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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope

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Speaker 1: you are having a fantastic day so far. Everything's good

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Speaker 1: over here, just you know, surrounded in new technology. I

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Speaker 1: the day. Dear rich DeMuro, very formal. I just reread

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Speaker 1: But you know, I have one gig Internet and it's great.

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Speaker 1: place to find a replacement laptop. They don't stock a

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Speaker 1: ton of laptops, but you know, if they have one

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Speaker 1: or two, they're usually a fantastic deal. And what I

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Speaker 1: mean by that is that you know, these are kind

429
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Speaker 1: of curated selections, they're just remembers. So no matter what,

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Speaker 1: if a laptop is five hundred dollars at Costco and

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Speaker 1: five hundred dollars at best Buy and it's the same laptop,

432
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Speaker 1: you're literally gonna get either double the memory at Costco

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Speaker 1: or you know, double the hard drives. Something is going

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Speaker 1: to be better on the specs. It's going to be

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Speaker 1: a little bit more specked out for the same price.

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Speaker 1: And that's because Costco is a private club. It has

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Speaker 1: a membership and a private club. It sounds so fancy,

438
00:23:11,359 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: you know, anyone can join, but the reality is they

439
00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: always get a little bit of a better deal for

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Speaker 1: their members, especially on the electronics. So I would go there.

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Speaker 1: If you don't have a membership to Costco and you

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Speaker 1: know you want to go to best Buy and buy something,

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Speaker 1: usually I'd recommend the Microsoft Store because when you buy

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Speaker 1: stuff from there, it the computers are not filled with

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00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: bloatwear like they are at Best Buy. But Microsoft Store

446
00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:38,320
Speaker 1: is all gone now, so and I don't feel like

447
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Speaker 1: you want to spend the money on an Apple laptop

448
00:23:41,040 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: because those are basically double the price. So I would

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Speaker 1: just go into best Buy with that five hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: budget and find something that is, you know, just talk

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Speaker 1: to the folks there and see what they sell the

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Speaker 1: most of or you know whatever. But don't go with

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Speaker 1: a two hundred dollars chromebook. Don't just don't make that mistake,

454
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Speaker 1: because it'll be it's underpowered from day one, it's under

455
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Speaker 1: powered from day twenty, and it's underpowered day three hundred.

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Speaker 1: So all I hear about is people complaining about chromebooks.

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00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 1: They love them and they hate them. They love them

458
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Speaker 1: that they're so cheap, and then they get at home

459
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Speaker 1: and all they do is say it's a little slow. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: of course it's slow. It's got like one gigabyte of RAM.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's like, these things are so underpowered. How

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Speaker 1: do you think they sell them for one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty bucks? I mean, you know, what's the margin? There.

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Speaker 1: They probably make them for twenty you know, so just

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Speaker 1: you know, be aware. Now, I think you could get

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Speaker 1: away with a Chromebook here, because everything that you're doing works,

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Speaker 1: you know, on a Chromebook. Just get a nicer model,

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Speaker 1: you know, like get a higher end model. I would

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Speaker 1: say minimum. I'd say, you know, I like to see

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Speaker 1: like four to eight gigs a RAM and then at

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Speaker 1: least a sixty four gig hard drive. Now again that

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Speaker 1: sounds really low for a laptop, but we're talking chromebooks,

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Speaker 1: so you know, do what you want. But I would say,

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Speaker 1: go the best, go to the cost go route, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully you'll find something there. All right, good luck on that.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the next story. I feel like

477
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Speaker 1: this podcast is like Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple Apple,

478
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:07,120
Speaker 1: but I got a lot of Apple stories. I mean,

479
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:09,959
Speaker 1: this company is a force to be reckoned with. They

480
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Speaker 1: got a lot going on. I'll do two in one.

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Speaker 1: How about that? Two and one? Mac os Big sur

482
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Speaker 1: is available and I have not downloaded it yet for

483
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Speaker 1: my computer, so I can't tell you exactly how awesome

484
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Speaker 1: it is or not awesome, but I will be I

485
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,399
Speaker 1: think I might spend the afternoon today doing that. I

486
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Speaker 1: like to do a clean install, which means I like

487
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Speaker 1: to factory format my computer and install the new operating

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Speaker 1: system fresh. I don't recommend that everyone does that, because, yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: you got to start over. It takes time. It takes

490
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: much more time to do it that way. But I

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Speaker 1: like to do it that way because I find that

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm running you know, I'm a tech person,

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Speaker 1: you know, a tech reporter, and so I'm downloading stuff

494
00:25:52,840 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: all the time. I'm trying out new programs, downloading video files.

495
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Speaker 1: There's fragments of garbage everywhere all over my computer. So

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Speaker 1: I like to start fresh once a year when a

497
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Speaker 1: new operating system comes out, because it gives me a

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Speaker 1: chance to kind of like, ah, like everything is fresh again.

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00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: The downside is that inevitably I forget about ninety nine

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Speaker 1: percent of these settings and programs that I had installed

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Speaker 1: in my computer. And you know, the next like three

502
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Speaker 1: weeks after I do any sort of update, I'm just

503
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,600
Speaker 1: scrambling for everything. I'm like, Ah, where's my little program

504
00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,280
Speaker 1: that keeps my computer alive? Ah, where's my little program

505
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,920
Speaker 1: that hides my desktop ICMS? Ugh, where's my Google backup? Oh?

506
00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: I gotta install this scanner driver again. H I gotta

507
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: install my printer driver again. So I don't recommend it,

508
00:26:35,320 --> 00:26:37,000
Speaker 1: but for me, it's just kind of the thing that

509
00:26:37,080 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: I do. And now that I think about it and

510
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Speaker 1: I'm talking through it, ugh, it sounds like such a nightmare,

511
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:46,400
Speaker 1: but I will. I guess I'll still do it. Maybe

512
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Speaker 1: I'll maybe I'll just upgrade this year and deal with

513
00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: a stinky old computer and nothing fresh anyway, big sir.

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Speaker 1: From what I can tell, it's kind of like the

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Speaker 1: iosing of the MACA. Now. I don't know that for certain,

516
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,840
Speaker 1: but you know, they added something called Control Center, which

517
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,120
Speaker 1: gives you a quick access to things like do not Disturb, displays,

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00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:10,919
Speaker 1: keyboard brightness and more from the menu bar. There's a

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00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,919
Speaker 1: lot of talk about Safari getting upgraded, and you know,

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00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,400
Speaker 1: Safari is great, but I still use Chrome messages. It's

521
00:27:18,440 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: all about messages, all about maps. And then of course

522
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:25,920
Speaker 1: you can run iPhone and iPad apps on the desktop

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00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,480
Speaker 1: if the developers allow it. So yeah, sounds a lot

524
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Speaker 1: like the iPhone is coming to your Mac desktop, which

525
00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:35,440
Speaker 1: I don't know. I like my desktop because it's a desktop.

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00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: I don't If I want my iPhone, I'm gonna use

527
00:27:37,440 --> 00:27:41,200
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But things are merging now these years, these days,

528
00:27:41,240 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: so maybe you know I'm the dinosaur here, all right,

529
00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: So I said I was gonna do two in one.

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00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,120
Speaker 1: This is also Apple related, so don't don't you know,

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00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:51,240
Speaker 1: get angry at me just yet. I think this is

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00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: the last Apple story of the day, is it? Yes,

533
00:27:54,960 --> 00:27:57,440
Speaker 1: it is, I think it is. Oh no, there's one more.

534
00:27:57,520 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's so much Apple stuff Apple. Let's see.

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00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 1: Apple home Airplay two and home Kit support is now

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00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: available on select four k Roku streaming players. So if

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00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: you have one of the four k rokus, you got

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Speaker 1: the new operating system nine point four, and Apple Airplay

539
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: two is on some of those devices. Now do they

540
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: give me a list of which devices Roku TV models

541
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: are expected to Let's see, it doesn't give me the

542
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:35,480
Speaker 1: exact ones. But anyway, the airplay on Roku is kind

543
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: of cool because now you can show your pictures on

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00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 1: your Roku screen. I'm looking at it right now, and

545
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:43,720
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I've played some music on the TV

546
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:47,120
Speaker 1: screen through airplay on Roku, and I haven't let me see,

547
00:28:47,160 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: should try a picture. Let me let me put a

548
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: picture up there and see what it looks like. Because

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00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: that I think is like the best case scenario or

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00:28:53,360 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: best use case scenario is that you can see the

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00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: picture on your Let's see play and I'm gonna do

552
00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: Roku and boom, do we see it? Come on there?

553
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: It is Tetris effect right on my big screen. So

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00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:14,080
Speaker 1: I think that's the best case scenario, is that you know,

555
00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: you can show your pictures from your iPhone on your

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00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 1: TV screen. Now I get it. We're in a pandemic.

557
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: Nobody's coming over to the house, so it's like, do

558
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: you really have friends that you need to show your

559
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,400
Speaker 1: pictures to? No. But when this is all over, which

560
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:29,160
Speaker 1: hopefully it will be one of these days, it'll be

561
00:29:29,200 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: a cool feature to have. And it's just nice because

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00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: it gives you more flexibility with your iPhone. If you know,

563
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:36,360
Speaker 1: if you had a Roku and you had an iPhone,

564
00:29:36,400 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: they didn't They didn't really play very nice over the years.

565
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: Now they play nice and boom. You don't have to

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: get an Apple TV, which is a win in my book.

567
00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:50,760
Speaker 1: Now you just saved two hundred bucks. All right, let

568
00:29:50,760 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 1: it's get to the next question. H Francis. Oh good Francis.

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Speaker 1: Apple question with Apple's new and anouncement today, they didn't

570
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: update the chip in the iMac. I made the decision

571
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: to buy, but was waiting for Black Friday. If anything,

572
00:30:05,880 --> 00:30:08,000
Speaker 1: do you think it's worthwhile to wait for the M

573
00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:10,800
Speaker 1: one chip for that? I don't want the mini as

574
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:13,120
Speaker 1: by the time I purchased the screen, keyboard and mouse,

575
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,400
Speaker 1: the iMac is cheaper. Always watching on KTLA, app and

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Speaker 1: Fox five San Diego, Francis. Thank you Francis for watching.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well you kind of okay, So I said

578
00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,120
Speaker 1: there was no more Apple stories, but there was kind

579
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Speaker 1: of one more story, and you know it's kind of

580
00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:31,720
Speaker 1: a big one. But Apple this week announced their new

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Speaker 1: M one chip, and this is their new processor that

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Speaker 1: they put in three new computers, well, I guess three

583
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 1: existing computers that they've had. The M one is think

584
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Speaker 1: of the iPhone as having its own processor inside that

585
00:30:46,840 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 1: Apple makes the the A fourteen Bionic and now you

586
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:56,320
Speaker 1: have the equivalent of that, but for Apple's laptops or computers,

587
00:30:56,320 --> 00:30:59,240
Speaker 1: I should say, which is really cool because Apple has

588
00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:03,480
Speaker 1: been really really good at getting its processor and its

589
00:31:03,520 --> 00:31:06,960
Speaker 1: software and it's hardware in such sync that it just

590
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 1: kind of blows away the competition. That's what we see

591
00:31:09,000 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: with the iPhone. When you do certain tasks on the iPhone,

592
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 1: notably all of them, they're most of the time faster

593
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 1: and more battery life. We just see a lot of

594
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: synergies between because Apple creates its own hardware and software,

595
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: and now they're trying to do that same thing with

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Speaker 1: their laptops. And already they've introduced three new or sorry,

597
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,160
Speaker 1: three new computers that do this. So the m one

598
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: is inside the MacBook Air, the new MacBook Air thirteen inch.

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00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: They say it's three times three and a half times faster,

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Speaker 1: graphics are five times faster, two times faster solid state

601
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:51,960
Speaker 1: disk drive performance, it's fanless, and you get fifteen hours

602
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: of battery life or eighteen hours of video playback, the

603
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,760
Speaker 1: longest ever on a MacBook Air. Now, I think that

604
00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,000
Speaker 1: sounds pretty good. And what I love about this is

605
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: that it's kind of applying, like I said, that iPhone

606
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: magic to their computers. And because Apple is creating that chip,

607
00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: they don't have to kind of back into what Intel does. Right,

608
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: the Intel presents them the chip and now they have

609
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,520
Speaker 1: to kind of build everything around it. Now Apple's hardware

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00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:20,200
Speaker 1: and software engineers can work together to make this chip

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00:32:20,360 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: kind of sing on this computer. So the MacBook Air

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00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: is nine ninety nine or eight ninety nine for educational pricing,

613
00:32:28,400 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: and if you're a teacher or a student or somehow

614
00:32:31,520 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: in that realm, you can get that education price, which

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00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks off, which is pretty darn good. Thirteen

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Speaker 1: inch MacBook Pro also has the new M one chip.

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Speaker 1: It's two point eight times faster than the previous generation.

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00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 1: Let's see, three times faster than the best selling Windows

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Speaker 1: laptop in its class, seventeen hours of web browsing, twenty

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00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: hours of video playback, twice the battery life of the

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Speaker 1: previous generation, which is pretty amazing. Previous generation had like,

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00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: you know, ten hours, which really, you know, when you

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Speaker 1: actually use your computer, it's more like six. To me,

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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm just always plugging you in my

625
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,560
Speaker 1: sixteen inch MacBook Pro. But I don't feel like the

626
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: battery life is a strong point on this device. But anyway,

627
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,360
Speaker 1: that's pretty amazing too. I mean, thirteen inch MacBook Pro

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00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:22,240
Speaker 1: with the M one and UH three pound design. It's

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Speaker 1: got the uh the touch id on it, it's got

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Speaker 1: two Thunderbowl ports, and this is twelve hundred ninety nine

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Speaker 1: dollars or eleven ninety nine for education. And again these

632
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,600
Speaker 1: are all available, likely by the time you hear this,

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00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:38,200
Speaker 1: they'll be available within a week if they're not already available.

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00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 1: There's also a new Mac Mini for six ninety nine,

635
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,560
Speaker 1: which they say is one hundred dollars less than the

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00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,360
Speaker 1: previous generation. Macmini is kind of cool, like I always

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00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 1: had the dream of using a Mac Mini as kind

638
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:53,320
Speaker 1: of like my my network server at home plus my

639
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: home entertainment hub for the TV. But I don't see that.

640
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 1: I don't need that anymore. Everything's in the cloud now

641
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,600
Speaker 1: and I don't keep like a library of videos or

642
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: anything anymore like I used to back in the day,

643
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: Back in the old days of tech, everything was about

644
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:13,000
Speaker 1: creating this collection of stuff this First it was physical,

645
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: then it became digital, Like I just wanted my digital

646
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 1: music collection to be so large, or my digital movie

647
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: collection to be so large, or my photo collection to

648
00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,240
Speaker 1: be large. And yeah, photos I still keep. But now

649
00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: with everything in the cloud and everything streaming, there is

650
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: no need to have anything anymore. And yes, I get

651
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 1: it they want you to pay that ten bucks a

652
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: month forever, but the and I still get lots of

653
00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 1: emails from people saying I got my music collection and

654
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,920
Speaker 1: this and that, like people are still clinging to this.

655
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: But to me to pay ten dollars or fifteen dollars

656
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,640
Speaker 1: a month for all the music I could ever imagine

657
00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,880
Speaker 1: listening to in my lifetime, it's like it's just a

658
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: small price to pay. And yes, it's one of these

659
00:34:56,719 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 1: things where it gets pricey over a lifetime. It's probably more.

660
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: Did I buy a CD every month for ten dollars

661
00:35:02,640 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: or fifteen No, when I was a teen, maybe, but

662
00:35:06,200 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: you know now, no, you know, you barely buy music.

663
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: Did I buy Did I buy ten dollars worth of

664
00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:13,919
Speaker 1: music every month when iTunes was doing ninety nine cents

665
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: a pop? Probably not? And so yeah, it's more expensive

666
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: probably or for sure in the long term, But in

667
00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:24,560
Speaker 1: the short term it's just to me, it just makes

668
00:35:24,560 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: so much sense. It's so simple, and there's lots of

669
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: free alternatives out there. I mean, there's free versions of Spotify.

670
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:31,040
Speaker 1: You can listen to all the music you want on

671
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: Apple on a you know, iHeart radio streaming. I mean,

672
00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't mind with ads, Like my sister,

673
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: you know, I bought her the home Pod Mini and

674
00:35:39,120 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: I said, now, you're probably gonna want to subscribe to

675
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:44,279
Speaker 1: Apple Music once you get this thing. And she's like, oh, no,

676
00:35:44,360 --> 00:35:46,800
Speaker 1: I have Pandora. I'm like, oh, perfect, well that works

677
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:49,160
Speaker 1: with it natively. And she's like, yeah, I don't mind

678
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: the ads. I'm like, what what ads? What are you

679
00:35:52,560 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 1: talking about? And she said, yeah, I just listen to

680
00:35:54,960 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 1: the ads. I'm like, pay the five dollars a month

681
00:35:57,719 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: to get rid of the ads. Pandora is like four nine, right, Pandora?

682
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: What's Pandora Pro? I don't even know what do they

683
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 1: call their Pandora subscription? What they what do they even

684
00:36:09,160 --> 00:36:13,320
Speaker 1: call Pandora Pandora Plus? Let's see how much is Pandora

685
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: plus five dollars a month for no ads? I mean

686
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: come on, that's like so cheap. I mean, come on,

687
00:36:23,400 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: sixty dollars a year to not have to listen to

688
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: any ads. I mean that's not bad. Let's see, search

689
00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:33,320
Speaker 1: and play what you want, but you have to unlock

690
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,680
Speaker 1: by viewing an ad. That's kind of weird. But look,

691
00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: you get unlimited skips offline listening, I mean for five

692
00:36:39,200 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 1: dollars now, and again you can be saying rich. I mean,

693
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,919
Speaker 1: didn't you just say how you like to save money?

694
00:36:44,960 --> 00:36:46,880
Speaker 1: And this and that it's like, Okay, do you not

695
00:36:47,000 --> 00:36:50,920
Speaker 1: spend five dollars a month on something that is like disposable,

696
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,040
Speaker 1: like a coffee once a month or a beer or

697
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, a subway foot long for five dollars? And yes,

698
00:36:59,640 --> 00:37:03,080
Speaker 1: I guess that sustains you. It's sustenance, it's food. But

699
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: come on, I think that you got if you're listening

700
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: to this podcast and you're considering the home pod Mini,

701
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,799
Speaker 1: I mean, I think maybe you can spring the five

702
00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:15,560
Speaker 1: bucks a month for the Pandora Plus. Now. Yeah, a

703
00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: lot of people like to listen for free, and it's

704
00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 1: great that these options are out there, But to me personally,

705
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,680
Speaker 1: like I've I'm always amazed when I'm in an uber,

706
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: you know, someone's driving for a living, and all of

707
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:31,360
Speaker 1: a sudden the ads come up on Pandora, I'm like, dude, dude,

708
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:35,279
Speaker 1: like just pay the five bucks. Come on, You're your

709
00:37:35,320 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: passengers will love you for it. I mean, and you

710
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:40,320
Speaker 1: you have to sit there and listen all these ads

711
00:37:40,360 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: every you know, when I was, you know, and I

712
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:45,040
Speaker 1: try to look I try to test this stuff so

713
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:48,319
Speaker 1: that I can see, you know, like as a you know,

714
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: just try to get all the different angles of things.

715
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 1: I like to test a lot of stuff, and so

716
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 1: I've gone through and I've said, okay, let me see

717
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:58,320
Speaker 1: what it's like to have Pandora with ads, and it's

718
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:01,879
Speaker 1: a lot of them. I feel like, actually spotify same thing.

719
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: It's like. Oh, so anyway, if you have the ads,

720
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm not judging you for it. I'm just saying, yeah,

721
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 1: you got to put everything in perspective. So yeah, Francis,

722
00:38:10,960 --> 00:38:13,279
Speaker 1: to answer your question about the iMac, I think you

723
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: made the right decision. I think you're fine the iMac.

724
00:38:18,120 --> 00:38:20,160
Speaker 1: I think you get much more bang for your buck

725
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:21,799
Speaker 1: with the iMac than you would with any of those

726
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: laptops with the M one chip. The iMac is still

727
00:38:24,960 --> 00:38:28,480
Speaker 1: you know, it's fine, and I think you did the

728
00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: right thing. Yes, you can wait for the iMac to

729
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:32,720
Speaker 1: have the M one, but I think that it's probably

730
00:38:32,719 --> 00:38:34,439
Speaker 1: best if you need a new computer and you're looking

731
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,160
Speaker 1: for those Black Friday sales. Usually Apple does a one

732
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: or two day sale during Black Friday, so wait for

733
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 1: that day if you can. I can't tell by your

734
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,080
Speaker 1: email if you already purchased it or not, but you know,

735
00:38:45,120 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: I think you'll be fine, and the iMac is what

736
00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:50,560
Speaker 1: I want too. I mean that's you know, like I

737
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:55,239
Speaker 1: want like a computer for my house, like a I've

738
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: said this just a minute ago with the iMac, but

739
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,440
Speaker 1: I want like a base computer to like have it

740
00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: like the desk. I don't know why for like the

741
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,399
Speaker 1: kids and stuff. They all they have their own, but anyway,

742
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: be nice. All right, are you done listening to me yet?

743
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,799
Speaker 1: You're still tuned in? Okay, I guess if you're still there,

744
00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:15,640
Speaker 1: we'll continue. Let's talk about Instagram this week. Big changes

745
00:39:15,680 --> 00:39:20,320
Speaker 1: to Instagram. They have modified the program, and of course

746
00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: everyone hates it, including myself and my so they added

747
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:29,920
Speaker 1: a reels tab and a shop tab. The reels tab,

748
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 1: I'm fine, I can I can do that. I can

749
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 1: totally do the reels tab. I'm fine with that because

750
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: reels are funny. It took me a little bit to

751
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: warm up to them. But they're fine. They're creative. People

752
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,120
Speaker 1: are having fun with that short little content. You know,

753
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:47,880
Speaker 1: it's basically their their TikTok. The shopping tab, come on.

754
00:39:48,560 --> 00:39:51,439
Speaker 1: It's a little bit annoying because I don't know one

755
00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,359
Speaker 1: person who's ever shopped for something on Instagram. Now I

756
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 1: say that as someone who does technology reporting, and you know,

757
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: everyone wants to buy the stuff that I'm post on

758
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: my Instagram and I'm not like your typical influencer that's

759
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,120
Speaker 1: actually selling this stuff, but I can get that. I

760
00:40:06,160 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: can see that if you were making a living on

761
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:12,000
Speaker 1: selling the stuff that you talk about or linking to

762
00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: it or whatever, like the shop tab is cool and

763
00:40:14,800 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 1: products are on Instagram, like I follow, like my thing.

764
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: When I find out about a new product that I

765
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: don't I'm not ready to purchase just yet, or even

766
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: a hotel, like almost anything that I want to do

767
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,200
Speaker 1: in life, I will. I will follow on Instagram because

768
00:40:27,200 --> 00:40:29,439
Speaker 1: that's kind of like my bookmark, and so of course

769
00:40:29,480 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 1: I'll see their posts incessantly, like like let's say I

770
00:40:32,120 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: follow a hotel that I want to stay at next thing.

771
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:36,120
Speaker 1: You know, I'm seeing their posts like every day of

772
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: my life, and so I'm like, okay, I do want

773
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:39,680
Speaker 1: to stay there. I do want to stay there, but

774
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,000
Speaker 1: like not right now, and eventually it wears me down

775
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, I'll either book or unfollow them.

776
00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 1: And I can see that with shopping, I do a lot,

777
00:40:48,600 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: Like when I want to buy something or keep tabs

778
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:53,200
Speaker 1: on a product, I will follow it on Instagram, and

779
00:40:53,239 --> 00:40:55,600
Speaker 1: so I get why the shopping tab is there, because

780
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: they want you to be able to go there and

781
00:40:57,160 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: see the stuff that all these things that you're you know,

782
00:40:59,680 --> 00:41:04,120
Speaker 1: following or selling. I personally have never purchased something through Instagram.

783
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,200
Speaker 1: I don't ever see myself doing that. They don't have

784
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: my credit card. As far as I know, I don't

785
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: even know how that process would work. Maybe I should

786
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: try buying something and seeing. But I'm sure people do,

787
00:41:14,640 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that's why they did this. But the

788
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: let's see, they say, our focus has always been on

789
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,480
Speaker 1: young people and creators because they're trend setters. We've seen

790
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:25,080
Speaker 1: an explosion in short entertaining videos. Yeah, I get that,

791
00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:27,759
Speaker 1: and we've seen now here read between the lines share.

792
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:32,280
Speaker 1: We've seen an incredible amount of shopping move online. Yeah okay,

793
00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 1: with more and more people buying online and young people

794
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 1: looking to their favorite creators for recommendations on what to buy.

795
00:41:38,920 --> 00:41:41,880
Speaker 1: So in this blog post, Adam Osuri, the head of Instagram,

796
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: never says that people are actually shopping through Instagram, but

797
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: they are getting recommendations through Instagram, So I get that.

798
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: So they're trying to capitalize on the whole movement of Yes,

799
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: everyone gets their recommendations from online and especially their influencers. Now,

800
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,320
Speaker 1: I was a little bit of a brat on Twitter,

801
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:04,360
Speaker 1: and when the uh, I see the CEO of Instagram,

802
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:09,439
Speaker 1: Adam Mosseeri, head of Instagram. So he tweeted and said,

803
00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: this week we added reels, tabs and shopping given how

804
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:16,279
Speaker 1: important video and shopping are to Instagram, that's it. And

805
00:42:16,360 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: I said, I retweeted him and said would have been

806
00:42:18,880 --> 00:42:21,520
Speaker 1: more useful as an Amazon shopping tab, being a little

807
00:42:21,560 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: facetious because saying like I do all my shopping in Amazon.

808
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,359
Speaker 1: And he actually tweeted me back, which I feel bad

809
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,279
Speaker 1: about now because I was being a little brat, and

810
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:31,640
Speaker 1: he said, we're looking to build a windows shopping experience,

811
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:33,799
Speaker 1: a place where you can browse and check things out,

812
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:37,800
Speaker 1: not a search for a specific product experience where Amazon

813
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: and others shine. And I got to hand it to him.

814
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,040
Speaker 1: He kind of like he got me right in the gut.

815
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: He's like, dude, he like checked me. He's like, come on, bro,

816
00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: He's like, I see what you're saying. You're trying to

817
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: be a little brat by tweeting this. And I'm just

818
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,240
Speaker 1: gonna say here's what we see, what we're doing versus

819
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: what youth. You know, we're trying to be. You know,

820
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,319
Speaker 1: KOI about or is KOI the right word? What's KOI mean? Koi?

821
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: Cooi means making, oh, making a pretense of shyness or

822
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,359
Speaker 1: modesty that has tended to be alluring. Okay, never mind

823
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:10,879
Speaker 1: us that is not what I meant. Okay, never mind,

824
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,879
Speaker 1: koi is not Okay, that's never mind. Let's strike that

825
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: from the record. I didn't mean koi. I meant Brady.

826
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:22,000
Speaker 1: So what's another word for Brady? It was like facetious,

827
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 1: self centered, spoiled Brady, badly behaved. Yeah, it's kind of me,

828
00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: so I get it. It's a way of shopping of

829
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,440
Speaker 1: you know, looking at all this stuff and kind of

830
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,759
Speaker 1: getting ideas. Personally, I spend enough money. I don't need

831
00:43:35,800 --> 00:43:37,440
Speaker 1: any more ideas on how to spend my money. So

832
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:39,959
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be looking at that shopping tab anytime soon.

833
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:43,520
Speaker 1: But you never know, and it's probably a growing place

834
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,080
Speaker 1: for them, and they see it Amazon. It is funny

835
00:43:46,120 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: because I was shopping on Amazon the other day and

836
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: I realized Amazon must have this amazing like you know,

837
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 1: they call it like the imposter syndrome when you're successful

838
00:43:54,880 --> 00:43:57,120
Speaker 1: but you feel like you shouldn't be. Amazon has some

839
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,480
Speaker 1: form of that because think about it, they're like the

840
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: most popular place to shop online, but they can't upsell

841
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,640
Speaker 1: you if their life depended on it. When was the

842
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 1: last time you went on Amazon to order the water

843
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 1: filter if you're fridge like I did yesterday, and suddenly

844
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: they upsell you and they make you know, like you're

845
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,000
Speaker 1: at the checkout at Ralphs and they, you know, sell

846
00:44:18,040 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: you a pack of gum or mince or chocolate bar.

847
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: Amazon cannot do that. I mean, there's like almost no

848
00:44:23,920 --> 00:44:26,200
Speaker 1: way like eh, And they've tried, you know, they put

849
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: these little things like oh did you forget this? It's

850
00:44:28,600 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 1: like it's always the worst recommendations. I don't need it,

851
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: and I rarely do I ever go on for my

852
00:44:34,880 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: hair product and then all of a sudden find myself

853
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:41,120
Speaker 1: buying some other random thing at checkout on Amazon. That

854
00:44:41,200 --> 00:44:44,400
Speaker 1: must frustrate the heck out of Amazon, because if they

855
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: can figure out how to add a dollar two, three,

856
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: four five bucks to an order times a billion orders

857
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:52,520
Speaker 1: a day or whatever they get, they would be doing

858
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: even better. And this is what we always talk about

859
00:44:55,080 --> 00:44:57,719
Speaker 1: here in my house with Amazon Fresh, because we do

860
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the grocery ordering, is that I feel

861
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: it's so bad that someone has to go and they

862
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: got to collect my stuff and bring it to my house.

863
00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,120
Speaker 1: But the reality is it's cheaper for me to order

864
00:45:07,160 --> 00:45:09,520
Speaker 1: that on Amazon and tip the person that gives it

865
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: to me than it is to go to Ralphs. Because

866
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: when I go to Ralphs for twenty five dollars worth

867
00:45:14,760 --> 00:45:18,320
Speaker 1: of stuff, I inevitably end up walking out with fifty

868
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: to seventy five dollars worth of stuff because when you

869
00:45:20,520 --> 00:45:22,880
Speaker 1: walk through those aisles, you see a whole bunch of

870
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: stuff that you don't really need. And on Amazon that

871
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: just doesn't happen. There's no filing you through a whole

872
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: bunch of aisles to get to the milk. You just

873
00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,120
Speaker 1: order milk, you put it in there. And the flip

874
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: side is on Amazon, you see your ongoing total of

875
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: what you're spending, and so that's even better because you're like, oh,

876
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: I'm getting close to one hundred bucks. I don't want

877
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: to spend that much right now. Let me take a

878
00:45:44,360 --> 00:45:48,120
Speaker 1: couple items out. So that's what's going on with the

879
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:51,120
Speaker 1: whole shopping Instagram. We'll get used to it. I just

880
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,080
Speaker 1: don't like how they move the hearts now up to

881
00:45:53,120 --> 00:45:55,239
Speaker 1: the top. And I still you know what, while I

882
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: had Adam Moosseeri's ear, I should have said, you know,

883
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,319
Speaker 1: I'm gonna reply to him and say, hey, can you

884
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 1: please can you please surface out or separate out people's

885
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: comments from the likes. I don't need to see every

886
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 1: time I've said this before, I don't need to see

887
00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:13,239
Speaker 1: all the people that liked my picture. All I want

888
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: to see is people that comment so I can respond

889
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: to those comments. That would be much more useful to me.

890
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:22,200
Speaker 1: Oh wow, Reels is right in the middle now. Ooh

891
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,399
Speaker 1: oh wow they moved create to the top. Oh wow,

892
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: that's really different. Okay, wow, okay, yeah, Instagram's changed. All right.

893
00:46:30,560 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: Do I have time for one more question? This a

894
00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: quick one, we'll do phase. A few months ago, you

895
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,840
Speaker 1: afford mentioned affordable pet insurance and I've been looking for

896
00:46:41,880 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: that information ever since. Wow, you've been looking for this

897
00:46:44,120 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 1: information for several months, FAE. Oh my gosh, sad. Sorry,

898
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: can you send me that information? Yes, it's Lemonade dot

899
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: com slash pet. Lemonade does fantastic insurance for your renters

900
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:02,080
Speaker 1: in house. Let's see, Yeah, they do renters and let's

901
00:47:02,080 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: say lemonade. Yeah, renters, homeowners insurance, that's what it's called

902
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,960
Speaker 1: homeowners and now pet insurance. And the prices are just fantastic,

903
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: So definitely check it out. And it's it's pretty legit.

904
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:16,280
Speaker 1: If you're like, oh my gosh, this is like fifty

905
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: percent of what I'm paying for State Farm or all

906
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: Stay or whatever. But just just do it. I mean,

907
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:26,840
Speaker 1: it's it's pretty good. It's fantastic pricing. They don't have

908
00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: to pay all the agents. I guess. Oh sorry, I

909
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: know everything I say on this show I offend somebody,

910
00:47:32,239 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: Like someone out there is an agent for one of

911
00:47:34,400 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 1: these things, and they're like, rich, why are you recommending this?

912
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: There goes my job. Sorry. I am not the person

913
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 1: that invents this stuff. I am just the person that

914
00:47:41,760 --> 00:47:44,840
Speaker 1: talks about it. So I can't keep progress from happening.

915
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: I can't keep these companies from coming up with new

916
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: and different and unique ways of doing stuff. I just

917
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 1: tell you about it, and it's your life. You decide

918
00:47:53,320 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 1: whether you want to embrace it or not. You don't

919
00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: have to. Let's see next question Sandra says, hey, Rich,

920
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:01,919
Speaker 1: how do I delete my Facebook account? I have years

921
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: of history and photos on there? One? Will it be

922
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: completely deleted? Or will Facebook always have it? Thank you?

923
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 1: Oh where's the second question? Okay? One? Will it be

924
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: completely deleted or a Facebook? Okay, thank you? So Facebook

925
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:20,000
Speaker 1: will have it for a while. I think even after

926
00:48:20,040 --> 00:48:21,920
Speaker 1: you delete your stuff, that stays in their servers for

927
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 1: a certain amount of time. I don't know how long

928
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:27,760
Speaker 1: that time is. I would assume ninety days to six months,

929
00:48:27,760 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: depending on what I'm sure it's in there. I'm sure

930
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: it's in there like facts FAQs, so you can check that.

931
00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:39,720
Speaker 1: But the way to delete your Facebook account is two steps.

932
00:48:39,800 --> 00:48:42,480
Speaker 1: Number one, you have to download all of your data.

933
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't have to do that, but I

934
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 1: personally would you say? You have all your years of

935
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,800
Speaker 1: history and photos on there, so you probably want those.

936
00:48:49,880 --> 00:48:56,360
Speaker 1: So go to Facebook. There's like a let's see download

937
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,400
Speaker 1: a copy or Facebook data. Go to settings and privacy

938
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,080
Speaker 1: settings your Facebook information, download your information, and then view

939
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 1: and you can download all of your stuff. Then once

940
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: you download it, you can delete your Facebook page or

941
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:13,440
Speaker 1: your Facebook account fully. And the way I find that

942
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:17,760
Speaker 1: is a website called just Delete dot me. Just delete

943
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 1: dot me and search Facebook and it will take you

944
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:26,360
Speaker 1: to the link that deletes your account, which is oh gosh,

945
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:30,760
Speaker 1: it's so sad when you go to that link. Yeah,

946
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 1: that's it, and then you can delete. Look at download

947
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,680
Speaker 1: your information. You have eight hundred and ninety three photos,

948
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty posts and more uploaded to Facebook. Now.

949
00:49:39,360 --> 00:49:42,160
Speaker 1: I actually at one point deleted my entire I did this.

950
00:49:42,239 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this on the podcast. It's

951
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: really I'm done with deleting my accounts because I did

952
00:49:47,120 --> 00:49:50,360
Speaker 1: that with Facebook as well. I deleted my entire account,

953
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,240
Speaker 1: and now it makes me so sad because I wish

954
00:49:53,320 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: I could have I want my entire history. I want

955
00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: to see what I posted fifteen years ago on Facebook

956
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: or whatever. It was probably fifteen at this point, and

957
00:50:02,320 --> 00:50:04,759
Speaker 1: now I can never see that because it's gone. I

958
00:50:04,840 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 1: deleted it now. I downloaded it, I think at some point,

959
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:10,919
Speaker 1: but who knows, I'll never find that file. So don't

960
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,759
Speaker 1: delete these things unless you really really have to. That's

961
00:50:13,960 --> 00:50:17,760
Speaker 1: my advice. Let's see, do we have any other things?

962
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I never talked about the Xbox and

963
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: the PlayStation. Well, I'll just give you those that my

964
00:50:22,320 --> 00:50:24,959
Speaker 1: quick thoughts. I'm not a gamer. You don't tune into

965
00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: this show for my gaming advice, so I'll just give

966
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 1: you my impressions of these two boxes. PlayStation five, big

967
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:35,239
Speaker 1: old Honkin device. It is huge, it is large, it

968
00:50:35,320 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 1: is in charge. It is amazing. The graphics everything about

969
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: this device just screams power, power, power. The controller is

970
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:49,800
Speaker 1: just fantastic. The haptics are amazing. This is the device

971
00:50:49,840 --> 00:50:52,640
Speaker 1: to get if you are the gamer that just wants

972
00:50:52,680 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 1: the best of the best. You want the home entertainment center.

973
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:57,360
Speaker 1: It's got the Blu ray Player in the top of

974
00:50:57,360 --> 00:51:01,120
Speaker 1: the line model. It's just a big old machine, and

975
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:02,880
Speaker 1: of course you have to like the games as well.

976
00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: But the controller is really really improved and kind of

977
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: it's pretty. I think it's what sets the PlayStation five apart,

978
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: other than the IP you know, the games that they

979
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 1: have the I love it. It's not for me. I don't.

980
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: I don't game enough to have a system that powerful.

981
00:51:18,800 --> 00:51:21,360
Speaker 1: But if you do, it's you're gonna love it, and

982
00:51:21,400 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 1: it's awesome. The Spider Man game I played looked like

983
00:51:24,719 --> 00:51:27,000
Speaker 1: it was filmed in New York City. It was so clear,

984
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 1: it was so realistic. I always want to be a

985
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 1: gamer when I play these games to test these things out,

986
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:33,759
Speaker 1: Like I'm like sitting there playing for like an hour,

987
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,240
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, oh, I could be a gamer.

988
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: I could be a gamer, but I can't. I'm a

989
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:41,319
Speaker 1: casual gamer. And that's that's just kind of where I'll

990
00:51:41,400 --> 00:51:45,160
Speaker 1: I think I'll sit for the rest of my life. So, yeah,

991
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:50,160
Speaker 1: amazing the Xbox they sent over the digital version. The

992
00:51:50,239 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: digital version is fine. I don't think it's the most

993
00:51:53,719 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: powerful box. I think if I was gonna get a

994
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,480
Speaker 1: PlayStation or sorry, an Xbox, I would definitely go with

995
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,399
Speaker 1: the x which is the more powerful machine and it

996
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: has the drive on it. So the digital one is fine,

997
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:08,960
Speaker 1: And that three hundred dollars price point is really going

998
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,000
Speaker 1: to attract a lot of people. But I think I

999
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 1: think you're doing yourself a little disservice by not spending

1000
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: the extra two hundred dollars and going with the best machine.

1001
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:24,200
Speaker 1: So you're getting, you know, a slightly lesser processing power machine,

1002
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,239
Speaker 1: you're getting no drive, and you're getting you know, you're

1003
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:30,680
Speaker 1: getting half the storage space. And believe me, these games

1004
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: take up a lot of storage. Like some of them

1005
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: are like ninety eight gigabytes, and the drive on the

1006
00:52:36,160 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: digital one is like five twelve. The drive on the

1007
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:41,759
Speaker 1: bigger one is like a terabyte. So I think that

1008
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,200
Speaker 1: you'd be better served getting the Xbox Series X over

1009
00:52:45,239 --> 00:52:47,600
Speaker 1: the S. I would say, only get the S if

1010
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 1: you are sure that you're going to be fine with

1011
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,800
Speaker 1: the lower power and the less storage and no drive.

1012
00:52:55,080 --> 00:52:58,480
Speaker 1: And I think the Xbox is more my flavor. It's

1013
00:52:58,520 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 1: got the games is amazing whatever they call it, what

1014
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:06,000
Speaker 1: do they call the game pass thing? All access? So

1015
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: the way they're pricing these machines is you can buy

1016
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:11,400
Speaker 1: it up front for three hundred or five hundred or

1017
00:53:11,560 --> 00:53:14,840
Speaker 1: is it three hundred or four hundred? The Xbox is,

1018
00:53:15,160 --> 00:53:18,240
Speaker 1: oh gosh, I should know this because I just wrote

1019
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: this story three hundred or I think it's five, yeah,

1020
00:53:22,280 --> 00:53:27,920
Speaker 1: five hundred, so three hundred or five hundred, and I think, okay,

1021
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 1: the PlayStation five is four hundred or five hundred, and

1022
00:53:30,880 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 1: the Xbox is three hundred and five hundred. So the

1023
00:53:36,040 --> 00:53:39,319
Speaker 1: Xbox All Access. Oh sorry, I'm getting everything wrong here.

1024
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:41,480
Speaker 1: Should I just start over? No, I'll just can I'll

1025
00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:45,040
Speaker 1: just power through this. The okay, so you've got two versions.

1026
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:46,839
Speaker 1: This is why I don't talk about gaming stuff because

1027
00:53:46,840 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 1: I'm not a gamer, but I appreciate gamers, and I

1028
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,200
Speaker 1: think that in your world, if you're a gamer, it's

1029
00:53:52,200 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: a whole different world than what I. All I know

1030
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:57,479
Speaker 1: is I see the PlayStation and the Xbox is great

1031
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: if you're a gamer and you decide which one you

1032
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 1: want based on what games you want to play, and

1033
00:54:01,160 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: you know all about the games you want to play. Personally,

1034
00:54:03,440 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: I think the Xbox is really cool because I like

1035
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:11,440
Speaker 1: the All Access, which includes the Game Pass Ultimate. So

1036
00:54:12,239 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: if you do the All Access, it's twenty five bucks

1037
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: a month or thirty five dollars a month which includes

1038
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 1: the Game Pass Ultimate, So it's kind of like this

1039
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:24,560
Speaker 1: no brainer thing where I'm not usually a fan of

1040
00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: like splitting up the monthly payments, but it's kind of like,

1041
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:29,759
Speaker 1: for thirty five dollars a month, you get the top

1042
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 1: of the line Xbox and you get this Gaming Pass

1043
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,040
Speaker 1: which gives you like one hundred games, which a lot

1044
00:54:35,080 --> 00:54:37,799
Speaker 1: of them are pretty cool, and if you have kids,

1045
00:54:37,880 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: of course they're gonna be bopping through a whole bunch

1046
00:54:40,200 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: of games. So I don't know, anyway, I really like

1047
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,239
Speaker 1: the Xbox. I don't really see the big excitement with

1048
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:49,279
Speaker 1: the controller there, it's not as like exciting as the PlayStation.

1049
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: But for me, I was playing Tetris on the Xbox.

1050
00:54:52,440 --> 00:54:54,920
Speaker 1: I'm hooked on Tetris effect, so that's enough for me

1051
00:54:54,960 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: to just love this thing. The kids love Minecraft, so

1052
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:00,240
Speaker 1: that's enough for them to love it. And there's probabrobably

1053
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: you know another game or two that I would end

1054
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,200
Speaker 1: up finding on there. If that's that's pretty cool. So

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Speaker 1: I think that's it for the console talk for me.

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Speaker 1: I think you realize that I'm waiting in past my

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Speaker 1: knees and I don't really understand and kind of grasp

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Speaker 1: all of it, but you get it. If you're a gamer,

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Speaker 1: you're picking between these systems. I think at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day, Nintendo Switch is still gonna sell a

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Speaker 1: lot this holiday season, Xbox is gonna sell a ton.

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Speaker 1: PS five is gonna sell a ton. These things are

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Speaker 1: tough to get, and everyone I know is texting me saying,

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Speaker 1: Rich can you hook me up? Can you get me

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Speaker 1: a PlayStation? Can you get me an Xbox? The answer

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Speaker 1: is no, I really can't. I can't. I can't ask

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Speaker 1: Nintendo to send you a you know, Mario Kart live.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't do that. I can't. I

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Speaker 1: can't put them in that position. You know, I can't

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Speaker 1: ask Sony to send you a PlayStation five or to

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Speaker 1: help you get an Xbox. It's just you gotta go

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Speaker 1: to these websites like everyone else. The now in Stock,

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Speaker 1: the brick Seek, Popcart, those are the websites that can

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Speaker 1: help you find these things in stock. Just you know,

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Speaker 1: you gotta be checking them. Follow people on Twitter that

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Speaker 1: tweet out when they're in stock, and you know there

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Speaker 1: they'll do it and you'll like for me, I wake

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Speaker 1: up pretty early, so a lot of times these things

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Speaker 1: are in stock really early. When do you think most

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Speaker 1: people are shopping while they're at work. So if you

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Speaker 1: can get online, you know, at these random times throughout

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Speaker 1: the day, you can find these things in stock. Easy

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Speaker 1: as that. Well it's not that easy, but you know,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. Well, looky, look, we came

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Speaker 1: to the end of the show. That's going to do

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Speaker 1: it for this episode. If you'd like to submit a

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Speaker 1: this is my opinion. It's what I like to present

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Speaker 1: to you as someone who is somewhat interested in what

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Speaker 1: I have to say. So if you like it, thank you.

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Speaker 1: If you don't debate me online, I'm open to that.

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Speaker 1: But I hope you're here because you enjoy hearing what

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Speaker 1: I have to say. Sometimes you get a little zany

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Speaker 1: on here, but you know it's a podcast. It's unlimited,

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Speaker 1: even though it looks like it's time to go. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. My name is rich Dmuro. Stay safe,

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