
Speaker 1: of the iPhone that they've gone defaults on mail, they've

929
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,600
Speaker 1: gone defaults on the browser.

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00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:19,520
Speaker 2: Which doesn't really default most of the time.

931
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Speaker 1: But the maps is still a sore point because you

932
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: cannot have a default mapping app on the iPhone right now? Okay,

933
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: Jeffrey says, hello, Rich, I have an older computer that

934
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Speaker 1: uses Windows a operating system. Is it still okay and

935
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: safe to use? I have researched it and found mixed answers, best.

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Speaker 2: Regards, Jeffrey.

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00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 1: Uh, Jeffrey, I did a little research myself, and there's

938
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Speaker 1: something called end of life when it comes to Windows.

939
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Speaker 2: The end of life.

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00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:56,480
Speaker 1: So Windows, Windows eight point Windows eight, Well, okay, so

941
00:44:56,560 --> 00:45:01,120
Speaker 1: it's Windows eight definitely end a life happened. Then they

942
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: came up with Windows eight point one and Windows eight

943
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Speaker 1: point one.

944
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Speaker 2: You still have a little bit of life left.

945
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 1: So Windows eight point one started in November thirteenth, twenty thirteen.

946
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Speaker 1: The mainstream end date was January ninth, twenty eighteen. That

947
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Speaker 1: means they no longer update Windows eight point one at all.

948
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 1: Since then, we've had Windows ten and Windows eleven. There

949
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: is no Windows nine because Windows eight. No, it was

950
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Speaker 1: Windows ten eight nine.

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00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 2: Get it? Oh?

952
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 1: Do I have a boom boom, get it Windows ten

953
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: eight nine. It's a really dorky joke, but anyway, the

954
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:44,680
Speaker 1: support date, the extended end date for Windows eight point

955
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Speaker 1: one is January tenth, twenty twenty three. So you are

956
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: good if you update to Windows eight point one. So

957
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 1: right now you said you have Windows eight you need

958
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: to get your computer on Windows eight point one and

959
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,719
Speaker 1: that will give you just under a year to save

960
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:04,000
Speaker 1: up some money and get a new computer in the

961
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: next year so that you can have the latest Windows

962
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: and of course have the security. Why do you want

963
00:46:09,120 --> 00:46:11,760
Speaker 1: to make sure you mentioned is it okay and safe

964
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:12,200
Speaker 1: to use?

965
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: Well, the two biggest.

966
00:46:13,760 --> 00:46:18,200
Speaker 1: Things with using older operating systems is security and also compatibility,

967
00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:20,840
Speaker 1: so some of the new apps may not run on

968
00:46:21,239 --> 00:46:24,799
Speaker 1: the old operating system and the security. Now, this will

969
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: be secure until January tenth, twenty twenty three. So Microsoft

970
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: is still actively looking for exploits and things like that,

971
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,760
Speaker 1: or still I should say, fixing exploits if they're found,

972
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: and maybe not bugs so much, but mostly just major exploits.

973
00:46:41,160 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 1: So they will fix that until January tenth, twenty twenty three.

974
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:46,160
Speaker 2: But I would say start saving your money now.

975
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 1: Costco has some pretty nice all in ones for about

976
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: seven hundred bucks. You can get one of those in

977
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: January and of next year and think of it.

978
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:59,799
Speaker 2: As your holiday gift to yourself. All right, let's get

979
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 2: two the next story of the week. How much more

980
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 2: time do we have? All right, We've got a little

981
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:04,840
Speaker 2: bit more.

982
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,200
Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're looking for an alternative cloud backup

983
00:47:09,320 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: storage app, one of my favorites now a couple things.

984
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 2: Number One, I.

985
00:47:14,880 --> 00:47:19,400
Speaker 1: Use Google Photos for my backup, photos storage or whatever

986
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: you want. Yeah, my photos backup. You should have your

987
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: photos in two places. You should have it on a

988
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: cloud backup, you should have it on a physical backup,

989
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:33,359
Speaker 1: and technically somewhere else, probably on your phone. So if

990
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: you don't have your photos in two places, please get

991
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:37,839
Speaker 1: them there. Because I get way too many emails from

992
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: people saying, rich, I lost all my photos, and I.

993
00:47:40,040 --> 00:47:41,719
Speaker 2: Said, well, at least they were backed up.

994
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: I don't actually say that because that's so mean, because clearly,

995
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: if they're emailing me, they were not backed up. So

996
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:52,719
Speaker 1: my other favorite cloud storage, which I think is a

997
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: really fantastic deal, is called I Drive Photos, and I

998
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,719
Speaker 1: did a story with them. They're out of Calabasas California.

999
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,719
Speaker 1: They they basically do a lot of corporate backups, but

1000
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: then they got into consumer backups, and so they have

1001
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:08,600
Speaker 1: this app called I Drive Photos. It's very simple, very basic,

1002
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: but it gives you unlimited photo storage for ten dollars

1003
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: a year, ninety nine cents for your first year.

1004
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 2: So if you need a good sort of backup of

1005
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 2: your backup, go ahead and do that.

1006
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: So what I do is I also have my photos

1007
00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: backed up into Amazon. Because I pay for Amazon Prime.

1008
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: You get Amazon Photos with unlimited photo.

1009
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 2: Storage for free.

1010
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,720
Speaker 1: I say photo storage because it does not include video storage.

1011
00:48:35,760 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: It includes five gigabytes of video storage, which is you're

1012
00:48:38,719 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: going to burn through that in the first second of

1013
00:48:41,120 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 1: uploading stuff. So I don't back up my videos to it.

1014
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: I back up my photos to Amazon. And the nice

1015
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,040
Speaker 1: aside to that is that Amazon does a good job

1016
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: of putting those photos on my alex A devices and

1017
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,359
Speaker 1: so I can see them as my little backdrop when

1018
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:57,879
Speaker 1: I come into the house and stuff like that.

1019
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 2: So anyway, I Drive Photos. I've tested it out.

1020
00:49:01,080 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 1: It's super fast, it's really good. Why do I tell

1021
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: you this because it now includes one terabyte of cloud

1022
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: backup for your computer for the same price, so that

1023
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,760
Speaker 1: is included now. So if you're backing up your photos

1024
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: from your phone, you now get one terabyte of cloud

1025
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,319
Speaker 1: backup for your computer, which should be enough to back

1026
00:49:19,400 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 1: up a standard laptop or computer, or basically as long

1027
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,439
Speaker 1: as your hard drive is under a terabyte, you can

1028
00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: have it mirror to this cloud backup, which is a

1029
00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:31,719
Speaker 1: really nice way to secure a computer. And the reason

1030
00:49:31,800 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: why you want to back up your computer like this

1031
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: is because if you ever get into a situation with

1032
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: malware or ransomware, you would have a nice backup of

1033
00:49:40,520 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: your computer that you can tell the ransomware folks. Hopefully

1034
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: that never happens to you, but you can say like, Okay,

1035
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 1: I'm not paying you anything because I'm just going to

1036
00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:52,640
Speaker 1: format my computer and back reinstall it for my backup

1037
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: that I have in the cloud.

1038
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 2: So I drive photos.

1039
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:56,799
Speaker 1: You can search by the way, you can search for

1040
00:49:56,840 --> 00:49:59,240
Speaker 1: pretty much anything I mentioned on KTLA by just searching

1041
00:49:59,320 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: like I Drive photos KTLA DeMuro and if you search that,

1042
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:08,759
Speaker 1: you'll come up with my story immediately, which we did

1043
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:11,560
Speaker 1: July fifth, twenty twenty one. I can't believe it's almost

1044
00:50:11,560 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: been a year since we did a story on that, But.

1045
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 2: There you go. I drive photos all right.

1046
00:50:18,320 --> 00:50:25,400
Speaker 1: Next question from the listeners and viewers, Alan says, a

1047
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 1: few months ago you said there was an update to

1048
00:50:27,000 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: improve the fingerprint sensor on the pixel Does it work

1049
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:32,640
Speaker 1: well now? I was actually about to buy the Pixel

1050
00:50:32,640 --> 00:50:34,719
Speaker 1: six when you did your story. I definitely needed my

1051
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,440
Speaker 1: phone to detect my fingerprint. I tried reading some reviews,

1052
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: but those aren't always reliable. I trust you more than

1053
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: the general reviews.

1054
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:41,759
Speaker 2: Thanks.

1055
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 1: I always looking. I always look forward to hearing from you,

1056
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: and my entire family watches you every morning. You're the best,

1057
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:50,719
Speaker 1: h Alan say, please write more.

1058
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

1059
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,440
Speaker 1: No, I really do appreciate when you say how much

1060
00:50:55,480 --> 00:50:59,359
Speaker 1: you enjoy watching what I do, because it keeps me going.

1061
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:00,000
Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying.

1062
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,040
Speaker 1: I mean, I really I get all the emails, I

1063
00:51:02,080 --> 00:51:04,040
Speaker 1: get all the tweets, I get the texts, I get

1064
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:07,400
Speaker 1: the Instagram messages. So you really do like what I'm doing,

1065
00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,759
Speaker 1: and I do appreciate that, and it's never lost on me.

1066
00:51:10,280 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: Does the fingerprint sensor work on the Pixel six? It

1067
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: is the slowest fingerprint sensor I have tested. Yes it works. Yes,

1068
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:19,799
Speaker 1: it has gotten better since I did my review. No,

1069
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: it's not perfect, but I would still one hundred percent

1070
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: recommend the Pixel six. It's a great size phone, it's

1071
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,160
Speaker 1: a great price phone, it's a great camera, it's great software,

1072
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: and basically the only downside of that device is the

1073
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:38,280
Speaker 1: fingerprint sensor is just slightly slower than other fingerprint sensors

1074
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:41,479
Speaker 1: on the market. So it's still a great device. It's

1075
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:44,240
Speaker 1: just yeah, the fingerprint sensor's gonna be a little bit slower,

1076
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,439
Speaker 1: but it has improved since they launched this phone, which

1077
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,920
Speaker 1: I think was October, November, December, January, February, March April,

1078
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:53,160
Speaker 1: about six months ago. If you can believe it, I

1079
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:53,880
Speaker 1: can't believe it.

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00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:57,000
Speaker 2: I love the Pixel six. I think it's a fantastic device,

1081
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:00,439
Speaker 2: and I'm tempted to switch to Itever every day.

1082
00:52:00,719 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 1: So well, Pixel six Pro, I should say, But yeah,

1083
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,040
Speaker 1: Pixel six is excellent, especially for the price, So alan

1084
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: I say, go ahead and buy it.

1085
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:08,839
Speaker 2: And if you.

1086
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 1: Don't like it, well just stop watching me. I'm just kidding,

1087
00:52:14,840 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: just kidding. But you know you can return things, you know,

1088
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one good thing about buying stuff from

1089
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: like big retailers is that the return policies are so

1090
00:52:23,320 --> 00:52:26,680
Speaker 1: good these days. That like, if you buy from an

1091
00:52:26,719 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: Amazon or best Buy or basically or Target, it's like

1092
00:52:29,719 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 1: no questions asked. So if you're within I ask every

1093
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: single time I buy a piece of electronics, I no

1094
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,000
Speaker 1: matter if I've bought it from that company before, I

1095
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: always ask them at the at the checkout what is

1096
00:52:42,560 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: the return policy on this? A lot of times electronics

1097
00:52:45,640 --> 00:52:48,080
Speaker 1: have a different return policy than other things in the store.

1098
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:51,239
Speaker 1: So whether I'm shopping at Costco, whether I'm shopping at

1099
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: best Buy or Target or any other place in between,

1100
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 1: if I'm buying an electronics device, I always say what

1101
00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:00,520
Speaker 1: is your return policy to the cashier at check out?

1102
00:53:00,719 --> 00:53:01,640
Speaker 2: And I want to hear.

1103
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: It even if I'm buying anything actually, like if it's

1104
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:07,880
Speaker 1: not like you know, if it's something that I may return,

1105
00:53:07,960 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: even if it's an an item of clothing, whatever it is,

1106
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 1: I always ask at the point of sale because I

1107
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,680
Speaker 1: just want to be refreshed so I have it in

1108
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:18,640
Speaker 1: my mind fresh, and I know, okay, two weeks, okay,

1109
00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: sixty days, okay, ninety days, okay, one year, and you

1110
00:53:21,840 --> 00:53:23,839
Speaker 1: just it's just a good idea to always get into

1111
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: the habit of that, all right. I promised I was

1112
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 1: going to talk about my trip to Disneyland.

1113
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: So here we go.

1114
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:31,520
Speaker 1: And I said I was gonna be the middle of

1115
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 1: the podcast, but it turned out to be the end

1116
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,400
Speaker 1: of the podcast. Went to Disneyland, I think it was

1117
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:38,600
Speaker 1: last week, took a couple days off. I bought the

1118
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:41,440
Speaker 1: three day park Copper passes with Genie Plus. And so

1119
00:53:42,040 --> 00:53:44,800
Speaker 1: you can trust what I'm saying. This was not a freebie.

1120
00:53:44,840 --> 00:53:47,319
Speaker 1: Disney did not invite me. You could trust me even

1121
00:53:47,320 --> 00:53:49,520
Speaker 1: when I go somewhere for free, because I still am

1122
00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 1: just going to tell you how it is. But you

1123
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,520
Speaker 1: can trust me even more because I paid my hard

1124
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:56,959
Speaker 1: earned money for these tickets. It was like thirteen hundred

1125
00:53:57,000 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: bucks or something insane. But it was a four day,

1126
00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 1: four tickets for a three day park hopper with the

1127
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: Genie Plus. So I got the top of the top,

1128
00:54:07,160 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: you know, nothing but the best for my children. Now,

1129
00:54:11,040 --> 00:54:12,759
Speaker 1: we saved a lot of money for this, and we

1130
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:16,319
Speaker 1: also promised them this was their Christmas present. So this

1131
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,080
Speaker 1: is what I got. And so we went to Disney

1132
00:54:19,440 --> 00:54:22,000
Speaker 1: and it was fantastic. I mean it really Look. I

1133
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: know people have a lot of stuff in the media

1134
00:54:24,680 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 1: about Disney, but you know, this is just my experience

1135
00:54:29,719 --> 00:54:32,640
Speaker 1: at the park, and it was fantastic for the most part.

1136
00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: I will say a lot has changed with the pandemic.

1137
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: You have to make reservations to get in. You have

1138
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,560
Speaker 1: to decide what park you want to start at. You

1139
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: can then switch parks at one PM. I packed, you

1140
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: know the basics, sunscreen, sanitizer, wipes, a cooling towel which

1141
00:54:48,160 --> 00:54:51,840
Speaker 1: I didn't use, water bottle, sweatshirt, jacket, and a battery

1142
00:54:52,040 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: backup and so you know, if you're coming to California

1143
00:54:56,440 --> 00:54:59,600
Speaker 1: for Disney, remember layers, layers, layers, those are your friends.

1144
00:55:00,080 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: The other thing you want to have is a battery

1145
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: for your phone. Your phone runs everything now when it

1146
00:55:08,080 --> 00:55:11,399
Speaker 1: comes to Disney, So if you are bringing, whether it's

1147
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:14,160
Speaker 1: an iPhone or an Android, bring a backup battery and

1148
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: bring when that works really well, you don't. The cheaper

1149
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: the backup battery is the slower it's charging your phone.

1150
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: And some of these batteries are so slow that they

1151
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:24,680
Speaker 1: will trickle charge your phone and you won't even be

1152
00:55:24,719 --> 00:55:28,160
Speaker 1: able to get any percentage increase if you're actively using

1153
00:55:28,200 --> 00:55:33,160
Speaker 1: the phone. So I recommend my charge mag Safe battery pack.

1154
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: I also like battery packs from Anchor and Mophy. I've

1155
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:37,880
Speaker 1: got them all linked up. If you're not on my

1156
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: if you're not on my newsletter, you can go to

1157
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: richon tech dot substack dot com. This is my exclusive

1158
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: email newsletter where I send out occasional emails about things

1159
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,920
Speaker 1: that really are important. And I linked it up in there.

1160
00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:55,879
Speaker 1: You can read this whole I've wrote this whole thing out.

1161
00:55:55,880 --> 00:55:59,080
Speaker 1: It's a whole Disney blog post. It's like six pages long.

1162
00:55:59,120 --> 00:56:02,600
Speaker 1: Believe me, I covered it all. So Genie Plus, let

1163
00:56:02,640 --> 00:56:04,839
Speaker 1: me explain what that is. This is a paid add on.

1164
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 1: I think it's about twenty dollars a ticket, and it

1165
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,960
Speaker 1: basically includes what's called Lightning Lane. And this is the

1166
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: new version of fast Pass. Fast Pass used to be

1167
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 1: available in the park. Lightning Lane is now all done

1168
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:18,080
Speaker 1: through an app. You choose the ride that you want

1169
00:56:18,120 --> 00:56:20,440
Speaker 1: to go on next, and it basically gives you a

1170
00:56:20,480 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: little QR code that you can scan at the ride

1171
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,400
Speaker 1: entrance to go on. So let's say you do your

1172
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,959
Speaker 1: first Lightning Lane of the day, it's eight am. It says, okay,

1173
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:31,760
Speaker 1: you can go on Splash Mountain at eight thirty am.

1174
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,080
Speaker 1: You say, okay, fine, I'll do that. It gives you

1175
00:56:34,120 --> 00:56:35,880
Speaker 1: a little QR code. You go at eight thirty to

1176
00:56:35,920 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 1: nine thirty. You give you like an hour window. You

1177
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: scan your QR code at the entrance, and you basically

1178
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: get to bypass the line. The lightning lane might be

1179
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: a little bit, might be a couple minutes. The most

1180
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,279
Speaker 1: I think we had to wait was like fifteen minutes

1181
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,759
Speaker 1: for any ride. If you do Lightning Lane, you can

1182
00:56:49,800 --> 00:56:51,759
Speaker 1: only do one lightning lane at a time, and you

1183
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: can only do one lightning lane per ride. So once

1184
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: you've done the Splash Mountain Lightning Lane, that's it for

1185
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,759
Speaker 1: the day. You have to go wait in line if

1186
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,640
Speaker 1: you want to do it again. The Lightning Lane and

1187
00:57:02,719 --> 00:57:05,600
Speaker 1: Genie Plus or Genie Plus I should say, also includes

1188
00:57:05,680 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 1: unlimited photo downloads from the people that take your pictures around.

1189
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 2: The park, which I thought was really cool.

1190
00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: So you can go and take a picture with anyone

1191
00:57:13,600 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: that's you know, these Disney photo photographers. They scan a

1192
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: QR code on your phone and your pictures show up

1193
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:21,919
Speaker 1: on your phone immediately. You could download them in high

1194
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: resolution or low resolution. I go for the high resolution

1195
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,640
Speaker 1: because why not. The other thing to know is that

1196
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 1: this is what I didn't like about the park is

1197
00:57:31,280 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: that there are a couple rides you actually have to

1198
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,840
Speaker 1: pay on top of paying on top of paying, and

1199
00:57:35,920 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: so you have to pay to do a Lightning Lane

1200
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:41,680
Speaker 1: one time for certain of the best rides, and the

1201
00:57:41,800 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 1: ride that I did this on, I broke down and

1202
00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,000
Speaker 1: paid an extra sixty bucks four of us to ride

1203
00:57:46,520 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: Radiator Springs. It was fifteen dollars each just to ride

1204
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,680
Speaker 1: one ride. It was not worth it for my littlest

1205
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: one because he was terrified of this ride. It was

1206
00:57:56,280 --> 00:57:57,920
Speaker 1: worth it for me and my wife and my other

1207
00:57:58,000 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: kid because we got to go on immediately. It was

1208
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 1: still probably a ten minute wait, but it was a

1209
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: great ride. But it's just I can't believe that we're

1210
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,280
Speaker 1: at the point at Disney where we're now paying fifteen

1211
00:58:07,360 --> 00:58:09,400
Speaker 1: dollars on top of a one hundred dollars ticket to

1212
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: get in just to go on one ride. I mean,

1213
00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: that's pretty pretty unbelievable, but that's where we're at. And

1214
00:58:15,680 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: if you have the money, it's amazing because you get

1215
00:58:17,720 --> 00:58:19,560
Speaker 1: to go in front of everyone else that's waiting for

1216
00:58:19,600 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: an hour and a.

1217
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 2: Half to go on that ride.

1218
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 1: It's sad for, you know, people that are put in

1219
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: that position to have to choose to pay for something

1220
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,200
Speaker 1: that typically you know is included, or you know, kids

1221
00:58:31,200 --> 00:58:33,080
Speaker 1: ask questions like, oh, why do those people get to

1222
00:58:33,120 --> 00:58:36,800
Speaker 1: go ahead of me? It's just as someone I just

1223
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just kind of like ichy, but

1224
00:58:38,960 --> 00:58:40,919
Speaker 1: I did it. I mean, you know, like I said,

1225
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: we saved up for this trip, so we had the

1226
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:45,920
Speaker 1: money to do it. Okay, So what do I not

1227
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: like about the fact that all the things are now

1228
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 1: through your phone at Disney, Well, people are looking at

1229
00:58:52,400 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: their phones more than ever now. I mean everyone at

1230
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 1: the park is looking down at their phone, and it's

1231
00:58:57,880 --> 00:58:58,919
Speaker 1: just that's.

1232
00:58:58,840 --> 00:58:59,920
Speaker 2: Kind of the reality of it.

1233
00:59:00,040 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 1: The other thing is that you're now jumping around the

1234
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:05,360
Speaker 1: park way more than you ever were, because your lightning

1235
00:59:05,440 --> 00:59:07,720
Speaker 1: lane rides might be in one area and then you

1236
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:09,479
Speaker 1: jump to another area of the park for your.

1237
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:10,320
Speaker 2: Next lightning lane.

1238
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:12,120
Speaker 1: The other little tip to know about the lightning lane

1239
00:59:12,120 --> 00:59:14,040
Speaker 1: you can only book one at a time. So as

1240
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:16,240
Speaker 1: soon as you scan that lightning lane pass at the

1241
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: Splash Mountain entrance, go on your app and then you

1242
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: can choose your next lightning lane. And so if you don't,

1243
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,240
Speaker 1: you could be pushing those lightning lanes later and later

1244
00:59:24,280 --> 00:59:26,040
Speaker 1: into the day. But I have to say, if you

1245
00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:27,760
Speaker 1: have Lightning Lane, you really get to go on all

1246
00:59:27,800 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: the top rides pretty quickly and easily without without waiting

1247
00:59:31,440 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: almost at all. I mean, I don't think we have

1248
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:37,040
Speaker 1: to wait for any of the popular rides. Okay, food

1249
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:39,520
Speaker 1: you also have to order pretty much from your phone.

1250
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,080
Speaker 1: So I went up to a I tell the story,

1251
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: but I went up to a churo booth in cars

1252
00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,720
Speaker 1: Land and the woman behind the booth was like, no,

1253
00:59:47,040 --> 00:59:48,960
Speaker 1: you can't order for me. You basically have to order

1254
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:50,920
Speaker 1: from the app. So you order from the app, and

1255
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: this is a pretty slick process as well. They do

1256
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:56,800
Speaker 1: accept Apple Pay and Android I'm assuming Android pay or

1257
00:59:56,880 --> 01:00:00,120
Speaker 1: Google Pay, and you order from your app and and

1258
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:02,840
Speaker 1: they give you a window of time to go pick

1259
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 1: up your order. And when you get close to the

1260
01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 1: restaurant that you're picking up your order from, you say

1261
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm here, You check in kind of like curbside, and

1262
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,240
Speaker 1: you just it gives you a window, like a window

1263
01:00:13,320 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: number where.

1264
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 2: To go pick up your food. So I thought that

1265
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 2: was pretty cool.

1266
01:00:16,520 --> 01:00:19,480
Speaker 1: It's a little different, but I personally love online ordering

1267
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: of food because I get to customize my food exactly

1268
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 1: the way I want, So if my kid doesn't want

1269
01:00:24,960 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: mustard on their burger, I can say no mustard, and

1270
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,760
Speaker 1: it gives you all those modifiers and options on the app.

1271
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:31,920
Speaker 2: I love that. It used to be like you just

1272
01:00:31,960 --> 01:00:32,560
Speaker 2: have to ask.

1273
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 1: Someone, Can I substitute, you know, American cheese for provolone

1274
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 1: or whatever. Now the app, you know, it lists out

1275
01:00:39,680 --> 01:00:41,080
Speaker 1: everything because you're doing it yourself.

1276
01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 2: So I do like that aspect of it. Uh.

1277
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 1: One hack I realized if you find yourself with a

1278
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:49,200
Speaker 1: Disney reservation, you no longer can go to like a

1279
01:00:49,240 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: lot of these restaurants if you want to sit down meal,

1280
01:00:52,120 --> 01:00:54,240
Speaker 1: you have to put a credit card down to get

1281
01:00:54,240 --> 01:00:57,240
Speaker 1: that reservation, and you have to cancel twenty four hours

1282
01:00:57,280 --> 01:00:59,360
Speaker 1: in advance if you forget to cancel, like we did

1283
01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: for one of our reservations. I tried something and it worked,

1284
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: and it's kind of.

1285
01:01:03,320 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 2: Like a little hack, so it may go away at

1286
01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 2: any time.

1287
01:01:06,680 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 1: But what I did was I changed the reservation to

1288
01:01:09,160 --> 01:01:11,640
Speaker 1: a date in the future. I modified the reservation instead

1289
01:01:11,640 --> 01:01:14,680
Speaker 1: of canceling, I modified it to a few days in advance,

1290
01:01:14,760 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 1: and then I canceled it because it no longer was

1291
01:01:17,200 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 1: twenty four hours from now.

1292
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:19,680
Speaker 2: It was three days from now, and it worked.

1293
01:01:19,960 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: That may backfire if the reservation you have has no

1294
01:01:23,280 --> 01:01:25,800
Speaker 1: future reservations that you can find, so just keep in

1295
01:01:25,840 --> 01:01:28,560
Speaker 1: mind Disney may also get hip to that and cancel

1296
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 1: or you know, make it so you can't do that.

1297
01:01:31,280 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 1: But it worked for me for our reservation that we had,

1298
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:35,640
Speaker 1: and so that was kind of cool. The other tip

1299
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:37,960
Speaker 1: I found is that you can search for a specific

1300
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Speaker 1: food item in the app. And so there's this thing

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Speaker 1: this like special bagel that's like a garlic bagel or something,

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Speaker 1: a garlic cheese bagel or something. I didn't end up

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Speaker 1: getting it because it just didn't work out, but you

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Speaker 1: can search for these specific food item inside the app

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Speaker 1: and it will tell you the places that serve that item.

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Speaker 1: So if you're craving ramen, or if you're craving a bagel,

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Speaker 1: or if you're craving a milk shake, just search in

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Speaker 1: will surface the places that are serving that, which is

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Speaker 1: really really cool.

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Speaker 2: That's about it.

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