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Speaker 1: It's also the place where I answer the questions that

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro with you tech reporter at KTLA Channel five

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. If you're listening for the first time, welcome.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening for the one hundredth time, I'm sorry now,

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Speaker 1: things happening in the DeMuro house. It is the slide

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Speaker 1: costs like really worth it. And so here's the movies,

435
00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,720
Speaker 1: the little things. Let's see I don't even know some

436
00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,119
Speaker 1: of these movies, Tom and Jerry, Godzilla Versus Kong, Mortal Kombat,

437
00:21:15,880 --> 00:21:22,760
Speaker 1: The Conjuring, Let's see Dune, that's gonna be a good one,

438
00:21:22,840 --> 00:21:25,480
Speaker 1: Matrix four. So not every movie on here. I didn't

439
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,200
Speaker 1: mention everyone because I don't really know all of them.

440
00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:30,280
Speaker 1: I don't really follow too many movies. But it just

441
00:21:30,320 --> 00:21:32,360
Speaker 1: sounds awesome. I know they're doing wonder Woman. I talked

442
00:21:32,359 --> 00:21:34,800
Speaker 1: about it that that's gonna be on Christmas Day, so

443
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool. So what they're doing is

444
00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,440
Speaker 1: again they released the movie in the theater, it's gonna

445
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,880
Speaker 1: be on HBO Max for one month, and then it's

446
00:21:41,920 --> 00:21:44,280
Speaker 1: gonna come off HBO Max and sort of go through

447
00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:49,639
Speaker 1: what they call the the platform Windows or whatever. So

448
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:51,600
Speaker 1: it's gonna go to like, you know, Video on Demand

449
00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:54,440
Speaker 1: and then Blu Ray and then finally make its way

450
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Speaker 1: back to HBO Max eventually, or maybe be sold to

451
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Speaker 1: like different products like you know who Hulu or are

452
00:22:01,920 --> 00:22:02,640
Speaker 1: what's the other one?

453
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 2: I subscribed to?

454
00:22:04,680 --> 00:22:07,400
Speaker 1: All these things? There's so many now, Oh Netflix, Oh yeah,

455
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:11,560
Speaker 1: remember Netflix? Remember that one. But I think it's pretty cool.

456
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Speaker 1: They're gonna do this for twenty twenty one. It's a

457
00:22:13,920 --> 00:22:16,160
Speaker 1: one year plan. It's not you know, they're not doing

458
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,280
Speaker 1: it forever, so to say, but they're just gonna see

459
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Speaker 1: how it works.

460
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:22,359
Speaker 2: And this will be a cool.

461
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Speaker 1: Thing for consumers. And I am sad because I love

462
00:22:26,000 --> 00:22:28,640
Speaker 1: the movie theater. I love movie theater popcorn, I love

463
00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 1: sitting there. But it's something we can't do, nor do

464
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:33,239
Speaker 1: I do as much as I'd like to do it.

465
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: And so if I can watch these new movies at home,

466
00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. It's different, it's not the same,

467
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:41,840
Speaker 1: but there are some benefits to watching at home. And

468
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Speaker 1: we will all see how much we like this in

469
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. All right, Next question comes from Chris.

470
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Speaker 1: Why does Apple Music? Apple keep putting music in my

471
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Speaker 1: music from a certain artist? You too, I delete it

472
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:03,840
Speaker 1: every time, but their music keeps coming into my music

473
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Speaker 1: when I play my music shuffled. I've never downloaded any

474
00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:08,359
Speaker 1: of their music. I don't really care for them. As

475
00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 1: far as I can see, I'm not being charged for

476
00:23:10,600 --> 00:23:13,560
Speaker 1: the download. I'm just curious why music was added to

477
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Speaker 1: my music. Great podcast, Keep up the good work.

478
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Speaker 2: PS.

479
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Speaker 1: I get your newsletter, but sporadically, Chris, Well, Chris, to

480
00:23:20,960 --> 00:23:23,680
Speaker 1: answer your newsletter question, I do that usually every other week,

481
00:23:24,040 --> 00:23:26,440
Speaker 1: and so it may seem sporadic. And sometimes if I'm

482
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 1: off on that Friday when i'm doing it, I'm you know,

483
00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: I don't do it, or I'm away for the weekend.

484
00:23:30,920 --> 00:23:32,320
Speaker 2: But thank you for the newsletter.

485
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Speaker 1: You can subscribe at richon tech dot substack dot com.

486
00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:40,760
Speaker 1: It's free and it's it's pretty much this podcast. It's like,

487
00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:42,399
Speaker 1: you know what I talk about, what I think you

488
00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,119
Speaker 1: should know about, just kind of in text. Okay, to

489
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Speaker 1: answer your question about you two, this was a couple

490
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: of years ago. I mean, Chris, you're kind of a

491
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:55,639
Speaker 1: little bit behind on this one. But you two performed

492
00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:58,280
Speaker 1: at an Apple event many years ago which I happen

493
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Speaker 1: to be at. They were at Oh my gosh, this

494
00:24:00,920 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: was in twenty fourteen, and I was there and I

495
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,800
Speaker 1: remember they said, and now you two is up on

496
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: stage and wow, okay, boom YouTube performs, which is kind

497
00:24:10,680 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: of cool. And then they said, and by the way,

498
00:24:12,920 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 1: we are gifting everyone their latest album in their Apple

499
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Speaker 1: Music You open your iPhone and boom, it's magically there.

500
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Speaker 1: And I'll admit I never really listened to it, and

501
00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: I didn't really care for it, but whatever, I mean,

502
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:26,440
Speaker 1: it was fine.

503
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Speaker 2: A lot of people like you too. I mean, I

504
00:24:28,320 --> 00:24:31,560
Speaker 2: like a lot of their music. I just don't seek

505
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Speaker 2: it out per se.

506
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Speaker 1: But the album it irked a lot of people saying, hey,

507
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Speaker 1: how dare you put this in my music collection. Well,

508
00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:41,679
Speaker 1: they had a way to get rid of it. They

509
00:24:41,720 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 1: had like this little tool that you can use to

510
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Speaker 1: get rid of it, and they they got rid of

511
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,399
Speaker 1: the tool like a couple of years ago, and so

512
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:53,520
Speaker 1: you can no longer use this tool to get it

513
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Speaker 1: out of your collection. So what you have to do

514
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Speaker 1: if you really want to get rid of this, Chris,

515
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Speaker 1: is contact Apple Music Support or Apple Support and they

516
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,359
Speaker 1: will help you get it out of your collection. No,

517
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,320
Speaker 1: you can't get rid of it by deleting it. It's

518
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:06,360
Speaker 1: just there forever.

519
00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:08,159
Speaker 2: And let me see. I'm gonna open up my.

520
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Speaker 1: iTunes or what's it called Apple Music now, the music app,

521
00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:13,000
Speaker 1: and let's see.

522
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Speaker 2: Do I still have my library albums?

523
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Speaker 1: Oh?

524
00:25:17,359 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 2: There it is the first thing in my.

525
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Speaker 1: First thing in my album in my library is YouTube

526
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:25,639
Speaker 1: songs of Innocence.

527
00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:29,840
Speaker 2: And I don't know how to get rid of it.

528
00:25:29,880 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 2: Delete from library. Let's see what happens.

529
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: Are you sure you'd like to hide this item? This

530
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Speaker 1: item will be hidden from your iTunes purchases.

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Speaker 2: Hide Boom.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's gone, all right, so just do that. You

533
00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: don't have to contact Apple if it comes back. It

534
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Speaker 1: comes back, But it seems like it's gone. Seems like

535
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:46,560
Speaker 1: all you have to do is hide it. Yeah, it's

536
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,920
Speaker 1: not there anymore. So just go into your iTunes press

537
00:25:50,000 --> 00:25:53,080
Speaker 1: hide album, and boom, it's hidden forever.

538
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:54,919
Speaker 2: All right. Now.

539
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Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier that I love Whyse. I really really

540
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Speaker 1: like what Wyse is doing. I think that they're just

541
00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: it's really really doing a great job with their products.

542
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:07,359
Speaker 1: I think they work really nicely, and I love the

543
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,359
Speaker 1: integration with Google. So they are coming out with a

544
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Speaker 1: twenty dollars smart watch, twenty dollars smart watch with a

545
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Speaker 1: nine day battery life. It's called the Wise Watch. It

546
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: comes in two sizes. It does most of the things

547
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Speaker 1: that you need a smart watch to do, including blood

548
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: oxygen monitoring, heart rate tracking. It's got water and dust resistance.

549
00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 1: It's got your activity tracking, it's got sleep tracking. It

550
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,160
Speaker 1: works with Google Fit and Apple Health, and it will

551
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Speaker 1: also let you control the Wise products from your wrist,

552
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Speaker 1: so that's cool. It works with notifications. It's got all

553
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: the apps that it works with, so you can get

554
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Speaker 1: the notifications you need on your wrist. And this is

555
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: coming in February. I emailed Wise immediately. I said, you

556
00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:53,520
Speaker 1: got to get me on this list. You got to

557
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Speaker 1: extend me one of these things as soon as it's available,

558
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Speaker 1: because I'm going to get a bazillion questions about it.

559
00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:00,560
Speaker 1: They said, sure, So I should be get this thing,

560
00:27:00,840 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: hopefully early next year. It's shipping in February. Pre Orders

561
00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,080
Speaker 1: are open now. You know, I find pre orders to

562
00:27:08,119 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: be a tricky thing for the average consumer. I am

563
00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: I am privileged in the fact that I can get

564
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Speaker 1: things before a lot of people and test them out

565
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: and form opinions on them before a lot of people

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Speaker 1: have to pony up their actual hard earned cash. Now

567
00:27:22,640 --> 00:27:24,920
Speaker 1: that's part of my job, so I mean, that's what

568
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,639
Speaker 1: I do. And it's a good thing at the end

569
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Speaker 1: of the day for consumers because you know, I can

570
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Speaker 1: tell you what you think in that timeframe of the

571
00:27:32,560 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: pre order. Now, with a lot of pre orders, it's

572
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: tricky because you're buying stuff sight onseen and with something

573
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:41,280
Speaker 1: like the Wise Watch, now it's twenty bucks, so it's

574
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: not that much money. And if you bought it and

575
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: you hated it, yeah, you just return the thing, or

576
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:48,399
Speaker 1: even at the very worst, you know, give it to

577
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:50,679
Speaker 1: a friend, or you lost twenty dollars if you just

578
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:52,359
Speaker 1: stomp on it and say, this is the worst thing

579
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: I've ever spent my money on.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna happen, but you know it could.

581
00:27:56,920 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 2: And so.

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Speaker 1: Twenty dollars pretty amazing. We need a good, cheap smart watch.

583
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,920
Speaker 1: I reviewed one earlier this year called the Let's Fit,

584
00:28:06,359 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: which was decent. I like their headphones a lot better.

585
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: The watch was just okay. But so far I've not

586
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: come across a good, good, good alternative to the Apple Watch,

587
00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,240
Speaker 1: and this might be it. I don't think it's gonna

588
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,679
Speaker 1: be the end all, but as an alternative, it's a

589
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,119
Speaker 1: pretty good thing for twenty dollars that you know, a

590
00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:23,720
Speaker 1: lot of people just want to track their steps.

591
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 2: They want to you know. I mean, it does blood.

592
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Speaker 1: Oxygen, does heart rate. I mean, they've got some good

593
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: stuff on here. So the main thing it does not have,

594
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Speaker 1: and why it would probably be a deal breaker for me,

595
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: is that it does not have GPS tracking. They were

596
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:39,760
Speaker 1: not clear if it's going to have excuse me, if

597
00:28:39,760 --> 00:28:42,680
Speaker 1: it's gonna have GPS tracking with your watch nearby or

598
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: your phone nearby, which is how fippits the cheap ones.

599
00:28:45,320 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 2: Do it there.

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Speaker 1: I would assume that'd be the case, but it may

601
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Speaker 1: not be. So I'm trying to remember with the the

602
00:28:51,960 --> 00:28:55,080
Speaker 1: Wyse band, which is twenty five dollars, how they did it.

603
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 1: I think I gotta see if I gotta try that

604
00:28:58,560 --> 00:28:59,640
Speaker 1: again and see what happens.

605
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 2: But I don't know. We'll see.

606
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,920
Speaker 1: It looks nice and hopefully I think the thing that

607
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,560
Speaker 1: will set this apart is the software. So a lot

608
00:29:06,600 --> 00:29:10,040
Speaker 1: of these cheap smart watches you get the software is

609
00:29:10,120 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: just terrible. Makes for a bad experience. Whys you know

610
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: it's crafted up in Seattle. So if it's a good

611
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 1: experience and good software, maybe it will kind of put

612
00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: this thing above some of these cheap things and they

613
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,880
Speaker 1: can have a really good watch at a very inexpensive price.

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Speaker 1: So wise watch. Continue to kind of keep track of

615
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Speaker 1: that one and just see how it progresses, because I

616
00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: have high hopes for it.

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Speaker 2: We'll see how it does, all right.

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Speaker 1: David says, do you have any hacks for stopping spam texts?

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Speaker 1: I used to get a lot of spam calls. For

620
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Speaker 1: some reason, they've dropped off, but now I'm getting a

621
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: lot of spam texts all hours of the night.

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Speaker 2: Is there an answer? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Spam text, spam calls, it's a problem. My wife gets

625
00:30:00,120 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: so many of these spam calls. I get a couple,

626
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Speaker 1: not as many as you think for someone that I

627
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Speaker 1: feel like I've had my phone number for a long time,

628
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Speaker 1: and I you know, I don't know, I don't get

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Speaker 1: that many. Even spam texts, I don't get that many.

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Speaker 1: So if you're getting a lot of these things, I

631
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Speaker 1: would recommend two things. Number one, if you have an iPhone,

632
00:30:17,360 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 1: you can turn on a filter that's called filter messages

633
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Speaker 1: from unknown senders, and that I believe is let's see,

634
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Speaker 1: is that inside the phone app could be inside the

635
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Speaker 1: phone Let's see. Okay, So go into messages and it

636
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Speaker 1: says filter onknown senders.

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Speaker 2: Just flip that on.

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Speaker 1: And the only thing I don't like about this is

639
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:43,320
Speaker 1: that there's they put these into a new tab in

640
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Speaker 1: your messages, your I Messages app, and it's kind of

641
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,840
Speaker 1: like you forget about these things because sometimes some of

642
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:53,080
Speaker 1: these things do go into the unknown folder and it's

643
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 1: from people that you actually do want to talk to.

644
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Speaker 1: So I think, you know, they're using their serious smarts

645
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: to kind of identify numbers that you've never done any

646
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 1: business with or that have never appeared in your email.

647
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 2: So it should work a.

648
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Speaker 1: Majority of the time, but it's not always going to

649
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,000
Speaker 1: be perfect. Just know that going into this. The other thing,

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Speaker 1: if you're an Android, I would recommend using the Google

651
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:16,920
Speaker 1: Messages app. They've got spam filtering built into their messages

652
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Speaker 1: app and it's Google, so they're smart and googly and

653
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Speaker 1: so that should work pretty well on the Android side

654
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Speaker 1: of things. And that is the Google Messages app just

655
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: because you have a messages app on your phone, it

656
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean it's the Google one. It might be Samsung's,

657
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: it might be a third party. But if you want,

658
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: you can switch to the Google one and get their

659
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Speaker 1: spam protection and it is built right in and it's free.

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Speaker 2: So that's what I'd recommend. David, good luck with the spam.

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Speaker 1: This is a really cool feature that is coming to

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Speaker 1: the Amazon Fire TV Cube. It's it's limited, but I

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00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: still want to talk about it because I still think

664
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Speaker 1: it's like, we need this, especially with this pandemic going on.

665
00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: Everyone's doing video calls. Well, Fire TV cube second generation

666
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: Fire TV cubes can now accommodate a webcam, and so

667
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:11,640
Speaker 1: what does that mean you can use I'm just gonna

668
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:13,800
Speaker 1: look up how much a fire TV cube is. You

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Speaker 1: can use a webcam on your TV, which means you

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00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: can make video calls on your TV, which I've been

671
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,680
Speaker 1: waiting for forever. No one seems to have figured this

672
00:32:21,760 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 1: out in a big way. Oh wow, Fire TV Cube

673
00:32:24,240 --> 00:32:26,600
Speaker 1: is eighty bucks. I thought this was more like one twenty,

674
00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: but eighty dollars. Oh used to be one twenty right

675
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,440
Speaker 1: now it's eighty I might actually buy one of these

676
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: things from my mom right now, because I want to

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Speaker 1: do this. I want her to have a webcam on

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Speaker 1: her TV. If she's okay with it. I'm not sure

679
00:32:39,960 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: I get it. It's a little privacy insensitive because you've

680
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,040
Speaker 1: got a you know, a camera staring at you on

681
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: your TV all day. But you can get one with

682
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: a little slider thing that you know, covers up the lens.

683
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Speaker 1: You don't feel like big brother's watching you all day.

684
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Speaker 1: But you plug the webcam into the back of the

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Speaker 1: into the back of the fire TV cube. It says, oh,

686
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: you plugged in a webcam. Here, let's set up video

687
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: came and you can video call in a couple different ways.

688
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 2: The main way that it seems.

689
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: You can do it is through the Alexa, their own

690
00:33:08,640 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: sort of homegrown video calling. And this means that anyone

691
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Speaker 1: on the other end that has the Alexa Alexa stop.

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Speaker 2: I gotta do that.

693
00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:27,720
Speaker 1: Oh she really likes to listen, so anyway, Alexa stand down.

694
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 2: Oh wow, she really okay.

695
00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: Remind me to she goes, I'm not guarding your home.

696
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 1: Remind me to turn off. I gotta press the microphone

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00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,320
Speaker 1: mute on there next time. Anyway, I'll try not to

698
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: say her name anymore. Anyway, you plug in the webcam

699
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 1: and you can call someone with this app, so all

700
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 1: they need is the app on their phone and you'd

701
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 1: be able to call them, which is pretty cool, so

702
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: you don't have to like you know, most people have

703
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,200
Speaker 1: like an Amazon account, so they can just sign in

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Speaker 1: through that use it on their phone, or if you

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Speaker 1: have an Echo device like one of their Echo display devices,

706
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: it'll work through that. And hopefully as this thing gets

707
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: more robust, you'll be able to do more things like

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00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:13,240
Speaker 1: maybe use Skype or maybe use Zoom and call anyone

709
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:16,400
Speaker 1: that way. But anyway, it's very early stage. It's not

710
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 1: very simple. I don't think this is going to be

711
00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,959
Speaker 1: the end all with this, but I think it's cool

712
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: to have this as an option because it's pretty much,

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Speaker 1: I think, at this point, the most inexpensive option for

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00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 1: adding video calling to your TV eighty dollars plus a webcam,

715
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 1: which is probably they gave a list of them that works,

716
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:35,120
Speaker 1: but could probably maybe get one for you anywhere from

717
00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: fifty to one hundred bucks. And yes it's expensive, but

718
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 1: it's still a nice solution. And I think the problem

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00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 1: with all of these solutions are that is it something

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Speaker 1: that someone that is not very tech savvy can sign

721
00:34:47,400 --> 00:34:48,440
Speaker 1: up for and set up.

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00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 2: Probably not, but it's a step in the right direction.

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Speaker 1: And this is what makes it so complicated, because I

724
00:34:53,600 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 1: want to set this up for my mom today because

725
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 1: it's so much easier to just video call on the couch,

726
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: But you know that would require me flying home to

727
00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: New Jersey, breaking all the rules, meeting with my mom,

728
00:35:04,120 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: who I don't want to put at risk, and setting

729
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: this thing up, and I just can't do that. So

730
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Speaker 1: it's like this catch twenty two situation we're in right now,

731
00:35:12,080 --> 00:35:15,080
Speaker 1: where we're getting these things that can help us communicate

732
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,359
Speaker 1: during this pandemic, but it's really tough to set up

733
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Speaker 1: for the people that need them the most, which is

734
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:21,600
Speaker 1: people like my mom that I live far away from

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00:35:21,640 --> 00:35:23,400
Speaker 1: that I want to stay in touch with, but I

736
00:35:23,440 --> 00:35:25,239
Speaker 1: can't go there to set this up for her, and

737
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 1: she's not doing herself. You need a compatible webcam, a

738
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Speaker 1: micro USB to USB adapter, and your fire TV cube.

739
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, hey, Mom, just pull that micro USB

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00:35:37,719 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: to USB adapter you got laying in the drawer there. No,

741
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: of course she doesn't have that, nobody has that. I do,

742
00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,719
Speaker 1: actually do I have micro USB to USB. Probably not,

743
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 1: that's yeah, I probably don't have that if I can

744
00:35:49,360 --> 00:35:53,640
Speaker 1: order it from Amazon. Kind of cool though. I love

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00:35:53,680 --> 00:35:56,319
Speaker 1: the idea of video chatting on the TV. Also, the

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Speaker 1: other aspect I like of this is that you don't

747
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Speaker 1: have to switch inputs. Uses a fire TV stick, I

748
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:03,520
Speaker 1: would just switch her to the cube and now when

749
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,800
Speaker 1: I video call, it's just like while she's watching TV boom,

750
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: video call incoming. How neat is that you don't have

751
00:36:09,480 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 1: to switch inputs, whereas with something like a standalone device,

752
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: like if you somehow created a webcam that sat on

753
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,120
Speaker 1: your TV that was able to plug into the HDMI,

754
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: you'd still have the issue of changing HDMI inputs. It

755
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: wasn't it wouldn't always be on and ready to go

756
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: to receive calls, because you know, even if the thing

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00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 1: physically or visual visually, even if the thing made an

758
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: audible ring. I mean, how many people are techy enough

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00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 1: to like run over to their TV, pick up the remote,

760
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:40,320
Speaker 1: change to a different input.

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Speaker 2: No, it's just not gonna work. It's not. It's not

762
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Speaker 2: slick enough to do that.

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Speaker 1: And so for this reason, these devices like the Apple TV,

764
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Speaker 1: the Fire TV Roku, where are you Roku, Are you listening.

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00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: You need to let people connect a webcam to your

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00:36:56,719 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: device because they need to be able to see the

767
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: fact that video calls are incoming on their TV screen

768
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: so they can answer them on their TV screen. Nobody

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00:37:06,600 --> 00:37:09,799
Speaker 1: is switching an input to take a video call. It's

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00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:13,280
Speaker 1: just not happening. It's never going to happen. So again,

771
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:15,040
Speaker 1: I get it. There are ways of doing this, but

772
00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:17,840
Speaker 1: you need to make it easy for the average person

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00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: so that they can answer a call. The things we

774
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:25,640
Speaker 1: take for granted that just are very complicated for people

775
00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: that are not Techi. All right, let's see, Elaine says.

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00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: I'm a senior that listens to your broadcasts on TV.

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00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: I use a Dell computer and an iPhone seven. I'd

778
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:38,960
Speaker 1: like to buy a tablet, not an Apple, and would

779
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: like your device on what to buy many thanks Elaine.

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00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: Elaine.

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00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: If you don't want to buy a tablet that's Apple,

782
00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:49,319
Speaker 1: which I'm not sure why, I don't know, I would

783
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: recommend the Amazon Fire HD ten. Well, I'll recommend two.

784
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,040
Speaker 1: I'll actually recommend three. Amazon Fire HG ten. I think

785
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: overall is going to be your best bang for your buck.

786
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Speaker 1: It is a nice, big tablet and it's uh, you know,

787
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:07,240
Speaker 1: a nice big screen. It's relatively inexpensive. It's one hundred

788
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Speaker 1: and eighty nine dollars, which is kind of expensive for

789
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,480
Speaker 1: how much it was during Black Friday sales. It's gone

790
00:38:14,520 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 1: down to ninety dollars. So I would say it sells

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Speaker 1: a lot at one nineteen, so i'd look for that price.

792
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,000
Speaker 1: And it has gone down to ninety over and over

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00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: and over.

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00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,960
Speaker 2: Oh, that's use pricing. I don't want use pricing. That's terrible.

795
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Speaker 2: I just want new okay, just new pricing.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, new pricing. It's gone down to one nineteen,

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00:38:40,080 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: so just look for one nineteen. That's that's the target

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00:38:43,680 --> 00:38:46,120
Speaker 1: price you want. I'm using an app called kipa k

799
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,720
Speaker 1: e e p A on It's an extension that plugs

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Speaker 1: in and it gives you the pricing history on Amazon.

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Speaker 2: I would I would do.

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00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: That if you can. Honey does price history as well.

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00:38:57,320 --> 00:39:03,480
Speaker 1: Let's see what they say. They say, Yeah, one nineteen

804
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: has been about the price. So that's the price you

805
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: want to look for. That's the target one hundred and

806
00:39:07,480 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: nineteen bucks. No problem recommending that. It sounds pretty good.

807
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 1: It does what you need. The only thing is You're

808
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,600
Speaker 1: not gonna have access to all the Google apps easily,

809
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: and so if you're looking for something like Gmail or

810
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,600
Speaker 1: Chrome or Apple or Google Maps, you're just not gonna

811
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Speaker 1: be able to install those easily. Yes, they can be installed,

812
00:39:24,400 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: not easily. And if you're telling me you're not very techy, oh,

813
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: you didn't say you're not very techy. You just said

814
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:31,960
Speaker 1: you're a senior that listens.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know. Maybe you are techie, but you

816
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 2: don't want Apple.

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00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: So the next one i'd recommend is probably the maybe

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00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: a Samsung.

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00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:42,920
Speaker 2: I think it's the A seven tablet.

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00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,160
Speaker 1: I would recommend that one, which is going to give

821
00:39:46,200 --> 00:39:49,440
Speaker 1: you easy access to the Google apps because it does

822
00:39:49,480 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: have Google Play. And at the end of the day,

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00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: I'd say you're best served by going with the gold

824
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 1: standard of tablets, which is an iPad three hundred and

825
00:39:58,360 --> 00:40:02,680
Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars for the iPad ten point two latest generation,

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Speaker 1: which is I believe the eighth generation three hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty nine dollars and many, many times you can find

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Speaker 1: it cheaper if you just go on Google and just

829
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Speaker 1: type you know, iPad and deals and yeah, ten point

830
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Speaker 1: two inch iPad goes down to two ninety nine very often,

831
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Speaker 1: especially on on Amazon. And why I say that is

832
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Speaker 1: because look, Apple invented the tablet.

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Speaker 2: It is the best. You can't get better than an

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Speaker 2: Apple tablet.

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Speaker 1: If you want something that's going to last the longest,

836
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the most compatible with every app out there,

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Speaker 1: It's gonna have the best selection of apps, the best accessories.

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Speaker 2: Go with the iPad.

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Speaker 1: It's a little bit more expensive, but you will get

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00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,520
Speaker 1: your money's worth over the long term because you already

841
00:40:47,560 --> 00:40:49,680
Speaker 1: use an iPhone, so it's gonna it's gonna have some

842
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:52,719
Speaker 1: synergies with that. But I would say go with that.

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00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: If you know, if you're very basic and all you

844
00:40:55,120 --> 00:40:57,800
Speaker 1: want is something that's simple and you know whatever, no frills,

845
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,000
Speaker 1: go with the Amazon Fire HD. But if you want

846
00:41:00,080 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: something that's going to give you the least headaches, I

847
00:41:02,160 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: think the iPad is going to do that. And I

848
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,879
Speaker 1: had a person email or tweet me and said they're

849
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: still using their original original iPad from I mean, how

850
00:41:13,640 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: many years ago did the iPad come out. It's got

851
00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: to be you know, ten years. Maybe I don't know,

852
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,799
Speaker 1: something something wild like that. Yeah, I was working at

853
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,160
Speaker 1: tech Meme, so I think it was ten years, at

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00:41:24,200 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: least ten years. I've been at KTLA for ten years

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00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,239
Speaker 1: and tech Meme was before that, so ten years. I

856
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: remember sitting there watching the unveiling of the tablet. I

857
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: was not at the event, and Steve Jobs on stage

858
00:41:38,840 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: and just you know, this tablet came out and I

859
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:44,880
Speaker 1: just thought to myself, Oh my gosh, they've done it again.

860
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,279
Speaker 1: They have changed the world one more time. They did

861
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: it with the iPhone, now they're doing it with the tablet.

862
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,880
Speaker 1: And I remember going out and buying that immediately. It

863
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: was this big honkin' thick tablet that just was like

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00:41:56,320 --> 00:42:01,719
Speaker 1: a slab of like thick bezel glass and thick aluminum

865
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,799
Speaker 1: on the back that was like kind of brushed. I

866
00:42:03,840 --> 00:42:05,400
Speaker 1: feel like I can't I'm trying to remember if it

867
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: was like a brush like almost like a little grittier

868
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: than the slick.

869
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:09,320
Speaker 2: Stuff they used today.

870
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: But it was just so big and thick, and like

871
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: this thing was like massive, and it was expensive and

872
00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,360
Speaker 1: it just you know, now it was like super slow.

873
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 2: I wonder if I kept that tablet. I probably have

874
00:42:19,560 --> 00:42:20,520
Speaker 2: it somewhere here.

875
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 1: But anyway, Uh, it's just it's come a long way

876
00:42:25,719 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 1: and it's just still the best. They've just continued to

877
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:34,000
Speaker 1: perfect it. And if you want a tablet, the iPad

878
00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: is still the best tablet out there. Oh, speaking of nostalgia,

879
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 1: Google play Music is dead. It's officially dead. I'm not

880
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 1: gonna harp on this too much, but I have a

881
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,720
Speaker 1: fond spot in my heart for Google play Music because

882
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: it was the music app of my choice for many,

883
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:55,680
Speaker 1: many years. And I switched to YouTube Music when the

884
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,840
Speaker 1: writing was on the wall that this was going away.

885
00:42:58,160 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you the one reason, the one reason

886
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:06,319
Speaker 1: why I used Google play Music over anything else was

887
00:43:06,360 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 1: a single playlist from Songza and the playlist was called

888
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: drum roll Please blogged fifty the most buzzed about tracks

889
00:43:18,080 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 1: from the worlds of pop, R and B, hip hop,

890
00:43:20,719 --> 00:43:24,680
Speaker 1: electronic and indie. And the reason I loved blog fifty

891
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: is because I felt like I was so cool knowing

892
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:32,360
Speaker 1: about every major popular song before anyone else in the world,

893
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: and this was my secret way of figuring them out.

894
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 1: I knew every song from every artist before anyone else

895
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,560
Speaker 1: knew about it. And why because I just listened to

896
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:46,160
Speaker 1: this blog fifty and it was what it is and

897
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: it still is. It's still around, it still lives on

898
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,719
Speaker 1: in YouTube music, but Blogged fifty looks at what all

899
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:55,320
Speaker 1: the bloggers are writing about on all these things, like

900
00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: remember I ever hear of like Pitchfork. I don't even

901
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: understand what Pitchfork is saying when they write posts about things.

902
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: It's like it just does. It's not even written in

903
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:06,200
Speaker 1: English to me. But yet somehow they know about the

904
00:44:06,239 --> 00:44:08,640
Speaker 1: hot new artists that are coming out, and it's like

905
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: Pitchfork and stuff like that. They look at all their

906
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,799
Speaker 1: posts and then they come up with this playlist and

907
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's just the playlist that for me define

908
00:44:17,239 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 1: music for so many years. I've gotten a little way

909
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: from it because now I listen to mostly country music

910
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: and thanks to my wife, and now I know every

911
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:28,400
Speaker 1: country artist, and I just have gotten away from like

912
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:30,839
Speaker 1: the Jenny Lewises of the world, and I'm looking through

913
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: their playlist. BTS is on there, Megan the Stallion, Like

914
00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:39,919
Speaker 1: no idea, who that is? Miley Cyrus, I know who

915
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 1: that is, The Weekend, I know who that is. Rico,

916
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: Nasty Goodie Mob, Oh my gosh, I can't believe they're

917
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: still around because Goodie Mob.

918
00:44:48,480 --> 00:44:49,280
Speaker 2: Funny story.

919
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: Many many years ago, I was at USC covering stuff

920
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,799
Speaker 1: for the newspaper, and Goodie Mob invited me to their

921
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,080
Speaker 1: show at the House of Blues, and this was pretty

922
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,560
Speaker 1: much the first like thing I was ever invited to

923
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,800
Speaker 1: as a journalist, and I thought I was so cool.

924
00:45:04,080 --> 00:45:07,000
Speaker 1: I'm at the Goodie Mob show at the House of Blues.

925
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:10,759
Speaker 1: Goodie Mob not necessarily my type of music personally, but

926
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,759
Speaker 1: it was still really awesome to be a part of this.

927
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 1: And after the show, the guys come up to me

928
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 1: and they're like, hey, you want to go come party

929
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:19,799
Speaker 1: with us? And I was like no, and I like

930
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:22,160
Speaker 1: ran away because I was like so scared because here

931
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:25,520
Speaker 1: I am, this little college kid who had no idea

932
00:45:25,560 --> 00:45:28,359
Speaker 1: what Hollywood was all about. Was like literally just off

933
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:31,520
Speaker 1: the plane from New Jersey, and I'm so scared of

934
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: everything in Los Angeles and I'm like.

935
00:45:33,840 --> 00:45:37,720
Speaker 2: Uh, no ah, sorry, i can't party with old people.

936
00:45:38,120 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: These people in Goodie Mob at the time were probably

937
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: like twenty five, They're probably three years older than me.

938
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,799
Speaker 1: And I was so like intimidated. I was such a

939
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 1: little loser. Oh gosh. And now, of course I'd be like, yes,

940
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: oh heck yeah, let me. Where are you going? What

941
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: kind of cool Hollywood Hills party? Are we going to

942
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,880
Speaker 1: let me absorb it all and see what it's all like?

943
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:04,160
Speaker 1: And I was so, oh my gosh, so timid, and

944
00:46:04,280 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: so what what a difference a couple of years and

945
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 1: some experience makes. Right Now, I just say yes to everything,

946
00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: and it somehow sometimes backfires. Anyway, That's why I that's

947
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,760
Speaker 1: why I used Google play Music for so many years,

948
00:46:17,880 --> 00:46:22,520
Speaker 1: and now I've tried Spotify. I also have a subscription

949
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: to Apple Music, and you know, I use them for

950
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: different things. Apple Music mainly for my watch, and I

951
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 1: talked about how I got away from it, but I

952
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,160
Speaker 1: ended up breaking down and getting it again because of

953
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:36,480
Speaker 1: various things.

954
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:39,840
Speaker 2: And also my wife. I hate to you know.

955
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,560
Speaker 1: Anyway, it's a whole big thing. But anyway, so I'm

956
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:42,720
Speaker 1: paying for Apple Music again.

957
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 2: And that's it.

958
00:46:44,040 --> 00:46:47,399
Speaker 1: So you Google music, Google play Music is dead. It's

959
00:46:47,480 --> 00:46:48,600
Speaker 1: now YouTube music.

960
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,759
Speaker 2: And there you have.

961
00:46:50,760 --> 00:47:00,319
Speaker 1: It, all right, let's see, Oh, speaking of playing paying

962
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: for music, Hi, Rich, I'm a regular listener of the

963
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,279
Speaker 1: podcast from Faraway New Jersey, represent Jersey, you know, I'm

964
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:10,200
Speaker 1: from there. I enjoy listening to reviews and tech answers.

965
00:47:10,200 --> 00:47:12,840
Speaker 1: I was listening to the November thirteenth podcast and appreciated

966
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,840
Speaker 1: how you started out expressing that you understand we are

967
00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,879
Speaker 1: in difficult financial times for many Americans. However, I feel

968
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,680
Speaker 1: it was a bit insensitive when you called out the

969
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: uber driver that doesn't pay five dollars a month for Pandora. Yes,

970
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,360
Speaker 1: five dollars is not much, but you don't know the

971
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,040
Speaker 1: financial situation of this person or what this person may

972
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,840
Speaker 1: be doing with that five dollars, maybe paying down credit

973
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: card debt, maybe giving it to charity. I think young

974
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: people are being targeted by companies with messages of just

975
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: a few dollars a month, and as you know, it

976
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: adds up quickly. I think a better message would be

977
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,640
Speaker 1: to give the uber driver props for saying no at

978
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: some point to monthly fees. Just thought i'd share my

979
00:47:46,160 --> 00:47:48,640
Speaker 1: thoughts and perspectives. Thanks for doing what you do and

980
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:52,440
Speaker 1: making it easy to connect, Chris. Chris, I one hundred percent,

981
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:56,080
Speaker 1: one hundred percent understand where you're coming from. And yes,

982
00:47:56,320 --> 00:48:01,120
Speaker 1: maybe my privilege was just showing through my words, and

983
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:06,719
Speaker 1: I totally understand what you're saying. And it's interesting because

984
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,120
Speaker 1: I was there when I was you know, coming up

985
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:17,280
Speaker 1: through the business. I was broke for many, many, many years,

986
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: and I can still tell you exactly what that feels like.

987
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 1: I still am scared every day of you know, where

988
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: I'm going to get my next meal, where I'm going

989
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:28,839
Speaker 1: to you know, how I'm gonna pay for this, How

990
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay for that. It's also one of the

991
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 1: reasons why I found Dave Ramsey in my life and

992
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 1: made it my lifelong goal to not be beholden to

993
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:42,279
Speaker 1: debt and credit cards and companies that just love to

994
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,640
Speaker 1: get you on this monthly payment. And I guess that's

995
00:48:45,680 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: why I don't see the five dollars a month these

996
00:48:49,280 --> 00:48:51,080
Speaker 1: days as so much of a big deal, because I

997
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: know I can stop it at any time. And I

998
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,960
Speaker 1: always say, if I was, you know, unemployed tomorrow, I

999
00:48:57,040 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 1: would Spotify's going, YouTube Music is going, every tiny little subscription,

1000
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:08,720
Speaker 1: HBO Max. It's been nice knowing you, and it's happened

1001
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: before to me. You know, I have been I have

1002
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,880
Speaker 1: been laid off twice in my life and I have

1003
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: left a job once. And so I've been working for

1004
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,600
Speaker 1: you know, twenty years, and in those twenty years, yeah,

1005
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:24,480
Speaker 1: there's been some ups and downs, and I totally totally

1006
00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: get it, and it's not something I talk about all

1007
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,680
Speaker 1: the time. But believe me, I am very cognizant of

1008
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: you know, financial situations of people. And it's a reason

1009
00:49:36,440 --> 00:49:38,799
Speaker 1: why I don't like to judge folks for what they do.

1010
00:49:38,760 --> 00:49:40,080
Speaker 2: And how they choose to do things.

1011
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: And maybe I was going off a little bit on

1012
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:44,280
Speaker 1: a tangent with that five dollars a month for Pandora,

1013
00:49:44,840 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking back to what I said, and I

1014
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: was kind of being a little flippant, I think, And

1015
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:52,920
Speaker 1: so you're right, you know what, I will happily, happily

1016
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: listen to the ads the next time I'm in someone's

1017
00:49:55,480 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 1: car or in a hair studio where they're cutting my hair,

1018
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:01,719
Speaker 1: and you know, I hear ads come up on Pandora.

1019
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 1: You know what, Chris, you are right, And who is

1020
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 1: it for me? You know, who's it for me to

1021
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,879
Speaker 1: judge someone who may not be doing as well as

1022
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: I am. And so you know what, and no matter

1023
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:16,520
Speaker 1: where you are on any level, that should be the case.

1024
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,040
Speaker 1: And so believe me, I ate rice and beans and

1025
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,960
Speaker 1: beans and rice for many years of my life, and

1026
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: the ninety nine cent pizzas and the free food. You know,

1027
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:28,239
Speaker 1: I used to go to these events and if there

1028
00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:30,919
Speaker 1: was free food. It was like the most amazing thing

1029
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: of my life, you know, as a journalist, and it's like, oh,

1030
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,399
Speaker 1: what kind of cheap free eats can I have? And

1031
00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's part of you know, journalism

1032
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,960
Speaker 1: is not the most lucrative job in the world, and

1033
00:50:47,040 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: there are many other jobs that are not as not

1034
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: as great, and so no, I mean, my job is great.

1035
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 1: I love my job, and you know, it's been very

1036
00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,360
Speaker 1: good to me, and so I'm not complaining.

1037
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:01,360
Speaker 2: But I just will say that Chris, you checked.

1038
00:51:01,200 --> 00:51:05,359
Speaker 1: Me, and I totally understand, and you know, that's about

1039
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:07,040
Speaker 1: all I can say on that. And I just want

1040
00:51:07,080 --> 00:51:10,799
Speaker 1: to make it clear that I am very much understanding

1041
00:51:10,960 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: of different backgrounds, and believe me, I worked through my

1042
00:51:15,120 --> 00:51:17,400
Speaker 1: student loans. I worked through my credit card debt, and

1043
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 1: it was not easy and it's something that I wish

1044
00:51:22,320 --> 00:51:26,319
Speaker 1: many many people can do because it is gosh. I

1045
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: remember when I was working in Louisiana, I used to

1046
00:51:30,040 --> 00:51:34,200
Speaker 1: get my paycheck and I was so so messed up

1047
00:51:34,239 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: with my debt and stuff that I used to have

1048
00:51:35,719 --> 00:51:38,480
Speaker 1: to literally pay the credit card companies by a cashier

1049
00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: check because they wouldn't take anything else or a money order,

1050
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: and so I used to have to get my paycheck

1051
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: and secretly i'd run to the post office get my

1052
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:47,360
Speaker 1: little money order and pay my credit cards because I

1053
00:51:47,400 --> 00:51:49,759
Speaker 1: was paying them off. They were all frozen and done,

1054
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: and nobody would give me a credit card at that time,

1055
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:56,560
Speaker 1: and I just it was so like, I was so embarrassed.

1056
00:51:56,640 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 1: I didn't tell anyone because I didn't want anyone to

1057
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: know that I had this. Like now, of course, you know,

1058
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: many more people talk about debt and there's a million

1059
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,680
Speaker 1: podcasts about it, and it's my biggest goal to stay

1060
00:52:06,719 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: out of it at this point.

1061
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:11,560
Speaker 2: And anyway, so thank you, Chris. I appreciate it, and I.

1062
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,000
Speaker 1: Don't want you to think that I ever felt like

1063
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 1: I was judging people. I was just kind of saying,

1064
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:21,240
Speaker 1: you know, if you spend five bucks on a Coca Cola,

1065
00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: you know you can maybe afford the five dollars for

1066
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:28,720
Speaker 1: the Pandora, but I get it anyway, all right, moving

1067
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,560
Speaker 1: on now, Verizon, this is interesting. I just want to

1068
00:52:32,560 --> 00:52:35,520
Speaker 1: mention it quickly because it's a new option. I don't

1069
00:52:35,560 --> 00:52:37,640
Speaker 1: know if everyone's going to take advantage of it or

1070
00:52:37,719 --> 00:52:39,239
Speaker 1: a lot of you are, but it's just kind of

1071
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: nice to know, especially since Google Photos is now going

1072
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,600
Speaker 1: to charge. And I said on last week's podcast that

1073
00:52:45,719 --> 00:52:47,880
Speaker 1: now that they're going to charge, it kind of opens

1074
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:52,080
Speaker 1: the door for everyone. And so there's lots of options.

1075
00:52:52,160 --> 00:52:54,800
Speaker 1: Now anyone who has cloud storage is on kind of

1076
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 1: an even playing field. And Verizon is now doing unlimited

1077
00:52:59,520 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: clouds storage for twenty dollars a month, which is pretty

1078
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Speaker 1: interesting to me, someone who pays ten dollars a month

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Speaker 1: for two terabytes.

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Speaker 2: Now am I.

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Speaker 1: Ready to switch over all my Google Photos to Verizon Cloud?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And I think that you probably have to have a

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Speaker 1: Verizon Mobile account to keep this active, which means it

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Speaker 1: locks you into them, which I'm not really a big

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Speaker 1: fan of because I like kind of independent things. But

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars a month for unlimited cloud storage not a

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00:53:26,640 --> 00:53:32,200
Speaker 1: bad deal. And so if you have a Verizon unlimited plan.

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Speaker 1: By the way, they do include a couple one hundred

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Speaker 1: gigabytes of storage, so my old plan. I had to

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Speaker 1: look this up because I went and I downloaded the

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Speaker 1: whole Verizon desktop. They have a desktop app. I went

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Speaker 1: and I downloaded it, and sure enough, it said, oh,

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Speaker 1: which one do you want to sign up for? And

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Speaker 1: I was like, wait, I thought I got some free

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Speaker 1: Verizon cloud storage. I apparently don't anymore because on a

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Speaker 1: couple a couple months ago, I downgraded my Verizon plan

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Speaker 1: to save me twenty dollars a month, and I guess

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Speaker 1: one of the things that was a casualty and that

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Speaker 1: was my free cloud storage. So I no longer get it.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't even try this out without paying. Well, you

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Speaker 1: can try thirty days for free, which I may do that,

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Speaker 1: but I.

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Speaker 2: Don't think I'm gonna switch.

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Speaker 1: But it's just nice to know that there are options,

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Speaker 1: and if you are a Verizon customer that's not leaving

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Speaker 1: anytime soon. I mean, twenty dollars a month for family

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00:54:20,239 --> 00:54:25,279
Speaker 1: shared unlimited storage is pretty darn good and I don't

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Speaker 1: know so anyway, there's your options. It's two terabytes for

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Speaker 1: fifteen a month and six hundred gigs for five ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Or just look into your Verizon plan and see if

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Speaker 1: your plan offers cloud storage. It may the one that

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Speaker 1: I used to be on offered the cloud.

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Speaker 2: Storage for free.

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Speaker 1: It was let's see, it was the if you are

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Speaker 1: on the Do More Unlimited, you get six hundred gigs.

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Speaker 1: If you're on the get more unlimited, you get six

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Speaker 1: hundred gigs. I mean, six hundred gigs is not bad,

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Speaker 1: especially with all these people starting to charge, you know,

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Speaker 1: move some of your bigger, lesser used files to that.

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Speaker 1: If you have it available, they have a desktop app,

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00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: might as well use it, all right, one more question here,

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Speaker 1: let's see here, Adam says. I hope you had a

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Speaker 1: happy Thanksgiving and some quality time with your family. My wife, Sally,

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Speaker 1: and I are looking for an audio system for our home.

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Speaker 1: We are torn behind the Sonos and the new Apple

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00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:25,280
Speaker 1: Pods HomePods. We saw your report and now we're intrigued

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Speaker 1: in your opinion, which would give us more bang for

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Speaker 1: our buck. At this point, we're kind of leaning towards

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Speaker 1: the Apple. Thank you for your insight, Adam. I did

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Speaker 1: have the HomePods set up in my house and I

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Speaker 1: was so ready to switch over. But I'll be honest,

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Speaker 1: it just became too much work and it was too complicated,

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Speaker 1: and as good as Apple has made it for me personally,

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Speaker 1: I already have my sons it performs better. And I

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Speaker 1: sat there and I said, why am I trying to

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Speaker 1: go crazy implementing this Apple system that is a little

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Speaker 1: bit more complicated when I already have Sonos and it

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Speaker 1: works with all my music services, and that's what I'm

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Speaker 1: sticking with. So my Sonos system is old at this point.

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Speaker 1: All my speakers are out of date. I need to

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Speaker 1: buy new ones. And I almost pulled the trigger on

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00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 1: a Black Friday with their Cyber Monday deal and I didn't,

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Speaker 1: but I will. I mean, because speakers are speakers. They

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Speaker 1: still work. It's just I don't know what I'm missing,

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Speaker 1: but it just feels like I need something new. And

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Speaker 1: the HomePods are great, and I still think if you

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Speaker 1: have let's say, you know, if you're setting this up

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Speaker 1: for the first time and you are super Apple centric,

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Speaker 1: the HomePods are amazing and they're pretty darn good for

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Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars for all the rooms of your house.

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00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: It's just it's going to be a little bit trickier

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Speaker 1: to set them up, like for the home whole home audio,

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Speaker 1: and it's not really that tricky. It's just once you're

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00:56:41,520 --> 00:56:44,239
Speaker 1: used to the way Sonos works, it's just kind of

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00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: like it's just there. Sonos entire business is whole home audio,

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Speaker 1: and so Apple has a lot of different things. They

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00:56:52,719 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: do them pretty well. But you know this the HomePods

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00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:57,719
Speaker 1: are great, and I can't recommend them enough. I think

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Speaker 1: they're awesome. But you're saying, what's the most for your buck?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I guess bang for your buck would probably

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00:57:05,719 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: be the Apple stuff. But I think the best whole

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Speaker 1: home audio solution is still the sons. So I hope

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Speaker 1: that answers your question. I know I'm kind of like

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Speaker 1: waffling here and you're probably sitting here going, oh my gosh, Rich,

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00:57:17,600 --> 00:57:19,240
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, you're talking about how great

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Speaker 1: they are. But you know, these things take a little

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Speaker 1: bit of time to kind of figure out. And what

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00:57:23,560 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: got me with the Apple stuff is it just became

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Speaker 1: a matter of like I didn't know which speakers were

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00:57:30,040 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 1: in the group where the volume was at, and it

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Speaker 1: became a little bit tricky. And so when things get

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Speaker 1: tricky and complicated and I press play in the bedroom

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, I hear the music blasting

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Speaker 1: in the dining room, like, oh, what's going on here?

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Speaker 1: And that's what caused me to just go and get

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Speaker 1: all the Sono speakers back out of the garage, set

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Speaker 1: them all up, and.

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Speaker 2: Boom, I'm back on Sonos and.

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Speaker 1: It's been pretty good. I'll be honest, it's been pretty nice.

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Speaker 1: I love my sonos now. It's just expensive to set

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00:57:57,240 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: up and it took me a while to do it,

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00:57:58,840 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: so kind of like investing in the system. All right,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: If you'd like to submit a question for me to answer,

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Speaker 1: at rich on tech. I'm on all social media networks there.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Jamiro. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for being a part of this show. I do

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Stay safe, keep that feedback coming, keep the

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Speaker 1: emails coming, keep the likes and the posts and the favorites,

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Speaker 1: and whatever you do on my social media.

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Speaker 2: I do appreciate it. I do read a lot of it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Again.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro. I will talk to you

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Speaker 1: real soon. Turn then thunder the