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Speaker 1: Samsung unveils its new foldable phones, Android Declaire's war on

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Speaker 1: in a certain way, plus your tech questions answered. What's

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Speaker 1: going on on rich Demiro And this is rich on Tech,

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Speaker 1: the podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I

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Speaker 1: think you should know about. It's also the place where

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Speaker 1: I answer the questions you send me. I'm a tech

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Speaker 1: reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you

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Speaker 1: are having a fantastic day. Welcome to anyone and everyone

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Speaker 1: On occasion, I will live stream the show on Instagram

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech. So if you're watching there, thank you.

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Speaker 1: We've got folks tuning in from all over the world.

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Speaker 1: And when I say that, I mean it got folks

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Speaker 1: from Portugal, Culver City, Cacmo, Kansas City, Missouri, and just

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Speaker 1: about everywhere in between. So thanks for doing that. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of different places, So I just got back from a

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Speaker 1: trip up to Bend, Oregon. This was a family reunion

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Speaker 1: that was planned for many, many years and it was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I've got to say. We did the drive up there.

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Speaker 1: It was thirteen hours up thirteen hours back, we stopped

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Speaker 1: each way and kind of, you know, like I really

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Speaker 1: I love and I think I've talked about this before,

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Speaker 1: I also talk on social media that I feel like

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Speaker 1: I've said everything before, but I've probably mentioned the fact

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Speaker 1: And it was great. We had such a great time.

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Speaker 1: Bend is just a magical place. It's like one of

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Speaker 1: to the first story of the week. Samsung unveiled a

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Speaker 1: So on this phone, they have improved the selfie camera,

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Speaker 1: to use Android and you want to, you know, you

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Speaker 1: like it for a certain reason. Why when I text

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Speaker 1: an iPhone user, should it like, you know, put put

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Speaker 1: me on blast that I'm using an Android phone and

435
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Speaker 1: vice versa. It actually doesn't do vice versa because you know,

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Speaker 1: on Android, it doesn't delineate between if you're texting to

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Speaker 1: an iPhone or an Android. So anyway, this is a

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Speaker 1: topic that I just don't really like. I think that

439
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Speaker 1: it may get some publicity now that Google is sort

440
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Speaker 1: of pushing the topic, but I just feel like it's

441
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Speaker 1: we you know, if you're using an Android, you should

442
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Speaker 1: not have to feel like you are somehow, you know,

443
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Speaker 1: your friend should be saying something to you about that.

444
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Speaker 1: I think that's that's pretty rude. So anyway, all right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the next question of the podcast. I

446
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Speaker 1: think I went way too long in that topic. Melody says,

447
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Speaker 1: I have a friend who's in a nursing home. She

448
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Speaker 1: has a physical disability that keeps her in bed prior

449
00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: to the onset, her favorite mode of transportation was a motorcycle.

450
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:15,960
Speaker 1: She broke her ankle playing football. Oh wow. She rigged

451
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:18,159
Speaker 1: up a handle to her shift lever and made a

452
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Speaker 1: bungee cord bracket on the handlebar to hold up the crutches.

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Speaker 1: I would love to help her with a VR experience

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Speaker 1: so she gets to ride again. My question, budget is

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Speaker 1: an issue. Do you know of a good VR set,

456
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Speaker 1: possibly under ideally under one hundred dollars that would be good.

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Speaker 1: I have a Pixel four A that will probably not

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Speaker 1: be upgraded until next year. Thanks so much, love your

459
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Speaker 1: show and love following you on Facebook. Be well and

460
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Speaker 1: be kind, Melody in Monrovia, Melody, you are a kind friend.

461
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Speaker 1: I feel for your friend in the nursing home. You

462
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Speaker 1: are one percent right VR. This is what I love

463
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Speaker 1: so much about VR. Virtual reality is going to change

464
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Speaker 1: the world for so many people, not just p people

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Speaker 1: who you know can walk and have all of their

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Speaker 1: you know, physical or no physical limitations, I should say,

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Speaker 1: but for people like your friend who do have a

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Speaker 1: physical disability. VR is going to open up so many

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Speaker 1: worlds to them, not just the ability to explore different places,

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Speaker 1: but to experience entertainment to be in places that they

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Speaker 1: may not be able to travel to. So I think

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Speaker 1: virtual reality it's getting such a bad rap because you know, Facebook,

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Speaker 1: big evil Facebook is trying to build the metaverse, and

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Speaker 1: and people it's just it's easy for them to say

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Speaker 1: how terrible Facebook is. But the reality is we are

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Speaker 1: you know, we are going to see so many new

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Speaker 1: experiences and opportunities opened up for people of all different

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Speaker 1: abilities because of virtual reality. And I am so excited

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Speaker 1: about that. So when it comes to your friend, here's

480
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Speaker 1: the deal, we are not there just yet. So when

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Speaker 1: it comes to a one hundred dollars VR headset, I

482
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Speaker 1: don't think there is one that I can recommend. The

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Speaker 1: reason is that Facebook does have the best virtual reality headset.

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Speaker 1: It used to be called the Oculus Quest. Now it's

485
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Speaker 1: called the Metaquest, but that is the best one. It

486
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Speaker 1: also used to be two hundred and fifty dollars when

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Speaker 1: it was at its best price during the holidays. Then

488
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Speaker 1: they raise the price by one hundred dollars, so now

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Speaker 1: it is the technical MSRP is three hundred and ninety

490
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Speaker 1: nine dollars the best price if you take the one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars off that we've seen the discounts over the

492
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Speaker 1: holidays would be one hundred dollars less than that. So

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Speaker 1: long story short, I can't recommend a VR headset for

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Speaker 1: under one hundred dollars because I don't think it's going

495
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Speaker 1: to be any good. So what I would do is

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Speaker 1: get some friends together and try to cough up the

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Speaker 1: You know, so if you look up refurbished Medaquest, which

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Speaker 1: it's kind of annoying because if I was having this

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Speaker 1: conversation two weeks ago, all these prices would be one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars less. So the refurbished Medaquest is three hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars. That means two weeks ago it would

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Speaker 1: have been two hundred and fifty dollars. So what I

503
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Speaker 1: would do is you gotta go mediquest. You gotta look

504
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Speaker 1: on eBay, look on the refurbished website. But the reality

505
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Speaker 1: is you don't want to go with a headset that

506
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Speaker 1: is not that is not mediquest at this point because

507
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Speaker 1: it is the best. It's going to have the best

508
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Speaker 1: ecosystem of things to do, and I really truly believe

509
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Speaker 1: that right now. So maybe another year or so, when

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Speaker 1: prices come down, when technology evolves, it might be a

511
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Speaker 1: little bit better, But right now, as we stand, you've

512
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Speaker 1: got to you've got to go with that metaquest too,

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Speaker 1: and that I think is going to be the best

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Speaker 1: way to do it. So I hope your friend gets well,

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Speaker 1: and I do think I do think a VR experience

516
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Speaker 1: for her to ride again would be really, really fun,

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Speaker 1: and I hope she gets to experience that. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's see, Oh, should we talk about another price Hikeugh?

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Speaker 1: These price hikes are just they're so fast and they're

520
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: just coming in from every angle. It's it's getting to

521
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: be mind boggling how much more we are paying for

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Speaker 1: the same exact products as before. So Disney Plus is

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Speaker 1: the latest to hike prices. Basically, if you are paying

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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine a month right now for Disney Plus,

525
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: that is going up to ten dollars and ninety nine

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Speaker 1: cents a month as of December eighth. That's a three

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Speaker 1: dollars price increase. I know. Oh, rich crime me a

528
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Speaker 1: new one. Three dollars a month, big deal? Thirty six

529
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Speaker 1: dollars a year? Oh, come on, aren't there more important

530
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,439
Speaker 1: things to talk about? Well? Yeah, but you add this

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Speaker 1: up to all the other things that have gone up

532
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Speaker 1: in price, whether it's Netflix, whether it's Hulu, whether it's

533
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Speaker 1: your alarm system, whether it's your bug pest control, whether

534
00:28:44,520 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: it is every single bill that I pay on an

535
00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 1: automatic basis has gone up over the past six months

536
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Speaker 1: to a year. And yeah, they're all a couple of

537
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: dollars here, a couple of dollars there, But it all

538
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: adds up. And guess what, have you gotten a raise?

539
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: I don't know. Have you gotten an inflation raise? I

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Speaker 1: don't think so. So again, this all just comes out

541
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Speaker 1: of our pockets. By the way, have you looked at

542
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,080
Speaker 1: grocery store prices lately? Those are also really high, So

543
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 1: you know, we're being kind of hit at all angles here.

544
00:29:11,240 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: Every single company is raising prices, and I get it.

545
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Speaker 1: It's costing more to do everything. So with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: here's what Disney is doing to take a little bit

547
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Speaker 1: of the sting away. They're introducing a new version called

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Speaker 1: Disney Oh, what's it called Disney Plus Basic. Disney Plus

549
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: Basic comes in at seven dollars and ninety nine cents,

550
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Speaker 1: So you can have Disney Basic for the same price

551
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: as you can right now that you're paying. You don't

552
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: have to jump up to that new high price if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to. But guess what, Disney Basic has ads,

554
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Speaker 1: So now you're paying the same amount that you were before,

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00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:54,360
Speaker 1: but with ads in your programming. So personally, I'm not

556
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Speaker 1: doing that. I'm gonna pay the extra three dollars a

557
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 1: month because I'm trying to get away from the ads.

558
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,960
Speaker 1: But I get it. A lot of people are gonna

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Speaker 1: do the ads. When it comes to Hulu, A majority

560
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Speaker 1: of their advertisers or sorry, majority of their subscribers actually

561
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:12,880
Speaker 1: subscribe without or with the ads, so they're paying to

562
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Speaker 1: watch ads, and you know, it's just one of these things.

563
00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:18,480
Speaker 1: It's a personal preference. Right now, I think the fastest

564
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Speaker 1: growing streaming services are all of the free ones. Whether

565
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Speaker 1: it's TikTok, whether it's YouTube, whether it is tub whether

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Speaker 1: it is what's the other one, Pluto TV, whether it

567
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:33,920
Speaker 1: is you know, the Roku channel. All of these things

568
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:38,240
Speaker 1: are free with ads, and it's a very fast growing

569
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Speaker 1: segment of the streaming service because people are saying, you

570
00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:43,840
Speaker 1: know what, I used to watch ads. I'm fine, I

571
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: got this. You know, I got used to Netflix without ads,

572
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:47,960
Speaker 1: But you know what, I'll deal with ads to save

573
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Speaker 1: a couple bucks a month, and so that's what they're doing.

574
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Speaker 1: By the way, Netflix is coming out with an ad

575
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Speaker 1: supported version as well. They're still working on how that's

576
00:30:56,280 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: gonna work, but you know, it's probably gonna be around

577
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Speaker 1: the same price. We'll see, we don't know. Oh, okay,

578
00:31:01,520 --> 00:31:03,840
Speaker 1: So let's talk about the price of Disney Plus now.

579
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Speaker 1: So Hulu with ads is going up from six to

580
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Speaker 1: ninety nine a month to seven ninety nine a month

581
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Speaker 1: on October tenth. If you don't if you pay for

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Speaker 1: AD free, that's going from twelve ninety nine a month

583
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Speaker 1: to fourteen ninety nine a month. Okay. The Disney Bundle

584
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Speaker 1: with is going up from thirteen ninety nine a month

585
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Speaker 1: to fourteen ninety nine a month. And then the premium

586
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Speaker 1: version of the Disney Bundle, which is Hulu No Ads,

587
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Speaker 1: Disney Plus No Ads, and ESPN Plus, that's going to

588
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: remain at nineteen ninety nine a month. So what I'm

589
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:40,600
Speaker 1: seeing in all of this price increase is that it

590
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Speaker 1: seems like the cheapest thing and the best way to

591
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Speaker 1: go right now is with the nineteen ninety nine a

592
00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,640
Speaker 1: month for everything without ads. And I'm not just saying

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Speaker 1: that that's probably what Disney has engineered in this whole thing.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, if you're looking at the prices, you're like, okay,

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Speaker 1: So I can pay ten ninety nine a month for

596
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:01,959
Speaker 1: no ads on Disney Plus, Hulu Plus with no ads

597
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 1: is going to fifteen dollars a month, fifteen plus eleven

598
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 1: is twenty six. Or I can just pay twenty dollars

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00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: a month for all of those things plus some ESPN

600
00:32:11,880 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: plus programming, and it's twenty dollars a month. So this

601
00:32:15,000 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: is how these companies get you. I'm telling you they

602
00:32:18,280 --> 00:32:22,479
Speaker 1: have very smart people work in their marketing departments. We

603
00:32:22,640 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: are not smart when it comes to marketing. We are

604
00:32:24,720 --> 00:32:28,800
Speaker 1: not smart when it comes to the psychology of pricing.

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00:32:29,200 --> 00:32:33,440
Speaker 1: They employ people that figure this stuff out, and they say,

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Speaker 1: we can offer these two services for twenty six dollars

607
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: a month separately, or and by the way, we just

608
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: raise the price on all those things, or we can

609
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,040
Speaker 1: just make this twenty dollars a month, and by the way,

610
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:44,840
Speaker 1: we're going to push a whole bunch of people to

611
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:47,480
Speaker 1: paying more money for something that they didn't necessarily want.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, look, I'm going to continue subscribing. I

613
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: subscribe to Hulu Plus and I subscribe to Disney Plus.

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00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:58,680
Speaker 1: So I'm one of these people that's paying for both

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00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: of these things. So technically I'll be paying twenty six

616
00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: dollars a month. What do you think I'm gonna do.

617
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to that Disney bundle for nineteen ninety nine.

618
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: So this is how it works. It's just they push

619
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Speaker 1: you over into paying for things you don't necessarily need

620
00:33:12,600 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: or want, but they make the pricing work that way.

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Speaker 1: And so that's just how it is. This is a

622
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,720
Speaker 1: very negative show today, is it not. I feel like

623
00:33:20,760 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: I'm being very negative. I try to be a positive person,

624
00:33:23,800 --> 00:33:26,920
Speaker 1: but what I'm trying to do is also enlighten you

625
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: and let you understand that you know, we are being

626
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,000
Speaker 1: manipulated in various ways that we may not understand. And

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00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: I get it. It's Disney Plus, it's fun, the kids

628
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: love it. There's all stuff. But the reality is we

629
00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: are going right back to a world where when you

630
00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,840
Speaker 1: had cable TV, you paid a whole bunch of money

631
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: for a whole bunch of stuff you didn't need. And

632
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: that's exactly the world we are going back to with

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Speaker 1: all of these paid streaming services. Tammy says, my husband

634
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: and I travel a lot flipping houses around the United States.

635
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:57,719
Speaker 1: We need some kind of Wi Fi to do our

636
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: business on our iPad. What do you recommend to get

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00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:03,360
Speaker 1: Please let us know. Thank you all right, Tammy, couple things.

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Speaker 1: Number One, if you want to awesome for you, By

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00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,480
Speaker 1: the way, traveling the US flipping houses, I want your life.

640
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:14,279
Speaker 1: That's that's amazing. I watch these house flipping shows with

641
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: my kid and I'm just like, I just want to

642
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:19,640
Speaker 1: do this. But yet here I am sitting in my

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00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: house with a toilet that's not working because I'm too

644
00:34:22,080 --> 00:34:23,920
Speaker 1: cheap to pay for someone to come and fix it.

645
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: So I'm living two separate worlds, this fantasy land where

646
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:30,480
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I should buy a house in Gavelston,

647
00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: Texas on the beach and rent it out on Airbnb.

648
00:34:33,560 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 1: Then I hear my toilet running in the second room.

649
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: I'm like, never mind, I don't even want to call

650
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: this guy to fix my toilet. So I don't know.

651
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:44,440
Speaker 1: I just I guess I live in a fantasy land. Okay,

652
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: So props to you for flipping houses and traveling. That

653
00:34:47,160 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: sounds amazing. If you're running your business on your iPad,

654
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: why do you need Wi Fi. I think that you'd

655
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:55,719
Speaker 1: be better served. Well, there's two things you can do.

656
00:34:55,760 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: If you're talking about an RV situation, I would probably

657
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:03,919
Speaker 1: recommend get one of these home Internet services from these

658
00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: wireless home Internet services from T Mobile or Verizon. Verizon's

659
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:11,800
Speaker 1: called a five G Home Internet. T Mobile is called

660
00:35:11,960 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 1: I think just T Mobile Home Internet. So go on

661
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 1: their websites. You have to search your address see if

662
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:19,319
Speaker 1: it works at your address. I think T Mobile just

663
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: opened it up to everyone. Verizon still has to check

664
00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 1: to see if it works where you live, and then

665
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:25,880
Speaker 1: they will give it to you. But once you get it,

666
00:35:26,160 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 1: you can take it anywhere you want. As long as

667
00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:31,719
Speaker 1: it has a signal, it'll work. So previous versions of

668
00:35:31,760 --> 00:35:33,719
Speaker 1: their home Internet did not allow you to do that,

669
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 1: but now it does, so I would say the home

670
00:35:36,480 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: Internet is going to be the best because it's a

671
00:35:38,640 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: brick that you plug in and then it puts it

672
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: spits out a Wi Fi signal. It takes the cellular signal,

673
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,880
Speaker 1: takes it into this little box, and then it spits

674
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,480
Speaker 1: it out as a Wi Fi signal. And I think

675
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,680
Speaker 1: that's going to be the best way to do it. Now.

676
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: If you're just using the iPad and you don't really

677
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: need like a Wi Fi signal. I would recommend an

678
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: iPad with cellular and you can just get an iPad

679
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: that has a subllular connection on it and activate that

680
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: and so that way the iPad always has a great

681
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: cellular connection no matter where you go. And that would

682
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: probably be a bit less expensive and a bit more

683
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:17,240
Speaker 1: straightforward than the Wi Fi because if you don't need

684
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: you know, if you're connecting a whole bunch of devices,

685
00:36:19,520 --> 00:36:21,720
Speaker 1: like if you have like three iPads that you're using

686
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: and a desktop computer or something in your RV when

687
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: you're traveling, then yeah, you need like a Wi Fi

688
00:36:27,719 --> 00:36:30,399
Speaker 1: router that can power all those devices. But if you're

689
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: just using one iPad, I think that it would be

690
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: easier to get an iPad that has a cellular connection

691
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: built in. Now, if you already have the iPad, then sure,

692
00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:42,160
Speaker 1: just get the Wi Fi the home Internet from one

693
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:44,640
Speaker 1: of these companies. You can also get a mobile hotspot

694
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 1: that will work as well. I would recommend just getting

695
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 1: a five G mobile hotspot from whoever your provider is,

696
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: whether that's T Mobile, at and T or Verizon. It

697
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:57,400
Speaker 1: also depends on how much you travel and where, so

698
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,360
Speaker 1: if you're finding that, let's say you have T Mobile

699
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: for your phone serve and it's not really working that

700
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: well for your phone or data, you might want to

701
00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: go with something like a Verizon or a Team or

702
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:09,319
Speaker 1: or an AT and T for the other service that

703
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 1: you're going to be using to run your business on

704
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 1: this iPad. But bottom line, there's basically three networks in

705
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:18,160
Speaker 1: the US. Pick one of them. Pick either home internet

706
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 1: through those guys, or a mobile hotspot, or if you

707
00:37:23,280 --> 00:37:25,719
Speaker 1: want to be super easy about it, you can literally

708
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 1: just connect the or you know, activate the Wi Fi

709
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:33,080
Speaker 1: hotspot on your smartphone and you can connect drpad to that.

710
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:34,520
Speaker 1: That's what we do. I mean, I you know, I'm

711
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: a tech person. I've got two kids in the back

712
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,239
Speaker 1: seat when I'm driving, and my wife and I've got

713
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: the personal hotspots on our on our iPhones, and the

714
00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:44,959
Speaker 1: kids just activate through them and it works really well.

715
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: The last trip we did, we used eighty percent of

716
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: my wife's hot spot mine. I use mine a little

717
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,080
Speaker 1: bit more for work, but you know, but they just

718
00:37:53,360 --> 00:37:56,200
Speaker 1: it's actually pretty pretty funny how how Apple has it

719
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: all set up with these permissions where you can automatically

720
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: have your kids to connect to the Wi Fi hot

721
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:04,480
Speaker 1: spot on your phone, or you can tap allow to

722
00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:06,640
Speaker 1: allow them. So I like to be the little power

723
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:09,080
Speaker 1: player as dad and be like, all right, kids, what

724
00:38:09,080 --> 00:38:11,880
Speaker 1: are you gonna give me for this Wi Fi hotspot access?

725
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: And they're like, oh please, We'll be so good, and

726
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm like all right, fine, allow, And the next thing

727
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:18,680
Speaker 1: you know, they're quiet for the next two hours until

728
00:38:18,680 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: their time runs out or whatever on their iPad. Anyway,

729
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: I digress. So the easiest way is just to use

730
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: your smartphone as a hot spot. Next easiest way is

731
00:38:27,080 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: probably to get one of the home Internet hot spots

732
00:38:29,160 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: that you can plug in, but you do need a

733
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: plug to do that. And the next easiest way is

734
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,680
Speaker 1: to get a mobile hotspot from your provider that works

735
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: on a battery and you can just use that. So

736
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: either way, you've got lots of options. Tammy, thanks for

737
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,839
Speaker 1: the question. All right, let's talk you want to talk

738
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: sneaky sneaky one more time. I told you this show

739
00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: is very negative today. I don't know why, but now

740
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: let's talk about how Instagram and Facebook are being a

741
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: little bit sneaky when it comes to tracking things that

742
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: you do on your phone. So if You've been fu

743
00:39:00,000 --> 00:39:04,320
Speaker 1: following this whole controversy with Apple and how they basically

744
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: cut off all of the ad the ad companies and

745
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:12,240
Speaker 1: Instagram and I should say Facebook and Meta. It's basically

746
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: an ad company, that's what it is. It's serving up

747
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: ads to you, and so is Google. You know, the

748
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,960
Speaker 1: two the biggest tech companies in the world are are

749
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:24,279
Speaker 1: our data companies. They're they're taking your data and they're

750
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: making a play on that now. They're also very useful.

751
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: Instagram is fantastic. Facebook is great if you like Facebook.

752
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 1: I know people hate on Facebook, but it still has

753
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: connected billions of people around the world. Let's not forget that.

754
00:39:37,840 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: And Google obviously is pretty amazing. But the thing is

755
00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:44,200
Speaker 1: about these companies is that we get a product and

756
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: we give them our data, and that's how they make money.

757
00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:51,359
Speaker 1: So Apple went along and said, you know what, all

758
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: this cross tracking of data on our apps happening on

759
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: the iPhone, We're going to stop letting people do that.

760
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,400
Speaker 1: And they did, and Facebook took a big loss because

761
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: of that. They took a big hit on their ad

762
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,479
Speaker 1: revenue because they just can't track people as well, which

763
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: means they can't serve up personalized ads as well. Anyway

764
00:40:07,600 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 1: to get around this. Felix Krause, this founder of Fastlane

765
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: dot Tools, has said, you know what, I kind of

766
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:18,080
Speaker 1: noticed something. Do you ever notice how on Instagram, when

767
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:20,360
Speaker 1: you click a link on Instagram, it opens up in

768
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: its own little browser on the Instagram app. Well, I

769
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: thought that was because of a limitation of the way

770
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:30,000
Speaker 1: iOS works, because iOS most things happen kind of inside apps.

771
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: But he argues that actually it's so that Instagram and

772
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:38,080
Speaker 1: Facebook can track what you do when you browse the web.

773
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,080
Speaker 1: So what happens is, let's say you're on Instagram, You're

774
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: on my Instagram stories, I post a link, you click

775
00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: that link, it opens up the link and you start

776
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,920
Speaker 1: surfing around. Right. That link might be for a product

777
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:50,840
Speaker 1: that you like. Think about this when you're on Instagram.

778
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,799
Speaker 1: A lot of it has to do with products. It

779
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: might be a restaurant that you like. It might be

780
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:57,040
Speaker 1: a tech gadget that you like. It might be a

781
00:40:57,080 --> 00:40:59,719
Speaker 1: fitness something that you like, and so you click that

782
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: and typically if you click that and it brought you

783
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: to Safari, well that's it. Instagram has no way of

784
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: tracking that whatever you do after that action, because now

785
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,280
Speaker 1: you're in Safari. All that stuff is happening inside Safari.

786
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,120
Speaker 1: Safari has its own privacy measures and a lot of

787
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: that stuff stays siloed. But if you're surfing the web

788
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: inside Instagram or Facebook's little browser app, guess what, Now,

789
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:26,479
Speaker 1: they can track what you're doing. And he says that

790
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 1: it can. It can track basically every interaction with external websites,

791
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: everything from form inputs to all the taps that you do.

792
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,400
Speaker 1: And so what his recommendation is and I one hundred

793
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 1: percent recommend that you do this. So from now on,

794
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: when you open up a website in Instagram, there's a

795
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: little there's a little like menu that you can press.

796
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: Instead of surfing that inside Instagram, press that menu and

797
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: say open in browser and that will flip you over

798
00:41:56,600 --> 00:42:00,320
Speaker 1: to Safari or whatever your default browser is. Get just

799
00:42:00,400 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: open Safari on your iPhone and that way you're getting

800
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,760
Speaker 1: tracked less on what you do. So by him telling

801
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:12,040
Speaker 1: people this, it's kind of one more little kind of

802
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:14,319
Speaker 1: like jab in the stomach for Facebook. But at the

803
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:17,520
Speaker 1: same time, if they're being sneaky about this, which they

804
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: may be, I don't know, maybe they're not. Maybe they're

805
00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:22,680
Speaker 1: just making this easy, but they can track what you're doing,

806
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 1: and so I think if they can, you know, I

807
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,040
Speaker 1: think Facebook should probably come out and say that they're

808
00:42:28,040 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 1: doing this. Hey, you know, we track what you're doing

809
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: to make a better experience or to help serve up

810
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 1: more personalized ads to you. And I think that this

811
00:42:35,719 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: is really really fascinating, the fact that he kind of

812
00:42:38,840 --> 00:42:41,120
Speaker 1: connected the dots on this thing. I always wondered about

813
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:46,200
Speaker 1: this because why on Instagram is it such a pain

814
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:48,759
Speaker 1: to do anything with links? Remember they didn't even have

815
00:42:48,840 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: external links for a while, only for like influencers, like

816
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: you could post a link if you had like a

817
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:57,560
Speaker 1: certain amount of followers or whatever. But anyway, again, this

818
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: is just one more way that you can be tracked.

819
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: And I think that tracking is essential for a lot

820
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: of these tech companies to make money, and that's the

821
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:09,120
Speaker 1: way that we've gotten a lot of these services for

822
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:11,799
Speaker 1: free over the years. I just think that people and

823
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 1: as a public, we need to be understanding of what

824
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,280
Speaker 1: is happening to us. And as long as you understand

825
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 1: the game, you're allowed to play it. But if you

826
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: don't understand, then I think that that's not very nice

827
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: for the end user, which is us. And by the way,

828
00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: on those on those browsers on if you're using Safari,

829
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: I do think you should be using a content blocker

830
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: in Safari and that will help minimize some of the

831
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 1: ads that you see and also some of the tracking

832
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:41,360
Speaker 1: that you see. Oh, Instagram's telling me it's time to

833
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: close my app. I guess I gotta go, all right,

834
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,840
Speaker 1: So anyway, again, just telling you what's up and Tony

835
00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: Tony's Show says. Tony Show eighteen on Instagram says, what's

836
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: up with all the scammers on Instagram? Yes? I have

837
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: to deal with so many scammers. As soon as I

838
00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: post something on Instagram, the first five comments are, oh

839
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:03,200
Speaker 1: I I never knew that Ms Murphy was so good

840
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:06,360
Speaker 1: at giving me free money. I'm giving five thousand dollars

841
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:09,120
Speaker 1: to the first five people that comment. I'm like, oh,

842
00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: I have to go through and block or I don't

843
00:44:11,239 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: even block them anymore. I just delete them because it's

844
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: just easier, because I know that those scam artists will

845
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: just be around for like one minute. It's like a bot,

846
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 1: and then they go away. But so annoying. Oh my gosh. Okay,

847
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:31,080
Speaker 1: next question on the show comes from Chris. Chris says,

848
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: I'm looking for information on the best virus protection programs

849
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: to protect my laptop as it currently does not have one.

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00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 1: McAfee keeps popping up, but I'm not so sure I

851
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: want to use this program. Thanks for your feedback, Best Chris,

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00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 1: Chris with a C. Cris sent from mail for Windows.

853
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: It's very rare that you see Chris spelled that way.

854
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: So I'll tell you a couple things. Number One, I

855
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:57,280
Speaker 1: feel like you don't need as much antivirus software as

856
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: the anti virus, as as big anti viral would lead

857
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: you to believe. I think that Number one, in today's world,

858
00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: you need to be more smart about what you do

859
00:45:07,800 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: online and the links that you click and the things

860
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: that you respond to. And really social engineering is the

861
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,720
Speaker 1: probably the top way that people get scammed these days,

862
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:20,960
Speaker 1: and so I think that if you rest under the

863
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:25,800
Speaker 1: guise of antivirus software is protecting me, you could be hacked.

864
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: And I think that that's more important than right now

865
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:33,400
Speaker 1: one of these programs being loaded onto your computer because

866
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:36,280
Speaker 1: you click a link. So I think that you should

867
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: have antivirus and malware software up to date on your computer,

868
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: but I think that paying for it is probably something

869
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:46,879
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily need. To do. Windows has something called

870
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:49,800
Speaker 1: Windows Defender built in, which I think for a majority

871
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: of the cases will work to protect you. But you

872
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,080
Speaker 1: do need to keep that up to date and keep

873
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:57,399
Speaker 1: your Windows up to date. The reason why I say

874
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,400
Speaker 1: that you should keep your software up to date. I

875
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,000
Speaker 1: know we don't like change, but I want you to

876
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: keep your software up to date because it protects you

877
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:08,439
Speaker 1: from exploits that hackers have figured out when you use

878
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:11,719
Speaker 1: old software. And that's the reason why we should not

879
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,000
Speaker 1: be running old software. I know we like things to

880
00:46:14,040 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: stay the same. We like our software not to change,

881
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 1: but the hackers love when you don't change your software

882
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,759
Speaker 1: because when they have an exploit, they can use it

883
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: against you because the software has not been updated to

884
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,480
Speaker 1: patch that. With all of that said, the website that

885
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:30,360
Speaker 1: I think you should go to for the best antivirus

886
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:36,040
Speaker 1: software is called avavdash test dot org. And so what

887
00:46:36,080 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: they do is they test all of these various antivirus

888
00:46:39,440 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 1: software and they will rank them. So on Windows right

889
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,760
Speaker 1: now for home users, the top is called on lab

890
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: ahn Lab. Then next is a vast Free, Next is

891
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 1: a vast One. Next is AVG Internet Security, which by

892
00:46:56,600 --> 00:46:59,520
Speaker 1: the way, is the same company as a Vast, then Avira,

893
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:03,480
Speaker 1: bit Defender, then f Secure, then g Data then g

894
00:47:03,880 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 1: K seven then Kasperski then Malware Bites, then McAfee, then

895
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 1: Microsoft Defender, then e Scan, then Norton, then PC Maatic,

896
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: then Total AV, then trend Micro then Viper. So you're

897
00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:23,360
Speaker 1: talking the most popular programs that you see advertised all

898
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: the time, which is Norton, McAfee, PC Matic, and Total AV.

899
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:30,719
Speaker 1: They're sitting at the bottom of that list, and they

900
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:33,439
Speaker 1: charge a lot of money. And I think a lot

901
00:47:33,480 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: of these programs just bog down your computer. When I'm

902
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: on a Windows computer with like you know, the full

903
00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: suite of one of these, like a big name programs running,

904
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 1: it's like, oh my gosh, what is happening here? My

905
00:47:45,480 --> 00:47:48,520
Speaker 1: hard drive is going It's giving me notifications every two

906
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: seconds about something to do, and it wants to do this,

907
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 1: it wants to do that. Just I think less is

908
00:47:53,719 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: more with some of this stuff, So just be aware

909
00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:57,880
Speaker 1: of that and be really on your toes. And I

910
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 1: think it's better to educate yourself about phishing, about how

911
00:48:01,560 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: the latest ways that hackers are getting in, Like I said,

912
00:48:05,719 --> 00:48:07,719
Speaker 1: a lot of it has to do with social engineering,

913
00:48:07,800 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: So just be aware of what social engineering is and

914
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:14,839
Speaker 1: be very critical of any message that you receive that

915
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,560
Speaker 1: has anything to do with logging in or confirming or denying,

916
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,840
Speaker 1: or you know, a bogus charge or a bogus order.

917
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: Those are a lot of the ways that these these

918
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: scam artists are getting people. Nowadays, you're just handing over

919
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,520
Speaker 1: your information most of the time. Yes, you can still

920
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: get a virus on your computer. You can still get

921
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: malware on your computer. A lot of the malware these

922
00:48:36,480 --> 00:48:39,120
Speaker 1: days has to do with browser helpers, and I've seen

923
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: a lot of that on people's computers. So there's just

924
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:44,399
Speaker 1: a lot. Look, there's just a lot of ways that

925
00:48:45,520 --> 00:48:51,760
Speaker 1: you know that people are being taken these days. Irene

926
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: on Instagram says, my dad lives in the Philippines. We

927
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: video call every day. What video calling app do you recommend? Oh,

928
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: that's a good question. Actually that's from Instagram. I would

929
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,880
Speaker 1: recommend Meat. So Google had something really cool cross platform

930
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 1: called Google Duo that came out in twenty sixteen. I

931
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: was so excited about it. I remember the minute it

932
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,680
Speaker 1: came out. I was in an airport and it was

933
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:16,360
Speaker 1: really the first cross really good first cross platform solution.

934
00:49:16,640 --> 00:49:19,600
Speaker 1: Alternative to FaceTime, and I sat there in the airport

935
00:49:19,600 --> 00:49:21,440
Speaker 1: and I just started doing like a live video and

936
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: I was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this

937
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: is so cool. A download it now and it's gone.

938
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: So Duo is going away. They are merging Duo with

939
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: Google Meat, So if you want, you can download Google

940
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: Meet to your iPhone, to your Android. I like cross

941
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: platform stuff. FaceTime is amazing, but FaceTime is not truly

942
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,680
Speaker 1: cross platform. Yes, you can share a link now with

943
00:49:45,760 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 1: someone on Android, and you know, they can join in

944
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: on your FaceTime call, but it's not truly a cross

945
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:55,000
Speaker 1: platform messaging service. I like things that are open to everyone.

946
00:49:55,280 --> 00:49:57,719
Speaker 1: So I like things that are cross platform that work

947
00:49:57,800 --> 00:50:02,960
Speaker 1: the same both on iOS and and they don't you know,

948
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't delineate between the two platforms. They

949
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: just work. That is. That's WhatsApp. They have video calling

950
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: in there, Telegram has video calling, Zoom. You can use

951
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 1: cross platform very easily and including on desktops and mobile.

952
00:50:20,800 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 1: Let's see what are the other ones. Google Meet I

953
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: think is great, FaceTime, Messenger is great. So all of

954
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: these programs to me, are better than FaceTime. FaceTime is great,

955
00:50:32,600 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: It's amazing. Because it's built in and it's simple for

956
00:50:35,960 --> 00:50:39,360
Speaker 1: the iPhone. But again, I like things that work around

957
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:42,720
Speaker 1: the world, and like you said, Irene, you've got family

958
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:47,280
Speaker 1: members in the Philippines that may not have the iPhone,

959
00:50:47,360 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: and so let's get something that works across all of

960
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: these platforms. I would recommend Google Meet. You can download

961
00:50:52,600 --> 00:50:56,000
Speaker 1: it now for iOS and Android. And that's the new

962
00:50:56,080 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 1: video messaging app that Google has launched for everyone, kind

963
00:51:01,680 --> 00:51:04,560
Speaker 1: of getting rid of duo, which that's a whole other

964
00:51:04,640 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 1: story for Google and their whole like you know, limited

965
00:51:08,200 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: attention span on stuff. But anyway, I digress. All right,

966
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: where are we Are we on a story again? Okay?

967
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,879
Speaker 1: Oh no, I think we're on a question, even though

968
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 1: it was a kind of a bonus question there. Jennifer says,

969
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: I'm traveling to Ireland next year with friends. I'm curious

970
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: about the Wise card. I guess there was some news

971
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 1: article on a station earlier this week. I didn't see it,

972
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,839
Speaker 1: but a friend did. Anyway, we're wondering what the affordability

973
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:33,200
Speaker 1: is of this card. It claims to exchange American currency

974
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,680
Speaker 1: into euros. I don't quite understand the fees. Do we

975
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: get charge of conversion? Rate every time we use the

976
00:51:37,680 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: debit card, or do they take a processing fee off

977
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:43,000
Speaker 1: the top. Their website shows fees but doesn't specify if

978
00:51:43,040 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: those fees are purchased or one time per purchase or

979
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: one time per deposit. Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

980
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: thanks in advance, all right. So the Wise card I

981
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:56,160
Speaker 1: have never heard of. Had to look it up, and

982
00:51:56,480 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 1: it's kind of a debit card that is for international travel,

983
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:05,240
Speaker 1: and it says it's four times cheaper to spend internationally.

984
00:52:05,920 --> 00:52:08,000
Speaker 1: If you have local currency in your account, the Wise

985
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: card will use it. If not, we auto convert the

986
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: money at the real rate for a tiny fee. Either way,

987
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: it's cheaper than bank cards online or in person. And

988
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,280
Speaker 1: then they give this little foreign transaction fee of whys

989
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,280
Speaker 1: is zero, Bank of America's three percent, Chases three percent,

990
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: Paypalace two and a half percent, Wells Fargo is three percent.

991
00:52:26,520 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 1: Take out up to one hundred dollars in cash a

992
00:52:28,160 --> 00:52:31,600
Speaker 1: month for free on ATMs abroad, you have to pay

993
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 1: after the first one hundred dollars. You can use Google

994
00:52:33,760 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 1: or Apple Pay the card is a nine dollars fee.

995
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 1: All of this is sounding to me like a big

996
00:52:40,880 --> 00:52:45,560
Speaker 1: old why so I just went to Rome. I've been

997
00:52:45,600 --> 00:52:48,479
Speaker 1: around the world with my job. I have never had

998
00:52:48,560 --> 00:52:51,040
Speaker 1: a special card that I need to use in a

999
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,319
Speaker 1: different country. Now I will tell you what I do

1000
00:52:53,560 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: when I go to different countries. What I do is

1001
00:52:56,080 --> 00:52:59,799
Speaker 1: I have one hundred dollars in cash American dollars on

1002
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: my person when I go, or you know, some nominal

1003
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:05,640
Speaker 1: amount hunter bucks whatever, basically enough to get me a

1004
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: taxi from the airport to the city center or wherever

1005
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 1: I'm staying in case, you know, something doesn't work out.

1006
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:15,799
Speaker 1: And I'll explain what that something is. So I carry

1007
00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 1: my debit card, and I do have one credit card.

1008
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: I know I've talked before if all the Dave Ramsey planned,

1009
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,120
Speaker 1: but I do have one one credit card that I

1010
00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: do use within reason, And so with travel, I do

1011
00:53:28,760 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: use a credit card sometimes, and I'll tell you why.

1012
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:36,560
Speaker 1: The reason why is because for some reason, you know,

1013
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,640
Speaker 1: this happened the other day when we were in when

1014
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: we were in Oregon. As soon as my wife used

1015
00:53:40,719 --> 00:53:43,799
Speaker 1: her you know, swiped her card, it was hacked immediately.

1016
00:53:44,239 --> 00:53:46,719
Speaker 1: And that card, you know, I've told you, I've talked

1017
00:53:46,760 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: about getting hacked so many times with these cards. I

1018
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,759
Speaker 1: don't know how these hackers are getting so sophisticated, but

1019
00:53:51,800 --> 00:53:54,600
Speaker 1: they are hacking. If you swipe a card or use

1020
00:53:54,640 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: that number online, there is a big chance that that

1021
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,680
Speaker 1: number will be compromised. And it's just happens. It happened.

1022
00:54:00,719 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 1: It's happened to me like at least three times now

1023
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: in the past six months. And I am very very

1024
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 1: secure about my cards and card numbers and how I

1025
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: use my cards. That's why I always recommend using tap

1026
00:54:11,000 --> 00:54:13,080
Speaker 1: to pay because it is the most secure way to pay,

1027
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: or inserting your chip card into a reader. But anyway,

1028
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: my wife swiped and next thing you know, her card

1029
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:23,840
Speaker 1: was sacked, And so it happens. Anyway, Where was my

1030
00:54:23,880 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 1: point here? So what I do is I take you

1031
00:54:25,760 --> 00:54:27,560
Speaker 1: a little bit of cash on the plane with me.

1032
00:54:28,040 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 1: I do not do the exchange inside the airport, the

1033
00:54:30,600 --> 00:54:33,319
Speaker 1: foreign currency exchange booths. Stay away from those things at

1034
00:54:33,360 --> 00:54:36,360
Speaker 1: all expense. Once I get to the country that I

1035
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:38,840
Speaker 1: land in, I then go to a local ATM I

1036
00:54:38,880 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: take my debit card and I take out a bunch

1037
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,480
Speaker 1: of cash that I can then use as backup in

1038
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:48,120
Speaker 1: that country, and then that's the way it'll work. I've

1039
00:54:48,120 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: only had one time where the ATM in the country

1040
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:54,680
Speaker 1: I arrived to, and this was Japan, did not work.

1041
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:58,920
Speaker 1: And I found out later that Japan's ATMs are very

1042
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 1: different than the rest the world apparently, and their local

1043
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: ATMs do not like US based debit cards. And so

1044
00:55:06,280 --> 00:55:07,960
Speaker 1: what I had to do in Japan, it was it

1045
00:55:08,040 --> 00:55:12,160
Speaker 1: was a pain. I may have had to go underneath

1046
00:55:12,320 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 1: a I may I may have been stuck inside a

1047
00:55:16,719 --> 00:55:18,759
Speaker 1: train station at one point, and I may have had

1048
00:55:18,800 --> 00:55:22,120
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to get past to get

1049
00:55:22,120 --> 00:55:26,280
Speaker 1: out of that train station in a way that yeah,

1050
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,080
Speaker 1: may have involved a turnstile that was I don't know. Anyway,

1051
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 1: My point is this was this was the only time

1052
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: I ever ran into a problem was in Japan when

1053
00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:38,680
Speaker 1: my ATM card would not work in any of the ATMs,

1054
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: in any of the train stations and in the airport,

1055
00:55:41,360 --> 00:55:43,359
Speaker 1: and I ended up having to go to find a

1056
00:55:43,400 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: city bank ATM. Someone said, oh, tryin American ATM. So

1057
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,480
Speaker 1: I went and found or an internationally, you know, international

1058
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: bank ATM. So I found a city bank ATM. After

1059
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:54,359
Speaker 1: so much Oh my god, this is bringing back such

1060
00:55:54,400 --> 00:55:57,799
Speaker 1: bad memories. And I found a city bank ATM, and

1061
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,120
Speaker 1: I finally got cash out and it felt like I, oh,

1062
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was so bad. Anyway, I've only had

1063
00:56:03,680 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: that happen once, and actually I did have it happen

1064
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:08,319
Speaker 1: one time before, but this was many years ago. I

1065
00:56:08,320 --> 00:56:10,880
Speaker 1: was in high school and I went to Spain, and

1066
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:13,360
Speaker 1: I didn't realize that you can't withdraw from their ATMs

1067
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:15,279
Speaker 1: out of a savings account, had to be in a

1068
00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,120
Speaker 1: checking account. That was all another story. But anyway, my

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00:56:18,239 --> 00:56:20,520
Speaker 1: system has worked for almost every country I've gone to.

1070
00:56:20,680 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: And my system is this. When you get to the country,

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00:56:23,000 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 1: you take a little bit of cash US dollars, just

1072
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 1: as you know, back up in case something doesn't work.

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00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:30,879
Speaker 1: You take that money when you land, and then when

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00:56:30,920 --> 00:56:33,400
Speaker 1: you land, you go to a local ATM and you

1075
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:35,960
Speaker 1: use your debit card to take out some local cash.

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00:56:36,080 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: When you take out that local cash, you do not

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00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:43,000
Speaker 1: accept any sort of conversion fee. You do not take

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00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:45,560
Speaker 1: the local money out. And you know it says, yo,

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00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 1: do you want to take this out and we'll do

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00:56:46,680 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 1: the conversion for you. You say no to that. That's

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00:56:49,360 --> 00:56:52,799
Speaker 1: bs you take out the money without the conversion. You'll

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00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: still get euros or whatever kind of cash you need,

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00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,080
Speaker 1: but the bank doesn't do the conversion. Your bank that

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00:56:58,160 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: ATM doesn't do the conversion. Your bank do the conversion. Now,

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00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what this wise card is talking about

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00:57:03,560 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 1: when it comes to these bank fees. They might be

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00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: talking about credit cards that offer an international You know,

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00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:11,800
Speaker 1: if you're using your credit card internationally, some of the

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00:57:11,800 --> 00:57:14,880
Speaker 1: banks charge a three percent foreign transaction fee. I would

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00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 1: never use a credit card with a foreign transaction fee ever, ever, ever,

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00:57:18,560 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: in my life, because why are you paying three percent

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00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: on top of something. No, So the card that I have,

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00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: the credit card does not charge for a foreign transaction fee,

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00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: and my debit card does not charge a foreign transaction fee.

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00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,080
Speaker 1: So you can use your debit card. Ninety nine percent

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00:57:35,080 --> 00:57:37,400
Speaker 1: of the places around the world are taking tap to

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00:57:37,400 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: pay at this point. You can use debit or credit equally.

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Speaker 1: Just the main thing you need to know is you

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00:57:42,160 --> 00:57:45,360
Speaker 1: do not want to accept any sort of conversion or

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00:57:45,400 --> 00:57:48,000
Speaker 1: do anything in the local currency or whatever they say

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00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: or charge you know, do you want to charge you

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00:57:49,880 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: in American dollars because you're an American. No, you just

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00:57:52,240 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: say no to that. There's a lot of ways. Look,

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00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,760
Speaker 1: anytime it comes to anything, people figure out ways of

1105
00:57:57,800 --> 00:57:59,959
Speaker 1: scamming you. And what they use is called dark pattern.

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00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,400
Speaker 1: So when I was on that ATM, I had to

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00:58:02,440 --> 00:58:03,960
Speaker 1: sit there and look at the choices and I was like,

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00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 1: wait a second, do I want to accept? Yes? I

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00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,680
Speaker 1: do want the conversion because I want euros. But do

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00:58:08,760 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: I want to accept a conversion fee? No? So you

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00:58:11,120 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 1: press no. Declined conversion sounds like something you don't want

1112
00:58:14,920 --> 00:58:16,720
Speaker 1: to do, right, So that's why they put that. There

1113
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,880
Speaker 1: so many roadblocks in life, so many little obstacles that

1114
00:58:19,920 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 1: you have to figure out, And that's why I do

1115
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,840
Speaker 1: the show, so I learn and I will pass along.

1116
00:58:23,880 --> 00:58:27,040
Speaker 1: But anyway, to answer your question, Jenny, I do not

1117
00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: think you need the wise card. I think you need

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00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 1: a good debit card and potentially a good credit card

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00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: with no foreign transaction fee as a backup. Do the

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Speaker 1: system I mentioned. I think you'll be just fine. I've

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00:58:37,360 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: traveled to many countries and again have not had pretty

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00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:44,240
Speaker 1: much any problems anywhere. All right, let's talk about something

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00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 1: fun before we have to go here. Amazon, if you

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00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,520
Speaker 1: have one of these fire TVs, you can now do

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00:58:51,720 --> 00:58:55,120
Speaker 1: a photo slide show when friends come over. So if

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00:58:55,160 --> 00:59:00,000
Speaker 1: you go, if you go to Alexa, sorry I probably

1127
00:59:00,160 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 1: just activated your stuff. If you go to Alexa. You

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00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 1: can say Alexa start photo frame, and this will start

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00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:09,200
Speaker 1: a three hour slideshow using your Amazon Photos, your Facebook photos,

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00:59:09,280 --> 00:59:13,360
Speaker 1: or stock images. It will hide all ads, calendars, whether notifications,

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00:59:13,400 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 1: and will become a photos only slideshow. So when I

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00:59:16,160 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: have people come over to my house, I typically have

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00:59:18,160 --> 00:59:21,520
Speaker 1: a slideshow running on my TV. I typically use Google

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00:59:21,520 --> 00:59:25,560
Speaker 1: Photos for that, but Amazon Photos, if you use Amazon Photos,

1135
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: is a cool way of doing this. Also Facebook Photos

1136
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,800
Speaker 1: if you have that linked up. But this is for

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00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 1: echo shows. It's also for fire TVs. I think that

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00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,760
Speaker 1: the slideshow on Amazon is a little bit too fast.

1139
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:37,320
Speaker 1: I think it needs to be a little bit slower.

1140
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:41,760
Speaker 1: You can change the settings to be a slower slideshow.

1141
00:59:41,800 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 1: I don't think slide I don't think it should be

1142
00:59:43,400 --> 00:59:45,960
Speaker 1: like an active slideshow where like literally people come in

1143
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: and they're like they're walking past your TV. They're like ah,

1144
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 1: and they can't stop looking because it's just like a

1145
00:59:50,160 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 1: picture every ten seconds. I think that it's better to

1146
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,360
Speaker 1: have a slideshow that's just sort of natural in the

1147
00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: background and just kind of dissolving between the pictures. So

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00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:00,920
Speaker 1: you might have to tweak just a little bit to

1149
01:00:00,960 --> 01:00:03,360
Speaker 1: get that type of slideshow. But I think this is

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01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:06,520
Speaker 1: a fantastic feature. It's brand new again. Just say, Alexa,

1151
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:09,600
Speaker 1: start photo frame to your fire TV and you can

1152
01:00:09,600 --> 01:00:12,800
Speaker 1: see the pictures on your TV screen and without all

1153
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:14,680
Speaker 1: the clutter. And when you have friends over, it's kind

1154
01:00:14,680 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 1: of nice to have that with a little bit of

1155
01:00:16,280 --> 01:00:19,120
Speaker 1: music in the background. You know, just fire it all up,

1156
01:00:19,720 --> 01:00:22,880
Speaker 1: no pun intended. The other thing to know is that

1157
01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:25,200
Speaker 1: if you're not using Amazon Photos, you should be, even

1158
01:00:25,200 --> 01:00:28,200
Speaker 1: if you're using another photos app. I use Amazon Photos

1159
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:30,680
Speaker 1: as a backup because if you have Amazon Prime, it

1160
01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: is free unlimited storage for your photos at full resolution.

1161
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:37,520
Speaker 1: Not for your videos, but just for your photos. So

1162
01:00:38,120 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: just have it as a backup Amazon Photos, download it,

1163
01:00:41,160 --> 01:00:43,720
Speaker 1: log in with your Amazon account, and just have your

1164
01:00:43,760 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: phone upload your pictures every once in a while. In

1165
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,440
Speaker 1: the background, all right, I said, Oh gosh, is it?

1166
01:00:50,480 --> 01:00:52,280
Speaker 1: Do I have time for another question? I don't know.

1167
01:00:52,360 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: Let me see. Do I have an easy question? Oh gosh,

1168
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 1: let's see. Now I don't have an easy question, So

1169
01:00:58,640 --> 01:01:01,000
Speaker 1: I'll just do one more story before you go. All right,

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01:01:01,040 --> 01:01:04,560
Speaker 1: I visited the last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, And let

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01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:08,800
Speaker 1: me just tell you, really really weird to visit a

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01:01:08,800 --> 01:01:12,520
Speaker 1: Blockbuster Video in the year twenty twenty two, because Blockbuster

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01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:15,560
Speaker 1: is such a historic part of my life. You know,

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01:01:15,640 --> 01:01:17,800
Speaker 1: Friday nights, we'd go in there with my dad and

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01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: my you know, mostly my dad. My mom didn't really come,

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01:01:20,560 --> 01:01:22,919
Speaker 1: but we would go in there and we would look

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01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,240
Speaker 1: for movies to rent, and you'd rent a whole bunch

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01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 1: of them. Remember, you just get bring home like a

1179
01:01:26,760 --> 01:01:29,560
Speaker 1: stack of movies for the weekend. Sometimes you wouldn't watch

1180
01:01:29,560 --> 01:01:31,400
Speaker 1: them in time before they were due. I think back

1181
01:01:31,400 --> 01:01:33,720
Speaker 1: then it was like a two day rental or something

1182
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,160
Speaker 1: like that, and it was really expensive if you had

1183
01:01:36,200 --> 01:01:39,920
Speaker 1: late fees. The last Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon, captures all

1184
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 1: of this. They have a deal with Dish Network, who

1185
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:45,360
Speaker 1: owns the Blockbuster brand. Once a year they renew this

1186
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,840
Speaker 1: deal to keep this store open. They rent DVDs, no

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01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:52,680
Speaker 1: VHS tapes, and it smells like a Blockbuster. They've got

1188
01:01:52,720 --> 01:01:55,959
Speaker 1: all the new releases, they've got the yellow walls, they've

1189
01:01:55,960 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: got the candy, and guess what, they sell a lot

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01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:04,560
Speaker 1: of merchandise, So the trucker hat and the T shirt,

1191
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,800
Speaker 1: both of which I didn't purchase the hat, but I

1192
01:02:06,840 --> 01:02:10,600
Speaker 1: bought a T shirt and a oh wait, did I

1193
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 1: get the hat? Wait a second, did I buy the hat?

1194
01:02:15,280 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: I think I did. Now I can't remember where my

1195
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:20,560
Speaker 1: hat is. Uh oh, I don't think I brought it home. Yeah,

1196
01:02:20,600 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: because I was gonna be a Blockbuster person for Halloween.

1197
01:02:24,720 --> 01:02:26,760
Speaker 1: But now I don't know where. Maybe my wife knows

1198
01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,479
Speaker 1: where the hat is. But anyway, so the store is open.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, most people are buying souvenirs that were

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01:02:32,320 --> 01:02:34,200
Speaker 1: coming through there that I saw. You can get a

1201
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 1: souvenir card. They're handwritten instead of dot matrix printer printed

1202
01:02:38,200 --> 01:02:40,800
Speaker 1: because the dot matrix printers are all gone. But it's

1203
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: just kind of cool. If you ever find yourself in Bend, Oregon,

1204
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:44,320
Speaker 1: you got to stop by the store. I think it's

1205
01:02:44,360 --> 01:02:46,480
Speaker 1: going to stay open for a while. I think that

1206
01:02:46,560 --> 01:02:48,320
Speaker 1: the trick to it is that if this was a

1207
01:02:48,360 --> 01:02:54,000
Speaker 1: Blockbuster museum. And yeah, Jay rock A. Graham says, they

1208
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,600
Speaker 1: still have the original cash register's old IBM point of

1209
01:02:56,640 --> 01:02:59,080
Speaker 1: sale devices. Yes they do, and I mentioned that in

1210
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:00,800
Speaker 1: my piece and I showed have video of them. These

1211
01:03:00,960 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: these remember that blue screen that they would scan and

1212
01:03:04,000 --> 01:03:05,840
Speaker 1: it was all like text. It looked like dos on

1213
01:03:05,880 --> 01:03:08,439
Speaker 1: the screen. So they would scan stuff and it would

1214
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:10,000
Speaker 1: show up and it was just such an old system.

1215
01:03:10,040 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 1: They're still using that system, which is pretty phenomenal. And

1216
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:15,800
Speaker 1: this the computers just hacked together. I mean, these things

1217
01:03:15,800 --> 01:03:18,400
Speaker 1: are just like literally on their last year of life

1218
01:03:18,480 --> 01:03:23,320
Speaker 1: and there's no replacements they have, like they had, like Blockbusters,

1219
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: like send in their old computers to this. You know,

1220
01:03:26,480 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 1: woman Sandy Harding who runs this place, just to try

1221
01:03:29,360 --> 01:03:33,000
Speaker 1: to like, you know, cobble a useful system together. But

1222
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 1: it was really really cool. But take a look at

1223
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,000
Speaker 1: my video. You can look on my instagram at rich

1224
01:03:38,040 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 1: on Tech a little bit of trivia for you. I

1225
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:43,320
Speaker 1: interviewed an author named Alan Paine who wrote a book

1226
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: called Built to Fail. It was about the rise and

1227
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: fall Blockbuster. He ran a bunch of Blockbuster stores himself.

1228
01:03:48,320 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 1: He said, look, Netflix didn't actually kill Blockbuster. Netflix definitely

1229
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,240
Speaker 1: put the nail on the coffin. But Blockbuster is just

1230
01:03:56,240 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 1: sort of a broken company. They were It's one of

1231
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 1: these companies that saw a huge rise and just had

1232
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: no future plans, Like they didn't realize that the world

1233
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:09,440
Speaker 1: was going to change. And when this world started changing,

1234
01:04:09,760 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 1: Blockbuster was like, oh what do we do now? Streaming

1235
01:04:13,440 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: DVD by mail oh, we just had this one good idea,

1236
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:20,720
Speaker 1: which was, let's have one hundred movies in our store

1237
01:04:20,760 --> 01:04:22,480
Speaker 1: and people would bring them back and rent them and

1238
01:04:22,520 --> 01:04:24,080
Speaker 1: bring them back in late fees were how we made

1239
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:26,080
Speaker 1: our money. And when all that fell apart, it was

1240
01:04:26,120 --> 01:04:28,560
Speaker 1: just like they had no way of doing anything. And

1241
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:33,160
Speaker 1: so Netflix came in with DVDs by mail. Then they

1242
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:36,720
Speaker 1: came in with streaming, and Blockbuster filed bankruptcy in twenty

1243
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:39,440
Speaker 1: ten just as streaming was taking off. And now it's

1244
01:04:39,480 --> 01:04:41,440
Speaker 1: a distant memory. But if you want to bring it

1245
01:04:41,480 --> 01:04:44,080
Speaker 1: all back, go to the Blockbuster in Bend, Oregon. It

1246
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:47,640
Speaker 1: was such a fun experience. My kids had never been

1247
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:50,040
Speaker 1: to a Blockbuster store. They will never know that world.

1248
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:51,840
Speaker 1: And they were just sitting in there. They were so

1249
01:04:52,040 --> 01:04:54,080
Speaker 1: cute and just you know, taking a look at it

1250
01:04:54,120 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 1: all and just like, what is this world? You go

1251
01:04:57,000 --> 01:05:00,400
Speaker 1: to a store to get a movie, what late, by

1252
01:05:00,400 --> 01:05:02,360
Speaker 1: the way or capped at ten dollars or rental is

1253
01:05:02,400 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 1: four dollars and you can rent a movie. It's a

1254
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:08,160
Speaker 1: week long rental now. And yes, you can get a

1255
01:05:08,200 --> 01:05:10,520
Speaker 1: souvenir membership card. I got one of those as well.

1256
01:05:11,080 --> 01:05:18,120
Speaker 1: Anyway that sound means that is going to do it

1257
01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:22,800
Speaker 1: for this show. Thank you so much for listening. These

1258
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: shows go fast. Yeah, I'm stalling Hererick, so I'm trying

1259
01:05:27,360 --> 01:05:29,040
Speaker 1: to see what I say here at the end. That's

1260
01:05:29,080 --> 01:05:31,040
Speaker 1: gonna do it for this episode of the show. If

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1262
01:05:32,880 --> 01:05:34,800
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Speaker 1: watch all of my TVs segments on demand. By the way,

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01:06:01,320 --> 01:06:04,920
Speaker 1: if you're wondering, I did not take the Tesla to Bend, Oregon.

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Speaker 1: experience at a gas station in a while. Now that's

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Speaker 1: not true. I've been filled out my wife's car. But

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Speaker 1: it was real gas prices are real. It was expensive,

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Speaker 1: and you know, seventy five bucks for a fill up,

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Speaker 1: eighty bucks for a fillip, and you know you stop,

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Speaker 1: but it was convenient. I will also tell you I

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Speaker 1: discovered a place called Loves. If you have not stopped

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Speaker 1: at the Loves stopped there. I loved it. I was

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Speaker 1: so obsessed. We stopped there three or four times on

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Speaker 1: the way back and I just could not get enough.

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Speaker 1: I even overspent on little knickknacks that my kids wanted

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Speaker 1: because I just like love spending my money there. So,

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Speaker 1: if you haven't checked out Loves, I thought it was

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Speaker 1: like just a truck stop. No, it is like a

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Speaker 1: really nice place. Most of the locations are nice. The

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Speaker 1: people are friendly. It's just a big place. They've got

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Speaker 1: all kinds of stuff. It's a great selection. The restrooms

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Speaker 1: are mostly clean. But anyway, I'm not getting paid by

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Speaker 1: Loves to say that. I just like telling you about

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Speaker 1: stuff that I discover because I just like stuff that's cool.

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Speaker 1: All right, Yes, and Troy says, just wait till BUCkies

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Speaker 1: comes to California. Yes, I've been to BUCkies. That place

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Speaker 1: is equally awesome. I should just start another whole video

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Speaker 1: series on awesome rest side stops. I think that's a

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Speaker 1: great idea. My name is Richard Merel. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend

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Speaker 1: an hour of your time. I do appreciate you spending

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Speaker 1: it right here with me. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon