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Speaker 1: I believe that technology should be easy, helpful, and sometimes,

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Speaker 1: while worthy, it could also be frustrating. I get that

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Speaker 1: it to hello at Richontech dot TV. Happy. Uh, fourth

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Speaker 1: of July weekend? Is that a thing is fourth? It

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Speaker 1: is fourth of July weekend, right, because fourth of July

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Speaker 1: So it is fourth of July weekend. So good weather,

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Speaker 1: hopefully where you are. Hopefully you've got some plans, you know.

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about if Fourth of July has been

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Speaker 1: impacted by technology, and I think it has. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you how. Drone shows, so I think some of

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Speaker 1: you will be watching and I know this sounds wild,

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Speaker 1: instead of actual fireworks, I think you'll be watching drone

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Speaker 1: fireworks shows. I have not personally seen one of these

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Speaker 1: know they're happening around town, and I'm sure they're happening

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Speaker 1: comparison of the traditional fireworks show and the drone fireworks show.

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Speaker 1: I think that the boom of the fireworks is probably

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Speaker 1: And I think last year I had to go to

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Speaker 1: and it was just all night long. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: So maybe the drone shows are better.

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Speaker 1: So I've got a lesson to tell you about this week.

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Speaker 1: That is a really you know, I'm not I don't

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Speaker 1: like a downer story. Don't feel sorry for me whatever,

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Speaker 1: So here's my lesson. And this is what I said.

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Speaker 1: If you've ever gotten your tire replaced or something like that,

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Speaker 1: He's gonna explain how you can make money renting out

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Speaker 7: you can open your app into a multi window mode,

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Speaker 7: and then once you're done with that, the taskbar disappears.

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Speaker 7: So it appears when you need it and then it

435
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Speaker 7: gets out of the way when you don't. And it's

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Speaker 7: a really interesting approach to make multitasking a little bit

437
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Speaker 7: more easier but also less kind of in your face

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Speaker 7: all the time.

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Speaker 1: And what about the optimizations of some of these apps

440
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Speaker 1: because Android has kind of been all over the place.

441
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Speaker 1: You know, Apple, you've got the iPhone, you've got the iPad.

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Speaker 1: Developers are pretty pretty clear about what they do for

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Speaker 1: those devices, but Android it could be all over the place.

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Speaker 1: Did you find that apps were like that or were

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Speaker 1: they pretty much optimized?

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, That's a big part of it, and I think

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Speaker 7: that actually speaks to part of the reason why Google

449
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Speaker 7: launched this phone in the first place, because you know,

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Speaker 7: with the introduction of the pixel Fold, Google was able

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Speaker 7: to get more than fifty first party apps optimize for

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Speaker 7: devices like the pixel fold that has a flexible to screen,

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Speaker 7: and that means you're talking about supporting things like adaptive

454
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Speaker 7: screen resolutions, but also more interesting UI and app layouts

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Speaker 7: that take advantage of the pixel folds design. So you know, say,

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Speaker 7: for things like YouTube, you can fold it in half

457
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Speaker 7: and rest it on the table and you'll get a

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Speaker 7: different UI that makes it you know, so, hey, you

459
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Speaker 7: want to sit down for lunch and watch a quick

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Speaker 7: video on your lunch, but you don't have the laptop

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Speaker 7: with you.

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Speaker 3: This is perfect.

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Speaker 7: You don't have to hold the device that sits up

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Speaker 7: on its own, and it's great for that. Unfortunately, the

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Speaker 7: problem with that is that it takes a little bit

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Speaker 7: of extra work on the developers part. You know, they

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Speaker 7: need to convince developers that like, hey, these optimations are

468
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Speaker 7: or optimizations are worth making, but also get enough devices

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Speaker 7: out in the real world that there are enough customers

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Speaker 7: demanding that developers like, hey, I love what your app

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Speaker 7: is doing, but hey, is there something else that we

472
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Speaker 7: can do to really take advantage of, you know, this

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Speaker 7: uncoming wave of foldable devices.

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Speaker 1: What about the camera on this device? I mean, clearly

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Speaker 1: pixels are known for having excellent cameras. Is that any

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Speaker 1: different here?

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Speaker 3: Actually?

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Speaker 7: That's one of like the really big achievements with the

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Speaker 7: pixel fold is that, from you know, my testing, I've

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Speaker 7: to me, it seems like the pixel fold de delivers

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Speaker 7: pretty much a very very close experience to what you

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Speaker 7: get on the Pixel seven Pro.

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Speaker 3: You still get a really great five x optical.

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Speaker 7: Zoom, which is longer than what you get on the

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Speaker 7: Samsung z Fold four. And then on top of that,

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Speaker 7: you get Google's you know, really good image processing and

487
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Speaker 7: night sight low light mode, and so you combine that

488
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Speaker 7: and it's like, you know, that was one of my

489
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Speaker 7: big gripes about the z Fold four is that it

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Speaker 7: feels like Samsung had to cut a little corners to get,

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Speaker 7: you know, a good camera, but not as good they

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Speaker 7: can get on, say like the Galaxy S twenty two Ultra,

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Speaker 7: And so you know, the pixel folds cameras doesn't feel

494
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Speaker 7: nearly as compromise, which is a really big achievement because

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Speaker 7: you know you're working with a completely different design, different

496
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Speaker 7: form factor, and it's really hard to fit, especially something

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Speaker 7: like a five be ex tel photo lens on a

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Speaker 7: foldable device.

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Speaker 1: You said one of your gripes was that it the

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Speaker 1: phone never fully opens. So yeah, is that like a

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Speaker 1: deal breaker or just something that Google work on for

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Speaker 1: the next one.

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Speaker 7: I think that, you know, that's one of those challenges

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Speaker 7: because you know, Google has a lot of things that

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Speaker 7: they need to solve. Because you know, the pixel fold

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Speaker 7: when you fold it, it folds completely flat, unlike this

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Speaker 7: evil four And that doesn't sound like a huge difference,

508
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Speaker 7: but in practice it makes such a big improvement over

509
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Speaker 7: general usability. It just feels a little bit more waldy,

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Speaker 7: doesn't feel as clunky in your hand, and you know

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Speaker 7: they were able to move the hinges around. That said,

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Speaker 7: you know you do have to have those tight hinges

513
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Speaker 7: because you know, who knows how many times you're going

514
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Speaker 7: to open and close this thing over years, and you

515
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Speaker 7: know people are holding onto their phones longer, and so

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Speaker 7: at I think it's just one of those things that

517
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Speaker 7: you have to get used to. And it's sort of like,

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Speaker 7: you know, it is a flexible screen. It's made out

519
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Speaker 7: of plastic. You can't you know, it's a little bit

520
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Speaker 7: more delicate than your standard glass phone, and so that

521
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Speaker 7: means you got to kind of take care of it.

522
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Speaker 7: You got to baby just a little bit more. But

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Speaker 7: you also have to deal with things like a crease

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Speaker 7: because you know, Google wasn't entirely able to eliminate the

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Speaker 7: crease on their flexible display. That said they were able

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Speaker 7: to minimize it, and you know, from my perspective, I

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Speaker 7: don't really notice it at all. It's not you know,

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Speaker 7: it's just like you know, the notch on an iPhone

529
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Speaker 7: or puntole selfie camera in that you know, after a while,

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Speaker 7: you just kind of get used to it and it

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Speaker 7: doesn't even become distraction anymore.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So, knowing that we've got a new device from one

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Speaker 1: Plus coming up that's foldable, We've got several new from

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Speaker 1: Samsung that are foldable, what's your guidance on the pixel

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Speaker 1: fold This is an expensive phone. It's eighteen hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: and what's your guidance.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean that that's really the crust of it, right,

539
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Speaker 7: is like, you know, I would love this phone to

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Speaker 7: be in other foldable devices, to be warmer, widelyailable. But

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Speaker 7: you know, we you have to acknowledge that we're still

542
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Speaker 7: in the very early stages of you know, the whole

543
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Speaker 7: flexible foldable phone trend, and so this is you know,

544
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Speaker 7: it's still really for early adopters. You know, this is

545
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Speaker 7: Google's first phone, and you know they've been able to

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Speaker 7: take bits and pieces from you know, previous rivals and competitors.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that price is really.

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Speaker 7: A sticking point and I you know, it's something that

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Speaker 7: I really would like to see come down in the future.

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Speaker 7: And you know, I think you know, both like companies

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Speaker 7: like Google, Samsung, they're very aware that like eighteen hundred

552
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Speaker 7: dollars is a lot to ask for a phone, and

553
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Speaker 7: so hopefully, you know, future generations, so we will bring

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Speaker 7: that price down.

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Speaker 1: Sam Rutherford, Senior writer at n Gadget. How can folks

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Speaker 1: find you online?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, you can find me on Twitter at Sam Rutherford

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Speaker 7: and as always on engadget dot com.

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Speaker 1: pronouncing that right? Tanuga at Tanusha Tanusia? Got it? Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the show.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, thank you. I love you on KTLA. And now

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Speaker 8: that I know you have a podcast, you keep me

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Speaker 8: coming on my way to work.

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Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, appreciate that.

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Speaker 9: Thanks.

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Speaker 8: I have a question for you.

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Speaker 10: Uh.

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Speaker 8: Recently, I was at a Dodgers game and I, like usual,

577
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Speaker 8: my sister and I put our stuff in the trunk,

578
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Speaker 8: move everything into the clear bag, but we leave stuff

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Speaker 8: in the trunk. Came back to find that someone had

580
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Speaker 8: gotten into my car, into the trunk, still my driver's license,

581
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Speaker 8: credit cards, all kinds of things. So when I talked

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Speaker 8: to LAPD, I said, you know, I'm not positive I

583
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Speaker 8: always lost my car, but maybe I didn't. They did

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Speaker 8: say sometimes people have devices they can override cars and

585
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Speaker 8: these locks and so I wanted to see if you

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Speaker 8: had any advice or ideas of how to sort of

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Speaker 8: prevent that as possible.

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Speaker 1: Oh, sorry, that happened. It's like, that's the worst because

589
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Speaker 1: you did your due diligence of putting everything in the trunk.

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00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: It was out of sight, so and we don't know

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Speaker 1: if a car was locked or not, which obviously, you

592
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Speaker 1: know you probably did lock it because most of us

593
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Speaker 1: do that without thinking if you do that typically, But

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Speaker 1: unfortunate that this happened, So sorry to hear that. There

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Speaker 1: are several ways that people can get into cars. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: people just check, you know, to see if cars are unlocked.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the simplest ways. The other thing is

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Speaker 1: this thing called a relay attack, which is what I

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Speaker 1: think lapd was was talking about. And this is when

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Speaker 1: someone uses sort of a wireless relay system to capture

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Speaker 1: the code off of your key, your keyfob, and then

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Speaker 1: relay that to the car at a different time. So

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Speaker 1: your little key fob that you have in your pocket,

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Speaker 1: it's always generating like a code that will unlock your car.

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Speaker 1: And so there are systems out there that can capture

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Speaker 1: that information and then use that and sort of pretend

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Speaker 1: emulate that this device is your key and use it

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Speaker 1: to unlock the car. Now, this has been going on

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Obviously, manufacturers have ways of getting

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Speaker 1: around this. They use something called a rolling passcode, so

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Speaker 1: every couple of seconds the code changes on both ends

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Speaker 1: to keep this from happening. But it can still happen,

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Speaker 1: and obviously if someone is really targeting cars that this

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Speaker 1: just works with, it can happen and it's definitely a thing.

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Speaker 1: So couple things you can do. I think that the

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Speaker 1: number one is to just be aware that this can happen.

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Speaker 1: That's the awareness is number one. Number two, there are

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Speaker 1: Faraday bags you can get for your your keyfob, which

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Speaker 1: you can put them in so that when you're not

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Speaker 1: using the keyfob it is not emitting any sort of signal.

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Speaker 1: And some of the keyfobs may have a switch on

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Speaker 1: them to turn off the sort of emitting that signal

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven, so maybe only when you're actually

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Speaker 1: using it it emits it. And of course it depends

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Speaker 1: on the car manufacturer too what they've done to mitigate this.

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Speaker 1: So there's a pretty famous issue with Hyundai's and kias

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Speaker 1: they have a free software update for millions of their cars. Basically,

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Speaker 1: cars could start low ard a fake KEYFOP and so

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Speaker 1: now there is a software update that's free to Kia

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Speaker 1: and Hyundai owners that will update the alarm software on

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Speaker 1: the car where the alarm will happen longer. And also

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Speaker 1: it requires the key to be in the ignition for

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Speaker 1: the switch to turn the car on. So that's that's

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Speaker 1: a little thing that they did in response to this

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Speaker 1: whole TikTok challenge. I don't know if you heard about

636
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Speaker 1: that whole thing. But the two bags that you can

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Speaker 1: get two companies that I've talked about in the past.

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Speaker 1: One is called Silent sln T formally Silent Pocket, and

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Speaker 1: the other one is the off Grid Fold. This is

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Speaker 1: like a little bag you can put your keyfob in

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Speaker 1: and it'll block all signals going to it, GPS, Wi Fi, cellular, Bluetooth, RFID. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I'm sorry this happened

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Speaker 1: to you. I think that this is something that does

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Speaker 1: happen in the world, and it's unfortunate, but it is

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Speaker 1: definitely something that is tougher than it sounds like like.

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Speaker 1: This is definitely more of a targeted sort of attack

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Speaker 1: where they have to get this information off your keyfob.

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Speaker 1: The other thing you can do if you have your

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Speaker 1: keyfob in your house, some of the things I'm reading

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Speaker 1: recommend that you don't keep it by your front door.

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Speaker 1: Of course, we all keep our car keys by the

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Speaker 1: front door, and that can definitely be an issue because

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Speaker 1: they could pick up the signal from the key and

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Speaker 1: if your car's in the driveway, they may be able

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Speaker 1: to relay that signal to the car in the driveway.

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Speaker 1: So those are just a couple of the ways that

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Speaker 1: you might be able to mitigate this. Definitely on fortunate.

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Speaker 1: It's definitely sad that people do this, but look, these

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Speaker 1: are crimes of opportunity, and if you look on YouTube,

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Speaker 1: you'll see all kinds of videos about this relay attack

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Speaker 1: and the systems that these folks can use to do it.

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Speaker 1: It's not an easy thing to do, but it can

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Speaker 1: be easy if you know what you're doing and if

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Speaker 1: it looked pretty complicated to do this to pull this off,

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Speaker 1: but again, people do it all the time. So Tanuja,

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Speaker 1: I hope that helps you. I hope that helps you

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Speaker 1: figure out what you need to do in the future.

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Speaker 1: I would look first at your car and sort of

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Speaker 1: look up on the internet what type of car you have,

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Speaker 1: what type of system they have for theft, and see

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Speaker 1: if that is a known system that needs an update

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Speaker 1: or has something that may be able to help you.

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Speaker 1: That's probably the first place to start. If it's an

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Speaker 1: older car, it definitely is probably more susceptible to these

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Speaker 1: sorts of attacks, but it may have a software update

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Speaker 1: for the manufacturer, so definitely check into that. All right,

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Speaker 1: good question. Let's see here. Let's go to Steve. Steve

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Speaker 1: is in Mariata, California. Steve, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 6: That's right, Rich. I'm thinking about a Pixel of seven

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Speaker 6: or eight right now, I have a Samsung. What are

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Speaker 6: your comments on those two phones at seven or eight?

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Speaker 1: Well, the Pixel eight hasn't come out yet, so it'd

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Speaker 1: be tough to give my opinion on that phone. So

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Speaker 1: the Pixel eight is typically launched in October. So right

686
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Speaker 1: now we're about halfway through the cycle with the with

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Speaker 1: the pixels, the Pixel seven, the seven pro, the sixth

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Speaker 1: A just came out. So my I guess question is, Steve,

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Speaker 1: what do you need to do on this phone. Is

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Speaker 1: there anything in particular you want to do on this device?

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Speaker 6: You know, I already have I think two hundred thousand photos,

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Speaker 6: so I'm using it mainly downloading documents, okay away from

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Speaker 6: the computer, and you know, pretty mundane thing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the basics. So you you know, you may

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Speaker 1: not even need What do you have right now? What

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Speaker 1: do you have for oh wow? Oh gosh, Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: I think you'll you'll. I think, look, it depends what

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Speaker 1: you want. I've tested the Pixel seven and the seven

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Speaker 1: A sorry and this and the seven Pro. They are

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Speaker 1: excellent devices. They have everything you need. I think you'll

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Speaker 1: be very happy with them. I think it depends on

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Speaker 1: the size of the phone you want. I think that

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Speaker 1: the Pixel seven is a much easier phone to hold.

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Speaker 1: The six A or the seven A is going to

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Speaker 1: be a lot cheaper than the seven. It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: be as it's not gonna be as full featured as

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Speaker 1: that device. And then the Pixel A, if you want

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Speaker 1: to wait for it, is coming out in October. Obviously

709
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Speaker 1: that's gonna have some upgrades and some polish, But I

710
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Speaker 1: think I think you'd be very happy with the Pixel seven.

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Speaker 1: That's probably what i'd go with at this point, so

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Speaker 1: good question. Of course, if you love those pictures, you're

713
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Speaker 1: gonna get great photos off of the pixel, no matter what.

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Speaker 1: Rich Tomuro here hanging out with you, talking technology on

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Speaker 1: this holiday weekend. Happy July fourth. Is it July fourth

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Speaker 1: four to two, four to one zero one. Grace is

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Speaker 1: in Rancho, Cordova, California. Grace, you're on with Rich hi rich.

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Speaker 8: So I keep getting emails from Gmail that your Gmail

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Speaker 8: is out of storage despite the least oh no, so

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Speaker 8: asking me to buy storage?

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Speaker 4: Will I lose all my.

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Speaker 8: Emails if I don't buy the storage.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's what's going to happen. What how much storage

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Speaker 1: do you have on there? The fifteen gigs?

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Speaker 8: Fifteen?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Do you use Google Photos at all?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Do you use Google Drive?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So it sounds like you are up against your

747
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Speaker 1: storage limit. And the way you can check to see

748
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Speaker 1: what's going on is go to one dot Google dot com.

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Speaker 1: Have you gone to that website?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's O n E, not the number O N

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Speaker 1: E dot Google dot And this will give you a

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Speaker 1: rundown of your storage and where it's being used. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, I actually have five terabytes of storage because

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Speaker 1: I've got a lot of stuff on Google. So it

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Speaker 1: tells me that one hundred and thirty one gigs is

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Speaker 1: being used in Google Drive, thirty three gigs in Gmail,

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Speaker 1: which is just absolutely ludicrous because how are Gmail? How

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Speaker 1: are emails taking up thirty three gigabytes of storage? Like

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Speaker 1: that's wild? Google Photos two and a half terabytes. Then

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Speaker 1: I've got some family storage situations going on at two

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Speaker 1: hundred gigabytes. So here's what you need to do. You

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Speaker 1: need to go through your storage and figure out what's

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Speaker 1: taking up all of this storage. If it's stuff that

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Speaker 1: you can get rid of, then dump it. If it's

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Speaker 1: stuff you can't, then you're going to have to pay

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Speaker 1: for more storage to get to continue using this. Now,

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Speaker 1: your Gmail is not going to stop working. You're just

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Speaker 1: gonna not be able to receive or send messages because

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Speaker 1: it's gonna say sorry, storage full. There may be a

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Speaker 1: tiny little grace period in there, but the reality is

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna be able to upload Google Photos. You're

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Speaker 1: just not gonna be able to do a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: Storage starts at two bucks a month, I believe. For

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Speaker 1: I think two hundred gigabytes, which would be more than

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Speaker 1: enough for you at this point. But that's what you

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Speaker 1: need to do. So there are various ways to free

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Speaker 1: up account storage when you go to that area of

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Speaker 1: one dot Google dot com. And so if I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at my ways to do it, I've got items in

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Speaker 1: trash on trash or spam in Gmail. So I've got

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one megabytes in trash one megabyte

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Speaker 1: in spam, and then I've got five hundred and seventy

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Speaker 1: megabytes of files and trash on drive. I can get

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Speaker 1: rid of all those, free up almost less than a gigabyte.

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Speaker 1: Then we've got large items, three hundred gigabytes of large items,

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Speaker 1: and I'm looking at emails with large attachments and I

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00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: can already tell I can review and get rid of

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Speaker 1: a bunch of these. Then I've got large files, and

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Speaker 1: I've got large photos and videos. So again you just

791
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Speaker 1: have to go through the storage manager on that Google

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Speaker 1: one area and clean up some of these files that

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Speaker 1: you may not need, that may be too big, that

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Speaker 1: are just you know, you just don't need them anymore,

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Speaker 1: or they're in the trash. Get rid of those. See

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Speaker 1: if that frees up enough space to keep you going

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Speaker 1: for a while. But it sounds like grace. Eventually, if

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Speaker 1: you're going to continue using these products, you're going to

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Speaker 1: have to pay up. And this all goes into my

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Speaker 1: theme for the tech world in twenty twenty three, and

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Speaker 1: that is the free ride is over. We have gotten

802
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: so used to all of these services that just want

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Speaker 1: to give us their services for free, and for many

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Speaker 1: years it was great. It was a free ride, and

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Speaker 1: now the free ride is over. The layoffs have happened.

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00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: In the tech world, the VC funding is tightened up.

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Speaker 1: People want to actually make money. It's not just this

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Speaker 1: free flowing thing where like, let's just get a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of customers and hopefully the money comes later. No,

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Speaker 1: we've got to we've got to make some money now.

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Speaker 1: And Google, you know, they've got a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: using Gmail, They've got a lot of folks using Google Photos.

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Speaker 1: They want to make money on those products too. But

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Speaker 1: I do think they're pretty good about giving people the

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Speaker 1: fifteen gigs of free storage. If you look at Apple,

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00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:24,439
Speaker 1: they only give you five. And that's been happening since

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Speaker 1: like day one. So really, if you're using an iPhone,

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Speaker 1: you're probably paying for iCloud storage immediately right off the bat.

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Speaker 1: Great question, Grace. Let's talk about Apple for a second. Here,

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Speaker 1: my photostream this is percolating in the news once again.

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Speaker 1: We talked about a couple weeks ago. But Apple is

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Speaker 1: shutting down this my photostream feature, so it already it

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Speaker 1: already stopped uploading pictures as of June twenty sixth, and

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Speaker 1: now on July twenty six they're just going to eradicate

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Speaker 1: the feature fully. So everyone's whoa, whoa, whoa all these

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Speaker 1: headlines online. Let me just let me type this in

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Speaker 1: photo Apple shutting down. Okay, let me just let me

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Speaker 1: just look at the photo the headlines here. Okay, Apple's

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Speaker 1: my photostream shutting down. Here's what to do. Let me

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Speaker 1: actually take out photostream because a lot of these headlines.

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Speaker 1: Well okay, anyway, my point is these headlines are scary.

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Speaker 1: But the reality is, I would say ninety nine percent

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Speaker 1: of people are not using this feature, nor have they

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Speaker 1: used this feature in like five years. So if you're

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Speaker 1: using the feature, you probably know about it. And so

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Speaker 1: here's what you need to do. Bottom line. Look at

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Speaker 1: your iPhone, go into your photos app, go into your

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Speaker 1: albums and look for an album called my Photostream. If

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Speaker 1: you do not have that album, you do not need

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Speaker 1: to worry about this. Go on your Mac computer, open

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Speaker 1: up photos, look for my photostream. Go on your iPad,

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00:41:52,719 --> 00:41:55,680
Speaker 1: open up your photos app, look for my photostream. If

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Speaker 1: you don't see that album on your devices, you don't

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Speaker 1: need to worry about it. Stop thinking about this. If

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Speaker 1: you do see that album, then you need to do

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Speaker 1: one of two things. If you're using iCloud, chances are

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00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:10,279
Speaker 1: those pictures are already backed up to iCloud because they

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Speaker 1: were taken on one of these devices and they backed

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Speaker 1: up to iCloud. If you're not using iCloud, then what

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00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,560
Speaker 1: you want to do is go into my photostream, click

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00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: that album, look in there, see what photos are in there,

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Speaker 1: and then if there's any photos that you want to save,

853
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 1: just tap the photo and then tap the share icon

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Speaker 1: and it says save image. Save that image to your

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Speaker 1: regular camera role, and then it will back up. However

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Speaker 1: you back up your photos, whether that's iCloud, whether that's

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Speaker 1: Google Photos, whether that's Amazon Photos, it's all the same.

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Speaker 1: It will go in there. You could select several photos

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Speaker 1: at once and do the same thing. So if there's

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Speaker 1: every photo you want to save to your camera role,

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00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: just go ahead and hit the select up in the

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Speaker 1: upper right hand corner. You can select a whole bunch

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Speaker 1: of photos at once and then just press save and

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Speaker 1: you should be good to go there. It's one of

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Speaker 1: If you want to see that information once again, you

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Speaker 1: wealth of knowledge with your friends. Niantic, the company behind

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Speaker 1: this company because Pokemon Go is such a great success.

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Speaker 1: It's like, how do you follow that up? Right? It's

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Speaker 1: been Niantic, the company behind Pokemon Go, for so long now.

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Speaker 1: They had this amazing thing, Pokemon Go. Nobody had ever

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Speaker 1: seen anything like it before, and now they've been struggling

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Speaker 1: They've got this new new game called Paradot, which is okay,

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Speaker 1: but again it hasn't seen the buzz like Pokemon Go.

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Speaker 1: With all that in mind, they are closing their Los

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Speaker 1: and they're basically saying, look, our expenses were growing faster

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: We saw a lot of people playing these games during

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Speaker 1: nothing to do except walk around their neighborhoods. Now that

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Speaker 1: So what is going to happen to Pokemon Go. It's

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Speaker 1: going to keep happening. It's going to keep going. But

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Speaker 1: Niantic is going to slow down on some of their

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Speaker 1: third party games that they're creating. I think there's one

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Speaker 1: for the NBA or something. They're not going to really

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Speaker 1: invest in those anymore. They're going to invest in their

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Speaker 1: first party games. So if you're playing Pokemon Go, you

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Speaker 1: see these headlines about Niantic. It's not going anywhere. But

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Speaker 1: I think what Pokemon Go is they're saying, Look, we

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Speaker 1: were onto something a long time ago, these augmented reality games,

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Speaker 1: be good in the future. People are going to want

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Speaker 1: to play these games. In fact, Pokemon Go may have

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Speaker 1: a whole new life inside the Apple headset, but it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a while. So they've got to kind

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Speaker 1: of get back to the basics, narrow down some of

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Speaker 1: future is, which is ar but it's just not here

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Speaker 1: just yet in a big way with these goggles. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I figured i'd tell you about that because Pokemon Go

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Speaker 1: is so popular. Coming up, we're going to talk to

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Speaker 1: a guy who created an AI chatbot system for messing

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Speaker 1: with telemarketers and robo callers. I can't condone this behavior,

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Speaker 1: but it certainly is fun to talk about. You're listening

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech triple eight rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. If you want to get a hold of me.

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Speaker 1: Nobody likes getting spam calls. Robocalls and uh, one person

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Speaker 1: decided to do something about it. This company, Jolly Roger,

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Speaker 1: uses AI technology to troll telemarketers and waste their time.

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Speaker 1: They generate different characters that distract the telemarketers and keep

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Speaker 1: them on the line as long as possible. The goal is,

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Speaker 1: I guess the theory is that if they're on the

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Speaker 1: line with this this AI chatbot, they can't be calling

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Speaker 1: someone else. Roger Anderson is joining me. Roger, you came

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Speaker 1: up with this technology?

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Speaker 11: Yes, Rich, how are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. Thanks for joining me. So it sounds

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Speaker 1: like you did this a while back, but it just

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Speaker 1: bubbled up in the New World. Was there like an

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Speaker 1: article or something that featured you. Is that what happened?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 11: The Wall Street Journal reached out to me and asked

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Speaker 11: if I was doing anything with chat GPT in relation

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Speaker 11: to this, which was quite timely because I have been

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Speaker 11: looking into it. So, yes, I plugged the Jolly Roger

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Speaker 11: telephone service, these these chatbots. I basically plugged them into

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Speaker 11: chat GPT, and it kind of opened up a whole

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Speaker 11: new layer and possibility and level of entertainment as these

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Speaker 11: chatbots now talk to telemarketers and scammers on the phone.

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Speaker 1: So Jolly Roger is the company, and explain how it works.

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Speaker 1: So I sign up for this, How much does it cost?

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Speaker 1: And then what do I do? Do I forward my calls?

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Speaker 1: Or how does it work?

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Speaker 11: Well, it's it's two dollars per month per line, so

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Speaker 11: less than twenty four dollars per year, and you basically

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Speaker 11: just forward your phone, forward your unanswered calls to us

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Speaker 11: and will either answer with regular voice if you know

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Speaker 11: who they are, or or will treat them kindly if

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Speaker 11: we don't know who they are, but if they're scammers,

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Speaker 11: if you tell us this numbers as a scam, or

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Speaker 11: if we we use some third party tools to determine

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Speaker 11: if the calls are are unwanted or not, and then

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Speaker 11: we'll pick up with robots. And the robots are kind,

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Speaker 11: they're patient, they're polite, but they will never divulge personal

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Speaker 11: information or financial information. But they sound gullible, so it's

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Speaker 11: just the right mix of gullible, funny, realistic, and the

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Speaker 11: telemarketers will will chat with them for as long as

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Speaker 11: they're willing and and your phone is clear, you can

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Speaker 11: keep making and receiving calls, or just go about your

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Speaker 11: day and our robots will chat with your scammers while

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Speaker 11: you while you do whatever you want to do.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the names. Whitey Whitebeard is

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Speaker 1: a bumbling senior citizen, Is that right?

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Speaker 11: That's right, another one of our favorites.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Another one is a salty sally, an easily distracted mother. Adam,

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Speaker 1: do we have a clip that that we got sent

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Speaker 1: about these things? Let's let's hear the clip.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Rich on Tech with Rich DeMuro. Follow

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Speaker 3: Rich for tech News, how to videos, gadget reviews and

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Speaker 3: useful tips and tricks.

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Speaker 11: Well, there we go. You're doing a promo for you.

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Speaker 11: That's our Whitey white Beard.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's Whitey white Beard. Okay, so that's why do

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Speaker 1: you have Do you have another one? We have another

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Speaker 1: clip too, so we're gonna we're gonna play that one

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Speaker 1: to Roger Hangem. This is at white Beard.

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Speaker 5: I am a robot from the Jolly Roger Telephone Company.

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Speaker 1: He actually sounds pretty realistic, Like I'm quite impressed. So

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Speaker 1: how are you using chat GBT? How is the AI

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Speaker 1: mixed into this whole world?

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Speaker 11: Well, it's so we've got a phone system and then

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Speaker 11: behind the scenes there's just a giant Rude Goldberg machine

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Speaker 11: of of you know, a bunch of tasks that are

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Speaker 11: frantically feeding the next thing that Whitey Whitebeard should say.

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Speaker 11: So it's using voice cloning technology from a company that

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Speaker 11: sound called play dot ht, which.

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Speaker 6: Is very good.

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Speaker 11: Just a short clip of Whitey white Beard. The voice

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Speaker 11: talent behind that is actually a friend of the family,

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Speaker 11: is the father of Steve Burts and our co founder.

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Speaker 11: So Sid is a farmer in Vermont, dairy farmer and

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Speaker 11: Vermont and recorded some stuff for us years ago, and

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Speaker 11: we just fed some of those old recordings into played

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Speaker 11: dot ht. They clone the voice and now we can

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Speaker 11: have Whitey say whatever chat GPT wants wants to say.

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Speaker 11: So we've kind of given chat GPT a voice by

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Speaker 11: using voice cloning technology.

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Speaker 1: Do you think this is mean to the telemarketers, to

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Speaker 1: the scam artists, the scam callers.

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Speaker 11: Well, I don't think that because the robots, again, they're friendly.

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Speaker 11: The robots are friendly. And sometimes we have telemarketers who

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Speaker 11: are just bored out of their minds and they're somewhat

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Speaker 11: delighted to get a laugh when talking because they don't

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Speaker 11: really know if it's you know, in some cases they

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Speaker 11: don't know what's going on. I think it's mean to

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Speaker 11: the industry. Our goal is to is to really fight

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Speaker 11: the industry of unsolicited telemarketing robocalling. There's certainly a lot

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Speaker 11: of scam and a lot of fraud taking place. So

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Speaker 11: our goal really is to entertain you, protect the network,

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Speaker 11: and really fight these telemarketers and prevent prevent them from scamming.

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Speaker 11: You know, the vulnerable out there, such as the elderly

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Speaker 11: or or anyone else that might be susceptible to be scams.

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Speaker 11: So really we're just we're it's sort of a whimsical service,

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Speaker 11: but a serious mission, and that is to fight telemarketing.

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Speaker 1: All right, Roger Anderson of Jolly Roger Telephone dot com,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me today. I appreciate the information.

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Speaker 11: Thank you, Rich.

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Speaker 1: All Right, keep those robocallers busy so they're not calling me,

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Speaker 1: as we've all gotten those calls. All right. Coming up

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Speaker 1: a little bit later, we're going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: startup that can help you rent out your backyards. If

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Speaker 1: you have a backyard pool, you've got a backyard tennis court.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're doing that, maybe you don't need

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Speaker 1: the extra cash, but backyard pickleball court. Or you can

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Speaker 1: also use this website to rent one of these things.

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Speaker 1: So we'll talk to them a little bit later. First,

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Speaker 1: more of your calls at triple eight Rich one oh one.

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. This is rich on Tech, your friendly tech show.

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Speaker 1: And No, I am not AI. No, I'm not a robot.

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Speaker 1: This is a real voice. I swear. How do I

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Speaker 1: prove this? I don't know if there is a way

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Speaker 1: to prove it anymore. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: I guess because I make mistakes. Jay is in Guardina, California. Jay,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 12: Our age. Thank you for your great program. I have

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Speaker 12: a question about this iMac that I have. It's about

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Speaker 12: twelve years old, very good processor. I hardly used it.

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Speaker 12: I wanted to be able to reset it to a

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Speaker 12: point that I can only open the Internet to my banking,

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Speaker 12: pay my bills, nothing else. That's a question about Apple.

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Speaker 12: My other question is what happened to Maya Space. What

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Speaker 12: was the difference between my space and Facebook that just

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Speaker 12: become a region dollar company and the other one disappeared?

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Speaker 5: Thank you?

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Well the second question I think I need a whole

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Speaker 1: radio hour to answer because that's a little in depth,

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Speaker 1: but I'll attempt to do it. Jay. My Space was

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Speaker 1: simply before its time. It was the first of its kind,

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Speaker 1: and of course when you have the first of its kind,

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Speaker 1: it is emulated and people see the weaknesses in that

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Speaker 1: platform and they figure out what they can do better.

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Speaker 1: And I think, quite simply, Facebook came along and did

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Speaker 1: things better than my Space. There was a lot of

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Speaker 1: like Facebook did the feed, and my Space didn't really

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Speaker 1: have a feed, and I think that's what made Facebook

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Speaker 1: take off in such a big way, is that you

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Speaker 1: saw what your friends were doing versus going to their pages.

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Speaker 1: My Space was sort of like a glorified personal website

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Speaker 1: that lets you see how you were connected to your friends.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that was the best feature ever

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00:54:10,440 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: about MySpace was it gave you how you were linked

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00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: up to someone, because you could look up anyone on

1080
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 1: that platform and it would show you exactly how you

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00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 1: were linked to them. It would say, your friend Jan

1082
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: knows Jim, and Jim knows Bob, and that's how you

1083
00:54:27,680 --> 00:54:31,239
Speaker 1: know Frank. Wow, that's amazing and I've always wanted that

1084
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 1: feature on Facebook. The degrees of separation, let's call it,

1085
00:54:35,280 --> 00:54:40,000
Speaker 1: and it just never never came. So that's to answer

1086
00:54:40,040 --> 00:54:42,240
Speaker 1: your question. And I don't know if that's the full answer.

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00:54:42,320 --> 00:54:44,520
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people that could write a documentary about

1088
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,960
Speaker 1: how Facebook took over my Space. But with that said,

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Speaker 1: and I think that all major platforms are always at

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00:54:52,640 --> 00:54:56,080
Speaker 1: risk of It's almost like the Roman Empire, right, you

1091
00:54:56,120 --> 00:54:58,439
Speaker 1: have this thing, you built it up, and there's some

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00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:03,000
Speaker 1: sort of a achilles heel that someone else figures out

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00:55:03,320 --> 00:55:05,880
Speaker 1: and they take over. And so we've seen the major

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00:55:05,920 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 1: platforms at this point kind of keep their rain for

1095
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: a while, the YouTube's of the world, the Instagrams of

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00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: the world. But when you look at something like TikTok

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00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:18,200
Speaker 1: that came along, it rocketed to the top very quickly.

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00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 1: And who would have thought vertical video on an app

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Speaker 1: would take over the mind space and mind share of

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Speaker 1: all these other apps so quickly, and then the government

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00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:32,319
Speaker 1: tries to take it down. But anyway, that's a whole

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Speaker 1: another talk for another day. But let's talk about your

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00:55:35,040 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: first question, how to make this mac wow? You have

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00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:43,520
Speaker 1: a twelve year old iMac. iMac twelve years old, that's

1105
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: a that's doing the math that's yeah, that's a long

1106
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: time ago. So I was gonna say, the new Macs

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00:55:50,000 --> 00:55:51,879
Speaker 1: have a way, and you want to kind of clear

1108
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: this thing out to get it nice and fresh and

1109
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:55,960
Speaker 1: clean and just just surf the web on it and

1110
00:55:56,239 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 1: do your banking on it. And that's that's understandable. You

1111
00:55:58,360 --> 00:56:01,040
Speaker 1: want to get rid of all the crud. So the

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00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 1: new Max actually have and all new computers, the Windows

1113
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,919
Speaker 1: computers and the Mac computers have a very easy way

1114
00:56:06,960 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 1: to reset to factory settings, just very similar to the

1115
00:56:10,640 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: way the cell phones have it. In your settings. You

1116
00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,120
Speaker 1: can go back to eraseol factory reset and it just

1117
00:56:17,160 --> 00:56:20,200
Speaker 1: brings it back to that factory finish and the way

1118
00:56:20,239 --> 00:56:23,919
Speaker 1: it was set up. There's nothing there except the out

1119
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:26,600
Speaker 1: of the box software. So the Max have that feature.

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00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 1: The new Max do, and also the new Windows computers do,

1121
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,040
Speaker 1: but the old Max do not. Now they have it,

1122
00:56:33,080 --> 00:56:35,399
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit more. You got to look

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Speaker 1: for it. So what you have to do, and you

1124
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:42,359
Speaker 1: may not have this, but you have to reinstall the

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00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:45,880
Speaker 1: entire operating system from scratch. So what you have to

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00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:48,040
Speaker 1: do is you have to start up your computer into

1127
00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 1: what's called mac os recovery mode and the max are

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Speaker 1: a little unique. The way you do this. You turn

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00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:59,000
Speaker 1: on your Mac and you immediately press and hold. When

1130
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 1: you see the app, press and hold command plus R,

1131
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 1: and when you see an Apple logo, then you can

1132
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: let go of those So command R, turn on the computer,

1133
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,960
Speaker 1: hold down command R, and just hold that down until

1134
00:57:13,000 --> 00:57:15,319
Speaker 1: you see your Apple logo. Once you do that, you

1135
00:57:15,400 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: unlock this magic disc utility. And when you're inside disc utility,

1136
00:57:19,960 --> 00:57:23,360
Speaker 1: you can then use that to erase your entire disc.

1137
00:57:23,480 --> 00:57:27,280
Speaker 1: And then once you erase it, you can reinstall your software.

1138
00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: And now this is where it gets tricky. You may

1139
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,760
Speaker 1: have that software available on the computer and maybe on

1140
00:57:34,840 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: like a partition. I know it's getting very complicated, but

1141
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:40,959
Speaker 1: you may have to use the original disc that came

1142
00:57:41,000 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 1: with your computer. So if you still have that in

1143
00:57:43,080 --> 00:57:46,640
Speaker 1: the box, that'll help. That's all very complicated, and I

1144
00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:49,560
Speaker 1: don't think that's something the average person wants to tackle.

1145
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:49,920
Speaker 2: Now.

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00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: I've done this in the past on computers. It's a

1147
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:56,240
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward system. I used to. I actually still do

1148
00:57:57,200 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: wipe my computers once a year to get them back

1149
00:58:00,480 --> 00:58:02,880
Speaker 1: to whenever I do a new install of the latest

1150
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:06,120
Speaker 1: software update, like if it's you know, the new Mac

1151
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: operating system. I will factory refresh my computer just to

1152
00:58:09,720 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: get all the little things off of there and then

1153
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: start fresh again. I don't recommend you do that, but

1154
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:17,280
Speaker 1: I like to do it. I'm a nerd and I

1155
00:58:17,400 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: like to start fresh because I test a lot of stuff,

1156
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:21,520
Speaker 1: you know, So it's like all these little programs that

1157
00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 1: are all just lingering on there anyway. So I tell

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00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,400
Speaker 1: you all that because it's probably not something that's very

1159
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,680
Speaker 1: simple to do, but it is doable, and it is

1160
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: Once you do it, it's done. And you can find

1161
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,919
Speaker 1: the instructions on the Apple support website. You can find

1162
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: YouTube videos. But just make sure you sort of like

1163
00:58:38,280 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 1: print everything out before you tackle this, or you have

1164
00:58:40,960 --> 00:58:44,120
Speaker 1: a second screen nearby that you can use to follow

1165
00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: these instructions, because there will be something that happens that

1166
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: you will not expect and then you will be scrambling

1167
00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:52,400
Speaker 1: to try to figure out how to recover from that.

1168
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,760
Speaker 1: Believe me, it has happened to me, and I'm like,

1169
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:57,560
Speaker 1: wait a second, this took way longer than I expected

1170
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,640
Speaker 1: it to take. The other thing you could do, and

1171
00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: I've talked about this a lot, is you can just

1172
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 1: turn it into a Chromebook, and you can use what

1173
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: Google has for free software. It's called Chrome os Flex

1174
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:13,480
Speaker 1: and you can install that on your old iMac And

1175
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:15,720
Speaker 1: what that does is it just turns it into a

1176
00:59:15,800 --> 00:59:18,680
Speaker 1: basically a Chromebook and you'll just have Chrome on there.

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Speaker 1: You'll be able to, you know, do basic things that

1178
00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 1: you could do on a chromebook, surf the web, just

1179
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: whatever whatever you could do on a basic Chromebook you

1180
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:30,320
Speaker 1: could do on there. And that would probably be a

1181
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 1: nice way of using it. You said, the processor is

1182
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:36,200
Speaker 1: pretty good, but that'll run really fast and speedy, and yes,

1183
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: you'll be able to do your banking on there. So

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00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:43,800
Speaker 1: great question, Jay, thanks for the question. I've told you this,

1185
00:59:44,280 --> 00:59:49,640
Speaker 1: and I told you how this Tesla charging standard continues

1186
00:59:49,680 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 1: to just become the charging standard and another company has

1187
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 1: now signed on, so Electrify America. If you have an

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00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:00,600
Speaker 1: EV you've probably heard of this company. They make charging

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01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:03,840
Speaker 1: stations around the US. They've got eight hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: charging stations, four thousand individual chargers in the US and Canada.

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Speaker 1: And they said, you know what, Okay, fine, we're in.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna start building these Tesla chargers into our charging stations.

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Speaker 1: So by twenty twenty five, they will add what's called

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Speaker 1: the North American Charging Standard connector to its charging network. Now,

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01:00:22,560 --> 01:00:25,480
Speaker 1: they're not going to drop support for the other charging standards,

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01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: which is the cs CCS one. They're just going to

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01:00:29,360 --> 01:00:31,640
Speaker 1: add this new connector. So when you get up to

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Speaker 1: their charger, you're gonna have the option to charge via

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01:00:35,360 --> 01:00:39,040
Speaker 1: the Tesla charger or via the standard chargers that have

1200
01:00:39,120 --> 01:00:41,800
Speaker 1: been on the other evs for a while now. So

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01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:44,760
Speaker 1: again Electrify America. By twenty twenty five, they will start

1202
01:00:44,800 --> 01:00:50,280
Speaker 1: adding these things to their network. So the reality is

1203
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: Tesla came out with their own charging system, and now

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01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:56,880
Speaker 1: other companies have adopted this charging system. The first out

1205
01:00:56,880 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: of the gate was GM. They said, okay, fine, we're

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01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:02,440
Speaker 1: switching over to TESTS. Then Ford said, okay, we'll do

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01:01:02,480 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: the same, Volvo okay, we'll do the same, Rivian Okay,

1208
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:09,400
Speaker 1: we'll do the same. Who does that leave two of

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01:01:09,400 --> 01:01:15,360
Speaker 1: the biggest car companies out there, Hondata I just mixed Honda, Honda,

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01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: and Hyundai. So you got Hyundai, You've got Honda, You've

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Speaker 1: got Toyota. Out of those three companies, only Hyundai has

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Speaker 1: really shown interest in EVS. Toyota and Honda still have

1213
01:01:29,680 --> 01:01:33,080
Speaker 1: yet to have a mainstream ev car, and so we're

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01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: still waiting for them to come out with even an

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Speaker 1: ev car. In general, they still think hybrid is the

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Speaker 1: way to go, So Electrify America jumping on board. And

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Speaker 1: before we go, finally to break YouTube limiting video views

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01:01:49,400 --> 01:01:50,920
Speaker 1: if you have an ad blocker. So, if you have

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Speaker 1: an ad blocker on your computer and you're trying to

1220
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Speaker 1: use YouTube and getting around those ads, guess what. YouTube

1221
01:01:56,960 --> 01:01:59,000
Speaker 1: is doing an experiment where they are only letting you

1222
01:01:59,040 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: watch three video before they show you a message that says,

1223
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,960
Speaker 1: you know what, buddy, enough your ad blocker, stop blocking us,

1224
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,200
Speaker 1: or else you can't watch any more videos. And so

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01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:13,080
Speaker 1: you'll get to watch three with your ad blocker before

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01:02:13,120 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: you have to allow YouTube to show you ads. It

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01:02:16,800 --> 01:02:19,640
Speaker 1: also suggests that you subscribe to YouTube Premium, which is

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Speaker 1: what I do. It's very expensive, but then you don't

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01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:24,200
Speaker 1: have to deal with any of the ad situation on

1230
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 1: YouTube in general. But again, if you're wondering what's happening

1231
01:02:29,280 --> 01:02:33,040
Speaker 1: with this whole YouTube situation when you have an ad blocker, yeah,

1232
01:02:33,200 --> 01:02:36,640
Speaker 1: it's it's by design. Google's saying enough of you getting

1233
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Speaker 1: around our revenue source here, stop blocking our ads, so

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01:02:40,400 --> 01:02:43,680
Speaker 1: you'll get three videos before they give you that warning

1235
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Speaker 1: that you got to pay up or disable your ad blocker.

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Speaker 1: All right, more rich on Tech coming up after this.

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Speaker 1: The phone number to call in triple eight Rich one

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Coming up next, we're going to

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01:03:00,000 --> 01:03:02,080
Speaker 1: tell you about a website that lets you rent out

1241
01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:05,600
Speaker 1: your backyard and make some money doing it. It's the

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Speaker 1: Airbnb of swimming pools and more. Coming up. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

1244
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: talking technology, and you know, the gig economy is a

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01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:23,080
Speaker 1: big part of our world. It started with Uber, it

1246
01:03:23,200 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 1: continued with door dash, and now people are renting out

1247
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:29,480
Speaker 1: all kinds of things, including their cars and their backyard.

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01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:32,920
Speaker 1: Swimply is a startup that lets you rent out your

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01:03:32,960 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: backyard pool. They've been doing that for years now. They're

1250
01:03:36,640 --> 01:03:41,840
Speaker 1: expanding into backyard pickleball and tennis courts. Recently I chatted

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01:03:41,880 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 1: with swimpley co founder and CEO Buham Laskin about how

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01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 1: people are renting out their backyards to make some extra cash.

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Speaker 13: Somebody's an app where if you have a beautiful ribbit pool,

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01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,240
Speaker 13: they spend a lot of money on it, you barely

1255
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 13: use that. You get to actually earn a passive income

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01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 13: by sharing it with local families and friends in the

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01:03:57,120 --> 01:03:59,640
Speaker 13: area that are just looking to get together and celebrate privately.

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Speaker 13: And if you don't have a pool, you could actually

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Speaker 13: go on the app and find different private pools. Different

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Speaker 13: you can put in filters so how many people you are,

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Speaker 13: whether you want to bring your pet, whether you want

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01:04:07,480 --> 01:04:09,280
Speaker 13: to be child friendly or event friendly, and then you

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Speaker 13: can just preserve it by the hour. Since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 13: we've hosted over a million people and over one hundred

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Speaker 13: and twenty five cities and now we're we're available also

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Speaker 13: in Australia and.

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Speaker 1: Canada, and so it's been quite successful. People like this idea.

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Speaker 3: Yes, we've been.

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Speaker 13: Going every year obviously, people love swimming, people love spending

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Speaker 13: time together, and as the pandemic is eased, that is

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Speaker 13: only accelerated.

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Speaker 1: What gave you the idea to expand to pickleball and tennis?

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Speaker 13: From the beginning, we've been about democratizing luxury and finding

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Speaker 13: creative ways of bringing people together in ways they could

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01:04:37,600 --> 01:04:40,200
Speaker 13: only have dreamed of. And with the rise of pickleball

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01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:43,080
Speaker 13: growing so fast, and the people not being able to

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Speaker 13: build courts fast enough for people, for people to even

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Speaker 13: find one to play in. It was something that we

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Speaker 13: felt like it's our mission to provide, and so we've

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01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 13: taken the formula we created with pools and we simply

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Speaker 13: brought it to the pickleball community.

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Speaker 1: And what do you know about pickleball? And we all

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01:04:57,600 --> 01:05:00,600
Speaker 1: know tennis, but pickleball is like this kind of people

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01:05:00,600 --> 01:05:01,680
Speaker 1: are discovering it.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 13: The reason why we love pickleball so much is because,

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Speaker 13: like pools, people from all ages love it. Right. A

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Speaker 13: pool is friendly for kids, parents, senior citizens, and pickaballs

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Speaker 13: has the same origins where it actually started in senior

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Speaker 13: citizen community and has trickled this way downwards and now

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Speaker 13: everybody's playing pickaball. Everyone gets together and it's something that's

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Speaker 13: healthy and gets people outside and puts.

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Speaker 3: Their phone away.

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Speaker 13: So that's enough for what we needed to know for

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Speaker 13: us to be proud to be able to bring that

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Speaker 13: to some point.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, whenever you do a story like this, there's always

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Speaker 1: that idea of strangers coming to your house or you

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Speaker 1: as a stranger going to someone else's house. Do you

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Speaker 1: have any problems with this everything work out most of

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Speaker 1: the time.

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Speaker 13: So I launched swimply because my mother had her twelfth

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Speaker 13: child and we need a way to get out of

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Speaker 13: the house, and so we paid my neighbor to let

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Speaker 13: us use her pool without needing to bother her. And

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Speaker 13: so safety has always been a priority from day one,

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Speaker 13: and as we've grown, it's become more and more the

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Speaker 13: epicenter of how we operate. And so with pickleball, we're

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Speaker 13: applying pool level safety standards to pickleball. We verified but

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Speaker 13: sids in the marketplaces reviews. Most of our owners are home,

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Speaker 13: but you don't have to be home. We've hosted over

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Speaker 13: a million people with no incidents today.

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Speaker 1: How much money are people making doing the pool thing

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Speaker 1: and how much can they make.

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Speaker 13: Host them so big an expect to earn anywhere between

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Speaker 13: fifteen hundred and three thousand dollars a month passively. Some

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Speaker 13: of our owners actually get so passionate about their business

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Speaker 13: that they've earned the six figures on the platform. Today,

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Speaker 13: owners are in full control. They can set up all

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Speaker 13: the rules. There are charge of their own pricing, how

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Speaker 13: many guests they allow, how experience they need to be,

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Speaker 13: how many adults versus kids, ratio so we give the

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Speaker 13: full control to the owners to operate their business however

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Speaker 13: they want to, and guests gearable to see previous reviews

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Speaker 13: from other players in the area, the families that have

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Speaker 13: enjoyed the experience, and for even more peace of mind,

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Speaker 13: simply offers up to two million dollars per reservation and

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Speaker 13: protection and free of charge.

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Speaker 1: I then spoke with bell Air resident Aubrey Stark. She

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Speaker 1: rents out her home for film shoots. Now she's renting

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Speaker 1: out her backyard pickleball court through Swimply.

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Speaker 2: This court, I.

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Speaker 14: Think is pretty unique because it has the Thrive sound

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Speaker 14: speakers which are top of the line. We have a

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Speaker 14: seating area that can fit twelve people, mini fridge, We

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Speaker 14: have a pickleball machine which you can use, fire pit

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Speaker 14: with included propane. And then we have a couple add

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Speaker 14: ons like our sauna area we called our zen Zone,

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Speaker 14: but it includes a sauna and a cold plunge. It's incredible.

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Speaker 14: I actually have made that into a full on business myself.

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Speaker 14: I am renting out the house, the property, the court

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Speaker 14: usually like three times a week now, so it's become

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Speaker 14: a major avenue of revenue for us.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think about the people that come here, like,

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Speaker 1: are they pretty nice for the most part?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, everyone's pretty nice. We have a couple bad apples

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Speaker 14: here and there, but for the most part, everyone's amazing

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Speaker 14: and really respectful of the property.

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Speaker 1: What do you think makes pickleball fun?

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Speaker 14: It's great because it's really competitive. I think just about

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Speaker 14: anyone can pick it up and learn it pretty quickly.

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Speaker 14: But if you play one on one then it's actually

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Speaker 14: a workout as well, so it kind of encapsulates all

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Speaker 14: three of those things.

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Speaker 1: And what is a court like this rent for? What

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Speaker 1: do you what do you put this on swimply for?

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Speaker 14: I believe our court is currently I mean there's a

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Speaker 14: range depending on a number of people in number of

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Speaker 14: hours that I think we're currently around eight or ninety

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Speaker 14: bucks an hour with maybe a two hour minimum.

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Speaker 1: Are people renting it?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, people are renting it. And they just launched this

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Speaker 14: platform on Swimplea, so it's very very new, but we've

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Speaker 14: had consistent rentals just about every week.

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Speaker 1: And do you think swimpley is gonna have to change

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Speaker 1: their name now that they're doing all these other things

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Speaker 1: sides swimming pools.

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Speaker 14: It's a really good question. I don't know I guess

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Speaker 14: it depends on how much press they do. Potentially. I

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Speaker 14: think pick a Ball is a major I mean, it's

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Speaker 14: the fastest screen sport in America right now, So it

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Speaker 14: wouldn't surprise me if there had to be a little

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Speaker 14: bit of rebranding around the name.

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Speaker 1: And what do you think of you know, like, what's

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Speaker 1: your advice to other people that may have an asset

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Speaker 1: at their home that they can rent out, whether it's anything,

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Speaker 1: I mean it's strangers coming to your house.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's always a little bit of trepidation there, absolutely.

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Speaker 14: I think you just have to design around what you're

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Speaker 14: comfortable with. I was candidly, very nervous about it in

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Speaker 14: the beginning, but I do a good amount of research

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Speaker 14: and make sure to get to know the person. I

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Speaker 14: always do the check ins myself, make sure I feel

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Speaker 14: comfortable with a person, and for the most part, we've

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Speaker 14: had really great experiences. I would say that definitely keep

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Speaker 14: someone on site at all times.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you have it, swimply renting out your

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Speaker 1: backyard pool. I ran that idea by my in laws

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Speaker 1: and I said, you know, you can make a couple

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Speaker 1: thousand bucks a month, and they were like, no way.

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Speaker 1: So your mileage may vary. If you want information on

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Speaker 1: swimply how to rent out your pool, your tennis court,

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Speaker 1: your pickleball court, or if you want to rent one

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Speaker 1: of these things, you can go to my website. It's

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv. Look for rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: Radio show and then look for the show notes and

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Speaker 1: I will have the link in there. Swimple dot com

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Speaker 1: is the place to go. By the way, did you

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Speaker 1: know you can listen to this show as a podcast.

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Speaker 1: coming up, we've got much more of the show. Many

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Speaker 1: the phone lines are still still filled up. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech, kicking off our number

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Speaker 1: three of the show. Thanks for joining me at triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Coming up in this hour,

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Speaker 1: we've got friend of the show Jefferson Graham. He's going

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Speaker 1: to talk about how to take photos of fireworks? Should

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Speaker 1: we even bother? I'll ask him that question. Also, he's

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Speaker 1: got a hot tip for travel that is a little

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Speaker 1: low tech, so I'll ask him about that as he

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Speaker 1: embarks on a thirty day road trip. Then we've got

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Speaker 1: this app that I think you should download. It's a

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Speaker 1: life saving tool. Tell you about that and the new

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Speaker 1: password manager that also protects your email. But first let's

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Speaker 1: kick it off with Mark in Lomita, California. Mark, you're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich.

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Speaker 11: Hey, Rich, thank you for what you do here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for saying that.

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Speaker 11: My question, Yeah, my question is I'm going to Switzerland

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Speaker 11: next week and I've heard about an e simcard, but

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Speaker 11: I don't know anything about it.

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Speaker 2: What do you recommend I want.

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Speaker 1: To when I'm obile in Switzerland?

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Speaker 11: I want to post on What's app Facebook and maybe

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Speaker 11: call back a couple of times.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And who's your carrier for your phone? Okay?

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Speaker 11: I have an S twenty one Verizon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're on Verizon? Yeah, okay. And have you

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Speaker 1: checked to see if you get any free days on

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Speaker 1: your international travel?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 2: I have none?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So first thing you got to do call Verizon

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Speaker 1: and say do I have any travel past days? And

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Speaker 1: so that's number one. So for instance, on my account,

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Speaker 1: I've got four travel past days which means I can

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Speaker 1: roam for free for four days. Usually that's ten dollars

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Speaker 1: a day, and I will get that for free. So

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Speaker 1: that's the first thing you want to do is see

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Speaker 1: if you have anything available on your account, and it

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Speaker 1: depends on your plan, how long you've been with them,

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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. But if you use your phone,

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Speaker 1: just you know, standard you turn on your phone and

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Speaker 1: open it up in a different country, like they're going

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Speaker 1: to say, okay, welcome to Switzerland. You're now paying ten

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Speaker 1: dollars a day for your your global pass and that'll

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Speaker 1: only give you I think it's half a gig of

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Speaker 1: data a day, which might be enough just to get

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Speaker 1: through what you need. But that's ten dollars a day,

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Speaker 1: so that can that can add up quickly. But if

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Speaker 1: you're only there for you know, three four days, if

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Speaker 1: you don't mind paying the extra forty bucks, it's very

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Speaker 1: very simple. You don't really have to change anything at all.

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Speaker 1: That's number one. Now you're talking about is an eSIM.

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Speaker 1: So an eSIM is built into the new phones. You've

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Speaker 1: said you have a S twenty one YEAP and have

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Speaker 1: you confirmed that that does have SIM?

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Speaker 12: No, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so I'm going to look this up and

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Speaker 1: see if it has an eSIM. Let's see the S

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Speaker 1: twenty one does have SIM support. Okay, so you're good there.

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Speaker 1: The newer iPhones, I think it was iPhone thirteen and up.

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Speaker 1: Don't quote me on that, but I they came out

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Speaker 1: with them and kind of standardized this technology which is

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Speaker 1: in most of the new phones. But what eSIM is,

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Speaker 1: instead of a physical SIM card, you can activate a

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Speaker 1: SIM card through your phone, so you don't need to

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Speaker 1: do anything except just download, download an app, sign up

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Speaker 1: for the app, and it'll say, okay, let's activate a

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Speaker 1: phone line. And so what you do is you can

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Speaker 1: either turn off your other SIM, your standard SIM which

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Speaker 1: is your Verizon, and that way you don't get charged

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Speaker 1: or anything. Or better yet, you can just turn off

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Speaker 1: the data portion and turn on Wi Fi calling and

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to use your phone if you have

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi, and you'll be able to make and receive calls,

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Speaker 1: send your text, all that good stuff. So that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the options now with the eSIM. There are two

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Speaker 1: ways I recommend doing the eSIM route. One company is

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Speaker 1: called US Mobile, and you download the app and you

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Speaker 1: sign up for a plan that is pretty inexpensive. So

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Speaker 1: for instance, you're going to Europe, this is twenty dollars,

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Speaker 1: will give you ten gigabytes of data for thirty days.

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Speaker 1: So for twenty bucks you can roam all around Europe

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Speaker 1: for thirty days and get ten gigabytes of data, which

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Speaker 1: is more. I think that'll be more than enough for you.

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Speaker 1: So that's very very simple. The other app I like

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Speaker 1: is called er low air Alo. Now their ten gigabyte

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Speaker 1: plan just for Switzerland is going to cost twenty four dollars,

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Speaker 1: and so again you buy that through the app and

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Speaker 1: then it leads you through the step by step directions

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Speaker 1: on how to install that on your Samsung phone. I've

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Speaker 1: done this a dozen times. It's very very simple. I've

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Speaker 1: only had one problem with it when I was in

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Speaker 1: Japan on an Android phone. It worked fine on my iPhone,

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01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:20,880
Speaker 1: but it would not work on my Android for some reason.

1501
01:15:21,600 --> 01:15:23,839
Speaker 1: But I've not had that same problem in other places.

1502
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:26,320
Speaker 1: That was just a specific problem I seem to have.

1503
01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 1: Otherwise it works pretty well. But again, Mark, that's what

1504
01:15:31,040 --> 01:15:34,280
Speaker 1: I'd recommend. Call Verizon first, see if you have any

1505
01:15:34,360 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: travel past days, see how many days you have use

1506
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:41,839
Speaker 1: that first. If you want to just have the simplest process,

1507
01:15:42,520 --> 01:15:44,400
Speaker 1: or if you don't mind paying. Let's say let's say

1508
01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,679
Speaker 1: you have three travel past days, you're going for a week,

1509
01:15:47,200 --> 01:15:49,320
Speaker 1: and then you don't mind paying the ten dollars every

1510
01:15:49,360 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 1: additional day you're only there, you know, three extra days.

1511
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:54,400
Speaker 1: That would be thirty dollars total to use your phone

1512
01:15:54,439 --> 01:15:58,439
Speaker 1: as you use it in America. Otherwise, I would look

1513
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:02,599
Speaker 1: into the eSIM from US Mobile or Ara Loo. I've

1514
01:16:02,640 --> 01:16:05,439
Speaker 1: got both of those linked up on the website, and

1515
01:16:05,640 --> 01:16:07,360
Speaker 1: I think those would work for you. Does that sound

1516
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:08,080
Speaker 1: like something you could do?

1517
01:16:09,160 --> 01:16:11,360
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, I'm going there for three weeks, so oh

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01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:13,480
Speaker 11: check all that just okay.

1519
01:16:13,400 --> 01:16:16,120
Speaker 1: So for three weeks that that definitely changes things. I'd

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01:16:16,120 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 1: probably I'd probably steer away from the Verizon situation because

1521
01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,120
Speaker 1: twenty one days times ten dollars a day, that's two

1522
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: hundred and ten dollars. I would not do that. I

1523
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 1: personally would go with the US Mobile twenty dollars for

1524
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:31,679
Speaker 1: ten gigs for thirty days. That'll be more than enough data.

1525
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:35,559
Speaker 1: And just obviously hop on a Wi Fi network whenever possible,

1526
01:16:35,960 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 1: don't do your banking on the Wi Fi. Always use

1527
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:40,479
Speaker 1: a VPN when you're doing any sort of banking, or

1528
01:16:41,280 --> 01:16:44,400
Speaker 1: just use a cellular connection disconnect from Wi Fi whenever

1529
01:16:44,439 --> 01:16:45,759
Speaker 1: you're doing something like banking.

1530
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:48,360
Speaker 11: All right, gotcha, Thank you very much.

1531
01:16:48,400 --> 01:16:48,920
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.

1532
01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:51,120
Speaker 1: All right, Mark, have a safe trip and a fun

1533
01:16:51,160 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 1: trip over there. I've heard Switzerland is beautiful. I've been

1534
01:16:54,760 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 1: there when I was a kid, but only to fly

1535
01:16:56,760 --> 01:16:59,800
Speaker 1: in and then drive out to another country. But it

1536
01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 1: was as far as I remember. Maybe I'm just making

1537
01:17:02,600 --> 01:17:04,320
Speaker 1: this up in my head, but I just remember mountains

1538
01:17:04,320 --> 01:17:08,160
Speaker 1: with snow. That's probably just what I've seen on TV.

1539
01:17:08,720 --> 01:17:10,479
Speaker 1: All right, I think we have time for another call here.

1540
01:17:10,560 --> 01:17:13,920
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Jan in Orange County. Jan you're

1541
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:14,519
Speaker 1: on with Rich.

1542
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:17,000
Speaker 9: Oh, Hi, thank you Rich.

1543
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:19,120
Speaker 12: I just was wondering.

1544
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,320
Speaker 9: I have a Samsung and I've always been an Android user,

1545
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:25,679
Speaker 9: and I'm thinking of switching the iPhone and I was wondering, well,

1546
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:29,800
Speaker 9: everything from my Samsung transfer over to an iPhone?

1547
01:17:30,439 --> 01:17:36,120
Speaker 1: Ooh, yes, the short answer. The short answer is yes,

1548
01:17:36,160 --> 01:17:39,599
Speaker 1: and I'm someone who uses both platforms on a daily basis,

1549
01:17:39,680 --> 01:17:45,400
Speaker 1: much to my wife's what's is chagrin a word? Okay, chagrin? Yeah,

1550
01:17:45,439 --> 01:17:48,680
Speaker 1: that's what she feels is She's like, which phone are

1551
01:17:48,680 --> 01:17:52,080
Speaker 1: you using today? So, Jan, why do you want to

1552
01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:53,400
Speaker 1: switch to the iPhone?

1553
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 9: Basically because my son's saying, just get an iPhone, so

1554
01:17:58,080 --> 01:18:02,240
Speaker 9: much easier. But I'm used to, you know, my Samsung.

1555
01:18:02,360 --> 01:18:04,759
Speaker 9: So will it be easy for me to learn an iPhone?

1556
01:18:04,800 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 9: I'm not. I mean, I'm pretty I feel I'm a

1557
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,560
Speaker 9: little maybe a little above average in technology.

1558
01:18:10,760 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 1: Okay, well I like that. So here's the thing. Everyone says,

1559
01:18:14,680 --> 01:18:16,880
Speaker 1: just get an iPhone, Just get an iPhone, Just get

1560
01:18:16,880 --> 01:18:19,639
Speaker 1: an iPhone. It's easier. So you change your whole life

1561
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:22,000
Speaker 1: just to make their life easier. Okay, I mean, I look,

1562
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,440
Speaker 1: I'm not going to debate the merits of that conversation,

1563
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:28,560
Speaker 1: but I know what happens across the US on a

1564
01:18:28,640 --> 01:18:32,879
Speaker 1: daily basis, and it's mostly to do with I message.

1565
01:18:32,920 --> 01:18:36,800
Speaker 1: Everyone wants their messages to, you know, go between these

1566
01:18:36,840 --> 01:18:40,559
Speaker 1: phones easily. And the one thing you have going for you.

1567
01:18:40,640 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 1: I will tell you if you switch over to an

1568
01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:46,519
Speaker 1: iPhone because of your son, is that many people have

1569
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,920
Speaker 1: an iPhone and they will be able to help you

1570
01:18:49,000 --> 01:18:51,840
Speaker 1: with that iPhone. So when I wrote a book, I

1571
01:18:51,840 --> 01:18:54,599
Speaker 1: wrote one hundred and one handy tech tips for the iPhone.

1572
01:18:54,640 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 1: Why did I choose iPhone because it's almost universal here

1573
01:18:58,120 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 1: in the US. People have an iPhone, they know how

1574
01:19:01,160 --> 01:19:03,600
Speaker 1: to they have it, and they know the basics, but

1575
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,280
Speaker 1: they didn't know all the little things you could do

1576
01:19:05,560 --> 01:19:07,640
Speaker 1: on top of the basics. And so I wrote the

1577
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:10,639
Speaker 1: book because it would reach so many people with that phone.

1578
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,639
Speaker 1: Android devices are all very different. If you have a Samsung,

1579
01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: it's different than a Motorola, it's different from a one Plus,

1580
01:19:17,040 --> 01:19:20,240
Speaker 1: it's different than a pixel. So that's the reason why

1581
01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:23,120
Speaker 1: these tips and tricks and people helping each other out

1582
01:19:23,360 --> 01:19:26,320
Speaker 1: with the Android side of things doesn't happen as much

1583
01:19:26,680 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 1: because you know, chances are if your friend has an Android,

1584
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,719
Speaker 1: they have a totally different model than you have, Whereas

1585
01:19:31,720 --> 01:19:33,800
Speaker 1: if they have an iPhone, it's running pretty much the

1586
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:35,360
Speaker 1: same software. So they can say, oh, yeah, I know

1587
01:19:35,400 --> 01:19:36,720
Speaker 1: how to turn on the hot spot here, let me

1588
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:39,479
Speaker 1: show you. So I do think in that case you're

1589
01:19:39,520 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 1: going to be better off. But what type of Android

1590
01:19:43,320 --> 01:19:43,920
Speaker 1: phone do you have?

1591
01:19:44,680 --> 01:19:48,479
Speaker 9: H it's a Samsung A forty two. It's not a

1592
01:19:48,560 --> 01:19:49,040
Speaker 9: very good one.

1593
01:19:49,160 --> 01:19:51,360
Speaker 1: I don't really like it, Okay, so okay, well there

1594
01:19:51,360 --> 01:19:53,280
Speaker 1: you go. Now you don't like it, So I in

1595
01:19:53,320 --> 01:19:55,080
Speaker 1: that case then the A forty two is sort of

1596
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:59,000
Speaker 1: their basic models. You know, I think you'd probably be

1597
01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:02,879
Speaker 1: happy with an iPhone and being on that group message

1598
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:05,599
Speaker 1: chat with your kids and your friends and the blue

1599
01:20:05,600 --> 01:20:08,479
Speaker 1: bubbles and all that stuff. So to answer your original question,

1600
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 1: will things transfer over? Yes, there is an app that

1601
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:16,519
Speaker 1: you would download called move to iOS, and this is

1602
01:20:16,560 --> 01:20:19,720
Speaker 1: what you download on your Samsung. It's called move to iOS.

1603
01:20:20,320 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 1: And once you download that, this will help you transfer

1604
01:20:24,200 --> 01:20:27,360
Speaker 1: everything over to your iPhone. And so once you have

1605
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:30,600
Speaker 1: your iPhone, you will literally just connect these two devices

1606
01:20:30,640 --> 01:20:33,760
Speaker 1: and you can move them over. And so it's a

1607
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:39,400
Speaker 1: very simple, simple process and it basically just connects these

1608
01:20:39,400 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: things over a Wi Fi network that it creates between

1609
01:20:42,400 --> 01:20:45,480
Speaker 1: these two devices. So what will transfer over? Your contacts,

1610
01:20:45,520 --> 01:20:49,759
Speaker 1: your message history, your camera photos, your videos, your photo albums,

1611
01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:53,800
Speaker 1: your files, your accessibility settings, your display settings, your web bookmarks,

1612
01:20:54,360 --> 01:20:57,839
Speaker 1: reading this off the Apple support page, your mail accounts,

1613
01:20:57,880 --> 01:21:02,440
Speaker 1: your WhatsApp, your calendars, and any app that is available

1614
01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:06,719
Speaker 1: on both platforms will transfer over. Now, not the actual app,

1615
01:21:06,760 --> 01:21:08,800
Speaker 1: but it will just download that app to the iPhone.

1616
01:21:09,120 --> 01:21:11,479
Speaker 1: So if there's any app that you don't see, you

1617
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:14,519
Speaker 1: can just go ahead and download that later. But from

1618
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:16,800
Speaker 1: what you're telling me, if you're not really happy with

1619
01:21:16,840 --> 01:21:19,960
Speaker 1: this Samsung phone and it's a pretty basic phone, I

1620
01:21:20,040 --> 01:21:23,799
Speaker 1: say get a new iPhone. You can go with the iPhone.

1621
01:21:24,560 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 1: I would probably go with the iPhone fourteen at this

1622
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:29,559
Speaker 1: point and just get the standard iPhone. I think it's

1623
01:21:29,600 --> 01:21:31,680
Speaker 1: going to be leaps and bounds ahead of what you

1624
01:21:31,840 --> 01:21:34,599
Speaker 1: have already. And you could even go to the Apple

1625
01:21:34,640 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: website and see if they'll give you any money for

1626
01:21:36,800 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 1: that trade in. I don't think they will give you

1627
01:21:39,840 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: much for that phone, but you may get something now.

1628
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: If you also go through a carrier, they may try

1629
01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: to give you a free iPhone. Just know, if they're

1630
01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,559
Speaker 1: giving you a free phone, it's not necessarily free. It's

1631
01:21:52,640 --> 01:21:54,960
Speaker 1: pretty much a three year contract where you have to

1632
01:21:55,040 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: stick with that carrier for three years. And yeah, the

1633
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:00,519
Speaker 1: phone you won't be paying a payment for, but you

1634
01:22:00,520 --> 01:22:03,160
Speaker 1: will be paying to stay with that carrier for the

1635
01:22:03,200 --> 01:22:07,559
Speaker 1: time being. So good question, Jan, Thanks so much. But yes,

1636
01:22:07,920 --> 01:22:12,200
Speaker 1: Apple has created an app again called move to iOS

1637
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:17,760
Speaker 1: that will help you transfer an Android phone to an iPhone.

1638
01:22:17,800 --> 01:22:21,040
Speaker 1: Switching phones these days is quite quite simple, all right,

1639
01:22:21,080 --> 01:22:23,679
Speaker 1: Coming up? More of your calls at Triple eight, Rich

1640
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:26,960
Speaker 1: one O one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

1641
01:22:27,000 --> 01:22:29,120
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. We got my friend Jefferson

1642
01:22:29,160 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 1: Graham on tap. He's going to talk about taking pictures

1643
01:22:32,520 --> 01:22:36,760
Speaker 1: of fireworks, and then we've got some more news. I'm

1644
01:22:36,760 --> 01:22:39,200
Speaker 1: going to tell you about a new password manager that

1645
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:42,599
Speaker 1: actually looks pretty good and an app that you should

1646
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:47,200
Speaker 1: download that I use probably on a weekly basis. You

1647
01:22:47,280 --> 01:22:53,920
Speaker 1: are listening to Rich on tech. Rich Demiro here, rich

1648
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:59,400
Speaker 1: on Tech, hanging out on the holiday weekend, talking technology,

1649
01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: technology arrests. The phone line is U eight eight eight

1650
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:07,440
Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to two,

1651
01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,800
Speaker 1: four to one zero one. Let's go to Jack in

1652
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,760
Speaker 1: uh Riverside, California. Jack, you're on with Rich.

1653
01:23:15,479 --> 01:23:16,639
Speaker 5: Hey, Rich, how you doing.

1654
01:23:16,880 --> 01:23:18,479
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. How are you?

1655
01:23:20,280 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 5: I'd be great if you can help me and tell

1656
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 5: me what I did wrong with my Windows desktop?

1657
01:23:24,560 --> 01:23:24,760
Speaker 2: Uh?

1658
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:25,759
Speaker 1: Oh, what happened?

1659
01:23:27,240 --> 01:23:29,920
Speaker 5: Well, it used to be a Windows seven. Then I

1660
01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 5: rolled up the Windows ten. So but I was using

1661
01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:35,960
Speaker 5: a Sea cleaner and it said I have programs slowing

1662
01:23:35,960 --> 01:23:39,000
Speaker 5: me down, so I turned them off. Then I couldn't

1663
01:23:39,000 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 5: get into my Yahoo at and T mail, so I

1664
01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:44,640
Speaker 5: tried to restore to an earlier day, and now I

1665
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 5: won't do anything. I tried hitting this, turn it out

1666
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 5: and hitting the state they were restoring it to an

1667
01:23:50,080 --> 01:23:54,280
Speaker 5: early day, but he says, there's no restoring dat and

1668
01:23:54,320 --> 01:23:55,679
Speaker 5: it still won't come back up.

1669
01:23:56,360 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 12: What did I do wrong?

1670
01:23:57,640 --> 01:23:57,840
Speaker 6: Oh?

1671
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:01,760
Speaker 1: So, where does your computer stand right now? Is it?

1672
01:24:01,840 --> 01:24:02,799
Speaker 1: What's on the screen?

1673
01:24:04,560 --> 01:24:05,879
Speaker 2: That? Oh?

1674
01:24:06,560 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 1: Nothing? Okay, Well, it sounds like you might have it

1675
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:13,439
Speaker 1: sounds like you're in the middle of a restore, but

1676
01:24:13,479 --> 01:24:15,880
Speaker 1: it but it stopped and then it now it doesn't

1677
01:24:16,040 --> 01:24:18,599
Speaker 1: know what's what it's doing. Is that sound about right?

1678
01:24:20,400 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 5: Sounds like it, yeah, because I was trying to restore

1679
01:24:23,960 --> 01:24:26,800
Speaker 5: it from an earlier date, but it never gave me

1680
01:24:26,840 --> 01:24:29,960
Speaker 5: a date. And then I took a couple hours. Then

1681
01:24:30,040 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 5: I said, oh shoot, so that's when I hit turned

1682
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:34,680
Speaker 5: it out, turned it back on. It started hitting the

1683
01:24:34,720 --> 01:24:37,800
Speaker 5: skate and then I was able to get that little menu.

1684
01:24:38,920 --> 01:24:41,400
Speaker 5: But then it said there's no restort point.

1685
01:24:41,640 --> 01:24:44,880
Speaker 1: Okay, so it sounds like you might have lost what's

1686
01:24:44,920 --> 01:24:48,400
Speaker 1: on this computer. The first thing I would do is, uh,

1687
01:24:48,640 --> 01:24:52,160
Speaker 1: unplug it from the wall, let it sit for a

1688
01:24:52,160 --> 01:24:55,000
Speaker 1: little bit, and then plug it back in and then.

1689
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 2: Start it up.

1690
01:24:55,439 --> 01:24:59,639
Speaker 1: If you're still getting an error message, then it sounds

1691
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 1: like you you've lost some data on this drive. I

1692
01:25:03,080 --> 01:25:06,880
Speaker 1: would probably boot it up in safe mode, and so

1693
01:25:07,000 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: safe mode will let you see what's happening on this

1694
01:25:09,680 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: computer if there's anything that is you know, if you

1695
01:25:13,560 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 1: can still somehow boot up this computer into a basic

1696
01:25:16,640 --> 01:25:19,960
Speaker 1: Windows shell and see what's going on there and then

1697
01:25:20,000 --> 01:25:21,680
Speaker 1: see if you're you know, and then once you get

1698
01:25:21,680 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 1: into there, you can troubleshoot a little bit more. But

1699
01:25:24,600 --> 01:25:28,559
Speaker 1: that is probably what I would do. Now if none

1700
01:25:28,560 --> 01:25:30,800
Speaker 1: of that stuff works, If you really can't rescue this,

1701
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that you're backed up, because that's uh, sounds

1702
01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:38,200
Speaker 1: like you're gonna have to reinstall Windows on this thing,

1703
01:25:38,560 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 1: or at least restart Windows into a uh, you know,

1704
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:44,240
Speaker 1: a factory. You've got Windows ten on there, you said,

1705
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:45,840
Speaker 1: So hopefully you should just be able to go into

1706
01:25:45,840 --> 01:25:50,600
Speaker 1: safe mode and restart or reinstall this program. But I

1707
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: I this is why I recommend always having a backup,

1708
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:57,160
Speaker 1: because it just you never know when something like this

1709
01:25:57,200 --> 01:26:00,000
Speaker 1: is going to happen. You're using a program, you're deleting something,

1710
01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:02,760
Speaker 1: you're changing a little setting here or there, and next

1711
01:26:02,760 --> 01:26:06,880
Speaker 1: thing you know, the world goes dark, and now you're like, uh,

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01:26:06,880 --> 01:26:10,240
Speaker 1: what do I do? So again, unplug it, let it

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01:26:10,280 --> 01:26:12,160
Speaker 1: rest for a minute, plug it back in, see if

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01:26:12,200 --> 01:26:14,240
Speaker 1: it comes back to life, if it doesn't, go into

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01:26:14,240 --> 01:26:17,679
Speaker 1: safe mode, and see if you can troubleshoot from there.

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01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:20,960
Speaker 1: But otherwise, if that, if none of those things work,

1717
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:24,519
Speaker 1: you might think about bringing it in somewhere that they

1718
01:26:24,520 --> 01:26:28,000
Speaker 1: can troubleshoot before you delete anything off of this computer.

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01:26:28,160 --> 01:26:30,559
Speaker 1: You don't want to, you know, fully lose everything. So

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01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:32,800
Speaker 1: that's what I would do, and maybe bring it into

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01:26:32,840 --> 01:26:35,720
Speaker 1: a place like a Shurion or you know, find a

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:39,080
Speaker 1: local you know, local data doctor and if you have

1723
01:26:39,080 --> 01:26:41,679
Speaker 1: stuff on this that you need, maybe they can help.

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01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: Let's go to Stella in Santa Monica. Stella, you're on

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01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 1: with Rich.

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01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:46,880
Speaker 13: Hi.

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01:26:47,120 --> 01:26:49,599
Speaker 1: Rich, I'm doing fantastic. How are you?

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01:26:50,360 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 10: I'm doing well. I just want to to say thank

1729
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:54,599
Speaker 10: you for everything that you do. I love your show

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01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 10: and it's awesome because you help all of us that

1731
01:26:56,880 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 10: don't know anything about what you know.

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01:26:58,560 --> 01:27:01,599
Speaker 1: Ah, thank you. Well I try. I'm coming up against

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01:27:01,640 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: a break. So what's going on? Stella?

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01:27:03,880 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 10: Okay, my phone's getting hot and also my battery is

1735
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:10,720
Speaker 10: like running like really low, like really fast. Is it

1736
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:13,719
Speaker 10: time for new phone? Is it time for a new battery?

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01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:15,080
Speaker 1: What kind of phone do you have?

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01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 10: It's an iPhone Mini twelve, okay, So what you need

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01:27:19,800 --> 01:27:22,320
Speaker 10: to do is figure out why it's running hot and

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01:27:22,439 --> 01:27:24,679
Speaker 10: why the battery is running out so fast.

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01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:26,439
Speaker 1: So what I want you to do is go into

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01:27:26,520 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 1: settings on your iPhone, go into battery and the first

1743
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 1: thing you got to check is the battery health. See

1744
01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:35,680
Speaker 1: what your maximum capacity is, and then go in there

1745
01:27:35,720 --> 01:27:39,200
Speaker 1: and make sure that it says optimized battery charging, and

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01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: see what's running down your battery. So for me, I

1747
01:27:42,400 --> 01:27:44,559
Speaker 1: can tell what's been running down my battery. It'll give

1748
01:27:44,560 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 1: you a list of all of those things inside there.

1749
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:51,240
Speaker 1: If something is making your phone run hot, delete that app,

1750
01:27:51,280 --> 01:27:53,840
Speaker 1: get rid of it, or update your apps and figure

1751
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,360
Speaker 1: out what's going on with that battery. Stella all right,

1752
01:27:56,640 --> 01:28:00,360
Speaker 1: Coming up Jefferson Graham, we'll talk fireworks photo. So you're

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01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:12,080
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

1754
01:28:12,200 --> 01:28:15,639
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology and

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01:28:15,960 --> 01:28:22,519
Speaker 1: on the line my friend Jefferson Graham, formerly of USA Today,

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01:28:23,160 --> 01:28:26,519
Speaker 1: now of Photo Walks TV. Jefferson, thanks so much for

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01:28:26,560 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: joining me.

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01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 2: Thrilled to be here.

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01:28:28,600 --> 01:28:33,639
Speaker 1: Hey, you sound great. Photo Walks TV on YouTube. Definitely

1760
01:28:33,680 --> 01:28:38,200
Speaker 1: subscribe because Jefferson is you are everywhere. You are all

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01:28:38,280 --> 01:28:42,760
Speaker 1: over the US traveling taking pictures, and the best part

1762
01:28:42,880 --> 01:28:46,080
Speaker 1: is you're doing everything with your smartphone. I think it

1763
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:47,560
Speaker 1: was a couple of years back when you told me

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01:28:47,640 --> 01:28:52,280
Speaker 1: Rich I'm ditching the giant DSLR and I'm going with

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01:28:52,360 --> 01:28:54,240
Speaker 1: the smartphone. How is that going?

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01:28:54,920 --> 01:28:57,960
Speaker 2: It's doing great. I actually I have a video that's

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01:28:57,960 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 2: going to run next week where I did it back

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01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:05,600
Speaker 2: back on the iPhone video versus the Canon DSLR the

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01:29:05,760 --> 01:29:12,439
Speaker 2: eos R six, and I defy you to see the difference.

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01:29:13,600 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 2: If there's anything, you're getting a better video quality from

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01:29:16,479 --> 01:29:20,400
Speaker 2: the iPhone on a smaller camera that does not make

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01:29:20,439 --> 01:29:23,800
Speaker 2: people get their backs up when you walk in the door.

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01:29:24,360 --> 01:29:28,439
Speaker 2: That is small, it's portable, it's light. It works in

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01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 2: so many great situations, and it has been fantastic for

1775
01:29:31,280 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 2: me as a run and gunner going all over the

1776
01:29:34,320 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 2: place from France and Japan and solve it. You know,

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01:29:38,000 --> 01:29:41,000
Speaker 2: Solvang I was in Columbus, Ohio, and I'm about to

1778
01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:44,360
Speaker 2: go on a big thirty day shoot between LA and

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01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:48,200
Speaker 2: South Dakota, stopping in Colorado and Utah and Arizona and Nevada,

1780
01:29:48,520 --> 01:29:51,120
Speaker 2: in Wyoming and Idaho, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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01:29:51,439 --> 01:29:53,280
Speaker 2: And I'm going to be doing a lot of episodes

1782
01:29:53,760 --> 01:29:55,519
Speaker 2: doing it this way. So I just got my box

1783
01:29:55,560 --> 01:29:58,520
Speaker 2: full of smartphones and accessories.

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01:29:58,640 --> 01:30:01,000
Speaker 1: I love it. And I will say tell you we

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01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:03,679
Speaker 1: shoot a lot of our TV segments on the iPhone

1786
01:30:03,720 --> 01:30:08,320
Speaker 1: because it's easier, it's simpler, it can go anywhere. Nobody

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01:30:08,360 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 1: bats an eye because it's an iPhone versus a big

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01:30:11,240 --> 01:30:11,839
Speaker 1: old camera.

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01:30:12,320 --> 01:30:12,479
Speaker 3: You know.

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01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:15,000
Speaker 1: We started out with that on the shoulder camera. Then

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01:30:15,000 --> 01:30:17,720
Speaker 1: we went to a DSLR, which we still use primarily.

1792
01:30:18,200 --> 01:30:21,320
Speaker 1: But now with the wireless mics and all the iPhone,

1793
01:30:21,680 --> 01:30:24,519
Speaker 1: the quality of the iPhone is just so good. It

1794
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:27,719
Speaker 1: really is the gold standard in video and in photos

1795
01:30:27,720 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 1: too in a lot of ways. Okay, so first off,

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01:30:30,640 --> 01:30:33,360
Speaker 1: you mentioned your thirty day road trip, so you had

1797
01:30:33,360 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 1: a tip in your newsletter today. Jefferson is very prolific

1798
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:40,320
Speaker 1: with his newsletter, and I'm very jealous of how good

1799
01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:42,720
Speaker 1: you are at writing these things. But you had a

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01:30:42,800 --> 01:30:46,760
Speaker 1: tip this week about booking hotel rooms, which is sort

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01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:49,320
Speaker 1: of anti to everything we would think of tell me

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01:30:49,360 --> 01:30:50,120
Speaker 1: what that tip is.

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01:30:50,760 --> 01:30:53,439
Speaker 2: Okay, the tip is and I learned it from the

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01:30:53,439 --> 01:30:59,400
Speaker 2: hotel rep in Deadwood, South Dakota. Okay. She said, never

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01:31:00,040 --> 01:31:05,680
Speaker 2: look online at the hotel site booking dot com, hotels

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01:31:05,720 --> 01:31:08,840
Speaker 2: dot com, you name it, because you're being you're being

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01:31:08,840 --> 01:31:14,080
Speaker 2: asked to pay a giant commission. And it started because

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01:31:14,240 --> 01:31:17,719
Speaker 2: I was on the Windom site. Windom owns super eight.

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01:31:17,880 --> 01:31:20,400
Speaker 2: It's hard to find hotel rooms right now, and so

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01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,559
Speaker 2: you know it, particularly if you're going for thirty days,

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01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 2: you've got to go cheap, right. Yeah, So it was

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01:31:25,000 --> 01:31:28,439
Speaker 2: two hundred dollars a night, I believe on the Windom site.

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01:31:28,560 --> 01:31:31,080
Speaker 2: When I called, she said one fifty, and I said,

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01:31:31,120 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 2: what gives? And she goes, Oh, the commissions. The commissions

1815
01:31:35,479 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 2: are built in, and they're baked into all the sites.

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01:31:38,240 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 2: Even when you go direct, the commissions are built in.

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01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:44,640
Speaker 2: So you always got a call and I'll tell you

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01:31:45,400 --> 01:31:45,759
Speaker 2: go ahead.

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01:31:45,840 --> 01:31:48,560
Speaker 1: One thing I learned about those commissions, so the website,

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01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:52,160
Speaker 1: there's some sort of weird agreement with like you know,

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01:31:52,200 --> 01:31:55,519
Speaker 1: all these like third party websites that the hotel can't

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01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 1: be cheaper because then basically they could put the websites

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01:31:59,479 --> 01:32:02,439
Speaker 1: out of business. And so the agreement is that the

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01:32:02,520 --> 01:32:05,240
Speaker 1: website from the hotel will have the same price as

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01:32:05,280 --> 01:32:08,400
Speaker 1: like Booking dot Com or Expedia. And so what you're

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01:32:08,439 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: saying is when you call, of course that's a one

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01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 1: to one transaction. They can do that for you and

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01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:16,040
Speaker 1: save you that money. Now, fifteen dollars may not sound

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01:32:16,080 --> 01:32:18,320
Speaker 1: like a lot twenty bucks, thirty bucks, but if you're

1830
01:32:18,320 --> 01:32:20,760
Speaker 1: going for thirty days like you just mentioned, that's you know,

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01:32:20,760 --> 01:32:22,360
Speaker 1: I cut add up to like one thousand dollars.

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01:32:22,520 --> 01:32:25,759
Speaker 2: Well, wait a minute, I'm talking about five oh fifty

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01:32:25,840 --> 01:32:28,599
Speaker 2: dollars less for two nights. It was one hundred dollars.

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01:32:29,280 --> 01:32:33,599
Speaker 2: The place I'm staying in Monument Valley is seventy dollars

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01:32:33,680 --> 01:32:35,439
Speaker 2: less a night. I'm staying there two nights. That's one

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01:32:35,520 --> 01:32:39,960
Speaker 2: hundred and forty. Every hotel I called was cheaper I

1837
01:32:39,840 --> 01:32:42,559
Speaker 2: I when I called instead of doing the online thing.

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01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:44,719
Speaker 2: And the other knock we have to give on booking

1839
01:32:44,760 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 2: and hotels is you get to the place you hate it,

1840
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:49,960
Speaker 2: You're booked for four nights, you say I want out,

1841
01:32:50,000 --> 01:32:52,559
Speaker 2: and they say, sorry, there's nothing we can do because

1842
01:32:52,600 --> 01:32:55,439
Speaker 2: you went through Booking dot Com. Had you gone direct

1843
01:32:55,439 --> 01:32:57,280
Speaker 2: with us, it would have been no problem. Right.

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01:32:57,320 --> 01:32:58,960
Speaker 1: Well, it's a little more work. So I get it.

1845
01:32:58,960 --> 01:33:00,680
Speaker 1: People want to do everything on the line, and they

1846
01:33:00,680 --> 01:33:03,400
Speaker 1: want to you know, book things and you know, but

1847
01:33:03,479 --> 01:33:05,000
Speaker 1: I get it. If you want to, if you want

1848
01:33:05,000 --> 01:33:06,960
Speaker 1: to save money at a hotel, just call them direct

1849
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:08,519
Speaker 1: and the best you can do is just ask them

1850
01:33:08,600 --> 01:33:10,200
Speaker 1: and see what they say. If they give you fifty

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01:33:10,200 --> 01:33:12,760
Speaker 1: bucks off times two nights, three nights, you know, that's

1852
01:33:12,760 --> 01:33:16,080
Speaker 1: a little extra spending money for food or drink or whatever.

1853
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:19,920
Speaker 1: So great, great tip. All right, so let's talk fireworks.

1854
01:33:20,040 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 1: I know people will love to share their fireworks photos

1855
01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:29,240
Speaker 1: this coming weekend. Do you even bother taking pictures? Can

1856
01:33:29,320 --> 01:33:32,280
Speaker 1: the can the average person get a good fireworks photo?

1857
01:33:32,600 --> 01:33:35,320
Speaker 2: Oh, the average person can get a great fireworks photo

1858
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:40,400
Speaker 2: on their smartphone. I got some great ones last December

1859
01:33:40,439 --> 01:33:43,960
Speaker 2: because in the city that I live in, in Manhattan Beach, California,

1860
01:33:44,040 --> 01:33:47,120
Speaker 2: we have our fireworks in December, not in July.

1861
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:51,439
Speaker 1: So that's okay. So what so so heroes I see

1862
01:33:51,439 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 1: are never good, They're always blurry, they're always how do

1863
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:55,240
Speaker 1: you get a good one?

1864
01:33:55,800 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 2: Okay, go there with your smartphone, use the wide lens,

1865
01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:04,360
Speaker 2: which is the one X that's the sharpest. It's the

1866
01:34:04,479 --> 01:34:07,400
Speaker 2: lens that's the best in low light. Don't go ultra wide,

1867
01:34:07,720 --> 01:34:11,000
Speaker 2: don't go close up. Just use that one X lens

1868
01:34:11,439 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 2: and then shoot video of the of a segment. You know.

1869
01:34:17,439 --> 01:34:20,000
Speaker 2: I used to tell people they had to use a tripod.

1870
01:34:20,120 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 2: Now they don't because the image stabilization is so good.

1871
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:26,240
Speaker 2: You can handhold a two minute shot, believe it or not,

1872
01:34:26,800 --> 01:34:30,400
Speaker 2: and run videos. So you have the whole thing. And

1873
01:34:30,640 --> 01:34:34,120
Speaker 2: on the iPhone the minute you start recording with the

1874
01:34:34,200 --> 01:34:36,640
Speaker 2: red button. Right next to the red button is a

1875
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,120
Speaker 2: white button and that's for taking pictures. And you could

1876
01:34:40,160 --> 01:34:43,040
Speaker 2: just hit that over and over again while you've got

1877
01:34:43,120 --> 01:34:46,479
Speaker 2: your backup video going and you can get some great photos.

1878
01:34:46,640 --> 01:34:49,679
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I like that. The so the one two punch,

1879
01:34:49,720 --> 01:34:51,559
Speaker 1: you've got the video because everyone wants the video with

1880
01:34:51,560 --> 01:34:53,960
Speaker 1: the oohs and ah's, and then you get the actual

1881
01:34:54,000 --> 01:34:57,719
Speaker 1: still shots. I would actually you gave me an idea

1882
01:34:57,920 --> 01:35:01,160
Speaker 1: because you're taking the video anyway. You can also go

1883
01:35:01,320 --> 01:35:05,320
Speaker 1: into Google Photos if you use that, and then they

1884
01:35:05,320 --> 01:35:08,840
Speaker 1: have a feature called export frame. Now do you think

1885
01:35:08,880 --> 01:35:11,400
Speaker 1: that frame would be clear with the You know, if

1886
01:35:11,400 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 1: you try to do that with the fireworks photos or

1887
01:35:13,320 --> 01:35:14,040
Speaker 1: no with the video.

1888
01:35:14,400 --> 01:35:16,840
Speaker 2: I think it'll be fine. The people at Apple told

1889
01:35:16,880 --> 01:35:19,360
Speaker 2: me that you're always going to get a higher resolution,

1890
01:35:19,600 --> 01:35:23,280
Speaker 2: better photo if you take it as a photo this way,

1891
01:35:23,760 --> 01:35:25,519
Speaker 2: and if you do the frame grab. Now. I do

1892
01:35:25,560 --> 01:35:29,160
Speaker 2: frame grabs all day, every day. And for web work,

1893
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:32,519
Speaker 2: it's fine. And I don't know that you're going to

1894
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:36,360
Speaker 2: hang fireworks shots on your wall, but you know, the

1895
01:35:36,439 --> 01:35:40,519
Speaker 2: safety thing is run the video because you can't go wrong.

1896
01:35:40,960 --> 01:35:43,120
Speaker 2: You're gonna get the shot right.

1897
01:35:43,560 --> 01:35:46,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love it. Any other tips for this for

1898
01:35:46,400 --> 01:35:48,280
Speaker 1: the fireworks specifically.

1899
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 2: I get there early, if you can grab your spot,

1900
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 2: you know, get your best spot, Get as close as

1901
01:35:54,600 --> 01:35:57,200
Speaker 2: you can to the front of the line. You don't

1902
01:35:57,200 --> 01:35:59,639
Speaker 2: want people's heads in the shot though you are going

1903
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:02,600
Speaker 2: in the sky, so it's okay, but they're always you know,

1904
01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:06,120
Speaker 2: scouted out, and don't run all over the place. Just

1905
01:36:06,200 --> 01:36:09,160
Speaker 2: pick your spot and you're probably not gonna have a

1906
01:36:09,160 --> 01:36:13,400
Speaker 2: tripod and do several video clips. Do you know? Remember

1907
01:36:13,479 --> 01:36:16,479
Speaker 2: the best one is the last one, right, So do

1908
01:36:16,560 --> 01:36:19,639
Speaker 2: it a few times and you're gonna get some great stuff.

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01:36:19,800 --> 01:36:21,160
Speaker 1: And what do you do with these pictures if you

1910
01:36:21,160 --> 01:36:23,280
Speaker 1: don't put them on your wall? What do you social media,

1911
01:36:23,640 --> 01:36:26,640
Speaker 1: social media, Okay, social media is where it's at. Okay.

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01:36:27,160 --> 01:36:29,920
Speaker 1: So you're going on this thirty day trip. You're going

1913
01:36:30,000 --> 01:36:33,160
Speaker 1: all different places. You have a whole bunch of stuff

1914
01:36:33,200 --> 01:36:35,120
Speaker 1: that you pack, and I can't go through it all

1915
01:36:35,160 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 1: because you've got a lot of it.

1916
01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:40,200
Speaker 2: But I love how do you find the newsletter? Jefferson

1917
01:36:40,240 --> 01:36:43,080
Speaker 2: Graham dot substack dot com. I'd love to have you

1918
01:36:43,120 --> 01:36:45,720
Speaker 2: as a reader. Many people are charging I do not.

1919
01:36:46,000 --> 01:36:48,799
Speaker 2: It's free and it comes to your indocks every Saturday

1920
01:36:48,800 --> 01:36:49,240
Speaker 2: and Sunday.

1921
01:36:49,360 --> 01:36:51,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, and like clockwork, I get it every Saturday and Sunday,

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Speaker 1: and I go, oh, I wish I would have started

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Speaker 1: mine again. You're the one who made me start this

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Speaker 1: in the first place. Okay. So some of the things

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Speaker 1: that you carry, the inst three sixty x three, the

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Speaker 1: Go Pro Hero eleven, a Dji, Mavic Air. You've got

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Speaker 1: your USB car adapter, which I think is very smart,

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Speaker 1: AirPods Pro, You've got a selfie stick, You've got a microphone.

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Speaker 1: Let's see the other thing you're you're carrying now is

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Speaker 1: a Samsung S twenty three? Is that the Ultra?

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Speaker 2: Yes? Okay, so at the Ultra, but recently the question

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Speaker 2: is why.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'm just curious what your thoughts are on that,

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Speaker 1: because I know there's always this big debate of the

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Speaker 1: iPhone versus Android with photo quality. How are you noticing

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Speaker 1: the pictures are coming out from that Samsung?

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, first of all, I just got it

1938
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Speaker 2: the other day. Okay, so it's new. There's two features

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01:37:42,960 --> 01:37:46,040
Speaker 2: in here that I'm very excited about. One is that

1940
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,200
Speaker 2: they have a way better telephoto lens. So you have

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Speaker 2: basically the equivalent of a two hundred millimeter that's a

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Speaker 2: ten X right now, you have a three X on

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Speaker 2: the iPhone. So I used the S twenty one in

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Speaker 2: Japan when I was there. I got some really nice

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Speaker 2: telephoto work. I got the new one because of the

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Speaker 2: astro star lighting start us. What's it called, Yeah, the

1947
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Speaker 2: astrophotography feature. Yeah, photography. Sure, Well, a three hundred X

1948
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Speaker 2: you can and you can run it for one hour.

1949
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Speaker 2: I'm going to be in the bad Lands National Park

1950
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Speaker 2: in South Dakota doing star trails and I really wanted

1951
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Speaker 2: to get it for that. I also like the fact

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Speaker 2: that you can do varial speed time lapses, which you

1953
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Speaker 2: cannot do on the iPhone. I am a time lapse freak.

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Speaker 2: I do them all the time, and basically put you

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Speaker 2: put the camera on a tripod, you press record, and

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Speaker 2: you let us stay there for an hour. But you

1957
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Speaker 2: don't have any choices. So with the Samsung, they're giving

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Speaker 2: you a choice of five X and ten X, basically

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Speaker 2: making it much faster. And I think that's great. And

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Speaker 2: the other reason I bought the camera, just so everybody

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Speaker 2: knows is I do lead a lot of photo workshops

1962
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Speaker 2: and seminars and I say, here's how you do stuff

1963
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Speaker 2: on the iPhone, and there's always somebody who says, yeah,

1964
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Speaker 2: but how do I do it on the Galaxy? So

1965
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Speaker 2: I want to be better well versed.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I love it. I love it. The other thing

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Speaker 1: I was going to mention is that there's a huge,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you know this, like over a

1969
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Speaker 1: two gigabyte update for the S twenty three Ultras. So

1970
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Speaker 1: just before you head out, if you haven't updated it,

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Speaker 1: it's it's literally with like in the past three days.

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Speaker 2: Okay, check that out.

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Speaker 1: All right, Jefferson, We're gonna leave it there. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining me. Where can folks follow you?

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Speaker 2: Well, lease come to my YouTube which is YouTube dot

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Speaker 2: com slash photo walks TV folks, I'm going to go

1977
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Speaker 2: live to three o'clock if you're listening live today, and

1978
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Speaker 2: I'm going to show off all the gear in my box.

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Speaker 1: I love it.

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Speaker 2: You can find me on Twitter at Jefferson Graham. Ditto

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Speaker 2: for Instagram and the newsletter Jefferson Graham do stufstack dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me, Ja jeff

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Speaker 1: and have a great road trip. Thanks all right, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, it is the end of the show and

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Speaker 1: your favorite section of the show. I guess we call

1986
01:39:59,040 --> 01:40:01,960
Speaker 1: it the feedback. I got a couple more stories to

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Speaker 1: tell you about, plus your feedback. Right here, you are

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

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Speaker 1: Tech feedback time. Not to be confused with feedback feedback.

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Speaker 1: This is the section of the show where it's kind

1991
01:40:24,120 --> 01:40:27,280
Speaker 1: of like rapid fire. It's probably too fast for any

1992
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Speaker 1: of us to understand, but I'm going to do my

1993
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Speaker 1: best because there's a lot to get through. First off,

1994
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Speaker 1: a couple stories. Proton Pass so new password manager from

1995
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Speaker 1: the folks that make proton Email, which is a secure email,

1996
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Speaker 1: encrypted email service. They've been running that since twenty fourteen.

1997
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Speaker 1: Proton Mail now they came out with a password manager.

1998
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Speaker 1: And what I like about this password manager is it

1999
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Speaker 1: is free. Now, of course it's limited in the free scope,

2000
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Speaker 1: but it's still free, and I think it's actually pretty

2001
01:40:56,920 --> 01:41:00,280
Speaker 1: good for what they offer for free. So what they do,

2002
01:41:00,439 --> 01:41:05,800
Speaker 1: what their thing is proton password Manager. I want to

2003
01:41:05,800 --> 01:41:08,160
Speaker 1: just make sure I have this on here. Okay, So

2004
01:41:08,200 --> 01:41:13,000
Speaker 1: it's open source number one, but it also covers your

2005
01:41:13,240 --> 01:41:18,520
Speaker 1: email address. So that's the main difference between this encrypted,

2006
01:41:18,560 --> 01:41:22,639
Speaker 1: open source password manager from proton mail and the others

2007
01:41:22,720 --> 01:41:27,080
Speaker 1: is that this one also generates a one time email

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Speaker 1: address for your login, similar to what Apple does. They

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01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:32,320
Speaker 1: have a program that does that, but then you're linked there.

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Speaker 1: The more hidden email addresses you generate with Apple, the

2011
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Speaker 1: more you are linked to Apple forever. And that's why

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Speaker 1: they do that, because they want you to stay in

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Speaker 1: that walled garden for as long as humanly possible. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not knocking Apple. It's a very smart method of

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Speaker 1: getting you in there and keeping you there. But if

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01:41:51,000 --> 01:41:54,599
Speaker 1: you're using third party apps and websites, I always prefer

2017
01:41:54,680 --> 01:41:57,639
Speaker 1: those because then you can switch when something better comes along.

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Speaker 1: Right now, the iPhone is amazing. What if in in

2019
01:42:00,200 --> 01:42:03,200
Speaker 1: three weeks, some phone comes out that's just incredible, and

2020
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:05,439
Speaker 1: you want to get out of the Apple ecosystem. Well,

2021
01:42:05,479 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 1: it's going to be tough if all your passwords and

2022
01:42:08,120 --> 01:42:11,759
Speaker 1: email addresses are all linked to Apple iCloud. So anyway,

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01:42:12,040 --> 01:42:17,400
Speaker 1: proton pass check it out. Let's see. It creates email aliases,

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Speaker 1: so it's a randomly generated email address. And their argument

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01:42:20,479 --> 01:42:23,799
Speaker 1: is that you know these email If a website is hacked,

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01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:26,519
Speaker 1: not only do they get their password, your password, which

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01:42:26,600 --> 01:42:28,920
Speaker 1: should be random, but then they get your email address,

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Speaker 1: and they say it could be embarrassing depending on the

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01:42:30,960 --> 01:42:35,519
Speaker 1: email or the website rather, but it does all these things.

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Speaker 1: The free version of proton pass supports unlimited logins, unlimited

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Speaker 1: encrypted notes, and a limited number of hide my email

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Speaker 1: addresses and two factor authentication logins. So if you want

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Speaker 1: everything unlimited, you can subscribe. They're offering an eighty percent discount.

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Speaker 1: It's available for just a dollar a month with an

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Speaker 1: annual subscription until the end of July forever, they say,

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01:42:59,240 --> 01:43:02,400
Speaker 1: so basically twelve bucks a year. That sounds like, and

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Speaker 1: it's gonna go up to its regular price of four

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01:43:04,640 --> 01:43:07,360
Speaker 1: dollars a month, so forty eight dollars a year. After July,

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01:43:07,960 --> 01:43:11,439
Speaker 1: so check it out. It's called Proton Pass and I

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01:43:11,479 --> 01:43:16,280
Speaker 1: have not used this personally, but I actually think it

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01:43:16,280 --> 01:43:21,200
Speaker 1: looks pretty good. California State Parks teaming up with What

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01:43:21,320 --> 01:43:24,400
Speaker 1: three Words. If you watch me on KTLA, you know

2043
01:43:24,439 --> 01:43:26,760
Speaker 1: I've talked about this app in the past. It's called

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01:43:26,800 --> 01:43:29,679
Speaker 1: What three Words. They have divided up the entire world

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01:43:30,200 --> 01:43:33,479
Speaker 1: into ten by ten foot squares. Every one of those

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01:43:33,479 --> 01:43:37,799
Speaker 1: squares has a unique three word label. So the label

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01:43:37,880 --> 01:43:40,920
Speaker 1: for and why would you need this when we have GPS, Well,

2048
01:43:41,439 --> 01:43:45,120
Speaker 1: when you're in a national park, or you're in anywhere,

2049
01:43:46,080 --> 01:43:48,960
Speaker 1: there may be a space in that area that you

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01:43:49,000 --> 01:43:50,920
Speaker 1: want someone to meet you at. Let's say you need

2051
01:43:50,960 --> 01:43:53,479
Speaker 1: help your stranded hiker. You're not gonna say, oh, I'm

2052
01:43:53,520 --> 01:43:58,280
Speaker 1: at Dunswood Park. I'm at this ten by ten square

2053
01:43:58,280 --> 01:44:00,439
Speaker 1: foot area, and that way you can find me a

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01:44:00,439 --> 01:44:03,680
Speaker 1: lot easier. And so that's why California State Parks is

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01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:08,280
Speaker 1: teaming up with this What three Words app, so dispatchers

2056
01:44:08,800 --> 01:44:12,760
Speaker 1: can find exactly where you are if you have this

2057
01:44:12,800 --> 01:44:15,240
Speaker 1: app and you know how to use it, So download

2058
01:44:15,240 --> 01:44:19,000
Speaker 1: this app What three Words to your phone. And this

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01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 1: means every park bench, every parking space, every camp site,

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01:44:23,080 --> 01:44:25,679
Speaker 1: any remote spot on a parking trail or a hiking

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01:44:25,680 --> 01:44:28,920
Speaker 1: trail has its own what three words address, so you

2062
01:44:28,960 --> 01:44:31,800
Speaker 1: can tell someone exactly where you are with precision down

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01:44:31,800 --> 01:44:33,160
Speaker 1: to ten by ten. How do you use this in

2064
01:44:33,200 --> 01:44:35,639
Speaker 1: the regular world if you're not stranded. Let's just give

2065
01:44:35,640 --> 01:44:38,080
Speaker 1: you an example. My photographer and I we meet at

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01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:42,680
Speaker 1: Anaheim Convention Center. There are ten million places you can

2067
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,519
Speaker 1: meet at the Anaheim Convention Center. I send him my

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01:44:45,640 --> 01:44:48,680
Speaker 1: what three words for the exact bench that I'm sitting on,

2069
01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:51,719
Speaker 1: and he can navigate right to that bench. It's brilliant.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what else here? Two minutes here, Jose says,

2071
01:44:57,840 --> 01:45:00,439
Speaker 1: can you help me with a free video editing? And

2072
01:45:00,439 --> 01:45:02,080
Speaker 1: what kind of connection do I need to play the

2073
01:45:02,120 --> 01:45:05,679
Speaker 1: video from an iPhone to a TV for free video editing?

2074
01:45:05,720 --> 01:45:08,879
Speaker 1: I'd recommend cap cut. They also have an adapter Lightning

2075
01:45:09,680 --> 01:45:12,320
Speaker 1: AV adapter that'll give you an hdm MY output on

2076
01:45:12,360 --> 01:45:15,439
Speaker 1: your iPhone. You plug that into your TV. Otherwise, you

2077
01:45:15,439 --> 01:45:19,080
Speaker 1: can use an app called Replica to wirelessly beam the

2078
01:45:19,120 --> 01:45:21,160
Speaker 1: content from your phone to the TV if you have

2079
01:45:21,200 --> 01:45:25,360
Speaker 1: a Smart TV or an Apple TV. Jeremy, commenting on

2080
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:28,160
Speaker 1: last week's story about Uber, how my driver said, Oh,

2081
01:45:28,200 --> 01:45:30,800
Speaker 1: I don't live here. I'm just filling in for my

2082
01:45:30,880 --> 01:45:33,760
Speaker 1: brother on his app. He said, hey, rich, Uber does

2083
01:45:33,760 --> 01:45:37,320
Speaker 1: have facial recognition for drivers. It's not every time they

2084
01:45:37,360 --> 01:45:40,040
Speaker 1: log in, it's just occasionally a request to verify who

2085
01:45:40,080 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 1: they are through facial recognition. So yeah, they should probably

2086
01:45:42,960 --> 01:45:45,519
Speaker 1: do that every time they get in the seat. And finally,

2087
01:45:45,560 --> 01:45:48,600
Speaker 1: Angel last week was asking about earbuds with no microphone.

2088
01:45:49,160 --> 01:45:50,720
Speaker 1: He said, yeah, I need to find these for my

2089
01:45:50,760 --> 01:45:52,840
Speaker 1: wife because I still want to live in my house. Haha.

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01:45:53,040 --> 01:45:56,000
Speaker 1: I asked my friend Lauren Dragon over at Wirecutter. She

2091
01:45:56,280 --> 01:45:59,400
Speaker 1: took time out from her vacation to find these best

2092
01:45:59,439 --> 01:46:03,519
Speaker 1: Buy sleep A ten earbuds. She said these are pretty

2093
01:46:03,600 --> 01:46:05,080
Speaker 1: much the only things she can think of that do

2094
01:46:05,160 --> 01:46:08,400
Speaker 1: not have a mic because are meant for sleeping. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Check out the show notes at richontech dot tv. Next

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Speaker 1: week the app that can take your vitals just by

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Speaker 1: snapping a selfie once again. You can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media at rich on tech. My name is rich Dmurro.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending

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Speaker 1: it right here with me. Congrats to Bobo who got

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Speaker 1: married today, Producer Bobo, thanks to Kim on the phones,

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01:46:32,960 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 1: Adam filling in for Bobo, and everyone who makes this

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Speaker 1: show possible. Thank you so much for spending part of

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01:46:40,120 --> 01:46:42,920
Speaker 1: your weekend with me. My name is rich Dumuro. I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you real soon