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Speaker 1: High tech, pat insurance and epic Twitter hack, t mobile tackles,

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Speaker 1: robocalls plus your tech questions answered?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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

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

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Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. My name is Rich Damiro,

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Speaker 1: tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles. Still

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Speaker 1: safely at home for month number four? Now did anyone

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Speaker 1: ever think this would go on this long? I don't

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Speaker 1: know why I didn't think it would. So when I

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Speaker 1: first came up to my boss back in March and said, Hey,

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Speaker 1: are we doing this whole work from home kind of thing?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know.

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Speaker 1: What to expect him to say, And sure enough he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think you should. And it was kind of a

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Speaker 1: big departure from what I was used to. And now

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Speaker 1: that I've been doing it four months, it's really wild

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Speaker 1: to think how long did I think this was going

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Speaker 1: to go on for? Did I think a global pandemic

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Speaker 1: when it's ever going to be solved. So I've been

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Speaker 1: safely at home I've been learning a lot about myself,

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Speaker 1: a lot about my family, a lot about friends who

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Speaker 1: I never see anymore. But the biggest thing I think

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Speaker 1: that I'm taking away from this is just how fragile

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Speaker 1: everything in life is that we take for granted. Whether

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Speaker 1: it's going out for dinner, whether it's going on a

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Speaker 1: family lives out in New Jersey, and just all those

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Speaker 1: things are jobs, they've all been impacted.

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Speaker 2: School, all these little things that.

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Speaker 1: You just make up the fabric of everyday life have

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Speaker 1: been impacted by this pandemic. Going to the dentist, going

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store, going out in your car. I was,

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Speaker 1: you know, I usually drive for stories to different places

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Speaker 1: around Los Angeles, and I have not done that very often.

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Speaker 1: We go to some stories, but every time I do,

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Speaker 1: when I get in my car, it's just this feeling

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Speaker 1: without even a thought. Whereas it used to be every

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Speaker 1: you drive, you commute, you come home, you go to

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Speaker 1: the gym, all these things that we no longer do.

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Speaker 1: I've been working out in the house. I mean, everything

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Speaker 1: I'm doing okay. I hope you're doing okay. I know

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Speaker 1: that we're all getting used to this. I don't want

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Speaker 1: the school year coming up, the reality is that it

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Speaker 1: sounds like the kids are going to be at home

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Speaker 1: once again, which is going to create a lot of

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Speaker 1: technical challenges for parents and especially working parents, especially to

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Speaker 2: But we're gonna get through.

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Speaker 1: This, and we're gonna figure it out, and I have

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Speaker 1: no doubt life will be back to normal at some point,

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Speaker 1: to take it every day. You got to take the good,

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Speaker 1: you gotta take the bad. And I'm trying to keep

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Speaker 1: a positive attitude throughout this whole thing. Some days, as

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Speaker 1: I'm sure happens with you, are better than others, and

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Speaker 1: on those days, you feel a little bit kind of

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Speaker 2: When you're sitting there having.

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Speaker 2: So we'll take the good, will take the bad.

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Speaker 1: I hope you're doing okay, and I hope that this

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Speaker 1: podcast is a tiny escape where again I like to

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Speaker 1: talk about the stuff that happens in the tech world

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Speaker 1: That's what this is all about. Let's get started with

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Speaker 1: the first story of the and this comes from T Mobile.

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Speaker 1: I watched their big T Mobile uncarrier move yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I'm always curious what T Mobile is gonna do. This

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Speaker 1: And T Sprint and then T Mobile, and T Mobile

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Speaker 2: Now that they own Sprint.

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Speaker 1: I hope that that progress continues. I'm not so sure

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Speaker 1: And now that they're just one of the big carriers

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Speaker 1: like the other two big ones, will they do as

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Speaker 1: many things that are in the interest of the consumer?

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Speaker 1: So the latest uncarrier move is something called scam shield

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Speaker 1: and I do think this is cool, but you know,

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Speaker 1: T Mobile is going to do free scam id and blocking.

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Speaker 1: So if you get a suspicious call, and robo calls

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you get them all the time, and it

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Speaker 1: seems like we have the technology to get rid of

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Speaker 1: these things, but why are we not. So T Mobile

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Speaker 1: is suspicious, this is potential spam. We're already seeing that

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Speaker 1: from the major carriers, but T Mobiles taking it a

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Speaker 1: step further by letting you block those calls so you

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Speaker 1: never see them again again, something that I believe you

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Speaker 1: feature I think that's really cool is free caller ID.

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Speaker 1: So T Mobile is giving free enhanced caller ID to

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Speaker 1: Why do we have to pay for this? And with

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Speaker 1: So that's going to help a lot, especially with business numbers,

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Speaker 1: you know, if it's a verified business. The other thing

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Speaker 1: they're doing is called a T Mobile proxy. This is

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Speaker 1: a secondary phone number, and this is a virtual phone

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Speaker 1: this is a phone number that you can freely give

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Speaker 1: It will You'll still get your voicemails from it, you'll

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Speaker 1: still get your text messages from it, but it's all

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Speaker 1: virtual and inside and app So the default is that

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Speaker 2: So how is this good? Well, when you sign up.

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Speaker 1: For car dealership inquiries, when you sign up for a

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Speaker 1: that people can reach you on, but you give it

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Speaker 1: out to those folks that might share it with others

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Speaker 1: and in turn might get you more robo calls. That's

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Speaker 1: pretty brilliant. You do have to activate that. Then you

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Speaker 1: can also change your number for free. So I think

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Speaker 1: it's about fifteen dollars. Last email I got from a

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Speaker 1: and I said, well, that seems crazy. Well, Tea Mobile's

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Speaker 1: doing that for free. They're doing a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: other things, but that's the reality. Those are the big changes.

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Speaker 1: That's the scam shield protection. I think it's great, and

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Speaker 1: to be honest, I'm actually considering a switch to T

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Speaker 1: network to back up the quality and coverage that I want.

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Speaker 1: I'm very happy with what I have right now, but

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Speaker 1: have the customer's best interest at mind. And also hopefully

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Speaker 1: these things force the other carriers into doing similar things.

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Speaker 1: I know that Verizon T Mobile was the first to

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Speaker 1: say goodbye to Sprint and it will be T Mobile. Now, now,

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Speaker 1: before you go crazy and worry about your whole plan

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Speaker 1: and everything, all that stuff is going to stay the same. Yes,

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Speaker 1: they're not saying that anything's going to change. You will

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Speaker 1: get your service just fine. Everything will work exactly the

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Speaker 1: way it works. But as a company, they are going

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Speaker 1: to switch over to T Mobile, including all their stores.

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Speaker 1: So if you have a Sprint store in your neighborhood, boom,

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Speaker 1: it's going to be a Tea Mobile store and they're

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Speaker 1: going to paint them all that T Mobile magenta. Now,

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Speaker 1: for me, this is kind of sad because I'll be

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Speaker 1: very honest, when Sprint first came out in the United

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Speaker 1: and you may remember this, Sprint PCs as it was called,

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Speaker 2: And what I loved about Sprint.

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Speaker 1: PCs, even though the network was kind of garbage back then,

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Speaker 1: was that it was a all digital network. And to me,

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Speaker 2: So I switched to Sprint.

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Speaker 1: I had them for many years and they were kind

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Speaker 1: of horrible because the service was either you had it

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Speaker 1: Shyn hear, hear you. It was like it was a

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Speaker 1: was just so cool. It was either all or none.

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Speaker 1: You either had it or you didn't. And that's when

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of sad to see sees the Sprint brand

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Speaker 1: and this is Jerrelyn. Jerlyn says, I was emailed an

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Speaker 1: My email does not appear to be hacked, but I'm

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Speaker 2: So maybe you left your email open on a pub computer.

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Speaker 1: Right now during the pandemic, webcams are really tough to

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Speaker 1: type in the Zoom code on the tablet and get

437
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Speaker 1: connected that way.

438
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Speaker 2: That's what I would do.

439
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:38,320
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty easy, and at this point it's

440
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Speaker 1: probably easier than finding a webcam.

441
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Speaker 2: So good question.

442
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Speaker 1: All right, let's see. Speaking of webcams, this is actually

443
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Speaker 1: another story I did on KTLA was turning your smartphone

444
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Speaker 1: into a webcam, and a lot of people are doing

445
00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:58,720
Speaker 1: that because they can't find a webcam and it's gonna

446
00:21:59,280 --> 00:22:01,679
Speaker 1: with the school you're starting and all of these kids

447
00:22:01,720 --> 00:22:04,520
Speaker 1: and people still working from home. These webcams are not

448
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:06,919
Speaker 1: going to get any easier to find. It's like a

449
00:22:06,920 --> 00:22:09,200
Speaker 1: lot of things. We still can't get chlorox wipes half

450
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:10,760
Speaker 1: the time. You still can't get a lot of stuff.

451
00:22:10,800 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it's we're in different times right now.

452
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Speaker 1: There's a new app called Camo c Amo and this

453
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 1: app will turn your iPhone into a webcam for your computer.

454
00:22:23,400 --> 00:22:26,560
Speaker 1: And this company made it very simple. They wanted it.

455
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Speaker 1: You know, We've tested out a few apps that do

456
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Speaker 1: this and I'll mention them again KTLA Webcam. Okay, so

457
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Speaker 1: we tested out a couple of apps and I found

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Speaker 1: them to be somewhat easy. They're not it's not like

459
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Speaker 1: plug and play simple. But the two apps that we

460
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Speaker 1: looked at were epoccam, epoccam and ivcam. They're okay, they're

461
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Speaker 1: not perfect. This Camo looks to be a really nice solution.

462
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Speaker 2: But guess what.

463
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Speaker 1: You have to have an iPhone and you have to

464
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Speaker 1: have a Mac computer. So if you have those two things,

465
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Speaker 1: I mean, chances are you probably already have a webcam.

466
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Speaker 1: But they're saying that this webcam is going to make

467
00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,439
Speaker 1: your zooms look much better than the webcam on your computer,

468
00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:09,800
Speaker 1: so I get it, But do you really need it?

469
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Speaker 1: I don't know, but it sounds like it's simple. It's

470
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Speaker 1: saying using your iPhone is gonna make a huge difference

471
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Speaker 1: compared to regular webcams. Lets you look your best, and

472
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Speaker 1: I get that again, You're probably gonna want a little

473
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Speaker 1: stand for your iPhone so you can put it up,

474
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Speaker 1: But it's also kind of nice to have it, you know,

475
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Speaker 1: maybe on the side of your computer.

476
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Speaker 2: I don't know.

477
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Speaker 1: I feel like I kind of made fun of the

478
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Speaker 1: dedicated zoom device, but I actually think it's kind of cool.

479
00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:36,639
Speaker 1: I've got one of those Google Home Maxes with the

480
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Speaker 1: video camera, and I love video chatting on that with

481
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Speaker 1: my mom, who I actually want to buy one of

482
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Speaker 1: the Maxes for her so that she doesn't have to

483
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Speaker 1: hold her phone. The whole problem with video chatting on

484
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Speaker 1: your phone is that it's very uncomfortable for long periods

485
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Speaker 1: of time. People are moving, they're flipping their camera around,

486
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Speaker 1: they're walking around. It's not very nice. It's perfect for

487
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Speaker 1: short chats, but for long chats when you just want

488
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Speaker 1: to relax and like at with someone, it's much easier

489
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,639
Speaker 1: to have something that's sort of sitting up and solid

490
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: and not moving anyway. The app is called Camo Cimo

491
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Speaker 1: and it just came out. I have not tested this,

492
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Speaker 1: but it's from a company called Reincubate, and there's a

493
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Speaker 1: free version and there's also a pro version that's forty dollars.

494
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Speaker 1: So and they say that they're going to do a

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Speaker 1: version for the Windows PCs. It looks like right now

496
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Speaker 1: it's just yes, right now, it's just for Mac. So

497
00:24:34,000 --> 00:24:36,760
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna do Windows a Camo for Windows soon,

498
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Speaker 1: so you can get on the mailing list. But I

499
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Speaker 1: would say that, okay, here's what it says, how can

500
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Speaker 1: I mount my iPhone as a webcam? And we bought

501
00:24:43,920 --> 00:24:46,399
Speaker 1: every type of phone mount on Amazon and tried them

502
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: all and wrote up our experiences and recommendation.

503
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Speaker 2: So I like this company.

504
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Speaker 1: That's very cool that they recommend let's see, for laptops

505
00:24:54,160 --> 00:24:56,840
Speaker 1: and desktops with no sticking required. This flexible arm for

506
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Speaker 1: twenty dollars is my current choice. I'll put this in

507
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Speaker 1: the notes and that's.

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Speaker 2: Oh, that's funny.

509
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: That's exactly what I have. Whatever they showed is exactly

510
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,880
Speaker 1: what I have. So if you're on the YouTube right now,

511
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,680
Speaker 1: you can watch this. But I've got this arm that's

512
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Speaker 1: flexible that I bought for recording stuff. Mine is called

513
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Speaker 1: banks b E NKS. Their's is called shaw Shawe, but

514
00:25:19,960 --> 00:25:22,560
Speaker 1: it's a flexible. It's kind of like a holder that

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Speaker 1: you grip onto your desk and then it's got a

516
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:27,960
Speaker 1: flexible what do they call it, like a goose goose

517
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Speaker 1: neck kind of thing, a gooseneck mount, and then your

518
00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: phone just kind of pops into it.

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Speaker 2: I love this.

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Speaker 1: If you look at any of my stuff on Instagram

521
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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, all the stuff that you see

522
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Speaker 1: that I'm recording on a smartphone screen which is kind

523
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Speaker 1: of hands free, is always with this device, and I

524
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Speaker 1: find it to be just easier than a tripod. So

525
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Speaker 1: that's what they recommend. So look at that. I was

526
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Speaker 1: using something that they tested everything and I just kind

527
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Speaker 1: of picked this thing out.

528
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Speaker 2: So pretty good there.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next question. And again,

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Speaker 1: anything I talk about I put in the show notes,

531
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Speaker 1: So if you're watching this or listening to this on

532
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Speaker 1: the podcast, you can just look in the show notes

533
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:05,240
Speaker 1: for links to everything that I talk about. Janet Rights, Hey,

534
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:08,760
Speaker 1: rich I need to buy two smartphones Samsung, one basic

535
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: around three hundred dollars, the other around seven hundred dollars.

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00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: We don't need all the fancy stuff, just want a good,

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00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: reliable phone. We're retired on a fixed income, so don't

538
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Speaker 1: want to pay thousands of dollars. Any suggestions would be

539
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Speaker 1: greatly approved.

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Speaker 2: Thanks.

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00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: Well, at that price point, I would recommend something in

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Speaker 1: the Samsung. If you want to stick to Samsung, I

543
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Speaker 1: would recommend something in the A lineup. And so there

544
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Speaker 1: are a couple of phones that they have in their

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Speaker 1: A lineup. The main one is the A fifty one.

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Speaker 1: And this is a phone that has, you know, pretty

547
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Speaker 1: much what you need. It looks it almost looks like

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Speaker 1: the latest Samsung Galaxy Ultra. It's got one, two, three,

549
00:26:50,560 --> 00:26:52,479
Speaker 1: at least three cameras on the back. It looks like,

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00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: let's see, it's got a six point five inch edge

551
00:26:55,200 --> 00:27:00,600
Speaker 1: to edge screen, long lasting, battery, fast charging, higher storage,

552
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: enhanced camera. And this is just the stuff that they're

553
00:27:03,560 --> 00:27:06,880
Speaker 1: saying on there. But forty eight megapixel main lens. Oh,

554
00:27:06,880 --> 00:27:08,719
Speaker 1: it's got a let's see, it's got a depth camera.

555
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: It's got a main camera, ultra wide camera, macro camera.

556
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 1: So I love the wide lens. I know that Google

557
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:16,719
Speaker 1: made fun of the wide lenses on cameras when they

558
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,119
Speaker 1: did their pixel event, but I love the wide camera.

559
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: It's just so much fun. One hundred and twenty eight

560
00:27:22,920 --> 00:27:25,680
Speaker 1: gigs of storage, four gigs a RAM. You can also

561
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:29,880
Speaker 1: add a micro SD card slot and you get six

562
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: months to Spotify on them. So I think the A

563
00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:35,679
Speaker 1: fifty one would be a fantastic device for you. And

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00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:39,239
Speaker 1: I'm looking at how much it costs, because that is

565
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: the main factor here. It is three hundred and ninety

566
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: nine dollars, so you can get that for three ninety nine,

567
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: and that's probably what I recommend if you're looking and

568
00:27:48,840 --> 00:27:50,439
Speaker 1: maybe just by two of those, you said that you

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Speaker 1: wanted one that was A three hundred and one seven hundred,

570
00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,160
Speaker 1: so that's a thousand. So if you divide those, if

571
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: you divide it by two, that's five hundred on each phone.

572
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: It's now you can both get it, and I think

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00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:02,920
Speaker 1: that would work out for you. There are some other

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Speaker 1: phones in the A lineup. I'm trying to figure out

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Speaker 1: where those are on the Samsung website.

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00:28:09,119 --> 00:28:12,479
Speaker 2: Let's see here, where do they? Okay, smartphones, watches, an audio,

577
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 2: let's see Mobile Summer of Galaxy. Wow, there's so many. Okay, well,

578
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:20,040
Speaker 2: I'm not really finding that on the Samsung. Let's see

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Speaker 2: if I can look it up here. A fifty one.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes I have to go to my email and find

581
00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,959
Speaker 1: stuff that way because you know, I get emailed from people,

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00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,399
Speaker 1: and it's it's much easier because they give me the direct.

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Speaker 2: Links to stuff. All right, let's see the A fifty

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00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,600
Speaker 2: one is. Let's see here.

585
00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: So there's the in the A series. There is the

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Speaker 1: A zero one, there is the that's one hundred and

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00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: nine dollars, the A eleven, which is one hundred and

588
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: seventy nine dollars, the A twenty one, which is two

589
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: forty nine, and then you've got the A fifty one,

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00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: which again is I can't see because my screen is

591
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Speaker 1: all covered up here.

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00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 2: Let's see.

593
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: I I can't see the price on that one. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: that's I just mentioned it three ninety nine. So that's

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Speaker 1: what I would recommend. I think those are the phones

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00:29:02,640 --> 00:29:05,960
Speaker 1: that would be perfect for your question. Good question there.

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00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,000
Speaker 1: I always say good question. I mean I pick these questions,

598
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Speaker 1: so most of the time I'm not going to pick

599
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,360
Speaker 1: a bad question. It's questions that I think a lot

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00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:19,040
Speaker 1: of people are wondering about, all right, this next thing

601
00:29:19,120 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 1: I got beat up for on my Facebook page. I've

602
00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: noticed that people are beating me up on my Facebook

603
00:29:23,440 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: page much more often now than before. And I get it.

604
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: With the whole world of fake news and politics, everyone's

605
00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,719
Speaker 1: very heated these days. Facebook used to not be as heated,

606
00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:36,440
Speaker 1: especially for a tech guy, as it is now. And

607
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:40,680
Speaker 1: I think maybe, you know, politics change that, or maybe

608
00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:44,600
Speaker 1: Cambridge Analytica changed that, But everyone's very skeptical, even of me.

609
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: I am supposed to be a trusted news source for you,

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00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: and you know, I've been reporting on technology for fifteen

611
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: years now. You would think that when I put something

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00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: out there, it's going to be factual. And I try

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00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: to do that, and I think I've talked about this before,

614
00:30:00,080 --> 00:30:03,760
Speaker 1: but the reality is people question what I choose to post.

615
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 2: And that's fine. I get it.

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00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: That's within your rights, and that's well within your rights

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Speaker 1: as a person that's following me, because you know, with

618
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Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand followers on Facebook, not every single person

619
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Speaker 1: has seen me on TV, not every single person knows

620
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,520
Speaker 1: me personally. Sometimes you just saw some cool viral video

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Speaker 1: that I shared, you followed me, and now you see

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Speaker 1: some other posts six months later.

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Speaker 2: You're like, who is this guy? What are you saying?

624
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: So this happened when I talked about this new app

625
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Speaker 1: called Uproad, and I said that this was so cool

626
00:30:31,800 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 1: because this app lets you ditch the transponder on your

627
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Speaker 1: car and take California toll roads just using your smartphone.

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Speaker 1: I thought this was brilliant. Clearly I am the only

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Speaker 1: person that thinks this is smart, because everyone on my

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Speaker 1: Facebook page said rich. Number one, there are no more transponders.

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Speaker 1: It's a little sticker that you stick on your car. Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: Number two, Why would I want to pay a premium

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Speaker 1: to use an app to pay toll roads? And I'm

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Speaker 1: already paying a premium? Four And let me explain myself.

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Speaker 1: Number one, the sticker thing, it's still a transponder. There's

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Speaker 1: still a little wire in that sticker that sends a

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Speaker 1: signal or reflects a signal from the toll road to

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00:31:12,240 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: let them know that you.

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00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,200
Speaker 2: Have passed through the toll So technically I was correct

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00:31:16,200 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 2: on that. Number two. The whole thing about signing up.

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Speaker 1: I have lived in California for going on I don't know,

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00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 1: twenty years, and I have never signed up for a transponder,

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00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: nor will I ever in my life put a piece

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00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 1: of plastic from the California Toll Authority on my car

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00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 1: because guess what, I use the tolls about zero times

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Speaker 1: a year. Now, I use them zero times a year

647
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Speaker 1: because I refuse to pay for a toll most of

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Speaker 1: the time, because I've done it before.

649
00:31:44,200 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 2: I learned my lesson.

650
00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:47,720
Speaker 1: When I took the toll road and I forgot to

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Speaker 1: pay and I got hit with that two hundred dollars

652
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Speaker 1: fine and I get it. You call them up and

653
00:31:51,840 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: it's like, no big deal. They just say, you know, okay,

654
00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: like this was the best. My wife, I get the

655
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: fine in the mail for her. She took it last year,

656
00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: a year before. And I get the thing in the mail.

657
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,080
Speaker 1: It's like two hundred and twenty five dollars. I'm like, Lynn,

658
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: what happened here? She's like, oh, yeah, I forgot to

659
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,120
Speaker 1: pay that. I'm like, of course you did. That's what

660
00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,239
Speaker 1: they want everyone to do. So I call up the

661
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: toll place and literally before I even said, hey, what

662
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: can you do, the guys like, all right, we'll do

663
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: it for twenty two dollars. I'm like, what like, I

664
00:32:17,920 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: didn't even have to negotiate this, So they know that

665
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:22,520
Speaker 1: a lot of people go through these things and forget

666
00:32:22,520 --> 00:32:22,760
Speaker 1: to pay.

667
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:24,680
Speaker 2: That's number one. Number two.

668
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:28,280
Speaker 1: I just don't like the idea of having to remember

669
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Speaker 1: to pay within five days. I got a lot of

670
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:32,200
Speaker 1: things going on in my life and I can't remember that.

671
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,200
Speaker 1: So my thing has always been I want to pay

672
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,240
Speaker 1: then in there or this is amazing, this is to me.

673
00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:41,760
Speaker 1: It's still brilliant because now I will actually take the

674
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Speaker 1: toll roads. So here's how it works uproad. You sign

675
00:32:44,400 --> 00:32:45,800
Speaker 1: up for it. It's an app. You put in your

676
00:32:45,800 --> 00:32:48,720
Speaker 1: credit card, your debit card, your PayPal, your Venmo Boom.

677
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: You are ready to take the toll roads in California,

678
00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:54,120
Speaker 1: including if you live in southern California. You've heard of

679
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,720
Speaker 1: these the SR one thirty three, the two forty one,

680
00:32:57,760 --> 00:33:00,320
Speaker 1: the two sixty one, and the seventy three. I'm only

681
00:33:00,320 --> 00:33:03,280
Speaker 1: familiar with the seventy three. I've seen that one. It

682
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 1: also works on the one twenty five in San Diego

683
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 1: in northern California, which I've taken some of these bridges.

684
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:10,520
Speaker 1: It works on pretty much all the bridges that I've

685
00:33:10,520 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: ever heard of, including the Bay Bridge, the Dumbarton, the

686
00:33:14,120 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 1: Golden Gate Bridge. So again to me, when I go

687
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: up to do Leo's show a couple times a year,

688
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:22,280
Speaker 1: I gotta pay, I gotta wait in the toll thing.

689
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:25,560
Speaker 1: I don't have a transponder. Yeah, well, I guess if

690
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm driving, I can do that. If I'm taking a

691
00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: rental car, it's a little more complicated. But the reality

692
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,480
Speaker 1: is you sign up for this boom, you're up and running,

693
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: and you just have to register your license plate. You

694
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: can register up to ten of them, so all the

695
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: people in your family. And here is the brilliant part.

696
00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: And you go through a toll, it tells you on

697
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: your phone with a notification that you just went through

698
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,600
Speaker 1: the toll on how much it costs?

699
00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:48,360
Speaker 2: So how much does this cost?

700
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: Well, Uproad charges a fifteen percent transaction fee on top

701
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: of the toll fee. And before you go all crazy

702
00:33:55,200 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: about that, for someone like myself who travels to San

703
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 1: Diego twice a year, and I don't know how much

704
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 1: the toll is. Maybe it's six seven dollars. Let's say

705
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:07,800
Speaker 1: it's eight dollars. Fifteen percent of eight dollars fifteen times

706
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,319
Speaker 1: eight is a dollar twenty So Okay, nine dollars and

707
00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: twenty cents.

708
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 2: I mean, I get it.

709
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: It's expensive as but one time, not that big of

710
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:20,560
Speaker 1: a deal to me. If I buy a soda on

711
00:34:20,600 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 1: the way down there, which I probably wouldn't ID probably

712
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,160
Speaker 1: buy an energy drink, you know that's gonna be three dollars.

713
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: Or you can pay two dollars a month or twenty

714
00:34:28,680 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 1: dollars for a yearly membership and the transaction feed drops

715
00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,000
Speaker 1: to four percent. So if you really want now, I

716
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: get it. If you're traveling these roads all the time,

717
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: you're saying, rich, this is stupid, Why would I need this?

718
00:34:39,520 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: I get it. You have a transponder. You are not

719
00:34:42,200 --> 00:34:42,560
Speaker 2: the toll.

720
00:34:42,640 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: You're not the target of this, but now eventually you

721
00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: might be. Because here's what Uproad is doing. They are

722
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: making this so that every road in America works with

723
00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 1: this app.

724
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:53,560
Speaker 2: That is the goal.

725
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: Now, don't get me started on the whole should we

726
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,600
Speaker 1: have toll roads in general, because I'm not getting into

727
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: that argument. I love the fact that I live in

728
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: LA and the roads are free for the most part,

729
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:06,920
Speaker 1: even though they're crowded. I grew up in New Jersey

730
00:35:06,920 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 1: where everything was a toll. I mean, just to go

731
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:11,839
Speaker 1: to the mall. It would cost Back in the day

732
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: it was twenty five cents each way. Now it's they've

733
00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:16,680
Speaker 1: taken the tolls off one side, and it's like a

734
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,319
Speaker 1: dollar to get to the mall and free to come

735
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,560
Speaker 1: back the mall. Of course that's where you go when

736
00:35:20,600 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: you're in Jersey anyway. That is the uproad situation. I

737
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,000
Speaker 1: think it's brilliant, and I get it.

738
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Speaker 2: You can.

739
00:35:27,640 --> 00:35:30,120
Speaker 1: You can fight change like this all you want, but

740
00:35:30,640 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 1: no pun intended with the tolls. But the reality is

741
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,920
Speaker 1: this makes much more sense to me that you can

742
00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: be on an app instantly up and running in two seconds,

743
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: and versus filling out paperwork or some sort of online

744
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,040
Speaker 1: application for the toll road people waiting for your sticker

745
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: in the mail, putting that sticker onto your car and

746
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 1: using it and then waiting for them to charge you

747
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: and to make sure, Oh did I go through the

748
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,600
Speaker 1: toll on that day? Yeah, I guess that was me.

749
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,800
Speaker 1: Or I can have an instant notification on my phone

750
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: the bill is paid, it's done, boom, and yeah'm paying.

751
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:03,839
Speaker 2: A little premium for that.

752
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:06,400
Speaker 1: But for the three or four times a year that

753
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:08,560
Speaker 1: I might take a toll road and By the way,

754
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: it's a big it's a big argument with me and

755
00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,680
Speaker 1: my wife with these toll roads because when we're going

756
00:36:12,719 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: down to San Diego, she's like, you gotta take the

757
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 1: toll road. It saves twenty minutes. I said, uh ah,

758
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,239
Speaker 1: I don't play that game. I'm not doing the toll road.

759
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: I'm not paying extra. I'm going down and I will

760
00:36:21,920 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: take the regular road. I don't care how much traffic

761
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: I got to sit in. I'm not paying the extra

762
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,680
Speaker 1: eight bucks. Now I probably will because guess what, I'm

763
00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: a sucker for being a tech guy that thinks this

764
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,759
Speaker 1: is really cool and now wants to try it.

765
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:35,600
Speaker 2: So there you got me? All right? Wow?

766
00:36:35,600 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: Am I really heated up on this show today? I

767
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,400
Speaker 1: feel like I am. Oh my gosh, show's almost over. Okay,

768
00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:48,120
Speaker 1: let's see Susan while watching Oh, Susan says, while watching

769
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 1: your segment this morning, I noticed an object on the

770
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:52,880
Speaker 1: desk in your background that may have been one of

771
00:36:52,960 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: the blocks air conditioners I've been reading about. If that's

772
00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:57,800
Speaker 1: indeed what it is.

773
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 2: Do you like it?

774
00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 1: Should I get one? The short hand, sir, Susan is

775
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: absolutely not.

776
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 2: Number one.

777
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,920
Speaker 1: This is not an air conditioner. If you're watching on

778
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: the live stream. What I have behind me is a

779
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: little radio called the Retro Mini from a website called

780
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,839
Speaker 1: MYVQ dot com. This is an homage to the fact

781
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: that I love radio. I've always loved radio since I

782
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: was a kid. If I was not on TV, I

783
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 1: would be on the radio. In fact, I am on

784
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:32,239
Speaker 1: the radio with Kfi twice a week and with Leo

785
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,839
Speaker 1: filling in for him. But I would have a full

786
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:39,440
Speaker 1: time radio job if I want, If I want it now,

787
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:40,400
Speaker 1: someone would have to hire me.

788
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,240
Speaker 2: But the reality is I love radio.

789
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: So that's my homage to the fact that I absolutely

790
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: radio is so near and dear to my heart, and

791
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: podcasting is kind of the closest thing you can get

792
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: to it without actually being on the radio. So anyway,

793
00:37:56,600 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: let me just really quick mention this blocks Blaux air conditioner.

794
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm pronouncing that properly, but I've

795
00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: gotten a lot of emails about this thing, and I

796
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: will tell you. To me, it looks like a utter

797
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,200
Speaker 1: and complete scam. And the reason why I say that

798
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:15,480
Speaker 1: is because Number One, it's a little tiny air conditioner

799
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,880
Speaker 1: that cools off any room. I mean, come on, really,

800
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: Number two. Every you can't find a.

801
00:38:22,719 --> 00:38:23,359
Speaker 2: Review of it.

802
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: That is a red flag when you find I get

803
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,880
Speaker 1: emails about these products all the time. They do huge

804
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 1: social media buys, which means they blast social media with

805
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: advertisements that look so good to be true that you

806
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: want to buy this thing in an instant and you

807
00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: go online, you search for some information about it. You

808
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,320
Speaker 1: can't seem to find anything, but you find the website,

809
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 1: you find some write ups that they have placed, and

810
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: next thing, you know, you want to buy it.

811
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 2: Don't buy it. Don't fall for this stuff.

812
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:53,000
Speaker 1: I see it with headphones, I see it with with

813
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 1: all these things. It's literally if you look, if you

814
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: search Blaux on Google right now, number one ad for it,

815
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: number two ad for it, number three, ad for it,

816
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: number four. Do not buy this on YouTube, Number five

817
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: in Amazon whatever. I don't know how if they sell

818
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: it on there, if it's real or not. Number six

819
00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: AP news, Oh, that sounds promising, you click it. It's

820
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:22,320
Speaker 1: actually a press release that they released to AP news.

821
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,080
Speaker 1: And by the way, they keep doing it because the

822
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: date is constantly updated so it looks fresh. But it's

823
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: completely a scam. The next one Discover magazine, Oh sponsored

824
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:38,479
Speaker 1: Number next one tech Times dot com home reviews. I'm

825
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:40,160
Speaker 1: not sure if that one's legit or not. Maybe it

826
00:39:40,280 --> 00:39:44,600
Speaker 1: is the next one SF Examiner dot com marketplace again

827
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:49,600
Speaker 1: some kind of sponsored placement. The next one MarketWatch sponsored

828
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,640
Speaker 1: next one Mercurynews dot com sounds legit four days ago,

829
00:39:53,760 --> 00:39:54,480
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh.

830
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:55,400
Speaker 2: Sponsored.

831
00:39:55,640 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: These folks run such a smart marketing campaign that look

832
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: like it's hip and it's fresh, and people are buying

833
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: it and it's up to date. Do not fall for

834
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,520
Speaker 1: this stuff, folks, Google when you look at it, you

835
00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 1: really have to analyze what you are looking at. When

836
00:40:10,680 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: you see Google, look for reviews from real places. What

837
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:18,439
Speaker 1: do I mean realplaces? Cnet dot com I know, kind

838
00:40:18,440 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 1: of old school used to work there, still near and

839
00:40:20,239 --> 00:40:26,799
Speaker 1: dear to my heart, the Verge, Wirecutter, tech crunch, digitize,

840
00:40:26,800 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: all these websites, digital trends. They are going to review

841
00:40:30,040 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: something that is sort of in the main consumer spotlight

842
00:40:34,239 --> 00:40:37,240
Speaker 1: myself news channels. You don't see any of that stuff

843
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:39,719
Speaker 1: with this air conditioner. If this portable air conditioner was

844
00:40:39,760 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 1: as good as it says it is, wouldn't you see

845
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: a bunch of reviews for it?

846
00:40:43,400 --> 00:40:44,319
Speaker 2: Do not buy that thing.

847
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:47,279
Speaker 1: I know, I'm going off on kind of a tangent here,

848
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,360
Speaker 1: but it just gets me so angry that it's so

849
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 1: easy to make something look so amazing nowadays in the

850
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: online world. This is why I like people like myself

851
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,239
Speaker 1: and other tech reviewers, is that you find someone that

852
00:41:02,280 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: you like, you find someone that you trust. I'm not

853
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:06,000
Speaker 1: gonna build your trust overnight.

854
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 2: That doesn't happen.

855
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,279
Speaker 1: You don't just see me on Instagram and say, oh,

856
00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:11,719
Speaker 1: Rich posted something cool, let me trust him now.

857
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 2: No, it takes years to build that trust or months.

858
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: And so to me, my thing has always been that

859
00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: I want to show you stuff that I think is

860
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: important for.

861
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 2: You to know.

862
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: That's what I do in this podcast, That's why I

863
00:41:25,360 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: do in my tech report, and I want to explain

864
00:41:27,560 --> 00:41:29,120
Speaker 1: stuff to you. And when I start seeing a bunch

865
00:41:29,120 --> 00:41:31,399
Speaker 1: of emails about this stuff, yeah, you're gonna find someone

866
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: on YouTube that says it's amazing, But do you know

867
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 1: who that person is. That's what you have to be

868
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:37,560
Speaker 1: careful about. In today's day and age. There's a lot

869
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Speaker 1: of opinions out there. Not all of them are good. Okay, wow,

870
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: I can't believe we're almost done here. I didn't even

871
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:45,520
Speaker 1: get through half of my stuff, all right. I want

872
00:41:45,520 --> 00:41:48,200
Speaker 1: you to mention this because I thought this was really cool.

873
00:41:48,239 --> 00:41:51,919
Speaker 1: If you have a pet. Lemonade is a high tech

874
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: insurance company. And I know that because they pitched me

875
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:57,680
Speaker 1: back in the day when they first started and it

876
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 1: sounded just too good to be true. I believe that,

877
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,319
Speaker 1: I don't want to let me see. I believe that

878
00:42:04,400 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: Ashton Kutcher was literally one of the original like investors

879
00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:11,719
Speaker 1: in this. When they first sent it to me, it

880
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 1: was like, wait what And if you want to look

881
00:42:14,120 --> 00:42:16,880
Speaker 1: at like, oh I can't, that's really tough to search

882
00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: Lemonade in your email. Lemonade Insurance I NSU are a c.

883
00:42:23,880 --> 00:42:26,799
Speaker 1: When you look at this insurance as homeowner's insurance, it's

884
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: really cheap and you wonder, oh, yeah, Ashton Kutcher backed.

885
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's still an investor or not,

886
00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: but this launched back in twenty seventeen, and they are

887
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: all digital. So to get this insurance, you go on

888
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 1: their website or their app, and it is fantastic. It's

889
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:48,360
Speaker 1: really pretty amazing actually, and it's insurance for renters.

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00:42:48,040 --> 00:42:49,680
Speaker 2: And also homeowners.

891
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:53,279
Speaker 1: And what they do is they kind of they take

892
00:42:53,320 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 1: a twenty percent flat fee of your rates and you returned.

893
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: They return unclaimed money in an annual give back and

894
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: they give them money to like, I think charity or

895
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't know, whatever somewhere.

896
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 2: But it's really pretty slick.

897
00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: And when you try it out and you get your

898
00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:08,800
Speaker 1: quote for your homeowners, you're gonna be like, why is

899
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: this half of what I'm paying or you know, forty

900
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: percent or what I'm paying or sixty percent whatever it is.

901
00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: But it's legit, it's real, and they have, you know,

902
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 1: it's technology on their side. They've taken all the inefficiencies

903
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 1: of your standard insurance from big companies and they just said,

904
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,920
Speaker 1: how can we make this more efficient using technology?

905
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:26,440
Speaker 2: And they did it.

906
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: So now they're doing health insurance for cats and dogs. Again,

907
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: I don't generally recommend dog or pet insurance, but a

908
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:35,359
Speaker 1: lot of people like it, and I if I had

909
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 1: a pet at this point, I might think about getting

910
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: this because it's starting at twelve dollars a month. You

911
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:46,239
Speaker 1: can get it for new customers, existing customers, and it

912
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,439
Speaker 1: just you know, it covers a bunch of stuff and

913
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's a it's a hassle.

914
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:52,759
Speaker 2: Fleet If I.

915
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: Was going to buy pet insurance, I would do this,

916
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,280
Speaker 1: so you sign up digitally. It's available in thirty three states.

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00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,319
Speaker 1: It's artific intelligence powered, so a lot of times you

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00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,440
Speaker 1: can submit a claim on Lemonade if you know your

919
00:44:05,480 --> 00:44:07,359
Speaker 1: cat or dog needed something and they would like pay

920
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,480
Speaker 1: you out in like five minutes. I mean, this is

921
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: how crazy advanced their system is because they use artificial

922
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:16,200
Speaker 1: intelligence to figure out, Okay, you said your cat broke

923
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,360
Speaker 1: their foot. We've seen this before. We don't think you're lying. Okay,

924
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: here's your money.

925
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 2: There you go. It's that fast.

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm not saying I've experienced with that, but I've

927
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Speaker 1: seen I've been following them throughout the years, and that's

928
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: kind of what they say. And the okay, so they

929
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:32,640
Speaker 1: do lightning fast claims, best in class customer service, and

930
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 1: a donation of leftover premiums go to animal focused charities

931
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Speaker 1: Customers care about Again.

932
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Speaker 2: It starts at twelve dollars a month, and you can do.

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Speaker 1: Unique add ons, including a Preventative and Wellness package designed

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Speaker 1: to keep your pet healthy, which includes the costs of

935
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:53,600
Speaker 1: routine wellness exams and vaccines. The Extended Accident and Illness

936
00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:59,839
Speaker 1: Package covers pets recovery, including more advanced treatments and veterinary care.

937
00:45:00,080 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: You know, if you've had a pet, which I've had

938
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: a pet in the past, believe me, they can get

939
00:45:05,840 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: very expensive. My father in law, long story short, but

940
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: we had a dog and we moved to New York

941
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,279
Speaker 1: City and we couldn't have a dog in New York

942
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,799
Speaker 1: in our place, so my in laws took our dog.

943
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: They watched her for many years, but we would still

944
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: take care of her when it came to the vet

945
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 1: and bills and all that stuff because they were watching her.

946
00:45:23,080 --> 00:45:24,600
Speaker 1: So you get a call from your father in law

947
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: and like a Friday afternoon, he's like, rich, Ali's paw

948
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 1: is looking like she might have stepped in something or

949
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: done something to it. It looks like it's kind of painful, okay,

950
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: And it's like you bring her to the vet and

951
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: it's seven hundred dollars later because her toenail was impacted

952
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: or whatever it was she broke. I don't know, but

953
00:45:41,680 --> 00:45:43,360
Speaker 1: it's those little things. And if you have a pet,

954
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,399
Speaker 1: you know, those happen all the time. Maybe not all

955
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 1: the time, but they happen. And so if you have insurance,

956
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: maybe it would cover something like that. And yes, you're

957
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 1: paying for insurance on a monthly basis, but hopefully the

958
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,800
Speaker 1: amount you pay, maybe it's ten percent of the fee

959
00:45:56,840 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 1: of whatever the seven hundred dollars is. It's seventy bucks

960
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: at that time versus the seven hundred, it could be

961
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: worth it. So anyway, Lemonade dot com slash pets, am

962
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:08,840
Speaker 1: I guessing, I'm guessing, or just go to let me

963
00:46:08,880 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: just say, is it lemonade Lemonade dot com and you

964
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:17,239
Speaker 1: can just go on and look for where they have. Yeah,

965
00:46:17,320 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 1: pet insurance is Lemonade dot com slash pets and you

966
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:23,640
Speaker 1: can just go ahead and get your quote right away

967
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: if you have a pet. So good information there. And

968
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,919
Speaker 1: Tony by the way, on the Live podcast said, I've

969
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: used Lemonade very easy and cheap. I've had my Facebook

970
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 1: page for a couple of years now, and you get

971
00:46:37,000 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: to know certain people. And it's funny because now Facebook

972
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:44,399
Speaker 1: tags people with either something called topfan or valued commenter or.

973
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 2: Little things like that.

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00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: You know the people that regularly check your page, which

975
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:50,719
Speaker 1: is kind of cool because the idea is that if

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00:46:50,719 --> 00:46:53,600
Speaker 1: you see a comment from them or a topfan badge,

977
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,960
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be more app to kind of notice that

978
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:59,040
Speaker 1: and respond to it because you're sort of giving your

979
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 1: time to me looking at my stuff and sharing it,

980
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 1: and then I should give you some more of my

981
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:06,239
Speaker 1: time and attention because you're a top fan and it

982
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: makes sense. Facebook is brilliant at this stuff. So I

983
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:12,520
Speaker 1: do recognize some of the regular names I see as

984
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: we go along. I don't always get to say something

985
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 1: to you, but you're there and I do appreciate you.

986
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: And by the way, when I first started my Facebook page,

987
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: which I'll never forget, the morning I was at KTLA,

988
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: I was talking to my producer Jacob back in the day,

989
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 1: and I was like, should I start a Facebook page?

990
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: It's like sure, And I couldn't imagine having even more than, like,

991
00:47:31,640 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: you know, a couple thousand followers on my page. That

992
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,840
Speaker 1: would be amazing, right, like five thousand. I was expecting

993
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: maybe a couple hundred. And now when you look at

994
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 1: the page it is up to which.

995
00:47:45,160 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 2: Is just wild.

996
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 1: Let me see here on my Facebook, six hundred and

997
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: ninety five thousand, one hundred and three, six hundred and

998
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:57,480
Speaker 1: ninety five thousand people could potentially see what I say

999
00:47:57,520 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: on Facebook. Now that doesn't always happen. My stuff is

1000
00:48:00,760 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: shown to an average, I would say a good post

1001
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,840
Speaker 1: is probably it tells you how many people see it.

1002
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:10,600
Speaker 1: A good post is probably seen by about fifty thousand people.

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00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: Average post I would say for me is probably twenty

1004
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: five to thirty thousand people. A great post like my

1005
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,400
Speaker 1: Nintendo post the other day, four hundred thousand people.

1006
00:48:21,400 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 2: A really good post.

1007
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,680
Speaker 1: Okay, So the most engaging post from this month this

1008
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:29,720
Speaker 1: little inside baseball but kind of fun four hundred thousand people,

1009
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:31,799
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty thousand people, one hundred and twenty

1010
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:34,399
Speaker 1: one thousand people. So it tells you how many people

1011
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: saw it, and then how many people actually did something

1012
00:48:36,719 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: with that post. They call it engagements and so on

1013
00:48:39,640 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: that post. So out of four hundred thousand people that

1014
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: saw my lego post, twenty two thousand people decided to

1015
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: do something with it, which is comment, share or like it.

1016
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:51,239
Speaker 1: On my post that had one hundred and forty two

1017
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 1: thousand people that saw it, twenty thousand people decided to

1018
00:48:54,600 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: do something. So what I'm trying to say here is

1019
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,240
Speaker 1: just because you have huge followings on the social media

1020
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: platforms does not mean that all those people see what

1021
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:07,200
Speaker 1: you do or even care about what you do. So

1022
00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,919
Speaker 1: that is why I continue to fight and really try

1023
00:49:09,960 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: to post the best content that I can because the

1024
00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: better stuff you post, the more people that interact with it,

1025
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 1: the more that Facebook shows it to more people, and

1026
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,360
Speaker 1: it goes on and on. So that is how it

1027
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: all works. And now that you've listened to the end

1028
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 1: of the show, you get little tidbits of stuff like that,

1029
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,439
Speaker 1: and Kenya believe it, the show is over. That's gonna

1030
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,359
Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the show. If you'd

1031
00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:34,759
Speaker 1: like to submit a question for me to answer, all

1032
00:49:34,800 --> 00:49:37,000
Speaker 1: you have to do is go to rich on tech

1033
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:40,480
Speaker 1: dot tv and hit the little email button at.

1034
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:41,760
Speaker 2: The bottom of the page.

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00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:44,239
Speaker 1: And yes, as a guy from Jersey, it takes a

1036
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: lot for me to say the word button like that.

1037
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:51,320
Speaker 1: I would say button, but you know sometimes people judge

1038
00:49:51,320 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: me for that. We would love it if you would

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Speaker 1: rate and review this podcast to help other people discover it.

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Speaker 1: We've got one hundred and seventy seven ratings on iTunes

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Speaker 1: and by the way, five stars. So if you want

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1044
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1045
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,960
Speaker 1: can just go to iTunes and do it and I'll

1046
00:50:15,000 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: read those on a future show. You can find me

1047
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 1: online everywhere at rich on Tech. My name is rich

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Speaker 1: smiro On, behalf of everyone that gets this show to

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00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:24,040
Speaker 1: your ears.

1050
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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for listening. We'll talk to you real

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Speaker 2: soon