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Speaker 1: Apple launches very expensive headphones Disney Plus, ready's a price increase.

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Speaker 1: Google assistant routines are easier than ever. Plus your tech

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Speaker 1: questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech the podcast right talk about the

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

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

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Speaker 1: And boy, do you send a lot of them? Well,

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Speaker 1: I should say boys and girls. It's not just boys,

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Speaker 1: it's everyone. I mean I met boy as like, boy,

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Speaker 1: do you send a lot of them? And yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I get them always. I mean Instagram, DMS, email, Facebook posts,

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Speaker 1: text messages. I mean, you guys, you find me, you

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Speaker 1: figure out how to get in touch with me, and

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Speaker 1: I reply to a lot of them. But this is

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Speaker 1: the place where I really take the time to kind

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Speaker 1: of share what I'm talking to you about privately with everyone,

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Speaker 1: whether you like it or not, if you email me

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Speaker 1: or text me, that's just what happens. I'm the tech

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Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: been quite the year. We're almost done with it, if

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Speaker 1: you can believe it. And I've been enjoying the holidays

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Speaker 1: a lot last night, we went to this. It's so

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Speaker 1: funny that a drive through Christmas light display is a thing,

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Speaker 1: but that's the thing here in Los Angeles. And we

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Speaker 1: went through this it's called like Wonderland last night. It

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Speaker 1: was really cool and they put a lot of work

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Speaker 1: We went to one that was just lights. This one

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Speaker 1: was sort of a whole wonderland, you know, with like

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Speaker 1: was pretty well done. I got to say, seventy bucks

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Speaker 1: wasn't cheap, but I mean, we're My wife and I

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Speaker 1: were discussing this and it's like, well, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you're gonna easily spend seventy bucks. I mean, tickets alone

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Speaker 1: a cheap matinee to like as much as like eighteen

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Speaker 2: So it can it can add up.

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Speaker 2: So that was fun.

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Speaker 1: And I've just been really enjoying the holidays with a

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Speaker 1: because i've just been I figured out the word I

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Speaker 1: was trying to get last week. I've been nesting. That's

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Speaker 1: the word I was looking for. I not that you

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Speaker 1: think back all the way to last week's show, but

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Speaker 1: What did I say weird? What did I say bad?

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Speaker 1: What did I say good? Who did I offend? And

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Speaker 1: the one word that I was looking for last week

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Speaker 1: was nesting. That's what I've been doing. And so everything

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Speaker 1: is nice and cozy in my place, lots of fireplaces

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Speaker 1: the old shows that I used to watch as a

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Speaker 1: weird year. I can't go home for the holidays. We

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Speaker 1: canceled everything. We canceled Near's Eve, Christmas Eve, all of

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Speaker 1: We've been in our house for pretty much the whole year.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to some of the news. I

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Speaker 1: if it's Apple, it's always big news, right. Apple introduced

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Speaker 1: plus is anything like a subscription that you're paying extra for,

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Speaker 1: to be slowly but surely sapping the money out of

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Speaker 1: what the plus means in any name, ESPN plus. Oh,

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Speaker 1: Spotify Plus? All these music services started before there was

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Speaker 1: Now, I remember it was like ten years ago when

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Speaker 1: I bought my Bow's noise canceling headphones for a trip

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Speaker 1: Colors, gray, silver, blue, green, pink, and you know it's breathable.

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Speaker 1: so that goes to show the importance of my report

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Speaker 1: the YouTubers got them, and you know, I didn't watch

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Speaker 1: basically a beautiful pair of AirPods in a different form

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to our first question, and this

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Speaker 1: one is a little different because I've got a new

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Speaker 1: I'm testing this service called pod page and it's really

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Speaker 1: really slick and I love it. But the cool thing

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Speaker 1: voicemail and it's super easy. It's super fun and we

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Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, my name's Charlie van Kirk. Been a fan

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Speaker 3: of the show for a long time, really enjoicing your segments.

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Speaker 3: And I'm a tech you guy too. One thing that

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Speaker 3: I just purchased is ub key five, the NFC version,

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Speaker 3: and I use last Pass. I've used it for years.

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Speaker 3: I also use last Past Authenticator app. I was just

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Speaker 3: wondering if you'd be able to do a segment, you know,

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Speaker 3: showing people the advantages of using hardware encryption and authentication

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Speaker 3: and maybe just kind of simplify it for people. It's

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Speaker 3: pretty complex stuff. You know, let people know that it's

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Speaker 3: not difficult to step your level of security a notch.

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Speaker 1: All right now, thank you, Thank you Charlie for being

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Speaker 1: the very first person to use the microphone to leave

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Speaker 1: a voicemail. Love It Again podcast dot richon tech dot

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Speaker 1: tv or rich on tech dot tv Slash podcast will

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Speaker 1: bring you to the new home for the podcast. Okay,

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Speaker 1: to answer your question, Charlie, well, I love the fact

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Speaker 1: that you are staying extra extra secure with this ubikey.

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Speaker 1: I am aware of these. I have not used them,

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Speaker 1: nor have I tested them in the past, but I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at the website and it looks really cool. So

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Speaker 1: what sort of if I'm understanding this, it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like a physical key that unlocks your two factor authentication

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Speaker 1: for your various accounts. So instead of having to like

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Speaker 1: if you have a you know, Android or iPhone, it

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Speaker 1: basically sends out a little tiny Bluetooth number that changes

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Speaker 1: like all the time, and when the two devices are

436
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Speaker 1: near each other within six feet for fifteen minutes, they

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Speaker 1: exchange those numbers. And what this does is if someone

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Speaker 1: comes down with COVID nineteen, they pop a special code

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Speaker 1: into their phone and their phone will then notify the

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Speaker 1: other phones that belong to those random numbers. It's all anonymous,

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Speaker 1: there's no location, and it was you know, this system

442
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Speaker 1: was created by like really smart people at Apple and Google,

443
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Speaker 1: and I mean, come on, these two giants are working together,

444
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Speaker 1: like there's not any secrets here. You know, they had

445
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Speaker 1: everything published. It was all up and up and like

446
00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:34,480
Speaker 1: you know, long story short, I published these videos and

447
00:21:34,520 --> 00:21:37,359
Speaker 1: everyone was just like Rich, oh my gosh, no way,

448
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,000
Speaker 1: Like I'm not big brother government, well whatever, and like yeah,

449
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Speaker 1: I mean is does government always do like what's best?

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Speaker 1: I don't, you know, don't want to get into that either.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is, I think this program's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: I think if a lot of people use it, it

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Speaker 1: would help notify you earlier that you came into contact

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Speaker 1: with someone coronavirus. But the reality is a lot of

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Speaker 1: people don't want to use it. Clearly is evidence by

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Speaker 1: the comments on my social media. And maybe that's just

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Speaker 1: the commenters on social media.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you're listening and you're like Rich, yeah, you're crazy,

460
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Speaker 1: Like why would you ever want that on your phone?

461
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Speaker 1: Like more tracking? But the way I see it is

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Speaker 1: it has potential to help slow the spread, which means

463
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Speaker 1: I can get back to my normal life, and you know,

464
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Speaker 1: I think we all want that. But anyway, so I

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Speaker 1: have it turned on on my phones, and I you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna leave it on.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna.

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Speaker 1: Work though, because of the reaction I saw. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if there's enough people that are on board with

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Speaker 1: this to make this truly worthwhile.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's gonna be the downfall.

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Speaker 1: Of it is that it just doesn't have enough support

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Speaker 1: from people turning this on. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: it was just the dissenters that were loud on my

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Speaker 1: social media, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I recommend that

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Speaker 1: you turn it on. There is no personal information that's

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Speaker 1: collected now, and I will tell you if I thought

478
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Speaker 1: there was, because when when Los Angeles partnered with with

479
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Speaker 1: Citizen for their I think it was called a safe

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Speaker 1: Path something, I recommended that you don't use it because

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Speaker 1: it did use personal information, it had location, they didn't

482
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Speaker 1: turn off GPS it. You know, it was just the

483
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Speaker 1: privacy policy was like kind of tough to figure out,

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Speaker 1: and so I recommended that people did not participate in that.

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Speaker 1: And so with this one, I do think it's different,

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Speaker 1: and I do recommend that you participate. But again, you know,

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Speaker 1: we can have different opinions and it's fine. I'm not

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm not saying that you have to agree

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Speaker 1: with me, but I do think that if a lot

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Speaker 1: of people are on board, it probably would help in

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Speaker 1: the bigger scheme of things.

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Speaker 2: But that's just you know, we'll leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I guess I should probably say that I do

494
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Speaker 1: have the videos on how to turn those on on

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Speaker 1: my Instagram at Richon Tech, and I've got the video

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Speaker 1: for iOS and Android. On iOS, it's really easy, you

497
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Speaker 1: literally just go into the settings and flip it on.

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Speaker 1: But on Android it's a little different. You actually have

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Speaker 1: to download the CAA Notify app to turn it on,

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Speaker 1: and you can easily turn either of them off at

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Speaker 1: the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: All right, let's see.

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Speaker 1: Midge says, I'm really frustrated with the podcast app on

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Speaker 1: my iPhone. I play a podcast and at the end

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Speaker 1: of it, I delete it and then the next day it

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Speaker 1: comes back.

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Speaker 2: What am I doing wrong?

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Speaker 1: I choose to automatically download because I don't have un

509
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Speaker 1: limited data, so I'm picking from the download list when

510
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Speaker 1: I want to play them. I know it says it

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Speaker 1: will delete after twenty four hours, but I want to

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Speaker 1: go ahead and delete it to get it off that page.

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Speaker 1: I tried one of the podcasts apps you recommended a

514
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Speaker 1: while ago and didn't like it. Is there another podcast

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Speaker 1: app you like? I agree Midge that the podcast app

516
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Speaker 1: on iPhone is very, very complicated if you want to

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Speaker 1: do anything more than just like subscribe to a couple

518
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Speaker 1: shows and play them, but you can't build a playlist,

519
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Speaker 1: you know. It's like it's just very weird, and it

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Speaker 1: downloads everything all the time. It's like, if you ever

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Speaker 1: look in your storage on your iPhone, if you have

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Speaker 1: podcasts enabled, it's it's gobbling up like gigs and gigs

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Speaker 1: of data just by itself if you don't change the

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Speaker 1: default settings. And I've tried to change the defaut settings,

525
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Speaker 1: but there's there's no one way to turn them all

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Speaker 1: off or turn them all on. It's really really tricky.

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Speaker 1: So I agree it is a frustrating app, and I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure why Apple doesn't put more effort into like

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Speaker 1: giving it some features, or maybe purchasing one of the

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Speaker 1: other podcast apps and incorporating some of their features in there.

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Speaker 1: And there are a lot of alternatives. I mean, The

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Speaker 1: big difference is that you know, they just don't integrate

533
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Speaker 1: as well with your iPhone as the of course Apple

534
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Speaker 1: version does. But the one that I go back to

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Speaker 1: over and over is called pocket Casts, And again it's

536
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Speaker 1: got a lot of features under the hood. You don't

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Speaker 1: need to necessarily use all of them, but it does

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Speaker 1: have a lot of stuff. A couple of the features

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Speaker 1: I like is the ability to create smart playlists where

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Speaker 1: I like to back when I was like driving to work,

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Speaker 1: I like to have a podcast, like almost like a

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Speaker 1: playlist of all the little things I want to listen

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Speaker 1: to on my ride into work. And it can easily

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Speaker 1: do that and filter out by like Okay, I want

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Speaker 1: these five podcasts. I want them in this order, and

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Speaker 1: I want them to play only one episode, and I

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Speaker 1: want it to be the most recent, like you can

548
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Speaker 1: do that. It's powerful, and you can do where it

549
00:26:06,160 --> 00:26:08,960
Speaker 1: automatically downloads like a podcast that you star or it

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Speaker 1: can you know, it's just it just does a lot

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Speaker 1: of stuff. So I have my podcast kind of organized

552
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Speaker 1: by I have like interviews, and so I go through

553
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Speaker 1: and any interview I want to listen to in that list,

554
00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: I download and then I look at my downloads and

555
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Speaker 1: see the list of things that I wanted to listen to,

556
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Speaker 1: and then I have like a tech list, and then

557
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Speaker 1: I have like a you know, like a news list,

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Speaker 1: and then I have, uh, what's the other one. I

559
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Speaker 1: have a special list for Leo Laporte. Every Monday, I

560
00:26:34,920 --> 00:26:38,240
Speaker 1: listen to his we call it the Leo log or

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Speaker 1: you know, the monologue that he does on Saturday morning.

562
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Speaker 1: Like I don't know if you know, but Leo on

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Speaker 1: his show, you know, for the when he first comes on,

564
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Speaker 1: he says like a it's like a ten minute like

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you call it monologue basically like

566
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Speaker 1: you know whatever, And so I like to listen to

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Speaker 1: that because I like to hear what he has to say.

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Speaker 1: So I listen to that on my commute and anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's on Monday mornings.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, you know, you can do whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: But that's kind of the podcast app that I always

572
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Speaker 1: go back to over and over. The one that I

573
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,879
Speaker 1: want to love is called Overcast, but it just doesn't

574
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:09,520
Speaker 1: have like one feature that I need for some reason,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not sure why. It's like I think the

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Speaker 1: one that filters whatever. Anyway, that's that's my thing. But

577
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: Overcast is also really nice, so that might have been

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Speaker 1: the one that I recommended. I think it's that one's

579
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: a little bit nuanced for a lot of people. But

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00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: pocket Cast is pretty good and pretty popular. So talking

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Speaker 1: about music, and I was really surprised at this announcement.

582
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: Apple Music is now available on Google smart speakers and displays.

583
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Speaker 1: I thought this was fantastic. I love to see that

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Speaker 1: Google continues to be a little bit more open than

585
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,879
Speaker 1: you would expect when it comes to integrating different services.

586
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: Apple has gotten a lot better too, but they always

587
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:55,320
Speaker 1: prefer their own stuff over anyone else for a long

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Speaker 1: long time, and they begrudgingly kind of incorporate other stuff.

589
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: But Google, I feel like they they always try to

590
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Speaker 1: do you know, like the right thing by you know,

591
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: incorporating every service and like giving you a choice. And

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00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 1: I think that that's lessening, but it's still going. And

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Speaker 1: I think these tech companies are realizing as they get

594
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Speaker 1: bigger and bigger, that they kind of need to do

595
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Speaker 1: this to you know, stay out of the the ire

596
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:25,920
Speaker 1: of you know, all those those government regulators that want

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Speaker 1: to regulate them and say like, uh, well you gotta

598
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:34,040
Speaker 1: break up because you know, uh all the it's like Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple, Apple,

599
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:38,320
Speaker 1: Apple Apple Apple. Okay, Google, Google, Google Google Google.

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Speaker 2: Uh, and what's the other one? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Amazon, Amazon, Amazon and Amazon a little. So anyway, I

602
00:28:43,440 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 1: thought this was great that Apple Music can be a

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Speaker 1: default streaming music service in Google Assistant devices. And I

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Speaker 1: didn't think I'd see that day. And it's great now

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Speaker 1: for me personally, I it's it's really I'm like so

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Speaker 1: close to getting rid of my I I've been using

607
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,040
Speaker 1: YouTube music for so long, but when you have an

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch, you kind of have to use Apple Music.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about using iHeartRadio as an alternative, but I

610
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:10,840
Speaker 1: realized my mistake with that, and the mistake is that

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00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: you can't off load the music offline. So I was

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Speaker 1: up on a hike and there was no signal for

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Speaker 1: my watch and guess what. I could not listen to iHeartRadio.

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00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 1: And that was a it came to me. I was like, oh,

615
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,560
Speaker 1: here's the downside of this setup. So as much as

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Speaker 1: I wanted to save that ten dollars a month, I'm

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Speaker 1: back to being an Apple Music subscriber so I can

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Speaker 1: download music to my Apple Watch and my wife as well.

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Speaker 1: But so my point is that I've always had Google

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Speaker 1: Play as my music of choice on the Google smart speakers,

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Speaker 1: but now I'm kind of like, okay, well now i

622
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,840
Speaker 1: could use Apple Music. That's really cool. But the only thing,

623
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Speaker 1: and this is where they get kind of tricky. Google's

624
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 1: very smart. They link Google Play music or sorry, YouTube

625
00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 1: music to a YouTube premium subscription, so you sort of

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Speaker 1: get it thrown in, and as far as I know,

627
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Speaker 1: there's not a way to separate them.

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Speaker 2: Maybe there is.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to look into that because I'd like to

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Speaker 1: save a little bit more money by getting rid of

631
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Speaker 1: YouTube music and just going with Apple Music because I

632
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Speaker 1: can use it everywhere now. But and yes, it works

633
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,880
Speaker 1: on Android phones too, So anyway, that's it. You can

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Speaker 1: do all the stuff you need to do by saying,

635
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Speaker 1: h Google and you know.

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Speaker 2: Playing those Apple stuff.

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Speaker 1: So to do this, you go into the home app

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Speaker 1: on your iPhone or Android and I got a little

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Speaker 1: notification on it that said, you.

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Speaker 2: Know, link Apple Music, which is pretty cool. I think

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Speaker 2: that's that's great.

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00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:39,479
Speaker 1: Brian Smith writes in can you recommend an Android version

643
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Speaker 1: of the I expand sand disc flash drive shown in

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Speaker 1: your segment?

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Speaker 2: Thank you?

646
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Speaker 1: This was brilliant. I did a segment on KTLA. I'm

647
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Speaker 1: not saying this is brilliant. I'm saying the pick is brilliant.

648
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Speaker 1: So I did a segment on KTLA where I emailed

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Speaker 1: a couple of my tech friends and I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: would you mind just like you know, putting a camera

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Speaker 1: in front of your face and just saying, like what

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Speaker 1: your favorite gadget is of the year under fifty bucks

653
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 1: for like little stocking stuffer.

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Speaker 2: Well, I had no idea. Number one.

655
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Speaker 1: Almost every single person I email said yes, and I

656
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:11,239
Speaker 1: was like thoroughly surprised. So if you're listening, thank you

657
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Speaker 1: for doing that. That was very very nice of you.

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Speaker 1: The second thing is I had no idea just how

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Speaker 1: popular this segment would be. It by clicks, it is

660
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Speaker 1: the most popular segment of the year. Now maybe that's

661
00:31:23,840 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: because all these you know, influencers you know, tweeted it

662
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 1: out to their friends and you know, of course the

663
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,680
Speaker 1: network effect took over. Or maybe it was just because

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Speaker 1: so many people like the idea of under fifty dollars

665
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Speaker 1: gadgets recommended by tech experts. Whatever it was, it was

666
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Speaker 1: super duper popular. And the I'll just go over the

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00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:44,120
Speaker 1: gadgets real quick, since i'm talking this up right. One

668
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: of them was this sand disc drive or I expand

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Speaker 1: from sand Disc and it was it was a It

670
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Speaker 1: was a pick from Jefferson Graham, who is my friend

671
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Speaker 1: over at USA Today.

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00:31:58,160 --> 00:31:59,200
Speaker 2: So let me just give you the picks.

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Speaker 1: Lamar Wilson, my pal from YouTube. He picked the Google

674
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: Nest Home Mini speaker. Brett from Tech with Brett on YouTube.

675
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: We become sort of pals on Twitter. He recommended the

676
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: gov LED light strips for eighteen bucks. Kevin Nether, who

677
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: is known as Kevin the Tech Ninja on YouTube. He

678
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: also picked the gov LED light strips. My pal Brian

679
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: Tong on YouTube. We used to work at scenet together.

680
00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 1: He picked the airfly. This is like a Bluetooth splitter

681
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: slash coupler. I guess you can call it for forty

682
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: five bucks. Lance Yulanoff, he works on the Or he's

683
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: a guest on the Live with Kelly and Ryan Show.

684
00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: He does tech stuff there and all kinds of he's been.

685
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: I mean, he's just you know, legend in tech. He

686
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,240
Speaker 1: liked the Nintendo game and Watch for fifty bucks. Jefferson Graham,

687
00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: like I said, USA Today Tech columnists, who just recently

688
00:32:49,360 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: announced his retirement from USA today, but he's still going

689
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:56,280
Speaker 1: to be doing stuff, just not there. He recommended the

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Speaker 1: sand Disc I Expand flash Drive Go, which is all

691
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Speaker 1: drive you plug into the bottom of your iPhone and it,

692
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,360
Speaker 1: you know, backs up the pictures. And so the question

693
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: is is there a Android version? The answer is yes.

694
00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,280
Speaker 1: In fact, pretty much any flash drive will plug into

695
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Speaker 1: the bottom of an Android phone. It's just copying the

696
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: pictures over that could be kind of tough, and that's

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00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 1: what the sand disc software does nicely. It does it automatically.

698
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,600
Speaker 1: But if you go on sand discs I expand, if

699
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,880
Speaker 1: you if you just type in sand disk I expand,

700
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: micro USB or USB C. It depends on what kind

701
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,520
Speaker 1: of phone you have which device you would get, Brian.

702
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:35,520
Speaker 1: So if you just search that on you on Google,

703
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,720
Speaker 1: you'll find it, and yeah, they make it for sure.

704
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: Andrew Edwards gear Live. He picked the Chrome Cast with

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Speaker 1: Google TV for fifty bucks. Jacqueline Dallas from Nothing but

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00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,200
Speaker 1: Tech we met at a one plus event many years ago,

707
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,520
Speaker 1: or probably like three, but still and we've kept in touch.

708
00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: She's doing really well on YouTube and she's she recommended

709
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:03,840
Speaker 1: a USBC hub from Hutu for twenty three dollars, which

710
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: you got to have a USBC hub if you've got

711
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,840
Speaker 1: one of these newer laptops. And Leo Laporte, my pal

712
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned earlier, he recommended the au Key

713
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,640
Speaker 1: Omnia one hundred watt charger, which I will probably end

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00:34:16,719 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 1: up purchasing because he talked it up. And it's a

715
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:21,480
Speaker 1: charger that's one hundred watts, so that means it can

716
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 1: charge everything, your computer, your phone, anything that's USBC from

717
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,359
Speaker 1: a laptop to a tablet to a phone. And I'm

718
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,520
Speaker 1: getting into this whole thing of you know, less is

719
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,839
Speaker 1: more and so if I can plug everything into that

720
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: Omnia USBC charger, that's that's a win in my book.

721
00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: And then I threw in my recommendation, which is the

722
00:34:40,960 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: Nano Leaf Essential Smart Bulb nineteen dollars. And this is

723
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: a smart bulb that is really tough to find, but

724
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Speaker 1: they sell it at the Apple Store and online on

725
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: the Apple Store, and it's just easy to set up,

726
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,680
Speaker 1: it's fun, it's hubless, which means you know, it connects

727
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: easily to your iPhone or Android, and it changes to

728
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: sixteen million different colors. So there the picks, and that

729
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: was a fun story. I got emails, I got tweets.

730
00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: I mean, people really liked that story. And my editor

731
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:09,600
Speaker 1: Luis put it together. I gathered all the videos and

732
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: then I said, hey, ar, I wrote like kind of

733
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Speaker 1: a rough script, but he didn't follow it. He just

734
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: like kind of made a montage and graphics and it

735
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: just really came out nice. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: watch that, go to my website rich on tech dot

737
00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: tv and look for I'll tell you what the uh

738
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Speaker 1: come on, I'll tell you what to look for on there.

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Speaker 1: It's tech experts recommend their favorite stocking stuffers under fifty

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00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: dollars speaking, I always say speaking. But Apple and Google

741
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:41,480
Speaker 1: another thing that they're doing this is gosh a lot

742
00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,759
Speaker 1: of Apple and Google news this week, but it's kind

743
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:45,799
Speaker 1: of light on tech news now right now because of

744
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 1: the holidays. But I thought this was fantastic.

745
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 2: Again.

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00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:52,320
Speaker 1: I love just when things get a little bit easier

747
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: in life. And now you can if you use Google Photos.

748
00:35:56,600 --> 00:35:58,279
Speaker 1: One of the big things that's always been kind of

749
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:01,759
Speaker 1: a friction between the two is they don't necessarily sync

750
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: up that well when you want to make like albums

751
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,120
Speaker 1: or like favorite some pictures.

752
00:36:06,120 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 2: So now you can star a.

753
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: Photo in Google Photos and it will become a favorite

754
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,719
Speaker 1: in Apple Photos, you know, with that little heart, or

755
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: vice versa. If you favorite a photo in Apple Photos,

756
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 1: you know, tap that little heart, it becomes starred in

757
00:36:21,239 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: Google Photos. I love this making my life easier. So

758
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 1: here's how you turn on this tiny, little life changing feature.

759
00:36:30,320 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: Go to Google Photos, tap your profile account photo in

760
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, tap photo settings, Apple Photos,

761
00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: and sink favorites, and then turn on SINK or turn

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Speaker 1: off SNC.

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00:36:40,520 --> 00:36:40,800
Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe this is not useful to anyone else,

765
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: but it's highly useful to me because as your resident instagrammer,

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00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: what I usually do, Like for instance, last night, when

767
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 1: I went to that Wonderland place, you know, the Winter

768
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:57,360
Speaker 1: Wonderland I was talking about, I took a bunch of pictures,

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00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,399
Speaker 1: you know, I take a lot of pictures, and then

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Speaker 1: the way I would posts them to Instagram is I

771
00:37:01,560 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: would go through my gallery heart the ones I think

772
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,560
Speaker 1: are good, and then I would go into Instagram and

773
00:37:07,760 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: I would, you know, look for my favorites and then

774
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:13,200
Speaker 1: they would all be there, like in a row, instead

775
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: of having to look through each one individually. Now, with

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00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:19,200
Speaker 1: Google Photos, which is my preferred photos app, I would

777
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:21,319
Speaker 1: have to not use that. I would have to go

778
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: into Apple Photos and heart them there, because you know,

779
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: on iOS it does not interface with Google Photos. Now

780
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 1: an Android it does, but it doesn't even show your favorites.

781
00:37:31,160 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: It's it's getting there. We're getting there on Android. And

782
00:37:34,200 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: in fact, this is the extent to which I test stuff,

783
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,600
Speaker 1: just so you know. And this is why I say

784
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: when I struggle carrying an iPhone versus Android, it's because

785
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: I love aspects of both, because I use both of

786
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: them so much. So, for instance, on Android, I love

787
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: how there's a lot less clicks required to do things. So,

788
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: for instance, on iPhone, when you want to connect to

789
00:37:56,040 --> 00:38:00,400
Speaker 1: something on Bluetooth, you have to swipe down, you have to,

790
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: you know, look at your little Bluetooth indicator in the

791
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:05,640
Speaker 1: control center. You have to press and hold to see

792
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,560
Speaker 1: all the Bluetooth and then you have to press settings

793
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: and then it brings you to settings. It's like ten clicks.

794
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: On Android, you literally just swipe down from the top,

795
00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,319
Speaker 1: press and hold on the Bluetooth and it brings you

796
00:38:14,360 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 1: directly to the settings. So it's just like a couple

797
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: steps less, and it's like that with a lot of

798
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: things on Android anyway, So to challenge myself, because I

799
00:38:22,120 --> 00:38:24,720
Speaker 1: do think social media is way tougher on an Android

800
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: than it is on iPhone, I was like, Okay, I'm

801
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,959
Speaker 1: going to post all these pictures that I took, which

802
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,760
Speaker 1: I took, by the way, with the Samsung S twenty

803
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,240
Speaker 1: fe and they came out pretty darn good. I gotta

804
00:38:36,239 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: say that phone is really rocking. I took them all

805
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: with that, and I went through the gallery on Samsung

806
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: and I favorited the pictures that I liked, and then

807
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: I went into Instagram and I found the native gallery

808
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: chooser and it worked, and I posted all the pictures

809
00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: and anyway, if you want to see them, we can

810
00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: go on Instagram and see those. But so I you know,

811
00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: I do this stuff for a reason. There's a method

812
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:02,560
Speaker 1: to my madness so that I understand how these things work,

813
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 1: because if I only used an iPhone every single day

814
00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:07,279
Speaker 1: of my life and never went to an Android or

815
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: never went back and forth, I wouldn't really understand the

816
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,520
Speaker 1: nuances between the two, and it's tough to compare in

817
00:39:12,560 --> 00:39:15,520
Speaker 1: contrast if you're not using them. So it all worked out,

818
00:39:15,600 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: and I always joke that whenever I post something from

819
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: my Android. It never does as well as stuff I

820
00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: post from iPhone. I'm not sure if they favor iPhone

821
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 1: posts on social media for some reason, but that post

822
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: did find so I guess that's not really a thing.

823
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: I'm not going to spread conspiracy theories here in the

824
00:39:34,360 --> 00:39:41,640
Speaker 1: rich on Tech podcast, Marty is it March. I'm guessing

825
00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: it's Marty, but it looks like they put an extra

826
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:47,359
Speaker 1: letter in. Marty says, help please. I adopted my son

827
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,920
Speaker 1: and lost a very valuable picture of him and his

828
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 1: biological father when he was a baby that was deleted

829
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 1: from an SD card during a Samsung S twenty fe

830
00:39:57,360 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: factory or set.

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00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 2: Oh wow, we were just talking about the S twenty Fi.

832
00:40:00,840 --> 00:40:03,720
Speaker 2: Please let me know if you have any solutions or suggestions.

833
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 1: Oh Marty, I hate hey, hey, hey.

834
00:40:09,680 --> 00:40:12,400
Speaker 2: Hearing this, and this is why I say.

835
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: Please back up your pictures. Please back up your pictures.

836
00:40:19,560 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: Don't do it tomorrow, don't do it the next day.

837
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: Don't say you distrust the cloud. Please just back up

838
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: your pictures. You can use Amazon Photos, you can use

839
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: Google Photos, you can use one drive.

840
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:35,800
Speaker 2: There are so many ways to back up pictures these days.

841
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 1: Please get them into the cloud and that way, you

842
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: don't have something like this happened. You shouldn't have pictures

843
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: in just one place. And with that said, I've not

844
00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:51,520
Speaker 1: actually ever tried to do this myself, but there is

845
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:57,600
Speaker 1: software that can recover lost data on things or erased data,

846
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:01,719
Speaker 1: and this one they sent me some info on it,

847
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: but it's called Stellar Info s T E l l

848
00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:06,240
Speaker 1: A r Info dot com.

849
00:41:06,640 --> 00:41:07,720
Speaker 2: And what I like about this.

850
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:11,880
Speaker 1: Is they have a free data recovery software up to

851
00:41:12,000 --> 00:41:15,040
Speaker 1: one gig, so that is what I would say. And

852
00:41:15,080 --> 00:41:19,320
Speaker 1: they say recover lost or deleted documents, email, data files, videos, photos,

853
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: retrieve data from a laptop, PC, hard driver, USB stick,

854
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,400
Speaker 1: recover files due to drive formatting or corruption. Drive formatting

855
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,080
Speaker 1: is what you mentioned. So up to a gig you

856
00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: should you should be able to get this picture back

857
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,359
Speaker 1: theoretically if if you know, this software works. So again

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00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 1: I haven't tried it personally, but stellarinfo dot com slash uh.

859
00:41:41,360 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: Just go to their website and it should say somewhere

860
00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: on there free Data recovery.

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00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does when you click it.

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00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,400
Speaker 1: So they sent me a little note about this a

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00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,200
Speaker 1: couple of months ago, and I just kept it in

864
00:41:54,200 --> 00:41:56,319
Speaker 1: my notes because I knew i'd get a question about this,

865
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: and sure enough I did. And I hate to get

866
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: a questions like this because it's really sad to me.

867
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,239
Speaker 1: I hate people losing their pictures. And I think I

868
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,279
Speaker 1: told the story last week, but I can't remember. But

869
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,640
Speaker 1: when you know, I had all these gigs of pictures

870
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: from my sister and my dad on my Google Drive

871
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 1: because when I was upgrading their phones, they'd be like,

872
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: I'd be like, all right, now, what would you like

873
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: me to do with your pictures? Like, Ah, don't care

874
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:21,400
Speaker 1: about them? And I go, what do you mean you

875
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,520
Speaker 1: don't care about them? Of course you care about the

876
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,320
Speaker 1: pictures that were on your phone. Why would you just

877
00:42:25,360 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: get rid of all these pictures because you're upgrading to

878
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 1: a new phone and it's just you know, they didn't

879
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 1: want to clog up their memory or whatever. And I

880
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: was like, look, I'll take the pictures and I'll put

881
00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 1: them my Google Drive and one of these days I'll

882
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: get him back to you. And I think it was

883
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: like before Google Photos, so it was like there was

884
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: no easy way to like just kind of put their

885
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: pictures back because they don't want to pay for like

886
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 1: iCloud drive or something dumb like that, and I already

887
00:42:49,520 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 1: gave my dad the warning. I said, look, once we

888
00:42:51,200 --> 00:42:52,719
Speaker 1: get all these pictures in there, you may have to

889
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,440
Speaker 1: pay the two dollars a month, you know, to Google Photos,

890
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 1: because they're going to start charging. And he's like, oh,

891
00:42:57,160 --> 00:42:59,880
Speaker 1: that's okay. I mean, you know, hopefully that's okay, you

892
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: pictures all right. Here's another reason I was. I was

893
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:08,520
Speaker 1: talking about the reasons why I like Android, certain aspects

894
00:43:08,560 --> 00:43:11,440
Speaker 1: of it better than iPhone, and this is a prime example.

895
00:43:11,760 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: So they added this feature this week called a Google

896
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:21,240
Speaker 1: Assistant Routines shortcuts. So I have one Google Assistant routine

897
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:23,439
Speaker 1: that I use almost every single night is called turn

898
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: on my night Stands, and it turns on my night

899
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,359
Speaker 1: stands next to my bed, and it also dims them

900
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: to a reading light level, so nice level. I had

901
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:35,279
Speaker 1: at one point some like nice soothing music play as

902
00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: well on the speaker. I turn that off because you know,

903
00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:39,520
Speaker 1: I don't know why I turned it off, but I

904
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:42,399
Speaker 1: just did. But it was kind of like a bedtime routine, right.

905
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: So but the thing is, every single night I feel

906
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: kind of dumb going into my room and be like,

907
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:51,640
Speaker 1: h Google, turn on the night stands. It just sounds weird, right,

908
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 1: So now you can take these little routines that you

909
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 1: build and you can make a home screen shortcut out

910
00:43:59,239 --> 00:44:01,640
Speaker 1: of them. And of course, every time I go into

911
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:03,480
Speaker 1: my room at night, I always take my phone and

912
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:04,360
Speaker 1: I put it out on my charger.

913
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:05,960
Speaker 2: So what would I do. I would just unlock it

914
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:06,480
Speaker 2: and boom.

915
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,160
Speaker 1: I would press a little routine and write on the

916
00:44:09,160 --> 00:44:11,800
Speaker 1: home screen and there it goes. Now, I don't always

917
00:44:11,880 --> 00:44:14,720
Speaker 1: use my Android, so you know this doesn't work on iPhone.

918
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: You can't make a little routine that's pinned to your

919
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: home screen because well, you know what, I take that back.

920
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,440
Speaker 1: You probably could with shortcuts, So you know what, I

921
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: take that. I totally take that back.

922
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,160
Speaker 2: You could. It's just not gonna be as pretty.

923
00:44:27,560 --> 00:44:30,359
Speaker 1: So I like the idea that you can do this,

924
00:44:30,520 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: and I think it's going to make people use routines

925
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:33,280
Speaker 1: a lot more.

926
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: It's easy.

927
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: When I opened up my Google Home app, it literally

928
00:44:38,320 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: had like when I went into the routine, So if

929
00:44:40,760 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: you click routines, it had like a big kind of

930
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 1: pop up that said pin this to your home screen.

931
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 1: I said, ah, there, it is so cool, and I

932
00:44:47,680 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: did it and I pinned it and there it is

933
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: and it's.

934
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 2: A great little feature. So build some routines.

935
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 1: I was talking about this on Twitter and my friend

936
00:44:56,640 --> 00:45:00,120
Speaker 1: Dave Malcoff, he's a reporter at the Weather Channel well,

937
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,320
Speaker 1: but he just like takes everything to the next level.

938
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: Like I do things like kind of you know, like

939
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:08,239
Speaker 1: halfway there, he does it like, you know, the full way.

940
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: So I was saying how I had a couple of

941
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 1: these routines and he's like, he tweeted me and he's like, Oh,

942
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 1: I've got a routine that when I go into my

943
00:45:15,640 --> 00:45:19,640
Speaker 1: office and start editing, there's an emotion sensor under my

944
00:45:19,760 --> 00:45:23,360
Speaker 1: desk that notices my legs and it will cue this

945
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 1: routine which dims the lights and it turns on XM

946
00:45:27,520 --> 00:45:30,759
Speaker 1: chill serious, XM im my smart speaker, and I think,

947
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:32,359
Speaker 1: I don't know if it does something else, but I

948
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 1: was like, ah see, that's cool, and so I need

949
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:36,759
Speaker 1: to do that for my office because I do like

950
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: to have my lights at a certain level and a

951
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: little music playing in the background. So I'm calming, you know.

952
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: I do like the XM chill. That's one of my

953
00:45:43,520 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: favorite stations as well, but I haven't done that yet.

954
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 1: So I need to do that. And we just need to.

955
00:45:48,719 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: It's just some of this smart home stuff can get

956
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,080
Speaker 1: a little intimidating because it's like how many things like

957
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:56,320
Speaker 1: I you know, it's like, oh, I got the Christmas

958
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: tree on. I've got all these things like with the

959
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 1: smart stuff, and you know, it's fun, but it does

960
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: take a little bit of work to set it up.

961
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:04,360
Speaker 1: But once you set it up and you kind of

962
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: get used to it and you remember to do it,

963
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: it is kind of fun.

964
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 2: So there you have it.

965
00:46:11,800 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Sharon says, I have a ring doorbell

966
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: and saw your piece on Fox two now that's my

967
00:46:22,640 --> 00:46:25,799
Speaker 1: station in Saint Louis. Thanks for watching there. I saw

968
00:46:25,840 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: that piece this morning about sidewalk internet for Alexa and Ring.

969
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:30,960
Speaker 1: I hope this isn't a silly question, but if I'm

970
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,640
Speaker 1: not logged into my Alexa app, well I need to

971
00:46:33,680 --> 00:46:36,200
Speaker 1: log in and turn off the sidewalk option. If I

972
00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:39,239
Speaker 1: don't log in, will it default to sidewalk? Thanks sent

973
00:46:39,280 --> 00:46:44,319
Speaker 1: for my iPad iPhone Sharon, Sharon, great question, and it's

974
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:48,120
Speaker 1: not a silly question because it's exactly what Amazon doesn't

975
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: want people to do. This is why they made sidewalk

976
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: on by default, because half the people that you know

977
00:46:56,719 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: set up an Alexa. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to

978
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 1: say that word and echo. You know, they set it

979
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:03,919
Speaker 1: up and they just don't think twice about the app.

980
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: Maybe they deleted off their phone, maybe they don't need

981
00:47:05,680 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 1: it anymore. Maybe the thing comes set up from the factory.

982
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not sure why you don't have

983
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:10,800
Speaker 2: the Alexa.

984
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,960
Speaker 1: Oh sorry, the app on your phone, but I mean

985
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 1: because I feel like you need it to set up

986
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:20,919
Speaker 1: the device. But anyway, correct, if you do not have

987
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: the app and you're not logged in, it will automatically

988
00:47:24,200 --> 00:47:28,399
Speaker 1: trigger sidewalk on your device, and it's it'll be turned

989
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: on by default. And that's what Amazon wants because they

990
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:33,239
Speaker 1: want as many devices as possible to be on this

991
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: sidewalk network. So yes, I would recommend if you don't

992
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:39,000
Speaker 1: want to be a part of it, you have to

993
00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: download the app a L e Xa and go into

994
00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:46,480
Speaker 1: these settings. You can follow the instructions I posted on

995
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:48,880
Speaker 1: the blog post. If you look at richontech dot tv

996
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: or on my scroll through my Instagram and you'll see

997
00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:54,399
Speaker 1: the post with the app on there, and I show

998
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 1: you exactly how to turn it off. And again I've

999
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 1: said that I'm leaving mine on. I'm excited. I think

1000
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:01,840
Speaker 1: sidewalk is kind of cool, even though I know that

1001
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: I was having a big debate with my brother. He

1002
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 1: was saying that, you know, no way would he ever

1003
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: do this. Well, maybe he would like later on, but

1004
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:10,479
Speaker 1: he's not going to be part of the first wave.

1005
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:13,080
Speaker 1: And I'm like, all, I understand that, but I'm kind

1006
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 1: of a tech optimist. I think it's really cool and

1007
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 1: I see the potential of this thing. I just hope

1008
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: that I'm proven right and not wrong, and I hope

1009
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: that there's no major security gaffes with the Amazon sidewalk. Anyway,

1010
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:29,560
Speaker 1: if you want to get out of it, download the

1011
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: app and change those settings, all right. I thought this

1012
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: was interesting for several reasons. This is an article from

1013
00:48:38,600 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: Fast Company, and they did a little piece about how

1014
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: a new study from a Utah pharmacy student suggests that

1015
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: mail order prescriptions are spending too much time in too

1016
00:48:49,640 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: hot or too cold temperatures in root to your house.

1017
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,760
Speaker 1: And I thought this was interesting for a couple reasons.

1018
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:00,279
Speaker 1: Number one, recently Amazon started their own pharmacy like mail

1019
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: delivery kind of thing, our mail order prescription thing, and

1020
00:49:04,960 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: you know, anytime I think of stuff that arrives through

1021
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: the mail, I always think about the whole temperature thing,

1022
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,399
Speaker 1: because if you think about it, when you leave stuff

1023
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: in your car or overnight in a truck, it gets

1024
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,719
Speaker 1: really hot or really cold. And so I always think

1025
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:21,080
Speaker 1: about this, like we're members of a wine club, and

1026
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: you know, it's like, okay, well, they actually wait to

1027
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,040
Speaker 1: ship the wine even though it's just coming from California.

1028
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,960
Speaker 1: They wait to ship it, you know, a on a

1029
00:49:31,000 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 1: week where the temperatures are not extreme. And I was like, oh, okay,

1030
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,319
Speaker 1: that's smart, because you don't want it to, you know,

1031
00:49:36,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: turn to vinegar in a hot fed X truck. So

1032
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: with these prescriptions, they found that in the winter, packages

1033
00:49:43,880 --> 00:49:46,719
Speaker 1: spend sixty eight to eighty seven percent of the time

1034
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: in conditions outside the ideal range for medications, and twenty

1035
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: seven to fifty four percent during the summer. Most medications

1036
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: are purposely formulated to be stored at room temperature around

1037
00:49:57,400 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: sixty eight to seventy seven degrees, and they shipped like

1038
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,640
Speaker 1: forty eight bubble wrapped packages to six cities nationwide during

1039
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 1: the summer and winter. So I bring this up just

1040
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 1: because I always think about this, like the other day,

1041
00:50:09,280 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: I ordered these energy drinks from Amazon. It was a

1042
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: good deal on Slick Deals, so I got them as

1043
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:14,400
Speaker 1: like five bucks.

1044
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 2: But I thought about it.

1045
00:50:16,560 --> 00:50:18,080
Speaker 1: I was like, Ah, it's so funny, Like how how

1046
00:50:18,160 --> 00:50:20,600
Speaker 1: much they shake around these energy drinks, like on the

1047
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: way to my house. I mean, aren't you told like

1048
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: not to shake cans? But like, you know, these these

1049
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,319
Speaker 1: truck people, you know, the people in the trucks don't

1050
00:50:27,320 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: even know what they're karting, you know, so it's like

1051
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,680
Speaker 1: they don't know that they're shaking up this stuff.

1052
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,560
Speaker 2: It's just really interesting. Anyway.

1053
00:50:33,840 --> 00:50:35,719
Speaker 1: I just mentioned that because I always think about that

1054
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: kind of stuff, and I'm glad that I'm not weird,

1055
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 1: because I do think about like I always thought about

1056
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,200
Speaker 1: like ordering like chocolate off Amazon. My wife likes this

1057
00:50:44,239 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 1: certain kind of chocolate that's like super duper expensive, and

1058
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,520
Speaker 1: I know it's ridiculous, but it's really good and it's

1059
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,440
Speaker 1: like got all these good ingredients and stuff, you know,

1060
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:56,239
Speaker 1: Like a friend at work recommended it to her. Now

1061
00:50:56,280 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 1: she eats it. But it's expensive. It's like, you know,

1062
00:50:58,600 --> 00:51:00,600
Speaker 1: a couple bucks for a bar. And I was like, oh,

1063
00:51:00,600 --> 00:51:04,759
Speaker 1: I bet you. Amazon has it cheaper. And I was like, oh, okay, well,

1064
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 1: isn't it gonna be like a melted blob by the

1065
00:51:06,640 --> 00:51:08,719
Speaker 1: time I get it? And then I think, well, wait

1066
00:51:08,760 --> 00:51:11,400
Speaker 1: a second, doesn't it have to like get from wherever

1067
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:14,719
Speaker 1: it comes from the factory to the grocery store. So

1068
00:51:14,760 --> 00:51:16,800
Speaker 1: I mean, clearly it's not being anyway.

1069
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 2: So this is the way my mind works.

1070
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: Since you're listening to the rich on Tech podcast, I

1071
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: like to give you insight into my brain, and you

1072
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: know that's the way it works. Those are the things

1073
00:51:26,560 --> 00:51:29,239
Speaker 1: that I think of. All right, final question before we go.

1074
00:51:29,440 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 1: Dave says, I have Spectrum cable four hundred megabits per second. Oh,

1075
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: I have Spectrum Cable four hundred megabits per second and

1076
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: the Ero Wi Fi mesh. When I conduct a Wi

1077
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 1: Fi speed test, I get wildly different results. I'm running

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Speaker 1: the test on a six year old Samsung tablet and

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Speaker 1: a Samsung S eight phone. Most recent results show fifteen

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Speaker 1: up thirteen down on the tablet versus three eighty two up,

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Speaker 1: twenty three down on the phone. Or I guess vice versa.

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Speaker 1: Why in your opinion the big difference?

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Speaker 2: Thanks Dave.

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Speaker 1: Dave, I think it comes down to the antennas on

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Speaker 1: these devices. The essay is relatively new, so it probably

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Speaker 1: has better antennas than the six year old Samsung tablet.

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Speaker 1: That would be my guess. But having done a lot

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Speaker 1: of these speed tests myself, I mean, you're not a

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Speaker 1: nerd unless you're doing speed tests at least a couple

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Speaker 1: times a week. I mean, it's like one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite things to do. It's just like I'm always doing

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Speaker 1: a speed test, like just out of curiosity, what's what's

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Speaker 1: my speed here? So I would say it's probably due

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Speaker 1: to the antennas and the tablet versus the antennas in

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Speaker 1: the phone, if I had to guess, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to get too complicated, but there's different arrays. There's different

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Speaker 1: types of antenna arrays that you know, newer gadgets like

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Speaker 1: the new Roku.

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Speaker 2: One of the big selling points.

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Speaker 1: When when I was in my you know, meeting with

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Speaker 1: them and they were telling me about the what's new

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Speaker 1: on the Ultra versus the old one. They said, oh,

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Speaker 1: the range is like fifty percent greater because we, you know,

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Speaker 1: we the antenna array is better. It's like, well interesting,

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Speaker 1: And I remember when Amazon came out with their tablets,

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Speaker 1: they mentioned that there. I think it was called like memommo,

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Speaker 1: and it's like, you know, gives you better range on

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Speaker 1: these tablets, and it's like stuff you don't think about,

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Speaker 1: you know, as an average consumer, you're not necessarily thinking

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Speaker 1: about the fact that, you know, what do you get

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Speaker 1: for a four hundred dollars tablet versus a fifty dollars tablet.

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Speaker 1: They both seem to do the same thing. They let

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Speaker 1: you watch Netflix, but the little nuances are things like

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Speaker 1: that the antenna range to drop off, how fast it

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Speaker 1: you know, like those kind of things. So that would

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Speaker 1: be my guest Dave, And I'm sure that's probably what

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Speaker 1: it is. Oh I hear it. That is the sound

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Speaker 1: and I just I wish I can get back to that,

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