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Speaker 1: A major lifeline bank to the tech industry fails. Ring

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Speaker 1: plus your tech questions answered. What is going on? I'm

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the show

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Speaker 1: your questions about technology. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA

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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show. Phone

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: It is a really big day in the tech world.

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Speaker 1: Not for a good reason, but for a pretty bad reason.

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Speaker 1: A major bank that provides a lot of banking services

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Speaker 1: to Silicon Valley has collapsed. It's Silicon Valley Bank. That's

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Speaker 1: the name of the bank. You probably haven't heard of it.

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Speaker 1: It's a regional bank, but it is very popular among

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Speaker 1: the tech community. We're talking VC funds. These are the

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Speaker 1: people that hand out money to startups to help them

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Speaker 1: create new businesses that might one day become an uber

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Speaker 1: or a Twitter or a square or anything else we've

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Speaker 1: heard of. They all started with VC funds. Founders do

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Speaker 1: business here. Tech industry employees do business at this bank.

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Speaker 1: Imagine you going to your bank and it's closed, and

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Speaker 1: they say you can't transfer money out, you can't use

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Speaker 1: just stuck. Imagine that feeling. That is the feeling right

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Speaker 1: now among thousands of people in the tech industry right now,

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Speaker 1: that uncertainty where is my money going to come from?

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Speaker 1: How am I going to access this? Am I going

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Speaker 1: to get it? This bank is now under the protection

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Speaker 1: of the US government. Now I've said in the past

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Speaker 1: So you might be wondering, well, Rich, how does this

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Speaker 1: really affect me? Well, in a lot of different ways,

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Speaker 1: Because number one, this is something we haven't seen in

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Speaker 1: a very long time. A bank of this stature, a

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Speaker 1: eight with Washington Mutual, remember that bank. So we haven't

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Speaker 1: Plus the repercussions of just how this will sort of

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Speaker 1: go through the tech industry. So I mentioned these startups

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Speaker 1: that rely on this bank. So many of these startups

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Speaker 3: Their hands are tied. So how did this all happen?

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm not an expert in financials, but basically people

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Speaker 1: lost confidence in this bank for no really good reason.

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Speaker 3: The actually put out a press.

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Speaker 1: people saw that as a signal to say, ooh, I'm

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Speaker 1: And so the stock price plunged. Then people did a

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Speaker 1: had to say, okay, stop, stop stop. Government stepped in,

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Speaker 1: So I'm looking at this press release from the FDIC

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Speaker 1: SO at the time of closing, this was on Friday afternoon,

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Speaker 1: the FDIC has now received transfership of all insured deposits

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Speaker 1: All insured depositors will have full access to their insured

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Speaker 1: They want people to think that everything's going to be okay,

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Speaker 5: there were long lines to get into it. This year

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Speaker 5: it's pretty much crickets. I mean, there are still webs

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Speaker 5: three and crypto panels going on, but the big scene

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Speaker 5: is definitely AI. So we've done this, this pivot from

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Speaker 5: crypto to AI. Last year I went to a brunch

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Speaker 5: for women in Websterree and this year I was invited

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Speaker 5: to an AI brunch, So you're really seeing kind of

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Speaker 5: the sharp move to AI here this year.

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Speaker 1: I feel like with the tech industry at this point,

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Speaker 1: it is like just imagine a bunch of people like

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Speaker 1: sitting in a in an auditorium and just looking over

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Speaker 1: the left ah, looking over to the right, ah, looking

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Speaker 1: over to the middle AH. So it's like all these

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Speaker 1: different things that the industry kind of fixates on. Crypto

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Speaker 1: definitely had its time. It seems like there's less interest

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Speaker 1: these days, clearly because of what happened with FTX and

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Speaker 1: all the collapse of that. But now AI, I don't

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Speaker 1: see the same future for that like AI. Well, there's

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Speaker 1: also VR was in there where people were all excited

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Speaker 1: about VR, which I still think is gonna happen, but

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Speaker 1: it's AI has seemed to happen the fastest out of

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Speaker 1: anything we've seen so far.

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Speaker 3: Would that be kind of accurate?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely, And I think the focus is really on

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Speaker 5: generative AI so we've seen obviously open ais chat GBT

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Speaker 5: takes the world by storm over the past few weeks

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Speaker 5: and months. So it's not even it's AI, but it's

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Speaker 5: also generative AI and kind of what the applications can

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Speaker 5: look like.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, explain can you explain that a little bit? What

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Speaker 3: does that mean?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think the difference is it's tangible, right, you can

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Speaker 5: go into this chat box and ask it to write

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Speaker 5: something for you and it does it. Whereas I think

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Speaker 5: with a lot of these webs free and crypto applications,

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Speaker 5: it was still, you know, very much still an idea

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Speaker 5: versus the tech wasn't totally there yet. So I think

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Speaker 5: that's part of the reason. But I think it's also

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Speaker 5: really useful and has really strong consumer application.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know personally, I've been using the bing

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Speaker 1: ai since I got access to the wait list feature,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the bing dot com slash new, and

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Speaker 1: I've now been using it on a daily basis because

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Speaker 1: it's so interesting, especially having it on my phone. Like

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Speaker 1: the other night, I was at a concert and there

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Speaker 1: was three artists, and typically I would look up those

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Speaker 1: artists on Google and just get like a little background

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Speaker 1: of them, and you know, Google has its way of

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Speaker 1: kind of putting different information front and center when you

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Speaker 1: Google someone, but with this being AI, it pretty much

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Speaker 1: gives me like a biography of them that's sort of

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Speaker 1: written up just for me, And it's just a whole

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Speaker 1: different way of thinking about getting information, which I think

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Speaker 1: is really fascinating to me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely. So we've we've seen a lot of that.

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Speaker 5: I haven't got for a ton of sessions yet on

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Speaker 5: jener to AI, but it's very hard to escape this

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Speaker 5: year now.

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Speaker 3: You cover creator economy in.

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Speaker 2: A big way.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I do, So tell me about that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what's what's going on with that? Especially at south By

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Speaker 1: and are we seeing anything new with that?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I think with the Creator company. The main event that

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Speaker 5: I went to yesterday was an event thrown by Doing

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Speaker 5: Things Media. It's a meme account that raised over twenty

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Speaker 5: million dollars in VC funding last year. They're behind popular

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Speaker 5: Meana accounts, and they actually acquired another meme account called Overheard.

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Speaker 5: I don't know if you know overheard La, but it's

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Speaker 5: a pretty funny account. So they threw a big party yesterday.

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Speaker 5: It's interesting because last year there were companies like Patreon.

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Speaker 5: The membership platform for fans and creators who had a

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Speaker 5: big event. I don't think they have a big presence

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Speaker 5: this year. So I think a lot of startups are

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Speaker 5: just feeling kind of the change in the economy and

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Speaker 5: they're they're not really spending the dollars as much as

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Speaker 5: last year, but they're certainly our creators here.

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Speaker 3: Did you just say that a meme account raised twenty how.

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Speaker 5: Much more than twenty million dollars last year?

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Speaker 7: Correct?

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Speaker 1: Twenty million dollars for memes. This is the stuff that

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Speaker 1: we're talking about that you scroll through on Instagram and

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Speaker 1: it looks like it's sort of hacked together by someone,

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Speaker 1: and these are these are business. This is a big

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Speaker 1: business behind this. I've never heard of this company doingthings

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Speaker 1: dot com this.

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Speaker 3: Is media, yeah, oh doing things? Yeah, this is wild.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 5: Yes, there was an Instagram fame. It's Corky at the

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Speaker 5: event yesterday as well. Who has one million followers on

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Speaker 5: Instagram name vaccine. So okay, well that celebrity.

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Speaker 3: Sighting that I get.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I get the fact that these animals on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look Instagram. Now hold on about this whole thing, though,

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Speaker 1: I've got this article about about Instagram pausing their reels

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Speaker 1: play bonus.

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Speaker 3: So have you heard that?

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Speaker 1: And you know this is basically if you've saw a

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Speaker 1: lot of reels on your Instagram feed, it's because they

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Speaker 1: were paying creators a bonus for doing these things. And

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Speaker 1: that bonus at the beginning was a lot, and then

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Speaker 1: of course it became less and less as we went on.

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Speaker 1: But now they're going to say they're not going to

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Speaker 1: do this anymore over the next thirty days are kind

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Speaker 1: of like sunsetting it.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that will have an impact at all?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean we've seen this kind of pull back

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Speaker 5: across the board. I mean, these tech companies saw such

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Speaker 5: rich engagement during pandemic lockdowns. They were trying to rival

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Speaker 5: the rise of TikTok. So a lot of these platforms,

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Speaker 5: not just Instagram, rolled out all sorts of cash incentives

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Speaker 5: for creators. But you know, now these companies are laying

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Speaker 5: off workers and they're not as flush with cast they're

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Speaker 5: not able to make those investments. So, you know, I

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Speaker 5: think these programs were always a nice bonus for creators

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Speaker 5: and it was nice to be able to get that cash,

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Speaker 5: but creators know that they can't rely on those programs

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Speaker 5: because they come and go. I think what's been most

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Speaker 5: reliable is partnerships with brands as well as YouTube has

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Speaker 5: you know, long been kind of the leader in terms

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Speaker 5: of directly making money from a platform through their ad

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Speaker 5: revenue sharing. So I do think it's it's obviously going

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Speaker 5: to have a hit on creators' earnings, but I think

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Speaker 5: the creators who are really savvy know that they have

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Speaker 5: to just take adage of the cash when it's there.

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Speaker 1: And at the same time, YouTube just unleashed shorts revenue,

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Speaker 1: so you creators for the first time are making money

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Speaker 1: based on ads on their shorts. So that's a good

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Speaker 1: thing there.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and YouTube actually used to have a fund for

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Speaker 5: sports and they moved to the ad revenue sharing model,

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Speaker 5: so we make the Instagram go that route as well.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kaya Yurif. How can folks find you?

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Speaker 5: You can find me on Twitter at k Urif and

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Speaker 5: you can also subscribe to my newsletter at the Information

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Speaker 5: about the Creator Economy.

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Speaker 3: All right, you're gonna get some barbecue while you're down there.

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Speaker 5: Oh absolutely.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if they're doing like vegan barbecue. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you get to you know, you gotta please everyone.

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Speaker 5: Right, totally. I'm further.

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Speaker 1: But you're not doing that one. That's I just be curious.

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Speaker 1: I'm not that I'm vegan, but I just be curious,

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Speaker 1: you know.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, barbecue for me, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, get some good stuff, all right, Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me here on the show. All right, coming

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Speaker 1: up Southwest, south by Southwest just one of my favorite

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Speaker 1: Austin in general, just one of my favorite cities.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know why I said the vegan thing.

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Speaker 1: I probably just upset a lot of people because when

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Speaker 1: you're going to Austin barbecue, you're not really thinking about

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Speaker 1: getting vegan barbecue. But I'm just saying I'm curious. I

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Speaker 1: you know, there's so many new things happening. I mean,

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Speaker 1: look at the like the milks that you can get

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Speaker 1: in your coffee. Right you go there and there's like

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Speaker 1: a list of like one hundred different milks you can

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Speaker 1: get now, made from everything from oats to almonds and bananas.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I was just curious. Don't don't send me

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Speaker 1: the hate mail, all right. Phone lines are open at

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Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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

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Speaker 3: My name is rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. My name is rich Dmiro, tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: Every week in the show, I talk.

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Speaker 1: About some of the things that I've posted to my

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Speaker 1: social media and this.

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Speaker 3: Week, let's see did I do a lot?

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Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, I did so I posted, Uh, let's see

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Speaker 1: I've got at rich on Tech is where you can

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Speaker 1: find me on Instagram. Posted some pictures from my trip

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Speaker 1: to Vegas I talked about earlier. Oh you gotta see this,

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Speaker 1: I posted. I'm We're gonna talk a little bit later

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Speaker 1: about this car, but the Lucid Air EV. So this

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Speaker 1: Lucid car you've probably started just started seeing them on

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Speaker 1: the streets if you live anywhere in California. Maybe not elsewhere,

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Speaker 1: but it is an incredible EV that's very high end.

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Speaker 1: So this one I drove was like over one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, So we're talking luxury EV. This is not

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Speaker 1: for everyone, believe me, but it'd be nice, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: So I've got a video.

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Speaker 1: They took us in this car and we went zero

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Speaker 1: to sixty in about three zero point four seconds. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I was not prepared for that at all,

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Speaker 1: like really not prepared, and so this captures the reality

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Speaker 1: of my reaction, which I've never seen me react like

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Speaker 1: this to anything, so you can check that out. I

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Speaker 1: also every time it rains in Los Angeles, I post

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Speaker 1: the same exact video of me in this get up.

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Speaker 3: It's a pod.

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Speaker 1: It's called the walking Pod, and it looks like a

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Speaker 1: giant wearable hamper. And we recorded this video three years

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Speaker 1: ago at this point, maybe four years ago at this point,

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Speaker 1: and it went viral and every time I post it,

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Speaker 1: it still goes again, every single time. So I posted

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Speaker 1: a new kind of clip of just me walking down

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Speaker 1: the street in this thing, so you can see how

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Speaker 1: silly I look. And then of course I posted some

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Speaker 1: pictures from the week in review. Let me tell you

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Speaker 1: about Facebook. By the way, if you're trying to call in,

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Speaker 1: I believe it looks like we had a little bit

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Speaker 1: of an issue with that in case you couldn't tell.

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Speaker 1: But if you're trying to call in, I think it

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Speaker 1: all seems to be resolved at this point. Kim is

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Speaker 1: standing by waiting for your call at triple eight rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I'd blame it on the

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Speaker 1: time change, but that hasn't happened yet, so we'll see

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Speaker 1: what happens next week. I know I'm always a little

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Speaker 1: off with that time change, so maybe the lines we're

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Speaker 1: just sleepy today. Facebook making a major change. They put

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Speaker 1: out this blog post this week saying, hey, contrary to

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Speaker 1: popular reports, we're not dying.

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Speaker 3: We're not dead.

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Speaker 1: In fact, we've got two billion people using our service

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Speaker 1: every single day. People are using Facebook for more than

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Speaker 1: just connecting with friends and family, but also to discover

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Speaker 1: and engage what's important to them, which is true. I'd

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Speaker 1: probably agree with that. I think that I've seen even

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Speaker 1: on my Facebook feed that they are using a lot

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Speaker 1: more AI to kind of figure out what goes in

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Speaker 1: that feed. You don't realize that these tech companies are

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Speaker 1: scanning everything you're uploading. So even you know, back in

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Speaker 1: the day of Instagram, you would put hashtags on things,

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Speaker 1: those are almost not even necessary because Facebook and Instagram

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Speaker 1: know more about what you're in TikTok and Twitter. They

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Speaker 1: know more about what you're posting about than we do.

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Speaker 1: They're scanning your images, they're scanning your videos, They're slicing

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Speaker 1: and dicing to figure out exactly what content is in

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Speaker 1: there and then using that information to serve this up

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Speaker 1: to other people. They're not doing it to be nice

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Speaker 1: to you. They're doing it for the benefit of their platform,

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Speaker 1: because the more people that interact with things that people post,

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Speaker 1: the better. And if you post something really interesting it

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Speaker 1: just happens to be a video of a waterfall and

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Speaker 1: you don't say anything about it, they know, okay, we're

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Speaker 1: going to show this to people that like pictures of

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Speaker 1: waterfalls in Hawaii and you didn't even have to say anything.

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Speaker 1: So Facebook is kind of doing it about face. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you remember this a couple of years ago,

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Speaker 1: so back I had to look this up. It was

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Speaker 1: like in two thousand. It was a while ago. I

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Speaker 1: can't remember. It's twenty fourteen maybe that they said, you

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Speaker 1: know what, We're gonna split off Facebook Messenger from the

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Speaker 1: main Facebook app. And people went nuts, myself included, because

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Speaker 1: I said, why why do we need a separate app

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Speaker 1: for Facebook Messenger. It's so much easier to have it

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Speaker 1: all built into one thing, And they did it. People

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Speaker 1: downloaded Facebook Messenger. Facebook Messengers become very popular, but now

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Speaker 1: Facebook is saying, you know what, We're going to rethink

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Speaker 1: that little decision. We're now going to build messaging back

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Speaker 1: into the main Facebook app. Wait what, why are they

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Speaker 1: doing this? Well, they're doing this because of a little

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Speaker 1: app called TikTok. And the reason they're doing this is

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Speaker 1: because TikTok's really good at showing you stuff, videos that

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Speaker 1: you want to see, or maybe you didn't want to see,

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Speaker 1: or you just didn't even know existed. But the problem is,

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Speaker 1: TikTok is not a very good social network. You may

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Speaker 1: send those videos to your friends, but it's not in

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Speaker 1: the same way that you can post it to your

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Speaker 1: Facebook or to share it on Instagram. And so now

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Speaker 1: Facebook is thinking, okay, this might be a pretty killer

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Speaker 1: solution we have where people can watch stuff on our

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Speaker 1: platform and also share it to their friends on our platform.

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Speaker 1: And that is why they are now testing building messaging

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Speaker 1: back into Instagram. So are back into Facebook. So don't

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Speaker 1: be surprised if you log into Facebook and you get

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Speaker 1: this little window that says, hey, did you know you

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Speaker 1: can message in Facebook again? You're gonna say, wait, I'm confused.

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Speaker 1: I thought I need a Facebook Messenger to do that.

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Speaker 1: I thought they took it out of Facebook. Now they're

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Speaker 1: putting it back in, So it's been long enough. I

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Speaker 1: think it was twenty fourteen when they did that, so

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Speaker 1: it's been a while. All right, let's take our first call.

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Speaker 1: John is in mission viah John, you're on with.

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Speaker 8: Rich Okay, thank you. I've got to go from Windows

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Speaker 8: eight point one because it's at its EOL, so I'm

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Speaker 8: going to have to go to either Windows ten or

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Speaker 8: Windows eleven. I do very basic stuff on my computer,

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Speaker 8: mostly financial stuff, and I was wondering which is going

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Speaker 8: to be the easier operating system to use, either ten

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Speaker 8: or eleven? Which one do you think is going to

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Speaker 8: be better for me to use long term?

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Speaker 3: What do you do on your computer?

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Speaker 8: Mainly just email and then online access to my different accounts,

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Speaker 8: and I'd like to do some scanning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, oh scanning? Interesting? Okay?

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Speaker 1: What about so you're most of what you're doing is

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Speaker 1: happening inside a web browser, like email and all that.

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Speaker 3: Kind of stuff and connecting tier counts.

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Speaker 8: So I mean I've been running the Windows Live email program.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you're using that, okay, which is a nice

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Speaker 1: email program. I think that's fine. It'll change a little

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Speaker 1: bit when you get to new version of Windows. But

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Speaker 1: here's what I'd recommend, So I'd say just skip over

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Speaker 1: to Windows eleven. Windows eleven is pretty much a version

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Speaker 1: of Windows ten. I think the biggest leap is going

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Speaker 1: to this new software in general from Windows eight. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Windows ten is a whole different kind of look and feel.

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Speaker 1: So why go to Windows ten when it's going to

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Speaker 1: be supported for a couple more years. You mentioned EOL

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Speaker 1: that means end of life, so Windows eight means it's

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Speaker 1: it's not getting active software updates. Windows ten will get

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Speaker 1: software updates until October fourteenth, twenty twenty five. Windows eleven

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Speaker 1: is pretty much the operating system, which is the one

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Speaker 1: I'd go with. They just came out the big ol'

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Speaker 1: update for it, so I say take the plunge, do

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Speaker 1: the big update to Windows eleven. Learn the system, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna last for a long time because Windows eleven

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Speaker 1: is very very new. So I would just skip to

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Speaker 1: the eleven and not worry about the ten portion, because

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Speaker 1: why learn something twice? Just learn it once? All right,

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Speaker 1: John and Mission Viejo, thanks so much for calling today.

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Speaker 1: Do appreciate it. Phone lines are open at Triple eight

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Coming up in the show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to John Faulkner of Clean Fleet Report.

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00:36:36,360 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk EV's and his favorite evs right now,

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Speaker 1: Plus in studio guest Jefferson.

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Speaker 3: Graham is going to join me formerly of USA Today.

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Speaker 1: He's going to talk about taking better pictures with your

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00:36:48,719 --> 00:36:51,160
Speaker 1: iPhone and all kinds of other stuff you're.

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Speaker 3: Listening to rich on Tech. More of the show coming

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Speaker 3: up after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro,

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Speaker 1: hanging out here talking technology with you at Triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: two four.

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Speaker 3: To one zero one.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about the new ring video doorbell in

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Speaker 1: just a little bit, but first let's get to Richard

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Speaker 1: in Georgia.

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Speaker 3: Richard, I like your name.

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Speaker 9: You're on with rich Hey, Rich great job. By the way,

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Speaker 9: I've been listening to you since you took over for Leo.

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Speaker 3: No thank you. Appreciate that.

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Speaker 9: I've got a home studio and I'm looking to move

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Speaker 9: my control room from the same room into another room

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Speaker 9: for better sound isolation. That way I can hear the

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Speaker 9: audio coming through the gear and not you know, physically

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Speaker 9: in person. But obviously I don't want to cut a

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Speaker 9: hole in the wall between the two bedrooms. That's not

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Speaker 9: very good for reseal all that, you know, resell of

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Speaker 9: the house.

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Speaker 1: But well, how long are you gonna stay here? I

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Speaker 1: mean maybe maybe this is a long term plan, right.

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Speaker 9: Well, at least a few years. But I was wondering

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Speaker 9: if if there's like a digital solution for that. Maybe

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Speaker 9: I was thinking maybe a march or on one side,

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Speaker 9: monitor on the other in a camera.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's one of them. That's that's that's a start.

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Speaker 1: It's funny you say this because I went to my

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Speaker 1: friend's house in the Las Vegas area, he's a musician,

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Speaker 1: and he showed me he had done exactly what you're

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Speaker 1: talking about, but he cut the hole in the wall.

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Speaker 1: So he had a great setup. I mean it was

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Speaker 1: a whole studio. He had all the little streaming cameras

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Speaker 1: set up. Everything was was really really like slick. So

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Speaker 1: I get it. The window is probably the best way

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Speaker 1: to go. But if you don't want to do that,

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Speaker 1: and you know the best the next best thing is

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Speaker 1: to probably.

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Speaker 3: Do some webcams.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, it's funny because when I when I first

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Speaker 1: got into the not radio business, but TV back in

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Speaker 1: the day when I was a journalism student. I will

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Speaker 1: never forget when they told us that the control room

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Speaker 1: is not overlooking the studio. It was like, you know

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Speaker 1: where I work at Katla, it's a whole different area.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not in the same building. Well it

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Speaker 1: used to not be, now it iss But the reality

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Speaker 1: is that, yeah, you can do all kinds of stuff

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Speaker 1: from anywhere now because of how good technology's gotten. So

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Speaker 1: I just happened to be at the Spotify. I took

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Speaker 1: a big, a big tour of the Spotify studios here

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. They have an incredible facility and Richard,

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Speaker 1: you would be you would love to see.

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Speaker 3: These things, have to check that out.

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Speaker 7: Awesome.

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Speaker 1: But they showed me the studio where they do all

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Speaker 1: the recordings for sort of like you know where artists

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Speaker 1: come in. So I'm looking at some of my pictures here.

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Speaker 1: They just have a whole bunch of instruments, just tons

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Speaker 1: of instruments that people can choose from. So they come

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Speaker 1: in there and they just pick something and they want

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Speaker 1: them to be They actually said they want them to

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Speaker 1: be different than what they typically use because that feeds

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Speaker 1: the curiosity or the sorry, the creativity, right.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely yeah, they get your brain going, it makes you

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Speaker 9: think out of the box. Yeah, absolutely right.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm looking, I'm looking at their studio and

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Speaker 1: their control room does have windows overlooking the studio. Uh,

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Speaker 1: they've got probably a giant panel of one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, Oh,

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Speaker 1: probably about forty five what do they call mixer pots

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Speaker 1: or something whatever boards?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, the headphone mixers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a lot of them there, so I don't

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Speaker 1: know how extended. But but here's my point about all

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Speaker 1: this is because here's what I learned. The term that

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Speaker 1: I learned when I was there is called PTZ.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard of that term?

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Speaker 9: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So that is a pan tilt and zoom. So

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Speaker 1: a PTZ camera. As soon as you look this thing up,

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Speaker 1: you will recognize it. This is pretty much what these

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Speaker 1: studios are using, not only to live stream, but also

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Speaker 1: you can use it to sort of monitor what's happening

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Speaker 1: in there. So I think you can do dual use

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Speaker 1: with this. But I would recommend taking a look at

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Speaker 1: a couple of those and installing them very good.

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Speaker 9: I didn't think about. Yeah, a control in the pan

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Speaker 9: and zoom in in the tilt. That's great, that's a

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Speaker 9: great idea.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you could go you can go with a

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Speaker 1: standard camera, but you know, without that move and it's

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Speaker 1: just one big wide angle. But you know, why not,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna be building this thing out, why not

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Speaker 1: spend a little bit more and get something that's more

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Speaker 1: flexible that will enable you to either connect with the

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Speaker 1: people that are in this studio a little bit more

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Speaker 1: monitor them. If you want a really cheap solution, have

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Speaker 1: you heard of the company whys Yes, So Whise makes

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Speaker 1: a pan and tilt camera that's very inexpensive. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's let's see how much theirs is. It is there

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Speaker 1: on version three of it. It is thirty three dollars

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Speaker 1: and ninety nine cents. So if you want something very inexpensive,

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Speaker 1: that's one way to go. But if you want to

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Speaker 1: get one of the more expensive PTZ cameras, you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm seeing them on I was just looking them up quickly,

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Speaker 1: and there's you know, Best Buys got some for about

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Speaker 1: four hundred bucks.

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Speaker 3: But they go up.

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Speaker 1: They can get up pretty expensive, so they can go

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00:41:51,680 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: up to a couple thousand. But that's that's probably what

871
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,719
Speaker 1: I recommend and maybe get like a you know, while

872
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: you're while you're at it, get you know, like a

873
00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: zoom set up, Like maybe put one of these monitors

874
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:02,480
Speaker 1: in the corner that people can zoom in so that

875
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 1: way you can just connect they can see your face,

876
00:42:05,120 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: you know, over the zoom. But there's a lot you

877
00:42:07,920 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: can do here. I mean, all this stuff is off

878
00:42:09,600 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 1: the shelf and very much doable, and people are doing

879
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,839
Speaker 1: this every day, So I think that it's just a

880
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,799
Speaker 1: matter of kind of figuring out what you want the capabilities,

881
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: and just having fun with it.

882
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,160
Speaker 9: Very cool. I appreciate that it's a lot of great

883
00:42:22,160 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 9: information and I look forward to checking out some more

884
00:42:26,040 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 9: out in the LA area once I get back out

885
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 9: to California. Awesome and to longin it's been out there.

886
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, ring me up and we'll see if we can

887
00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:34,680
Speaker 1: get back into the Spotify studios, see if they'll let

888
00:42:34,760 --> 00:42:37,399
Speaker 1: me back in once. Once these companies, once they let

889
00:42:37,440 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: you out, they kind of like close the door behind

890
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: you and they're like, Okay, we'll see you never again. No,

891
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding, right, especially since I worked for iHeart,

892
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: So we'll see anyway, all right, Richard, thanks so much

893
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:50,879
Speaker 1: for joining me today.

894
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:51,480
Speaker 3: Appreciate it.

895
00:42:52,200 --> 00:42:52,600
Speaker 9: Thank you.

896
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:53,800
Speaker 3: All right, have a good one.

897
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Speaker 1: All right, let me tell you about the speaking of

898
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:57,479
Speaker 1: video cameras, let me tell you about the new Ring

899
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:04,240
Speaker 1: Video doorbell, so brand new battery doorbell Plus. It's called

900
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: I think Ring has way too many video doorbells at

901
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:09,719
Speaker 1: this point. You go to their website and you're just like,

902
00:43:10,000 --> 00:43:12,320
Speaker 1: which one do I get? Because there are so many.

903
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 1: There used to be one Ring video doorbell. Now there

904
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: is a lineup of all different types, some plug in,

905
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: some are battery, some are new, some have higher resolution.

906
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: But the battery doorbell Plus is pretty much their standard

907
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: selection video doorbell. It's a little higher end, so it

908
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 1: gives you some new features. The number one feature I

909
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: think you're gonna like is that the battery life is

910
00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:39,880
Speaker 1: up to three times better than the standard Ring video doorbell.

911
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,759
Speaker 1: Now they say the original, So now does that mean

912
00:43:44,280 --> 00:43:46,520
Speaker 1: when the original came out like ten years ago? What

913
00:43:46,920 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: do they mean by that? So I'm gonna have to

914
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: test this and see just how much battery. I've got

915
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: a Ring video doorbell with the battery, and I'm replacing

916
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:58,640
Speaker 1: the battery probably every I'd say, maybe every four months,

917
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 1: and it doesn't lie as long as i'd like, but

918
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: I do have two batteries, so I just swap them

919
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,719
Speaker 1: out and that makes life. By the way, a little

920
00:44:04,760 --> 00:44:07,799
Speaker 1: pro tip, just swap them out so much easier. Just

921
00:44:07,840 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: go on the Ring website. If you've got one of

922
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: these video doorbells that you're swapping the battery and you're

923
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: taking the battery out and you're charging it and you're

924
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,080
Speaker 1: putting it back in, just just buy a secondary battery

925
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:19,680
Speaker 1: and keep that one charging and then you can just

926
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:21,560
Speaker 1: swap them out and that way you're never without your

927
00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: your video doorbell. So this is their first doorbell launch

928
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,960
Speaker 1: in two years. The biggest difference you're gonna notice with

929
00:44:29,000 --> 00:44:32,440
Speaker 1: the video is that it has a brand new viewing

930
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: angle one hundred and fifty degrees by one hundred and

931
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:37,719
Speaker 1: fifty degrees field of view, so it's a one to

932
00:44:37,760 --> 00:44:40,280
Speaker 1: one aspect ratio, so it's not like sixteen by nine.

933
00:44:40,520 --> 00:44:42,400
Speaker 1: I think the Google one is more like that. But

934
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:44,920
Speaker 1: this will give you a head to toe view of

935
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,840
Speaker 1: your visitors, which is kind of cool. Then also you

936
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: can see if you have a package at your front door.

937
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:53,640
Speaker 1: Because the field of view is so wide, up and

938
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:56,120
Speaker 1: down and left and right, you can see the floor,

939
00:44:56,239 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 1: so that's really handy because that's something that was greatly

940
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:04,800
Speaker 1: missing in the Ring video doorbells from yesteryear. The resolution

941
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,399
Speaker 1: is also better. It's got the highest HD resolution of

942
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: any battery doorbell at fifteen thirty six p, so it's

943
00:45:14,880 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 1: a decent resolution. It's probably you know, it's pretty reasonable.

944
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: So that's that's very good because sometimes people talk about

945
00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 1: how the resolution of these video doorbells just isn't very good.

946
00:45:24,719 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: So fifteen thirty six will will provide a pretty good

947
00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: view of what's happening there. And it does have color

948
00:45:30,360 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: night vision as well. So how much this is one

949
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy nine dollars. It will start shipping on

950
00:45:36,840 --> 00:45:40,040
Speaker 1: April fifth. I will tell you this may be enough

951
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: for me to update my Ring video doorbell. It's been

952
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:45,640
Speaker 1: been a while since I got one, and so I

953
00:45:45,719 --> 00:45:48,879
Speaker 1: think that this is probably about time to do it.

954
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: One hundred and eighty dollars. The only thing I would

955
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,920
Speaker 1: caution you on is paying full price. Ring products like

956
00:45:55,000 --> 00:45:58,320
Speaker 1: Amazon products, because they're owned by Amazon, they do typically

957
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:02,040
Speaker 1: go on sale one, two, maybe three times a year,

958
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 1: so I would wait until one of those things goes

959
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:08,919
Speaker 1: on sale. One of those special days they have. Usually

960
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:13,160
Speaker 1: it's around a holiday, obviously during Prime Day, but I

961
00:46:13,200 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 1: would wait one hundred and eighty bucks. Still decent deal,

962
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 1: but I think you can get it for cheaper. I

963
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,919
Speaker 1: think you could probably get that price down to maybe

964
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: fifty dollars less than that. So something'll look out for

965
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:29,280
Speaker 1: for sure. Google Io happening in person May tenth.

966
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:30,160
Speaker 3: What does that mean?

967
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:35,359
Speaker 1: Google Io is Google's big, big developers conference. I've been

968
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,440
Speaker 1: to this many many times. It's one of my favorites

969
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,399
Speaker 1: of the year because they pretty much show you all

970
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:42,440
Speaker 1: the cool stuff they've been working on at Google. And

971
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:46,040
Speaker 1: this year should be very exciting because we're going to

972
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: see their new AI. I think they're gonna wait to

973
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 1: show us barred in a big way until Google Io

974
00:46:51,680 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: comes out on May tenth, so I.

975
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:54,040
Speaker 3: Will be there.

976
00:46:54,280 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: This is happening in Mountain View, California, Shoreline Amphitheater. It's

977
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,360
Speaker 1: a limited live audience, but I was lucky and I

978
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 1: got an invite from Google, so I will definitely be

979
00:47:02,719 --> 00:47:05,760
Speaker 1: taking advantage of that. Love I'd love the Google stuff.

980
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: These Googlers are just so nerdy and fun. They're like

981
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:10,879
Speaker 1: my people, you know. I just love chatting with them,

982
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:13,279
Speaker 1: I can be like, hey, answer me this question about

983
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:15,520
Speaker 1: how Android auto works. Like you get to talk to

984
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,319
Speaker 1: the actual engineers that program this stuff. And so for

985
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: me that's always a delight because there's only so much

986
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 1: you can get by looking at the stuff they put

987
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:23,880
Speaker 1: online or playing with yourself.

988
00:47:24,719 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 3: Other things expected.

989
00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:29,680
Speaker 1: To be seen at Google Io twenty twenty three Pixel

990
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,760
Speaker 1: seven a that is going to be an inexpensive pixel device.

991
00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: Also the Pixel tablet, that's exciting because we haven't seen

992
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 1: a good Android tablet in a while. And maybe even

993
00:47:39,880 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: the Pixel fold their foldable phone, and maybe a pixel

994
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: tracker as well. And of course Android fourteen they'll probably

995
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:47,439
Speaker 1: show off that too.

996
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 3: All right, coming up on.

997
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:52,319
Speaker 1: The show, we're going to talk about evs. Plus what

998
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:53,959
Speaker 1: else do I have going on here? Oh, we're gonna

999
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:56,040
Speaker 1: talk about spring break apps. I've been testing a bunch

1000
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 1: of them. So I told you about flighty earlier. I've

1001
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:00,439
Speaker 1: got plenty more where that came from. Be a call

1002
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,240
Speaker 1: triple eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

1003
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 1: four to two four to one zero one.

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00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 3: You're listening to rich on Tech.

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00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1006
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: out with you on a well, you know, some of

1007
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: you are listening live, some of your listening later. So

1008
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:20,359
Speaker 1: I'm just hanging out with you eight eight eight rich

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00:48:20,480 --> 00:48:23,359
Speaker 1: one oh one eight eight eight seven four to two,

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00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I usually do some feedback

1011
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,560
Speaker 1: at the end of the show, but since Bob just

1012
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: emailed me and said, great job on your show, but

1013
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:36,160
Speaker 1: one suggestion, since you're broadcasting nationwide to people who may

1014
00:48:36,239 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 1: or may not know California cities, instead of saying Chatsworth

1015
00:48:40,320 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: or call from Northridge, you might want to add California.

1016
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:46,600
Speaker 3: Just a suggestion. Thanks for all you do fun stuff.

1017
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:50,080
Speaker 1: Uh, you know this is so interesting, Bob, because this

1018
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: is I struggle with this also on KTLA because I'm

1019
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:58,040
Speaker 1: i mean very LA centric, right, like I am located

1020
00:48:58,040 --> 00:49:01,600
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. The show broadcast Los Angeles, both KTLA

1021
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: and this show. But you're right, my KTLA segment goes nationwide,

1022
00:49:06,600 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 1: and so does this show, and so there's always that

1023
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: line of making sure people are comfortable understanding what you're

1024
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:17,680
Speaker 1: talking about, where you're coming from, what you're doing, and

1025
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: so on KTLA it's become you know, sometimes if there's

1026
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,760
Speaker 1: a city I'm referencing in a story that people outside

1027
00:49:25,840 --> 00:49:28,759
Speaker 1: Los Angeles may not know. I say we went to

1028
00:49:30,080 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: San Bernardino, California, and people in Los Angeles are watching

1029
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,000
Speaker 1: my story saying, wait, why is Rich saying.

1030
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 3: San Bernardino, California?

1031
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: Like, I know San Bernardino, I live right here, but

1032
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: people that are watching in other cities like Chicago or

1033
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: Honolulu may not know those places. So I agree that

1034
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: is definitely something I need to get better at, and

1035
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: I will do that for sure, because I take for

1036
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: granted I think if I say Phoenix, I don't know

1037
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: if I need to say Arizona. But if it's a

1038
00:49:55,719 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: smaller city somewhere, maybe I'll just do that anyway. All right,

1039
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 1: So I was only about Vegas earlier, and I kind

1040
00:50:02,560 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 1: of want to continue that conversation because there was more

1041
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:08,640
Speaker 1: I had, more I had thoughts on. So I was

1042
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 1: talking about how my wife and I went to Vegas

1043
00:50:10,920 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 1: over the weekend. We didn't really do much except just

1044
00:50:13,760 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: kind of enjoy you know, eating out, dinner and just

1045
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: kind of shopping whatever. Not a huge gambler, but you know,

1046
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,600
Speaker 1: I do like playing some of these machines the kind

1047
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: of fun. Sometimes I'm not going to spend a lot

1048
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:28,000
Speaker 1: of money on them because to me, it's you know,

1049
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,880
Speaker 1: I'd rather buy something with my money, but it's still fun.

1050
00:50:31,480 --> 00:50:35,439
Speaker 1: But one thing I noticed is that the digitizing of

1051
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 1: Vegas is really happening in a very fast way. And

1052
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,759
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier how when I first started going to Vegas,

1053
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: they actually had people that would give out change. There'd

1054
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:48,480
Speaker 1: be people walking around these little carts that would change

1055
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: your money. You would take a twenty dollars bill and

1056
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:52,799
Speaker 1: you'd get nickels in a role.

1057
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 3: I mean this is going back many many.

1058
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:57,920
Speaker 1: Years, but used to actually put coins in a machine

1059
00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:02,239
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, which nowadays is just so not the

1060
00:51:02,280 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: thing you put money in. And we used to sit

1061
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:08,239
Speaker 1: there and play a nickel slot for an hour on

1062
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:11,920
Speaker 1: five ten bucks. And now, of course people feed twenties

1063
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:16,719
Speaker 1: and hundreds into these machines. But the slot machines are

1064
00:51:17,120 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 1: really getting high tech. I mean bigger and bigger and bigger.

1065
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: Every time I go. I think at the Venetian wherever

1066
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:25,400
Speaker 1: I was, they're gonna have to open up the ceiling

1067
00:51:25,440 --> 00:51:28,399
Speaker 1: because some of these machines are getting so large three

1068
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:31,600
Speaker 1: D screens, the sound effects. The other thing I noticed

1069
00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:33,840
Speaker 1: is that all of these table games that used to

1070
00:51:33,920 --> 00:51:38,279
Speaker 1: have dealers sitting there are now digital And so we

1071
00:51:38,360 --> 00:51:41,920
Speaker 1: went to the Paris Casino in Las Vegas and they

1072
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 1: had this entire almost it looked like a nightclub area

1073
00:51:45,239 --> 00:51:49,719
Speaker 1: where it was three dealers on a stage. One was

1074
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 1: doing craps, one was doing blackjack, one was doing roulette,

1075
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: but they were also sort of dancers and DJs at

1076
00:51:55,560 --> 00:51:59,600
Speaker 1: the same time. So they're literally spinning music, spinning the

1077
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:04,120
Speaker 1: roulette table, and everyone that's playing is playing on a

1078
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:07,400
Speaker 1: digital screen at a seat in front of them. So

1079
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: imagine a little mini auditorium where it's kind of real

1080
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: and kind of digital.

1081
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 3: It was a mix.

1082
00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: That was the first time I've ever seen that, and

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Speaker 1: I saw that theme at various other hotels. It wasn't

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00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:22,320
Speaker 1: just the Paris. I also saw that happening at Caesar's

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00:52:22,920 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: and in general, I've just seen a lot more of

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00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:29,680
Speaker 1: these games that were traditionally table games becoming digital.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: As a tech person, I thought when they had USB

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00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:35,920
Speaker 1: charging ports on the slot machines, that was cool until

1090
00:52:35,960 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: I realized the security implications of that, and I'm not

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00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,760
Speaker 1: a big fan. So now they have switched to wireless charging,

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00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 1: so while you're sitting there at a slot machine, you

1093
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: can just put your phone down and it will wirelessly charge.

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00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:53,279
Speaker 1: The other thing that I'm seeing is the idea of

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00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:55,279
Speaker 1: back in the day, you were not allowed to take

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00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,520
Speaker 1: pictures in a casino, or it was frowned upon. Like

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00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 1: I specifically remember when we first started having cell phones

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00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 1: and casinos, they were just like no, no, no, can't take pictures.

1099
00:53:03,320 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: And now, of course there's selfie stations, which is a

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00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:09,879
Speaker 1: whole other thing. So it's just the changes that are

1101
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 1: happening are happening rapidly, and if you're not watching them,

1102
00:53:14,120 --> 00:53:16,439
Speaker 1: you may not realize just how much of these things

1103
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:17,040
Speaker 1: are changing.

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00:53:17,360 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 3: Now.

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00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: As a tech person, I find it very fascinating to

1106
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: just watch this digital transformation of almost every industry and

1107
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:28,040
Speaker 1: in Vegas and almost everywhere. It's like we are doing

1108
00:53:28,080 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 1: more and more on our own. It's much more self

1109
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,760
Speaker 1: service no matter what you're doing these days, and it's

1110
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:38,000
Speaker 1: almost like tech creep right where it's just it's creeping

1111
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: up on us and we don't really realize that it's

1112
00:53:40,160 --> 00:53:43,160
Speaker 1: all just changing very quickly. So I mentioned these spring

1113
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: Break travel apps. I tested a bunch. I put a

1114
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:48,080
Speaker 1: piece on KTLA last week. I tested a whole bunch

1115
00:53:48,080 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: of apps and here's the ones that I would recommend.

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00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,879
Speaker 1: All right, So first off, if you need some help

1117
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,040
Speaker 1: with packing, the app is called pack point, So you

1118
00:53:56,120 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: put in some details about your trip, where you're going,

1119
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 1: It looks at the weather and it just a list

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00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: based on the activities and whether where you're going. And

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00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: so that's called packpoint, and it's just a nice thing

1122
00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,040
Speaker 1: if you're always forgetting something when you pack. Tripsy so

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00:54:10,080 --> 00:54:11,800
Speaker 1: a lot of people like this app called trip it,

1124
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:14,680
Speaker 1: which puts an itinerate together for your travel. Tripsy is

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00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more consumer oriented, and what I love

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00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,399
Speaker 1: about it is once you put everything in there, then

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00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: you can share it with friends and families. You can

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00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:26,120
Speaker 1: share your whole itinerary. Now, when it comes to hotels,

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00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 1: you got to check out Google Hotels to see if

1130
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:32,200
Speaker 1: there's any cheap dates for where you're going. They will

1131
00:54:32,239 --> 00:54:35,160
Speaker 1: mark things as deals because Google has so much data.

1132
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:37,360
Speaker 1: So definitely go to Google Hotels if you have not

1133
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: done that. You gotta be careful though, because sometimes they

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00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:43,400
Speaker 1: will lead you to some sort of random hotel sites

1135
00:54:43,400 --> 00:54:45,080
Speaker 1: that you don't want to book on, so just be careful.

1136
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: And I also mentioned Flighty that is a beautiful flight

1137
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: tracking app.

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00:54:48,840 --> 00:54:49,600
Speaker 3: On iOS.

1139
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,600
Speaker 1: But if you're on Android, check out an app called

1140
00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: flight Aware. I love flight Aware because it gives you

1141
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: really good flight alerts, especially if you have someone that's

1142
00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:00,600
Speaker 1: coming into town. Flight Aware will help you know when

1143
00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: they take off, when they land, baggage, all that good stuff.

1144
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Speaker 1: I've got this all linked up on my website at

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00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: Richontech dot TV. Coming up, we're gonna talk evs. You're

1146
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:16,560
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1147
00:55:16,680 --> 00:55:20,600
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here talkin technology at triple eight Rich one

1148
00:55:20,640 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

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00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:28,040
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. So this week had a

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00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:33,200
Speaker 1: little fun with a EV called the Lucid. Lucid is

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00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 1: a new car company that is building luxury evs, and

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00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:43,759
Speaker 1: the one that I testdrove is the Lucid Air. And

1153
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,960
Speaker 1: this isn't a car that's very expensive. Let me let

1154
00:55:46,960 --> 00:55:49,359
Speaker 1: me get the specs up here. We did the Touring edition.

1155
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 1: So this one hundred and seven thousand dollars, dual motor,

1156
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:58,439
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty horsepower, three point four seconds zero

1157
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: to sixty and by the way, the top of the

1158
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: line goes zero to sixty in two point six seconds

1159
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: with over a thousand horsepower. I am not a car guy,

1160
00:56:07,560 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 1: but a thousand horsepower seems pretty pretty intense. Even this

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00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:16,759
Speaker 1: six hundred and twenty was pretty intense. Battery is the

1162
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: thing about this company, and I think they're trying to

1163
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 1: take that Apple model is efficiency. So the battery compared

1164
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: to the software, they get about four hundred and twenty

1165
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: five miles to the charge and that's the big lead here.

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00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:30,719
Speaker 2: All right.

1167
00:56:30,760 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 1: So while I was up in Ventura, I talked to

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Speaker 1: John Faulkner. He's a senior editor at clean Fleet Report.

1169
00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 1: They talk all about EV's. Enjoy our conversation, Rich DeMuro

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00:56:41,360 --> 00:56:46,600
Speaker 1: here in Ventura, California, actually on a Lucid EV drive.

1171
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,839
Speaker 1: So I'm testing out a new car called the Lucid Air.

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00:56:50,400 --> 00:56:54,360
Speaker 3: This is a very high end EV. Expensive but it's.

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00:56:54,200 --> 00:56:57,000
Speaker 1: Got a long range and it's really a luxury vehicle.

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00:56:57,520 --> 00:56:59,719
Speaker 1: Joining me on the trip is John Faulkner. He is

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00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,680
Speaker 1: the senior writer at cleanfleet Report dot com.

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00:57:03,680 --> 00:57:06,920
Speaker 3: He tests a lot of evs. John, thanks so much

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Speaker 3: for joining me.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Rich, fantastic all right, So what are your impressions

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00:57:10,400 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 1: of this Lucid First off, the first.

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00:57:13,760 --> 00:57:16,520
Speaker 10: Thing is that it's one of four models that they have,

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00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:19,959
Speaker 10: and they began with their first two models that were

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00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 10: over one hundred thousand dollars and this one is at

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00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,160
Speaker 10: ninety two thousand dollars. Yes, it has a smaller battery,

1184
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 10: but you're still going to be getting several hundred miles

1185
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 10: in range. And we just drove it from Malibu through

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00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 10: the mountains down here to Ventura and it handled extremely

1187
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:43,440
Speaker 10: well on the on the twisties and using regenitive braking.

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00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:46,360
Speaker 10: I didn't touch the brakes on the whole time I

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Speaker 10: went through the mountains.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, so you were just letting it kind of

1191
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:51,880
Speaker 1: it kind of slows down. That's a new experience for

1192
00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:53,720
Speaker 1: a lot of folks if you haven't driven an EV.

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 1: What's happening in that In that scenario.

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00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,800
Speaker 10: Whenever you lift off the accelerator, and with an EV

1195
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 10: you don't call it the gas pedal, it slows the motors.

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00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,280
Speaker 10: And when the motors are slowing or it comes to

1197
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 10: a stop, you are regenerating kinetic energy heat from the

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Speaker 10: motor back into the battery. You can actually watch on

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Speaker 10: the battery gauge. You can watch the you can watch

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Speaker 10: the amount of charge rise.

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Speaker 3: So you've been reviewing evs for a long time.

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00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: Is there increased interest or is it at interest at

1203
00:58:28,800 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: all time highs at this point?

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00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 10: Well, it certainly is. And I live in California, and

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Speaker 10: California is the center for electric vehicles in the United States.

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00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 10: And we have in this state the most robust built

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00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 10: out charging network and then people are doing solar panels,

1208
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:53,560
Speaker 10: people are putting level two chargers in their house, and

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00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:59,960
Speaker 10: so this state has really adopted electric vehicle propulsion.

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00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,000
Speaker 1: What if I live in another state, what what's the

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00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:04,120
Speaker 1: state of affairs there?

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Speaker 10: Several states are getting into building out their infrastructure also,

1213
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 10: and the the current Inflation Reduction Act also called ira A,

1214
00:59:16,600 --> 00:59:20,920
Speaker 10: billions are going into building out the the electric charging

1215
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:24,600
Speaker 10: infrastructure around the United States. But as far as individual

1216
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:27,440
Speaker 10: states go, it really comes down to and I hate

1217
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 10: to say it, but it's politics, and some states don't

1218
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Speaker 10: want to believe in electric.

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00:59:34,920 --> 00:59:35,440
Speaker 1: Vehicles.

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Speaker 10: There are actually a couple of states that say that

1221
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 10: they want to ban electric vehicles from being sold there.

1222
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 10: And so this is this is not a nationwide grasping

1223
00:59:47,080 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 10: of the technology. It certainly is along the coasts Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona,

1224
00:59:55,720 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 10: Texas has a has a large ev population U as

1225
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:01,960
Speaker 10: as does the Northeast.

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Speaker 1: So what are some of the benefits to evs versus

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01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 1: the challenge of owning an EV.

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Speaker 10: Well, the benefit is that every single time that you

1229
01:00:10,040 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 10: drive down the street, you drive by a gasoline station

1230
01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,600
Speaker 10: that has assigned five twenty five for gasoline, you can

1231
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 10: just say oh and off you go, so you don't stop.

1232
01:00:20,920 --> 01:00:24,600
Speaker 10: That's that's what's nice about that. The also owning an

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Speaker 10: EV versus a conventional internal combustion engine car is that

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01:00:29,240 --> 01:00:33,200
Speaker 10: you don't have tune ups. You you don't have there's

1235
01:00:33,920 --> 01:00:38,240
Speaker 10: no fluids changed, there's no belts there the brakes I

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01:00:38,360 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 10: mentioned regenerative braking. Actually what that is is that's the

1237
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 10: motor slowing the vehicle. That means that the brakes, the

1238
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 10: brake pads are not being used as much. There are

1239
01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:51,280
Speaker 10: stories of people in some EV's going over one hundred

1240
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 10: thousand miles before they change their brake pads. So the

1241
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:58,120
Speaker 10: cost of maintenance is a serious consideration when it comes

1242
01:00:58,160 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 10: down to owning an electric fevehicle. Since the average that

1243
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 10: a person drives every day is forty five miles round trip.

1244
01:01:06,600 --> 01:01:09,240
Speaker 10: If you have a vehicle that gets one hundred and

1245
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 10: fifty to three hundred miles on a charge. You can

1246
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 10: figure out how you only have to do that. Vehicle

1247
01:01:15,920 --> 01:01:18,800
Speaker 10: may charge it once once a week. But if you're

1248
01:01:18,840 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 10: plugging it in every night, just like you would your

1249
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:24,360
Speaker 10: mobile phone every night, plug in your car at home,

1250
01:01:24,920 --> 01:01:28,200
Speaker 10: you top off the battery and we're back to the

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01:01:28,240 --> 01:01:30,160
Speaker 10: beginning of what we said. You drive by the gas

1252
01:01:30,160 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 10: stations and you get that kind of a nice feeling.

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01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: Now, whenever I do a story about EVS and post

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01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: it to my social media, I get the folks saying.

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01:01:38,760 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 3: Well, what about these batteries.

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01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:43,560
Speaker 1: They're dirty, they can't be recycled, you can't do anything

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01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: with them.

1258
01:01:44,680 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 3: What can you speak to that at all? The battery

1259
01:01:47,480 --> 01:01:49,880
Speaker 3: does it have a life after the car batteries?

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01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 10: Absolutely do. They are being recycled in a way that

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01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:55,920
Speaker 10: people probably didn't think several years ago they could be.

1262
01:01:56,480 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 10: There are companies that are completely dedicated to recycling the batteries.

1263
01:01:59,760 --> 01:02:02,600
Speaker 10: But it's it's not just recycling the components, which you've

1264
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 10: heard the term rare earth metals. What they're doing is

1265
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:09,960
Speaker 10: they're taking these and there and they're making battery walls

1266
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:13,160
Speaker 10: out of them, so you get solar panels on your roof. Well,

1267
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:17,120
Speaker 10: that's good, But overnight, when the sun's not hitting your panels,

1268
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 10: you're now on the grid. Well, you have a battery

1269
01:02:20,080 --> 01:02:21,960
Speaker 10: set up in your house, and now you can run

1270
01:02:22,000 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 10: your battery. You can run off of the batteries from

1271
01:02:24,600 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 10: the electric that you've created from the solar panels during

1272
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 10: the day, so they're being repopulated for that. They're also

1273
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:39,000
Speaker 10: there's the battery technology is increasing every single day. The

1274
01:02:39,000 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 10: batteries we're using now in twenty twenty three, this will

1275
01:02:42,600 --> 01:02:45,160
Speaker 10: not be the technology we're using five to ten years

1276
01:02:45,160 --> 01:02:45,560
Speaker 10: from now.

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01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:50,200
Speaker 1: What are some of your favorite or most exciting evs

1278
01:02:50,280 --> 01:02:50,720
Speaker 1: out there?

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01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 3: Besides the Lucid of course, I.

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01:02:53,200 --> 01:02:58,800
Speaker 10: Really like the Kia EV six or the performance version

1281
01:02:58,800 --> 01:02:59,000
Speaker 10: of the.

1282
01:02:58,920 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 3: EV six GT.

1283
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:06,160
Speaker 10: I like the Genesis GV sixty. I like the Hyundai

1284
01:03:06,400 --> 01:03:10,760
Speaker 10: Ionic five. The common thread running through all those is

1285
01:03:10,800 --> 01:03:14,560
Speaker 10: they're all they're all produced by the Hyundai Group, and

1286
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:19,320
Speaker 10: somehow Hundai has electric compulsion figured out. I like the

1287
01:03:19,360 --> 01:03:22,520
Speaker 10: Machi from Ford. It's a very nice vehicle. I think

1288
01:03:22,520 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 10: they're probably the best value on the market. Is the Bolt,

1289
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:29,160
Speaker 10: whether you get the bolt or you get the one

1290
01:03:29,200 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 10: called the EUV, which stands for Electric Utility Vehicle wonderful vehicle,

1291
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:38,120
Speaker 10: almost three hundred miles in range. The vehicle costs, you know,

1292
01:03:38,720 --> 01:03:42,480
Speaker 10: around thirty thousand dollars, and it qualifies for all of

1293
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:45,680
Speaker 10: the all of the tax rebates for the Feds and

1294
01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:50,000
Speaker 10: state rebates also. So those are some of them, but

1295
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 10: there are. Every single day, it seems a manufacturer is

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Speaker 10: announcing they're coming out with electric vehicle. Now some of

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Speaker 10: them are quite exotic, and some of them are going

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Speaker 10: to be hopefully on the on the lower end, and

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Speaker 10: so that that's going to be the shakeout is an

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Speaker 10: EV for everybody. They're not for everybody, and we need

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Speaker 10: to we need to stress that that's either because of

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Speaker 10: their driving lifestyle, what they do, their vocation. And another

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Speaker 10: thing is going to be the charging situation, and that

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Speaker 10: is that here in California, where it's temperate, you plug

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Speaker 10: in your vehicle and you're going to get a maximum charge.

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Speaker 10: When you go into a climate that is cold, and

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Speaker 10: I don't mean fifty degrees, I mean maybe you know,

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Speaker 10: thirty or thirty below, that vehicle is going to have

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Speaker 10: a reduction in the amount that the battery can charge

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Speaker 10: and also the range that you can drive the vehicle.

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Speaker 10: So most evs are coming out now with what are

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Speaker 10: called battery conditioners. They raise the battery before you charge it.

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Speaker 10: They raise the battery up to the proper temperature so

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Speaker 10: they can accept a full charge. So the technology is

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Speaker 10: changing every single day and it's exciting.

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Speaker 11: And if.

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Speaker 10: You pay attention to ads almost Super Bowl, you will

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Speaker 10: see that everything advertised there was an electric vehicle, all right.

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Speaker 1: John Faulkner of the Clean Fleet Report, tell folks how

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Speaker 1: to find.

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Speaker 10: You cleanfourport dot com. And what you'll find there is

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Speaker 10: that we cover what we consider what we consider alternative

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Speaker 10: fuel vehicles, and so that's anything that's electrified natural gas,

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Speaker 10: hydrogen fuel cell, which is another form of electricity powered

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Speaker 10: vehicles which we did not discuss, and that would also

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Speaker 10: include diesel.

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Speaker 3: All right, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 10: It's been my pleasure.

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Speaker 4: All right.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see a little video from my

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Speaker 1: test drive of the Lucid, we did a zero to

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Speaker 1: sixteen about three point four seconds. I was not exactly

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Speaker 1: prepared for it.

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Speaker 3: It's pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: You can find that on my Instagram at rich On Tech.

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Dumuro more of rich On Tech. After this,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here plus

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Speaker 1: your calls at eight eight eight rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 1: I finished that Elvis movie last night. I don't know

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Speaker 1: if you've seen this, but it's the one it's I

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Speaker 1: called it, and I I called it the Tom Hanks

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Speaker 1: Elvis movie, and I realized that I was wrong because

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Speaker 1: this was before I saw it. It's really the Austin

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Speaker 1: Butler Elvis movie. But I wasn't familiar with this actor

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Speaker 1: before I watched it, and wow, he did a great job.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm very late on this movie because I

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Speaker 1: see things sometimes with movies. It takes me a long time,

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Speaker 1: and it took me two weeks to finish this movie,

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Speaker 1: but it was. It was really good, and I tweeted

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Speaker 1: yesterday saying, I hope it's accurate because almost all of

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Speaker 1: my knowledge of Elvis now is from this movie, and

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Speaker 1: so I hope that it was at least somewhat accurate

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Speaker 1: because that's all I know about Elvis. And wow, I

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Speaker 1: mean just such just a visually stunning movie. So if

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Speaker 1: you haven't seen it, definitely check it out. Took me

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Speaker 1: a bit to get on board with it, but I did.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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

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

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Speaker 1: zero one.

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Speaker 3: Let me do a question.

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Speaker 1: I get a lot of questions via email, so let

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Speaker 1: me do a question I got from Roslind. She says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: what are your recommendations regarding a laptop versus an iPad

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Speaker 1: from Microsoft Office? I use it for personal nothing too fancy.

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Speaker 1: Thanks in advance, Roz Roz. Here is my thought about

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Speaker 1: a laptop versus an iPad. Okay, laptop is great if

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Speaker 1: you are getting work done. It is a phenomenal work

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Speaker 1: device you want to do You mentioned Microsoft Office. That

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Speaker 1: leads me to believe that you want to do work

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Speaker 1: on this device, whether it is email, whether it is

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Speaker 1: writing documents, whether it is creating something anything. That's what

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Speaker 1: I think a laptop is best for. The iPad is

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Speaker 1: a phenomenal device, But the iPad is more of a

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Speaker 1: content consumption device. And don't get me wrong, people do

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Speaker 1: plenty of content creation on iPads. It can be used

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Speaker 1: in many, many different ways. But I would say a

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Speaker 1: majority of the people who are using an iPad are

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Speaker 1: using it to consume content, whether that's Netflix, whether that

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Speaker 1: is just reading their email, whether that's Web browsing, whether

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Speaker 1: that's reading a book. You can do a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff on an iPad. It is an incredible device. But

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Speaker 1: you mentioned Microsoft Office specifically, and so in that case,

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Speaker 1: I would say you probably want a laptop. A laptop

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Speaker 1: is going to be much more suited because of that

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Speaker 1: keyboard that's built in, because of the screen, because of

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Speaker 1: the ports.

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Speaker 3: It's just going to be easy to use.

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Speaker 1: Now, I will say I wish that Apple would get

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Speaker 1: on board with a touch screen laptop, which my kids

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Speaker 1: don't understand when they see me using the iPad or

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Speaker 1: they use their iPad and then they go to their laptop.

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Speaker 1: They say, I don't understand why Apple doesn't just have

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Speaker 1: a touch screen, And I say, I don't know, and

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Speaker 1: I think I do know. The answer is that they

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Speaker 1: want you to buy the iPad in addition to the laptop.

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Speaker 1: That's probably why they don't have the touch screen on

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Speaker 1: the laptops. But all the other major companies have moved

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Speaker 1: to a touchscreen laptop for the most part, and so

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Speaker 1: you can have the best of both worlds. Where you

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Speaker 1: see something on the screen, you want to tap a

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Speaker 1: box or whatever you need to do, just tap the screen.

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Speaker 1: That's not the case on the Microsoft or the MacBook computers.

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Speaker 1: I will say that if you are thinking of getting

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Speaker 1: the iPad with the keyboard case and maybe you're just

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Speaker 1: doing light email, maybe you're just doing light work on

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Speaker 1: the iPad, that's another solution because then you truly get

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Speaker 1: the best of both worlds, especially if you're traveling a lot,

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Speaker 1: because then you can have the iPad on the plane

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Speaker 1: and when you get back to the hotel, you can

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Speaker 1: actually do your work and email with that little keyboard.

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Speaker 1: Those keyboards are never as good though, That's the bottom

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Speaker 1: line with that. Susan wrote in and said, my nephew

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Speaker 1: suggested I start using duck duck goo to search and

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Speaker 1: duck for my emails.

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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts, Sue? Okay.

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Speaker 1: Duck Duckgo is a search engine that prides itself on privacy.

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Speaker 1: That is the main thing. And you've probably seen the

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Speaker 1: ads if you go to their website duck duckgo dot com,

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Speaker 1: it says, tired of being tracked online?

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Speaker 3: We can help.

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Speaker 1: We don't store your personal information, we don't follow you

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Speaker 1: around with ads, we don't track you.

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Speaker 3: Ever, there's no sign up for this.

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Speaker 1: You don't need an account to search, and their big

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Speaker 1: thing is that it is private compared to Google, that

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Speaker 1: as soon as you start searching, they're recording everything you're

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Speaker 1: doing and putting it into a profile of who you

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Speaker 1: are and what you're searching for, so that they can

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Speaker 1: sell ads against that. So duc Ducco still has ads,

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Speaker 1: but I think they're sold on a more broad level

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Speaker 1: and they're not necessarily targeted towards you. They're targeted towards

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Speaker 1: what you might be searching for. So if you search

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Speaker 1: for kayaks, you're gonna get ads for kayaks, but the

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Speaker 1: kayak company does not remember that you were searching for

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Speaker 1: kayaks specifically. They just know that you happen to be

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Speaker 1: searching for kayaks at that time. There's a difference there,

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Speaker 1: and that's the reason why you get those follow follow

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Speaker 1: me around ads where you search for a pair of

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Speaker 1: shoes on one website or sneakers, and next thing you know,

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Speaker 1: they're following you around to every other website because those

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Speaker 1: shoe sellers have gotten information from Google that say, oh,

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Speaker 1: you visited this website. In fact, they're getting the information

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Speaker 1: from the website that you first visit. So let me

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Speaker 1: explain how that works. You go to a website, let's

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Speaker 1: say you go to a shoe website. That shoe website

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Speaker 1: has a little tracking pixel in it from Facebook, from Google,

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Speaker 1: from Microsoft, from other companies that serve up ads, and

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Speaker 1: every time once you go to that website, it says, oh,

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro visited here. Now it may not have my

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Speaker 1: name per se, but it has a link to who

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Speaker 1: I am online, And so that website says, all right,

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Speaker 1: Rich visited here. He looked at these sneakers and that's

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Speaker 1: what he's interested in, and that information now goes into

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Speaker 1: this little database. And then when I go to a

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Speaker 1: different website, it says, oh, by the way, Rich was

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Speaker 1: looking for these sneakers before, so you should show him

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Speaker 1: these sneakers up higher on our search results because he's

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Speaker 1: probably looking for those. And by the way, you might

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Speaker 1: want to send him a deal for those sneakers because

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Speaker 1: he's looking for those sneakers. Let's get him to make

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Speaker 1: that purchase. Let's convert him, as they say. And so

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Speaker 1: that's really what's happening. And the more that you search,

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Speaker 1: the more information they get about you, the more they

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Speaker 1: realize that you like to do outdoor stuff, you have

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Speaker 1: a boat, you make a certain amount of money, you

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01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: go to this place. You're looking at that place for

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Speaker 1: a vacation, And all these websites that you visit sort

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Speaker 1: of aang their information to prioritize the things that they

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Speaker 1: think you like. And when you search on Google, same

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Speaker 1: thing happens. It kind of knows what you're looking for.

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01:13:09,320 --> 01:13:12,559
Speaker 1: It prioritizes ads, and they sell ads at a higher

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Speaker 1: cost based on knowing more about you. So it's a

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Speaker 1: big business. So what I recommend Duck doc go Yes,

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Speaker 1: if you like your privacy. I'm not a personally the

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Speaker 1: biggest fan of the search results that you get, but

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Speaker 1: I will recommend getting the Duck email address. In fact,

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Speaker 1: I have that email address. It's at Duck dot com

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Speaker 1: and it's a privacy centric email address that does not

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Speaker 1: track you, and so it strips all the trackers out

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Speaker 1: of your email when someone sends you something. So I

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01:13:39,280 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 1: use that when I sign up for websites that I

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Speaker 1: may be shopping on or something like that, or maybe

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Speaker 1: just one time things where I just you know, if

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Speaker 1: I'm signing up for Wi Fi at a Starbucks, I'll

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Speaker 1: just give out my Duck dot com email address so

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,920
Speaker 1: that way I can just turn off that email and

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Speaker 1: it's not tracking me and they don't know what's going on.

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Speaker 1: They don't get my real email address. So yeah, sure,

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Speaker 1: as a secondary email address, it's free.

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Speaker 3: Why not sign up for that?

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Speaker 1: But as for Duck Duco, you know, it's fine. I

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Speaker 1: think that you know, if you like the search results

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Speaker 1: and it's working for you, go for it. Coming up

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Speaker 1: next on the show, we've got Jefferson Graham joining me,

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Speaker 1: tech guy extraordinaire. He's going to talk about getting better

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Speaker 1: pictures with your iPhone plus. Your call is a triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the third hour of rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich DeMuro, hanging out talking technology with you,

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Speaker 1: waiting for Jefferson Graham to arrive. He's going to join

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Speaker 1: me former USA Today Talking Tech reporter. He's gonna join

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Speaker 1: me in studio. We're gonna chat about the new yellow

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Speaker 1: iPhone taking pictures.

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Speaker 3: Let's see what else do I have for him. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Oh, Apple's new classical music app. That's interesting, So I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna get his take on that. Why he thinks they

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01:14:57,800 --> 01:15:00,720
Speaker 1: did a separate app just for classical music. You can

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01:15:00,760 --> 01:15:03,840
Speaker 1: find me online at rich on Tech. My website is

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01:15:04,160 --> 01:15:07,120
Speaker 1: rich on tech dot tv. If you want to prove

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01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,280
Speaker 1: the links I've got on there. It's all the stuff

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01:15:09,320 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 1: I talk about on TV, my newsletter and all of

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01:15:12,720 --> 01:15:15,880
Speaker 1: my social media links and a link to a podcast

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01:15:15,960 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 1: version of this show. Jesse is in Brooksville, Florida. Jesse,

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01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:20,760
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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01:15:21,920 --> 01:15:22,840
Speaker 9: Hey Rich, how's it going?

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01:15:22,880 --> 01:15:23,080
Speaker 11: Man?

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01:15:23,479 --> 01:15:25,200
Speaker 3: Everything's going well? How about you?

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01:15:26,280 --> 01:15:31,120
Speaker 11: Awesome? Pretty awesome? Yeah, just a quick question. Basically, I

1521
01:15:31,200 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 11: just switched over to my carrier, my cell phone carrier,

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01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:40,680
Speaker 11: to be my internet provided or at my home. So

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01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:42,679
Speaker 11: basically just a few months, I want to say, maybe

1524
01:15:42,800 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 11: like in summer, like June July, I went to do

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01:15:45,240 --> 01:15:47,360
Speaker 11: some upgrades on my cell phones and then you know,

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01:15:47,400 --> 01:15:50,760
Speaker 11: they they made us the offer of doing that. I

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01:15:50,800 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 11: thought it was too good to be true, actually, just

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01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:55,960
Speaker 11: because I'm actually saving money on what I was paying

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01:15:55,960 --> 01:15:59,440
Speaker 11: my cable company for Internet. Sure, that was pretty skeptical,

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01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 11: pretty skeptical as to, you know, is this going to

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01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 11: be as good? You know, we stream HD, we do

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01:16:04,760 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 11: you know the works, you know Netflix, there's a thousand devices,

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01:16:08,680 --> 01:16:11,400
Speaker 11: you know, all that kind of stuff. So I guess

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01:16:11,640 --> 01:16:13,640
Speaker 11: they gave me a money back guarantee. You know that

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01:16:13,680 --> 01:16:14,880
Speaker 11: if I didn't like it, I could return it, but

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01:16:14,880 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 11: I'm gonna go for it. Well, lo and behold. I

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01:16:17,280 --> 01:16:20,640
Speaker 11: mean I started connecting one thing after the others, my

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01:16:20,720 --> 01:16:24,000
Speaker 11: security system and everything little by literal was holding, holding, holding,

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01:16:24,400 --> 01:16:28,240
Speaker 11: and it's still holding. But I've been wondering, you know,

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01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:30,680
Speaker 11: the other day, I was just thinking about that. As

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01:16:31,080 --> 01:16:34,000
Speaker 11: we hear about so much hacking and stuff and craziness

1542
01:16:34,000 --> 01:16:35,799
Speaker 11: out there, I was wondering, I wonder how.

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01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 5: Secure is this?

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01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:36,559
Speaker 7: You know?

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01:16:36,720 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 11: Is it as secure as what I had with.

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01:16:39,000 --> 01:16:39,679
Speaker 8: My cable company.

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01:16:39,720 --> 01:16:41,320
Speaker 11: I've been meaning to call for a while now, and

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01:16:41,360 --> 01:16:42,719
Speaker 11: I finally got around to it today.

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01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 3: Good question.

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01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:48,000
Speaker 1: So you're wondering if the home internet because you're you're

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01:16:48,000 --> 01:16:50,720
Speaker 1: basically getting home Internet through your cable or through your

1552
01:16:50,760 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 1: cellular provider, which I'm guessing is either T Mobile or Verizon.

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01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 8: Right, it is T Mobile.

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01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:57,800
Speaker 11: And it's like this device that you put in your house.

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01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 11: It's like a little power that you sit there and

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01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 11: it basically just starts to you know, it is the

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01:17:03,400 --> 01:17:06,280
Speaker 11: one that sends out that signal and everything just connects

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01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:10,080
Speaker 11: to it. It behaves like Wi Fi if everything recognizes

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01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 11: it like Wi Fi.

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01:17:11,600 --> 01:17:13,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so what it's doing.

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01:17:13,120 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 1: Is it's basically a capturing a signal, a cellular signal

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01:17:17,040 --> 01:17:19,719
Speaker 1: from outside. Typically they want you to put these little

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01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:23,360
Speaker 1: routers near a window. It captures the cellular signal and

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01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 1: then it broadcasts that cellular signal out as a Wi

1565
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:30,360
Speaker 1: Fi signal in your home. So, for all intents and purposes,

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01:17:30,520 --> 01:17:34,080
Speaker 1: it functions exactly the same as your wired internet box

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01:17:34,080 --> 01:17:37,680
Speaker 1: that you typically have from your cable company or a

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01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:41,760
Speaker 1: fiber company, or back in the day you know a

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01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,640
Speaker 1: company that would provide just phone service, right like an

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01:17:44,680 --> 01:17:47,679
Speaker 1: AT and T or something. So it's it's very similar,

1571
01:17:47,760 --> 01:17:51,599
Speaker 1: except the cable that connects this box is no longer

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01:17:51,640 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 1: a cable. It's just wireless, so it's a five G signal.

1573
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:57,640
Speaker 1: So is it as secure that's a great question. I

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01:17:57,720 --> 01:18:01,040
Speaker 1: actually think that it is very secure. I think that

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01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 1: the problems that happen with hacking ninety nine percent of

1576
01:18:04,760 --> 01:18:06,920
Speaker 1: the time have to do with the network itself and

1577
01:18:07,000 --> 01:18:10,520
Speaker 1: the devices themselves, and actually the people that are accessing

1578
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:13,160
Speaker 1: these things on the network. So I'm going to tweet

1579
01:18:13,160 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 1: out this PDF that actually the National Security Agency recently

1580
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,640
Speaker 1: put out. This was in February. It's a best practices

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01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:26,600
Speaker 1: for securing your home network. And the bottom line is

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01:18:26,640 --> 01:18:29,720
Speaker 1: that people may get on your home network to get

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01:18:29,720 --> 01:18:32,960
Speaker 1: access to your devices. And the reality is once someone's

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01:18:33,080 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 1: inside your home, if they are connecting on your network,

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01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 1: that's when they can do the most damage because they

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01:18:39,080 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: are on the inside. From the outside, it's a little

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01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:44,280
Speaker 1: bit tougher. You have to have an open port. You

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01:18:44,320 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: have to Most of these routers come come to you

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01:18:47,439 --> 01:18:50,559
Speaker 1: in a way that it's pretty much locked down and

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01:18:50,920 --> 01:18:54,640
Speaker 1: unless you do something, unless you go into these settings

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01:18:54,680 --> 01:18:58,719
Speaker 1: and you change something, they're going to be locked down

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01:18:58,800 --> 01:19:02,719
Speaker 1: from outside folks getting access to the inside of your network.

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01:19:02,800 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 3: So that's typically how it's done.

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01:19:04,720 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: With that said, a couple of recommendations and going off

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01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:12,360
Speaker 1: this executive summary here, So you got to update your devices.

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01:19:12,360 --> 01:19:13,960
Speaker 1: Those always have to be up to date, and that

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01:19:14,000 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 1: includes this router that T Mobile gave you. You can

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01:19:17,439 --> 01:19:19,400
Speaker 1: log in if you look on the bottom of this router,

1599
01:19:19,760 --> 01:19:22,679
Speaker 1: there is a little log in information. You can access

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01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:25,479
Speaker 1: the software on that router and there may be a

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01:19:25,479 --> 01:19:28,479
Speaker 1: firmware update or a software update for that router. So

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01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:30,240
Speaker 1: I would check to see that would be my first

1603
01:19:30,280 --> 01:19:34,000
Speaker 1: line of defense. Then I would one hundred percent have

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01:19:34,160 --> 01:19:38,080
Speaker 1: a guest network. So if the router supports it, and

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01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 1: many routers, do you want a secondary network that is

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01:19:42,760 --> 01:19:44,840
Speaker 1: just for guests when they come to your home. And

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01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:47,640
Speaker 1: I know it feels weird. I have it on my refrigerator.

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01:19:47,640 --> 01:19:50,240
Speaker 1: I've got a little QR code that people can scan,

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01:19:50,680 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: and it feels odd giving guests this kind of like

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01:19:53,120 --> 01:19:57,040
Speaker 1: secondary network. But the reality is it is protecting your

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01:19:57,080 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 1: network from them. And I'm not saying your friends are

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01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: going to do anything on your network, but you never know.

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01:20:02,920 --> 01:20:04,560
Speaker 1: One of the kids friends may come over with a

1614
01:20:04,640 --> 01:20:07,400
Speaker 1: virus on their computer and it may somehow make its

1615
01:20:07,479 --> 01:20:09,680
Speaker 1: way onto your network. So you don't want to do

1616
01:20:10,520 --> 01:20:13,120
Speaker 1: you don't want to have people connecting to your standard network.

1617
01:20:13,160 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: I know it seems odd to make them connect to

1618
01:20:15,640 --> 01:20:18,799
Speaker 1: a secondary but just make a guest network. Definitely, definitely

1619
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:21,400
Speaker 1: do that. That's a very smart thing to do. And

1620
01:20:21,400 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: then when it comes to the people that are on

1621
01:20:22,960 --> 01:20:27,440
Speaker 1: your network, you want to remind them about standard security,

1622
01:20:27,800 --> 01:20:31,840
Speaker 1: which is clicking links today is pretty much the main

1623
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:36,639
Speaker 1: delivery mechanism for all malware that people are getting attacked by.

1624
01:20:36,960 --> 01:20:39,759
Speaker 1: And so when you're clicking that link that you get

1625
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:42,760
Speaker 1: in an email or a text, message, and then you're

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01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:45,280
Speaker 1: getting some sort of software that's installed in your device

1627
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:48,640
Speaker 1: that is where the problems happen. And so most of

1628
01:20:48,680 --> 01:20:51,360
Speaker 1: the time it's just human error. We're just clicking something

1629
01:20:51,400 --> 01:20:55,200
Speaker 1: without thinking about it, and that gives the bad actors

1630
01:20:56,000 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 1: a method to access our devices and so, and they're

1631
01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:02,080
Speaker 1: always looking for these exploits, and that's the reason why

1632
01:21:02,080 --> 01:21:04,799
Speaker 1: you also want to make sure all of your software

1633
01:21:04,880 --> 01:21:09,280
Speaker 1: is updated on the devices that are connecting to this network. Now,

1634
01:21:09,800 --> 01:21:12,440
Speaker 1: if you want to be really secure, there are devices

1635
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:14,960
Speaker 1: out there that can help you secure your network. And

1636
01:21:15,000 --> 01:21:17,880
Speaker 1: one of them. I have not personally tested this, but

1637
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 1: I know about it. I know it's been out there

1638
01:21:20,080 --> 01:21:23,080
Speaker 1: for a long time. It's called the FIREWALLA. And so

1639
01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:27,799
Speaker 1: a firewall is basically a mechanism that keeps you secure

1640
01:21:27,880 --> 01:21:31,439
Speaker 1: from the outside of the network. And so FIREWALLA is

1641
01:21:31,479 --> 01:21:34,360
Speaker 1: a little device that you plug in to your network

1642
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: and it will block it will basically try to safeguard

1643
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: you as much as possible from anything that might happen

1644
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:43,960
Speaker 1: to your network. Now, some routers have these features built in,

1645
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 1: but this is a third party device that you can get.

1646
01:21:47,320 --> 01:21:51,360
Speaker 1: It's a little expensive. The cheapest one, I believe is

1647
01:21:51,760 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty nine dollars. But it's one of

1648
01:21:55,400 --> 01:21:57,680
Speaker 1: these set and forget type of things. You plug it

1649
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,439
Speaker 1: into your network and you maybe you know, tweak some

1650
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:03,280
Speaker 1: of the settings, but it does a lot of things.

1651
01:22:03,320 --> 01:22:06,600
Speaker 1: So not only does it protect your network from cyber attacks,

1652
01:22:06,920 --> 01:22:09,040
Speaker 1: it's got content filtering. So if you have kids and

1653
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:10,960
Speaker 1: you want to take advantage of some of those things,

1654
01:22:10,960 --> 01:22:13,599
Speaker 1: you can do that. You can block ads across your

1655
01:22:13,720 --> 01:22:16,679
Speaker 1: entire network. So I've got my router set up where

1656
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 1: it will block all the ads on the network, much

1657
01:22:19,320 --> 01:22:21,760
Speaker 1: to my kids dislike because some of these games they

1658
01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: play rely on ads to serve up and they don't

1659
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:27,959
Speaker 1: like that feature of what I do built in VPN,

1660
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:30,400
Speaker 1: so you can also have a VPN that's built into this.

1661
01:22:31,360 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: And there's no monthly fee on this, so that's kind

1662
01:22:33,880 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 1: of nice as well. It's kind of one of those

1663
01:22:35,240 --> 01:22:37,040
Speaker 1: things where you buy it once and it's going to

1664
01:22:37,120 --> 01:22:39,480
Speaker 1: last you for a long time. So again that's FIREWALLA.

1665
01:22:39,880 --> 01:22:42,080
Speaker 1: I don't know if you need this per se on

1666
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:43,960
Speaker 1: your network. I think that I would do all the

1667
01:22:44,000 --> 01:22:47,000
Speaker 1: things that I mentioned first and just make sure that

1668
01:22:47,080 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 1: folks on your network know what's happening. Make sure you

1669
01:22:50,000 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 1: don't have any ports open for any gaming or anything

1670
01:22:53,040 --> 01:22:55,240
Speaker 1: that people are doing. But that's really what you want

1671
01:22:55,280 --> 01:22:56,960
Speaker 1: to do, is just make sure things are locked down

1672
01:22:57,000 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 1: and make sure you have that separate guest network, make

1673
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: sure everything up to date. And I think that's really

1674
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: the best way to protect yourself in a very convenient way.

1675
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:07,320
Speaker 1: And if you want to take things to the next

1676
01:23:07,400 --> 01:23:11,000
Speaker 1: level with this with a physical device like the firewall,

1677
01:23:11,000 --> 01:23:14,400
Speaker 1: and then sure go with something like that. But as

1678
01:23:14,439 --> 01:23:18,599
Speaker 1: for the actual wireless being any more insecure than the wired,

1679
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:19,240
Speaker 1: I don't think so.

1680
01:23:19,360 --> 01:23:21,799
Speaker 3: I think you're going to be just fine. So Jesse, good.

1681
01:23:21,720 --> 01:23:24,599
Speaker 1: Question, Thanks for calling in, appreciate it, and thanks for listening.

1682
01:23:25,560 --> 01:23:28,080
Speaker 1: All right, before we have our guest, Jefferson Graham come

1683
01:23:28,080 --> 01:23:30,599
Speaker 1: into the studio, let me tell you about a new

1684
01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:35,680
Speaker 1: game from the makers of Pokemon Go. So it's called Paradot.

1685
01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:39,800
Speaker 1: So Paradot is launching on May ninth, and this is

1686
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:42,400
Speaker 1: a new game that is sort of like Pokemon Go.

1687
01:23:42,920 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: So think these whimsical little creatures, but these are as

1688
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:51,000
Speaker 1: they describe amazing magical creatures that eat, sleep, play with toys,

1689
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:54,840
Speaker 1: explore their environment, get bored, develop unique personalities, and are

1690
01:23:54,840 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: always in need of a loving adopter like you. They're

1691
01:23:58,200 --> 01:24:01,120
Speaker 1: all unique, and it's your job to feed these things,

1692
01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:02,760
Speaker 1: keep them healthy, keep them love.

1693
01:24:02,840 --> 01:24:03,679
Speaker 3: They're called Dots.

1694
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:07,400
Speaker 1: They start out as a little baby, and basically they

1695
01:24:07,439 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: say this is a game that delivers all the joy

1696
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:12,479
Speaker 1: of raising a pet without the mess. Kind of reminds

1697
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:16,760
Speaker 1: me of these Tamagatchi games. Over the years, there's been

1698
01:24:16,840 --> 01:24:20,000
Speaker 1: a lot of games like this. I think that obviously

1699
01:24:20,160 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 1: with Niantic and Pokemon Go, it's all about the real

1700
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,960
Speaker 1: world meeting the virtual world, and so I think we're

1701
01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,280
Speaker 1: going to see some unique plays there. So if you

1702
01:24:29,320 --> 01:24:32,000
Speaker 1: want to get this new Paradot p E R I

1703
01:24:32,240 --> 01:24:34,479
Speaker 1: d O T. If you want to get this game

1704
01:24:34,560 --> 01:24:37,320
Speaker 1: on your phone, as soon as it launches, you can

1705
01:24:37,400 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 1: go search it in the App Store or Google Play

1706
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,479
Speaker 1: search Paradot, and you can sign up for what's called

1707
01:24:42,520 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: a pre registration and you'll get a notification as soon

1708
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:48,680
Speaker 1: as the app is available. Coming out May ninth. I'll

1709
01:24:48,720 --> 01:24:51,479
Speaker 1: play this, I'll try it out. It's been since twenty

1710
01:24:51,560 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 1: sixteen when Pokemon Go came out, and that game really

1711
01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: changed things with how they mix the real world and

1712
01:24:58,160 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: the augmented reality world and people are still having fun

1713
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 1: playing that. All right, Coming up, Jefferson Graham is going

1714
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:06,000
Speaker 1: to join me. We're going to talk about the new

1715
01:25:06,040 --> 01:25:08,680
Speaker 1: yellow iPhone, which I have in my hand right here.

1716
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get some thoughts on from him about what

1717
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,200
Speaker 1: he thinks of this color, which I'll describe it when

1718
01:25:14,200 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 1: he gets back in here. Plus, we will talk about

1719
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:20,200
Speaker 1: taking better pictures on the iPhone, and we'll talk about

1720
01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:23,760
Speaker 1: Apple's new app just for classical music. You're listening to

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Speaker 1: rich on tech. Give me a call triple eight rich

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

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Speaker 3: One zero one.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell folks about Jefferson so big into photography,

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01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:44,439
Speaker 1: getting the best pictures out of the iPhone, and what

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Speaker 1: have you been up to? Come over to my microphone.

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01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 1: We can share a microphone here.

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Speaker 3: Let's do that. Oh there you go, look at that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, sounds good now, alrighty. I do a video

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Speaker 2: series on YouTube called Photo Walks TV. I take people

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01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,439
Speaker 2: with me to great places and show them how to

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Speaker 2: get better photos, better travel photos on their smartphone. We've

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Speaker 2: got a newsletter comes out every weekend called the Photo

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Speaker 2: Walks TV newsletter. Photography meets Technology meets travel.

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Speaker 1: And I think we just got your mic. The mic

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01:26:23,160 --> 01:26:26,360
Speaker 1: was actually unplugged. You know what I want for this show.

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01:26:26,439 --> 01:26:28,760
Speaker 1: I want to soundboard because I want to be able

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Speaker 1: to do like the different, like the and so now can.

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Speaker 3: We hear you? Let's say, now you know so much better?

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So you're doing photo walks. You've been traveling a

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Speaker 1: lot with this show. Huh, yes, I have. Where we've been.

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Speaker 1: We've been to Solving. Yes, I love Solving. Yes, it's

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01:26:46,760 --> 01:26:49,280
Speaker 1: one of my favorite places. It's this Solving is a

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Speaker 1: city that's about what an hour and a half two

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Speaker 1: hours north.

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Speaker 2: Of a half hours an hour. It's seven thousand people,

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Speaker 2: but they get a million visitors a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's it's in credible. It's like a little it's

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Speaker 1: really like a Hallmark movie twenty four to seven.

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Speaker 2: It's a Danish town that was developed by Danish immigrants

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01:27:08,560 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 2: and they kept all the architecture is incredible. But the

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01:27:13,080 --> 01:27:16,320
Speaker 2: surrounding community is you know, Sandy Inns Valley is out

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Speaker 2: of this world.

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Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful place, great wine tasting up there. They just

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Speaker 1: had a couple of really high end places open up it.

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Speaker 1: For many, many years, it was very much like kind

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Speaker 1: of a three star hotel town. Now they've got this

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Speaker 1: place that is Hotel talk that's really nice, but no

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Speaker 1: even nicer. I'm not even sure what the name is,

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01:27:35,320 --> 01:27:38,799
Speaker 1: but it's this hotel that just opened by Loso Livos. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: it's like more than five star because I know because

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Speaker 1: my wife is planning some sort of like party up

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Speaker 1: there and she has to stay there, and it's very expensive,

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Speaker 1: so we've been debating whether it's worth it.

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Speaker 2: Anybody listening, this is the time to go. Your best

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Speaker 2: time is before spring break. We have a few more weeks.

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Speaker 2: Winner is just gorgeous and it's not jammed, so it's

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Speaker 2: a really good time. And I was in Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: this week as as you were as I was yet

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Speaker 2: and I think we were at different events.

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Speaker 1: I was at no event. I was at my own event,

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01:28:07,520 --> 01:28:10,120
Speaker 1: the Rich DeMuro enjoying Las Vegas. I was supposed to

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Speaker 1: a story there and then that didn't work out. By

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Speaker 1: the way, we're talking with Jefferson Graham, tech Extraordinaire. He

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Speaker 1: is formerly of USA Today and now with Photo Walks TV.

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Speaker 1: Give us a call if you want to talk about

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Speaker 1: tech eight eight eight Rich one O one eight eight

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

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Speaker 3: You want to take a call?

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Speaker 1: Sure, all right, let's see what Tim in uh Oak Hills,

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Speaker 1: California is asking about?

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Speaker 3: Tim? What's on your mind? Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Good afternoon, Rich, Thanks so much. I have a little device.

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Speaker 7: It's kind of cool. It's a little things in China,

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01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:46,759
Speaker 7: like seven or eight blocks, and it's a Bluetooth receiver

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01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,720
Speaker 7: to plunge into a cigarette lighter of the car. I

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01:28:49,720 --> 01:28:51,720
Speaker 7: actually have one of the house, and it turns the

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Speaker 7: Bluetooth signal to my cell phone into an FM signal,

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Speaker 7: So no matter where I go on my property, I

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01:28:57,280 --> 01:29:00,280
Speaker 7: can have different radios on and always hear iHeartRadio. It's

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01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:04,040
Speaker 7: kind of cool to have, you know, multiple radio stations

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01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:08,800
Speaker 7: receivers all around the house from the little thing. It

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01:29:08,840 --> 01:29:11,960
Speaker 7: works perfectly with my little Android phone. But when I

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01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:14,120
Speaker 7: just got a tablet about two or three weeks ago,

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01:29:14,520 --> 01:29:17,080
Speaker 7: it seemed to work fine the first time. But today

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Speaker 7: I actually noticed it yesterday when I trans When I

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Speaker 7: listened to iHeartRadio on the tablet itself, it sounds fine,

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Speaker 7: but when I transmit Bluetooth to this little transceiver, that

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Speaker 7: turns it into an FM signal. It's all garbled and distorted,

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01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:35,240
Speaker 7: and I thought, well, maybe it's the iHeart app. But

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Speaker 7: it does it with my local radio station app as well,

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01:29:38,600 --> 01:29:39,320
Speaker 7: and that's where I'm at.

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Speaker 1: So you've got a device that is maybe I'm not

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01:29:43,000 --> 01:29:46,759
Speaker 1: understanding this. It's a device that's sending a FM signal

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01:29:46,800 --> 01:29:48,440
Speaker 1: through your house or a Bluetooth signal.

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Speaker 3: Through your house.

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Speaker 7: It receives the Bluetooth signal. It's looks look like a

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Speaker 7: little dongle that plugs into a cigarette lighter. Your car

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01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:56,880
Speaker 7: has a little boltmeter on it in the USB charging things.

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Speaker 7: But yeah, it receives a Bluetooth signal from my phone,

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Speaker 7: and then you can adjust which frequency you know, you

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Speaker 7: get to a frequency nobody else is transmitting on. Okay,

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Speaker 7: zero or eighty nine point seven? I think I use

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01:30:08,720 --> 01:30:12,799
Speaker 7: up here, okay, And then it's a nice FM signal

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Speaker 7: that I can listen to radio all over my got it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I'm actually surprised this works that well. But

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Speaker 1: are you is are you sort of in a more

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Speaker 1: rural area.

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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I mean I'm in the high desert.

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Speaker 3: Here at Old Kills, Okay, got it? So?

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Speaker 1: So it so certain stations work, Certain stations don't work.

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Speaker 1: That's what I'm getting from this.

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Speaker 7: Well, the thing is my with my cell phone, everything

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01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,919
Speaker 7: works perfect, no matter what app I use, whether it's iHeart,

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Speaker 7: I heard, I pretty much only use a KFI And

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Speaker 7: I have a local radio station up here called Talk

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Speaker 7: nine to sixty that I listened to occasionally, and that's

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01:30:43,240 --> 01:30:46,080
Speaker 7: they have their own private El Dorado app. That all

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01:30:46,120 --> 01:30:49,479
Speaker 7: sounds fine. So it's not the station, it's just whether

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Speaker 7: it's iHeart app or my local radio station app. My

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Speaker 7: cell phone seems to work perfectly. It's worked two or

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Speaker 7: three years I've been doing. This works great. But with

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Speaker 7: the with the tablet when it connected by Bluetooth, it's

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Speaker 7: garbled and cuts out too as well.

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Speaker 3: What kind of tablet is this?

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Speaker 7: It is a Blue Phones. Yeah, that's b l u okay.

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Speaker 7: You smartphones?

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Speaker 3: That might be it right there. That might model number

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Speaker 3: is M eight l M A l okay.

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Speaker 1: So that might be the reason Blue Blue products are

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Speaker 1: traditionally inexpensive, and they may not have the best Bluetooth

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Speaker 1: in that product, like the the Bluetooth. Yeah, there's different

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01:31:30,520 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: versions of Bluetooth, and so it may be that the

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Speaker 1: version they're using is just a very inexpensive version is that.

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Speaker 2: Tried it on iPad?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say that's what I would do.

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Speaker 1: Get a friend over there, try it on an iPad

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Speaker 1: and see if that works.

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Speaker 7: But well, it works, it works on my cell phone.

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01:31:44,960 --> 01:31:47,080
Speaker 7: I've already I know that the receiver thing works fine,

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01:31:47,160 --> 01:31:49,360
Speaker 7: and it works my cell phone is no problem. But

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Speaker 7: the thing is, it worked two weeks ago, it seemed

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Speaker 7: to work fine. It seems to be just this weekend

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Speaker 7: when I started up.

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Speaker 8: It's just doing it well.

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Speaker 7: I was thinking, would it would it do any good

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Speaker 7: to do a full factory reset, so to speak on Android?

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Speaker 1: Now you're speaking my line. I love doing that. That's

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Speaker 1: my favorite thing to do on any device.

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Speaker 3: I love.

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Speaker 1: Three months.

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Speaker 3: Well, that's that's a lot. That's that's a lot.

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Speaker 1: But I love well I I yeah, I would do

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Speaker 1: the I would do the the full reset. I love

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Speaker 1: doing that. It's you know, you do a factory reset.

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Speaker 1: It gets everything back to the standard the way it

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Speaker 1: was from the factory. Maybe you installed something on this

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01:32:24,360 --> 01:32:27,360
Speaker 1: device that just isn't working properly, or it just isn't

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01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:31,960
Speaker 1: playing nice with this receiver. I'm still not understanding why

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01:32:32,040 --> 01:32:35,240
Speaker 1: you wouldn't just use the app to stream the station.

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Speaker 2: I would just test it on another another person's device

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Speaker 2: and see what happens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's what I would do. But Tim, it

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01:32:41,920 --> 01:32:43,680
Speaker 1: sounds like you've got it figured out. This reminds me

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01:32:43,720 --> 01:32:46,840
Speaker 1: of when I first had, like back in the car,

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01:32:46,920 --> 01:32:49,160
Speaker 1: Like when you would use like your your iPod and

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01:32:49,200 --> 01:32:52,600
Speaker 1: you didn't have like a connection, right, You'd use like

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01:32:52,640 --> 01:32:57,120
Speaker 1: an FM transmitter to get your signal, and it never worked, right.

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01:32:57,120 --> 01:32:59,360
Speaker 1: I ended up having to get it like factory installed.

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Speaker 1: All right, more of rich on tech coming up after this.

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Speaker 1: I've got Jefferson Graham in studio. Give us a call

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01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:06,559
Speaker 1: at Triple eight Rich one oh one. That's eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about the yellow iPhone.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next Jefferson Graham dot nettwalkstv dot com or

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01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 2: two great places. And I've got my newsletter Jefferson Graham

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01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 2: dot substack dot com comes out every Saturday and Sunday.

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Speaker 3: You told me about substack.

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01:33:25,400 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: I signed up and I did it for a bit

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Speaker 1: and I still have my newsletter.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I guess which list.

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01:33:33,120 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 1: But I don't actively do it, but one of these

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01:33:35,360 --> 01:33:37,520
Speaker 1: days I will because I love the newsletter.

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01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:40,559
Speaker 2: Best journalism experience I've ever had, and I've been around

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Speaker 2: for a while.

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01:33:41,080 --> 01:33:44,240
Speaker 3: Because the feedback it's so it's so direct to your fans.

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01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,200
Speaker 2: Yes, and they feel you know, you're going into their

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Speaker 2: email box, and like there's always a question, well, what

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01:33:50,160 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 2: time should I send it? When's a good day to

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01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:55,080
Speaker 2: send It doesn't matter. People are happy to get an

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01:33:55,120 --> 01:33:58,160
Speaker 2: email that's not a sales email at any time of

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01:33:58,200 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 2: the day.

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01:33:58,760 --> 01:34:03,720
Speaker 1: And also, you're in is your inbox like the way

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01:34:03,760 --> 01:34:05,560
Speaker 1: I see my email inboxes.

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Speaker 3: It's all the tasks.

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01:34:06,720 --> 01:34:08,800
Speaker 1: So if I get it no matter what time of

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01:34:08,880 --> 01:34:11,400
Speaker 1: day and I'm going through my emails, I will save

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01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:13,040
Speaker 1: it for later and I will get to it when

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01:34:13,040 --> 01:34:14,439
Speaker 1: I get to it. I don't delete things out of

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Speaker 1: my inbox until I'm done with them, and it's almost like.

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Speaker 3: A little to do list. All right, let's talk about

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01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 3: two things.

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Speaker 1: We've got the new in my hand, the new iPhone

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01:34:23,720 --> 01:34:28,120
Speaker 1: fourteen and fourteen plus. This is the fourteen in yellow, yes,

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01:34:28,479 --> 01:34:31,559
Speaker 1: end of sentence. There's really nothing else except it's a color,

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01:34:31,680 --> 01:34:34,040
Speaker 1: and it's only on the fourteen and plus. It's not

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Speaker 1: on the Pro or Promax. It's yellow yellow like a

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01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:42,360
Speaker 1: bowl of Trix or like Pikachu from Pokemon. That's about

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01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:45,480
Speaker 1: as close. It's Would you call it banana yellow or no?

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01:34:45,479 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 2: No, it's yellower. It's yellower than a banana. It's brighter yellow,

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01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:52,320
Speaker 2: it's bright. Yeah, the question I had. I understand why

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01:34:52,360 --> 01:34:54,160
Speaker 2: Apple does it because it looks good in an ad

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01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:56,719
Speaker 2: And they may sell a few one hundred thousand copies,

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01:34:56,720 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 2: I don't know whatever.

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01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:00,799
Speaker 3: They'll sell millions. So they'll sell millions.

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01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:03,320
Speaker 2: Okay, they'll sell millions. But who do you know who

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01:35:03,400 --> 01:35:04,360
Speaker 2: doesn't have a case.

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Speaker 3: That's my question.

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01:35:06,360 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 2: Okay, and my wife has a case and it happens.

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Speaker 3: To be yellow.

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Speaker 2: Oh so it's like Hlity has a yellow phone. She

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01:35:11,479 --> 01:35:14,479
Speaker 2: was ahead of twenty dollars case or whatever we paid

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01:35:14,479 --> 01:35:17,519
Speaker 2: for it, you know, and there was no need to

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Speaker 2: have this yellow phone. None.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand the phone colors because it's always the

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Speaker 1: same you put a case on.

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Speaker 3: Now, I do have a clear case.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, some people have clear cases.

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Speaker 1: But if you're gonna, I mean, I don't know. And

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Speaker 1: I've been wanting to go caseless, but I actually think

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Speaker 1: my phone is grippier with the case.

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Speaker 3: I like the case on it. And are you caseless.

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Speaker 3: You have the big case.

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Speaker 2: I have the wallet.

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Speaker 3: You have the wallet case. So you can't do that.

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Speaker 2: I don't. I haven't had a wallet for years, so

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Speaker 2: this is my wallet. And then it's been fantastic. And

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Speaker 2: then I have a cage. I have a cage on

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Speaker 2: my other iPhone. A photographer, I'm always going around with

1951
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Speaker 2: multiple iPhones.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: So seven hundred and ninety nine dollars for the one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty eight gigabyte version of this phone, the

1955
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Speaker 1: iPhone fourteen plus and yellow starts at eight ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: It is going to be available. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: I think yesterdaek Yes, wasn't it yesterday? Availability Tuesday, March fourteenth.

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Speaker 1: Pre Orders were on Friday. So if you are looking

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Speaker 1: to get a yellow phone, there you go, or by yourself.

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Speaker 2: It's twenty dollars case.

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Speaker 1: Or buy a case. And you know, but here's the thing, people.

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Speaker 1: Apple has gotten on this cadence where now they come

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Speaker 1: out with a spring color of the iPhone and it's

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Speaker 1: always this. You know, it was purple, then it was blue, red,

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Speaker 1: now it's yellow. So it just it's just the way

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Speaker 1: Apple operates. And I really struggled with this on KTLA

1967
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Speaker 1: because I was like, do I mention like, is this one?

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Speaker 1: I get three news stories a day? Is that one

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Speaker 1: of my news updates?

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's just to justify you know it is. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: let's go to Austin in San Diego.

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Speaker 3: Austin. You're on with Rich and Jefferson.

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Speaker 7: Hey, how's it going?

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Speaker 3: That's going great? How about you? Good?

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Speaker 1: Great?

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Speaker 3: What can we help you with?

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Speaker 4: Hey?

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Speaker 6: So I was just asking about I've always used Chrome

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Speaker 6: as my internet browser, and lately I've been having a

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Speaker 6: lot of issues where it keeps popping up saying I

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Speaker 6: need to updateate web pages, like for banking. I'll open

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Speaker 6: one tab and it loads, you know, six pages, and

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Speaker 6: half the pages don't fully load, or it looks like,

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Speaker 6: you know, it's an HML HTML page without any kind

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Speaker 6: of like anything to it. So question being what would

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Speaker 6: be your recommendation for it internet browser if I still

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Speaker 6: want the conveniences of Google integration with Chrome.

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Speaker 1: Are you running on Windows or Mac Windows? Okay, I

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Speaker 1: think you've got some malware on your computer. I think

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Speaker 1: that's what's happening. And I will tell you that Chrome

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Speaker 1: definitely slows down after a while. So what I would

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Speaker 1: do is I've been using actually Edge for a bit,

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Speaker 1: which is Microsoft's version of Chrome.

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Speaker 3: I don't like it as much as Chrome. I think

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Speaker 3: Chrome is better.

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Speaker 1: The fact that you're saying you're getting update notifications on Chrome,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's a big deal.

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Speaker 3: All you need to do is reopen the app and

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Speaker 3: it updates.

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Speaker 1: So in fact, I just opened my Chrome and I

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01:38:10,000 --> 01:38:12,320
Speaker 1: said relaunch Chrome to finish updating.

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Speaker 2: So uninstall very simply picking off and reinstall.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have to do that. On Windows. There's

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01:38:18,880 --> 01:38:21,360
Speaker 1: actually a built in they're taking it away, but there's

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Speaker 1: a built in reset button on Chrome. Okay, and I

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01:38:24,720 --> 01:38:26,719
Speaker 1: will tell you where it is. Okay, you go here.

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Speaker 1: I have this written down because I actually was going

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Speaker 1: to talk about this, but then Google mentioned that they're

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Speaker 1: getting rid of it because they said that this sort

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Speaker 1: of malware is getting less and less on Chrome, which

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Speaker 1: I don't believe. But okay, if you go into menu

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Speaker 1: and then settings and then reset and it says reset, boom,

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Speaker 1: it will reset all of your values back to zero.

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Speaker 1: It will get rid of all any malware that you

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Speaker 1: have on your device. It will try to clear that out.

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Speaker 1: I would also uninstall any extensions that you have on

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Speaker 1: there get rid of those, or if you don't want

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Speaker 1: to do that, like Jefferson said, you can just uninstall

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Speaker 1: the program reinstall it. But I would do all the

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Speaker 1: software updates as well, So if your Windows is not

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Speaker 1: up to date, I would do that. You might have

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Speaker 1: malware at large on your computer. So if you want

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Speaker 1: to run like something like malware bites, do you have

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Speaker 1: a preferred program that you like to run for malware

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Speaker 1: on Max.

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Speaker 2: We don't tend to have problems with malware.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that's but there are ways.

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Speaker 1: On Mac you can use something like app cleaner to

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Speaker 1: get rid of any fragments of programs or things that

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Speaker 1: you may not want on there if you're trying to uninstall.

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Speaker 3: But that's what I would do. I like Edged.

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Speaker 1: I think it works nicely, but I don't like it

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Speaker 1: more than Chrome. I think Chrome just recently got faster.

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Speaker 1: They just figured out how to optimize the memory for

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Speaker 1: the different tabs you have open. They just figured out

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Speaker 1: how to do the energy savings on it. So I

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Speaker 1: think Chrome is still pretty good for a free web browser,

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Speaker 1: and I think it's secure, it's safe, it has all

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Speaker 1: the programs you need and you mentioned that you want

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Speaker 1: to keep your Google integrations, and Chrome is still the

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Speaker 1: best at when you're using Google products like Drive and Gmail.

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Speaker 1: It's very good at all the making sure that all

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Speaker 1: the features of those programs work in a good way.

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Speaker 3: So, Austin, does that answer your question? You're going to

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Speaker 3: stick with it?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I actually had in your mention of malware, so I

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01:40:26,080 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 6: actually have like a lifetime membership for malware bites. I

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Speaker 6: also use Norton and the only extensions on Chrome is

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01:40:34,560 --> 01:40:38,599
Speaker 6: last Pass, and I think it's like Adobe pdf reader. Okay,

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01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:40,519
Speaker 6: do you still think Do you still think I could

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01:40:40,600 --> 01:40:42,720
Speaker 6: have like malware on you could?

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Speaker 1: It sounds like something some of the settings. If you're

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01:40:45,080 --> 01:40:48,000
Speaker 1: opening up like a banking page and six pages are

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01:40:48,040 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 1: opening that are doing different things, that's typically a sign

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01:40:51,479 --> 01:40:55,200
Speaker 1: of malware. So I would also go through and erase

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Speaker 1: all history. So I would go into the history and

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01:40:58,200 --> 01:41:01,840
Speaker 1: it's there's an option for to erase all of your

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Speaker 1: history for for you know, forever and ever, so I

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01:41:04,120 --> 01:41:06,160
Speaker 1: would do that as well, just to make sure that

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Speaker 1: you have nothing on there that's you know, cookie oriented,

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01:41:08,479 --> 01:41:11,439
Speaker 1: that's messing up things. I would also ditch last Pass,

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01:41:11,479 --> 01:41:15,120
Speaker 1: honestly because at this point, they've had too many security issues.

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Speaker 1: You might want to look into switching to a different

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01:41:16,880 --> 01:41:19,960
Speaker 1: password manager as well. So basically, Austin, you just have

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01:41:20,000 --> 01:41:26,240
Speaker 1: to change your entire, your entire operating operators right now.

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Speaker 3: So it shouldn't be too tough, though. I think those

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01:41:28,800 --> 01:41:29,680
Speaker 3: are the things you want to do.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me know if that works for you

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Speaker 1: with the reset on Chrome before it goes away. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, I think it's gonna work. Thanks for calling

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Speaker 1: from San Diego. Is it raining down there like it

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Speaker 1: is up here?

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Speaker 6: It's it's on and off.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll stay dry, all right, thank you?

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Speaker 1: All right, all right, let's see do we have time

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Speaker 1: to talk about this Apple Classical. They have new Apple

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01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:57,080
Speaker 1: Music Classical app. Jefferson, Why is Apple making a new app?

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Speaker 1: Standalone app designed specifically for classical music? Five million tracks

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Speaker 1: from new releases to celebrated masterpieces, thousands of exclusive albums,

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Speaker 1: the highest audio quality up to one hundred and ninety two.

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Speaker 3: Killer hurts, per Killer hurts? Is that what you say?

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01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:13,599
Speaker 2: Sure?

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Speaker 3: I guess.

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Speaker 1: It will launch on March twenty eighth, requires an Apple

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Speaker 1: Music subscription. It'll be available everywhere except China. Japan, Korea

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01:42:22,040 --> 01:42:27,880
Speaker 1: and Taiwan and uh Android version is coming soon. And

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Speaker 1: to listen to music on Apple Music Classical you must

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Speaker 1: have an Internet connection.

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Speaker 3: That's odd. You can't download the music. So why are

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01:42:33,840 --> 01:42:35,519
Speaker 3: they doing this? I don't understand. Why wouldn't they just

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Speaker 3: put this in the Apple Music app.

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Speaker 2: Believe you need an Internet connection to listen to Apple

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01:42:39,439 --> 01:42:40,200
Speaker 2: Music as well.

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Speaker 3: You can download the music, yeah, but you have to start.

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Speaker 3: I know that's why. But why would they say that specifically?

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Speaker 1: Like I get that you need an internet connection to Like,

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01:42:47,439 --> 01:42:50,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't come with five million songs you just download, right.

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Speaker 2: I think they're very smart to do this. I know

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01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:57,320
Speaker 2: you disagree, but I think it's a very very smart move. Now,

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Speaker 2: first of all, remember they bought this classical scription service already,

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Speaker 2: so they already own it, so they're just putting their

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01:43:03,240 --> 01:43:06,800
Speaker 2: name on it. So Spotify is spotty when it comes

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Speaker 2: to classical music. They've got some stuff they don't have

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01:43:09,120 --> 01:43:13,040
Speaker 2: other stuff. YouTube music is spotty. Classical music fans go

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Speaker 2: downtown sometime, go stand at Disney Hall. You will see

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Speaker 2: some very dedicated classical music lovers. They are really you know,

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Speaker 2: but you know, if the grateful dead fans were enthusiastic.

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Speaker 2: Classical music fans are incredibly enthusiastic, right, So by targeting

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Speaker 2: this audience, they finally have a differentiation for Apple Music.

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Speaker 2: It's different from Spotify. Now they have music that the

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Speaker 2: other people don't have. They've never had that before. But

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Speaker 2: you have to download a separate app.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I just don't I get it that they have people

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Speaker 1: that are very into this. I don't understand why they

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Speaker 1: couldn't just blend it into Apple Music and make it

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Speaker 1: a separate area of the app. But to have a

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Speaker 1: different app. Maybe if you're into classical, you feel like

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Speaker 1: they are speaking to you.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember in a more direct way? Do you

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Speaker 2: remember once upon a time Tower Records. Yes, there were

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Speaker 2: a big, huge, biggest record store and they had a

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Speaker 2: separate classical store across the street. Do you remember that.

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Speaker 1: I do not remember the classical store, but at store.

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Speaker 1: All right, we've got less than a minute. Tell folks

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Speaker 1: where they can.

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Speaker 2: Find you, photowokstv dot com, Jefferson Graham dot net, look

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Speaker 2: for me on YouTube, YouTube dot com, slash Photo, Walks TV.

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Speaker 2: Our latest episode just debut today from Clearwater, Florida, and

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Speaker 2: I'm working on an episode, thanking viewers for helping me

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Speaker 2: cross one million views, which happened this week.

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Speaker 1: Amazing, I see I need the little congrats. All right,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me in the studio today.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. We had some fun here with the callers.

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Speaker 1: We're going to wrap up the show coming up next.

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Speaker 1: More of your calls if I can fit one more

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Speaker 1: in at triple eight Rich one O one. That's eight

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

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Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology online.

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Speaker 3: Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: That's all of my social media is under that so

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Speaker 1: if you want to find me online, that's where you

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Speaker 1: can do it. Tony is in Daytona Beach, Florida. Tony,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich. Hey, Rich's great.

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Speaker 3: What can I help you with?

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Speaker 4: Okay? I write copies sometimes for a radio talk show

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Speaker 4: like uh, you guys should do sure and uh sometimes

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Speaker 4: they run. It's like writing a long letter and I'm

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Speaker 4: looking for the best format, in the easiest format to

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Speaker 4: write a letter like that and easy to control, like

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Speaker 4: h Yahoo or Google or your Facebook or what's what

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Speaker 4: site I should go to Okay, it's the best email format.

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Speaker 1: Like that email. Oh email program? Okay, got it? Okay, email. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean I think that, uh Google, I use Google

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Speaker 1: Docs for everything. I use Gmail for everything, and I

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Speaker 1: would say those are probably your best combination. I also

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Speaker 1: wrote a book, and I wrote the entire book in

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Speaker 1: a combination of Apple Notes and then Google Docs, so

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Speaker 1: I've written large amounts of text. I do the entire

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Speaker 1: planning of this show on Google Docs and also through

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Speaker 1: my email program as well, So I don't think you

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Speaker 1: need anything special.

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Speaker 3: Those are all free.

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Speaker 1: And the one trick I would tell you with Google

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Speaker 1: Docs is if you type in your once you sign

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Speaker 1: up for g you know, Google, and have all your

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Speaker 1: stuff figured out and you're logged in, if you type

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01:46:43,240 --> 01:46:47,880
Speaker 1: in doc dot new on your web browser, that will

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Speaker 1: open up a new document. So if you're trying to

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01:46:50,200 --> 01:46:52,920
Speaker 1: just do something fast and quick and easy and you

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Speaker 1: don't want to have to go through, just type in

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Speaker 1: doct new and that will open up a fresh document

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Speaker 1: for you on your on your web browser. So that's

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Speaker 1: the way I do it. I organize everything through there. Now,

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Speaker 1: when I wrote my book, I use a program to

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Speaker 1: publish it. It was called Vellum v E L l

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Speaker 1: U M. But that's really a book publishing app. And

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Speaker 1: I also tested out another app. It was called I

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Speaker 1: believe it was Scrivener, But it doesn't sound like you

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Speaker 1: wanted to write a book. It sounds like you're just

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Speaker 1: writing scripts and things like that. And with the scripts

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Speaker 1: if you want, you know, I know, for radio and

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01:47:29,800 --> 01:47:33,120
Speaker 1: TV sometimes scripts need to fit a certain format. So

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Speaker 1: in that case, I actually make a template of what

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Speaker 1: a script typically looks like, which is two columns and

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Speaker 1: one side is bigger than the other, and just large

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Speaker 1: text on there as well, so you can do that too.

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Speaker 1: The other program I really like for writing is called

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Speaker 1: Bear B E A R. And what's great about this,

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Speaker 1: and Tony, this may work for you since you're doing

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Speaker 1: stuff that's for radio and you might need to time

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Speaker 1: stuff out. What I love about Bear is that it

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Speaker 1: times out what you write. So if you go into

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Speaker 1: something that you wrote in Bear, there's a little icon

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Speaker 1: and it tells you how many words, how many characters,

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Speaker 1: how many paragraphs. But the best part is it tells

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Speaker 1: you how long it takes to read that. And for me,

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Speaker 1: that is very very handy when I'm writing things for

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Speaker 1: this show when I want to hit a certain amount

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Speaker 1: of time. In this case, I'm trying to hit a

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Speaker 1: thirty second commercial. And so if I'm writing something that's

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Speaker 1: a promotion for my show, I want to hit that

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Speaker 1: twenty nine seconds. So Bear that is only available on iOS,

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01:48:30,320 --> 01:48:33,360
Speaker 1: So that is something that is on iOS and Mac only.

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01:48:33,400 --> 01:48:35,760
Speaker 1: They do not have a version that is available to

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Speaker 1: the Windows platform. But that's a really handy program. I

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Speaker 1: use a lot of programs actually to write stuff, now

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Speaker 1: that I think about it.

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Speaker 3: So I also use.

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Speaker 1: Another app that is the Apple Notes app, but that's

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Speaker 1: really just for more like notes.

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Speaker 3: I also use Google Keep.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many ways you can do this

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Speaker 1: that it really just comes down to what you use

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Speaker 1: the most. And that's what I found is that you

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01:48:59,520 --> 01:49:01,880
Speaker 1: just have to use and keep using it and have

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Speaker 1: your system down and that's the.

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Speaker 3: Best way to do it. All right.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about this scam real quick before

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Speaker 1: we go, because I think it's important for you to

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01:49:09,680 --> 01:49:12,400
Speaker 1: know that we've heard so much about AI, but now

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01:49:12,439 --> 01:49:17,519
Speaker 1: scammers are already using AI to impersonate people that we

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Speaker 1: know family members to call us and try to scam

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Speaker 1: us out of money. So they have these very sophisticated

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Speaker 1: programs that are off the shelf. You feed some audio

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Speaker 1: into them, and now you can sound like that person

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Speaker 1: just by typing out those words. And so this is

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Speaker 1: AI that is being used in a very mean way

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Speaker 1: against us. So if you get a phone call that

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Speaker 1: purports to be from a loved one that needs money,

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Speaker 1: that's in jail, that's whatever. It may just be an

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Speaker 1: AI voice that sounds like that loved one. So when

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01:49:48,160 --> 01:49:52,360
Speaker 1: in doubt, call them up, call someone check on them,

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01:49:52,640 --> 01:49:54,920
Speaker 1: text them. Do not just go to the bank and

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01:49:54,960 --> 01:49:57,240
Speaker 1: try to withdraw money and send it to this person

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01:49:57,280 --> 01:49:59,640
Speaker 1: that's asking you for the money, because it's probably not

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Speaker 1: I'll put the link to the Washington Post article about

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Speaker 1: these new AI voice scams in the show notes as well.

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Speaker 1: And finally, Vinyl overtook CD sales for the first time

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01:50:11,479 --> 01:50:15,040
Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty seven. I've been talking about Vinyl in

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01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 1: my KTLA reports, how people seem to like it. Forty

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01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 1: one million units they sold against thirty three million for

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Speaker 1: CDs in the past year. Vinyl sales have increased over

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Speaker 1: the past sixteen years. They're now seventy one percent of

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Speaker 1: all physical music. Taylor Swift, of course, highest selling vinyl artists.

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01:50:33,560 --> 01:50:37,200
Speaker 1: She sold some one point seven million records. Harry Styles

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Speaker 1: sold seven hundred and nineteen thousand, The Beatles still kicking

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Speaker 1: five hundred and fifty three thousand sales. Of course, Spotify

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01:50:44,840 --> 01:50:48,200
Speaker 1: and Apple Music and streaming is still the most popular

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01:50:48,240 --> 01:50:49,519
Speaker 1: way to listen to music.

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Speaker 3: All right, that is going to do it for this show.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. Thanks to all of my

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Speaker 1: guests today. We had so many great guests. I know

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Speaker 1: there's a little problem with the phone lines, so apologies

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01:51:00,760 --> 01:51:02,960
Speaker 1: for that, and thanks for working through that. You know,

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01:51:03,000 --> 01:51:05,479
Speaker 1: this is a growing show. This is only episode number ten,

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Speaker 1: so we're still learning. I'm still learning how to do

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01:51:07,920 --> 01:51:11,120
Speaker 1: this whole radio thing, so I do appreciate you hanging

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01:51:11,120 --> 01:51:13,920
Speaker 1: out with me. Next week, we are going to talk

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01:51:14,280 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 1: to Ember about their self heating baby bottle. No longer

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01:51:18,720 --> 01:51:21,080
Speaker 1: is it good to be born with a silver spoon

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01:51:21,120 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 1: in your mouth. Now you can be born with a

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01:51:23,479 --> 01:51:26,360
Speaker 1: four hundred dollars self heating baby bottle in your mouth,

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01:51:26,600 --> 01:51:28,280
Speaker 1: and we're going to talk to the company that makes that.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media at rich on tech,

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01:51:31,200 --> 01:51:34,679
Speaker 1: my website, richontech dot tv. My name is rich Dmiro.

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01:51:34,840 --> 01:51:36,719
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:38,880
Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending

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01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:41,200
Speaker 1: it right here with me. I'll talk to you real

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Speaker 1: soon