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Speaker 1: California's new privacy rights, whys suffers a data leak, What

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Speaker 1: you need to know about it, Why it might be

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Speaker 1: easier to file your taxes for free this year, And

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Speaker 1: the best journaling apps if you're trying to kick off

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty with a fresh start.

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Speaker 2: What's going on. I'm Rich Dmiro.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Plus it's where I answer your questions. We've got producer

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Speaker 1: Megan here ready with your questions.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: I would like to say that we improved the podcast

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Speaker 1: for the new year, but we didn't.

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Speaker 2: Let's be honest.

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Speaker 1: I mean I'm basically rolling in here fresh off of

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Speaker 1: vacation for a week, and I will tell you I

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Speaker 1: was trying to figure out what made this vacation different

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Speaker 2: And here's what I've realized. It is the first time.

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Speaker 1: That I had a week off without going out of

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Speaker 1: day three, day four, I'm like, what is why does

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Speaker 1: this feel so good? And that's what it was all about. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: So I literally did not do anything, didn't check email.

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Speaker 1: I you know, I was on social media once a

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Speaker 1: because it is it is twenty twenty, and there's no

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Speaker 1: more fooling around because CS is happening very soon, which

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Speaker 1: but that is nearly impossible because every day and every

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Speaker 1: tech person I know, you're just getting bombarded with emails

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Speaker 1: from CS. I'm looking at my calendar for next week

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Speaker 2: But I will try, yeah, and will be It will

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Speaker 1: But my goal is to always bring the coolest CS coverage.

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Speaker 1: There's so many things there. I try to find the

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Speaker 1: stuff that is for the everyday person and stuff that

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Speaker 1: times there's like pie in the sky, these big ideals,

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Speaker 1: And that's going to be uh, maybe not as flashy

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Speaker 1: like little things like that that I think are more interesting.

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Speaker 1: So you have probably been getting a lot of emails

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Speaker 1: me and they're like, Rich, what is going on.

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Speaker 2: Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: As of January first, we have a new thing called

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Speaker 1: the California Consumer Privacy Act, or CCPA, And even if

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Speaker 2: Here's what this CCPA does for you.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's what GDPR did as well.

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Speaker 1: And companies like Facebook and Twitter and Google have allowed

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Speaker 1: Don't sell it to anyone else, which is kind of odd.

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Speaker 1: So you can do that, but it feels like it's

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Speaker 1: Now, the problem is a lot of these websites, you

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Speaker 2: All that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: So it's good it's happening here first, but I think

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Speaker 2: That's number one.

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Speaker 1: Number Two, these companies are collecting a lot of data

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Speaker 2: It is wild. The new Frontier.

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Speaker 3: what is the Facebook privacy notice about? And should we

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Speaker 1: So I'm trying to see if I actually got the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they get your data.

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Speaker 1: So Gwendolyn, I think if you are not comfortable with

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Speaker 2: Great, let me find it here in this paperwork.

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Speaker 3: technology devices. I have broken tablets, iPhones, trio, refurbished laptops,

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Speaker 3: I would really like to go through saved pictures and documents.

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Speaker 3: Is there a way to do this? Can you help me?

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Speaker 1: Well, let's see the first question about these saved documents

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Speaker 1: Yeah, basically, I'm sure maybe one day if I've really tried.

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Speaker 2: Of grab what's what you need. Yeah, I love that

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Speaker 2: Best Buy will take a lot of this stuff as well.

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Speaker 1: There is a limitation so you have to put in

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Speaker 1: your zip code and it will tell you a lot

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Speaker 1: of times you can only bring back like three items

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Speaker 1: a day, so you can bring in like three you know, computers,

445
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Speaker 1: but they I'm at three household items per.

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Speaker 3: Day because they just don't want to have They.

447
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Speaker 1: Don't want to you know, bring like a dump truck,

448
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Speaker 1: you know, and plus that could. Yeah, I think it's

449
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Speaker 1: mainly for like let's say I started a company where

450
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Speaker 1: I go to your house and like collect all your stuff.

451
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Speaker 1: Then I just dump it off like at the end

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Speaker 1: of the week at best Buy. They want to keep

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Speaker 1: that probably at Bay. So the average person, you know,

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Speaker 1: three things.

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Speaker 2: So again, in a.

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Speaker 1: Lot of cities or a lot of states, if you

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Speaker 1: want to do a monitor at best Buy, they're going

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Speaker 1: to charge you twenty five dollars, which is still pretty

459
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Speaker 1: darn good. You can bring it for free to Staples,

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Speaker 1: so I'd always go to Staples. Yeah, if you can,

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Speaker 1: if you can. But in California they don't have any

462
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Speaker 1: drop off fees. So again, California, like I talk about,

463
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Speaker 1: is very progressive and a lot of their laws and things,

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Speaker 1: they clearly want people to recycle properly, and so there

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Speaker 1: are no fees for drop offs in California. Now I'm

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Speaker 1: telling you this based on what I see on the website.

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Speaker 1: I would call just to be sure. Like I called

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Speaker 1: Staples before I went in and asked them, and you know,

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Speaker 1: they told me all that stuff.

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Speaker 2: So just call wherever you are. But two really easy

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Speaker 2: ways to recycle stuff.

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Speaker 1: And believe me, it's I actually have a TV because

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Speaker 1: I upgraded a little TV in the playroom and I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna bring that to one of these, probably just Staples,

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Speaker 1: and just bring that in and get it recycled.

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Speaker 2: No, it's too it's too Yeah, it's too small.

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Speaker 1: And nowadays you can buy TVs for let me see, Actually,

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Speaker 1: can I not bring a TV?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Never mind, I can't bring a TV into Staples? Can

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Speaker 1: I bring a TV into Best Buy? Let's say TV

482
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Speaker 1: and video? You can recycle for twenty five dollars a

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Speaker 1: two a flat panel less than fifty so perfect, twenty

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Speaker 1: five bucks. So and I might also check and see

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Speaker 1: if California, like if LADWP, since we live in Los Angeles, might.

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Speaker 2: Take that for free.

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Speaker 1: There's an app called the LA three to one one

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Speaker 1: app that is very good about helping you understand if

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Speaker 1: they'll haul away this stuff for free. Good question, and

490
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Speaker 1: I'm glad I just did that with my mom. I

491
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Speaker 1: was a little concerned with the hard drive on the

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Speaker 1: laptop or the computer, because you know, it's still had

493
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Speaker 1: some stuff on there, and they say they're going to

494
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Speaker 1: wipe it and do it responsibly.

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Speaker 2: I just hope they do that, you know.

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Speaker 1: And that's the other thing my recommendation. I just recycled

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Speaker 1: my other laptop through Apple. I did wipe everything off

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Speaker 1: there manually with my moms. It was too old and

499
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Speaker 1: kind of decrepit that we didn't want to do that.

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Speaker 1: But I would recommend if you can, to wipe your stuff,

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Speaker 1: even though these companies say they're.

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Speaker 2: Going to do it for you, but you never know,

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Speaker 2: just in case, yeah.

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Speaker 1: You might get some kid in there that's like, uh,

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Speaker 1: let me take a look at this, and you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Better better just to feel secure in knowing that your

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Speaker 2: stuff is gone.

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Speaker 1: Speaking of personal information, it might be easier to file

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Speaker 1: your taxes this year for free.

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Speaker 2: And I always knew that into it. You know, the.

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Speaker 1: Developers of Turbo tax, which by the way, I've used

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Speaker 1: to file my taxes, and I actually was very impressed

514
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Speaker 1: with their system. But what I don't like is on

515
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Speaker 1: the back end of what into It and TurboTax are

516
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Speaker 1: doing is their lobbying to make taxes way more complicated

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Speaker 1: than they need to be. And if you've ever filed

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Speaker 1: your taxes, which I'm sure you have, is this year

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Speaker 1: your first year?

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Speaker 2: Maybe this is like my second year. Yeah, it's it's

521
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Speaker 2: kind of crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's it's just this whole big thing where like nobody

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Speaker 1: really knows, and you talk to five different people, you

524
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Speaker 1: get five different answers, and so it's just kind of annoying.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, so here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: IRS and into It and all these companies that make

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Speaker 1: these these turbo or these tax filing systems. They basically

528
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Speaker 1: had a deal for many years that they would hide

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Speaker 1: their free products from search engines like Google, so that

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Speaker 1: it made it tough for people to find them. So

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Speaker 1: when you search for like online tax filing, you wouldn't

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Speaker 1: immediately find the free filing from Turbo Tax. You would

533
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Speaker 1: just find their paid and maybe if you hunted down

534
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Speaker 1: on their website you might see something about free, but

535
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Speaker 1: then you might not be able to cross reference.

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Speaker 2: You're like, well that seems kind of shady, Like why

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Speaker 2: would I do.

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Speaker 1: So, apparently this is all ending and now you can.

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Speaker 1: You'll be able to find the free filing options a

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Speaker 1: lot easier this year, which is good. Now, when you

541
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Speaker 1: look at free filing options, it doesn't apply to everyone.

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Speaker 1: It's you have to make under a certain amount and

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Speaker 1: your your return has to be a certain simplicity. So

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Speaker 1: if you run a small business, you're doing an LLC,

545
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Speaker 1: or you've got a schedule see or all these random

546
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Speaker 1: things that people have, you're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: file for free. You still need to get and you

548
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Speaker 1: probably want to have a tax professional that knows what

549
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Speaker 1: they're doing. But if you have like one W two

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Speaker 1: and you work one job like I think you do,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty simple. You put in your stuff and you

552
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Speaker 1: can file for free.

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Speaker 2: That's nice as long as you as long as you

554
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Speaker 2: have to. There's an income limit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I don't know what that limit is, but

556
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Speaker 1: they're you know, you can see it on there. But

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Speaker 1: the point is, isn't it crazy that these companies like

558
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Speaker 1: the I R S and you know these other you know,

559
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Speaker 1: tax companies had a deal. And by the way, I

560
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Speaker 1: got to give props where it's due. Pro publica is

561
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Speaker 1: the I guess journalistic or the journalism organization that sort

562
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Speaker 1: of forced these changes because they kept doing things about

563
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Speaker 1: highlighting these little kind of shady deals that these companies had.

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Speaker 3: And I read somewhere that they were targeting students too,

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Speaker 3: out of student like just out of college students.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I believe it, yeah, because think about it. If

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Speaker 1: you have one W two and you have like, that's

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Speaker 1: a lot of people in the US. Yeah, and so

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Speaker 1: if they can all file for free, but a lot

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Speaker 1: of times you don't realize that.

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Speaker 2: And even if they can get five or ten dollars

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Speaker 2: out of.

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Speaker 1: You times millions of people in the US, that's a

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Speaker 1: significant amount of money totally. So we'll see if this

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Speaker 1: year it's better. The other thing that it frees the

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Speaker 1: IRS up to do is to create their own system

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Speaker 1: for filing.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I kind of have mixed feelings on this because on

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Speaker 1: the one side, I say, well, who knows taxes better

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Speaker 1: than the irs?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: And the IRS should theoretically know how much you made

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Speaker 1: because all of these companies are reporting to them. Right,

585
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Speaker 1: if you're a legit company, when you get your W two,

586
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Speaker 1: your company is also reporting that information to the IRS,

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Speaker 1: And so for you Megan, you would log on and

588
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Speaker 1: just you'd like put in your social and they'd be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: here's your information that we got from your company. Is

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Speaker 1: this all correct? And then they would calculate your taxes

591
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Speaker 1: and say, boom boom boom, you're done.

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Speaker 2: Why can't they do that?

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Speaker 1: Now they can? Now they're free to do that. I

594
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Speaker 1: haven't created that system. Now, the other side of me says, oh,

595
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Speaker 1: wait a second, do I really trust the irs to say.

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Speaker 2: Here's how much you made?

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Speaker 1: And now let's say they say you made more than

598
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Speaker 1: you made? Now you have to fight that information and

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Speaker 1: kind of like and then I'm like, you.

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Speaker 3: Owe us exactly thousand dollars and you're like, oh, I

601
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Speaker 3: thought I was going to make some money.

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Speaker 1: Right, So I see both sides, yeah, and you know,

603
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Speaker 1: so we'll see what happens. But the bottom line is

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Speaker 1: I think it's good that they kind of dropped these

605
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Speaker 1: weird do not compete agreements they had that we didn't.

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Speaker 2: Really know about.

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Speaker 3: This next question comes from Marsha Love Love the show.

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Speaker 3: What is the easiest way to get MP three music

609
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Speaker 3: ripped from CDs that are on my Windows ten computer

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Speaker 3: to play on my iPhone without using iTunes. Is there

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Speaker 3: an app you recommend that will sync with my computer?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yes, there is.

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Speaker 1: I love this question because I love this app. It

614
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Speaker 1: is the best app you'll ever find what I phone.

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Speaker 1: It is called Walter two and I believe I've talked

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Speaker 1: about it on this podcast before. It might have predated Megan,

617
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Speaker 1: but wa l t R two. And once you install

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Speaker 1: this on your computer, whether you have a Mac or

619
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Speaker 1: a PC, you literally drag and drop any file, not

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Speaker 1: just an MP three. You can drag and drop a

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Speaker 1: book file. You can drag and drop a MP three file.

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Speaker 1: You can drag and drop a PDF. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: maybe not PDFs, but basically yeah, maybe pdf let's see, Yeah, PDFs, ringtones, videos,

624
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Speaker 1: anything that you can find. The iPhone is amazing because

625
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Speaker 1: it plays all these like crazy files and stuff and

626
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Speaker 1: you can have your music on there, your.

627
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Speaker 2: Videos, your books.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of times to get them on there

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Speaker 1: in the past, it's been kind of tough. And that

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Speaker 1: leads a lot of people to just buy things from iTunes. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and to buy books from Apple Books because when you

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Speaker 1: go to like a lot of people when they're buying

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Speaker 1: my book, they would say, rich, you'd go to the

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Speaker 1: Amazon app, I would say, if you go to try

635
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Speaker 1: to buy the Kindle version of my book, it would

636
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Speaker 1: say this is not compatible with this app or this

637
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Speaker 1: iPhone or something like that, which is totally confusing because

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Speaker 1: it is compatible. It's just you can't buy it from

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00:28:14,040 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: the Amazon app. You have to actually buy it from

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Speaker 1: a desktop and then download it to your phone.

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Speaker 2: So it's right anyway.

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Speaker 1: So it's little things like this that makes Walter Too

643
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 1: so cool. And what they did was they kind of

644
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: reverse engineered how iTunes works, and they figured out where

645
00:28:30,800 --> 00:28:33,439
Speaker 1: when you drag something into iTunes and sink it to

646
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Speaker 1: your phone, they figured out how to make it route

647
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Speaker 1: into the right app. So if you drag a video file,

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Speaker 1: which by the way, it can be any format because

649
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Speaker 1: iPhone is very picky about the formats that it plays.

650
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Speaker 1: So you can take any format video file and just

651
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Speaker 1: drag it into this app. It will convert it all

652
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Speaker 1: in the background and.

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Speaker 2: Put it on your phone.

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Speaker 1: It is really fantastic. And you know people that have

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Speaker 1: old music, you know old music videos, old like like

656
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Speaker 1: old CDs that you want to rip and back in

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Speaker 1: the day and what was the person's name again, Oh, Marsha,

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Speaker 1: Marsha was saying that she doesn't want to use iTunes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, iTunes, as far as I know, back in

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Speaker 1: the day, always had a ripping solution in it. I

661
00:29:10,960 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: don't know if it still does now that they've you know,

662
00:29:13,480 --> 00:29:15,960
Speaker 1: changed iTunes and they've changed it now to just music

663
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: it's called. But it was very easy to just rip

664
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Speaker 1: things and also get them onto your phone or your iPod.

665
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 2: Now I think that's a little bit too tough.

666
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: Anyway, Walter two is the app that you should definitely

667
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: try out and just go ahead and you know, try it.

668
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: You can download it for free if you want to

669
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Speaker 1: use it indefinitely.

670
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Speaker 2: I believe you have to pay. I think it's forty dollars. Okay.

671
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Speaker 1: I've had this app for years, and I kind of

672
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Speaker 1: forget about it every now and then because so much

673
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:45,040
Speaker 1: of what I do now is like, like I pay

674
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Speaker 1: for YouTube so I can download. Actually I don't pay

675
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,160
Speaker 1: for it anymore. I just canceled that, but I'm probably

676
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,080
Speaker 1: gonna reget that. But you know, like YouTube, you could,

677
00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 1: you know, It's just I don't really have a need

678
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Speaker 1: to put all these random files on my phone anymore.

679
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 1: But if I did, this is the way that I

680
00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 1: would do. It's so easy when you drag and drop stuff.

681
00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: You will not believe how.

682
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Speaker 2: Simple it is. It's really cool. That's awesome. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: Walter too.

684
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Speaker 1: It's made by a company called softer Reno, soft O Reno.

685
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Speaker 2: Oh, great question.

686
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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about what people ordered on Amazon

687
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Speaker 1: over the holidays. It feels like the holidays were so

688
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,160
Speaker 1: long ago because we've gone through Christmas, we've gone through

689
00:30:24,160 --> 00:30:27,680
Speaker 1: New Year's New Year's Eve. So but let's take a

690
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Speaker 1: look back at what Amazon said was most popular. This

691
00:30:30,760 --> 00:30:33,520
Speaker 1: was a record breaking holiday season. Of course they say

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Speaker 1: that because Amazon continues to grow at a fast clip,

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Speaker 1: so every year is going to be record breaking. When

694
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Speaker 1: it's not, we have a problem. That means that Amazon

695
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,880
Speaker 1: has stopped growing. And Amazon, as big as they seem,

696
00:30:46,120 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: you know.

697
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 2: They still have a very far away to go.

698
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Speaker 1: And I know a lot of people think that they

699
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Speaker 1: rule the world, but believe me, there's still other places

700
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Speaker 1: out there. I have a theory that at the end

701
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Speaker 1: of the day, the only places left standing have I

702
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Speaker 1: told you this before, are going to be Target, Walmart, Amazon,

703
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 1: and like Kroger. Oh, and then once those are the

704
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: only four and they put all the little places out

705
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: of business. It's like game over for prices. It's like

706
00:31:09,920 --> 00:31:11,360
Speaker 1: all the prices are gonna go all the same.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they're gonna go up. Yeah, because it's like

708
00:31:13,240 --> 00:31:15,920
Speaker 2: now you have no other options. Like it's crazy. It's

709
00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,200
Speaker 2: pretty crazy. So anyway, interesting theory.

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Speaker 1: Some of the most best selling products are most or

711
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: some of the best selling products this holiday season. Where

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Speaker 1: the Echo Dot, the Fire TV Stick with Alexa Voice Remote,

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Speaker 1: the Echo Show five, Lol Surprise, Glitter Globe Doll, Winter

714
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Speaker 1: Disco Series with Glitter hair, I Robot, Roombus six seventy

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Speaker 1: five House laboratories.

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Speaker 2: What is that? What ha Us Laboratories? What is that?

717
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Speaker 2: I have no idea what that is?

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00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 1: Oh, it is Cruelty Free Vegan cosmetics by Lady Gaga,

719
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Speaker 1: Sore you go on Amazon, Yep, Carhart, Amazon Basics, and

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Speaker 1: Champion Items. Amazon said they now have seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand employees worldwide. Top ten cities that use an

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Speaker 1: Amazon Locker or Amazon counter where Chicago, followed by Los Angeles,

723
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Speaker 1: New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, San Jose, Berkeley, Austin, and Columbus.

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Speaker 1: The last delivery from Amazon occurred on Christmas Eve at

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Speaker 1: eleven to fifty nine PM in Seattle. That makes sense.

726
00:32:21,840 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: Seattle is like their hometown. Some of the most popular

727
00:32:24,280 --> 00:32:27,480
Speaker 1: recipes that folks asked the A word about, you know,

728
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Speaker 1: rhymes with babexa were Thanksgiving turkey chocolate chip cookies and

729
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: fluffy mashed potatoes. The most searched for holiday movie on

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Speaker 1: Fire TV was Home Alone, followed by Elf and The Grinch.

731
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Speaker 1: Nothing has changed with holiday movies in recent years. It's

732
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Speaker 1: like nothing has there been a new one. I did

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Speaker 1: watch that new one called Noel on Disney Plus with.

734
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Speaker 2: Cups. Yeah cups? Is it called cups or so called cups? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Okay, it was okay, Yeah, it's okay.

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Speaker 1: And some of the best selling books at Amazon Bookstore

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Speaker 1: was dog Man Fetch twenty two, which I actually bought

738
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Speaker 1: from my kid but at Target. So I didn't contribute

739
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Speaker 1: to that, okay, And that was not a Christmas gift,

740
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Speaker 1: but that was just a flying on the plane gift.

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Speaker 2: So uh. Anyway, So that's the information about Amazon. Nice.

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Speaker 2: I love I kind of like, I'm.

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Speaker 1: Sure you saw this, but all the end of your lists,

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00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: I mean there's so many, there're a dime a dozen.

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Speaker 1: I kind of like I don't find them that interesting.

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00:33:27,840 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: It's like the top artist that people listen to, it's

747
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Speaker 1: like Drenk.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, like oh.

749
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Oh okay, I could have you know, It's

750
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Speaker 1: like there's not much insight. There's one going around very predictable.

751
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:40,600
Speaker 1: There's one going around about like the top rock songs,

752
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: and like nine out of ten were like imagine dragons

753
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: or something. You know, it's just kind of like, yeah,

754
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Speaker 1: we get it.

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Speaker 3: We already know.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 3: This next question comes from Tony Love your segment on

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Speaker 3: Channel five. Is there a way to recover deleted texts,

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Speaker 3: especially those containing photos on your kind of phone?

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Speaker 2: But?

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Speaker 3: Uh, be sure with iPhone once it's gone, I'm.

762
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Speaker 2: Gonna guess it's iPhone.

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Speaker 1: But there's a couple things even if you have iPhone

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Speaker 1: or Android, and I don't think either of these methods

765
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Speaker 1: are gonna be one hundred percent, But if you do

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Speaker 1: an iCloud backup of your system, there is if you

767
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Speaker 1: look in your like, okay, so there's two ways that

768
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Speaker 1: I messages are backed up. The first way is in

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Speaker 1: the messages app. If you look in there, there's like

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Speaker 1: a little toggle in iCloud that says backup messages and

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Speaker 1: if you ever notice if you sign into like a

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Speaker 1: new phone or a new computer. And this is new

773
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Speaker 1: by the way, as of like last year when Apple

774
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Speaker 1: introduced this, but all your messages are synced now across

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Speaker 1: devices and that's I message, that's called I Messages in

776
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Speaker 1: the cloud. You may or may not have that turned

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Speaker 1: on a lot of people don't want to turn it

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Speaker 1: on because I don't know about you. But I have

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Speaker 1: like five different devices, and when I get a text,

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Speaker 1: they're like all going off with the I message, kind

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Speaker 1: of annoying. I go to my iPad and like, all

782
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Speaker 1: my text messages are there that like you know, I've.

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Speaker 2: Already seen and stuff.

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Speaker 1: But I see the benefit of it because you have

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Speaker 1: all your messages in all your different places. That's number one.

786
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,839
Speaker 1: Now if you deleted it from there, I would say.

787
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Speaker 1: The place to look is your iCloud backup. And this

788
00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: is kind of the master backup of your entire phone

789
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: that happens every night when you plug your phone in

790
00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:16,719
Speaker 1: and you leave it overnight to charge. So to find that,

791
00:35:16,760 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: you have to go into your iCloud and just look

792
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Speaker 1: for your iPhone backup. Now, you can't just go through

793
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Speaker 1: your iPhone backup and kind of rifle through it.

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00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 2: It's all like mix exactly.

795
00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: But there are programs that will allow you to decipher

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Speaker 1: what's on that backup. So the iPhone backup or the

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00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:35,839
Speaker 1: iCloud backup was never really meant to like, it's not

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Speaker 1: like a file where you can just click through. Like

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Speaker 1: ideally it would be a file system where it would

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Speaker 1: say photos, text messages, apps, whatever, data, and you would

801
00:35:44,680 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 1: just be able to click through everything.

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00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 2: It's Apple. They don't make it like that.

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00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,680
Speaker 1: They make it all compressed and weird, and it's a

804
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:54,240
Speaker 1: million things. But there are apps that will sort through

805
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: that data and help you find those text messages. I

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00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: don't know why this person needs to find those. I'm

807
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,480
Speaker 1: assuming there was a password contained in some of those,

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00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:09,920
Speaker 1: or a screenshot of a password. The screenshot of a

809
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 1: password that he forgot is the only way to recover it.

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00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,520
Speaker 1: I'm assuming this is not like, you know, cheating or

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Speaker 1: spousal or whatever, or just assuming this is very kind,

812
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: kind natured. But that's what I would say, is you

813
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 1: got to find some sort of a third party app

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Speaker 1: to do this.

815
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:28,120
Speaker 2: Now you can retrieve that backup and then.

816
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:31,080
Speaker 1: Put it back onto your phone. But like recover it,

817
00:36:31,280 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: but it gets kind of complicated exa then erase it.

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00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 2: All this stuff on your phone. It seems like a.

819
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Speaker 1: Third party app, which, by the way, you have to

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Speaker 1: pay for these things. I think a popular one was

821
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Speaker 1: like doctor Phone. Doctor f O n E is a

822
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:47,479
Speaker 1: popular one for a long time and that has data

823
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: recovery solutions for and I haven't used this app.

824
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Speaker 2: Often.

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00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: These companies will send me these apps to kind of

826
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Speaker 1: look at, and I'll a lot of them are are

827
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Speaker 1: from you know, overseas companies, and I'll try them and it's.

828
00:36:58,880 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 2: Like, okay, I see it.

829
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: But anyway, doctor Phone from wonder Share is one that

830
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: you might try. But I would check into some of

831
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: these things and just see and you can. By the way,

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00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:11,839
Speaker 1: Android also does backups of your data as well more

833
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 1: and more now, so I would check you can use

834
00:37:14,280 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 1: these programs for either one of those.

835
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Speaker 3: But if you've deleted a text, like if you delete

836
00:37:17,880 --> 00:37:20,320
Speaker 3: a thread, yeah it's gone.

837
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:21,279
Speaker 2: It's pretty much gone.

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00:37:21,320 --> 00:37:23,239
Speaker 3: Yeahah, but if you wanted to find it you could.

839
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Speaker 1: Well, Okay, I'm giving the theory of let's say you

840
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 1: deleted it, you have to look at your backup and

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00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,080
Speaker 1: let's say you have several backups. Yeah, like almost like

842
00:37:32,120 --> 00:37:35,600
Speaker 1: a time machine backup of like Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday,

843
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,240
Speaker 1: Like you have to go back in time to find

844
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:39,800
Speaker 1: that text.

845
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: Got it?

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00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 1: Because if you're just doing a backup every night that

847
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: erases the old backup, then it's gonna be gone because

848
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:47,520
Speaker 1: if you waited twenty four hours, that backup has pushed

849
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 1: out the old one. So again, this is tough because

850
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:51,960
Speaker 1: it all depends on how you back up your phone

851
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:53,560
Speaker 1: and what you're using to back it up, and how

852
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: you back it up and how often if you didn't.

853
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: Sometimes people plug in their phone and they look in

854
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:02,120
Speaker 1: their backup and it has not backed up in three

855
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: weeks and you don't even know that.

856
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 2: Then that might be.

857
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:06,920
Speaker 1: Your best case scenario because this text is in there

858
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:08,440
Speaker 1: and it was You're like, yes, I didn't back up

859
00:38:08,520 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 1: last night. So it really sort of depends on so

860
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 1: many things. That's why I say it's very tricky to

861
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Speaker 1: do this. Well, it is a new year, and people

862
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: are trying to be more mindful in the new year.

863
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: People like my wife who was like, I'm downloading a

864
00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: journaling app to journal my life every day, and I said,

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00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: good luck with that, because most people basically do this

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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like going to the gym.

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Speaker 1: You go for the first couple weeks of the year,

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00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,040
Speaker 1: and then you drop off, and that's it.

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Speaker 3: What's negative?

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Speaker 2: You're right, it's hard.

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Speaker 1: And I say this because I actually downloaded one of

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Speaker 1: these apps last year to try to start. It wasn't

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00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: actually for journaling, it was more for a daily It

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00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: actually was for journaling because I wanted to keep I

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Speaker 1: remember this because I don't use Facebook anymore, like personally,

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Speaker 1: and Facebook used to be basically a journal because you

878
00:38:56,640 --> 00:38:58,480
Speaker 1: would write, like what you did that day, and you'd

879
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:00,560
Speaker 1: show a picture of you with your kids, you know,

880
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:02,600
Speaker 1: back in the day with your friends, like going out

881
00:39:02,600 --> 00:39:04,319
Speaker 1: to dinner or whatever, and it would be shared. Now

882
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: Instagram is kind of like that, but you're only doing

883
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,480
Speaker 1: that like once a day, or you know, for a

884
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,319
Speaker 1: lot of people are not even doing once an Yeah,

885
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 1: it depends on you know, you know, it depends on

886
00:39:12,680 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 1: how often you're using that, right, But the point is

887
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: a journal is much more private.

888
00:39:17,080 --> 00:39:18,959
Speaker 2: You can put you know, private.

889
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: Thoughts in there anyway, whatever your need. I did some

890
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: research on some of these journals to see which one

891
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: I like, and which one I think you'll like. I

892
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: came up with one, two, three, four five, And there's

893
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: one that really stands out to me.

894
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:34,279
Speaker 2: Out of all these journals. There's actually two that stand out.

895
00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: But anyway, the first one is called Reflectively and this

896
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 1: is kind of there's two journals that I've noticed.

897
00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 2: Two types of journals.

898
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,239
Speaker 1: One is just like a diary that's online and you

899
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: just type in stuff and it helps you kind of

900
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:48,560
Speaker 1: like put dates on there and pictures. The other is

901
00:39:48,640 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: a guided journal, which I think is actually more useful

902
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:53,320
Speaker 1: in this day and age because if you're going to

903
00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:55,879
Speaker 1: have an app that's a journaling app, it should prompt

904
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 1: you with certain things like how do you feel today?

905
00:39:57,680 --> 00:39:59,640
Speaker 1: Or what you do today? Or who would you hang

906
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: out with, so that you don't have to think of everything,

907
00:40:02,440 --> 00:40:05,000
Speaker 1: you know kind of yeah, and it's asking you different

908
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,960
Speaker 1: things throughout the week. Theoretically, if you just want to

909
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: write down your thoughts, you get a pad and paper.

910
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:11,600
Speaker 3: That's what I have a journal.

911
00:40:11,719 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, wow, you do well.

912
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: In my intro, I say that journaling is not just

913
00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: for teenagers anymore.

914
00:40:19,680 --> 00:40:20,919
Speaker 2: It's not because you really think.

915
00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: Of journaling for teenagers, but when you talk about mindfulness

916
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 1: and all this. You know, people are trying to get

917
00:40:25,520 --> 00:40:27,640
Speaker 1: this heightened sense of awareness of themselves.

918
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 2: Journaling is a big part of that.

919
00:40:29,239 --> 00:40:32,000
Speaker 1: And you know, it's different than social media because on

920
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: social media you're just putting your highs.

921
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 2: You're not really putting your real thoughts or your real

922
00:40:38,160 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 2: you know, just everything not as vulnerable exactly.

923
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: And so that's and some people that pretend they are,

924
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 1: Like there's some people I follow that you know, they'll

925
00:40:45,320 --> 00:40:48,080
Speaker 1: post these things, but like even the vulnerable picture or

926
00:40:48,080 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: the vulnerable thoughts are really crafted to be.

927
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,839
Speaker 2: You know, yeah whatever it is, right right. So Reflectively

928
00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:56,200
Speaker 2: is a guided journaling app.

929
00:40:56,239 --> 00:40:58,480
Speaker 1: This one asks you just asks you a series of

930
00:40:58,560 --> 00:41:00,879
Speaker 1: questions like how is your day, what did you do?

931
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:03,480
Speaker 1: How did you feel? The entries are called stories. They're

932
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 1: really easy to complete, and it's free for seven days.

933
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:09,440
Speaker 1: It's forty eight dollars a year after that. So that's Reflectively.

934
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: I wasn't I thought it was fine. It wasn't like

935
00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:14,839
Speaker 1: you know, it was like it was okay. Daily oh

936
00:41:15,120 --> 00:41:18,920
Speaker 1: daylo helps you keep a personal diary without actually writing.

937
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: You pick your moods and activities, so it's like happy, sad, whatever,

938
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: and then what activities you did, so you know, Jim

939
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:28,400
Speaker 1: this that. I thought the funny thing was it didn't

940
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: say work, so I actually had to add work as

941
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 1: an activity, which I thought was like kind of weird

942
00:41:33,040 --> 00:41:34,399
Speaker 1: that they left that out. But maybe they don't want

943
00:41:34,400 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: you to talk about work because I don't know. Yeah, wait,

944
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,920
Speaker 1: what if you want to add more context or context?

945
00:41:39,960 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 1: You can also include some notes in your entries. The

946
00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:45,879
Speaker 1: app also helps you create goals, like if you want

947
00:41:45,880 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: to watch more movies, read more, or eat healthy. It

948
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:52,360
Speaker 1: kind of tracks those achievements, so every time you mark

949
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: that you watched a movie that day, you can see

950
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: at the end of the month, did I watch more

951
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: movies than last month? So that's kind of cool. I

952
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:00,319
Speaker 1: like that there's a daily calendar tool so you can

953
00:42:00,360 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: see your daily mood, so if you put your mood in,

954
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,439
Speaker 1: you can see like all green days, all red days,

955
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: all yellow days, all at a glance.

956
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:08,480
Speaker 2: So that's kind of neat.

957
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,880
Speaker 1: And you can pay twenty four dollars for the yearly

958
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:13,400
Speaker 1: premium plan with the ability to lock the app with

959
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,200
Speaker 1: a pin, so I think that's kind of funny as

960
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: they hold you hostage with that, which you know that's

961
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: kind of funny. Yeah, Journey is. They do let you

962
00:42:21,120 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 1: set a pass code for free. They even let you

963
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,399
Speaker 1: store your entries in Google Drive for safekeeping, and they

964
00:42:26,440 --> 00:42:28,719
Speaker 1: have apps for lots of different platforms, so some of

965
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: these are only iOS or some of them are only Android.

966
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:34,360
Speaker 1: This one is pretty much very close to a digital diary.

967
00:42:35,480 --> 00:42:37,520
Speaker 1: You know, you start an entry, it's all time stamped,

968
00:42:37,560 --> 00:42:39,600
Speaker 1: and then at the bottom there's these little buttons that

969
00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: lets you.

970
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:42,880
Speaker 2: Add where you are, who you're with, how you feel.

971
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: And also attachments like photos, So it's kind of like

972
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: a digital journal that kind of helps you along but

973
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,760
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily ask you stuff. Plans on this one are confusing.

974
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 1: I cannot figure out for the life of me what

975
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,200
Speaker 1: the difference is between the monthly membership plan or the

976
00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:58,960
Speaker 1: lifetime premium plan, because the lifetime premium is like eight dollars,

977
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:01,879
Speaker 1: but then the monthly like three dollars, So why would

978
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: you not just go with the lifetime. I don't think

979
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:05,600
Speaker 1: the lifetime includes all the membership option.

980
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 2: It's very strange.

981
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: But anyway, now, if you just want a standard digital diary,

982
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,839
Speaker 1: the one I recommend is called Day one.

983
00:43:13,320 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 2: Super straightforward. You kind of open it up.

984
00:43:15,360 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 1: You get a time stamped entry that just starts with

985
00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: an entry, and then you can add what you like,

986
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: including video, so there's like video, audio, photos, drawings, or

987
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:27,040
Speaker 1: a scan. So let's say you go to a concert,

988
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:28,600
Speaker 1: you can scan your ticket, put it in there, and

989
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: you still have a paper ticket, which you probably a

990
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: screenshot at this point, and it's thirty.

991
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:35,120
Speaker 2: Five dollars a year.

992
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: It gives you all the features, so a lot of

993
00:43:37,200 --> 00:43:40,160
Speaker 1: things Like I started writing a text entry and that

994
00:43:40,280 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 1: was fine. As soon as I want to add a photo,

995
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:43,879
Speaker 1: it was like, you gotta pony up to thirty five bucks,

996
00:43:43,920 --> 00:43:46,040
Speaker 1: which I think is fine. The other thing that's kind

997
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,520
Speaker 1: of cool, depending on how you use this is you

998
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,600
Speaker 1: can turn your entries into a printed book at the

999
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:52,480
Speaker 1: end of the year. Oh just kind of neat, so

1000
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,960
Speaker 1: you can print out. This was my second favorite Day one, Yeah,

1001
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: so I thought that was really cool.

1002
00:43:57,320 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 2: My favorite is jore.

1003
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 1: I think that's how you say it, jou want okay.

1004
00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:05,359
Speaker 1: And you can tell this is a very slick, very

1005
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 1: high end app that was designed with kind of today's

1006
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:11,600
Speaker 1: users in mind. It nudges you with questions like how

1007
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,240
Speaker 1: do you feel right now? And it kind of guides

1008
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 1: you through, like like when I set it up, it

1009
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 1: was like three different questions and you just type the answers.

1010
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,319
Speaker 1: It even has like some of the answers started, so

1011
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:23,279
Speaker 1: it can be like I feel dot dot dot and

1012
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: you tap that and it starts to write that, and

1013
00:44:25,000 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: then you just have to type the rest or I've

1014
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: been doing dot dot dot and then you type that.

1015
00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:30,920
Speaker 1: So it like kind of nudges you to like think,

1016
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 1: which I thought was really great. They also have motivational

1017
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: quotes to help you along, and you're always free to

1018
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,960
Speaker 1: start a fresh new entry without all the other stuff

1019
00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: as well. Premium Undure it's kind of expensive. It's sixty

1020
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: dollars a year. That gives you the ability to add

1021
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 1: photos to your entry. So again, all these all these

1022
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: diary apps, if you really want to get the most

1023
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:51,719
Speaker 1: out of them, you're gonna have to pay. Yeah, I

1024
00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: mean it makes sense and it's fine. Otherwise, just use

1025
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: the notes app on your phone and that's free.

1026
00:44:56,080 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 2: You know, if you want.

1027
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 3: Free or Google doc you could like start, Yeah, you

1028
00:44:59,560 --> 00:45:01,400
Speaker 3: can do that, so Google doc for twenty twenty of

1029
00:45:01,440 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 3: all your.

1030
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:03,879
Speaker 1: But what I like about these apps is I think

1031
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 1: they nudge you to think in different ways, like with

1032
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: the day one, the way that it showed like scans

1033
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,240
Speaker 1: or a picture, like you just draw a little picture

1034
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:12,520
Speaker 1: of like a little sketch one day.

1035
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 2: You know, it's kind of fun, like yeah or whatever.

1036
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of neat versus just like a

1037
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: Google doc, which is free, but it's just different. It's

1038
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: a different These apps are kind of there to nudge

1039
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: you into doing this right kind of therapy.

1040
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, really ask you questions.

1041
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: Premium is sixty dollars a year and let's see I said,

1042
00:45:31,239 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: it gives you the ability to have a photos. It

1043
00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:35,920
Speaker 1: also gives you access to a library of lessons on gratitude,

1044
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:39,640
Speaker 1: self confidence, and more. The Juror app reminds me of

1045
00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 1: Headspace a lot, and it actually made me wonder why

1046
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: Headspace doesn't have or maybe it does a journaling function

1047
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,000
Speaker 1: built in or this might be a very good target

1048
00:45:50,040 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: for Headspace to acquire to build that into their app.

1049
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,960
Speaker 1: And once you have those two together, meditation and the

1050
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: journal app, it's like game over.

1051
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 3: I'm googling it. So journaling in.

1052
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 1: Headspace I don't think they do, but yeah, anyway, that

1053
00:46:06,360 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: is going to do it for the show.

1054
00:46:08,320 --> 00:46:10,200
Speaker 2: If you can believe it. I feel like these shows

1055
00:46:10,239 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 2: just get shorter and shorter, but they don't. That's just

1056
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:14,160
Speaker 2: the way it is.

1057
00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:18,279
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening, Thanks for watching in the

1058
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,799
Speaker 1: new year on KTLA five. You also got me on

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Speaker 1: social media at rich on Tech on Instagram. Coming up

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1061
00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:30,719
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1062
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: videos and showing you all the cool stuff that I

1063
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: see there.

1064
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 2: Let's see what else? Oh, something that's new.

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Speaker 1: Podcast on Spotify, on Apple Podcasts, basically wherever you listen

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Speaker 2: Let's see I think that's gonna do it. Producer Megan.

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Speaker 2: Where can people find you?

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Speaker 3: I'm on Twitter, Producer Megan.

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Speaker 1: Producer Megan on Twitter, and the website is rich on

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