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Speaker 1: Facebook has a major outage and an image problem. I

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Speaker 1: fix a major issue with the new iPhone. Plus your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Richdemiro and this

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Welcome if you're listening on Facebook Live,

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Speaker 1: no matter where you're tuned in from. I do appreciate

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Speaker 1: you taking the time to hang with me. Hmm, what

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Speaker 1: happened this week? I don't know. We're getting into fall.

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Speaker 1: It's exciting. I went through the house and set up

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Speaker 1: on TV and all the radio. But you know, I

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Speaker 1: Rectangle is a really great little program that kind of

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Speaker 1: just gets oh wow, this is so powerful. There's so

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Speaker 1: many things it does, but it just it really just

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Speaker 1: moves your Windows on Mac into different snap kind of grids,

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Speaker 1: which ever, since I got the sixteen inch MacBook Pro

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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, I can do two windows

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Speaker 1: side by side pretty comfortably, and it's a feature that

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Speaker 1: I really really enjoy. In fact, I enjoy it so

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Speaker 1: much I've even gotten used to the short cut keys

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Speaker 1: that will snap my windows to the left and to

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Speaker 1: the right, and so that's no easy feat for me

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Speaker 1: to memorize any sort of shortcut keys. But anyway, Windows

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Speaker 1: leven is available if you want to see it. It's

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Speaker 1: a slow rollout. Not every computers compatible. Just because you're

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Speaker 1: running Windows ten doesn't mean you'll get it. But most

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Speaker 1: you know, if it's a newer computer, or it's a

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Speaker 1: computer that has the specs that can handle it, you'll

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Speaker 1: get it. Yes, there are ways of forcing it onto

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Speaker 1: your computer. Yes, it's a free upgrade, but you can

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Speaker 1: check your Windows update to see if you got it.

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00:23:01,200 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: And if you're nerdier than that and you want to

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Speaker 1: force your computer to get it, you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: Google for a way to do that. There are plenty

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Speaker 1: of instructions online on how to get Windows eleven if

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Speaker 1: you want it right now? All right, tm writes in

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Speaker 1: looking for an address program that I can enter an address?

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Speaker 1: Is it address or address and updates everything? Also when

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Speaker 1: I delete, it deletes addresses everywhere. Is there such a program?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Tony, Tony says sent from my Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: Note ten and AT and T five G evolution capable smartphone.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you AT and T for that very

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Speaker 1: specific signature line. So, Tony, there is absolutely many many

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Speaker 1: programs that will do this, and I'm sure that the

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Speaker 1: Contacts program built into Windows can do this. I know

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Speaker 1: that the Contacts program built into Mac can do this.

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Speaker 1: But I think since you are on a Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 1: Note ten, which is an Android device, I'm gonna I

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Speaker 1: have a hunch that you are using Google as your

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Speaker 1: back end, which is probably where all of your contacts originate.

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Speaker 1: So I am going to recommend the easiest way in

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Speaker 1: the world to update your contacts. And all you have

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Speaker 1: to do is go to Contacts dot Google dot com

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Speaker 1: from your computer Contacts dot Google dot com, and you

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Speaker 1: will see a list of all of your contacts. I

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Speaker 1: have eight hundred and ninety nine contacts. I probably call

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Speaker 1: about twenty of them. And oh, I guess I'm right,

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Speaker 1: I have nineteen that are starred. So do I need

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Speaker 1: all these contacts? Probably not. In fact, when I saw

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Speaker 1: your message, I ended up starting to go through these

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Speaker 1: like I got sidetracked and I started going through and

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Speaker 1: like organizing, and I would say that you want to, uh,

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Speaker 1: do it right here, and it will update on your

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Speaker 1: phone and anywhere else that you are connected with the

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Speaker 1: with the Google service. So if you're connected with Google,

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Speaker 1: which means you're signed in with Google, all your contacts

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Speaker 1: from Google propagate into whatever you know local contact apps

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Speaker 1: or on your phone or on your computer or anywhere else.

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Speaker 1: This will update all those Now I noticed something really

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Speaker 1: cool that that Google has done, and I wondered if

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Speaker 1: they did this. But for me, the toughest part of

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Speaker 1: any contact is always the address, right, because you put

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Speaker 1: someone's address in your phone really fast, and it's always like,

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Speaker 1: you know, not you don't want to sit there and

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Speaker 1: put it in all like the exact like destinations like

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Speaker 1: you know, city, state, zip, whatever, like it's just too

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Speaker 1: much work. So you just kind of write it on

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Speaker 1: one line. Well, if you tap into the street address

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Speaker 1: on the Google contact's web page, you start typing the address,

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Speaker 1: and lo and behold. Yes, they have been so smart

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Speaker 1: where it will auto complete with that Google kind of

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Speaker 1: pop up that comes up when you type in an

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Speaker 1: address on a lot of websites, and it will automatically

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Speaker 1: figure out what you know the rest of the address. Now,

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Speaker 1: the only thing it doesn't work on is like a

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Speaker 1: apartment numbers. You will have to type that into the

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Speaker 1: second line, but it will do the address properly formatted,

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Speaker 1: the city, the state, and the zip code, and it

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Speaker 1: will even give you the last four of the zip code,

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Speaker 1: which probably used to be useful back in the day

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Speaker 1: with mail service, but now probably just you know, don't

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00:26:16,760 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 1: doesn't really get things there any faster. Maybe it does,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. But I went through and I did

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Speaker 1: a couple of my contacts and that was really fun.

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Speaker 1: I also want to mention there is a contacts app

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Speaker 1: that I really like, and it's called Contact Picks, And

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Speaker 1: I think I might have mentioned this already, but it's

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Speaker 1: a really cool little app that is just so easy.

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Speaker 1: This is on iOS, but it's such an easy little

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Speaker 1: app to use. And oh gosh, oh no, I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the I don't know what the like. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to figure out how to find what this contact app? Like,

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Speaker 1: what's the like? How would you know? Like if you

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00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:01,240
Speaker 1: look up contact picks, you're not gonna like, you're not

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00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,040
Speaker 1: gonna know like what it's all about. So let me

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Speaker 1: go share app and I'm gonna share it to myself

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00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:11,959
Speaker 1: and I'll see if I can figure out where this

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Speaker 1: app comes from. But it's like a dollar ninety nine

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Speaker 1: and it's really easy because you just you go in

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00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: there and all you have to do is it gives

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Speaker 1: you a list of all your contacts and it just

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00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:26,560
Speaker 1: fine helps you find pictures for them. And I'll put

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00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:28,119
Speaker 1: the link in the show notes you can see it.

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Speaker 1: But oh wow, price one up, it's now four ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Well I don't know, I mean for four ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's totally worth it, but it's

532
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Speaker 1: kind of fun. Honestly, I really like it. But what

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00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: it does is so it shows you a list of

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Speaker 1: all your contacts that don't have pictures or that have pictures,

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00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: and then it helps you find pictures for them. So

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00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: you can search Google Images and it automatically does all this.

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00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:52,880
Speaker 1: You can search Facebook, you can search like just everything

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Speaker 1: like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. It's so easy. It's really really

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00:27:56,680 --> 00:28:00,360
Speaker 1: cool and it works, and it's it's very simple, and

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00:28:00,760 --> 00:28:03,200
Speaker 1: it's just a fun way to like replace some of

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Speaker 1: the old school pictures that people you know, like I

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00:28:05,520 --> 00:28:07,560
Speaker 1: don't know where the pictures get pulled from on the

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00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: contacts on my iPhone, Like for every time I have

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Speaker 1: someone on there, I'm like, like I show them, like

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00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: where did this picture come from? Like why why is

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00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: your picture a picture of your dog? And they're like, oh,

547
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: I uploaded that to AOL ten years ago and I'm like, well,

548
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: why is it? How did it make it to my phone?

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00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:26,600
Speaker 1: I never know. So this is a way that you know,

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00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: it's a manual process, but it's like an automated manual process,

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00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 1: and I find that the easiest way, especially I mean,

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00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:33,960
Speaker 1: I don't know a lot of people that I have

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00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: in my contact book or like either public figures or

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00:28:36,800 --> 00:28:39,320
Speaker 1: they have you know, a LinkedIn I mean, I guess

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00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:41,080
Speaker 1: a lot of people have that. But it'll just help

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00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: you find a picture, especially their professional pictures, very easily

557
00:28:43,960 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: and or just like a fun picture that they posted

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00:28:46,680 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: one time to like Facebook before they lock down their account,

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00:28:49,640 --> 00:28:51,240
Speaker 1: and it's just floating out there on the web and

560
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: it's like them in a bar and you can like

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00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: just choose that. It like comes up on Google Images

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00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: and you could just choose that and put that in there.

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00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, so we got through that question. Uh,

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00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:05,880
Speaker 1: let's talk about Amazon, one of my favorite topics. You know,

565
00:29:06,040 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: you know I love Amazon. So Amazon invited me to

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Speaker 1: try out their new palm scanning payment system called Amazon One.

567
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: And this is this is That's what I love about

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00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: these big tech companies. It's like they're so like mysterious,

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00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,320
Speaker 1: Like they call me. They're like, rich, we would love

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00:29:23,360 --> 00:29:26,360
Speaker 1: you to try this new system out. I'm like, oh, great, okay,

571
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: but we can't help you do anything. What do you mean, Well,

572
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: we can't give you an interview, We can't really do anything,

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00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 1: but we can just know that you're coming to the

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Speaker 1: store and will make sure that they allow you to

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Speaker 1: use your phone. And by the way, you can only

576
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,000
Speaker 1: use your phone to record. Now, I'm probably telling you

577
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:43,920
Speaker 1: too much about the inside baseball of how things work,

578
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:46,560
Speaker 1: but you know, a lot of things are like little negotiations,

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Speaker 1: you know, like when I went to the the Volkswagen

580
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were like, well, you can't

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Speaker 1: record anything in the factory. I'm like, well, that's a

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00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: non starter. I'm a TV journalist, like I need to

583
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,320
Speaker 1: record stuff in the factory. Like, well, we have someone

584
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:03,360
Speaker 1: there that will be recording. I'm like, no, I want

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00:30:03,360 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: to record my own stuff because I can't rely on

586
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: your camera person. And you know. So they finally went

587
00:30:09,520 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: back and forth and they said, Okay, you can use

588
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:13,800
Speaker 1: your iPhone and I said, okay, cool. Same thing with Amazon. Okay,

589
00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: you can use your iPhone to shoot this, but that's it.

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00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: So we go in there and we tried it out.

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Speaker 1: You basically link you go in there and this is

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Speaker 1: in like sixty different locations, mostly Amazon stores, but then

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00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,280
Speaker 1: they also have it as a ticket Kia or a

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Speaker 1: ticket entry method at Red Rocks Amphitheater, which I've never

595
00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: been to, but I hear is beautiful. One of my

596
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:35,960
Speaker 1: favorite CDs. I know this is aging me or dating me,

597
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,440
Speaker 1: but my my Dave Matthews band Live at Red Rocks

598
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: is like one of my all time favorites, and that's

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00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: the only that's the only like frame of reference I

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00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: have for Red Rocks Amphitheater. But I'm sure it's beautiful.

601
00:30:47,920 --> 00:30:53,040
Speaker 1: It just sounds amazing. But anyway, so they're using it.

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Speaker 1: You know, you can scan your hand to get in

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00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: as a ticket instead of your ticket. I digress. Okay,

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00:30:58,520 --> 00:31:00,800
Speaker 1: So here's how it works. You go into the Amazon store.

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00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: You go up to the counter and you say, I'd

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00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: like to register my credit card or my card with

607
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,840
Speaker 1: my hand, and so you pop your card, your either

608
00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:12,280
Speaker 1: debit or credit card into this little reader that's linked

609
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:14,640
Speaker 1: to your Amazon account, so you know, it knows which

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00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: cards are on your Amazon account, one that you've used before.

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00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: And then it says, okay, now hold your left hand

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00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 1: over the scanner. Bink takes two seconds. It scans your

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00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: hand and I'm talking to your palm of your hand,

614
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:27,840
Speaker 1: so it's actually like kind of looking through your hand.

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00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: I'm guessing at like the blood vessels and stuff at

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00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:31,880
Speaker 1: the veins. I don't know what it's looking at, but

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00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:34,600
Speaker 1: it is. And then it does your right hand. It says, okay,

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00:31:34,640 --> 00:31:36,200
Speaker 1: that's it, You're all done. You pop your credit card

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Speaker 1: out and you never need it again. So now the

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00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: next time you go into Amazon store, you buy your stuff,

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Speaker 1: and you just go up to the register and you say, oh,

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00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:47,600
Speaker 1: I'm using Amazon one. You scan your hand and that's it. Now, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I get that. It's scary. It's biometrics. It's they're building

624
00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: a reference of who you are, and they can someone

625
00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,560
Speaker 1: can steal. Someone on my Facebook page said oh great,

626
00:31:56,800 --> 00:31:58,880
Speaker 1: now people are going to be chopping each other's hands

627
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 1: off and using them to pay in store. I'm like,

628
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: and someone else's comment and they're like, oh, that's not

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00:32:04,200 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: very obvious. You bring a bloody hand into the Amazon Store. Like,

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00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be happening. I remember

631
00:32:10,680 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 1: people saying that, you know, when face id came out,

632
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,000
Speaker 1: people were gonna be getting their their phones unlocked by

633
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,840
Speaker 1: holding their their iPhone in front of their spouse while

634
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 1: they're sleeping to unlock it and look at all their secrets.

635
00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: But like, I mean, it's just then the fingerprint. You know,

636
00:32:25,680 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: when touch id came out, people were like, oh, now

637
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: people are gonna, you know, just put their finger on

638
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,160
Speaker 1: someone's phone and like get it unlocked real quick, or

639
00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,840
Speaker 1: chop off their thumb when they need it. It's like, no,

640
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 1: I don't think we've really heard a lot of reports

641
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: of that stuff happening, and if it does, these people

642
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: have way bigger problems than Amazon's little palm scanning system.

643
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: I mean, if you're chopping off people's hands to shop

644
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: in the Amazon Store, I think that's a bigger issue

645
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: than Amazon coming up with the new technology that uses

646
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:59,560
Speaker 1: palm scanning biometrics. Okay, yeah, and I don't want you

647
00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,239
Speaker 1: in my Amion store, honestly. If that's if you're if

648
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:05,880
Speaker 1: you're considering chopping off someone's hand to use it to

649
00:33:05,920 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: buy your uh, you know, your latest romance novel at

650
00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 1: the Amazon Store, that's that's a little concerning. So I

651
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: would think twice before you even consider doing this. Okay,

652
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,200
Speaker 1: So I tried it out. I bought a bunch of

653
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,760
Speaker 1: stuff at the Amazon Store, and it works great. It's

654
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: really convenient, it's fast, it's simple. It's truly contact lists,

655
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: which I think in today's world with uh, you know

656
00:33:29,320 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: the COVID situation that never ends, and you know the

657
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: even the fact that even if you use tap to

658
00:33:36,160 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 1: pay ninety nine percent of the time, if you're using

659
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 1: a debit card, it's like pin number please. Half the

660
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: time they're like signature. Please. I'm like, why do I

661
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,840
Speaker 1: have to touch the screen? I just did tap and pay.

662
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,960
Speaker 1: The reason I'm doing tap and pay is I don't

663
00:33:47,960 --> 00:33:50,520
Speaker 1: have to touch your dirty, grimy screen in the middle

664
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: of a COVID world or any world. I didn't want

665
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:54,840
Speaker 1: to touch the screens before that, or the pen that's

666
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 1: hanging there. Nasty. The only the the whole pin screen.

667
00:33:58,800 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: The only thing worse is that giant key for the

668
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: bathroom they give you at the at the gas station

669
00:34:04,080 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: that's on like a giant like you know, it's attached

670
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:10,200
Speaker 1: to like a kid's like wagon. They're like, oh, here's

671
00:34:10,239 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: the key for the bathroom, and it's attached like a

672
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,600
Speaker 1: radio fly er wagon. You have to like wheel it

673
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:19,319
Speaker 1: to the bathroom because they don't want you to steal it.

674
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: I mean, who comes up with the things that they

675
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:25,400
Speaker 1: attach those keys to. It's like always like the randomest

676
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: thing that's like so dirty and disgusting. My little trick

677
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: is I always hold it from the ring where the

678
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,720
Speaker 1: key connects to the nasty whatever the thing that it's holding,

679
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,200
Speaker 1: because I feel like most people don't do that, So

680
00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit cleaner that way. But it's like

681
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:43,120
Speaker 1: you go to the restroom. You gotta you know, drag

682
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: this giant key there. Then you have to put it

683
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: somewhere in the nasty bathroom, and then you wash your

684
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,319
Speaker 1: hands and you come out of the bathroom, and now

685
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: you have to touch this thing and bring it back.

686
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: And then it's like you might as well have just

687
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,239
Speaker 1: you know, licked a street corner or something. I don't

688
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: know where was I. So the Amazon One, it's it's

689
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: a great system. It's really fast, it's simple. It's truly

690
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: contact list because there's nothing to do. After you do

691
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: that initial sign up. You literally just wave your hand

692
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: over the reader. It says, okay, we know who's who,

693
00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: we charge the card. And I even got a notification

694
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: from my bank, like a personalized thing that like they

695
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: knew what Amazon one was. So clearly they've gotten some

696
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: of these banks on board. It said, like you know

697
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: from my bank, like, hey, we noticed you added added

698
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: your card to Amazon one. You have all the protections

699
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:30,879
Speaker 1: of your card that you know are that you would

700
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: that you would get typically even if you use this method.

701
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: And I was like, okay, so Amazon's really pushing this,

702
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:40,040
Speaker 1: and I think I think it's tough to sell people

703
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: on a new type of payment method, especially when we

704
00:35:44,000 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: just are getting used to the whole tap to pay thing.

705
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,840
Speaker 1: And so I think that they have an uphill battle

706
00:35:49,880 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: here because it's it's limited. It's only you know, in

707
00:35:53,640 --> 00:35:57,319
Speaker 1: use at Amazon stores right now, plus that random, uh,

708
00:35:57,800 --> 00:36:03,279
Speaker 1: the other random place I mentioned, the Red Rocks, And

709
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:05,840
Speaker 1: so I think that Amazon would like to license this

710
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:07,799
Speaker 1: to other places, and then, of course they will get

711
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,520
Speaker 1: a little tiny percentage or whatever however it works with

712
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:14,040
Speaker 1: the interchange fees or whatever, they'll get a little tiny

713
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: cut of the action whenever someone uses this at somewhere else,

714
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,480
Speaker 1: like another store. But I can guarantee you Walmart's not

715
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: going to accept this. I can guarantee you that Target's

716
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: not going to use this. I can guarantee you that

717
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,759
Speaker 1: Kroger's not going to use it. So and for mom

718
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:32,000
Speaker 1: and pop places, it's probably a little expensive to get

719
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: this reader when you just invested in tap to pay.

720
00:36:35,040 --> 00:36:36,719
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the future of this is

721
00:36:36,760 --> 00:36:39,480
Speaker 1: going to be now. Amazon, Yeah, they're building a bunch

722
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: of stores, and I do think that if Amazon has

723
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:43,759
Speaker 1: it in their own stores and you shop at Whole

724
00:36:43,760 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: Foods all the time, where you've got Amazon Books, or

725
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:48,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's very convenient. But I think the place

726
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,360
Speaker 1: that this would work the best at is sort of

727
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:54,880
Speaker 1: a little tiny convenience store, like a seven to eleven,

728
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,440
Speaker 1: places where you're going in and you just want a

729
00:36:57,560 --> 00:37:01,840
Speaker 1: very fast transaction and so or even like a gas station.

730
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,480
Speaker 1: Not that I use gas anymore, as you know, but

731
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: if I did, this would be really nice. But you

732
00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: still have to touch the handle of the gas thing

733
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 1: the pump, so it's like, you know, people aren't. It's

734
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 1: places where I think you have very quick, small, fast transactions,

735
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: and that would be like in New York City. I

736
00:37:18,880 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: think of like the little corner convenience stores like that.

737
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:24,839
Speaker 1: This would be really easy where you just you go downstairs.

738
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,440
Speaker 1: You know, you're in your pajamas, you're in your slippers.

739
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: You run downstairs, you grab a you know, whatever you need,

740
00:37:31,080 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: and you wave your hand and you're done. And so

741
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:38,000
Speaker 1: I think that's where this would really thrive. And if

742
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:40,279
Speaker 1: Amazon can get these little places to adopt it, that

743
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,680
Speaker 1: would be really great. But we'll have to wait and

744
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: see on this one. But I did try it out.

745
00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:46,680
Speaker 1: It did work. It was very nice, it was very quick,

746
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,640
Speaker 1: and I like it because, like I said, you don't

747
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: have to touch anything. So with fingerprint, you know, if

748
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: they did fingerprint, you have to put your Like there's

749
00:37:54,200 --> 00:37:57,320
Speaker 1: a place in LA that does a fingerprint as your

750
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 1: either payment or your club card. And it's like, I

751
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,160
Speaker 1: don't want to put my finger print in your little

752
00:38:04,200 --> 00:38:07,439
Speaker 1: machine like number one that's my fingerprint, which I don't

753
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: know why. To me, my fingerprint seems a little bit

754
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: more identifiable than my palm print, Like, you know, fingerprints

755
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,680
Speaker 1: since the beginning of like mankind, that's what they've used

756
00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: to like identify people, whereas palm and you know, iris scan, yes,

757
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: but palm, it's like, no, no one's really using the

758
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 1: palm to identify you. So I think that's a pretty

759
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 1: pretty des one. I going really slow here. I've only

760
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:32,560
Speaker 1: gotten through two questions. All right, let's see, Hey, Rich,

761
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: can you help us understand DNS servers. My family has spectrum.

762
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,319
Speaker 1: Despite appearing that we have full bars, we're constantly being

763
00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: told cannot find server. It's virtually impossible to use the

764
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,320
Speaker 1: Wi Fi on our phones in our house. On laptops,

765
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:46,560
Speaker 1: it's especially hard to connect right away, but after several

766
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,440
Speaker 1: minutes it's typically okay. We have a mesh system all

767
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: the MESH hubs indicate they're working. Someone suggested we might

768
00:38:52,640 --> 00:38:55,719
Speaker 1: want to consider using a different DNS like Google or Amazon.

769
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,360
Speaker 1: Any thoughts, aren't we are not. I'm thinking we're not

770
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 1: your only fan with this problem. Thank you, Rich. We

771
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: always appreciate your tech wisdom. Michelle and Cyprus. So, Michelle,

772
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: the fact that you have a MESH system is a

773
00:39:09,120 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: good thing. I'm not sure it's properly set up if

774
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,759
Speaker 1: this is happening, but I will tell you that, yes,

775
00:39:14,000 --> 00:39:17,319
Speaker 1: I use a third party DNS. I do not use

776
00:39:17,760 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: what Spectrum or AT and T provide because you're right,

777
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:27,560
Speaker 1: in my experience, it's not the best experience to use

778
00:39:27,600 --> 00:39:31,040
Speaker 1: experience twice in one sentence. But I find that it

779
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: is slow, it is laggy, it's not that great and so,

780
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,440
Speaker 1: and also it's not that private, and so I always

781
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: switch to a new DNS server. So there's a couple

782
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 1: like you mentioned. I don't know about Amazon. I don't

783
00:39:43,080 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: think they have one, nor would I want to use theirs.

784
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:48,959
Speaker 1: But Google, yes, they have one that is eight dot

785
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot eight and then it's I think

786
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot four dot four. So you have

787
00:39:54,280 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: to look up the way to update this on your system.

788
00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 1: But if you just google the name of your Mesh system,

789
00:40:00,640 --> 00:40:05,080
Speaker 1: like you know EUO Mesh network DNS servers, and if

790
00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,759
Speaker 1: you even you know, even the app for your for

791
00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:09,920
Speaker 1: your Mesh network should have a place where it just

792
00:40:09,920 --> 00:40:12,799
Speaker 1: says DNS and you go in there, and it's really

793
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:14,960
Speaker 1: quite simple. You just go in, you type in those

794
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,520
Speaker 1: four digits whether it's uh A A eight or one

795
00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: one one one which one one one one is run

796
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: by cloud Flare, And that's another one that's a little

797
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:27,319
Speaker 1: bit more private, a little bit better, and a little

798
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 1: bit faster, And so I would definitely switch to one

799
00:40:30,800 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: of these, and I think that you will have a

800
00:40:33,600 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 1: better experience. But I think the bigger problem might be

801
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: how your Mesh network is set up. But I'm not sure,

802
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:42,160
Speaker 1: but I there used to be another one that I

803
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:47,640
Speaker 1: liked too. Maybe it was this one one one one, Yeah,

804
00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,080
Speaker 1: I think that's it. Those two now the other one.

805
00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: If you really want to do something that's interesting, you

806
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:59,319
Speaker 1: could switch to what's called ad Guard DNS. And if

807
00:40:59,320 --> 00:41:02,520
Speaker 1: you switch to ad Guard, you will actually you've you've

808
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: got a couple of flavors inside there, and so ad

809
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:10,800
Speaker 1: guard has a has a a DNS that is for

810
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: what Yeah, family, So there's a family protection mode in here,

811
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 1: and so you can go, uh oh, yeah, there's yeah,

812
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: there's two, so you can okay. So ad guard will

813
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,920
Speaker 1: actually block at the network level, all the ads on

814
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:29,000
Speaker 1: your system. It's not perfect, but it blocks ads, it

815
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,240
Speaker 1: blocks any counters malicious software, and it can also block

816
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:37,960
Speaker 1: adult websites. So if you want to switch to this,

817
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:40,399
Speaker 1: it's a little bit different because you're you know, you're

818
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: going through a third party and you're kind of you

819
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,239
Speaker 1: gotta put a little trust and ad Guard. But if

820
00:41:44,239 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 1: you want to block ads kind of on your network

821
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,480
Speaker 1: at a at a network level, you can set this

822
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,400
Speaker 1: up and their servers are it's like, well I can

823
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 1: read it. It's ninety four fourteen dot fourteen, and that's

824
00:41:57,560 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: the default that will block ads. But if you want

825
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,959
Speaker 1: to do something a little extra and you've got kids

826
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: in the house, you can do the family Protection servers

827
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: and this will attempt to filter out any adult content

828
00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: on the web as well, mostly adult websites. I don't

829
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,839
Speaker 1: know about Google searches, but and that's like ninety four

830
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:21,720
Speaker 1: dot one dot fourteen dot fifteen. So those are yeah,

831
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 1: I mean, those are two other options. So you've got

832
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,239
Speaker 1: the the Cloudflare one, which is one dot one dot

833
00:42:27,280 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: one dot one. You've got Google which is eight dot

834
00:42:29,600 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 1: eight dot eight dot eight, and you've got this ad

835
00:42:32,120 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: Guard DNS. Those are the three that I know off

836
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 1: the top of my head, and I've used most of them,

837
00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:38,600
Speaker 1: and I do think that they are better. In fact,

838
00:42:38,640 --> 00:42:40,720
Speaker 1: it's one of the first things I change anytime setting

839
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:46,320
Speaker 1: up a Wi Fi network. All Right, Google is going

840
00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: to announce the Pixel six on October nineteenth, So I'm

841
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: not gonna spend too much time on this because until

842
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: the phone is announced, there's not really much to talk about.

843
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,879
Speaker 1: But I told you that I am waiting to see

844
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 1: what the Pixel six Pro is all about before I

845
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: make my final purchase on the iPhone thirteen Pro or

846
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 1: the Pixel six Pro. Now, I'll be completely honest, it's

847
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:10,400
Speaker 1: gonna be tough to get me away from the iPhone

848
00:43:10,440 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro because it is quite possibly the world's most

849
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,000
Speaker 1: perfect phone. And I don't just say that because Rich

850
00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 1: you love Apple, Oh my gosh, you're such an Apple fanboy. No,

851
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,759
Speaker 1: I say that because if there's a phone that I

852
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:26,960
Speaker 1: had to be stranded somewhere in the world with, it

853
00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: would probably be the iPhone thirteen Pro. It takes amazing pictures.

854
00:43:31,920 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: The battery actually now lasts a really long time. I

855
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: like the charging, I like the screen, I like the accessories.

856
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 1: I like the Apple Watch. I like the software on

857
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: all the apps. I mean it's a total package. Now,

858
00:43:45,520 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: there are a lot of things I don't like, and

859
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,680
Speaker 1: I don't like how I message hijacks your phone number

860
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:53,080
Speaker 1: and gets you into this world of I Message that

861
00:43:53,120 --> 00:43:55,120
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a part of, but I

862
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: have to be because you know, we live in an

863
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:59,640
Speaker 1: Apple world, and all your friends if you start texting

864
00:43:59,640 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: them with green bubbles, are like, Ranch, why aren't you

865
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: using your iPhone? And it just gets, you know, really annoying,

866
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: and so I just go, you know, I just don't

867
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:09,399
Speaker 1: ditch it. But on the flip side, I love how

868
00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: my I messages go to the Apple Watch and they go,

869
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: you know, my Apple Watch. I can just leave the

870
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 1: house and you know it's got cellular on it. So

871
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to move to the Pixel six

872
00:44:19,640 --> 00:44:21,600
Speaker 1: Pro because I feel like it's a one trick pony.

873
00:44:21,719 --> 00:44:25,680
Speaker 1: It's going to have great camera quality, but what else

874
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: does it give me besides that? Now, I do like

875
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: the idea. Whenever I use a Google phone or an Android,

876
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,560
Speaker 1: I of course immediately start harnessing more of the power

877
00:44:34,600 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: of Google, because on the iPhone, Google it's there, but

878
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,920
Speaker 1: it's not very easy. You're always typing, you can't really

879
00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: use voice search, you can't really use it's just a

880
00:44:43,080 --> 00:44:46,560
Speaker 1: lot of like busy work to actually use Google or

881
00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:50,320
Speaker 1: any Google products on there. Whereas I'm Android, it's much easier.

882
00:44:50,360 --> 00:44:51,960
Speaker 1: So if I want to search for something, I just

883
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: tap the microphone button right on the home screen and boom,

884
00:44:54,680 --> 00:44:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm into a search and the results you are up

885
00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: within like a fraction of a second. If I want

886
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: to click on an address in anything across the phone,

887
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: it will bring me to my preferred Maps app, not

888
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:07,840
Speaker 1: Apple Maps half the time as it does on the iPhone.

889
00:45:08,520 --> 00:45:10,520
Speaker 1: If I want to set up any kind of random

890
00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:12,440
Speaker 1: little things on the phone, I can do that. Now

891
00:45:12,520 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: iPhone has gotten a lot better in this aspect, but

892
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: again I feel like I'm always cruising two different systems,

893
00:45:18,239 --> 00:45:20,879
Speaker 1: the system that Apple wants to force me to use

894
00:45:20,920 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: and the system that I want to use. For instance,

895
00:45:23,560 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: half the time when you click on a website, it

896
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: comes up in Safari because even though you can set

897
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:31,120
Speaker 1: a default now, it doesn't always work. And it's just

898
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: those little kind of things that bug me about the iPhone.

899
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,719
Speaker 1: But overall it is a very very It is the

900
00:45:37,760 --> 00:45:39,799
Speaker 1: best device. Let's put it that way. It really is.

901
00:45:39,840 --> 00:45:42,080
Speaker 1: As a full package, it is the best. But I

902
00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: will be looking forward to seeing what Google has to announce,

903
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: and I hope that I can switch. I really do,

904
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 1: because it will take some creative figuring out for me

905
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: to keep the Apple Watch, but to switch to the

906
00:45:53,960 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: Pixel six Pro and we'll see what happens. October nineteenth,

907
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,200
Speaker 1: Yolanda says, Hey, Rich, not long ago when I was

908
00:46:04,239 --> 00:46:06,680
Speaker 1: getting for work, you did a short segment on refurbished

909
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,120
Speaker 1: phone iPhones. Today, I broke my screen. I'm not sure

910
00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: how much longer it will last. If you'd be so

911
00:46:11,560 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 1: kind to send that information, I will greatly appreciate it.

912
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: Thank you well, Yolanda. If your phone is not that old,

913
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: I would just get it repaired, and I would just

914
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,839
Speaker 1: take it to like a you break eye fix and

915
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 1: see how much it costs to get fixed. Usually, screen

916
00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:27,319
Speaker 1: repairs are not unless the digitizer's broken, like the part

917
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,600
Speaker 1: underneath the screen. It's just the glass that's broken. They

918
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: can replace that and it's not that expensive, and it

919
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,759
Speaker 1: probably will be cheaper than new phone. But if you

920
00:46:34,800 --> 00:46:36,560
Speaker 1: want a new phone, here are the places that I

921
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:40,160
Speaker 1: would look for a refurbished iPhone Number one. I spoke

922
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,680
Speaker 1: about getting phones on Amazon earlier, but I would not

923
00:46:42,719 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: recommend new phones, but refurbished iPhones. Yes, and you can

924
00:46:46,280 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 1: look up. I think it's either Amazon Certified refurbished or

925
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:53,160
Speaker 1: Amazon Warehouse deals. But they've got a bunch of iPhones

926
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:54,799
Speaker 1: in there because a bunch of people trade them in

927
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: and then Amazon has them, and then they refurbish them

928
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,399
Speaker 1: and they send them back out to or they sell

929
00:46:59,440 --> 00:47:03,880
Speaker 1: them to folks like you. Gazelle is another place that

930
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,959
Speaker 1: a lot of people go to purchase or to sell

931
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: their phones, and then Gazelle will refurbish the ones that

932
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,000
Speaker 1: are still good and they will flip them and sell

933
00:47:13,000 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 1: them to someone else. And you can get a pretty

934
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: good deal there if you want, like the most official

935
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,360
Speaker 1: method you know coming from Apple, and you get a

936
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,320
Speaker 1: little bit better warranty. I think it comes with a

937
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:26,719
Speaker 1: two year warranty, but and plus a good return process.

938
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: Plus you can bring it to the store for you

939
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:31,759
Speaker 1: know anything, any help you need, you can go to

940
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:36,359
Speaker 1: Apple dot com or just search Apple refurbished, Apple dot com,

941
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: slash shop slash refurbished and okay sorry. They come with

942
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 1: a one year warranty and so you save up to

943
00:47:45,560 --> 00:47:49,600
Speaker 1: fifteen percent and they come with a one year warranty

944
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: and it comes with a new battery and a new

945
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: outer shell, which is really cool. So they basically just

946
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: keep the insides, like the guts these phones, and then

947
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,520
Speaker 1: they replace the whole outside of it new battery and

948
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: a new outer shell, and so you're getting like, basically,

949
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:10,279
Speaker 1: you're not getting someone's old battery that they like, you know,

950
00:48:10,440 --> 00:48:12,080
Speaker 1: it's like a rental car, you know, they were like

951
00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: reving it up every day, and so you're getting a

952
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: battery that's actually brand new. And so that would be

953
00:48:17,200 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 1: one advantage to shopping direct from Apple. Yes, you're gonna

954
00:48:20,160 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 1: pay a little bit more, but in the end it

955
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: might benefit you because you're not gonna get a lemon.

956
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:26,319
Speaker 1: You know, you never know what you're gonna get some

957
00:48:26,360 --> 00:48:29,080
Speaker 1: times when you buy it off eBay or Amazon, you know,

958
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:31,800
Speaker 1: you just don't know. But if you buy it off Apple,

959
00:48:32,200 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: you've got a big company that's backing what they sell

960
00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 1: you and the other one. If you're a little bit

961
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: more tech savvy, a little bit nerdier, I'd recommend Swapa.

962
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: And this has been like kind of the the geek's

963
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: favorite place to sell and buy a lot of gadgets

964
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:54,400
Speaker 1: over the years. And I say that because it's a

965
00:48:54,480 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: little bit more like involved than some of the other places.

966
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: But the stuff that you get on there is pretty

967
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:03,279
Speaker 1: high quality, and so people, you know, if nerds like it,

968
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,399
Speaker 1: that's a good thing because that means that they're doing

969
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:09,319
Speaker 1: something right. Because these are the discerning tech folks, right

970
00:49:09,800 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: and so you want to make sure that if they're happy,

971
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,120
Speaker 1: you'll probably be happy as well. But good question, Thanks

972
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: for asking it. And yeah, let's see what do I

973
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,120
Speaker 1: want to talk about now? Let's we talk about you know,

974
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:22,840
Speaker 1: every week on the show, I'm going to talk about

975
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:26,759
Speaker 1: my journey with Tesla and electric cars in general. But

976
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: I'll get through this news and I'll just switch to

977
00:49:30,200 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: talking about what I want to talk about, which is

978
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:38,280
Speaker 1: my car. But GM has unveiled Ultra Cruse. So GM

979
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,279
Speaker 1: has something called super CRUs which I've tested. It's kind

980
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: of like their hands free driving, but this Ultra Cruse

981
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:49,440
Speaker 1: takes it a step further, and Ultra Cruse is so

982
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,800
Speaker 1: if super Cruse is more like cruise control, that doesn't

983
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 1: require hands on the wheel, but you kind of have

984
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: to still be active in this, and that Ultra Cruz

985
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: is more like self driving, but it's not full self driving.

986
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: So no, everyone's dancing around this idea of self driving

987
00:50:05,680 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 1: right now because I think that all these car companies

988
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,600
Speaker 1: over promised, and when customers get into these cars, they're like, oh,

989
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:13,360
Speaker 1: I thought my like I thought my Tesla would just

990
00:50:13,440 --> 00:50:15,760
Speaker 1: drive itself all the time, and that's not really true,

991
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,359
Speaker 1: even if you pay for the full autopilot, which I've

992
00:50:18,360 --> 00:50:21,920
Speaker 1: not done just yet, but your car. I think that

993
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: these cars are doing more for us. But you know,

994
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,040
Speaker 1: even in my Tesla and even in the GM Supercruse,

995
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:31,759
Speaker 1: I mean Supercrus does change lanes by itself, so that

996
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: is that is definitely something it does at the base level,

997
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,640
Speaker 1: but you know, it's it's kind of like cruise control,

998
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 1: but a little bit more evolved, so it does a

999
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: little bit more. And then Ultra Cruz is going to

1000
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: use sensors like cameras, radars, and lidar to control steering, acceleration,

1001
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,440
Speaker 1: and braking. And they say they could use it on

1002
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:53,560
Speaker 1: two million of miles of paved roads and ninety five

1003
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: percent of driving scenarios. But this is gonna this is

1004
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,279
Speaker 1: gonna premiere on really ultra premium cars and then trickle

1005
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:02,839
Speaker 1: its way down to h You know what's the most

1006
00:51:02,880 --> 00:51:05,160
Speaker 1: basic GM car? These days? I don't even like they

1007
00:51:05,200 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: don't even make cars. These car companies don't even make

1008
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:09,800
Speaker 1: cars anymore now. I was talking a forward about the

1009
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: Maverick and they're like, yeah, we don't even make cars anymore, Like,

1010
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,560
Speaker 1: what do you mean you don't make cars now? We

1011
00:51:13,640 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 1: just do SUVs and crossovers. So I mean, I think

1012
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:20,279
Speaker 1: that these this car market has been taken over. I

1013
00:51:20,280 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 1: don't even think GM's making cars anymore. Like they they

1014
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:24,879
Speaker 1: don't do the they do the bolt I guess which

1015
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: is a car. But I don't think they do like

1016
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 1: any of the small little cars they used to do.

1017
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,080
Speaker 1: They just have so many these little cars. But I

1018
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:34,839
Speaker 1: guess the the people have spoken and they like their crossovers.

1019
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:37,719
Speaker 1: But anyway, s you'll have supercrew. So now when you

1020
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,880
Speaker 1: hear the term super cruise, that's like a much higher

1021
00:51:41,040 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: end version of the self drive or the driver assist

1022
00:51:44,719 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 1: and then regular Sorry super Cruise is the is the regular.

1023
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 1: So there's two levels. There's there's three levels. There's driving yourself,

1024
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,759
Speaker 1: then there's Super Crews, which has assisted driving, and then

1025
00:51:55,800 --> 00:51:58,320
Speaker 1: there's Ultra Cruise, which is gonna be much more assistance

1026
00:51:58,480 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: and it's gonna do stop signs, traphic signals and other

1027
00:52:01,640 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: things that Super Crews cannot. So Ultra Cruise is kind

1028
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:08,840
Speaker 1: of like their high end, kind of like the equivalent

1029
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,720
Speaker 1: of the autopilot on Tesla. But autopilot's a little misleading

1030
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:17,279
Speaker 1: because there's full autopilot and then there's autopilot, and so

1031
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: there are different levels on the Tesla as well. And

1032
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:22,319
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, like my experience with the Tesla number

1033
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: one with the autopilot situation is I think that it's

1034
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:28,920
Speaker 1: a little dicey because it's so easy to switch. Like

1035
00:52:29,239 --> 00:52:32,359
Speaker 1: even if you have cruise control in your car, it's

1036
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 1: not as easy to get into as it is on

1037
00:52:35,120 --> 00:52:38,480
Speaker 1: the Tesla. On the Tesla, it's really quick and really

1038
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:42,320
Speaker 1: fast to snap into the ether either the self whatever

1039
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,520
Speaker 1: the gosh what am I trying to say here? The

1040
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: part where it just keeps the speed so cruise control

1041
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: and then the lane keep so it doesn't Tesla doesn't

1042
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: use those nomenclatures. But that's really the two levels that

1043
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,480
Speaker 1: I have in my car. I've got the adaptive cruise control,

1044
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: which when you you just basically you can tap one.

1045
00:53:02,360 --> 00:53:04,440
Speaker 1: It's like a stick on your steering wheel. You pull

1046
00:53:04,480 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 1: it down and boom, or you push it up. I

1047
00:53:06,200 --> 00:53:08,400
Speaker 1: can't remember. But then you're you're all of a sudden

1048
00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: like just you know, whatever the speed limit is, you're

1049
00:53:10,680 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 1: automatically there. And that's another thing. Like on my old car,

1050
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: you know, you'd have to press a button to enter

1051
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: a cruise control and then you'd have to set your

1052
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:20,640
Speaker 1: little cruise control speed. So this is kind of like

1053
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: all in one in one swipe, so it's really fast.

1054
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: And then the second thing that's faster is the auto

1055
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: like staying in your lane. And so I think you

1056
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,120
Speaker 1: do twice on the stalk and it then stays in

1057
00:53:32,120 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 1: your lane. But I'll be honest, like for me as

1058
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 1: a driver, sometimes I forget. I'm like, wait, am I

1059
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:40,400
Speaker 1: in just the part where it's keeps the the adaptive

1060
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,360
Speaker 1: cruise control? Or am I in the part where it

1061
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:45,520
Speaker 1: also keeps you my lane? And yes, there's little indicators

1062
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: that tell you, but I think our human brain, and

1063
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: I've said this before, is not fully wired to it's

1064
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 1: going to take a while to like adapt to this

1065
00:53:54,840 --> 00:53:57,480
Speaker 1: idea that you always have to be in control. But

1066
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: sometimes you're not really in control and the car's doing itself.

1067
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,520
Speaker 1: And it's kind of a tough thing to explain. But

1068
00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: I think that's when we see all these accidents with

1069
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:08,760
Speaker 1: these self driving cars and the automated systems. It's because

1070
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: I think people are just their their brains are not like, oh, shoot,

1071
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,000
Speaker 1: like it used to be all you had to keep

1072
00:54:15,000 --> 00:54:17,840
Speaker 1: track of, well, your brain would keep track of everything,

1073
00:54:18,320 --> 00:54:20,400
Speaker 1: and now as you start to peel away those layers

1074
00:54:20,440 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: of Oh I can keep my foot off the gas

1075
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: pedal and off the brake. Oh okay, well that's a

1076
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: little weird. Oh I can take my hands off the

1077
00:54:26,080 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: stirring wheel for a couple of minutes and then I

1078
00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:29,319
Speaker 1: have to put them back on. Or oh, it's just

1079
00:54:29,320 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: gonna stay in this lane while I do something real quick.

1080
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,799
Speaker 1: I mean, it's odd that we have that, and it's

1081
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:36,520
Speaker 1: tough for your brain to kind of to make sense

1082
00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: of all of that and every single time when the

1083
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 1: scenarios are constantly changing. So I think that's why we're

1084
00:54:42,000 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of issues with the uptake and the

1085
00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:46,360
Speaker 1: you know, the situation with the self driving and the

1086
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: assisted driving. But and quite honestly, like the bigger portion

1087
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:52,759
Speaker 1: of this is when things go fully autonomous. I think

1088
00:54:52,800 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 1: that's gonna be even scarier because there are just so

1089
00:54:55,640 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: many driving situations out there and so many nuances on

1090
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,160
Speaker 1: the road that, yeah, I just don't know if I

1091
00:55:02,200 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 1: would trust a car to you know, to drive me

1092
00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:08,240
Speaker 1: right now all by itself and also drive my kids.

1093
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:10,959
Speaker 1: So or maybe when they start driving, it'll be it'll

1094
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:13,680
Speaker 1: be better because it'll be not them driving, So that's

1095
00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:19,360
Speaker 1: maybe it'll be better. All right, Let's get into another

1096
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 1: question because I think we're getting towards the end of

1097
00:55:21,440 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: the show here. Uh Almah says, hey, Rich, I've used

1098
00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:26,960
Speaker 1: Yahoo mail for work since the beginning of Time two

1099
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:28,759
Speaker 1: thousand and one. I've noticed that it takes forever to

1100
00:55:28,800 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: load on my iPhone and I can read and I

1101
00:55:31,080 --> 00:55:33,600
Speaker 1: now read Yahoo mal will cease to exist? What provider

1102
00:55:33,640 --> 00:55:37,000
Speaker 1: should I switch to for business? Gmail? iCloud. I receive

1103
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:39,400
Speaker 1: a lot of files and emails I would pay for

1104
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 1: a reliable service. Can you point me in the right direction?

1105
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 1: I always follow your recommendations faithfully, thank you alba alma alma.

1106
00:55:46,880 --> 00:55:50,360
Speaker 1: I would recommend the easiest is probably just Google not

1107
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:53,120
Speaker 1: I mean, yes, you can use Gmail and it's completely free,

1108
00:55:53,520 --> 00:55:55,600
Speaker 1: but if you want to have something that says your

1109
00:55:55,640 --> 00:55:58,799
Speaker 1: business name, like you know, like I have Hello at

1110
00:55:58,880 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 1: richontech dot tv, I would recommend you got to pay

1111
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,440
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I think it's worth paying. Now.

1112
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,400
Speaker 1: You can do this a couple different ways, like that

1113
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:10,560
Speaker 1: Hello at richontech dot tv is just a forwarding email.

1114
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:13,880
Speaker 1: So when someone writes an email to that address, my

1115
00:56:13,880 --> 00:56:17,680
Speaker 1: my domain is literally just forwarding that to my Gmail,

1116
00:56:18,160 --> 00:56:20,360
Speaker 1: and so when I reply back to someone, it typically

1117
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,799
Speaker 1: comes from my Gmail, which you probably don't want for

1118
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:25,640
Speaker 1: your business. So I would recommend that you would actually

1119
00:56:26,760 --> 00:56:30,720
Speaker 1: sign up for Google's, you know, a business account at Google,

1120
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,279
Speaker 1: which is I think Google Workspace, and then you would

1121
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 1: sign up for an email so it looks like it's

1122
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:40,720
Speaker 1: six dollars per user per month, and that includes thirty

1123
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: gigs of storage file sharing, and you know, you can

1124
00:56:44,200 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: upgrade if you need to. Plus, it includes your company,

1125
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,279
Speaker 1: your email at your company, you know dot com. So

1126
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:54,600
Speaker 1: I would probably recommend that. The other option is I

1127
00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:58,600
Speaker 1: would go Microsoft out or Outlook, which is Microsoft three

1128
00:56:58,680 --> 00:57:01,279
Speaker 1: sixty five, And I don't have the pricing on that,

1129
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: but I think that that, you know, anytime you do

1130
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,080
Speaker 1: a business, you kind of want to use Like I

1131
00:57:07,080 --> 00:57:09,919
Speaker 1: think that Outlook is really good for business, Like you're

1132
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: gonna be using their app to check your email. And

1133
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: so either Gmail or Outlook I think are the two

1134
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:17,320
Speaker 1: best out there, and so I would just use those now.

1135
00:57:17,320 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 1: If you don't want to pay anything, Yeah, you can

1136
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: use something like an iCloud, but you're saying you're getting

1137
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:22,720
Speaker 1: a lot of files and sending a lot of files.

1138
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 1: You don't want to have to be in a scenario

1139
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:28,240
Speaker 1: where your storage is either used up or it's too full,

1140
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 1: or the files are too big and you can't send

1141
00:57:30,280 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 1: the email. So I would probably go with the Google

1142
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: Workspace or a professional version of Outlook. And I think

1143
00:57:36,880 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: those two will probably be your best bets. All right,

1144
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:44,080
Speaker 1: let's talk about something fun before I wrap up the show. Here.

1145
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 1: I went to Dreamscape. This is I don't know if

1146
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,600
Speaker 1: I've talked about on the podcast before. I'm sure I have,

1147
00:57:51,120 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: but they Dreamscape, I think is doing the best virtual

1148
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:57,160
Speaker 1: reality out there. I love VR, I really really do.

1149
00:57:57,640 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: I think it is. It's gonna have such a big future.

1150
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,959
Speaker 1: I don't think we're there just yet, but I do

1151
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: think that VR has just such a bright potential if

1152
00:58:08,280 --> 00:58:10,280
Speaker 1: they can figure it out, they being the people that

1153
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,840
Speaker 1: are working on it, And what that means is they've

1154
00:58:12,840 --> 00:58:18,840
Speaker 1: got to get the headsets to be better, less tethered, longer, battery, smaller, lighter,

1155
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: more comfortable, easier, less sick, all that good stuff. No backpacks.

1156
00:58:24,920 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: So anyway, Dreamscape is one of these companies that's sort

1157
00:58:27,960 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: of pushing the limits when it comes to VR for

1158
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,000
Speaker 1: the average person because they're in the malls. They've only

1159
00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 1: got a couple locations. But you go into this place

1160
00:58:36,120 --> 00:58:38,360
Speaker 1: and you have a strap on the headset, you put

1161
00:58:38,400 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: on a backpack, and next thing you know, you're battling

1162
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:45,120
Speaker 1: aliens or you're checking out whatever a world that is

1163
00:58:45,200 --> 00:58:48,440
Speaker 1: just not available in the real life. And so the

1164
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 1: new one they have is called Men in Black First Assignment,

1165
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:53,200
Speaker 1: and I went to Dreamscape to check it out, and

1166
00:58:53,240 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: it is just so cool now. I will say, personally,

1167
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 1: my headset was a little bit choppy, and I'm not

1168
00:58:59,560 --> 00:59:02,240
Speaker 1: sure if that's because they need to like restart the

1169
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 1: computer that was attached to it, or if you know

1170
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: this this place has been around for a couple of years,

1171
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,120
Speaker 1: maybe their system is getting a little bit older and

1172
00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,720
Speaker 1: they need to like update, you know, because these VR files,

1173
00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure it's like anything, they just get bigger and

1174
00:59:13,480 --> 00:59:16,320
Speaker 1: bigger and require more processing. So maybe it was a

1175
00:59:16,320 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 1: little bit old and they need to upgrade, but I'm

1176
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:21,120
Speaker 1: not sure. But anyway, it didn't really take away from

1177
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: the action and the excitement. But I'm telling you, the

1178
00:59:24,480 --> 00:59:27,000
Speaker 1: first experience is you get in there in this little

1179
00:59:27,080 --> 00:59:30,720
Speaker 1: room and they put you on a subway car and

1180
00:59:30,760 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 1: you look like you're going through like this cool subway station.

1181
00:59:33,320 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: It's like all high tech and like alieny or whatever,

1182
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:39,480
Speaker 1: and it's just so realistic. You feel like you're on

1183
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:42,040
Speaker 1: a moving subway car, and it's just I love that

1184
00:59:42,160 --> 00:59:44,520
Speaker 1: kind of thing that you can just your brain just

1185
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,640
Speaker 1: instantly is like, oh, I'm being tricked, but I don't

1186
00:59:46,680 --> 00:59:49,439
Speaker 1: care because it's so cool. And then the second part

1187
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,640
Speaker 1: that really got me is that you're on this like

1188
00:59:51,680 --> 00:59:54,480
Speaker 1: little like little i don't know what you call, like

1189
00:59:54,480 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: a little motorbike kind of thing that you're like riding

1190
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:58,640
Speaker 1: through the world in which really you're just stationary, but

1191
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: it feels like you're you know, you're on this thing

1192
01:00:01,840 --> 01:00:04,400
Speaker 1: and they shoot you up in the air, like a

1193
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:07,720
Speaker 1: thousand feet above this bridge. And I'm not kidding. It

1194
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,320
Speaker 1: was like my spidy sense of like, you know, my

1195
01:00:10,400 --> 01:00:14,000
Speaker 1: little awareness of heights. I don't know what you want

1196
01:00:14,000 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: to call it is like it's like triggered and I'm like, whoa,

1197
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,560
Speaker 1: I'm really up high right now, but I'm not because

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01:00:20,600 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: you're just in this room in the mall. And so

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01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 1: that was awesome. Now, the one thing I would say,

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01:00:24,680 --> 01:00:27,320
Speaker 1: I took my son who's ten, and it was great

1201
01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:28,800
Speaker 1: because I was a little nervous. I'm like, oh, is

1202
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,040
Speaker 1: he gonna like it? Is he gonna run out of

1203
01:00:30,040 --> 01:00:31,680
Speaker 1: the room? Is he gonna get hurt? Because he's you know,

1204
01:00:31,680 --> 01:00:34,240
Speaker 1: you're in this room that has like it's like a square,

1205
01:00:34,320 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: a big square that has like four railings rounds that

1206
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: you don't like fall off the stage or it's not

1207
01:00:41,080 --> 01:00:43,200
Speaker 1: really a stage, but you know the state this place

1208
01:00:43,280 --> 01:00:45,800
Speaker 1: is equipped with all kinds of little tricks, like water

1209
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: out of the ceiling. You know, it sprits you, you know, fans,

1210
01:00:49,120 --> 01:00:51,520
Speaker 1: there was heat in this one. There's like a place

1211
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 1: where you can reach out and touch something and it's slimy.

1212
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:58,080
Speaker 1: You know. The floor vibrates and rattles and moves so

1213
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 1: that it not moves, but it kind of rattles and

1214
01:01:00,040 --> 01:01:02,080
Speaker 1: us so that you feel like when you're on that

1215
01:01:02,120 --> 01:01:05,680
Speaker 1: train that it's actually moving, and you do walk around

1216
01:01:05,680 --> 01:01:08,000
Speaker 1: a little bit. But anyway, at one point, when we

1217
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,160
Speaker 1: were on these little bikes, all of a sudden, my son,

1218
01:01:10,240 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 1: who is you can see the avatar of whoever else

1219
01:01:12,880 --> 01:01:16,640
Speaker 1: is in there with you. He disappeared because they in

1220
01:01:16,720 --> 01:01:21,000
Speaker 1: this example or this adventure, the person I guess, they

1221
01:01:21,120 --> 01:01:23,400
Speaker 1: kind of peel off onto their own bike, not next

1222
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: to you anymore. And so I did not like that

1223
01:01:25,880 --> 01:01:27,480
Speaker 1: aspect of it because I felt like it was a

1224
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: little as a parent, I wanted to be able to

1225
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: look over and see that my son was still there

1226
01:01:31,560 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: and okay, even though it was just it would be

1227
01:01:33,640 --> 01:01:35,360
Speaker 1: an avatar of him, but still at least I know

1228
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: he's there. But this whole thing, like the last ten

1229
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,360
Speaker 1: minutes of the ride, it's only like fifteen minutes, he

1230
01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,000
Speaker 1: was not there. And so I kept yelling out. I

1231
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,880
Speaker 1: was like, Parker, are you okay? Parker, you okay? He's like, yeah, yeah,

1232
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:46,800
Speaker 1: I'm okay. And it's really you know, you don't want

1233
01:01:46,800 --> 01:01:48,160
Speaker 1: to lift up your head sex, you don't want to

1234
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 1: you know, to take yourself out of the action. But

1235
01:01:50,240 --> 01:01:52,480
Speaker 1: it was just such a great experience. Tickets you're like

1236
01:01:52,480 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 1: twenty five bucks. You know, it's it's well worth it,

1237
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,240
Speaker 1: I think for the experience that you get. And yes

1238
01:01:58,280 --> 01:02:01,400
Speaker 1: it's it's expensive, but you will get to talk about

1239
01:02:01,440 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: this and I just think it's such a transformative technology

1240
01:02:05,200 --> 01:02:07,720
Speaker 1: in your life that it just kind of changes your paradigm.

1241
01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:09,920
Speaker 1: And I've talked about this in the podcast where I

1242
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: feel like we need to do that as people that

1243
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:16,120
Speaker 1: want to grow and learn and adapt that you just

1244
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 1: have to challenge yourself in different ways and this is

1245
01:02:18,400 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 1: one of them. In a weird way, You're just experiencing

1246
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: something that you've never experienced before and it does forever

1247
01:02:24,480 --> 01:02:26,960
Speaker 1: change the fabric of who you are. So check it

1248
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 1: out Dreamscape at the you know, if you have it

1249
01:02:29,320 --> 01:02:31,640
Speaker 1: by you see if it's by you, But otherwise you

1250
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:33,600
Speaker 1: don't do any of these things. But I think Dreamscape

1251
01:02:33,640 --> 01:02:39,160
Speaker 1: is the best. All right, Walter says, Hey, Rich, quick question.

1252
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 1: I have a Galaxy Note ten. I'm thinking of upgrading

1253
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,440
Speaker 1: to the Galaxy flip phone. Is there a big difference

1254
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: between them? Besides the flip, is it worth the money

1255
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,480
Speaker 1: or keep my note thanks in advance? You know what,

1256
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:52,920
Speaker 1: I would not go to the Flip from the Galaxy

1257
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: Note ten. You know, I guess the Flip is fine.

1258
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's the cheaper of the two. The Fold

1259
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:00,320
Speaker 1: is the more expensive one. I just don't really see

1260
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:03,440
Speaker 1: the benefit unless you're trying to save space in your pocket.

1261
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 1: But you're taking kind of a downgrade here because you're

1262
01:03:07,360 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 1: not gonna have the best specs, and the Note ten

1263
01:03:09,200 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 1: at one point had the best specs. It had. You know,

1264
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:13,240
Speaker 1: you can write on the screen with the stylust. So

1265
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:16,600
Speaker 1: I think that you should go with the Samsung Galaxy

1266
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,160
Speaker 1: S twenty one Ultra. If you want something that's similar

1267
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 1: to the Note ten. That's an upgrade and you're gonna

1268
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:23,800
Speaker 1: get the best and you can trade in your Note

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Speaker 1: ten for that. The Flip I would go for. If

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Speaker 1: you don't care too much about the quality of your pictures,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine. They're not gonna be anything spectacular.

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Speaker 1: If you don't care too much about battery life, if

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Speaker 1: you don't care about a crease in the middle of

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Speaker 1: your screen if you don't care about the fact that

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Speaker 1: your phone is not going to be as durable as

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Speaker 1: a standalone phone that doesn't fold or flip. And I

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Speaker 1: just think that the flip is for someone who is

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Speaker 1: just fully accepting of all these downsides, just to be

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Speaker 1: on the cutting edge and have people say, oh, that's cool,

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Speaker 1: you can fold your phone in half. Otherwise, I would

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Speaker 1: definitely go with the S twenty one Ultra. If you

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Speaker 1: don't want to spend all that money and you don't

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Speaker 1: really care about the style. It's like if you're not

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Speaker 1: really using it a lot on your note ten, then

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Speaker 1: I would just go ahead and get the S twenty

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Speaker 1: one like the standard one. Maybe you don't need the

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Speaker 1: Ultra and just go that way. Oh my gosh, I

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Speaker 1: had so many more questions to get to. I must

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Speaker 1: have been talking too long on all these different things.

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Speaker 1: I gotta remember, Okay, I need to talk less, answer

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Speaker 1: more questions. That's my goal of next week's show. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for this episode of the show. If

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Speaker 1: you'd like to submit a question for me to answer,

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Hit the big blue send email button. You

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Speaker 1: can also email me just that's the best way. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. You can look for the

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Speaker 1: but we'll get a lot more listeners lately. And I

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Speaker 1: And when people see it, they're like, who's this rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech? Let me let me read a couple of

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Speaker 1: reviews and see and like. If you write like why

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Speaker 1: other apps can do it too. You can find me

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Speaker 1: on social media at rich on Tech, and no matter

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Speaker 1: Scroll to the tech section and watch all of my

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Speaker 1: TV segments on demand. Yes, I always say that's where

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Speaker 1: I do my best work on TV. That's what pays

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Speaker 1: the bills. That's what I like. I mean, I love this,

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Speaker 1: but you know, it's just one part of what I do.

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Speaker 1: But TV is like my day to day. My name

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Speaker 1: is rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend an hour of your time.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it with me. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon. Take care,