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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Rich, I love your show.

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Speaker 3: Thank you calling today because I have a very old

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Speaker 1: you do that. So those are the three things. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna link it all up, Tim, because I think a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are in your same shoes right now.

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Speaker 1: So does that help?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that helps a lot. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: It gives me some recourse. You're at least to search it.

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Speaker 1: And if you still want that, yeah, if you still

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Speaker 1: want to use this computer, you can also transform it

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Speaker 1: into a Chrome os Flex computer as well, So I'll

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Speaker 1: put that link as well. Lots of options. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many things you can do. I know everyone's

441
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Speaker 1: in this kind of like turning point with Windows where

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Speaker 1: you know they're going to stop supporting Windows ten in October.

443
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Speaker 1: So that's coming up next month. Wow, we're already in September.

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Speaker 1: So October fourteenth, twenty twenty five, Windows will no longer

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Speaker 1: provide free software updates. So here's the thing. Windows ten

446
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Speaker 1: will continue to work after that date. The problem is

447
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Speaker 1: you are putting yourself, your data, and your computer at

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Speaker 1: risk of any sort of hacking issue or security issue,

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Speaker 1: and then programs are going to start saying, no, we

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Speaker 1: don't run on that Windows because it's no longer supported.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to continue getting those software updates,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to put all the links on the website

453
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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. This just gave me a

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Speaker 1: great idea for my TV segment because so many people

455
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Speaker 1: are emailing me right now about this this changeover, and

456
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Speaker 1: I really need to give all the options. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just laid them out for Tim, but I know

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Speaker 1: that there's so many more. You know, everyone wants to

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Speaker 1: see their path, like what they're going to do, and

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit differently for everyone. So I'll lay

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Speaker 1: it all out. I'll link it up on the website

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV. It'll be there in the

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Speaker 1: next couple of minutes or so. Thanks for the call, Tim,

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. Let's see what do we have a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes here? I think I could take another

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Speaker 1: call right, Let's go to h Drew in Orange County.

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Speaker 1: This looks like a pretty simple one.

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Speaker 5: Drew.

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Speaker 6: What's up, hey, Rich how you doing glad you had

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Speaker 6: good time in Denver. I hope you were able to

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Speaker 6: eat some of those good restaurants from the Denver Airport.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. Yeah, Well, funny you should say that

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Speaker 1: I ended up going into the United Club because I

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Speaker 1: needed to work. I had like three hours. But I

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Speaker 1: loved it because it had it was like kind of

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Speaker 1: based on a lodge, kind of like a you know,

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Speaker 1: wilderness lodge, so it was pretty cool. But I spent

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Speaker 1: like three hours sitting there writing my newsletter, so it

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Speaker 1: was great. Unfortunately I did not take advantage of the

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Speaker 1: free drinks, which I really.

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Speaker 7: At least the view was good.

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Speaker 6: I know that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the view and the and the snacks were great.

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Speaker 1: So yes, what can I help you with? TROW?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: My question is I'm no longer in the day to

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Speaker 6: day business environments, so I really don't need a computer.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to buy a new one, but I'm

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Speaker 6: thinking about, uh getting a tablet that I can just use.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 6: I'm not doing any access databases or big Excel spreadsheets

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Speaker 6: any more in my life, thank god.

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Speaker 1: Uh, thank god.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking at me. Yeah, right, so I'm looking at

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Speaker 6: the Samsung Galaxy nine Plus and the Galaxy s tn

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Speaker 6: f E. Just like to get your thoughts on on

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Speaker 6: the two of those.

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Speaker 1: Uh, let's see that. So the the fee is the

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Speaker 1: one i'd recommend. That's the one that I've used, and

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Speaker 1: it's basically the It's it's perfectly fine. It's been out

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Speaker 1: for a while, so it's not going to be the

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Speaker 1: most powerful. But if you're are you what are you

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Speaker 1: doing on this thing? Watching videos and just some some

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Speaker 1: emails and searching the web?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'll do I'll do some emails, YouTube, read the

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Speaker 6: La Times. Uh you know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's gonna be great. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: great for all those things. I think the fee is

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Speaker 1: probably the way go. The A nine plus is I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking it's cheaper. Let's see that.

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Speaker 6: One is got a bigger screen, I think.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's you know what, this one, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: recommend this one because it's gonna be it's probably gonna

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Speaker 1: be too too underpowered for you, Like you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: frustrated with this. So I would just spend a little

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Speaker 1: bit extra and go with that fee model. It's gonna

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a little bit more expensive. But I

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Speaker 1: think if you're using this as like your main device.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be happy you did that because it's gonna

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Speaker 1: have just a little bit more horsepower and features that.

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Speaker 1: I think the screen is gonna be better, like just

522
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Speaker 1: everything's gonna be better about it. I'd say go with

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Speaker 1: that way.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: My only downside is it is a little bulkier than

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Speaker 1: you know, a standard kind of iPad. But it's not

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Speaker 1: a deal breaker. It's fine. It's just a little heavy.

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's my only downside. But I think it

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Speaker 1: all right, And you don't.

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Speaker 6: I'm not flowing on airplane about carrying it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but you don't you don't want an iPad, do you?

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Speaker 1: You want Samsung specifically?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I had an iPad and I don't know. I

534
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Speaker 6: just fill constraint with the the Apple locations.

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Speaker 1: Oh I hear you, yep, Yeah, I get it totally. Okay. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think the the fe is gonna be the way

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Speaker 1: to go, and I think you're gonna enjoy it.

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Speaker 6: Drew, hey Rich, thanks a bunch, enjoying the show and

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Speaker 6: have a great week.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks you too. You know, the the Samsung

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Speaker 1: Fi models, they are the kind of you know, Samsung

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Speaker 1: comes out with a lot of lineups. So they've got

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Speaker 1: the A models, which are their basic, like their cheapest

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Speaker 1: I hate to say the word cheap, but it's just

545
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Speaker 1: like the least expensive. Then you've got the S models, right,

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Speaker 1: so anything that says S like the Samsung Galaxy S

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Speaker 1: twenty five Ultra, that's their top of the line, the

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Speaker 1: S models. Then you've got the Z models. Z is

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Speaker 1: all of their foldable models. And then you've got the

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Speaker 1: F E, which when it first came out from Samsung,

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Speaker 1: that meant fan edition, but now they've just dropped that

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Speaker 1: moniker that doesn't stand for anything. But now they come

553
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Speaker 1: out with an FE version of most of their devices,

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Speaker 1: whether it's their earbuds, whether it is their tablets, whether

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Speaker 1: it's their phones, their foldables, they all have an F E,

556
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Speaker 1: and F E means it's not going to be the

557
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Speaker 1: best of the best, but it's going to be pretty

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Speaker 1: darn close. And for most casual users, the FI is

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Speaker 1: going to save you a lot of money. It might

560
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Speaker 1: be a little bit of last year's technology, but it's

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Speaker 1: going to be just as good, and ninety nine point

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Speaker 1: nine percent of people are not going to know the difference.

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Speaker 1: They're only going to notice it in their pocketbook or wallet,

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Speaker 1: because you're going to save a bunch of money. With

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Speaker 1: that said, With that said, Samsung this week came out

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Speaker 1: with the S twenty five FE. So again, S twenty

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Speaker 1: five FE launched this week. It's six hundred and fifty dollars.

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Speaker 1: Positioned as an attainable flagship, so it has many of

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Speaker 1: the S twenty five features. Of course, Galaxy AI is

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Speaker 1: built in. It's got Gemini, it's got a twelve megapixel

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Speaker 1: front camera, It's got all the lenses you need for

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Speaker 1: the camera, all the I mean, it's just it's got

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Speaker 1: a great camera on it. I'm not kidding. I've tested

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Speaker 1: the fees and it's like I almost can't tell the difference.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, wait a second, how is this so good

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Speaker 1: for such an inexpensive price. You're getting a really nice

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Speaker 1: Samsung device. They've got the audio eraser built in. They've

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Speaker 1: got auto trim for video editing. It's got a forty

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Speaker 1: nine hundred million battery, which is really big, super fast charging,

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Speaker 1: wireless charging, a six point seven inch screen, maybe not

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Speaker 1: their top of the line screen, but still gonna be

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Speaker 1: really good. It's got an aluminum frame, IP sixty eight,

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Speaker 1: water resistance seven years of operating system updates, comes in navy, jet, black, white,

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Speaker 1: and Icy blue, and it comes with six months free

585
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Speaker 1: of Google's AI. They're higher end AI. So again, if

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Speaker 1: you're looking to get into those Samsung devices, you don't

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Speaker 1: want to pay the high prices of the foldables or

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Speaker 1: the the s line. The fe is a really nice

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Speaker 1: way to have a really well equipped Samsung with all

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Speaker 1: the things you need at a decent price. And by

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Speaker 1: the way, they get discounted too, So I would not

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Speaker 1: pay that six hundred and fifty dollars. Look for a discount,

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Speaker 1: education discount, first responder discount. All those discounts are out there.

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Speaker 1: Trade is eighty eight Rich one oh one eighty eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one richontech dot TV,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich DeMuro here. Fifteen

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Speaker 1: years later, Instagram finally has a proper iPad app. Why

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Speaker 1: did it take so long? Well, for many years, uh,

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Speaker 1: Facebook Meta, they said, Oh, we don't need an Instagram

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Speaker 1: app on the iPad. Nobody cares, nobody wants it, nobody's

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Speaker 1: asking for it. There's two little people using it. Well,

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Speaker 1: now it's here, so clearly something changed. What changed? Oh,

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Speaker 1: TikTok changed because the app opens directly to a feed

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Speaker 1: of reels, not your standard Instagram feed, so you can

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Speaker 1: sol access all that stuff. But as soon as you

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Speaker 1: open up the app, boom, you're in it. You're into videos,

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Speaker 1: so that is the main thing. Let's see bigger screen.

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Speaker 1: Comments appear next to videos. Dms show the inbox plus

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Speaker 1: chats side by side. So I guess that's good if

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Speaker 1: you like that idea of like writing back to all

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Speaker 1: your messages on your tablet. Meta says the same layout

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Speaker 1: is coming soon to Android tablets. But you know, the

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Speaker 1: message is pretty clear. They are all in on these reels.

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Speaker 1: They are really trying to push these reels. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you about the how Google Gemini has some

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Speaker 1: new tricks with photos. It's pretty incredible, like really incredible.

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Speaker 1: But let's go to uh, let's see here. Let's go

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Speaker 1: to Gary in Lagodo, Miguel Gary, you're on with Rich?

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Speaker 7: Yes, Rich, I can tell you. I got back from

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Speaker 7: Arizona on Sunday. I was over there for a week

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Speaker 7: and a half and I was absolutely depressed on where

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Speaker 7: are the areas that Verison used to cover? The I

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Speaker 7: don't cover anymore? And I would like to know about

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Speaker 7: these satellite phones. Maybe you can tell me about what's

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Speaker 7: going on with what T Mobile and right and now have.

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Speaker 7: Now how abine teens here are they're gonna be coming

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Speaker 7: up with satellite phone.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so it's not a satellite phone per se,

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Speaker 1: but it's satellite backup. So let me let me explain.

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Speaker 1: So the carriers, they all have a level of satellite connectivity. Okay,

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Speaker 1: whether it's AT and T, whether it's Verizon, whether it's

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Speaker 1: T Mobile. Now here's what makes this a little complicated. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you got to start at the top level, which is

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Speaker 1: your phone. If you have a pixel, a pixel nine

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Speaker 1: or a Pixel ten, or you have an iPhone, iPhone

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Speaker 1: fourteen and up, you have satellite connectivity built into your

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Speaker 1: phone without your carrier even coming into the picture. So

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Speaker 1: let's just say you had a Pixel nine. You're in

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Speaker 1: the middle of nowhere, like you said in Arizona, and

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Speaker 1: there's no signal from your carrier. Your pixel would still

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Speaker 1: allow you to send and receive a message, and it's

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Speaker 1: an emergency message on the pixel at this point, I believe.

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Speaker 1: But on the iPhone you'd be able to send an

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Speaker 1: I message. You just be able to send your message

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Speaker 1: as you usually would. So that's at the top level

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Speaker 1: where the phone itself is offering you that added layer

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Speaker 1: of satellite connectivity. Then you have the carriers, so this

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Speaker 1: is much more dependent on your plan. So let's say

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Speaker 1: you have Verizon and you have to have a certain

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Speaker 1: phone by the way, so it's not every it's not

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Speaker 1: every phone that supports it. But let's say you're on Verizon,

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Speaker 1: You've got a Samsung phone. If you go into your settings,

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Speaker 1: it will tell you that you have satellite from your

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Speaker 1: carrier as well. And so you can look into your

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Speaker 1: settings if you go into your settings on your Android

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Speaker 1: network and Internet and then go into your SIM and

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Speaker 1: I believe if you tap your sin your sim, it

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Speaker 1: should show you this satellite connectivity and whether you have

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Speaker 1: that on your device. It's interesting because again it's like

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit confusing because the phones have them,

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Speaker 1: but also the carriers have them. So T Mobile let

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Speaker 1: me go through them. T Mobiles working with SpaceX, so

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Speaker 1: they are really pushing this, which means a lot of

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Speaker 1: phones are supported, a little bit of data is supported,

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Speaker 1: and coming soon calls are going to be supported, but

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Speaker 1: that's still a ways off. But at the very least

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Speaker 1: you might be able to. You know, the main thing

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Speaker 1: you want to be able to do is get in

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Speaker 1: touch with nine one one, whether that's through a call,

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Speaker 1: whether that's through a message that you send them with

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Speaker 1: emergency help. AT and T is partnering with something called

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Speaker 1: AST Space Mobile, and they have launched some of their

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Speaker 1: satellites in the US, and you know, you have to

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Speaker 1: have a compatible phone for this, and so AT and

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Speaker 1: T has their own flavor, and then Verizon they've rolled

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Speaker 1: it out. You probably saw during the Super Bowl last

677
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Speaker 1: year they had a big commercial. They're partnering with Skylow

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Speaker 1: and AST Space Wars, so some of the same companies

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Speaker 1: that AT and T is using. But again they have

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Speaker 1: satellite text messaging on select Android phones. So it really

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Speaker 1: depends on both your phone and your carrier. Your phone

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Speaker 1: may offer satellite, or your carrier may offer satellite, or

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00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:21,000
Speaker 1: they may both offer satellite. And then there's a third option.

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Speaker 1: T Mobile is letting anyone sign up for SpaceX. They

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Speaker 1: call it TE Satellite is their brand name, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to just pay for satellite connectivity

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Speaker 1: on your phone, you can you can go to T

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Speaker 1: Mobile and just sign up. I think it's like twenty

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Speaker 1: bucks a month. And now here's the caveat about all

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Speaker 1: of this satellite messaging and satellite connectivity. It is pretty slow.

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Speaker 1: It's not something where you just like you know, boom,

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Speaker 1: you send a message. It takes two seconds, it goes through.

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Speaker 1: I think T mobile satellite is probably the best out

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Speaker 1: of all of them right now. But you've got to

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Speaker 1: hold your phone up. You've got to angle it. You've

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Speaker 1: got to have a clear vision of clear view of

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Speaker 1: the sky. You hold your phone there, you type out

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Speaker 1: your message. It says, hold on, hold on, hold on, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're sending, we're sending, we're sending. Okay, sent. Now move

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Speaker 1: your phone a little bit. Follow the satellites in the sky. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're waiting for a message, waiting, waiting, wait, okay, it

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Speaker 1: came back. So it's not a perfect system right now.

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Speaker 1: But like you said, Gary, if you're in the middle

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Speaker 1: of nowhere, if you're hiking, if you're a hiker, if

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Speaker 1: you're a biker, if you are someone who's always camping

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Speaker 1: out in the middle of nowhere, and you want that

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Speaker 1: that little comfort blanket of knowing that if something ever

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Speaker 1: happened that's really bad. You would be able to at

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Speaker 1: the very least get in touch with emergency services or

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Speaker 1: send your location to someone that can then send help.

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Speaker 1: But again, check your carrier, check your phone. Check to

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Speaker 1: see if you have satellite availability, because you might be

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Speaker 1: able to breathe asier when you're out. And about eighty

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Speaker 1: how Gemini can restore old photos and even remove right

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Speaker 1: here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: great guest. I'm always booking some sort of like you know,

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Speaker 1: Julian Keel later in the show to talk about points Path.

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Speaker 1: This is an award flight search engine that basically when

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Speaker 1: you're on Google Flights, it'll tell you if you should

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Speaker 1: book with points or if you should book with dollars,

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Speaker 1: which one's a better value for your money. So we'll

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Speaker 1: have him on a little bit later in the show,

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Speaker 1: but first you have to try this. This is just

745
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: every so often there comes a feature that is just

746
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: so cool that when I am wowed by it, I

747
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Speaker 1: want to share it with you and make sure you're

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Speaker 1: aware of this. So Gemini, that is Google's version. I

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00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,680
Speaker 1: hate to say this, but it just helps people understand

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Speaker 1: what it is. But that's basically Google's version of chat

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Speaker 1: GBT Gemini. It was called barred when it first came out.

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00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:47,280
Speaker 1: Now it's called Gemini and you can access it. People

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00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,319
Speaker 1: think that you can only access Google's AI on an

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00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: Android phone. That is not true. You can download the

755
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: Gemini app right now for the iPhone. Make sure you

756
00:37:56,560 --> 00:38:00,720
Speaker 1: get the right one. There's also a Gemini cryptocurrency app.

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00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:03,440
Speaker 1: This is you know, make sure you're getting the Google

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00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: Gemini AI app and the official one. But anyway, once

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00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: you have that, you can do a whole bunch of things.

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Speaker 1: You can search, you can ask you questions, you know,

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Speaker 1: all the stuff you can do on chat GBT. But

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Speaker 1: where Google has truly pulled ahead is in images, not

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Speaker 1: just creating images, but also working with photos that you

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Speaker 1: already have. So they had this big update okay called

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Speaker 1: Nana Nano banana, Nano banana. I know it's silly, but

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Speaker 1: Google Gemini when it got this Nano banana upgrade, which

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Speaker 1: is just a silly name. I don't know if they

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Speaker 1: just came up with that name. I think Nano is

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Speaker 1: some sort of like tech term. But banana, I think

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Speaker 1: they just had fun with just rhymed with nano. Well

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Speaker 1: does it wait, nano banano, No, it doesn't, Nano banana

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Speaker 1: doesn't rhyme. Anyway, when they came out with this upgrade,

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Speaker 1: people went nuts because not only can it reimagine photos

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Speaker 1: in any way you want to do, but it can

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Speaker 1: maintain your look as you edit. So most of these

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Speaker 1: AI image generators, they completely generate a new image right

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Speaker 1: you feed it an image. It just recreates that image

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Speaker 1: from scratch with the changes that you want. What Google

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Speaker 1: is now doing with is nano banana. It is changing

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Speaker 1: the actual image, so it's keeping the elements of the

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Speaker 1: image intact, and then it's just changing the stuff that

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Speaker 1: you want, which makes it very powerful. So I tell

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Speaker 1: you that because there's two things that you need to

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Speaker 1: try right now. Number one, it can restore an old photo.

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Speaker 1: So if you have a faded or damaged image, the

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Speaker 1: AI will bring back the color and detail. So you

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Speaker 1: can do this right now for free. Go to Gemini

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Speaker 1: dot Google dot com, tap create image and then tap

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Speaker 1: the plus sign. Upload your photo and then type in

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00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: restore this photo. So you can take an old black

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Speaker 1: and white photo, you can take a damage photo. You

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Speaker 1: can take any kind of picture from the past, put

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Speaker 1: it in there and ask AI to restore it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Is it going to be perfect? No, But is it

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Speaker 1: going to do a pretty good job? Yes? Is it free? Yes?

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Speaker 1: Are there a million apps out there that can do this, yes,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of them cost money. This is free,

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Speaker 1: and it's there's no there that's going to say a

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Speaker 1: word I probably shouldn't say on the radio, but it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: There's no like ads, there's nothing on the screen. It's

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Speaker 1: not trying to sell you anything. It just does what

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Speaker 1: it needs to do. So that's number one. You can

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Speaker 1: also do something like restore this photo to look like

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Speaker 1: a modern color photo while keeping all original details, so

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Speaker 1: that is number one. Number two. Finally, back in twenty seventeen,

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Speaker 1: Google announced they showed this thing on stage at one

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Speaker 1: of their events, where they said, this is our dream

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Speaker 1: for pictures to be able to edit them like this,

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Speaker 1: And they showed a picture of a kid playing baseball.

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Speaker 1: And if you've ever had a kid in little league

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Speaker 1: or baseball, you know that it's always behind a fence

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Speaker 1: that you're watching the action. And so Google showed the

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Speaker 1: fence and then it showed the fence dissolving away and

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Speaker 1: seeing the kid there playing baseball, and they said, this

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Speaker 1: is our dream, this is what we're trying to get towards.

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Speaker 1: Why can't we just ask a photo editor to remove

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Speaker 1: the fence and it removes it and guess what. It

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Speaker 1: took a couple of years. It's twenty twenty five. They

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Speaker 1: announced this back in twenty seventeen, but the promise is here.

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Speaker 1: They have delivered on that promise. You can now remove

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Speaker 1: fences from a photo. It is incredible. I did a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of them this morning. If you want to

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Speaker 1: see the examples, go to rich on Tech on Instagram,

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Speaker 1: go to my stories, and it is quite incredible. I

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Speaker 1: have a picture of my kid looking at an animal

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Speaker 1: through a fence. Fence is gone now it just looks

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Speaker 1: like the kid and the animal are just face to face.

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Speaker 1: Another one where this is this big, complicated fence is

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Speaker 1: in front of this alleyway home. It's got all these

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Speaker 1: things in the background. I don't know, statues, a heart, plants,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Tin Man, I don't know why they

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Speaker 1: have a tin Man statue, but it's all erased the

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Speaker 1: fence and it looks perfect. Another one, my kid is

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Speaker 1: looking out over the Hudson River and there's a big

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Speaker 1: fence in front of him. Took away the whole fence

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Speaker 1: except for the top rail. And then finally I did

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Speaker 1: the actual dream photo, which is your kid playing baseball.

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Speaker 1: Can you remove the fence in front of him playing baseball.

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Speaker 1: Sure enough, it did it unbelievable. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to do this, you can do this again on the app,

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00:42:31,719 --> 00:42:33,720
Speaker 1: or you can do it on your desktop. So Gemini

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00:42:33,960 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: dot Google dot com, upload the photo and just press

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00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:41,360
Speaker 1: that image button and say erase the fence, and just

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Speaker 1: try it. I mean, it's quite incredible what you can do.

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Speaker 1: And it's just I get it. It's you know, do

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00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:48,799
Speaker 1: you need this every day? Do you need this all

847
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 1: the time? No, but the ability to now restore photos

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Speaker 1: and to remove fences from photos simply and easily is

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Speaker 1: pretty incredible to me. It really is. And the fact

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Speaker 1: that it's free is just really really amazing. So if

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00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,680
Speaker 1: you haven't played with Gemini and the Image generation, just

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00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:08,759
Speaker 1: try it. Just that's your homework today. Just try it.

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Speaker 1: files aren't marked read only here. Use a program called

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Speaker 1: MP three tag. MP three tag. This program has been

859
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Speaker 1: around forever. It is kind of like the you know,

860
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Speaker 1: the Universal Tag Editor for Windows. So it adds all

861
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Speaker 1: that metadata to your MP three So if you're still,

862
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Speaker 1: you know, building an MP three collection, just use this

863
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Speaker 1: and basically it will let you have full control over everything.

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Speaker 1: So file name, the title, the artist, the album, the track,

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Speaker 1: the year, the genre, whatever you want to do. What

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Speaker 1: else can you put in comments directory? I guess that's

867
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Speaker 1: where it's located. Disc number, You can change the album, artwork,

868
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Speaker 1: the composer. I mean, this is like one of those

869
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Speaker 1: things where if you really want to make your collection exact,

870
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Speaker 1: this is what you need. And so it is Let's

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Speaker 1: see is it free? It is free and they've got it.

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Speaker 1: It's uh, oh, let's see they've Windows is the main area.

873
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Speaker 1: So they've got it for free for Windows and it

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Speaker 1: says MP three for Mac. Are you looking? Oh, you

875
00:44:35,080 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 1: can even get it for Mac now, So there you go.

876
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Speaker 1: So you can get it for Mac or Windows. So

877
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Speaker 1: if you have your own MP three collection, you want

878
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Speaker 1: to make sure that all the information on there is correct.

879
00:44:46,080 --> 00:44:47,920
Speaker 1: You can do that, by the way. It all you

880
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Speaker 1: don't have to type it all in yourself. You can

881
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: also use a look up database so they connect to

882
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Speaker 1: these databases like discogs, music Brains and free dB which

883
00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,600
Speaker 1: lets you all automatically tag and download cover art for

884
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Speaker 1: your music library. So this just gives you a lot

885
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Speaker 1: of a lot of options, and it is free as

886
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Speaker 1: far as I can tell. And they just updated it

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Speaker 1: August fifteenth, twenty twenty five. It was updated, so it's

888
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Speaker 1: not like a you know, it's a program that when

889
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Speaker 1: you look at it, you're like, Okay, this looks a

890
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Speaker 1: little old school, but it's still being actively updated, which

891
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Speaker 1: is really nice. So if you really like it, I

892
00:45:22,760 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 1: guess you can donate it. But MP three tag has

893
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:29,360
Speaker 1: been around for twenty years now, so you can support

894
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Speaker 1: you know, you can give them a couple bucks if

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Speaker 1: you want to support them. I always like that. I

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Speaker 1: love when people have a program like that and they

897
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Speaker 1: you know, they just keep it updated and they say, look,

898
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Speaker 1: I just love to do this. I want this out there.

899
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Speaker 1: But if you can donate, donate, that'd be amazing. MP

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Speaker 1: three tag dot de MP three tag dot de. I'll

901
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Speaker 1: put the link on the website. Rich on tech dot

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Speaker 1: tv once again, this is episode one thirty eight. Al R,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at my things that I tell you to

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Speaker 1: do every week let's see, I already told you about

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Speaker 1: the podcast. I already told you about the newsletter. The

906
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Speaker 1: newsletter is really the thing that I think is the

907
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Speaker 1: best way to keep in touch. You know, I've done

908
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Speaker 1: a bunch of the Instagram. I mean really, at this point,

909
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Speaker 1: here's where I'm updating. I'm updating Instagram and I'm updating

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Speaker 1: the newsletter. That is like the two best ways, and

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Speaker 1: of course this radio show the three best ways to

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Speaker 1: keep in touch with what I'm talking about. And you'd

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Speaker 1: be surprised. I'm not kidding. I get emails every single day,

914
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Speaker 1: a lot of them from you. And I got this

915
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Speaker 1: email this morning from someone, and I said, I can't

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Speaker 1: believe I almost can't believe it because they asked me

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Speaker 1: a question. They basically asked, Hey, do you have a

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Speaker 1: recommendation for any app that can clean up my iPhone?

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Speaker 1: Like the storage Now. I talked about it at length

920
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Speaker 1: on the radio show last week, I did a segment

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Speaker 1: on KTLA on TV. I posted it to my social

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Speaker 1: media and what else the podcast, I mean, the newsletter,

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Speaker 1: I mean everywhere. I was all over this. By the way,

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Speaker 1: the app is called Clever Cleaner, all over it, and

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Speaker 1: I said this person clearly does not follow me anywhere anyway.

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Speaker 1: How did they find me? How did they email me

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Speaker 1: on my website without even noticing the large giant blog

928
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Speaker 1: post that says, here's my best cleaner for your iPhone,

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Speaker 1: but anyway, it's called clever cleaner. Uh eighty eight rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four two four

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Speaker 1: you how you can get free Microsoft three sixty five

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Speaker 1: Personal if you're a college student. Coming up next, really,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. Well, sure, okay, you got

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Speaker 1: a little bit of me and Bobo chatting. I'm leaving

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Speaker 1: that in a podcast. Do you really have to edit

938
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Speaker 1: the podcast?

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Speaker 5: You don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to do too much. Do you like

941
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Speaker 1: most of the it sticks in?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: What's that?

944
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Speaker 8: Just take commercials out?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh wait a second, don't tell people that. No,

946
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Speaker 1: but they get replaced with other commercials. Yeah, otherwise you'd

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Speaker 1: have commercials on commercials.

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Speaker 8: Pretty much, and it'll be longer than a radio show.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing I mean, I mean, yeah, okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna get into that. Let's go to Oscar in

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Speaker 1: uh Oscar in Winchester. You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 2: By Rich. I've got a Windows ten desktop system and

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Speaker 2: I have over I use the Chrome browsers. I have

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Speaker 2: over fifty windows open, and each window has ten or

955
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Speaker 2: more tabs on it. I would like to be able

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Speaker 2: to bookmark all those you know, windoors with tabs, so

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Speaker 2: that I can click on a window to reopen it

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Speaker 2: and it opens with all the tabs. Yeah, and also

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Speaker 2: to be able to access them individually, because with all

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Speaker 2: those that I have open, I want to clean up

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Speaker 2: the Chrome installation that I have with all those open windows,

962
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Speaker 2: because it's slowing down my system. So I want to

963
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Speaker 2: put them all into bookmarks other than the regular Windows bookmark.

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Speaker 2: And I've got a couple of questions after you're done.

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Speaker 1: A couple of questions after I'm done.

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Speaker 2: I don't know questions about that, but question.

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Speaker 1: So your your main question is number one, what do

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Speaker 1: you track it across fifty windows with ten tabs each?

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Speaker 1: Just various topics and things.

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Speaker 2: I do marketing, and I don't close. You know, you're

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Speaker 2: just keeping doors when when I opened up and that

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Speaker 2: sort of stuff.

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Speaker 1: You're keeping track of a lot of stuff, right, Okay.

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Speaker 2: So it's almost like my my like my storage. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: because so I can go back to it, you know, quickly.

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Speaker 1: Sure? Okay, So bottom line, you want to be able

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Speaker 1: to open up multiple tabs at once quickly and easily

978
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Speaker 1: and have those remembered as well.

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Speaker 2: I want to be able to save them right first.

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Speaker 7: Of all.

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Speaker 2: With with the window so close you know, each of

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Speaker 2: those windows, and close the tabs with them, right so

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Speaker 2: when I click on that window and reopen it, it's

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Speaker 2: open the tabs.

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Speaker 1: Okay. Well, that I'm not sure as possible to do.

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Speaker 1: I I don't know if a way to easily do that,

987
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Speaker 1: but I can tell you what I do that in

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Speaker 1: two methods that you that might work for you. Number one,

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Speaker 1: I mean the easiest thing. Now you said you didn't

990
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Speaker 1: want to keep these in the Chrome folders or what.

991
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Speaker 1: You didn't want to keep these in the Chrome, but.

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't care folder. It goes into just

993
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Speaker 2: so that I can reopen them as I need them.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So I think I think there's two things you

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Speaker 1: can do here that that make this pretty easy. So

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Speaker 1: Chrome has Number one, you can use a folder in

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Speaker 1: your bookmark. So I've got a folder with seventy five

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Speaker 1: bookmarks inside, and I have it on my bookmark bar

999
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Speaker 1: and basically it you know, when I write click it, it

1000
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Speaker 1: says open up all seventy five bookmarks and it gives

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Speaker 1: you the option to open in a new window. So

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Speaker 1: that's number one. I think that's probably the easiest way

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Speaker 1: to do it. You save these.

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00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:45,120
Speaker 2: One thing about that, it does not have them all

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00:51:45,200 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: as one folder. You know, the tabs are not all

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00:51:49,680 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 2: on one as one window.

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00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: Well it does online. I just did it.

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00:51:56,400 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 2: If you yeah, yes, you have the window with all

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Speaker 2: the tabs in it.

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Speaker 1: Yep, just did it. So now the tabs are not

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00:52:05,000 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: gonna be Now if you're trying to save the state

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00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:09,640
Speaker 1: of the tab like let's say you have something in

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Speaker 1: there and you're trying to close that window and reopen it,

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00:52:11,800 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: that's not gonna work. That's not gonna happen. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: be You're gonna be opening these up fresh each time.

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Speaker 1: So that's the number one way to do it. That's

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Speaker 1: probably the easiest way to do it. So what you

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Speaker 1: would do is in Chrome, you would just create a

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Speaker 1: folder and then you would put all those you know,

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Speaker 1: you said you have fifty windows with ten ten bookmarks

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Speaker 1: in each one, So you would just put those bookmarks

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Speaker 1: in that in that folder, and then you right click

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Speaker 1: that folder and it gives you the option to open

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Speaker 1: a new window. So once you open that in a

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Speaker 1: new window, all those tabs are gonna open, and you've

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Speaker 1: got that in that instance of all those tabs in

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Speaker 1: one place. The other way you can do it is

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Speaker 1: they have this feature on Chrome called tab groups. So

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Speaker 1: if you create, go to the left hand side, it

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00:52:55,600 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 1: looks like four little squares tap tab groups. Create new

1031
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Speaker 1: tab group, and now you can put in all the tabs.

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Speaker 1: You can put all the bookmarks in there, and they

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Speaker 1: call you know, as tabs, and then you say it

1034
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Speaker 1: says move to new group, Move group to new window.

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Speaker 1: So once you put them all in you say move

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Speaker 1: to new window, it'll open up in that new window.

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Speaker 1: Those are the two ways to do it. The other

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Speaker 1: app i'd recommend is called Raindrop dot Io that might

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Speaker 1: also be worth looking into. Eight to eight rich one

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Speaker 1: o one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. Triple eight rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one if you have a question you're

1045
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Speaker 1: trying to decide between something, looking for an app, whatever

1046
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Speaker 1: it is, comment, maybe we'll take a few of those. Uh,

1047
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Speaker 1: go to the website rich on tech dot tv. You

1048
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:53,600
Speaker 1: can also send me an email there. I mentioned I

1049
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Speaker 1: was at CEDIA Expo twenty twenty five in Denver, Colorado

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Speaker 1: this week.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This is a big show focuses all on home like

1053
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Speaker 1: smart home goods, right, and this is really for people

1054
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Speaker 1: that are in this industry to see what they can

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Speaker 1: install in people's homes. And so with all that, I

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Speaker 1: interviewed Brian Pagel. He is executive vice president at Emerald.

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Speaker 1: They put on the show every year and so we

1058
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Speaker 1: talked all about the latest trends and what Cedia is

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Speaker 1: all about.

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Speaker 9: So Cedio is a show dedicated to residential home technologies.

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Speaker 9: Started off many years ago something around center around home theaters,

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00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 9: and now it's of all every aspect of the home.

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Speaker 9: So it's lighting, it's energy control, it's your home audio

1064
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Speaker 9: and video, it's going outside, it's wellness. So it's really

1065
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Speaker 9: creating that connected ecosystem within your home. Yeah, we've got

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Speaker 9: over three hundred exhibitors leading brands throughout the home residential

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Speaker 9: Technology space. We'll have about fifteen to twenty thousand guests

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Speaker 9: here in Denver over the course of the week, all

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Speaker 9: for the trade. So these are going to include builders, designers,

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Speaker 9: and then residential home integrators.

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Speaker 1: First, I asked how the stuff on display at is

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Speaker 1: different than the off the shelf things you might see

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Speaker 1: at a place like best Buy or Amazon.

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Speaker 9: Well, actually a lot of what you see here can

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Speaker 9: be purchased at a best Buy or through retail. But

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Speaker 9: as this also goes through the channel, you're going to

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Speaker 9: see touch panel controls, You're going to see window automation,

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Speaker 9: You're going to see certain lighting solutions that are only

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Speaker 9: available through the trade. So it's really what's next, What's

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Speaker 9: what's coming up in terms of the next greatest technology Next.

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Speaker 1: I was curious how this idea of home automation has

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Speaker 1: evolved over the years.

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Speaker 9: It's really evolved based on digital natives coming up through

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Speaker 9: the through the ranks and having that accessibility and the

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Speaker 9: opportunity to invest in their homes. People want that experience

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Speaker 9: to follow them from their car to their house, to

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Speaker 9: their backyard to their office, and so as the technology

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Speaker 9: has become more readily available over time, prices have come down,

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Speaker 9: so it's far more accessible. I think Amazon has really

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Speaker 9: led the charge in terms of opening up.

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Speaker 5: To a wider audience.

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Speaker 9: So you know, when you're trying to create these connected ecosystems,

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Speaker 9: it first started off with av Yeah, so now it's

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Speaker 9: getting into lighting control, so you can follow your tarcadian rhythms.

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Speaker 9: It's going into your backyard, it's going into your your automobile.

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Speaker 9: So there's so much new and you know, there's some

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Speaker 9: emerging areas that I think people need to pay attention

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Speaker 9: to energy management in your home, knowing that your HVAC

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Speaker 9: is efficient, that you don't have a water leak under

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Speaker 9: your sake, and then wellness. Ultimately, people want to age

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Speaker 9: in place no one wants. No one wants to go

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Speaker 9: into a retirement home. So it makes for safer environments

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Speaker 9: because you know that Grandma slipped and fell. So I

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Speaker 9: think we've just scratched the surface in terms of what's possible.

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Speaker 9: I think it's just going to continue to growing involved

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Speaker 9: as the technology changes.

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Speaker 1: We've heard a lot about eight K over the years.

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Speaker 1: I was just curious if that trend is actually taking off.

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Speaker 9: AK it's big right now, You've got Sony, you got

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Speaker 9: LG and a number of these brands are unveiling you

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Speaker 9: AK products. I think one of the challenges still becomes

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Speaker 9: an eight K content. There's not a lot of it

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Speaker 9: out there, but it's an amazing experience.

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Speaker 1: One big trend I did see it this year show

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Speaker 1: outdoor technology, the idea of all that stuff you have

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Speaker 1: inside but made for outside.

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Speaker 9: People want indoor outdoor spaces and so as kitchens for example,

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Speaker 9: your outdoor grilling areas, patios, et cetera. Have evolved and

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Speaker 9: people are designing this. They want that same technology experience

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Speaker 9: to follow them. So you know at the show you'll

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Speaker 9: see televisions that are specifically designed for outdoor so they

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Speaker 9: deal better with lighting, they do better with weather, so

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Speaker 9: you can really take that experience from inside and bring

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Speaker 9: it outside and that that is an absolute massive opportunity

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Speaker 9: for this market.

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Speaker 1: Another big trend is lighting. It can really change the

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Speaker 1: dynamics of a home.

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Speaker 9: So what we're finding is, and actually I've got some

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Speaker 9: colleagues that work in this space. You see these homes

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Speaker 9: are built in lightings in afterthought. Lighting is really the

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Speaker 9: bridge between the design build side and the hometech integrator.

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Speaker 9: And given that that's kind of that centerpiece. It can

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Speaker 9: really change the experience. So if you have the wrong lighting,

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Speaker 9: that beautiful paint color that you put in your your

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Speaker 9: living room isn't gonna pop, or it's gonna maybe that

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Speaker 9: piece of artwork isn't going to work.

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Speaker 5: So lighting is really really key.

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Speaker 9: And that to me is the one area that bridges

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Speaker 9: the divide between the designer and builder and the home

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Speaker 9: technology integrator, and so that can really bring together that

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Speaker 9: holistic experience.

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Speaker 1: Smart security has been around for a long time. At

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Speaker 1: the high end. Obviously you could get those cameras installed

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Speaker 1: by a professional, but then Ring came along and made

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Speaker 1: home security accessible to everyone. So I was curious what

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Speaker 1: we're seeing in that area these days.

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Speaker 9: Well, they can tell you if someone is at your

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Speaker 9: front door, it can tell you if your kids got

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Speaker 9: Home security is one of the top consumer trends in

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Speaker 9: terms of what they want in a connected environment, and

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Speaker 9: so now with camera technology being what it is, it's

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Speaker 9: so easy to integrate that and just to make sure

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Speaker 9: that hey, you could be in Italy and check in

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Speaker 9: to see who's at your front door. It's something that's

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Speaker 9: very central and people were really looking for those safe

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Speaker 9: spaces and the technology is there.

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Speaker 1: It's now, it's twenty twenty five, and many of us

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Speaker 1: have bits and pieces of that dreams smart home already

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Speaker 1: in our homes. So I was just curious to get

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Speaker 1: his take on what a dream smart home would actually

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Speaker 1: be like from start to finish.

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Speaker 9: The dream is to have an experience. It's all your own.

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Speaker 9: You walk into your house, the lighting.

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Speaker 5: Is the right tone. Speakers are playing your favorite music

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Speaker 5: that you know.

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Speaker 9: You can walk outside, you know, have your lights on

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Speaker 9: in your outdoor area.

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Speaker 5: You can turn on your grill before you get home. Right.

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Speaker 5: It's it's the creature comforts.

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Speaker 9: It means a little something different for everybody, but it's

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Speaker 9: so important that this audience is all about creating that experience.

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Speaker 9: It's very specific to you based on what you want.

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Speaker 9: So if you're really into wellness, we can build a

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Speaker 9: solution around that. If you have elderly parents, we can

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Speaker 9: build something for you that's going to help to keep

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Speaker 9: them safe. Or if you just want to sit there

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Speaker 9: and immerse yourself in the you know the NFL football

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Speaker 9: this season, you can do that as well. So there's

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Speaker 9: something for everybody, and it goes well outside the home theater.

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Speaker 9: It touches every aspect of the home.

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Speaker 1: Now, CEDIA is all about pro installers, but many people

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Speaker 1: have the perception that they just can't afford a luxury

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Speaker 1: like this. So my question is how do you know

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Speaker 1: when you should contact a professional versus just installing things yourself.

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Speaker 5: So I've always used the rule of thumber.

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Speaker 9: I look at some of the readily available products that

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Speaker 9: are out there in the market that you can get.

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Speaker 5: A vest by. That's that's your three series BMW.

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Speaker 9: But as you decide that you want to do more

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Speaker 9: or you need it to do something very specific where

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Speaker 9: my ab limitations. That's the point when you call it

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Speaker 9: an integrated Certainly Amazon, Google app will have great, very

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Speaker 9: basic suites.

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Speaker 5: But depending on what you need.

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Speaker 9: You know, if you want to integrate lighting, if you

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Speaker 9: want to integrate shade automation, that's when you need to bring.

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Speaker 1: In an integrator.

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Speaker 9: I would say when it comes to a show like CDIO,

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Speaker 9: this is always about what's new, what's next, what's on

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Speaker 9: the horizon.

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Speaker 5: One of the things we haven't thought of yet.

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Speaker 9: And you know you have a group that it was

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Speaker 9: it came together in CDIA, the association started in nineteen

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Speaker 9: ninety four. They can bring these ideas is to reality.

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Speaker 9: So it's all about bringing that experience that is unique

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Speaker 9: to you and doing your way. That's it's going to

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Speaker 9: continue to grow with you as you evolve in your

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Speaker 9: needs of aolt.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you have it. Brian Pagel, Executive vice

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Speaker 1: president at Emerald They put on CDA twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see some of my coverage from

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Speaker 1: this year's show, go to the website rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv. Check out the newsletter this week. All my

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Speaker 1: favorite things that I saw there are listed all right

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Speaker 1: eighty eight rich one on one eighty eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Brenda writes in I

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Speaker 1: recently had a bad experience at Tesla, so I posted

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Speaker 1: about it on x Soon after, I got an email

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Speaker 1: claiming they found the exact car I wanted, but when

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Speaker 1: it came time to pay, they said the dealership only

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Speaker 1: accepts cryptocurrency. The email came from a proton dot me address,

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Speaker 1: which raised a red flag. Is this legit, Bobo? I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna let you answer this one. No, you don't think

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Speaker 1: it's legit that the dealership only accepts crypto Come on, really,

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is just it's it's wild that people

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Speaker 1: just I mean, I'm not saying Brenda, but like some

1227
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Speaker 1: person's out there like literally waiting for people to complain

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Speaker 1: about Tesla on X and then swoop in and say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: here we can get you this car, pay me in crypto.

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Speaker 1: Like come on, no, Brenda, that is a complete scam.

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Speaker 1: I don't now. Here's the thing, And this is why

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Speaker 1: I always say these scam artists, they always kind of

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Speaker 1: prey upon the fact that they twist things around, right, Like, yes,

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Speaker 1: at one point Tesla did accept bitcoin. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they do anymore. Maybe they still do, but they they

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Speaker 1: did at one point, so yes, they're and we know

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Speaker 1: Elon is big into that stuff or I think he is.

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Speaker 1: I don't know is he is Elon? I don't know anyway.

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Speaker 1: But the point is it sounds like it could be legitimate.

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Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, well I have to pay in crypto.

1241
01:02:55,600 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 1: I'm getting a Tesla. No, do not do that. Tesla's

1242
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: not gonna ask you to pay through crypto or use

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01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:04,920
Speaker 1: a proton dot me email address. Come on, what It's just.

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Speaker 8: People are getting creative, The criminals are getting smart. They're

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01:03:09,800 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 8: trying new ways to get people to give them information.

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01:03:13,240 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 8: I don't know if I told you it is. But

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01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 8: they called my phone looking for my mom. Oh, and

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01:03:19,400 --> 01:03:22,240
Speaker 8: they was like, yeah, somebody's trying to start a credit

1249
01:03:22,280 --> 01:03:25,680
Speaker 8: card in her name and we need some information to

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Speaker 8: stop it from going through.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow.

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Speaker 8: And I'm like, just stop it, yeah, just stop. So

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Speaker 8: we need to make sure that this is her. No,

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01:03:32,080 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 8: you don't, I'm telling you just to stop it. Well,

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Speaker 8: we really need to speak to Cindy. And I was like,

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Speaker 8: that's fine, I'm telling you as the person you called

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Speaker 8: to stop it. Yeah, And they didn't want to stop it,

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Speaker 8: and they had they had the last four of her social.

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Speaker 1: Well okay, so that's something that you could probably find online. Yes, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean now you can find with all these data

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Speaker 1: breaches everything. Yeah, but that's interesting. So they they were

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Speaker 1: trying to get the rest of the information.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 1: So hey, we've got we know you're so is two

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Speaker 1: two seven two. We just need the rest to confirm

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Speaker 1: before we go any further.

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Speaker 5: Yep.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly what they we're trying to do. That is unbelievable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm telling you so, I don't know if

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Speaker 1: if you follow me on Instagram at Ridge on Tech,

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Speaker 1: you know that I love posting these scams because so

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Speaker 1: many people are now sending me scams that I go

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Speaker 1: through them and I will kind of filter out the

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Speaker 1: ones that I haven't seen before. So, for instance, the

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Speaker 1: other day, I saw one that I've never seen, which

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Speaker 1: is State of California Franchise Tax Board says, your tax

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Speaker 1: refund has been processed and approved. Please provide your accurate

1278
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,520
Speaker 1: collection information and then we'll deposit the money into your

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Speaker 1: bank account or get this email a paper check? What

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Speaker 1: does that even mean? Email a paper check? And then

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01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 1: it gives a website that kind of looks like the

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Speaker 1: California website. And I was like, all right, I've never

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Speaker 1: seen this one before. Let's let's put it out there.

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Speaker 1: And sure enough people were I mean, it got shared

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Speaker 1: like crazy because people were like, yeah, I'm getting that

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Speaker 1: one too, and it's like they will just try whatever

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Speaker 1: they can and if you go to the website. So

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Speaker 1: what I do is when when you send me these things,

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Speaker 1: and you can, you can send them to me hello

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01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:06,720
Speaker 1: at rich on tech dot tv. You can go to

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Speaker 1: the website and email me rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: But what I do is I actually go through and

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Speaker 1: I do not recommend you do this, but I go

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Speaker 1: through and I click the links in those phishing emails

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Speaker 1: or those scams or those texts that you send me.

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Speaker 1: Because I know what I'm doing. I'm gonna be careful

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Speaker 1: and I will check to see what they're trying to do,

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Speaker 1: like what's their endgame and in this one, and then

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Speaker 1: I'll post it and I'll kind of break it all

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Speaker 1: down for you so you understand exactly what they're trying

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Speaker 1: to do here. And so for your instance with this, uh,

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Speaker 1: with this, my phone is acting wonky right now, for instance,

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Speaker 1: with this California one, basically they are trying to get

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Speaker 1: you to hand over your personal information. This is so wird.

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Speaker 1: Instagram is actually physically not working on my phone. I

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Speaker 1: can't swipe, like this is one of those carousel swipes.

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Speaker 1: I can't swipe, and my phone just won't let me.

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Speaker 1: Let me try my other phone. You know, I have

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Speaker 1: like three phones in front of me when I do this.

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Speaker 1: Show that way when you call in you have a question,

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Speaker 1: there it is that one's working. My iPhone's not working.

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01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:08,840
Speaker 1: Android is anyway, you click the link and of course

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Speaker 1: it brings you to a bogus website that looks just

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Speaker 1: like the California tax website. Then immediately it says, oh,

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Speaker 1: check your status, and first thing it asked for social

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Speaker 1: and all your address, and then it says, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we found a refund of one thousand dollars and fifty

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Speaker 1: How would you like us to send it to you

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Speaker 1: bank or credit card? And the bank is great out

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01:06:29,880 --> 01:06:31,920
Speaker 1: it says, sorry, it's not working right now, so put

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Speaker 1: your credit card in. You put your credit card in.

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Speaker 1: Now what did you just do? If you made it

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01:06:35,880 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 1: to that last screen, you have given them your name,

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Speaker 1: your address, your social your credit card information, and you've

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Speaker 1: confirmed it all and now what are they doing? The

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Speaker 1: last screen shows like a spinny ball while it's confirming.

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Speaker 1: What do you think they're doing? During that spinny ball?

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Speaker 1: They've got people in a room, hundreds of them, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, or a bunch of them that are sitting

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Speaker 1: there grabbing this information as it comes in live. We

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Speaker 1: got a live one, We got a good one. And

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01:07:00,280 --> 01:07:03,840
Speaker 1: they literally try to hack you instantly as you're listening

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01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,960
Speaker 1: to them or as you're waiting for that thing to stop.

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01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,120
Speaker 1: So it's real and it happens every single day, So

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Speaker 1: be careful. And yeah, I post all of these to

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Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich On Tech. So if you want

1337
01:07:16,080 --> 01:07:19,440
Speaker 1: to keep you know, ahead of the curve, follow me

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01:07:19,520 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 1: there at rich On Tech. And I'm telling you, you know,

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01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:24,800
Speaker 1: send them my way, because I do investigate them and

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01:07:24,840 --> 01:07:28,040
Speaker 1: I only got you know. The other thing I recommend

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01:07:28,080 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 1: people always ask, oh, do I need antivirus? Do I

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01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,240
Speaker 1: need this? Do I need that? What you need is

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01:07:32,280 --> 01:07:37,560
Speaker 1: two things on your phone. Nord VPN has a great thing.

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01:07:38,120 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 1: I know you have to have a VPN, but they

1345
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:43,360
Speaker 1: have a feature called Threat Detection, and what it does

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01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:46,160
Speaker 1: is in real time, it'll scan the things that you're

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01:07:46,160 --> 01:07:50,040
Speaker 1: clicking and it will look out for you. So if

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Speaker 1: you're clicking on malware, it'll look out, it'll say sorry,

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01:07:52,600 --> 01:07:55,560
Speaker 1: you're malware. It also happens to block ads, which is

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01:07:55,600 --> 01:07:57,439
Speaker 1: really nice. And a lot of the ads, I hate

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01:07:57,480 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 1: to say, they're called malvertizing. They deliver malware to your phone.

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01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:04,880
Speaker 1: That's how a lot of these things happen as well.

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01:08:05,600 --> 01:08:09,560
Speaker 1: Now on your computer, same thing. I really recommend that

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01:08:09,600 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: you use Chrome because of this reason. Chrome has something

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01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,439
Speaker 1: called if you go into your settings, it is called

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Speaker 1: safe browsing. Okay, under privacy and security, you've got let's

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Speaker 1: see here it is security safe browsing, and they've got

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01:08:24,320 --> 01:08:28,919
Speaker 1: two they've got three levels no protection, which is not recommended.

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Speaker 1: That means basically, you can click on anything in Chrome

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01:08:30,960 --> 01:08:32,439
Speaker 1: and it's not going to check it. It's not gonna

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01:08:32,439 --> 01:08:35,440
Speaker 1: say word to you. You want to go to website

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01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:39,040
Speaker 1: that steals myinformation dot com, it'll let you, no problem.

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01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: Standard protection protects against the sites and the downloads that

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Speaker 1: are known to be dangerous. So when you visit a website,

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01:08:47,600 --> 01:08:50,200
Speaker 1: Chrome just does like a quick little check and you know,

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Speaker 1: tries to keep it as private as possible, and it says,

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Speaker 1: we already know this website's pretty bad. Don't go there.

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Speaker 1: Then the highest level, and if you're worried about all

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Speaker 1: this stuff, I'd probably turn this up on. It's called

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Speaker 1: Safe Browsing Enhanced Protection. Now, this is real time AI

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01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:10,720
Speaker 1: powered protection against dangerous websites, downloads, extensions. And what it

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01:09:10,760 --> 01:09:13,719
Speaker 1: does is it sends a little bit of the URL

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Speaker 1: more than the other one, so it is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more or I guess a little less private than

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Speaker 1: the standard protection. So if you're worried about privacy, go

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Speaker 1: with the standard. But if you want to protect yourself

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01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:27,679
Speaker 1: the most, go with the enhanced and this works nine

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Speaker 1: out of ten times. When I click these links on

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Speaker 1: these bogus emails, these scam text, it'll show up a big,

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Speaker 1: bright red screen, rich, do not proceed. We think this

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01:09:37,800 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 1: site is dangerous. Now, if you know what you're doing,

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01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 1: you got to click like three more times like I do.

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01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:44,880
Speaker 1: It'll bring you to the website. But for ninety nine

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01:09:44,880 --> 01:09:46,920
Speaker 1: percent of the people, that's enough for them to say, oh, oh,

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01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,840
Speaker 1: hold on, I'm not doing that. So again, go into Chrome,

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01:09:50,280 --> 01:09:52,800
Speaker 1: turn on safe browsing. Make sure you at least have

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01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:56,920
Speaker 1: the standard protection turned on. Enhanced protections good. I also

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01:09:57,080 --> 01:09:59,600
Speaker 1: like again the nord VPN. I know it's paid, but

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01:09:59,600 --> 01:10:03,640
Speaker 1: they've got this great threat protection built in and it

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01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: basically just, you know, scans the websites that you're going

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01:10:07,400 --> 01:10:09,400
Speaker 1: to and we'll make sure that it alerts you if

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01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 1: you're trying to do something. Most of the things are

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01:10:11,560 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 1: just trying to steal your data, your information, but some

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01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: of them do actually download stuff to your computer. There's

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Speaker 1: one scam that my son and I were investigating, and

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01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:21,960
Speaker 1: as soon as you click that link to download like

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Speaker 1: a it was like, hey, we have your tax information

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Speaker 1: or your Social Security statement. You click it. It immediately

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01:10:28,800 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 1: downloaded a virus to your computer that if you double

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Speaker 1: click that to run it, it is like game over.

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01:10:34,960 --> 01:10:38,600
Speaker 1: They would get full access to everything. All right, I

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01:10:38,600 --> 01:10:39,920
Speaker 1: do want to tell you before we go to break

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Speaker 1: that Microsoft is now giving Microsoft three sixty five Personal

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Speaker 1: to all college students for free for a year. So

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Speaker 1: we're talking all the stuff that comes with three sixty

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Speaker 1: five Personal. You're talking the versions of Microsoft Word Excel,

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Speaker 1: the terabytes of storage, one terabyte of cloud storage, the AI,

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Speaker 1: the Copilot, all this stuff. Premium. Microsoft three sixty five

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Speaker 1: Personal is now free. If you're a college student, you

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Speaker 1: gotta claim it by October thirty. First, I'll put the

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01:11:10,680 --> 01:11:13,040
Speaker 1: link on the website because it's really long. Rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV go to Show Notes, episode one thirty eight.

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Speaker 1: If you're a college student, you might as well grab

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Speaker 1: tell you when Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Google

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Speaker 1: Home Coming up. Welcome back to rich on Tech Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. Eight eight

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. You gotta tech question.

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Speaker 1: You gotta gadget. You're looking at an app. You need

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Speaker 1: to the website rich on tech dot tv. This is

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Speaker 1: turning out to be quite the program because we have

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Speaker 1: gotten a lot of good recommendations so far. I talked

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Speaker 1: about the money app that I like these days. If

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Speaker 1: you're trying to figure out if your old Windows ten

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01:12:09,200 --> 01:12:12,360
Speaker 1: PC can handle Windows eleven. I talked about the app

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Speaker 1: that can check that. Let's see what else. Oh, I

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Speaker 1: got a message from follower Paulette on my Instagram and

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Speaker 1: she just tried the remove fence in Gemini with the

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Speaker 1: nano banana. Unbelievable. The picture she sent me, these are

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Speaker 1: pictures of my boy forty years ago. It was a

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Speaker 1: picture of her kid playing little League through a fence

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Speaker 1: forty years ago. I'm not kidding. I'm looking at this picture.

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Speaker 1: It's almost bringing tears to my eyes. It's that amazing

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01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:48,400
Speaker 1: the fact that you have a picture of your kid

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Speaker 1: from forty years ago behind a fence that is obstructing

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Speaker 1: him and now and it's a picture of the team too,

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01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:59,760
Speaker 1: and now seeing it without the fence, it's unbelievable. I'm

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01:13:00,120 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 1: believable that we can do this in today's day and age.

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Speaker 1: It gives it's like a shiver down my back. It's

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01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:09,960
Speaker 1: just that wild to me anyway, Paula, I'm glad you're

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Speaker 1: enjoying that. We talked about organizing MP three's how to

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Speaker 1: Browse Safely and Chrome and coming up this hour, we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk to Julian Keel, founder and CEO of

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Speaker 1: Points Path. This is a cool extension for if you

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Speaker 1: travel a lot, you book a lot of flights when

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01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:29,519
Speaker 1: you're on Google Flights, it basically inserts itself in there

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01:13:29,920 --> 01:13:31,920
Speaker 1: and it tells you if you should book with Points,

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01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,840
Speaker 1: if you have them, or if it's a better deal

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01:13:33,880 --> 01:13:35,920
Speaker 1: to actually pay for the flight. So we'll talk to

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Speaker 1: him a little bit later on. I've been getting a

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Speaker 1: lot of emails about Google Home and it's not really

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Speaker 1: working as well as it used to. All these Google

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Speaker 1: Home devices people have around their house, they've just kind

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01:13:48,320 --> 01:13:51,120
Speaker 1: of been defaulting to web answers for a while now,

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01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:54,080
Speaker 1: and they've just not been as full featured as people

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Speaker 1: remember them being. And the reason is that Google has

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Speaker 1: sort of been getting rid of some of the features

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Speaker 1: of these devices and replacing it with Gemini. So Google

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01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:08,519
Speaker 1: Assistant used to control a whole bunch of stuff. Now

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Speaker 1: they're kind of, you know, just switching it out for Gemini,

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01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,879
Speaker 1: which is going to be way smarter. And we finally

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Speaker 1: have a date when that may happen. The date is

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Speaker 1: October first, twenty twenty five. Gemini will officially replace Google

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Speaker 1: Assistant on Google Home and Nest devices starting October first.

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Speaker 1: This was announced a long time ago. I actually saw

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Speaker 1: a demo last like holidays, like in New York City.

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Speaker 1: I went to this event with Google and they showed

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Speaker 1: me a little demo of Gemini on the speaker. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're talking a long time ago. That was nine months ago.

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Speaker 1: But now we finally have a date. So if you

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Speaker 1: have one of these Google Google Home devices a Nest

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:52,720
Speaker 1: device that uses Google Assistant in the past, Gemini will

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Speaker 1: be way better, way better. I cannot wait for this

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Speaker 1: to be able to just say, you know, h Google, whatever.

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Speaker 1: Anything I would ask on Google on my phone, now

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01:15:02,479 --> 01:15:04,240
Speaker 1: I can ask on the smart speaker and it will

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Speaker 1: actually give me an AI answer. I can't wait, and

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Speaker 1: I think that. Hopefully controlling your smart home devices should

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01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: be easier as well, So instead of saying very specific things,

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01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,439
Speaker 1: you can say things like, you know, turn off the

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Speaker 1: back lights and also heat the pool. Not that I

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Speaker 1: have that ability, but that would be cool if I did.

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Speaker 1: But that's the kind of things that you'll be able

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Speaker 1: to do. The other thing that you're not going to like, though,

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Speaker 1: is that Apparently, according to Tom's guide, Google is hinting

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01:15:30,240 --> 01:15:33,759
Speaker 1: at paid versus free tiers. I don't know what that means,

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01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:38,680
Speaker 1: but they're saying it's unclear which features might require a subscription,

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01:15:39,920 --> 01:15:42,599
Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens there. Anyway, good news. I'm

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01:15:42,680 --> 01:15:45,680
Speaker 1: very excited about that. Speaking of AI, I guess we're

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01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 1: getting through all the Google news today. This is amazing.

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01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:52,679
Speaker 1: I've been using this on the Pixel phone that I'm testing,

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01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 1: and now it's available to everyone. But if you're using

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01:15:55,840 --> 01:15:59,320
Speaker 1: g Board, which is Google's keyboard on your Android device,

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01:15:59,720 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: there's a new little icon which looks like AI when

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:06,400
Speaker 1: you're typing. So if you type something out, let's say

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01:16:06,439 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: you're in like an email or something, and you type hey,

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01:16:09,560 --> 01:16:12,880
Speaker 1: what's up, you'll see there's a little it looks like

1503
01:16:12,920 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: a little pen with you know, stars around it. So

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01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:21,720
Speaker 1: that's like the universal icon for AI. So if you

1505
01:16:21,760 --> 01:16:25,280
Speaker 1: tap that, it's a new AI writing tool and it

1506
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:29,120
Speaker 1: goes through whatever you just wrote, whether it's a text message,

1507
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:33,040
Speaker 1: whatever text, and it just lets you start doing things

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01:16:33,120 --> 01:16:35,000
Speaker 1: with it. So not only does it proofread it right

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01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 1: right off the bat. So I just wrote, Hey, what's up,

1510
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 1: and it corrected it to hey, coma what's up? Question

1511
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,320
Speaker 1: mark and you can just tap use this and boom,

1512
01:16:42,320 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: it's in there, almost like grammarly, but anywhere on your

1513
01:16:45,520 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: phone right and for free. Then you can rephrase things,

1514
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 1: you can make it professional, make it friendly. Emogifi. Oh, emogifi.

1515
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,760
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Let me try that. So now

1516
01:16:55,800 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: it just you tap that and it turns everything to emojis,

1517
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 1: Hey what's up? Hand ye I mean, this is such

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01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:06,000
Speaker 1: a cool feature. I am just I know everyone's scared

1519
01:17:06,000 --> 01:17:09,240
Speaker 1: about AI. It's changing things, it's changing everything that we do,

1520
01:17:09,280 --> 01:17:12,240
Speaker 1: and it's ruining jobs and it's just everything is like

1521
01:17:12,360 --> 01:17:15,000
Speaker 1: AI is just putting everything in flux. But at the

1522
01:17:15,080 --> 01:17:18,360
Speaker 1: end of the day, it is really handy in so

1523
01:17:18,439 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 1: many ways. So this AI writing tool, if you see

1524
01:17:21,160 --> 01:17:23,960
Speaker 1: it above your keyboard on Android, if you're using the

1525
01:17:24,400 --> 01:17:26,880
Speaker 1: g board. It is really handy. Tap it. I'm using

1526
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:31,040
Speaker 1: it all the time. I just love it. Proofreading, spelling, grammar.

1527
01:17:31,080 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 1: One tap and everything happens on your device because you know,

1528
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:35,400
Speaker 1: when you're doing a text or something, a lot of

1529
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: that's private. So Google's saying says that all processing is

1530
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: happening on the device, or everything's staying private. I love that.

1531
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:45,200
Speaker 1: It kind of goes into what I was telling you

1532
01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,599
Speaker 1: last week. If you're in Gmail and you type a message,

1533
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: you gotta try the little the same little icon it's

1534
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 1: above your message. It looks like a pencil with a star.

1535
01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: And basically I'm using that now for every message I write.

1536
01:18:00,080 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 1: I just speak it out and then I taped that

1537
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:06,320
Speaker 1: little polish tool and Gmail looks at the person who's

1538
01:18:06,320 --> 01:18:08,360
Speaker 1: emailing me, they look at their question, they look at

1539
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:12,640
Speaker 1: whatever the context is, and then it will polish it

1540
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: up with that data as well. So it is it

1541
01:18:16,000 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: is really really good. Let's go to Dan in Alabama. Dan,

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01:18:21,880 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

1543
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:27,720
Speaker 4: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. Absolutely, I have

1544
01:18:27,800 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 4: an older computer. The last one I built was in

1545
01:18:30,240 --> 01:18:33,840
Speaker 4: twenty fifteen, and obviously my hardware is not going to

1546
01:18:33,840 --> 01:18:36,479
Speaker 4: allow me to upgrade to Windows eleven. So I was

1547
01:18:36,520 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 4: thinking about upgrading hardware. But I'm a little nervous because

1548
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:45,080
Speaker 4: I don't want to lose my Microsoft Office sixteen and

1549
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:47,439
Speaker 4: some of my other programs that I have on it.

1550
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:51,960
Speaker 4: What would be the best way to transfer my C

1551
01:18:52,240 --> 01:18:54,759
Speaker 4: based drive to a new computer?

1552
01:18:55,680 --> 01:19:02,559
Speaker 1: Ooh, with those programs intact? Yes, sir, that could be tricky.

1553
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:06,280
Speaker 1: So you're trying to get have you downloaded these programs

1554
01:19:06,400 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: or you just have them running on the old computer.

1555
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:14,799
Speaker 4: Well, I downloaded the Office sixteen back in sixteen, okay,

1556
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 4: And so I don't know if I can still download it.

1557
01:19:17,080 --> 01:19:19,559
Speaker 4: I still have the key for it, but I don't

1558
01:19:19,560 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 4: know if I can continue if I could download it,

1559
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:25,520
Speaker 4: because I don't even know if it's available from Microsoft anymore.

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01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: Not officially, that's for sure. Yeah, yeah, I mean you really.

1561
01:19:29,640 --> 01:19:33,760
Speaker 1: You really can't directly transfer programs like that. It's just

1562
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 1: not it's not something that you can do. You can

1563
01:19:37,240 --> 01:19:40,559
Speaker 1: try to maybe run this hard drive on the new computer,

1564
01:19:40,640 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: like if you plug it in, you might be able

1565
01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 1: to do that. I'm not even sure that would work.

1566
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:47,400
Speaker 1: I don't really have a way to do that unless

1567
01:19:47,400 --> 01:19:52,719
Speaker 1: the program is physically downloadable or you have the physical

1568
01:19:52,760 --> 01:19:55,160
Speaker 1: media that you can, you know, install in the new

1569
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:57,559
Speaker 1: drive and use the code. You may be able to

1570
01:19:57,560 --> 01:20:01,400
Speaker 1: find unofficial installations, but I yeah, I can't really recommend that.

1571
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:06,880
Speaker 4: There's just wondered if like a Cronus or a drive

1572
01:20:06,960 --> 01:20:10,559
Speaker 4: duplicator would allow me to do that to the new

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01:20:10,600 --> 01:20:12,040
Speaker 4: hard drive on the new equipment.

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01:20:12,200 --> 01:20:14,000
Speaker 1: I was, I was wondering that like a drive like

1575
01:20:14,040 --> 01:20:16,559
Speaker 1: a disk image drive or something like a disc copy,

1576
01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:20,120
Speaker 1: Like if you like clone the drive, you mean that

1577
01:20:20,479 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: that may work. I have not personally done that, so

1578
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 1: I can't tell you if that's gonna work or not.

1579
01:20:24,960 --> 01:20:28,720
Speaker 1: So that's probably your best bet if you're so if

1580
01:20:28,720 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: you're trying to like, let's see, I'm trying to see

1581
01:20:30,280 --> 01:20:34,280
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a Cronus true image. The problem is,

1582
01:20:34,360 --> 01:20:36,040
Speaker 1: I just I haven't tried this, so I just don't

1583
01:20:36,080 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 1: know if it would work. I mean, it's it's maybe

1584
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:40,160
Speaker 1: worth the fifty dollars to try it. If it's said,

1585
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 1: does it say it can do that? Does it say

1586
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:43,920
Speaker 1: it can like run a program on a new computer

1587
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:44,840
Speaker 1: if you clone it over.

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01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 4: I don't know if it does or not. I mean,

1589
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:51,560
Speaker 4: I've just been looking around at some of them commercially.

1590
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 4: I haven't purchased one yet, so yeah, I just you

1591
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,519
Speaker 4: may have experienced this before or not.

1592
01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: I mean, this says moved from a hard drive to

1593
01:20:59,560 --> 01:21:03,479
Speaker 1: an asset d drive, migration from a faulty drive. The

1594
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:05,960
Speaker 1: problem is, here's what you're going to run into. Unless

1595
01:21:05,960 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: you're running the same exact operating system on the new device,

1596
01:21:11,240 --> 01:21:13,679
Speaker 1: you know that you almost have to run this old

1597
01:21:14,439 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 1: drive in its own instance, if that makes sense, you

1598
01:21:16,880 --> 01:21:18,439
Speaker 1: know what I mean, Like it might have to be

1599
01:21:18,479 --> 01:21:21,720
Speaker 1: like a virtual drive. I'm not even sure that's possible, Dan,

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01:21:21,800 --> 01:21:24,000
Speaker 1: I just don't know on that one. That one's something

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01:21:24,040 --> 01:21:25,840
Speaker 1: that I got to look into and see if that's

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01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 1: something you do. All I know is that you know,

1603
01:21:28,200 --> 01:21:31,320
Speaker 1: if you're running something from twenty sixteen, you know it's

1604
01:21:31,320 --> 01:21:33,400
Speaker 1: shown its age. It might be best to just keep

1605
01:21:33,479 --> 01:21:36,759
Speaker 1: that on the computer you have, let that run. Clearly,

1606
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:40,000
Speaker 1: you're out of You're going to be out of updates anyway.

1607
01:21:40,000 --> 01:21:41,880
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not getting updates for that anyway. So

1608
01:21:41,880 --> 01:21:45,559
Speaker 1: the software and security aspect is already out the window.

1609
01:21:46,960 --> 01:21:49,400
Speaker 1: So maybe just set up the new computer fresh so

1610
01:21:49,439 --> 01:21:52,080
Speaker 1: that you're good with security and all that stuff, and

1611
01:21:52,120 --> 01:21:55,000
Speaker 1: then when you need to run that program. You can

1612
01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:58,639
Speaker 1: run it there. There's also, by the way, and maybe

1613
01:21:58,640 --> 01:21:59,720
Speaker 1: this is not what you want to hear, but they

1614
01:21:59,760 --> 01:22:03,280
Speaker 1: also of a free version of Office Office Live on

1615
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:05,080
Speaker 1: the web. Let me see if I can find the

1616
01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:08,639
Speaker 1: link for that. So if you go to U if

1617
01:22:08,680 --> 01:22:11,600
Speaker 1: you just it's so tough to find these things. I

1618
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: just searched Office Live on the web and it came

1619
01:22:14,040 --> 01:22:17,759
Speaker 1: up free Microsoft three sixty five online Word Excel PowerPoint,

1620
01:22:17,880 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 1: So you can actually use word Excel and PowerPoint on

1621
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,960
Speaker 1: the web for free. A lot of people don't realize

1622
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,640
Speaker 1: that Microsoft doesn't really advertise it, but it is the

1623
01:22:27,680 --> 01:22:31,280
Speaker 1: web version of the app, and you may not get

1624
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,679
Speaker 1: all the features that you would get on the downloadable version.

1625
01:22:33,680 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: But that's another option. But yeah, that's a it's a

1626
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:39,640
Speaker 1: good question. I'm just not sure that that's something that

1627
01:22:39,680 --> 01:22:43,880
Speaker 1: would be easily done with this new computer or something

1628
01:22:43,920 --> 01:22:46,720
Speaker 1: that you want to do. Actually. Eighty eight rich one

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01:22:46,720 --> 01:22:49,080
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four

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01:22:49,200 --> 01:22:52,439
Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you about queues,

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Speaker 1: new cheaper light bulbs, and we'll get to more of

1632
01:22:56,760 --> 01:23:00,479
Speaker 1: your questions right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back

1633
01:23:00,520 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 1: to rich On Tech. Eight eight eight rich one oh

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

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01:23:07,280 --> 01:23:13,559
Speaker 1: zero one, the website rich on tech dot TV. Let's

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01:23:13,640 --> 01:23:17,240
Speaker 1: go to I will mention these. I will tell you

1637
01:23:17,240 --> 01:23:20,600
Speaker 1: about the new Phillips Hoe lights. They're much cheaper. But

1638
01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:23,920
Speaker 1: let's go to Aldo in Los Angeles first. Although you're on.

1639
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:28,680
Speaker 10: With Rich Hey, Rach, thanks for taking my call. Absolutely,

1640
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 10: I'll say like a first time, long time.

1641
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:33,280
Speaker 1: Okay, I like that.

1642
01:23:34,760 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 10: I have a question if you have any recommendations for

1643
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:41,040
Speaker 10: MP three players, like AMR day eight MP three players.

1644
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,200
Speaker 10: I'm looking something for something stimular to like what an

1645
01:23:44,240 --> 01:23:47,679
Speaker 10: iPod used to be. That's just an MP three player

1646
01:23:47,880 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 10: knock next to the internet.

1647
01:23:49,560 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 2: That's something that's.

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01:23:50,320 --> 01:23:55,080
Speaker 10: Not going to distract me. If you have any recommendations,

1649
01:23:55,560 --> 01:23:58,040
Speaker 10: if you have like a high quality one and maybe

1650
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:01,280
Speaker 10: something that's more uh efficient, would be cool.

1651
01:24:01,600 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I mean, look, there's a lot of these

1652
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:05,679
Speaker 1: out there. What are where are you going to source

1653
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 1: the music? Do you have your own collection or are

1654
01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:08,680
Speaker 1: you trying to link it up with you?

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01:24:08,760 --> 01:24:11,080
Speaker 10: Yeah, just like well it's like I'm gonna I found

1656
01:24:11,120 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 10: my own uh I found my old iPod mm hmm

1657
01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:18,799
Speaker 10: so and like I still have my old music collection.

1658
01:24:19,000 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm downloading some uh music, have some

1659
01:24:25,000 --> 01:24:27,400
Speaker 10: CDs still available, I'm converting over.

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01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:31,439
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's the deal. I mean at this point,

1661
01:24:31,479 --> 01:24:33,759
Speaker 1: you know, you know the main answer is that they've

1662
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 1: got you know, everyone's using their phone, they're using their

1663
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: their Apple Watch or they're smart watch. But the good

1664
01:24:40,320 --> 01:24:43,760
Speaker 1: news is they still sell MP three players. The bad

1665
01:24:43,800 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: news is there's not one that's better than the rest,

1666
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: you know, one that like is known to be the best,

1667
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:51,519
Speaker 1: because there's just so many. And if you look at

1668
01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:53,880
Speaker 1: the recommendations, like if you go to like a Scene

1669
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:55,720
Speaker 1: or any of these websites and you look at the

1670
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,960
Speaker 1: recommendations for MP three players, you won't recognize any of

1671
01:24:59,000 --> 01:25:03,240
Speaker 1: the brand names because they're all just random. I'm not

1672
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:05,679
Speaker 1: gonna say fly by Night, but they're just random brands

1673
01:25:05,680 --> 01:25:08,640
Speaker 1: that you know, most of them are just kind of

1674
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:11,360
Speaker 1: you never heard of them before. Let's put it that way.

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01:25:11,600 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 1: There is one that Sony does still make a you know,

1676
01:25:15,760 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 1: an MP three player, and you said you wanted one.

1677
01:25:17,800 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: That's the expensive one. That is it. So it looks like,

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01:25:22,080 --> 01:25:26,680
Speaker 1: let's see, it's the Sony nw AO three six four

1679
01:25:26,760 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: hundred dollars and it's high rese so it's you know,

1680
01:25:29,080 --> 01:25:32,200
Speaker 1: it's this is this is the closest thing you'll find

1681
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,880
Speaker 1: to an iPod if you want like that experience of

1682
01:25:35,920 --> 01:25:39,240
Speaker 1: like a nice screen, you can load the music onto it,

1683
01:25:39,320 --> 01:25:41,640
Speaker 1: and it's just it looks slick and sleek, and it's

1684
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:44,920
Speaker 1: got a micro SD card slot, it's got USBC. I mean,

1685
01:25:44,960 --> 01:25:47,599
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be your best bet for high end.

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01:25:48,200 --> 01:25:51,000
Speaker 1: I personally cannot imagine spending four hundred dollars on that.

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01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:56,160
Speaker 1: That just seems way, way expensive. Because if you look

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01:25:56,200 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 1: on Amazon, you will find there are many, many MP

1689
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:03,360
Speaker 1: three players for way cheaper. And the bottom line is,

1690
01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 1: I'm not going to recommend one that I think you

1691
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,479
Speaker 1: should get, but I would look at this list of

1692
01:26:08,560 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: MP three players and look for the features that you want.

1693
01:26:11,640 --> 01:26:14,519
Speaker 1: There are a few, in general, like two of them

1694
01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:19,640
Speaker 1: that are very highly regarded. They've got thousands of reviews,

1695
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:22,599
Speaker 1: and the stars are just one of them's got three

1696
01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 1: point eight, one of them's got Yeah, they both have

1697
01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:27,840
Speaker 1: three point eight stars. But again, at these prices, you're

1698
01:26:27,840 --> 01:26:30,800
Speaker 1: talking twenty seven bucks. So for twenty seven dollars, you

1699
01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,680
Speaker 1: buy it from Amazon. You see if it does what

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01:26:32,720 --> 01:26:36,920
Speaker 1: you need and you return it if it doesn't. This one,

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01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:41,479
Speaker 1: let's see this agp tis. You can't even pronounce the

1702
01:26:41,560 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: name on this one. This has got one hundred and

1703
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:47,679
Speaker 1: twenty eight gigs of storage. The one hundred and sixty

1704
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 1: gigs storage one. You know, it looks like it's running

1705
01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 1: a modified version of Android and that is uh yeah,

1706
01:26:55,920 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 1: it's sixty five ninety nine, so I'd probably go. And

1707
01:26:58,120 --> 01:27:00,519
Speaker 1: they've got them a whole bunch of different colors. That's interesting.

1708
01:27:01,040 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: So I would say search is going to be your

1709
01:27:03,920 --> 01:27:05,800
Speaker 1: best friend on here, Reviews are going to be your

1710
01:27:05,800 --> 01:27:09,479
Speaker 1: best friend. Find something that's highly rated for a decent price.

1711
01:27:10,000 --> 01:27:13,360
Speaker 1: The other way you can go. They do have a

1712
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 1: this product called Mighty m I g h T Y

1713
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:20,680
Speaker 1: And this is actually really cool, but it does it

1714
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:25,200
Speaker 1: does require Amazon Music or Spotify. But basically, if you

1715
01:27:25,240 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 1: remember what the iPod shuffle look like back in the day,

1716
01:27:28,360 --> 01:27:31,519
Speaker 1: it looks like that. So it's just a clip and

1717
01:27:31,840 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 1: it's got a little controller on the front, you know,

1718
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:40,639
Speaker 1: play pause, forward, volume, up, down menu, and it's screen free.

1719
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:43,280
Speaker 1: And what it does is you said you didn't want

1720
01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: this to connect to the internet, but this one does,

1721
01:27:45,040 --> 01:27:48,000
Speaker 1: but in a cool way. So it basically connects to

1722
01:27:48,320 --> 01:27:52,080
Speaker 1: your Spotify or your Amazon Music and downloads that music

1723
01:27:52,120 --> 01:27:55,519
Speaker 1: to the device. And that way you can listen to

1724
01:27:55,600 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 1: music on the go just like you did back in

1725
01:27:57,800 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: the day, without any screen, without worrying about it anything.

1726
01:28:00,800 --> 01:28:03,919
Speaker 1: But it still uses. It pulls from that nice library

1727
01:28:03,920 --> 01:28:06,520
Speaker 1: that you have of pretty much every song in the world.

1728
01:28:07,040 --> 01:28:10,719
Speaker 1: They're selling it for Let's see the mighty one hundred

1729
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:14,519
Speaker 1: and twenty bucks and yeah, I mean that to me

1730
01:28:16,000 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 1: is really really cool. Thousand songs. It holds premium audio. Again,

1731
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:24,960
Speaker 1: those are your options, Mighty MP three players, random names

1732
01:28:25,120 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 1: or the Sony MP three player. All We'll do what

1733
01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,960
Speaker 1: you need. Thanks for the call. Although coming up we

1734
01:28:31,000 --> 01:28:33,120
Speaker 1: are going to talk about points versus miles and the

1735
01:28:33,160 --> 01:28:35,200
Speaker 1: tool that can help you decide. Right here on rich

1736
01:28:35,240 --> 01:28:40,160
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

1737
01:28:40,240 --> 01:28:44,519
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at well, So

1738
01:28:44,600 --> 01:28:46,559
Speaker 1: I give out the phone number now, Kim gets angry.

1739
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:49,040
Speaker 1: So I won't because I don't think we can take

1740
01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:51,639
Speaker 1: any more calls. But you go to the website rich

1741
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv. You can still submit your email

1742
01:28:55,520 --> 01:28:58,000
Speaker 1: there and yes, we will get you on at some point.

1743
01:28:58,000 --> 01:29:02,040
Speaker 1: Here Joining me now is Julian Kiel, founder and CEO

1744
01:29:02,160 --> 01:29:04,880
Speaker 1: of points Path. This is a really cool extension that

1745
01:29:04,920 --> 01:29:07,160
Speaker 1: you can install in your computer and it does a

1746
01:29:07,200 --> 01:29:09,040
Speaker 1: lot of things, but the main thing it does is

1747
01:29:09,040 --> 01:29:12,040
Speaker 1: it tells you if you should book your travel with

1748
01:29:12,120 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: your points or pay. So, Julian, thanks for joining me today.

1749
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:19,120
Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, thanks for having me on. I appreciate it.

1750
01:29:19,439 --> 01:29:23,000
Speaker 1: So tell me about points Path. First off, I discovered

1751
01:29:23,040 --> 01:29:25,559
Speaker 1: this and I have it installed on my Google Flights,

1752
01:29:25,560 --> 01:29:27,120
Speaker 1: and I love it because it's something I used to

1753
01:29:27,120 --> 01:29:29,880
Speaker 1: do manually. I used to say, like, okay, this flight

1754
01:29:30,000 --> 01:29:32,920
Speaker 1: is thirty thousand points or two hundred and eighty dollars,

1755
01:29:32,920 --> 01:29:35,880
Speaker 1: which one's better? This you kind of all figured out

1756
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:37,320
Speaker 1: it's built in now.

1757
01:29:37,560 --> 01:29:38,519
Speaker 5: That's exactly right.

1758
01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:38,800
Speaker 6: You know.

1759
01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:42,240
Speaker 11: There's two problems that everybody has when it comes to

1760
01:29:42,360 --> 01:29:45,360
Speaker 11: using Frequent Flyer miles right. Number one is that you

1761
01:29:45,360 --> 01:29:47,360
Speaker 11: can never find flights you actually want to use your

1762
01:29:47,360 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 11: miles on. And number two, even when you do, you

1763
01:29:49,840 --> 01:29:51,639
Speaker 11: can't figure out if you're getting a good deal. Should

1764
01:29:51,680 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 11: you use your miles here or should you save them

1765
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 11: for later and pay cash. So that's what points path

1766
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:58,080
Speaker 11: is trying to do. It adds all the points prices

1767
01:29:58,120 --> 01:30:00,840
Speaker 11: into any search in Google Flights and then tells you

1768
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 11: which is the better deal of cash or points. Like

1769
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 11: you said, it's doing what a lot of people have

1770
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 11: manually or just sort of trying to eyeball it have

1771
01:30:08,600 --> 01:30:09,200
Speaker 11: been trying to do.

1772
01:30:09,439 --> 01:30:10,719
Speaker 5: Gives you that answer right.

1773
01:30:10,600 --> 01:30:14,599
Speaker 1: Away, because there is like a value proposition with points,

1774
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 1: like sometimes the points are worth more than the flight,

1775
01:30:17,360 --> 01:30:19,600
Speaker 1: sometimes they're not, and so you have to kind of

1776
01:30:19,600 --> 01:30:20,920
Speaker 1: know you're not getting ripped off.

1777
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 11: Well, that's exactly yeah, exactly right, because I think what

1778
01:30:25,120 --> 01:30:27,360
Speaker 11: a lot of people do realize is that points from

1779
01:30:27,479 --> 01:30:30,960
Speaker 11: different programs are worth different amounts. If you have Delta

1780
01:30:30,960 --> 01:30:33,960
Speaker 11: sky miles, they're not worth as much as United miles.

1781
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 11: The United miles aren't worth as much as American miles.

1782
01:30:36,000 --> 01:30:38,840
Speaker 11: Americans not worth as much as Alaska. Every program has

1783
01:30:38,840 --> 01:30:41,559
Speaker 11: its own sort of you know, currency that is worth

1784
01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:44,040
Speaker 11: a different amounts, a little bit like foreign exchange, except

1785
01:30:44,040 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 11: its points instead of cash. So you really have to

1786
01:30:46,680 --> 01:30:49,439
Speaker 11: not only know what you're doing and know what's worth what,

1787
01:30:49,880 --> 01:30:52,679
Speaker 11: but also then understand how to do the math. We're

1788
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:55,600
Speaker 11: trying to solve all that for you and save you

1789
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,880
Speaker 11: the trouble of doing it all manually just doing it

1790
01:30:57,880 --> 01:30:59,479
Speaker 11: for you automatically.

1791
01:30:59,040 --> 01:31:00,840
Speaker 1: And so you've got the six sension that works with

1792
01:31:00,880 --> 01:31:03,479
Speaker 1: all the major browsers. You install it, and then when

1793
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:05,400
Speaker 1: you go to Google Flights, it pops up and what

1794
01:31:05,439 --> 01:31:05,840
Speaker 1: does it do?

1795
01:31:06,640 --> 01:31:06,840
Speaker 5: Right?

1796
01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:09,559
Speaker 11: So once you install it, you really don't have to

1797
01:31:09,560 --> 01:31:11,880
Speaker 11: do anything else other than what you would normally do

1798
01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,080
Speaker 11: to find a flight. Most people start with Google Flights.

1799
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:17,439
Speaker 11: It is the most popular search engine when it comes

1800
01:31:17,479 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 11: to doing flight searches, and all you have to do

1801
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 11: is act like you normally would do a search, like

1802
01:31:22,040 --> 01:31:26,120
Speaker 11: you normally would round trip, one way, international, domestic, doesn't matter.

1803
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:29,200
Speaker 11: Once you get those results, points back will just automatically

1804
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 11: start adding retrieving and it's all live data and adding

1805
01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 11: those points prices for you.

1806
01:31:34,240 --> 01:31:36,040
Speaker 5: And by the way, I always forget to measure this part.

1807
01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 11: It is free, so make sure you give it a

1808
01:31:38,960 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 11: shot because that won't cost you a.

1809
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,719
Speaker 1: Dot we do like free. Now, you just mentioned Google

1810
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 1: Flights because that's where I'm on there, like twenty four

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01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: to seven. I'm always on Google flights. Is there a tool?

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01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 1: Because everyone always says, like, rich, where do I book airfare?

1813
01:31:51,360 --> 01:31:53,360
Speaker 1: And I just say I always go to Google Flights

1814
01:31:53,360 --> 01:31:55,680
Speaker 1: And then I'll book directly with the airline. Is there

1815
01:31:55,680 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 1: a website that is like number two for searching for airfare?

1816
01:32:02,400 --> 01:32:02,600
Speaker 10: You know?

1817
01:32:03,320 --> 01:32:06,679
Speaker 5: To be honest, it really depends, right, So Google Flights.

1818
01:32:06,680 --> 01:32:07,759
Speaker 5: So what's beautiful about.

1819
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:10,679
Speaker 11: Google Flights One, it's fast to it encompasses a lot

1820
01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:13,200
Speaker 11: of different search engines. I mean, in other words, if

1821
01:32:13,200 --> 01:32:15,960
Speaker 11: there's an Expedia price that's different than the airline price,

1822
01:32:16,000 --> 01:32:18,719
Speaker 11: it'll usually pop up on Google Flights, So it's trying

1823
01:32:18,720 --> 01:32:20,880
Speaker 11: to save you the trail of going from place to place.

1824
01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:22,880
Speaker 11: The other one that I would say is a little

1825
01:32:22,880 --> 01:32:25,479
Speaker 11: bit like that is Kayak, which does sort of the

1826
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:28,200
Speaker 11: same thing. It tries to pull in all those different

1827
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:31,200
Speaker 11: prices from different search engines, so that if you were

1828
01:32:31,240 --> 01:32:33,960
Speaker 11: looking for a number two for flights, that might be it.

1829
01:32:34,439 --> 01:32:35,960
Speaker 5: But you know, look, when it.

1830
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,240
Speaker 11: Comes to travel, the biggest problem is that you do

1831
01:32:38,360 --> 01:32:40,360
Speaker 11: kind of have to search from place to place to

1832
01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:43,120
Speaker 11: find the best deal because everybody's sort of got a

1833
01:32:43,200 --> 01:32:44,400
Speaker 11: different deal going on.

1834
01:32:44,640 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 1: But all that stuff about booking on a Tuesday or

1835
01:32:47,479 --> 01:32:50,200
Speaker 1: this or that, or booking one way flights, you know,

1836
01:32:50,840 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 1: or using a VPN like all that stuff, I feel

1837
01:32:53,240 --> 01:32:54,880
Speaker 1: like a lot of it's bogus.

1838
01:32:54,880 --> 01:32:56,680
Speaker 11: It is a lot of it is bogus. There is

1839
01:32:56,720 --> 01:33:01,120
Speaker 11: definitely no best day to book your flight. That's leftover

1840
01:33:01,840 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 11: a myth from back forty years ago, thirty years ago,

1841
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:07,799
Speaker 11: when airlines loaded all of their fares on a particular

1842
01:33:07,920 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 11: day and then didn't touch them for a week. That

1843
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:12,960
Speaker 11: doesn't happen anymore. Airfares changed from hour to hour, even

1844
01:33:13,040 --> 01:33:16,360
Speaker 11: minute to minute. Now that being said, there is generally

1845
01:33:16,439 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 11: a best day to travel to actually fly, and that's

1846
01:33:20,320 --> 01:33:22,639
Speaker 11: Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and the reason for that is simply

1847
01:33:22,640 --> 01:33:25,639
Speaker 11: there's less demand on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The worst days

1848
01:33:25,640 --> 01:33:28,200
Speaker 11: are Fridays and Sundays. That's when all the business travelers

1849
01:33:28,240 --> 01:33:30,160
Speaker 11: are either going home or trying to get to their

1850
01:33:30,200 --> 01:33:33,280
Speaker 11: next location. So there is a best day to get

1851
01:33:33,320 --> 01:33:35,400
Speaker 11: a deal to when you're flying, but not as far

1852
01:33:35,400 --> 01:33:35,920
Speaker 11: as booking.

1853
01:33:36,120 --> 01:33:38,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the only thing I know about booking is

1854
01:33:38,280 --> 01:33:40,719
Speaker 1: that as soon as I track a flight on Google,

1855
01:33:40,880 --> 01:33:43,760
Speaker 1: it's guaranteed to go up every single time. It's like,

1856
01:33:44,160 --> 01:33:45,880
Speaker 1: just book it when you see it the first time,

1857
01:33:45,920 --> 01:33:49,599
Speaker 1: because it's always going to go up for some reason. So, Julian,

1858
01:33:49,960 --> 01:33:52,120
Speaker 1: the other thing I really like about points Path is

1859
01:33:52,479 --> 01:33:55,439
Speaker 1: the emails that you send out. You guys put me

1860
01:33:55,479 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 1: on your newsletter, and I'm always finding great I think

1861
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:00,920
Speaker 1: I've purchased a bunch of the stuff, like the little

1862
01:34:00,960 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 1: travel tools and things that you recommend. And it seems like,

1863
01:34:05,160 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 1: is it just you or do you have like a

1864
01:34:06,360 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 1: couple of people that are writing those newsletters as well?

1865
01:34:09,080 --> 01:34:12,280
Speaker 11: You know, it was just me to start and now

1866
01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:15,040
Speaker 11: because a lot of people, and thank you by the way,

1867
01:34:15,479 --> 01:34:17,559
Speaker 11: a lot of people have said what you're saying, which

1868
01:34:17,600 --> 01:34:18,559
Speaker 11: is we love that you know.

1869
01:34:18,640 --> 01:34:20,760
Speaker 5: Look you and I probably rich.

1870
01:34:21,080 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 11: Like you said, you have Google flights up in twenty

1871
01:34:22,880 --> 01:34:25,200
Speaker 11: four to seven, So do I even before I had

1872
01:34:25,240 --> 01:34:26,519
Speaker 11: a tool that worked on top of it.

1873
01:34:26,560 --> 01:34:27,559
Speaker 5: Because we travel a lot.

1874
01:34:27,880 --> 01:34:30,439
Speaker 11: Most people don't, right, Most people maybe fly once or

1875
01:34:30,439 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 11: twice a year, so they're not necessarily looking at those

1876
01:34:33,120 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 11: tools all the time. But they still want to talk

1877
01:34:35,080 --> 01:34:37,000
Speaker 11: about travel. They still want to know the tips and

1878
01:34:37,040 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 11: tricks how can they travel better. That's what the newsletter

1879
01:34:40,280 --> 01:34:42,559
Speaker 11: is trying to do. It's a daily email that you'll

1880
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:45,160
Speaker 11: get and we cover all sorts of things, not just points.

1881
01:34:45,280 --> 01:34:47,640
Speaker 11: We even talk about you know, what's the best travel pillow? Like,

1882
01:34:47,800 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 11: you know, how can I get the most rest on

1883
01:34:50,080 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 11: a plane.

1884
01:34:50,880 --> 01:34:51,919
Speaker 5: So yeah, that's.

1885
01:34:51,800 --> 01:34:54,439
Speaker 11: What that email is about. It is now a whole

1886
01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 11: slew of riders. I think we've got eight or ten

1887
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:59,120
Speaker 11: riders in a managing editor. So it's really grown and

1888
01:34:59,200 --> 01:35:01,240
Speaker 11: it is a very popular part of the business.

1889
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:03,360
Speaker 1: And for sure I've purchased. I'm thinking about what I

1890
01:35:03,439 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 1: bought because you always recommend like little gadgets and things,

1891
01:35:06,080 --> 01:35:09,160
Speaker 1: and I love it. I bought the the sleep masks

1892
01:35:09,200 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 1: you guys recommended a while back, so I have those.

1893
01:35:11,800 --> 01:35:14,320
Speaker 1: Those are great for naps. I haven't worn them on

1894
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:15,960
Speaker 1: the plane yet because I'm a little bit like, okay,

1895
01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:18,600
Speaker 1: well but at home. And then I also bought the

1896
01:35:18,880 --> 01:35:20,720
Speaker 1: like the toiletry you know where you squeeze like the

1897
01:35:20,800 --> 01:35:23,120
Speaker 1: larger bottle into like the small bottle. What are those things? Yeah,

1898
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:25,120
Speaker 1: like mini I don't know what do you call those?

1899
01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:26,840
Speaker 5: The silicon travel bombs?

1900
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:29,400
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, so you can tick, Yeah, so you can

1901
01:35:29,439 --> 01:35:31,200
Speaker 11: take you know, you have your favorite shampoo, but it

1902
01:35:31,240 --> 01:35:34,080
Speaker 11: comes in a giant twelve ounce bottle. These are small

1903
01:35:34,160 --> 01:35:38,000
Speaker 11: three and a half ounce silicon travel bots that are

1904
01:35:38,080 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 11: good for you tsa security. You pour in just what

1905
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:43,000
Speaker 11: you need, put them in your carry on ben.

1906
01:35:42,920 --> 01:35:45,320
Speaker 1: And they don't leak, but I do. I do draw

1907
01:35:45,360 --> 01:35:48,760
Speaker 1: the line Julian at shampoo, I do not need to

1908
01:35:48,760 --> 01:35:50,960
Speaker 1: bring my own shampoo. I don't understand that whole thing.

1909
01:35:51,040 --> 01:35:53,160
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people that you know, they're they're loyal

1910
01:35:53,200 --> 01:35:55,960
Speaker 1: to their shampoo. I'm sorry, but I like using the

1911
01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:57,760
Speaker 1: shampoo that they give you there. I don't need to

1912
01:35:57,760 --> 01:35:59,960
Speaker 1: bring my own. Everything else, yes, I will bring my own,

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Speaker 1: but shampoo, I'm like, come on, it's shampoo. It's like,

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Speaker 1: how bad could it be?

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Speaker 11: You know, I feel the same way. But I will say, Rich,

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Speaker 11: I think your hair is better than mine. You have

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Speaker 11: a lot better hair. I'm sort of, you know, at

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Speaker 11: that age where I if I as long as I

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Speaker 11: have some hair, I'm happy about it.

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Speaker 1: So, Julian, what's your background? Why did you start this?

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Speaker 1: You know, what's your world of travel?

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Speaker 5: Like, yeah, you know, it's interesting.

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Speaker 11: I fifteen years ago, I was actually a Hollywood director

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Speaker 11: and writer, and one of the last gigs I did

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Speaker 11: as part of that career was being a director for

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Speaker 11: World Wrestling Entertainment of WWE, and I was on the

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Speaker 11: road basically every single week, going from arena to arena

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Speaker 11: and directing the background scenes for the Monday night raw

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Speaker 11: on Friday night's backdown. Needless to say, when you're doing that,

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Speaker 11: you very quickly learn your points in miles. The whole

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Speaker 11: company knows pretty much. You know what the elite status

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Speaker 11: is and hotel points and all of the above. So

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Speaker 11: once I was done with that and was looking for

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Speaker 11: something different to do. I had all this knowledge and

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Speaker 11: experienced writing, but I hadn't didn't really have an out

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Speaker 11: for it, so I started blogging for some small blogs.

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Speaker 11: From there, I eventually got hired by The Points Guy,

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Speaker 11: which is a big travel site that you and your audience.

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Speaker 5: Is probably aware of.

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Speaker 11: From there, I actually went to CNN and launched their

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Speaker 11: travel rewards coverage for their e commerce site. CNN underscored

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Speaker 11: and all look through all that time and these are

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Speaker 11: all great sites, but it does mean somebody has to spend,

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Speaker 11: you know, hours digging through that information to try and

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Speaker 11: figure out how to use their points and miles. And

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Speaker 11: that's where the idea for points path came along. I said, well,

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Speaker 11: how can I, you know, do this in a way

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Speaker 11: that we can use technology so that people don't have

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Speaker 11: to spend their time figuring out the answer.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you mentioned and I did not have that

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Speaker 1: in my Bengo card by the way, the wrestling stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I had this job one time where I was

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Speaker 1: a reporter and I was traveling a lot, like I'm

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Speaker 1: talking like a couple times a week, like for like

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Speaker 1: five days a week basically like for different things, for

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Speaker 1: you know, traveling around the US. And I remember, like

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Speaker 1: the first trip or second trip, they're like, oh, we're

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Speaker 1: going to go to I don't know whatever it was Austin.

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, there's a direct flight on

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Speaker 1: you know this airline, Like, oh no, we are taking

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Speaker 1: a connecting flight through this city to get there. And

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Speaker 1: I said, wait, why would we do that? Takes so

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Speaker 1: much longer, they said, points in miles. I said what

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Speaker 1: I said, I can't believe. And then of course once

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Speaker 1: you start doing that, you get into that because you

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Speaker 1: realize that when you travel so much, and there's a

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Speaker 1: reason why they have the clubs and the airports, there

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Speaker 1: is the reason why there's these priority lines and things

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Speaker 1: like that, is because when you travel a lot, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to waste all that time and energy, and

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Speaker 1: by the way, you want to be rewarded on the

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Speaker 1: back end. Like people that travel a lot their families

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Speaker 1: travel for free when they go on their leisure trips

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Speaker 1: because these people have sacrificed, you know, spending all their

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Speaker 1: time in a plane and an airport.

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Speaker 5: That's right.

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Speaker 11: And you know, even to add on to that, when

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Speaker 11: you do have your points in miles and you can

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Speaker 11: book them for a family trip and you can get

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Speaker 11: everyone up front in business class, then it really doesn't

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Speaker 11: matter if you're connecting, because it's like flying in your

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Speaker 11: living room. You're just sitting there, you know, being served

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Speaker 11: champagne and then meals and whatever. It really is a

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Speaker 11: very different tread experience, and I think it's this is

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Speaker 11: where look and not everybody.

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Speaker 5: Needs to do that.

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Speaker 11: It's a great reward for people who are on the

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Speaker 11: road all the time for business, but a lot of

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Speaker 11: our folks just want to know, well, how can I

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Speaker 11: use my points and miles to get home for Thanksgiving?

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Speaker 11: Because the ticket prices are insane. That so there really

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Speaker 11: are two pieces of the puzzle here, two parts of

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Speaker 11: the equation.

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Speaker 5: You know, we're trying to help both sides.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, we got about a minute left. If you

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Speaker 1: have any other tools you want to recommend, or any

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Speaker 1: other travel tips, or you can talk about how AI

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Speaker 1: is kind of changing everything once again with this.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, there are a ton This is the golden age

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Speaker 11: of tools. When it comes to using technology for booking travel,

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Speaker 11: Hopper is a great place where they actually try and

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Speaker 11: predict in advance whether a price is going up or

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Speaker 11: down in cash. They've been around for a long time

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Speaker 11: and they really have billions of flight data, freight flace

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Speaker 11: data to base that on.

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Speaker 5: Another one that.

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Speaker 11: I love is Flighty. Flighty is great for when you

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Speaker 11: are actually traveling. It can actually tell you when you're

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Speaker 11: light is going to be delayed or canceled before the

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Speaker 11: airline does. He uses traffic patterns, weather reports where your

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Speaker 11: aircraft is and can actually predict better than the airline does.

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Speaker 11: So it's a great one to have. And when it

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Speaker 11: comes to tips, there's a really simple one. The one

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Speaker 11: positive thing that came out of the pandemic is that

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Speaker 11: most airlines now have airfares that you can cancel and

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Speaker 11: rebook with on a penalty. Don't book the basic economy fair.

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Speaker 11: That's the one to stay away from, but pretty much

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Speaker 11: anything else, even that economy can be canceled and rebooked.

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Speaker 5: So find a flight you want.

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Speaker 11: Book it but keep looking, keep checking those prices, because

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01:40:37,400 --> 01:40:39,760
Speaker 11: if it drops, you can cancel and rebook at a

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Speaker 11: lower price.

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Speaker 1: That is one of the best, probably the only good

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Speaker 1: thing to come out of the pandemic. Julian Kill, We're

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Speaker 1: gonna leave it there. Thanks so much for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Pointspath dot com. Pointspath dot com. Sign up for their newsletter,

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Speaker 1: download the extension for your browser, and maximize those points.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me, toy, Julian. Thanks rich All right,

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Speaker 1: coming up, we are going to open up the feedbag

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Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech. A couple of things to get through before

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Speaker 1: we open up the feedbag.

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Speaker 5: Hugh.

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Speaker 1: You know Phillips Hugh lights, very expensive but very reliable.

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Speaker 1: Now they are finally coming out with cheaper versions of them,

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Speaker 1: the new Essential line. This is designed to compete with

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Speaker 1: competitors like Govy. Prices start at under twenty dollars, so

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Speaker 1: bulbs a nineteen bulbs are going to be twenty five

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Speaker 1: each or sixty for a four pack. They've got some bulbs,

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Speaker 1: some spotlights, light strips. The trade offs slightly less dimming

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Speaker 1: range norower right white spectrum, so it's not going to

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Speaker 1: get the full spectrum there and not as good color accuracy,

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Speaker 1: but it's still going to run on Hugh's platform, So

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Speaker 1: that is a good thing, really really good that Hughes

2045
01:41:53,720 --> 01:41:55,400
Speaker 1: are a little bit cheaper because I love those. Those

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01:41:55,400 --> 01:41:57,439
Speaker 1: are the most reliable out of all the smart lights

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Speaker 1: I've ever used. I thought this was interesting. Assurance says

2048
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:04,479
Speaker 1: that people are trading in their phones a lot more

2049
01:42:04,640 --> 01:42:08,000
Speaker 1: sixty percent this year over last year, sixty percent increase.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. People are also holding onto their

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Speaker 1: devices even longer now three point eight eight years, up

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01:42:16,200 --> 01:42:20,120
Speaker 1: from three point seven years last year. That's forty seven

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Speaker 1: months people are holding onto their phones on average. Popular

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Speaker 1: models being traded in the iPhone thirteen and Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: S twenty two Ultra most common for four straight quarters now.

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01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:38,240
Speaker 1: But AI features are really pushing consumers to upgrade. That's

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Speaker 1: why you're seeing AI advertise so much on TV, even

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01:42:41,960 --> 01:42:44,599
Speaker 1: if a company's not really delivering on that. Ooh, did

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Speaker 1: I just say that Tesco is trialing an avocado ripeness scanner.

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01:42:51,040 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 1: This is the the big grocery store over in the UK.

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Speaker 1: They have a scanner that basically lets you test to

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Speaker 1: see if the avocado you want is ripe. Obviously, they're

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01:43:00,520 --> 01:43:02,880
Speaker 1: probably just doing this to sell more avocados, but it's

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01:43:02,920 --> 01:43:06,479
Speaker 1: probably you know, like what I do is I squeeze

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01:43:06,520 --> 01:43:08,800
Speaker 1: like every avocado till I find one, and then I

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Speaker 1: squeezed the finalists like five more times. I'm sure they

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01:43:11,920 --> 01:43:15,200
Speaker 1: don't want everyone squeezing every avocado. So that's that's kind

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01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:16,960
Speaker 1: of a cool thing. Some people are saying it's a gimmick.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's open up the feedbag. These are the emails,

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Speaker 1: the comments, the questions you send to me on a

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Speaker 1: weekly basis. Submit yours at richon tech dot tv, hit

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Speaker 1: contact Pete wrights in. Apple photos does list videos by size,

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Speaker 1: Go to settings General iPhone storage photos Mine does anyway.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I love hearing about the Wizard of

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Speaker 1: Oz at the Sphere. I saw Dead End Company last year.

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Speaker 1: My floor ticket was three hundred and ninety five dollars.

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Speaker 1: I thought that would be my only Sphere show, but

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Speaker 1: now I'm thinking it'd be nice to see Oz too.

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Speaker 1: I tune in every week, always downloading the podcast. Keep

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Speaker 1: up the good work. You are a lot of fun.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Pete, save that one. Forward it to my wife.

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Speaker 1: Mark from Burbank rights In like so many others. I

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Speaker 1: love listening to your show and look forward to it

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Speaker 1: each weekend on KFI in Los Angeles and on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: There's a regular caller with such a distinct voice that

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Speaker 1: I can't help but picture him as an action hero,

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Speaker 1: square jawed in a bomber jacket, ray ban aviators, leather

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Speaker 1: gloves and a headset, commenteering a helicopter over La After

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Speaker 1: a double cross, he's ejected, grabs the skids midair, pulls

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Speaker 1: the pin on a grenade with his teeth, and still

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Speaker 1: manages to drop safely into the Beverly Hills pool sunglasses intact.

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Speaker 1: Next time he calls, please cue up some music from

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Speaker 1: like the A Team. Quite the imagination. Mark Bob writes

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Speaker 1: in from Victoria, Australia, listening on the podcast, enjoyed the

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Speaker 1: show as usual, looking forward to your layman's explanation of

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Speaker 1: how quantum computer works, because I came away more confused

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Speaker 1: after your guest's explanation. I did get that there are

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Speaker 1: things called quibbits, apparently little boxes with Schrodinger's cats inside

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Speaker 1: that magically come up with answers faster than light. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I wasn't paying close enough attention. Just like in high school,

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Speaker 1: and I daydreamed about rc own for the next Star

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Speaker 1: Trek episode. Also, I'd suggest asking callers who say their

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Speaker 1: smartphones were quote taken over what they actually mean. Either

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Speaker 1: they're important enough to be targeted by spy agencies, or

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Speaker 1: they keep letting the same person install sneaky software. I

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Speaker 1: love our emails this week. Oh my god. Tim in

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Speaker 1: Richmond writes in recommending two free antivirus and malware tools

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Speaker 1: directly from Microsoft. The first is the Microsoft Safety Scanner.

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Speaker 1: The second is the Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool. He

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Speaker 1: says you should download a fresh version each time so

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Speaker 1: you've got the latest updates. He recommends running these weekly

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Speaker 1: on his SSD, along with a full scan using Microsoft Defender.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tim, thanks for that. I'll link that up

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Speaker 1: on the website. A loyal listener in Richmond, Virginia says,

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Speaker 1: I was intrigued by your interview with US Mobile. Based

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Speaker 1: on your experience, I decided to switch. Unfortunately, it has

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Speaker 1: I couldn't add my Wi Fi EI N I'm on

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Speaker 1: one address. After four hours with Tech support nothing improved.

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Speaker 1: They even had me reset my phone, which erased all

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Speaker 1: my saved passwords. Tech support was polite, but troubleshooting felt

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Speaker 1: like trial and error. I'm not feeling the same enthusiasm

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Speaker 1: you had for US Mobile. I'm glad it's worked. I'll

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Speaker 1: keep listening. I'm still a loyal fan. Thank you. John

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Speaker 1: is useful. You make it interesting. After two and two

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Speaker 1: thirds years, when does the fun begin other than the

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Speaker 1: best ice cream in the country. Ps, you should hire

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Speaker 1: your mother to select the music. Hey John, I think

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Speaker 1: we have fun here and that's all that matters. Let's

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Speaker 1: see we had one more here. Melissa writes in I

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Speaker 1: look forward to your newsletter every Saturday morning. It's one

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Speaker 1: of the highlights of my week. I read it first

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Speaker 1: thing and immediately downloaded the Clever Cleaner app. It's amazing.

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Speaker 1: I boosted my storage by almost forty percent, so easy

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Speaker 1: to use. Felt like a trip down memory lane. Thank you, Melissa.

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Speaker 1: That's going to do it for this episode of the

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Speaker 1: show next week, all about the iPhone and Ai T

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Speaker 1: travel insurance. Thanks so much for listening. My name is

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Speaker 1: Rich Damiro, I will talk to you real soon