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Speaker 1: This week, we've got Jacob Palmer from Best Reviews dot com.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna share some top holiday gift recommendations. Then in

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Speaker 1: it is the kickoff to the holiday shopping season. Amazon

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Speaker 1: These are trending gifts. So these are based on all

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Speaker 1: Palmer from Best Reviews dot com. This holiday season, what

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Speaker 3: Let's start with what do you want to start with?

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Speaker 5: So we should start with the best gift for kids.

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Speaker 5: What we've got here is the climbing Gecko, and I'm

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Speaker 5: So next up, we've got the best for frequent flyers.

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Speaker 3: Which is closer to three hundred fifty three and hud

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Speaker 3: five dollars.

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Speaker 1: This is a common problem even in Los Angeles. You

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Speaker 1: get to your kids ballgame and your hands are freezing.

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Speaker 3: What if you got for that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and so this is the Acopa handwarmer and they're rechargeable.

438
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Speaker 5: The perfect stocking stuffer is what we're calling them this

439
00:21:03,960 --> 00:21:07,120
Speaker 5: year because they're perfect for you know, the soccer mom,

440
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Speaker 5: the hockey mom, or really anybody. Maybe you're going out

441
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Speaker 5: to a tailgate and you're gonna be standing outside for

442
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Speaker 5: a while. We kind of hated the old handwarmers because

443
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Speaker 5: they're wasteful. You use them, they work for twenty minutes maybe,

444
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Speaker 5: and then you throw them out. This is great because

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Speaker 5: you know you've got it. You know that you know

446
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Speaker 5: no matter what events coming up, you're gonna be covered.

447
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Speaker 5: All you need to do is make sure you charge

448
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Speaker 5: it ahead of time. They charge really fast. You can

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Speaker 5: plug it in the car on the way to the

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Speaker 5: hockey game and you'll be covered.

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Speaker 3: In those ranks which are freezings.

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Speaker 1: Literally price point on these very cheap lesson twenty dollars.

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to the Fitbit. You've got a verse

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Speaker 1: of four here. Why do you like that?

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Speaker 3: It's one of Fitbit's newest models.

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Speaker 5: It comes with all the fitness tracking and wellness stats

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Speaker 5: that you've come to expect from Fitbit. You know, they

458
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Speaker 5: were one of the absolute first, when it comes to

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Speaker 5: this biometric hacking and checking that everybody is now into,

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Speaker 5: and the verse of four is a great kind of

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Speaker 5: evolution of it because it looks like the smart watches

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Speaker 5: that people have come to know. You can wear it

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Speaker 5: going to work and you're not gonna feel silly about

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Speaker 5: it and be wondering, you know, should I be wearing

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Speaker 5: this or not.

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Speaker 3: But it also has great sleep tracking.

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Speaker 5: When we put it to the test against a lot

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Speaker 5: of others, it was our favorite for the sleep tracking,

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Speaker 5: and I think what people are awakening to pardon the pun,

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Speaker 5: is that sleep tracking really does matter to the overall

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Speaker 5: wellness profile that people are putting together right now. So

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Speaker 5: we love it for that, and so it's our best

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Speaker 5: gift for the fitness enthusiast in your life, because you know,

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Speaker 5: we're great for the run. It's got the GPS built

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Speaker 5: into it, which we love as well, but it also

476
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Speaker 5: is super well suited to be able to help you

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Speaker 5: track your sleep and all those really important metrics that

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Speaker 5: are going to help you maximize your wellness.

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Speaker 3: And it works with iPhone and Android.

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Speaker 5: And we're seeing it now in that hundred dollar range,

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Speaker 5: so you know, more than one hundred dollars, but uh,

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Speaker 5: you know it's it's definitely marked on right now and

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Speaker 5: under two under two hundred and for the newest model.

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Speaker 5: I mean, that's something that we're pretty excited to see

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Speaker 5: on that price learrange.

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Speaker 1: What is the lofty alarm clock?

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Speaker 5: So the lofty alarm clock is basically the ultimate evolution

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Speaker 5: of those alarm clocks that you would see in every

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Speaker 5: hotel room that I think all of us grew up

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Speaker 5: having in our rooms. But instead of a harsh red

491
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Speaker 5: light beeping in your face and flashing in your face,

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Speaker 5: it is super customizable.

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Speaker 3: It also works as a white.

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Speaker 5: Noise machine, and it can also have a bunch of

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Speaker 5: different features on it that will allow you to really

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Speaker 5: figure out how do you want to wake up, so

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Speaker 5: you can set it to have a gentle reminder to

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Speaker 5: wake up at one point if you're the kind of

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Speaker 5: person who hits the snooze twenty times before you're willing

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Speaker 5: to get out of bed. So then it also gets

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Speaker 5: increasingly harsh, so you know you're not going to miss

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Speaker 5: your meeting if this thing's really going at you.

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Speaker 1: Just now, does this have a display on it?

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Speaker 3: It does?

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Speaker 5: Okay, it does, and you can customize it so you

506
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Speaker 5: can use different color tones on it, you can pick

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Speaker 5: what information it's showing you, and then also you can

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Speaker 5: program it to go night blackout when you want to

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Speaker 5: be sleeping, because there's a lot of studies out there

510
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Speaker 5: now that any amount of light in your bedroom while

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Speaker 5: you're trying to sleep is harmful for your sleep.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 1: It's sort of like a modern alarm clock that's been

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Speaker 1: rethought for sort of how we work today.

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Speaker 3: What's the price point. It's around one hundred and twiny

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Speaker 3: dollars right now. Is it Internet connected?

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Speaker 6: Yes?

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00:24:00,280 --> 00:24:02,600
Speaker 5: Okay, yeah, it's connected to and then you can control

519
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Speaker 5: it from your phone as well. It's got like different

520
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Speaker 5: settings on it that you can use through an app.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I want that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, gotta have some tunes. Tell me about the Soundcore speaker.

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Speaker 5: So it's a Bluetooth speaker that I mean, as you

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Speaker 5: can see, this thing is not a small one that

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Speaker 5: you're gonna attach to your backpack. This is a formidable

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Speaker 5: piece of equipment that we've.

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Speaker 3: Got right now.

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Speaker 5: And this is our best gift from a hidden gem brand.

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Speaker 5: Because during these big shopping events, you're always looking to

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Speaker 5: figure out like is this deal worth it? Are these

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Speaker 5: you know, is this price too good to be true?

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Speaker 5: And it bestially because we're always testing products to figure

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Speaker 5: out like, is this lower price point product as good

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Speaker 5: as some of the bigger names, and Anchor fits that

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Speaker 5: bill perfectly because it sounds great.

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Speaker 3: This is a powerful speaker.

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Speaker 5: I mean, if you look in front of you, you can

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Speaker 5: power the entire party, whether you're at the park, you're

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Speaker 5: at a tailgate, you're in your backyard, wherever. This is

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Speaker 5: going to keep everybody going. So we love it for that.

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Speaker 5: But it's also super affordable, especially when you compare it

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Speaker 5: to some of those bigger names like Bows or Sonas

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Speaker 5: or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I also like that it looks like there's some lights

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Speaker 1: on the sides. Is it light up while it's playing

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Speaker 1: the music?

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Speaker 5: It will give you some lights on the side and

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Speaker 5: it will go with the you know, the rhythm of

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Speaker 5: the song that you're playing as well. So that's that's

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Speaker 5: another fun quirk that, frankly is another thing that's happened

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Speaker 5: with a lot of the higher end the Bluetooth speakers.

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Speaker 5: But you're getting all these features from Anchor, which is

553
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Speaker 5: always really impressive.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the Anchor Soundcore, what's the price point on this.

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Speaker 5: This is gonna be a little bit more than one

556
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Speaker 5: hundred dollars as well. But when you're getting these bigger ones,

557
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Speaker 5: you know, over these holiday events, these can get up

558
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:28,520
Speaker 5: to you know, from the JBLS and those brands like that,

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Speaker 5: these can get up to like two hundred, three hundred.

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Speaker 3: Dollars depending on what you're looking at.

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Speaker 1: Last, but not least, the theough gun. This looks like

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Speaker 1: a newer model. It's kind of a compact model.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it seems like every year when we start

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Speaker 5: talking about gifts, I started talking about Thera guns because

565
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Speaker 5: of how well received they are. This is a model

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Speaker 5: that's a little bit more affordable. So you're gonna see

567
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Speaker 5: it around one hundred and sixty dollars right now marked down,

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Speaker 5: So it's coming down from the bigger price point. But

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Speaker 5: it also has evolved the technology itself, so on that

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Speaker 5: led screen it has right there, it'll self guide you

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Speaker 5: through the routine, and it's got all the other features

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Speaker 5: that you've come to expect from Thera gun, whether it's

573
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Speaker 5: the patent to triangular handle to help you kind of

574
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Speaker 5: get deep into your own muscles, or you know, it's

575
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Speaker 5: the way it helps the circulation or helps you get

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Speaker 5: a better night's sleep because of the relaxing factor. And

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Speaker 5: then it also comes with a few different attachments, so

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Speaker 5: depending on what you want to be doing in terms

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Speaker 5: of muscle relief, you can do it.

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Speaker 1: And I've noticed a couple of improvements from the one

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Speaker 1: I have. This has USB C which is a nice improvement.

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Speaker 1: It's got the screen so you're kind of guided through

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Speaker 1: instead of using like the phone app. And it's really

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Speaker 1: small in compact, which is nice. What's the price point

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Speaker 1: on the theragun Sense right now? We're seeing it for

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Speaker 1: that one hundred and sixty hundred two hundred dollars range.

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Speaker 1: And I do expect as the shot shopping goes on

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Speaker 1: and as we get closer to the event, like especially

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Speaker 1: Cyber Monday, I do expect them to probably keep coming

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Speaker 1: down on that. Thank you, Jacob Palmer of best reviews

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Speaker 1: tech Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking Technology.

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Speaker 2: The website for the show.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv doing the show notes a

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Speaker 1: little bit different today, so they're still in the same place.

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Speaker 1: If you hit the light bulb, it will take you

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Speaker 1: to the show notes. This is episode ninety nine, and

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Speaker 1: uh you can. It's just a little bit different. The

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Speaker 1: format's different, but all the notes are there. They're there

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Speaker 1: in real time. So if you want links to anything

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Speaker 1: that Jacob Palmer from Best Reviews just mentioned, you can

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Speaker 1: find them there, or anything that I mentioned earlier in

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Speaker 2: It is all there.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Dave in Uh, let's see. Dave writes in, I missed

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Speaker 1: it on your show. Please tell me the software you

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Speaker 1: use to answer emails with your voice. I would like

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Speaker 1: to compose emails with my voice and send them back.

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Speaker 2: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So the thing that I mentioned on the show is

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Speaker 1: called whisper flow wisp r flow that is available for

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Speaker 1: Mac only, So that is a Mac Mac format right now,

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Speaker 1: Windows and iOS and Android coming soon. It works really well.

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Speaker 1: It's very accurate. You get two thousand words for free.

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Speaker 1: I think a week after that you do have to

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Speaker 1: pay so or a month.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: There's there's some sort of free level. I have not

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Speaker 1: reached a point where I have to pay for anything,

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Speaker 1: so that it works just fine. If you're on Windows,

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Speaker 1: Windows and Mac by the way, both have built in

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Speaker 1: voice to text, it might not be as good as

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Speaker 1: this because this is AI powered. But on Windows, if

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Speaker 1: you want to try this, you can turn on voice

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Speaker 1: typing by pressing the Windows key plus H. That will

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Speaker 1: bring up the hardware keyboard on your computer screen, and

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Speaker 1: then press the microphone key next to the space bar,

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Speaker 1: so Windows H plus the microphone key, and that will

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Speaker 1: bring up the voice to text. On Windows eleven, let's

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Speaker 1: see what it's like on Windows ten. Windows ten, yeah,

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Speaker 1: same thing. So again that is how you do it

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Speaker 1: on there, you know, it's it's one of these things

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Speaker 1: where the dictation that we have, like especially on iPhone,

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Speaker 1: is just it's not that good. Like I really rarely

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Speaker 1: use it because it's not as fast as I want

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Speaker 1: it to be. On Android it's very fast. If you're

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Speaker 1: using g Board by Google, that's Google's keyboard, the voice

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Speaker 1: to text is like incredible and it's really fast, especially

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Speaker 1: if you're on a Pixel. If you're on a Samsung

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Speaker 1: and you're using it, it's good. The Pixel is like

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00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:40,880
Speaker 1: somewhat I don't know a little bit better because it's

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Speaker 1: goes back to what we were talking about. It's Google's products,

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Speaker 1: so I guess they favored a little bit.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to.

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Speaker 2: Jerry in Irvine, California. Jerry, you're on with Rich HII Rich?

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Speaker 8: How you doing today?

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Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic.

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Speaker 1: What's up?

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Speaker 7: Oh?

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Speaker 8: I have like the last five phones that I have

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Speaker 8: bought over the years, and they have made me more

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Speaker 8: or less use Gmail on them to activate them, and

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Speaker 8: now I don't use any of them anymore. And I've

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Speaker 8: been finding lately that when I've been trying to start

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Speaker 8: up a new account, they have blacked me because I've

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Speaker 8: already had a Gmail account. So how can I delete

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Speaker 8: like four or five of them and then start from.

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Speaker 1: Scratch delete the Gmail account? Yeah, like the whole thing.

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Speaker 8: But like the whole thing. Yeah, because the phones were

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Speaker 8: only used for a while until they died, and then

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Speaker 8: the account was still active, so the system seems to

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Speaker 8: think that I'm still using the account where the phone

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Speaker 8: get so there's like five or six accounts out there

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Speaker 8: with you know, they're basically connected to me that are

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Speaker 8: being used okay, and I can't get to them any more.

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Speaker 3: They don't know what their.

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Speaker 8: Password is or what the actual address is because they're

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Speaker 8: so old.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, there's two things you can do here. So

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Speaker 1: there's number one. You can you can get rid of

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Speaker 1: a device that has access to your account by going

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Speaker 1: to Google dot com slash devices, and I recently did this,

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Speaker 1: and there's a whole bunch. This will give you a

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Speaker 1: list of every single device that has access to your

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Speaker 1: Google account.

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking at mine.

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Speaker 1: I've got four sessions on Mac computers right now, I've

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Speaker 1: got twelve sessions on Android devices. You know, I test

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Speaker 1: a lot of devices, and it'll even tell you how inactive.

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Speaker 1: Like so for instance, Google pixel fold says it's been

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Speaker 1: inactive for ninety nine days because I was a test phone.

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Speaker 1: I've not used it, and so that is a phone

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Speaker 1: that I would when I click, I can sign out.

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Speaker 1: I can sign myself out of Android. So that will

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Speaker 1: get rid of that device off of my Android account. Now,

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Speaker 1: in your in your case, these phones, if the batteries

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Speaker 1: are dead, you haven't turned them on in a while,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. They're still going to be signed out

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Speaker 1: if that phone is ever turned on again. As soon

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Speaker 1: as it gets turned on and connected to the internet, boom,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to have access to anything. So now

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Speaker 1: the thing is, if there's stuff on those phones that

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Speaker 1: you know is residing on the physical drive there or

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Speaker 1: the storage on the phone, people would be able to

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Speaker 1: access that if they were able to unlock your phone

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Speaker 1: and open it and turn it on, so you know,

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Speaker 1: all those things would have to happen. They probably wouldn't

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Speaker 1: have your passcode. So anyway, that's the first way to

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Speaker 1: do it. So again, go to Google dot Com. And

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Speaker 1: this is something that's good to do in general. I

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Speaker 1: know most people are not activating as many devices as

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Speaker 1: I am, Like I'm always activating something on my account,

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Speaker 1: so I'm always going through and getting rid of those.

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Speaker 1: But that's Google dot Com slash devices. Okay. Now if

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Speaker 1: you want to delete these Gmail accounts, that's a whole

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Speaker 1: other thing. So that's actually deleting your Google account. And

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Speaker 1: I I'm trying to see if it immediately deletes I

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Speaker 1: feel like there's probably some sort of like waiting period

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Speaker 1: where it probably deletes and then it probably still link

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Speaker 1: for a while. I know Facebook did that for a while,

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Speaker 1: but I'm trying to find the direct link to this.

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Speaker 1: It's a support page. And if if you search for

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Speaker 1: delete your Google account, the support page that comes up,

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Speaker 1: which I'll put in the show notes, has a button

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Speaker 1: that says delete Google account. Now I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: tap that button because I don't want to start that process.

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Speaker 1: I don't even want Google to think I'm doing that.

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Speaker 1: But that's where you go. And so once you tap that,

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Speaker 1: you will log in with your Google information, there will

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Speaker 1: be some sort of verification, and then you will be

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Speaker 1: able to delete that account. So those are the two

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Speaker 1: places I would go to check to see if your

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Speaker 1: account if you need to get rid of those Gmail.

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Speaker 8: If I have one quick question on my desktop, what's

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Speaker 8: a really good free email service to start with a

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Speaker 8: separate from the phone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I would say Yahoo is probably good after

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Speaker 1: Gmail if you don't want to use Gmail. Yahoo just

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Speaker 1: got like a big revamp, so they're really pushing there.

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Speaker 8: Had cots for a while, and need transfer me o to.

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Speaker 2: Yacht okay, so like automatically, So yeah.

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Speaker 8: I want missing a few emails here and there, and

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Speaker 8: people call me out, you respond and I never got it.

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Speaker 1: But okay, well the other you can you can use that.

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Speaker 1: There's proton Mail, which is very uh secure, and then

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Speaker 1: there's Outlook. So Outlook is obviously Microsoft's mail, so you

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Speaker 1: can use that as well. I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of different email providers out there. I'm not a big

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Speaker 1: fan of some of the smaller ones, just because you know,

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Speaker 1: it's just I think sticking with one of the bigger

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Speaker 1: ones is probably better just because their software is going

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Speaker 1: to be better. But I would I mean, if you

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Speaker 1: want something that's secure, tried proton Mail. A lot of

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Speaker 1: people are using that. There's a free level. Let's see

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Speaker 1: what you get for free. Uh so you get a

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Speaker 1: gig of storage for free. I would do that, do

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Speaker 1: proton proton Mail is uh, you know, it's nice and secure.

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Speaker 1: So and it's one gig for free, one user, one

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Speaker 1: email address, and that's completely free every month.

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Speaker 2: So I would do that.

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Speaker 7: Jerry, excellent, Thank.

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Speaker 8: You, Rich, I appreciate your time.

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Speaker 1: Have a great day, all right, Thank you, Jerry, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight Rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one A new trick

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Speaker 1: in phishing scams might bypass your email security. It's all

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Speaker 1: because it's hidden in image files. This is from a

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Speaker 1: bleeping computer. They say that hackers are now using what's

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Speaker 1: called SVG files. Those are scalable vector graphic files, and

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Speaker 1: they're sneaking malware into your inbox through these files. So

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Speaker 1: it typically when you get an email, it might have

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Speaker 1: an attachment like a PDF or a JPEG, or you know,

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Speaker 1: some other type of file name, and you recognize that

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Speaker 1: and you say, I wasn't looking for this doc file

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Speaker 1: or something. If you see an SVG file attached to

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Speaker 1: an email, just I would disregard it because unless you're

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Speaker 1: expecting it, it could be malware. It could be a problem.

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Speaker 1: SVG attachments could be dangerous.

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Speaker 2: Be careful out there.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. The phone line

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Speaker 1: for the show eight eight eight rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 1: The website for the show richon Tech dot tv. If

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Speaker 1: you want to link to anything I mentioned on the show.

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Speaker 1: Just hit the light bulb. If you want to email me,

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Speaker 1: hit contact and while you're there, be sure to sign

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Speaker 1: up for the newsletter. I also have my Ultimate Holiday

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Speaker 1: Gift Guide on the front page, so you can check

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Speaker 1: out and get some ideas for some of the gadgets

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Speaker 1: that I personally have tested and enjoy a lot, and

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Speaker 1: pretty much the majority of them are on sale right now.

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Speaker 1: John writes in Hey, Rich, I love to listen to

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Speaker 1: you on KFI. Thanks for being a helpful person. I

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Speaker 1: apparently locked myself out of my Facebook account. They just

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Speaker 1: keep asking me to change my password over and over.

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Speaker 1: I believe you said you can pay meta to access

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Speaker 1: help on this. Please let me know what that URL

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Speaker 1: would be. Thanks again, John. Okay, you are referring to

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Speaker 1: the story of the woman in San Francisco who walked

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Speaker 1: to Facebook headquarters because she was locked out of her account,

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Speaker 1: and she banged on the door there.

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Speaker 2: And said, hey, can you help me, and they're like no,

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Speaker 2: and they gave.

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Speaker 1: Her a print out actually with a piece of paper

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Speaker 1: that gave her like all the different ways to get

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Speaker 1: access to her account. The main way to get access

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Speaker 1: to your account that is hacked on Facebook is Facebook

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Speaker 1: Dot com slash hacked, Facebook dot com slash hacked. That

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Speaker 1: will also work for Instagram. People have varying degrees of

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Speaker 1: luck with that. Now here's how you get hacked. By

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Speaker 1: the way, hackers are not trying to get into your account.

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Speaker 1: What's happening is that you are clicking a link that

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Speaker 1: you thought was a notification for something, and you're logging

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Speaker 1: in and you're handing over your password and you don't

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Speaker 1: have two factor authentication enabled. So to protect your Facebook account,

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Speaker 1: Number one, do not log in to random Facebook account

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Speaker 1: questionnaire kind of things where it's like, hey, did you

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Speaker 1: see this picture someone shared of you? And you click

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Speaker 1: and it makes you log in. Do not do that. Also,

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Speaker 1: if you get a notification that says you've got a

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Speaker 1: copyright infringement, you gotta log you gotta verify that.

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Speaker 2: Do that's fake.

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Speaker 3: Do not do that.

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Speaker 1: Anytime you have to log into a Facebook account, anytime

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Speaker 1: that login screen comes up, be very very critical of

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Speaker 1: that screen. In fact, I would never I would just

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Speaker 1: close out that screen and I would just go to

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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com and see if Facebook comes up, and

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Speaker 1: if it doesn't and you're there, then you can log in.

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Speaker 1: The Other way is to turn on two factor authentication

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Speaker 1: that will protect you if you did give your password out,

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Speaker 1: that will at least keep the hackers from being able

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Speaker 1: to access your account, and you can go back in

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Speaker 1: and change your password once you realize the foolishness that

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Speaker 1: you just participated in. Now to answer your question, what

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Speaker 1: the woman did was she signed up for some thing

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Speaker 1: called meta verified. This is a fifteen dollars a month

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Speaker 1: service that basically gets you, you know, the VIP service

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Speaker 1: for the help on your account. If you try to

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Speaker 1: contact someone at Facebook, you're not going to get any help.

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Speaker 1: But this has prioritized support, which means you can actually

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Speaker 1: speak to a person and get help about your account.

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Speaker 1: So what she did was she signed up for this,

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Speaker 1: got the help, and then I'm assuming she canceled it.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: You have to have a It looks like you have

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Speaker 1: to have a Facebook page, Instagram page, or a business profile.

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Speaker 1: So this is not necessarily for regular folks. So unless

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Speaker 1: you are running John a Facebook page for a business,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this will work for you. You can

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Speaker 1: try it. You can go to the page, but it's

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Speaker 1: called Facebook. It's called meta verified. The website, I mean

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Speaker 1: the website's a little wonky, so I'll put it in

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Speaker 1: the show notes. But it's Facebook dot com, slash business,

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Speaker 1: slash tools, slash Meta, Dash verified dash for Dash business. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna remember that, so just search meta verified

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Speaker 1: and that should bring you to the page, says, Get

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Speaker 1: a verified blue check on Instagram, Facebook and Meta and

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Speaker 1: that maybe might help you get it back.

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Speaker 2: Good question.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jeff in Clearwater, Florida.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, you're all with Rich?

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Speaker 6: Hey Rich, how are you doing?

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Speaker 1: I am doing fantastic, enjoy your show?

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Speaker 6: Quick? Thank you listening since the really beginning. Maybe you

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Speaker 6: could help me out a really perflexing problem I'm having

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Speaker 6: with Google Voice, trying to get it set up for

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Speaker 6: a little part time business that my wife and I

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Speaker 6: are running. We established a you know, a phone number,

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Speaker 6: a Google Voice phone number, which fortunately or unfortunately we've

873
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Speaker 6: printed on Business Courage and a couple other things, so

874
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Speaker 6: we've already invested in so it kind of stuck to

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Speaker 6: that number. What we want and are trying to accomplish,

876
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Speaker 6: is to port that Google Voice number over to a

877
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Speaker 6: personal T mobile iPhone. It had that ring on that iPhone. Uh,

878
00:41:18,040 --> 00:41:20,719
Speaker 6: and you know, cool, if we pick it up. But

879
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Speaker 6: if we're not available, we don't pick it up. We

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00:41:23,600 --> 00:41:28,280
Speaker 6: want it to go and be answered by the Google

881
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 6: Voice you know, business message that we've left over at

882
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Speaker 6: Google Voice. Instead of doing that, it's being answered by

883
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:45,799
Speaker 6: the personal you know message that we've left on our iPhone.

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Speaker 6: And it seems to me that I should be able

885
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Speaker 6: to do that, but I can't. It's it's driving me

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Speaker 6: in circle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is a way to do it. There is

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00:41:55,560 --> 00:41:57,440
Speaker 1: a way to do it, but you can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: have both things. You can't port the phone number or

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Speaker 1: the Google Voice number to that device and have the

891
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Speaker 1: Google Voice pick up the Google voicemail. So what you

892
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Speaker 1: do is okay, the way you would set it up

893
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,720
Speaker 1: is you basically have to you set up that phone.

894
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: So iPhone's a little weird with the Google Voice stuff

895
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Speaker 1: because everything has to go through the Google Voice app.

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Speaker 2: You can't.

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00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: It doesn't like integrate into the dialer like it does

898
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Speaker 1: on an Android phone. On Android phone, you can have

899
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Speaker 1: Google Voice take over that entire phone, so you make

900
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Speaker 1: calls from your native dialer, it will go through Google Voice.

901
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: You can get calls through Google Voice. It's very seamless.

902
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: But iPhone The way iPhone is set up is very

903
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 1: very particular because everything's sandbox. You can't have Google Voice

904
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Speaker 1: sort of take over the native dialer. Now, at that said,

905
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Speaker 1: you could do exactly what you need. So what I'm

906
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Speaker 1: hearing is you want people to be able to call

907
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:51,280
Speaker 1: this Google Voice number. It's going to ring your personal

908
00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 1: phone number, your personal phone, and then if you don't

909
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:56,640
Speaker 1: pick up that phone, it's just gonna go to Google

910
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:58,280
Speaker 1: Voice and not your personal voicemail.

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00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 4: That's what we want, Okay, So there there.

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Speaker 1: Is a setting that you have to go on your

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Speaker 1: Let me think about this. So it's like basically a

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Speaker 1: setting that you have to do on your T mobile,

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Speaker 1: which is like busy no answer forward to Google Voice.

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Speaker 2: So now here's the thing. It's going to forward.

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Speaker 1: It's probably going to forward your regular calls to that

918
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Speaker 1: line as well, if someone calls you like on your

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00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:26,439
Speaker 1: personal line.

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00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:28,120
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's kind.

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Speaker 2: But there's a way there there is.

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Speaker 1: I think there's a way to do this because it's

923
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Speaker 1: it's like a lot of little settings, but I'm sure

924
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Speaker 1: there's a way to do what you're talking about. You're

925
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Speaker 1: basically I think it's the busy no answer forwarding. I

926
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Speaker 1: think that's what you want, because that means if you yeah,

927
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Speaker 1: let's see, so this will send incoming calls to another

928
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Speaker 1: number when your phone is busy or you don't answer

929
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Speaker 1: after a certain number of rings. So I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out if they call your Google Voice and your phone,

931
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Speaker 1: you don't want your your regular voicemail to pick up.

932
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Speaker 1: That's what you don't want to happen.

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Speaker 6: No, okay, And I think I want the business voicemail,

934
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Speaker 6: you know, message from the Google Voice to pick up.

935
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is, look, I think there is

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Speaker 1: a way to do this. I've got to look into

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Speaker 1: the It's been a while since I played with the

939
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Speaker 1: Google Voice settings. The thing is, it takes a little

940
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Speaker 1: bit to figure it out because there are a whole

941
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Speaker 1: bunch of settings both on your phone and also you know,

942
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Speaker 1: the Google Voice app. Now here's the other thing. Is

943
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Speaker 1: your iPhone doing that thing where it's screening the calls

944
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Speaker 1: on its own because Apple and iOS eighteen added like

945
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Speaker 1: a new voicemail feature where it's like screening the calls itself.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I know what you're talking about. We're using, by

947
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Speaker 6: the way, thirty iPhone thirteen. So I'm not sure we

948
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Speaker 6: have that full ability on thirteens. So I don't think

949
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Speaker 6: we're doing that, you know, I don't see that we

950
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Speaker 6: really have that ability. I know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I think the main thing that you have to

952
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Speaker 1: do here, and I'm really like I used to so

953
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Speaker 1: I was a Google Voice user from day one. It

954
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Speaker 1: used to be called grand Central, and I I use

955
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Speaker 1: this thing for years, I mean, and so I had

956
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,920
Speaker 1: it all figured out where basically if my phone didn't,

957
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Speaker 1: I don't. I think the problem is I'm not sure

958
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Speaker 1: that you can have your phone not pick up the

959
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: Google Voice call but also not go to your regular voicemail.

960
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: I think it's either one or the other. Yeah, the game,

961
00:45:31,840 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: and why why do you want if this is a

962
00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,879
Speaker 1: call a phone line for work, why do you need

963
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,400
Speaker 1: it to answer your Can't you just turn off your voicemail?

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Speaker 6: Even turned off our person the personal voice bade? Yeah, yeah,

965
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:52,399
Speaker 6: I suppose we could do that. Yeah, you know, it's

966
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Speaker 6: just kind of a half. I guess we want best

967
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Speaker 6: of both worlds, you know, service.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the only thing I can think of is

969
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Speaker 1: that I think this is what what thelution is from before,

970
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Speaker 1: is that there might be a way to have T

971
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Speaker 1: Mobile answer your calls like later, like it might take.

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Speaker 1: Like let's say, let's say Google voicemail will go to

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Speaker 1: Gmail or Google Voice will give it three rings before

974
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Speaker 1: it goes to its own voicemail. I think I think

975
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Speaker 1: you can ask T Mobile to pick up their voicemail

976
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Speaker 1: on the fourth ring. And I think that's sort of

977
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Speaker 1: like the hack. Have you asked them if you could

978
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Speaker 1: do that?

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Speaker 6: You know, I didn't know who to talk to. I

980
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Speaker 6: wanted to talk to you first.

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Speaker 1: Well, you're not going to find anyone at Google Voice.

982
00:46:31,440 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: I can guarantee that.

983
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:35,920
Speaker 6: Talk to After I talked to you, I should talk

984
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Speaker 6: to T Mobile.

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00:46:37,239 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: I would see if you could. I would see if

986
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: you can turn off or extend the calls the amount

987
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: of rings before T Mobile's voicemail picks up. So let's

988
00:46:47,600 --> 00:46:49,560
Speaker 1: say let's say right now, it's set up for three

989
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,000
Speaker 1: three rings, and then T Mobile picks up Google Google

990
00:46:53,040 --> 00:46:55,239
Speaker 1: Voice by that time will go to its own voicemail.

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00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 2: Okay, but I think I really do.

992
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 1: I've got to think about this, and I don't want

993
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Speaker 1: to take too much more time on this call because

994
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,400
Speaker 1: I know it's it's a very nuanced thing. But I

995
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 1: think there is a way you can do this. But

996
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: it turns out to be one of the sort of

997
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,239
Speaker 1: conditional call forwarding features on your phone line. So I

998
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: think that's what it is. Jeff, send me an email.

999
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: Go to the website rich on Tech dot tv hit contact,

1000
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:19,120
Speaker 1: send me email.

1001
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 2: We will figure this out. I guarantee it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. This is rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro

1005
00:47:30,840 --> 00:47:34,319
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology at triple eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Matthew and Murrieta call to

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Speaker 1: let me know. He confirmed that what I was saying,

1009
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Speaker 1: uh is the right path for the Google Voice. So

1010
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:51,239
Speaker 1: he basically said, yes, set your T Mobile voicemail to

1011
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:55,400
Speaker 1: pick up in a longer number of rings than the

1012
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: Google Voice. So if your Google Voice picks up after

1013
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Speaker 1: three rings, set your T Mobile voicemail to pick up

1014
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: after four or five rings. And there are short codes

1015
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:06,000
Speaker 1: on the website you can help to do that. Otherwise

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Speaker 1: you could probably call Team Mobile to reset that.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Matthew and Marietta.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been a while, so I was actually all

1019
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,719
Speaker 1: in on Google Voice for a while. The problem is

1020
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,520
Speaker 1: Google has not really updated Google Voice in a big way.

1021
00:48:19,600 --> 00:48:21,520
Speaker 1: So yes, I still use it for a couple of

1022
00:48:21,520 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: texts and things like that, but it's kind of like

1023
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: if you're trying to integrate it into your car audio

1024
00:48:27,120 --> 00:48:29,160
Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and you're not and you're using

1025
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:32,000
Speaker 1: an iPhone, it's really tricky. Android much easier because Android

1026
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: it just becomes your phone line. It's very very simple,

1027
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:38,360
Speaker 1: but iPhone is very very tricky with that. If you

1028
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:43,160
Speaker 1: have Amazon Music Unlimited, you just got free audiobooks. So

1029
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:47,720
Speaker 1: Amazon is building Audible into Amazon Music Unlimited. So Amazon

1030
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: Music Unlimited is there kind of their Spotify. It's ten

1031
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: bucks a month for you know, all the music you

1032
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: want to listen to. But now they are adding audio

1033
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,480
Speaker 1: books into the mix. So if you're a Prime member

1034
00:48:59,520 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: and you've got Amazon Music Unlimited, you can basically listen

1035
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: to one audiobook title a month. And it's kind of

1036
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: weird because Spotify gives you fifteen hours of audiobooks a month,

1037
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,400
Speaker 1: you can listen to fifteen different books at an hour each.

1038
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: This service through Amazon only lets you listen to one

1039
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 1: title per month, so you can carry on into the

1040
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: next month if you don't finish it. But it doesn't

1041
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: sound like you can start a new book until the

1042
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:31,640
Speaker 1: next month. Again, so again, one audiobook per month from

1043
00:49:31,680 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: Audible's catalog. And I had someone email me this morning saying, Rich,

1044
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: I downloaded Audible. I'm a Prime member, I'm Amazon Music

1045
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: Onlimited member. I don't see anything about being free, and

1046
00:49:42,000 --> 00:49:44,560
Speaker 1: so I downloaded the Amazon app. I subscribe to the

1047
00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:47,600
Speaker 1: free trial, which, by the way, they're doing three free

1048
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: months right now, so you can just listen to three

1049
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:52,120
Speaker 1: months of books for free. But if you go into

1050
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: Amazon Music, it's up at the top. It used to

1051
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:58,239
Speaker 1: say music and podcasts. Now it says music, Audible and podcasts.

1052
00:49:58,280 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: You pop into Audible now you can listen. It says

1053
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 1: audio books from Audible are now included with Amazon Music Unlimited.

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Speaker 1: Select one audiobook each month, so kind of a cool perk.

1055
00:50:10,000 --> 00:50:12,439
Speaker 1: And it's just an all out war between Amazon Music

1056
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: Unlimited and Spotify because Spotify added audiobooks a couple months ago.

1057
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Speaker 1: I found the Spotify audiobooks to be very convoluted. It

1058
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,480
Speaker 1: kept it would not keep my place in the audiobook

1059
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Speaker 1: and so for that reason I just gave up on it.

1060
00:50:26,080 --> 00:50:29,240
Speaker 1: Now Audible works perfectly. It keeps your place across every device.

1061
00:50:29,640 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: For some reason, Spotify just could not get that right,

1062
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 1: so hopefully Amazon Music does. Uber is adding new features

1063
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:39,040
Speaker 1: just in time for the holiday season. They've got a

1064
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: new car class Uber XXL. This has extra space. So

1065
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 1: this is for when I was traveling with my kids

1066
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Speaker 1: when they were younger. We had like literally a thousand

1067
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Speaker 1: things we were bringing with us. Two car seats, ten

1068
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Speaker 1: pieces of luggage, baby booms, boombox seat whatever they call

1069
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Speaker 1: those things.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:02,640
Speaker 1: There's so so many things. So now Uber XXL. So

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Speaker 1: I remember even when we got like the biggest car

1073
00:51:04,760 --> 00:51:06,360
Speaker 1: you could get through Uber to go to the airport,

1074
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Speaker 1: you still couldn't fit everything in there. We had luggage

1075
00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:12,239
Speaker 1: on our laps. So now XXL has room for six

1076
00:51:12,280 --> 00:51:15,440
Speaker 1: people and extra space. So it's probably like those like

1077
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: those tahoes or those suburbans that have like the extra

1078
00:51:19,560 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: extra back sprinter van. Yeah, there you go something big.

1079
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: So Uber XXL if you're looking for extra trunk, extra

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00:51:28,560 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: extra roomy seating, that's at sixty airports worldwide, and then

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Speaker 1: what else. Oh, they also have a feature which I've

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Speaker 1: already tested. This has been available in my Uber app

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Speaker 1: for a while. So you know how when you're trying

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Speaker 1: to get to the airport, you never know what time

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Speaker 1: to leave your house. Well, Uber will let you just

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Speaker 1: put in your flight number and they will say, here's

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Speaker 1: what time we think we should pick you up. And

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Speaker 1: so it kind of takes the legwork out of figuring

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Speaker 1: out the departure time. Now I have a whole system.

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Speaker 1: Now I also get to the airport about five minutes

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Speaker 1: before my flight boards, which I don't reckomon end. I

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Speaker 1: actually pride myself the last time I got to the airport,

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, I waited about seven minutes before we

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Speaker 1: board it, and I was I was last in line,

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Speaker 1: which kind of sucked, but whatever, it was fine. But

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Speaker 1: I pride myself on trying to ride that right up

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Speaker 1: until the end. I don't recommend it. Don't do that.

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Speaker 1: It's very stressful, but it's like a personal bragging right

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Speaker 1: that I can be like, oh, I got to the

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Speaker 1: airport like one minute to spare. No, don't do that.

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Speaker 1: Get there with a lot of time to spare, especially

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Speaker 1: if you don't fly a lot. But yeah, so I

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Speaker 1: have a whole system where I will look at my

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Speaker 1: boarding past time and I will do this whole math equation.

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Speaker 1: It takes like takes like Russell Crowe. It wasn't him,

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Speaker 1: beautiful mind takes like it takes like him to figure

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Speaker 1: out what time to leave for me. It's like it's

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Speaker 1: like a whiteboard with like thousands of dry erase equations

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Speaker 1: on it for me to be like, Okay, that's what

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Speaker 1: time I leave to the airport. No Google, Uh, Uber

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Speaker 1: will figure it out for you. Plan ahead. That's with

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Speaker 1: Uber Reserve, so that's if you're reserving a car, which,

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Speaker 1: by the way, you got to check for these promos

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Speaker 1: on Uber. They're doing a lot of promos these days,

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Speaker 1: so check the app if you're in compare against lyft

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Speaker 1: because it's not always the same price. Eighty to eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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

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Speaker 1: talk to Wirecutter about some holiday deals. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight rich one o one eight

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

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Speaker 1: I see you holding on the phones. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: to those in just a moment. If you want to

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Speaker 1: email me you can go to the website Rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot tv. Hit contact if you want to link

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Speaker 1: to anything I mentioned, hit the light bulb that will

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Speaker 1: bring you to the show notes for this show, it

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Speaker 1: is episode ninety nine. Joining me now is Wirecutter Senior

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Speaker 1: Deals editor Nathan Burrow. Nathan, welcome to the show. I

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Speaker 1: bet this is a busy time of the year for you.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Thanks for having me, Rich. It's great to be here.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. So let's let's talk Wirecutter. First off, explain we

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Speaker 1: talk about it a lot. I talk about it a

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Speaker 1: lot on the show because I refer to the reviews

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Speaker 1: and ratings you guys have.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's not real. I guess it is ratings.

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Speaker 2: You don't.

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Speaker 1: You don't give it a number rating, but you know

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Speaker 1: you rate stuff, so I'm a big fan. Explain what

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Speaker 1: Wirecutters all about.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Wirecutter is exactly what you said.

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Speaker 9: We review products everything from bluetooth headphones to washing machines,

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Speaker 9: and we have experts in each of those respected beats

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Speaker 9: that take a look at all the options out there.

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Speaker 4: We test the stuff that we review, so.

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Speaker 9: It's not just you know, we're not We're not giving

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Speaker 9: it a ratings site unseen, and ultimately our goal is.

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Speaker 3: To explain that.

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Speaker 1: Explain that because you know, ever since you guys pioneered

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Speaker 1: this model, you know, every single newspaper, magazine, website has

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Speaker 1: the best of lists, and they're really getting those a

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Speaker 1: lot of the times by just literally looking at Amazon

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Speaker 1: and saying, you know, this has a thousand ratings, that

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Speaker 1: must mean it's a good product.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 9: There are a lot of sites there, a lot of

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Speaker 9: review sites that are just basing things on Amazon reviews

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Speaker 9: or basing things, I mean.

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Speaker 4: To be frank on the work of people who have reviewed.

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Speaker 9: The stuff elsewhere, whereas Wirecutter gets that stuff either in

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Speaker 9: the residences of our writers or at our office and

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Speaker 9: testing facility in New York, and we're actually testing the

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Speaker 9: stuff out. I was there last week and they were

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Speaker 9: testing the massage chairs, which was awesome. It was nice

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Speaker 9: to hit the sage chairs on a break.

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Speaker 2: That's a good day to be in there.

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Speaker 3: Why not.

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Speaker 1: We had we had someone in the studio yesterday talking

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Speaker 1: about the thorough gun, you know, like that they've got.

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Speaker 2: They've gotten a.

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Speaker 1: Lot smaller over the years, but anyway, we were testing

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Speaker 1: that out, so that was great. Okay, So wirecutter. This

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Speaker 1: time of the year, this is when all the sales start.

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Speaker 1: Amazon already kicked off their Black Friday a couple of

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Speaker 1: days ago, which means all the other retailers follow suit.

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Speaker 1: So what are the trends you're seeing this early on.

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Speaker 4: Yep, that's exactly right. Amazon kicked off on Thursday.

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Speaker 9: We anticipate, uh, you know, other retailers matching Amazon prices,

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Speaker 9: and many already have. Walmart formally starts dair sale on

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Speaker 9: this coming Monday. But what we're seeing so far are

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Speaker 9: a couple of things.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 9: One, we're seeing the usual collection of electronics that are

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Speaker 9: always gonna pop off this time of year. Uh So

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Speaker 9: that means headphones, That means televisions.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 9: A brand called high Sense that we recommend, not necessarily

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Speaker 9: a super well known brand, but it's it's a great

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Speaker 9: value brand in TVs is offering amazing deals already, and

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Speaker 9: we're seeing those via best Buy, via Amazon and via

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Speaker 9: Walmart for that matter. We're also seeing kitchen appliances, uh,

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Speaker 9: you know, things like uh stand mixers are are already

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Speaker 9: seeing price drops toast drivens stuff like that. And and finally,

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Speaker 9: like we're seeing sort of those those household mbs like

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Speaker 9: air Pure fires, even even baby gear, uh you know,

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Speaker 9: personal grooming gear like razors. It's very typical to see

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Speaker 9: all that stuff go on sale.

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Speaker 1: This time here, I've got the high sense and I

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Speaker 1: love it. Mine is great, it's perfect, and it was

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Speaker 1: so inexpensive. You know, when you used to buy a TV,

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Speaker 1: it was like a big deal, and this was like,

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. We bought the TV. I bought it

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Speaker 1: from the best Buy app and it was in my

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Speaker 1: house delivered within i'd say three hours.

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Speaker 2: I was like, that is incredible.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, absolutely, And that's one of the things that you

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Speaker 9: know most most listeners probably already know this, but you

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Speaker 9: really don't have to venture into stores to have a

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Speaker 9: good shopping experience during Black Friday. Shopping online can get

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Speaker 9: you the opportunity to quickly compare prices across retailers and

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Speaker 9: also to leverage other opportunities to save, whether it's Wirecunter's

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Speaker 9: deals coverage where we're highlighting the best prices out there,

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Speaker 9: or whether it's you know, price tracking applications. A few

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Speaker 9: of those that I personally use are called KIPA and

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Speaker 9: Camel Camel Camel and what those allow you to do

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Speaker 9: is they allow you to throw an Amazon URL into

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Speaker 9: a search field, and basically it'll give you a bar

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Speaker 9: graph of or a line graph rather of the price

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Speaker 9: of a given item over time.

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Speaker 4: And so so you're seeing like you're seeing this.

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Speaker 9: TV was nine hundred dollars, you know, three or four

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Speaker 9: months ago, and eight hundred dollars two months ago, and

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Speaker 9: finally it's seen that significant.

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Speaker 4: Drop to six point fifty.

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Speaker 9: We always expect electronics to go down over time, but

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Speaker 9: what we're looking for are those precipitous drops that are

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Speaker 9: that are more significant than they would be at other

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Speaker 9: times a year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't go by the retail price or the

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Speaker 1: MSRP or whatever the price they like, the original price

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Speaker 1: they have listed there. I mean, ninety nine percent of

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Speaker 1: the time, nobody's ever paid that price for that product.

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Speaker 1: So it's better to look at these price drop charts

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Speaker 1: to see has this price gone down before? And that's

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Speaker 1: a good way to like kind of look forward. Like

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Speaker 1: for instance, if you have your eye on a product

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Speaker 1: and you pop the URL into like kipo or like

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Speaker 1: you mentioned, Camel, Camel Camel, and you notice that this

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Speaker 1: thing never goes on sale, you might as well just

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Speaker 1: get it right now if you notice it's been on

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Speaker 1: sale a bunch of times in the past and you

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Speaker 1: know now it's time to wait for it to go

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Speaker 1: on sale.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, I think that you have the capacity to anticipate

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Speaker 9: when certain things are going to go on sale, and

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Speaker 9: there are patterns that like I can identify and looking

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Speaker 9: at a keep a chart where you're just like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 9: this goes on sale every other month, and it's on

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Speaker 9: sale every other month of twenty percent off and to

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Speaker 9: your point, you know MSRP and generally like the percentages

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Speaker 9: that retailers put out there in terms of the amount

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Speaker 9: off during the season, really it's not something that I

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Speaker 9: would trust, you know, where retailer is going to throw

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Speaker 9: out a huge number like forty percent off, fifty percent off,

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Speaker 9: and those.

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Speaker 4: Deals are really few and far between.

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Speaker 9: I would say the average amount that we see off

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Speaker 9: and this is you know, these are deals that we

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Speaker 9: have vetted, these are deals that we verify are great

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Speaker 9: ones for our readers on Wirecutter picks usually falls between

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Speaker 9: about twenty and twenty five percent off. That's the that's

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Speaker 9: the best sort of you know, the media invest and

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Speaker 9: then only very rarely do we see better than that.

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Speaker 1: So if you're seeing something like right now, my kid

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Speaker 1: wants a food composter, don't ask me why, but this

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Speaker 1: is what he wants, and it's saying it's forty nine

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Speaker 1: percent off. I guarantee. I bet if I put that

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Speaker 1: into Camel Camel Cammell, I bet you that thing has

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Speaker 1: gone on sale before. Because it's not really forty nine

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Speaker 1: percent off, it probably doesn't sell for the list price

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Speaker 1: the rest of the year. I'm guessing that's right.

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Speaker 9: Especially like I imagine it might be that Vitamins FC fifty.

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Speaker 9: We covered that, I think at some point, but it's yeah,

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Speaker 9: that's that's a model that sees somewhat regular sales. There's

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Speaker 9: a new one that came out I believe, made by

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Speaker 9: a different brand in recent in recent months, and those

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Speaker 9: are likely to see regular sales during windows like this,

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Speaker 9: whether it's Black Friday or Amazon's events at at the

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Speaker 9: time of the year.

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Speaker 1: And this is the thing, like, this is the time

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Speaker 1: to buy because after Cyber Monday, you're probably not going

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Speaker 1: to get as good deals through the rest of the

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Speaker 1: holiday shopping season. Is that usually true?

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Speaker 9: Yes, I think you know. My personal feeling about Black

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Speaker 9: Friday and cyber Monday is that it's it really is

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Speaker 9: one of the last windows where you'll see great prices

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Speaker 9: across retailers, not just the big retailers, but smaller retailers get.

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Speaker 4: In on the act as well.

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Speaker 9: So if you're somebody who prefers to shop smaller, that's

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Speaker 9: an option. Or if you prefer to shop at direct

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Speaker 9: to consumer retailers that you know, like like mattress retailers

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Speaker 9: for instance, that that often are the only place where

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Speaker 9: their product is available, this is a great time to

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Speaker 9: do so. And then the sales are going to evaporate

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Speaker 9: and we're not going to see them again for a second.

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Speaker 1: Now you are you're following, you know, shopping every day?

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Speaker 1: Are you following this new Netflix documentary? Have you heard

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Speaker 1: of this thing, the one about shopping?

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Speaker 9: I have not.

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Speaker 4: What's the deal with the netflixie?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It's called by now the Shopping Conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: And of course last night it was like, you know,

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Speaker 1: number two on the top list of Netflix stuff to watch,

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Speaker 1: because of course they put it out, you know, they

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Speaker 1: put it out right now during the holiday shopping season,

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Speaker 1: so it's all like the apparently it's like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I haven't watched it, but apparently it's like controversial because

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Speaker 1: it's like basically all the ways that these retailers are

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Speaker 1: getting you to like buy stuff, which, well, I.

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Speaker 4: Will definitely check it out.

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Speaker 9: Like one thing that I can say from personal experience

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Speaker 9: is that these retailers are definitely trying to create what

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Speaker 9: I would describe as a false sense of urgency during

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Speaker 9: this time of year, where they really they really make

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Speaker 9: you feel like, you know, whether it's with a countdown

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Speaker 9: clock or whether it's with one of those bars that

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Speaker 9: tells you how much of a given product is left

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Speaker 9: that you have to grab it right now, and you

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Speaker 9: have to do so without comparison shopping, without taking a

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Speaker 9: more measured sort of research based approach, and I would

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Speaker 9: discourage people from doing that. I think that people can

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Speaker 9: can you know, take a beat really think about whether

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Speaker 9: this product fits their their life, but also take beat

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Speaker 9: to assess the prices that are out there on the internet,

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Speaker 9: to assess comparable products, and to consult review sites to

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Speaker 9: see if this product is something that's quality first and foremost.

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Speaker 9: You know, it doesn't matter how good a deal you

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Speaker 9: get if something is of an inferior quality.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is true. They do definitely put that. I

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Speaker 1: will say the deals are there. There there are deals,

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Speaker 1: And the thing is if you had your eye on something,

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Speaker 1: that's when you can tell it's a deal. Because for me,

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Speaker 1: I keep a lot of stuff in my Amazon sort

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Speaker 1: of cart or that save for later, and so I

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Speaker 1: have an idea of the prices. But if you're just

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Speaker 1: going on these websites and you're just seeing you know,

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Speaker 1: sixty percent off, eighty percent off, seventy four percent off,

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Speaker 1: and you just say, oh, I got to get that.

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Speaker 1: It's not always that that's the case. And so I

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Speaker 1: think following things is probably a good thing to do,

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Speaker 1: and also keeping those things in your cart. All right,

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Speaker 1: Nathan Burrow from Wirecutter. Wirecutter dot com is the website

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Speaker 1: I know you're going to be busy this weekend.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely, It's in Why Times dot com, forward slash Wirecutter,

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Speaker 9: and you can find our Black Friday coverage. We're covering

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Speaker 9: all the early sales right now. We're covering sales from

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Speaker 9: other retailers aside from Amazona Forest.

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Speaker 4: All right, you're on the sale. I'm going so thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Nathan, I appreciate it. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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Speaker 1: phone line for the show eight eight eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: to one zero one. Let's see the email for the show.

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Speaker 1: Just go to the website rich on tech dot tv

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Speaker 1: and hit contact. That will bring you right to my

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Speaker 1: email address and whatever you're right in there will go

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Speaker 1: to my uh inbox. And by the way, I know

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Speaker 1: you're wondering what was the high sense TV that I bought.

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Speaker 1: It was the U eight and it served me well.

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Speaker 1: We've had it for many, many months now, and I'm

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Speaker 1: happy to report that the price is exactly what I

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Speaker 1: paid still, so it's not any cheaper. But here's the thing,

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Speaker 1: and here's the trick. So it's saying the TV is

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Speaker 1: nine hundred dollars, was fifteen hundred, saved six hundred dollars. Nobody,

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Speaker 1: nobody really is paying fifteen hundred dollars like I paid

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Speaker 1: nine hundred six months ago.

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Speaker 2: So but it's a great TV. Love it Ed in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas. You're on with rich Ed. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 7: Thank you, rich I appreciate your time and your help.

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Speaker 7: So I've been a long time Windows user. I'm buying

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Speaker 7: by the way, rich. My wife sascept my email where

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Speaker 7: she's hotmail okay, and the news narrator so it can

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Speaker 7: read it to me. And we recently switched over to

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Speaker 7: to Mac. My wife's got a Mac Minnie, and I

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Speaker 7: am considering, you know, if she wants to go back

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Speaker 7: to the Windows, which is likely, then I don't want

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Speaker 7: to see in the machine back if I can use it.

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Speaker 7: But she has tried and says that narrator doesn't work

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Speaker 7: under Matt to read my email, so it wouldn't do

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Speaker 7: me any good. Is there an alternative?

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Speaker 1: Well, there's a couple of ways that are built into

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Speaker 1: the Mac operating system, and one of them is they're

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Speaker 1: mostly in the accessibility area of the computer, so I

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Speaker 1: would look in there and see. But there's a there's

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Speaker 1: one called spoken content, and so you know, you can

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Speaker 1: select the text in that email and there's a shortcut

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Speaker 1: that will read that text to you. So that's number one.

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Speaker 1: So basically you just highlight any text and say, you know,

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Speaker 1: use the shortcut key to and it'll read that out

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Speaker 1: to you. So that's number one.

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Speaker 7: Where I have to do that for every email or

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Speaker 7: is it continuous?

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Speaker 1: No, it's every email because that's a one time thing. So,

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Speaker 1: and the second one is voiceover, which is similar, but

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like the same, you know as that

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Speaker 1: that says you it'll just start reading out whatever's on

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Speaker 1: the screen. That's a little bit more automatic as I

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Speaker 1: understand it, So that I mean.

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Speaker 7: Other other things other than the email.

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Speaker 1: Too, right, Yeah, I think so, because I you know,

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Speaker 1: I I've seen that feature in action and I think

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Speaker 1: it just starts to read everything that's on the screen.

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Speaker 1: So that's number two. The other thing is, uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: there's a third party app and I'm trying to see,

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Speaker 1: but this is the problem with this is that it's

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Speaker 1: it looks like the same thing where it's just you

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Speaker 1: have to feed the text into it, which is natural reader.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you've heard of that one. And there's also

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Speaker 1: speech AFY which is similar. They're both natural reader and

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Speaker 1: speech of FI are both kind of like natural you know,

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Speaker 1: speech to text programs. So speech a FI might actually

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Speaker 1: be a pretty good way to do it. Let me

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Speaker 1: just see. I'm trying to see if they have like

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Speaker 1: a specific email a way to yeah, text to speech

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Speaker 1: email reader, Yeah, I think. I mean the problem is

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Speaker 1: again with this, you have to you have to put

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Speaker 1: the text into the program for it to work.

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Speaker 3: Right, How would that work?

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Speaker 7: I mean, if I'm trying to I just move down

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Speaker 7: an email now and I open it up, and then

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Speaker 7: I paint I arrow down to go to the next email,

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Speaker 7: you know, after I either leave the one that I've

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Speaker 7: just read or I deleted one or the other. But

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Speaker 7: then I get down to the next one.

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Speaker 1: Right, and then when you go to the next one,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to highlight that. Basically, all the systems I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at you have to highlight the text for it

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Speaker 1: to read it too out loud.

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Speaker 7: That wouldn't work for me. I can't see the screen.

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Speaker 1: Right, So that's a problem. The other thing is what

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Speaker 1: about using the Outlook app? Like, have you tried that?

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Speaker 1: Because they have a read aloud functionality in the Outlook

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Speaker 1: app that I've got to see if it's on the

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Speaker 1: Mac side of things, But that is a functionality inside

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Speaker 1: the I'm looking here. Okay, this is uh, this is Windows.

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Speaker 1: They just came out with the new Mac version of Outlook,

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Speaker 1: and so I'm wondering if okay, here we go, hold on,

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Speaker 1: this looks like it may have it.

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Speaker 2: H Yeah, they do have a read aloud yep.

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Speaker 1: So I would use that, can you can you can

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Speaker 1: you download the email? Yeah, this is it's like a

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Speaker 1: it's functionality built into Outlook, and so it's called read aloud.

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Speaker 1: And so if you download the Outlook out Outlook app

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Speaker 1: on your computer and you log in with your hotmail account, Uh,

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Speaker 1: then I would just use that that read aloud functionality. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I think that's going to do it. I think that's

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Speaker 1: probably the best way to do it.

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Speaker 7: Okay, sounds good. Thank you very much, rich I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, let me know if that works out for you,

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Speaker 1: Ed send me an email. Okay, all right, thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening there in Las Vegas, eighty eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight.

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Speaker 2: Seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: If there's one thing I've learned doing this show is

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01:10:06,680 --> 01:10:09,160
Speaker 1: that there are many many ways to solve a problem,

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Speaker 1: and not every way is the best for everyone.

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Speaker 2: So there's always and there's also always a way.

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Speaker 1: That I don't know or I'm not aware of, and

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Speaker 1: which another reason I love this show is because someone

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Speaker 1: is bound to email and say this is the best

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Speaker 1: way to do it, or this is what works for me,

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Speaker 1: and so I really enjoy the community aspect. Of this

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Speaker 1: show that we can find solutions for people that are

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Speaker 1: that go beyond just what I can do on the

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Speaker 1: fly here or my knowledge base. Uh okay, if you

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Speaker 1: still have an iPhone with the iOS eight on it,

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Speaker 1: this is I mean, we're talking really really old at

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Speaker 1: this point because we're up to iOS eighteen, so you're

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Speaker 1: talking ten years ago.

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Speaker 2: But you know there's a lot of people out there.

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Speaker 1: If you're still having an old iPhone with iOS eight,

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Speaker 1: iCloud backups on this phone are not only going to stop,

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Speaker 1: but they're going to be deleted as well unless you update.

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Speaker 1: So starting December eighteenth, twenty twenty four, iCloud backups will

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Speaker 1: not work on iPhones running iOS eight or earlier. So

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Speaker 1: if you can update your device to iOS nine or newer,

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Speaker 1: you gotta do that. And if you can't update the device,

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Speaker 1: like if it doesn't update past iOS eight and you're

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Speaker 1: still using it somehow, you can back up your your

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Speaker 1: phone using a macor PC. So that is what what

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Speaker 1: I would do. But again, you're you're talking really really

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Speaker 1: old at this point.

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Speaker 2: iOS eight.

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Speaker 1: I mean, let's say iOS eight release date, you're talking

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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, ten years So if you're still rocking, which

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Speaker 1: you may just be aware. You gotta fix your iCloud.

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Speaker 1: You got to get that backup somewhere else. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one, rich on tech dot TV

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Speaker 1: more after this, Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at Triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one. That's eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four ones zero one. Coming up this hour,

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Speaker 1: We've got the creator of bake ba Ai.

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Speaker 2: But bet Papi.

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Speaker 1: She is gonna explain how Ai is taken over the kitchen,

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Speaker 1: and she'll probably tell me how to say her last

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Speaker 1: name better than I just butchered it. You know it happens.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you about the best recipe apps too.

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Speaker 1: But first I was looking around. We had ed in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas asking about reading aloud the emails, and it

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Speaker 1: looks like that feature is not available anymore on the

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Speaker 1: Outlook for Mac. I don't know if they got rid

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Speaker 1: of it or what, but it is not there, and

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01:12:39,439 --> 01:12:41,599
Speaker 1: I switched. There's a new version of Outlook and there's

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01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:44,000
Speaker 1: a legacy Outlook. I looked in both and they're just

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Speaker 1: that read aloud button. Is just not there for some reason.

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01:12:48,040 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: Now I know on the smartphone, you can look on

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01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:51,960
Speaker 1: the help site and it says that they've gotten rid

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Speaker 1: of that on the smartphone. So I don't know why

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Speaker 1: why would they get rid of something that's this helpful. Now,

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01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,280
Speaker 1: I did try to see what you could do with

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01:13:00,360 --> 01:13:04,839
Speaker 1: an email, and sure enough, you know, you can select

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01:13:04,880 --> 01:13:07,720
Speaker 1: text and just built in you can write, click it

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01:13:07,760 --> 01:13:09,520
Speaker 1: and it says speech start.

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Speaker 10: Speaking, CALLI first among us.

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Speaker 1: So it'll just read. It'll just read that. I have

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01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:20,920
Speaker 1: no idea how to stop it now that it's reading anyway,

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01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:22,880
Speaker 1: So you could do that, but that again, Ed said

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01:13:22,880 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: that he needs it to like read. So there's got

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01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: to be a program where it kind of knows like, okay,

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01:13:27,520 --> 01:13:30,120
Speaker 1: I've advanced to the next email. I want to hear

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01:13:30,160 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: this email out loud. And it might just be specialized

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01:13:33,479 --> 01:13:37,599
Speaker 1: accessibility software versus what's built into the machine. All right,

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Speaker 1: So I got an email from gosh I got I

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01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: don't know the person's name, but they were in Alabama,

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01:13:44,600 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: and let's see, they asked for a recipe management app

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01:13:51,000 --> 01:13:54,400
Speaker 1: and they said that they basically, you know, find a

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01:13:54,439 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: lot of recipes on TikTok and Instagram and they want

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01:13:56,880 --> 01:13:58,120
Speaker 1: to save them in an app.

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01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 2: So of course what did I do?

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01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,439
Speaker 1: I downloaded one, two, three, four, five, at least five

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01:14:02,479 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: apps to see which one I like the best, So

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01:14:05,200 --> 01:14:08,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go over them. Mela Emyla. This is an

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01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 1: app that's just for iOS and Mac. Now, all these

1538
01:14:12,400 --> 01:14:14,960
Speaker 1: apps pretty much work the same way. They're free for

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01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:17,720
Speaker 1: a limited amount of recipes. So what happens is you

1540
01:14:17,760 --> 01:14:20,280
Speaker 1: start using it, you save your recipes, you like it,

1541
01:14:20,760 --> 01:14:22,120
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you get your tenth

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01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:24,200
Speaker 1: or your eleventh or twelfth recipe and it's like, oh,

1543
01:14:24,280 --> 01:14:25,760
Speaker 1: got to pay up if you want to add this one.

1544
01:14:25,760 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 1: You're like, ah, I wish I would have known that

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01:14:27,120 --> 01:14:28,040
Speaker 1: at the beginning, So.

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01:14:28,040 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 2: Now you know.

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01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:32,599
Speaker 1: So Mela gives you ten recipes for free, five dollars

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01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:37,200
Speaker 1: for more. Simple interface. Didn't work with the Instagram recipe,

1549
01:14:37,280 --> 01:14:39,479
Speaker 1: but it worked with the Food Network recipe. So Mela

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01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 1: is good if you have iOS and Mac only. It

1551
01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: wasn't the best of the bunch, but you know it worked.

1552
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:47,200
Speaker 1: Recipe Keeper this one has been around forever. I think

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01:14:47,280 --> 01:14:51,600
Speaker 1: recipe Keeper and Paprika are the two like og recipe

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01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:55,200
Speaker 1: keeper apps. So the recipe Keeper works on all platforms,

1555
01:14:55,200 --> 01:14:58,280
Speaker 1: but all the apps are sold separately, so if you have,

1556
01:14:58,439 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: you know, a Mac computer and an I, you'd have

1557
01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:04,120
Speaker 1: to buy those two apps separately, which is a little odd.

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01:15:04,880 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: Free for up to twenty recipes, but let's you scan

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01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:09,680
Speaker 1: recipes from PDFs, photos or websites.

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01:15:11,120 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 2: It did work with Instagram recipes.

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01:15:12,800 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 3: Now.

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01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:15,400
Speaker 1: This website is probably handy just to have in general.

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01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:18,479
Speaker 1: It's called just the recipe dot com. So you know

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01:15:18,520 --> 01:15:20,320
Speaker 1: how you go to a recipe website, it's got all

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01:15:20,360 --> 01:15:23,320
Speaker 1: the cluttered stuff on the recipe page. Well, you pop

1566
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:25,599
Speaker 1: the url into this website and it cleans it up,

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01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:28,639
Speaker 1: and so it's completely free. It's got an Android app,

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01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 1: it's got an iPhone app. But here's the thing. If

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01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:35,320
Speaker 1: you want to print out the recipe, it bugs you

1570
01:15:35,360 --> 01:15:37,760
Speaker 1: to pay. You can't even do it, so you just

1571
01:15:37,760 --> 01:15:39,800
Speaker 1: have to look at your screen. It's fine because it's

1572
01:15:39,840 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 1: nice and cleaned up, but you have to look at

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01:15:41,160 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 1: your screen. Crewton this is Apple Devices only, free from

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01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:49,080
Speaker 1: up to ten recipes. The best design of the bunch,

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01:15:49,720 --> 01:15:53,240
Speaker 1: really really nice design, and I love how it puts

1576
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:55,559
Speaker 1: all this step by step instructions on their own screen

1577
01:15:55,600 --> 01:15:58,760
Speaker 1: so you can flip through really easily, and it supported

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01:15:59,000 --> 01:16:01,240
Speaker 1: a lot of different ways of importing recipes. I really

1579
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:04,240
Speaker 1: like this one, but it's only available for iPhone, so

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01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:09,040
Speaker 1: I can't really I can't consider that one Umami. This

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:11,240
Speaker 1: one ended up becoming my favorite. So it works in

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01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 1: iOS and Android. It's got a great design. You could

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01:16:14,439 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 1: use it for free, but they also have twenty bucks

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01:16:16,560 --> 01:16:18,320
Speaker 1: for the lifetime of the app, which I think is

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01:16:18,400 --> 01:16:20,439
Speaker 1: very fair. A lot of the other apps you have

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01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:24,719
Speaker 1: to pay per year. And everything worked, the TikTok, Instagram

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01:16:24,880 --> 01:16:28,280
Speaker 1: URLs worked, importing recipes was a little wonky at times,

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01:16:28,320 --> 01:16:32,000
Speaker 1: didn't always work perfectly, but they also have a browser extension.

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01:16:32,360 --> 01:16:34,639
Speaker 1: So overall, if you're gonna download one of these apps,

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01:16:34,640 --> 01:16:36,759
Speaker 1: I think Umami is the best one to download.

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01:16:37,479 --> 01:16:37,799
Speaker 3: Now.

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01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:41,000
Speaker 1: After I did this story, I found another app that

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01:16:41,040 --> 01:16:43,760
Speaker 1: I actually really really like, and I actually think it's

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01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 1: the best. But it's called Flavorish fla vo rsh dot

1595
01:16:50,200 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: ai and this hits all of the benchmarks I want.

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01:16:54,840 --> 01:16:58,439
Speaker 1: It's available for iOS, it's available for Android, it's available

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01:16:58,479 --> 01:17:01,280
Speaker 1: on the web. It's got ai I built in so

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01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:05,120
Speaker 1: it can import a recipe and it just looks incredible.

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01:17:06,040 --> 01:17:11,120
Speaker 1: But here's the catch. It is expensive. It's five bucks

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01:17:11,160 --> 01:17:15,040
Speaker 1: a month or fifty dollars for the year, and you're

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01:17:15,040 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 1: gonna get hooked on this. If you download this app,

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01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 1: you're gonna fall in love with it because it's so good.

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01:17:19,920 --> 01:17:23,080
Speaker 1: It's so good at importing recipes from images. So if

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01:17:23,080 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: you have grandma's old recipes sitting there on a piece

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01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,479
Speaker 1: of paper printed out, you could take a picture of

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01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:32,120
Speaker 1: that and it will import it perfectly. But again, you

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01:17:32,240 --> 01:17:35,240
Speaker 1: only get five of those a month, or I guess

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01:17:35,240 --> 01:17:37,720
Speaker 1: five in general, and of course you're gonna burn through

1609
01:17:37,720 --> 01:17:39,360
Speaker 1: those pretty quick, and then you're gonna want to pay.

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01:17:40,080 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: And fifty dollars a year is kind of a lot,

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01:17:41,800 --> 01:17:44,320
Speaker 1: you know, if you add up over you know, ten years,

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01:17:45,160 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 1: do the math, it's kind of a lot of money.

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01:17:48,880 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: Let's see here, Let's let's let's go to Let's go

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01:17:55,720 --> 01:17:58,439
Speaker 1: to Carla Carla and Costa Mesa.

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01:17:58,760 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 2: Carla. You're on with Rich.

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01:18:01,160 --> 01:18:01,439
Speaker 6: Rich.

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01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 11: How nice to talk to you. Thank you so much

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01:18:04,000 --> 01:18:04,920
Speaker 11: for taking my class.

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,639
Speaker 2: Absolutely low vision.

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01:18:07,760 --> 01:18:11,120
Speaker 11: I have been for like seven years. I have been

1621
01:18:11,320 --> 01:18:14,559
Speaker 11: very proactive in finding out everything I can to get

1622
01:18:14,800 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 11: because I can't drive anymore, read anymore, and so the

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01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:22,280
Speaker 11: most recent thing that I discussed that I wanted to

1624
01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:25,880
Speaker 11: pass along if everybody else knows about it. I have

1625
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:30,560
Speaker 11: a Pixel seven pro cell phone and that's my mainstay.

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01:18:31,600 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 11: I discovered that all I need to do is ask

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01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:36,799
Speaker 11: my phone to read what's on the screen.

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01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:40,320
Speaker 2: Yes, and it reads.

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01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 6: What it is on my screen?

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01:18:41,640 --> 01:18:44,920
Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, this is This is one of the reasons

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01:18:44,960 --> 01:18:48,200
Speaker 1: why I really like the the Android side of things.

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01:18:48,240 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 1: They've a lot of little things built in like that.

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01:18:50,160 --> 01:18:53,280
Speaker 1: Now I think iPhone has similar stuff. But yes, you

1634
01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,200
Speaker 1: can ask your phone to read what's on the screen.

1635
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:58,000
Speaker 1: And what do you say, Just Hey Google, read what's

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01:18:58,000 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: on my screen?

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01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:01,519
Speaker 7: Oh no, I don't.

1638
01:19:01,920 --> 01:19:05,120
Speaker 11: It's not people doing it. But my phone is a

1639
01:19:05,120 --> 01:19:08,960
Speaker 11: Google phone. But all I have to do is say

1640
01:19:09,840 --> 01:19:12,640
Speaker 11: read what's on my screen, and then it kind of

1641
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:15,679
Speaker 11: clicks and it and then it reads what's like a menu,

1642
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 11: it's on my screen.

1643
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:17,559
Speaker 2: Okay.

1644
01:19:18,080 --> 01:19:21,519
Speaker 1: And you're not using the voiceover feature or the talkback feature.

1645
01:19:21,560 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 1: This is just you just say Hey Google.

1646
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 11: Right, it's not the Hey Google.

1647
01:19:27,040 --> 01:19:28,439
Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm with that.

1648
01:19:28,640 --> 01:19:30,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, well you're breaking up a little bit.

1649
01:19:30,840 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 11: I just I just said, read what's on my screen? Damn,

1650
01:19:34,280 --> 01:19:36,280
Speaker 11: my friend just read what was on the screen.

1651
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 1: Interesting, Okay, well that's another way to do it. You know,

1652
01:19:39,560 --> 01:19:44,120
Speaker 1: there's also a an app on Android that's free and

1653
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:49,160
Speaker 1: let's say, I believe it's called the Google Reader. Yeah,

1654
01:19:49,200 --> 01:19:52,840
Speaker 1: here it is. So so there's so many ways to

1655
01:19:52,880 --> 01:19:55,639
Speaker 1: do this, but yeah, so on Google you can say

1656
01:19:55,760 --> 01:19:59,160
Speaker 1: you can say, hey, Google, read this page, read it

1657
01:19:59,360 --> 01:19:59,960
Speaker 1: or read aloud.

1658
01:20:00,680 --> 01:20:01,320
Speaker 2: You can do that.

1659
01:20:02,280 --> 01:20:05,960
Speaker 1: There's also the feature I just mentioned, the talkback feature.

1660
01:20:06,520 --> 01:20:10,679
Speaker 1: And then there's also an Android Reader. There's an app,

1661
01:20:11,320 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: so you can go into Google Play and search for Reader,

1662
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,000
Speaker 1: and I believe that's the app. ILL have to verify

1663
01:20:20,000 --> 01:20:21,640
Speaker 1: because I get to look it up. But it's a

1664
01:20:21,640 --> 01:20:24,880
Speaker 1: cool app. It's an accessibility app that works really well

1665
01:20:24,920 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: and it will read any page. And then of course,

1666
01:20:27,280 --> 01:20:29,519
Speaker 1: you know you can there's built in systems to do

1667
01:20:29,600 --> 01:20:33,559
Speaker 1: this as well, but there are yeah, let's see here.

1668
01:20:33,840 --> 01:20:35,439
Speaker 1: And then of course there's speech a FI. I mean,

1669
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:37,960
Speaker 1: there's so many ways to do this, but there's one

1670
01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:41,360
Speaker 1: that Google makes that is probably the best one because

1671
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 1: it's it's completely free and here it is. It's called

1672
01:20:45,240 --> 01:20:48,600
Speaker 1: reading Mode. So if you have an Android phone, just

1673
01:20:48,640 --> 01:20:52,400
Speaker 1: go into Google Play and search for reading Mode. And

1674
01:20:52,439 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: this is completely free and not only does it read

1675
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:59,840
Speaker 1: out loud what's on your screen anything, it also makes

1676
01:20:59,880 --> 01:21:02,280
Speaker 1: it easier to read it on the screen. So it

1677
01:21:02,320 --> 01:21:05,680
Speaker 1: puts everything in like very simple big font and it

1678
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:08,760
Speaker 1: highlights as it's reading. So it's a real it's a

1679
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:11,360
Speaker 1: hidden gem. And I don't know why, you know, people

1680
01:21:11,400 --> 01:21:13,719
Speaker 1: don't talk about this more, but it's called reading Mode

1681
01:21:14,479 --> 01:21:17,200
Speaker 1: on Google Play. It's made by Google. So when you're

1682
01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 1: looking up this app, make sure you get the one

1683
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:22,519
Speaker 1: that is made by Google. All right, I'm gonna put

1684
01:21:22,560 --> 01:21:24,439
Speaker 1: all these links on the website. Go to Rich on

1685
01:21:24,520 --> 01:21:28,360
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. Hit the light bulb icon up at

1686
01:21:28,360 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 1: the top if you want links to this show. It

1687
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:32,880
Speaker 1: is episode ninety nine. We have shared a lot of

1688
01:21:32,920 --> 01:21:35,040
Speaker 1: great stuff here. I'm gonna put the recipe apps on

1689
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:37,720
Speaker 1: there so you can get that link as well. While

1690
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:39,920
Speaker 1: you're on the website, definitely sign up for the newsletter

1691
01:21:40,280 --> 01:21:44,320
Speaker 1: that is free comes out basically every Saturday, so there's

1692
01:21:44,360 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: a new issue right now, and if you want to

1693
01:21:46,880 --> 01:21:50,080
Speaker 1: email me, you can do that under contact. I've got

1694
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,280
Speaker 1: the feedback today is just overflowing.

1695
01:21:53,479 --> 01:21:54,040
Speaker 3: I don't even know if.

1696
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:55,400
Speaker 1: We're gonna be able to get to all of it

1697
01:21:55,960 --> 01:21:58,480
Speaker 1: coming up. We are going to talk about how AI

1698
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:02,960
Speaker 1: is impacting the kitchen, plus more tech news. Right after this,

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01:22:05,000 --> 01:22:07,479
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1700
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:11,400
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. The website for the show

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01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: is rich on Tech dot tv. And uh oh, just

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01:22:18,280 --> 01:22:21,160
Speaker 1: got an email from rod in Ukaipa. He said, what

1703
01:22:21,200 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 1: about Kurtana for outlook? Yes, that that is the way

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01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 1: to read it on Windows though, So yes, Windows has

1705
01:22:27,640 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: it easily. Uh the Mac does not for some reason.

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01:22:31,800 --> 01:22:33,880
Speaker 1: So I guess you got to use Max. You know,

1707
01:22:33,960 --> 01:22:35,640
Speaker 1: with Mac it's just a little bit different because it's

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01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:38,120
Speaker 1: they're built in tools that you have to use. But

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01:22:38,200 --> 01:22:40,400
Speaker 1: I thought they had that read aloud feature. I guess

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01:22:40,439 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 1: they don't. Uh, you've heard a blue sky. A lot

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01:22:43,080 --> 01:22:45,040
Speaker 1: of people going to Blue Sky. I am on there

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01:22:45,160 --> 01:22:47,599
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech last week.

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01:22:47,840 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 2: Uh, I don't know what.

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01:22:48,920 --> 01:22:51,160
Speaker 1: I have a thousand people on there? What do I

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01:22:51,160 --> 01:22:51,599
Speaker 1: have now?

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01:22:52,160 --> 01:22:52,280
Speaker 3: Oh?

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01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:57,639
Speaker 1: A thousand people? I'm just kidding. No, I've got one

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Speaker 1: point seven k that's not that much. I've seen a

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01:23:00,040 --> 01:23:02,800
Speaker 1: lot of people blow up on this Blue Sky. I

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01:23:02,840 --> 01:23:06,559
Speaker 1: guess their skies are bluer than mine. But here people

1721
01:23:06,600 --> 01:23:11,639
Speaker 1: are using this app called blue Arc. Thank You. People

1722
01:23:11,640 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 1: are using this app called blue Arc to move their

1723
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 1: entire Twitter history to blue Sky. Why, Like, your tweets

1724
01:23:19,040 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 1: are not that great. You do not need to pay

1725
01:23:21,880 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 1: this is yet to pay a fee. It's like, I

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01:23:24,200 --> 01:23:26,120
Speaker 1: don't know whatever it is, it's not worth it. Your

1727
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: tweets are not that exciting, especially if there's something old

1728
01:23:28,960 --> 01:23:31,720
Speaker 1: that you were younger and young minded. Yeah, it might

1729
01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 1: come back and bite chin, But I like the way

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01:23:33,520 --> 01:23:36,720
Speaker 1: you think, like just delete, just to go ahead and

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01:23:36,760 --> 01:23:37,720
Speaker 1: delete your tweet history.

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01:23:37,760 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't even have a Twitter anymore if anybody

1733
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:39,840
Speaker 2: has it.

1734
01:23:40,080 --> 01:23:42,600
Speaker 1: When I first started Twitter, I will I can't. I

1735
01:23:42,640 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: will tell this story. I would delete my tweet right

1736
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:47,879
Speaker 1: after I wrote it because I thought that tweets were fleeting,

1737
01:23:48,200 --> 01:23:51,200
Speaker 1: so I would write something like going on you know,

1738
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:54,040
Speaker 1: the Today Show to talk about technology in the next

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01:23:54,080 --> 01:23:55,559
Speaker 1: seven minutes, and then I would delete it when I

1740
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:57,280
Speaker 1: was done, because like, why do you need to see

1741
01:23:57,280 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 1: that when I'm done with that? And then I realized

1742
01:23:59,600 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: that that was kind of silly. But anyway, you don't

1743
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:05,040
Speaker 1: need to You don't need to bring your tweets over Instagram.

1744
01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:07,280
Speaker 1: You need a fresh start. They have a new feature

1745
01:24:07,400 --> 01:24:09,480
Speaker 1: that lets you wipe your recommendations.

1746
01:24:10,000 --> 01:24:10,600
Speaker 2: I love this.

1747
01:24:10,720 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 1: It's called a recommendations reset. It basically gives you a

1748
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 1: clean start. So all the stuff you know, you know

1749
01:24:16,520 --> 01:24:20,680
Speaker 1: how on Instagram or Facebook, you tap one thing and

1750
01:24:20,920 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 1: all of your posts start looking like that one thing.

1751
01:24:23,600 --> 01:24:27,839
Speaker 1: So my wife she tapped one Christmas cocktail that looked interesting.

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01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 1: I think it was called like a moose Martini or something,

1753
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:33,439
Speaker 1: or a Reindeer teeny whatever it was. It was cute,

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01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:37,000
Speaker 1: had like the little you know, cranberry you know, on it,

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01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: a little sprig of something. Next thing, you know, every

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01:24:40,600 --> 01:24:43,559
Speaker 1: single thing in her feed is a Christmas cocktail and

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01:24:43,560 --> 01:24:45,559
Speaker 1: she keeps showing them to me. It's like, you know,

1758
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:49,200
Speaker 1: Rudolph's Ruby Red, you know, grapefruit drink, do whatever it is.

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01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. They all have these funny

1760
01:24:51,120 --> 01:24:54,479
Speaker 1: little names. So this would be perfect for her. So

1761
01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:59,160
Speaker 1: Recommendations Reset is going to be inside Instagram. They're testing

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01:24:59,200 --> 01:25:01,599
Speaker 1: it right now. It's rolling out. You may have access

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01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:04,560
Speaker 1: if you want to check. It'll reset everything, so it

1764
01:25:04,600 --> 01:25:06,400
Speaker 1: won't you know, your followers will be there, all of

1765
01:25:06,439 --> 01:25:09,920
Speaker 1: your your stuff, but it'll just reset the algorithm, so

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01:25:10,000 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: that'll start giving you like new stuff in your feed.

1767
01:25:12,720 --> 01:25:15,200
Speaker 1: So if you go into your settings, it'll be under

1768
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:19,639
Speaker 1: content preferences. So let's see if I have it yet. Okay, settings,

1769
01:25:19,680 --> 01:25:23,040
Speaker 1: content preferences, and so far I do not have it,

1770
01:25:23,640 --> 01:25:26,600
Speaker 1: So rolling out that means that's another word for like,

1771
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:28,599
Speaker 1: you may get it in the next six months or so.

1772
01:25:29,280 --> 01:25:29,479
Speaker 2: Now.

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01:25:29,600 --> 01:25:33,559
Speaker 1: Roadblocks also rolling out some major updates to safety and

1774
01:25:33,560 --> 01:25:36,760
Speaker 1: parental controls. And I'm I'm not a fan of Roadblocks

1775
01:25:37,560 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 1: because I just don't like it.

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01:25:39,120 --> 01:25:41,600
Speaker 2: I do not like Roadblocks. My kids like it. I

1777
01:25:41,640 --> 01:25:41,880
Speaker 2: do not.

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01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 1: I think it's I think it's worthless. Honestly, I'll just

1779
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:46,639
Speaker 1: say it. I think that it's a it's a waste

1780
01:25:46,680 --> 01:25:48,080
Speaker 1: of time to play these games.

1781
01:25:50,640 --> 01:25:51,080
Speaker 3: I don't know.

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01:25:51,280 --> 01:25:54,439
Speaker 1: Oh, you like Roadblocks. I do play Robots with my goddaughter. Okay,

1783
01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:58,880
Speaker 1: Fortnite heavily. Okay, Fortnite okay, but Fortnite is becoming a

1784
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:02,400
Speaker 1: newer Roadblocks. Okay, Well Fortnite's been around for a long time,

1785
01:26:02,479 --> 01:26:06,000
Speaker 1: so it's Roadblocks. Yeah, I mean, look, and nothing against

1786
01:26:06,160 --> 01:26:09,080
Speaker 1: the developers of Roadblocks games, which are other people. You know,

1787
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:12,280
Speaker 1: this is crowdsourced, but they're kind of nonsense. You let's

1788
01:26:12,280 --> 01:26:16,920
Speaker 1: be honest, you're not accomplishing anything on a Roadblocks game

1789
01:26:17,680 --> 01:26:20,040
Speaker 1: goal or no, thank you, the where's the bell?

1790
01:26:21,040 --> 01:26:22,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, we need the bell for that.

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01:26:25,680 --> 01:26:29,639
Speaker 1: Now, with a Nintendo game, you know, you you have

1792
01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:32,080
Speaker 1: a beginning, a middle, and an end. You can beat

1793
01:26:32,120 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 1: the game, you can, but these games just go on

1794
01:26:34,400 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 1: and on, and quite honestly, kids get addicted to them,

1795
01:26:38,000 --> 01:26:40,080
Speaker 1: and they and they can't stop playing, and the games

1796
01:26:40,160 --> 01:26:43,240
Speaker 1: use tactics to keep them in. So with all that said,

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01:26:43,520 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: I get it, millions of kids play these games every

1798
01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:48,080
Speaker 1: single month. We're not going to stop this from happening.

1799
01:26:48,160 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 1: It's going to happen. But I do like some of

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01:26:50,320 --> 01:26:53,479
Speaker 1: these things that that Roadblocks has built in to help

1801
01:26:53,680 --> 01:26:56,960
Speaker 1: parents manage it. So now you can remotely manage your

1802
01:26:57,040 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: kids accounts. You can set up screen time limits, you

1803
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:03,760
Speaker 1: can monitor their friend list, and you can do it

1804
01:27:03,960 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 1: through your account. So if you're an adult, you can

1805
01:27:06,120 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: say say this is my kid's account, and you can

1806
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:10,240
Speaker 1: go on to your computer and do this. Now, I

1807
01:27:10,320 --> 01:27:11,879
Speaker 1: will tell you in this way. I don't like Roadblocks.

1808
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,600
Speaker 1: When I told my kid I was doing this, he

1809
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:15,640
Speaker 1: was like, no, you're not, Like, I'm not going to

1810
01:27:15,680 --> 01:27:18,880
Speaker 1: give you access to my account. So that's the other side,

1811
01:27:19,439 --> 01:27:21,680
Speaker 1: and I think I have a feeling that he has

1812
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,080
Speaker 1: already set up to be his age is older than

1813
01:27:24,080 --> 01:27:26,720
Speaker 1: he really is. Of course, because you can also say

1814
01:27:26,720 --> 01:27:28,960
Speaker 1: the games that your kids can play, what maturity level.

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01:27:29,200 --> 01:27:31,000
Speaker 1: And I have a feeling my kid has already set

1816
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:33,960
Speaker 1: to like seventeen because he's like, you're not taking away

1817
01:27:34,040 --> 01:27:36,240
Speaker 1: my mature games, Like, how'd you even know that was

1818
01:27:36,280 --> 01:27:39,719
Speaker 1: a possibility? He just knew taking away your system? Yeah, well,

1819
01:27:40,840 --> 01:27:46,680
Speaker 1: good luck. Yeah, it's okay. Kids under thirteen can no

1820
01:27:46,720 --> 01:27:49,360
Speaker 1: longer send direct messages outside of games. That was a

1821
01:27:49,400 --> 01:27:51,920
Speaker 1: big problem you had, like adults like interacting with kids,

1822
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:54,320
Speaker 1: and that's you know, never necessarily a good thing on

1823
01:27:54,360 --> 01:27:58,000
Speaker 1: these games. And they're gonna have better labels for the uh,

1824
01:27:58,400 --> 01:28:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, the nature of in game experiences. So right

1825
01:28:01,120 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: now they're just labeled like one way. They're going to

1826
01:28:04,479 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 1: label them in a more direct way so you understand

1827
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:09,240
Speaker 1: exactly what's happening in the game. And I will say,

1828
01:28:09,240 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: most of the games that I see my kids playing

1829
01:28:11,160 --> 01:28:12,839
Speaker 1: on this is pretty innocent.

1830
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:13,920
Speaker 2: Some of them are not.

1831
01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:17,080
Speaker 1: But again, I think any of these parental controls is

1832
01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:21,120
Speaker 1: a good thing, all right. That's Rodblocks. Amazon unveiled the

1833
01:28:21,160 --> 01:28:25,639
Speaker 1: Echo Show twenty one. This is the largest smart display yet.

1834
01:28:26,120 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 1: They had the Echo Show fifteen. Now the twenty one

1835
01:28:29,640 --> 01:28:32,240
Speaker 1: has a twenty one inch screen. This is huge, four

1836
01:28:32,360 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, and it's got a better camera, better audio,

1837
01:28:36,920 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: and built in compatibility for your smart home devices including

1838
01:28:40,120 --> 01:28:44,320
Speaker 1: Matter Zigbie and Wi Fi six e. So this acts

1839
01:28:44,320 --> 01:28:46,600
Speaker 1: as a photo frame, calendar, to do list.

1840
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 2: And we could just watch.

1841
01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:50,479
Speaker 1: I mean, it's basically a TV screen at this point

1842
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,160
Speaker 1: that size four hundred bucks. The Echo Show fifteen is

1843
01:28:54,200 --> 01:28:55,719
Speaker 1: still available at three hundred dollars.

1844
01:28:56,320 --> 01:28:57,840
Speaker 2: All right, coming up, we are.

1845
01:28:57,680 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 1: Going to talk about AI in the kitchen. We're gonna

1846
01:29:01,320 --> 01:29:04,320
Speaker 1: talk about fixing up recipes and all the fun stuff

1847
01:29:04,320 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: you can do right here on rich on Tech. Welcome

1848
01:29:07,520 --> 01:29:10,040
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

1849
01:29:10,040 --> 01:29:13,800
Speaker 1: with you, talking technology. The website for the show rich

1850
01:29:14,000 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: on Tech dot TV. While you're there, you can check

1851
01:29:16,800 --> 01:29:20,440
Speaker 1: out my Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide, sign up for the newsletter.

1852
01:29:20,520 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: Hit the light bulb icon if you want notes for

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01:29:23,840 --> 01:29:26,200
Speaker 1: this show. This has show number ninety nine. I know

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01:29:26,920 --> 01:29:29,840
Speaker 1: we're on the verge of something big. Triple digits. My

1855
01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:32,960
Speaker 1: kid turned double digits and he was very excited, so triple.

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01:29:33,840 --> 01:29:35,680
Speaker 1: That's a big deal, even though it's just shows. I

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01:29:35,720 --> 01:29:38,360
Speaker 1: know it's not age, but hey, it means we've been

1858
01:29:38,400 --> 01:29:40,600
Speaker 1: around for a while and you can still get in.

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01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:43,519
Speaker 1: Actually i'd say you can get in on the feedback.

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01:29:43,640 --> 01:29:46,880
Speaker 1: But it's so overflowing that it took Bobo. I mean

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01:29:46,920 --> 01:29:48,800
Speaker 1: he was holding this thing up the stairs. He was

1862
01:29:48,840 --> 01:29:52,520
Speaker 1: just dragging. I mean, just thousands. It was so overfilled

1863
01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:56,960
Speaker 1: this week. So yeah, you're backers. There you go, all right,

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01:29:57,080 --> 01:30:03,000
Speaker 1: joining me now in studio. But Pepie Pepie, Yes, yes,

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01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:04,880
Speaker 1: I don't know why I stumble on your last name

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01:30:05,200 --> 01:30:05,720
Speaker 1: because it's it.

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01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:07,559
Speaker 10: Doesn't look like it says Pepie.

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01:30:07,640 --> 01:30:09,240
Speaker 1: It's spelled pep a j.

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01:30:09,640 --> 01:30:10,520
Speaker 10: It's Albanian.

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01:30:10,720 --> 01:30:14,799
Speaker 1: Albeit, there you go. Okay, uh, bake bought AI creator

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01:30:14,960 --> 01:30:17,519
Speaker 1: and also okay, so your website is bakespace dot com.

1872
01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 1: You've had this for many years, and we're going to

1873
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:21,559
Speaker 1: talk about sort of AI in the kitchen and how

1874
01:30:21,560 --> 01:30:23,479
Speaker 1: it's changing things. I think it's done a lot for

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01:30:23,760 --> 01:30:26,880
Speaker 1: I mean every industry, but cooking especially. So tell me

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01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:29,200
Speaker 1: about bake space. First off, why did you come.

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01:30:29,160 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 6: Up with this?

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01:30:29,720 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 7: Sure?

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01:30:30,080 --> 01:30:32,559
Speaker 12: Also, thank you so much for this opportunity to talk

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01:30:32,560 --> 01:30:36,400
Speaker 12: to your audience. I I I'm actually a fan as well.

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01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:38,200
Speaker 12: I listened to the show all the time. So to

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01:30:38,320 --> 01:30:40,160
Speaker 12: be here and see how the soup is being made

1883
01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:42,559
Speaker 12: is a And to meet Bobo in person.

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01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:44,799
Speaker 10: No, that's that was like the highlight. That was awesome.

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01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:46,840
Speaker 1: It was a little weird that you brought the you know,

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01:30:46,960 --> 01:30:49,840
Speaker 1: the Disney pen and the marker to get his autograph,

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01:30:51,200 --> 01:30:52,160
Speaker 1: but you know, it's fine.

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01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:55,439
Speaker 10: Hey, here's a celebrity. Here's a celebrity. So bake Space

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01:30:55,640 --> 01:30:57,719
Speaker 10: is a recipe community.

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01:30:57,800 --> 01:31:00,320
Speaker 12: So imagine like Facebook for foodies, where people can come

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01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 12: create their own online kitchen, upload their own recipes, and

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01:31:04,240 --> 01:31:06,479
Speaker 12: swap them with the community of people who love to

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01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:08,880
Speaker 12: cook and bake. So it's not just baking, it's cooking,

1894
01:31:08,960 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 12: it's grilling. People make you know, homemade pet food.

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01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:14,680
Speaker 13: I mean there's oh my gosh, my kid was just

1896
01:31:14,760 --> 01:31:18,439
Speaker 13: talking about that yesterday. Okay, that actually happens, yes all

1897
01:31:18,560 --> 01:31:20,200
Speaker 13: the time. He was like, Dad, we should start a

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01:31:20,280 --> 01:31:22,760
Speaker 13: YouTube page where we prepare pet food.

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01:31:22,800 --> 01:31:26,280
Speaker 2: I was like, what are you talking about? And I'm

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01:31:26,320 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 2: not going to start and I don't care. No, I

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01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 2: barely want to pet Well, people.

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01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:30,959
Speaker 10: Want to share their recipes.

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01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:34,200
Speaker 12: Recipes are all different types of recipes, and they come

1904
01:31:34,240 --> 01:31:37,960
Speaker 12: from all different places. Grandma, mom, you know, your favorite friend,

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01:31:38,439 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 12: you go you know, you go out and meet a

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01:31:39,840 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 12: friend and you're like, this recipe is amazing. You read

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01:31:41,840 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 12: a cookbook and you're like, wow, this is fantastic. And

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01:31:45,240 --> 01:31:47,160
Speaker 12: in two thousand and six when we launched, there really

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01:31:47,240 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 12: wasn't anything that connected home cooks in real time. A

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01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 12: lot of things were blogs or forum posts, and also

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01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:56,960
Speaker 12: general social networking sites like MySpace, where it was like

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01:31:57,080 --> 01:31:59,120
Speaker 12: so big people would be like, how.

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01:31:59,040 --> 01:31:59,720
Speaker 3: Do I find them?

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01:31:59,720 --> 01:32:02,840
Speaker 12: People are into what I'm into, And so we launched

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01:32:02,880 --> 01:32:05,000
Speaker 12: bake Space and over the years we've done a lot

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01:32:05,080 --> 01:32:08,280
Speaker 12: of big innovations. You know, we launched a cookbook platform,

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01:32:09,080 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 12: We made profiles so that people can highlight their recipes.

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01:32:12,760 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 12: We also allowed them to sell their own cookbooks. And

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01:32:15,560 --> 01:32:18,920
Speaker 12: as I was looking at AI and thinking about how

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01:32:19,080 --> 01:32:22,680
Speaker 12: home cooks actually cook, most of what you see right

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01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:26,680
Speaker 12: now are recipe generators where it's like they let you,

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01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:30,240
Speaker 12: you know, select chicken and you know, coffee and whatever,

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01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 12: and it's like, let's see what it's gonna make coffee chicken,

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01:32:32,920 --> 01:32:35,840
Speaker 12: I don't know, hey, maybe, and then it spits out

1925
01:32:35,920 --> 01:32:38,720
Speaker 12: something and you're like, well, I need to make a modification,

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01:32:38,960 --> 01:32:40,960
Speaker 12: and you're like, oh no, it only lets me make

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01:32:41,040 --> 01:32:42,000
Speaker 12: three recipes a month.

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01:32:42,040 --> 01:32:43,479
Speaker 10: And you're like, well, this kind of sucks.

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Speaker 12: So I actually looked at We've had, you know, many

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Speaker 12: years of working with home cooks directly, and I'm like,

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Speaker 12: how are home cooks actually cooking? They're making modifications, they're

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Speaker 12: asking cooking questions. They have a guest who's coming over,

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Speaker 12: who's gluten free, and they're like, well, I want to

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Speaker 12: make my recipe, but then how do I convert it?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, all Bobo's going to be sad. But then, but

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Speaker 10: you know, also with recipes.

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Speaker 2: I'm just kidding. I don't mind the gluten free. I

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Speaker 2: I like all the things. I mean, here's what we

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Speaker 2: were joking.

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Speaker 1: We had a dinner party and legitimately, like you're literally

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Speaker 1: asking everyone like, what's your deal?

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Speaker 2: What's your deal? By the end of the night, we

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Speaker 2: were drinking water.

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Speaker 8: That was it.

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Speaker 2: It's the only thing we could all have. Yeah, anyway,

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Speaker 2: that's sad.

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Speaker 10: Well, you should come to one of my parties. I will,

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Speaker 10: I will, I will treat you right.

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Speaker 12: But a lot of people, you know, when they're making recipes,

1950
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Speaker 12: you know, they might go online and see like, oh,

1951
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Speaker 12: for an egg substitute, I can use apple sauce, but

1952
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Speaker 12: it's like, well, how much for that recipe? So when

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01:33:44,200 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 12: we started thinking about AI and this like smart kitchen,

1954
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Speaker 12: we started realizing that if we can empower home cooks

1955
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Speaker 12: to be able to go I have a question I

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Speaker 12: have I want to make this recipe that just came

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Speaker 12: to me. Or I have a great recipe for my grandmother,

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Speaker 12: but I don't cook with lard, Like how can I

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Speaker 12: be closer to her and make this recipe?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 12: So that's why we launched bake bot, and bakedot is

1962
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Speaker 12: available on bakespace dot com. It's totally free. It's in

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Speaker 12: a couple of different places on the site. It's on

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Speaker 12: every page as a pop up chat where you can

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Speaker 12: just like ask your question, have it create a quick recipe.

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Speaker 12: It's great for emergencies when you're like cooking and you accidentally,

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Speaker 12: you know, you forget that the word divided is next

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Speaker 12: to an ingredient and you're like, oh no, I just

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Speaker 12: put the entire amount of salt in, Like what do

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Speaker 12: I do? Do I have to change my baking or

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Speaker 12: my cooking And that's that's a great place to use that.

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Speaker 12: But then we also have a whole suite of tools

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Speaker 12: that allow you to upload recipes and allow you to

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Speaker 12: really dive deep into recipe development. So if I have

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Speaker 12: an idea for something, I want to make pink cupcakes

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Speaker 12: that are a Taylor Swift theme and that have gluten

1977
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Speaker 12: free frosting, and it's like, how am I going to

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Speaker 12: find that on the web? Like that's what my daughter

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Speaker 12: wants for her birthday. You can put something like that

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Speaker 12: in and it will start talking to you. It'll start

1981
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Speaker 12: making the recipe perfectly. Once you make the recipe, it'll

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Speaker 12: also make a really cool picture as well. And then

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Speaker 12: the thing that we're really the proud of is that

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Speaker 12: you can actually it saves it as a real recipe

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Speaker 12: that's shaable, So it's not just like in a thread

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Speaker 12: somewhere on a chat gpt you know, you know where

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Speaker 12: you're never going to find it again, and you can't

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Speaker 12: really Yes, you might be able to share the thread,

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01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:28,360
Speaker 12: but it doesn't really it doesn't. Yeah, you can exact exactly,

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Speaker 12: but but you with with your community, with your friends

1991
01:35:31,040 --> 01:35:32,960
Speaker 12: and family, it's like it's hard for them to see that.

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01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:36,560
Speaker 12: Plus with chatchept, when you ask for a recipe. It

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Speaker 12: doesn't know it's like a generalist. It doesn't know that

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Speaker 12: you're a home cook.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is you have.

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Speaker 1: You have kind of modified you know, and we have

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Speaker 1: there are many AI chatbots out there. What you've done

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Speaker 1: is you've crafted the prompts on the back end to say, like,

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Speaker 1: here's the parameters. These are people that are cooking their

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Speaker 1: home cooks. You've given it like these parameters to work with.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just chatchabt general purpose everything. Yeah, this

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Speaker 1: knows who you are kind of because it knows what

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Speaker 1: you're trying to accomplish.

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Speaker 12: Well, it's like we've empowered it to tap into all

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Speaker 12: the culinary knowledge. It's not just I just need any

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01:36:11,600 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 12: kind of recipe's I need something that's good.

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Speaker 10: I need something that understands cooking.

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Speaker 12: I need something that might be based on what my

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Speaker 12: taste and my likes are, so it can really refine

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Speaker 12: that experience.

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Speaker 10: And you don't have to say, Hi, I'm a salon,

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01:36:25,560 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 10: I'm a chef. I need you to create this.

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Speaker 12: Because I've done a ton of searches on with recipes

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Speaker 12: on some of the general Chutgypt and other sites. Copilot

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01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:37,400
Speaker 12: a lot of them are really good, but when you

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01:36:37,479 --> 01:36:41,240
Speaker 12: start looking at how they actually display the recipes, sometimes

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01:36:41,320 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 12: it's missing ingredients, sometimes it's missing directions. Sometimes it has

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Speaker 12: no calorie, it has no serving size, And you don't

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01:36:48,080 --> 01:36:50,080
Speaker 12: have to do that with bake Bot. It basically you

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01:36:50,240 --> 01:36:52,760
Speaker 12: just say I need a cupcake recipe that's vanilla and

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01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,800
Speaker 12: gluten free and it nut free and whatever it is

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01:36:54,920 --> 01:36:57,360
Speaker 12: you need, and it will give you all that information

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01:36:57,479 --> 01:37:01,000
Speaker 12: that you would normally expect in a recipe, and then

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01:37:01,000 --> 01:37:03,320
Speaker 12: if you make a modification, it'll actually change it to

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Speaker 12: the size that you need. Lots of times you can go, oh,

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01:37:05,920 --> 01:37:07,880
Speaker 12: I know it is a good replacement, but I don't

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01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:10,280
Speaker 12: know how much of that to put in. So it'll

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01:37:10,280 --> 01:37:12,439
Speaker 12: actually look at the recipe and go, oh, you only

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01:37:12,479 --> 01:37:15,080
Speaker 12: need a half a cup. You know, that's very difficult

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01:37:15,200 --> 01:37:17,240
Speaker 12: in the culinary world to be able to just look

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01:37:17,240 --> 01:37:18,240
Speaker 12: at an ingredient.

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01:37:17,960 --> 01:37:19,760
Speaker 1: And go, what do I need to re sure that

2033
01:37:20,520 --> 01:37:23,400
Speaker 1: we tested this with a so we did a segment

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01:37:23,479 --> 01:37:26,680
Speaker 1: for TV that will air Monday on KTLA if you're

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01:37:26,720 --> 01:37:30,200
Speaker 1: in the LA area. But we took a handwritten recipe

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01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:32,960
Speaker 1: that was actually I didn't realize incomplete, like I only

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01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: had the ingredients they didn't have.

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01:37:34,160 --> 01:37:36,000
Speaker 10: The directions, and I was like, what am I supposed

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01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:37,360
Speaker 10: to do with this? And I was like a big

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Speaker 10: bot thank you.

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01:37:38,160 --> 01:37:40,320
Speaker 1: It was for a rhubarb pie. And so it was

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01:37:40,400 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 1: actually like Grandma McClellan's or something.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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01:37:42,960 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 1: I got it from my sister in law. I don't

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01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,640
Speaker 1: know where she got it, but we took that. We

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01:37:46,760 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 1: put it into baked Bot. It came up with the

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01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:51,679
Speaker 1: actual directions for the pie, but it also we said

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01:37:51,720 --> 01:37:53,200
Speaker 1: we wanted to make it vegan, just to kind of

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01:37:53,280 --> 01:37:56,759
Speaker 1: test it out a little bit, and it substituted apple

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01:37:56,800 --> 01:37:59,599
Speaker 1: sauce I think for the eggs right, and we made

2051
01:37:59,640 --> 01:38:00,799
Speaker 1: it tasted great.

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01:38:00,640 --> 01:38:01,040
Speaker 6: It was good.

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01:38:01,080 --> 01:38:02,519
Speaker 10: I'd never had rhubarb before.

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01:38:03,400 --> 01:38:06,920
Speaker 1: And so I guess my question is a couple of

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01:38:06,920 --> 01:38:10,280
Speaker 1: minutes remaining here, what impact do you think these are

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01:38:10,320 --> 01:38:10,600
Speaker 1: going to have?

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01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:10,920
Speaker 4: You know?

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01:38:11,000 --> 01:38:12,519
Speaker 1: Like, who should use these tools?

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01:38:13,800 --> 01:38:14,120
Speaker 4: You know what?

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01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:17,200
Speaker 12: People who want to feel empowered in the kitchen, people

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01:38:17,360 --> 01:38:19,240
Speaker 12: who you know. I can't tell you how many times

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01:38:19,280 --> 01:38:22,080
Speaker 12: I've looked online at a recipe and I'm like, this

2063
01:38:22,240 --> 01:38:25,280
Speaker 12: recipe looks amazing, but I don't have these ingredients, Like

2064
01:38:25,400 --> 01:38:28,080
Speaker 12: what else can I put in place of those ingredients.

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01:38:29,040 --> 01:38:32,120
Speaker 12: If I'm in the kitchen and I have a problem

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01:38:32,360 --> 01:38:34,960
Speaker 12: or I don't know what to make, or I'm trying

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01:38:35,000 --> 01:38:36,960
Speaker 12: to figure out I have ingredients and I want to

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01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:38,560
Speaker 12: make something at home, and I want to kind of

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01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 12: like take my pantry and be like, I need to

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01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 12: get rid of this food before it spoils. Those are

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01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:46,800
Speaker 12: the type of people I think would really benefit. When

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01:38:46,800 --> 01:38:49,519
Speaker 12: I think of bake bot, I think of it as

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01:38:50,040 --> 01:38:53,479
Speaker 12: imagine if you were in the kitchen and your best

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01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:55,799
Speaker 12: friend was in the kitchen with you, and a professional

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01:38:55,960 --> 01:38:59,400
Speaker 12: chef and your grandma, and they all were available twenty

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01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:03,120
Speaker 12: four to seven to basically give you every culinary answer,

2077
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:07,240
Speaker 12: every recipe you know, and to give you confidence so

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01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,280
Speaker 12: that you know that when you go into the kitchen,

2079
01:39:09,479 --> 01:39:11,719
Speaker 12: like even if you don't have three of the ingredients,

2080
01:39:11,840 --> 01:39:14,120
Speaker 12: you can still make the recipe and it's still it's

2081
01:39:14,160 --> 01:39:17,720
Speaker 12: gonna be pretty darn good. So that that's the kind

2082
01:39:17,760 --> 01:39:20,519
Speaker 12: of community. And it's also built upon a community too.

2083
01:39:20,640 --> 01:39:23,080
Speaker 12: It's not just like you know, it's it's like a

2084
01:39:23,320 --> 01:39:25,840
Speaker 12: generator where it's like going somewhere and then you don't

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01:39:25,840 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 12: know where it's going.

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01:39:26,600 --> 01:39:29,400
Speaker 10: It's actually built on bakespace dot com so such.

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01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:30,840
Speaker 1: A change from the days when you wouldn't have an

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01:39:30,920 --> 01:39:32,720
Speaker 1: ingredient you asked your neighbor, you know, hey, can I

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01:39:32,760 --> 01:39:34,400
Speaker 1: get a cup of sugar or you know whatever.

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01:39:34,520 --> 01:39:36,120
Speaker 12: Many times I've been on pinterrest and I'm like, I

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01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:38,040
Speaker 12: have to go back to another page and I'm like ah,

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01:39:38,160 --> 01:39:40,120
Speaker 12: And that actually gave us the idea because people were

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01:39:40,200 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 12: leaving comments on pinchrest going you're missing an ingredient or

2094
01:39:43,880 --> 01:39:47,040
Speaker 12: you're missing something, and it will actually fill in the blank.

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01:39:47,120 --> 01:39:48,960
Speaker 12: Like when you're on the chat bot, you can say

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01:39:49,520 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 12: I love this recipe, it's chocolate, how can I make

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01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:52,559
Speaker 12: it vanilla?

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01:39:52,680 --> 01:39:54,679
Speaker 10: And it will make it for you. In the chat

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01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:55,920
Speaker 10: it will change it for you.

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Speaker 12: And if you're logged into bake space, you can just

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Speaker 12: say save and it'll save to your account.

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Speaker 2: That is wild.

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Speaker 1: So again, you've got bakespace dot com is the website.

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Speaker 1: Bake Bot ai is the AI version of this. You've

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01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:10,479
Speaker 1: got chat if you just want to ask a question.

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01:40:10,880 --> 01:40:13,320
Speaker 1: You've got a recipe maker where you can actually make

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Speaker 1: a recipe from scratch or optimize one. I'm guessing pantry magic,

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01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:20,320
Speaker 1: which is what you were talking about. You say, look,

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Speaker 1: I've got garlic I've got green beans, I've got flour.

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01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:24,720
Speaker 2: What can I make?

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Speaker 12: And it'll actually use what you have on hand. It

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Speaker 12: won't be like I have three eggs and then I'll

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Speaker 12: use one egg. It will use three eggs to make

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Speaker 12: sure that you use that up.

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Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: And then you've got the recipe Saver, which just saves

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Speaker 1: your recipe. I'm guessing. And then recipe Uploader, which is

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Speaker 1: what we used and it's kind of fun. It also

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Speaker 1: has a little mascot, the Little Baked Bop, a little

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Speaker 1: Bakebop mascot.

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Speaker 2: Right, fun stuff, all right? But bet Papie Pepie, or.

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Speaker 10: We should say on it like pie Pie.

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01:40:51,840 --> 01:40:53,080
Speaker 2: Why you just change your name.

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01:40:54,720 --> 01:40:58,760
Speaker 1: Pepie? Yes, there we go. Thank you, creator of bakespace

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Speaker 1: dot com. Check it out bakespace dot com if you

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Speaker 1: want AI in the kitchen. All right, coming up, it's

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Speaker 1: the Candela P twelve ferry. It's the first electric hydrofoil

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Speaker 1: ferry in the US. And I can tell you I've

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Speaker 1: already taken a ride on this thing, which is really cool,

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Speaker 1: or at least their prototype, so if you're not familiar

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Speaker 1: with the hydrofoil, it uses underwater wings to sort of

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Speaker 1: lift the boat up and have it fly above the water.

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Speaker 1: The wings are in the water, but the whole of

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Speaker 1: the boat is actually up above the water, so that

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Speaker 1: reduces drag. It makes this much more energy efficient because

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Speaker 1: it's electric, it's zero mission, it's silent, creates little to

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Speaker 1: no wake, and it's going to cut travel time in

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Speaker 1: half at Lake Tahoe in California, so just thirty minutes

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Speaker 1: from north to south shore, which could take two hours

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Speaker 1: by car in winter.

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Speaker 2: So this is going to come. It looks like next year.

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Speaker 2: Twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: I took a ride on the Candela, just their prototype boat,

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Speaker 1: up in San Francisco. I think it was two years ago,

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Speaker 1: and it was pretty cool. I mean, this thing glides

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Speaker 1: pretty fast and it just looks neat like it starts

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Speaker 1: out in the water and then as it gets to speed,

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Speaker 1: it lifts up out of the water for that efficient ride,

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Speaker 1: and it's very quiet. Let's get to the feedback. Let's

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Speaker 1: open it up with let's see Sid here. Sid writes

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Speaker 1: in Hey Rich, my wife panicked when she opened her

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Speaker 1: notes app and found nothing. Thank you for covering the

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Speaker 1: topic in the recent podcast. I did turn the sink off,

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Speaker 1: which gave the scary warning that your changes will be deleted.

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Speaker 2: My wife was nervous, but I told her not to fret.

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Speaker 1: I trust Rich, turn the sink back on, reboot to

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Speaker 1: the phone, and voila, all the notes came back. Thanks

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Speaker 1: as always, I'm glad it worked out for you. Christine

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Speaker 1: writes in hey, thanks, for your kind words. I'll be

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Speaker 1: listening as always this weekend. We all appreciate your expertise,

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Speaker 1: good humor, and wonderfully down to earth style. Oh thank you, Christine.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Sean writes in I did not pay her

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Speaker 1: a thing. Sewan writes in a tip about Google photo storage.

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Speaker 1: When I upgraded from my Pixel four A to a

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Speaker 1: Pixel eight Pro, I didn't want to lose my unlimited

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Speaker 1: photo backup. I discovered that as long as photos are

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Speaker 1: uploaded from the four A, they don't count towards storage,

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Speaker 1: even if taken on another device. So I quick share

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Speaker 1: photos from my Pixel eight Pro to my old phone

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Speaker 1: and let it handle the uploads. Now I have unlimited

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Speaker 1: storage and photos backed up on two devices. Sean, I

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Speaker 1: love your hack, and yes I have an old pixel

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Speaker 1: the original one that still has the unlimited storage. When

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Speaker 1: Pixels first came out, they promised unlimited Google Photos storage,

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Speaker 1: and of course that went away, but uh, yes, if

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Speaker 1: you upload the photos from an old phone, you still

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Speaker 1: get that unlimited storage.

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Speaker 2: So I had like this whole setup.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'm gonna use sync sink thing and

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Speaker 1: like sink all the pictures and then I was like ah,

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Speaker 1: I'll just pay for the storage.

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Speaker 2: But glad you're doing it.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 2: Pat writes in.

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Speaker 1: Hello as a cat owner, I paid special attention to

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Speaker 1: your segment on cat trackers. Surprisingly, you failed to mention

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Speaker 1: radio frequency trackers.

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Speaker 2: That's what my cats wear. The company is called tab Cat.

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Speaker 1: Light and sound from the controller indicate when you're headed

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Speaker 1: in the right direction, and the signals intensify as you

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Speaker 1: get closer.

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Speaker 2: No subscription required. I use it every night.

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Speaker 1: Batteries are long lasting, looks like it's a range of

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Speaker 1: five hundred feet, and it's about one hundred bucks for

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Speaker 1: the tab Cat if you want to check it out.

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Speaker 1: Agnes writes in Hey Rich, I'm definitely not a techie, however,

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Speaker 1: as I listen to you every Saturday and always learn

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Speaker 1: something new. Just heard you talking about the Aura frame

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Speaker 1: you got for your dad. My kid got one for

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Speaker 1: my husband and me a couple of years ago, and

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Speaker 1: we love it. It sits on our kitchen table. It

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Speaker 1: brings a smile to our faces, seeing memories with our

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Speaker 1: kids and grandkids, and yes, all of us add to it,

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Speaker 1: which makes it amazing to see pictures we didn't add.

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Speaker 1: I'm actually looking at my Aura as I type this email.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for your great show and information. Thank you, Agnes.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here, let's see tu. Oh my gosh, so

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Speaker 1: many of these things, okay Dale. Dale writes in I

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Speaker 1: heard your broadcast about AI generated papers. I tested a

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Speaker 1: book I wrote years before AI existed. I tested it

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Speaker 1: through plagiarism tools and surprisingly at fled as one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent AI generated. Interestingly, when I dumbed it down to

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Speaker 1: my writing to a sixth grade level, it was recognized

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Speaker 1: as human writing. It suggests college students writing sophisticated papers

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Speaker 1: could falsely be accused of cheating. Like your show, very informative.

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Speaker 1: Let's see Ryan, Oh, we got to get this in

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Speaker 1: for Ryan, Ryan from Santa Anna. It is my birthday

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Speaker 1: on episode ninety nine. Can you give me a shout

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Speaker 1: out on the radio. You've done a good job for taking.

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Speaker 2: Over for Leo.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Ryan, consider this your shout out. Happy birthday, buddy,

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Speaker 1: Ryan from Santa Anna. Enjoy the day. There you go,

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Speaker 1: let's see here. Oh my gosh. Jonathan writes in Jonathan

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Speaker 1: from Pittsburgh about the caller who didn't have enough storage

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Speaker 1: to update to iOS. My first thought was to suggest

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Speaker 1: enabling optimized iPhone storage for photos. By the way, I

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Speaker 1: always enjoy when you suggest cool accessories for the tech

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Speaker 1: we already own. Those little things can make a big

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Speaker 1: difference in how we enjoy our device. Yesday, Ken, Jonathan,

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Speaker 1: and yes, if you're having trouble with doing something on

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Speaker 1: your phone, optimized storage does let Apple optimize the physical

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Speaker 1: storage on your phone. Let's see here.

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Speaker 2: Do we have time for one more quick one?

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Speaker 1: Sam says, I hear people ask about webcams all the

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Speaker 1: time on the show. One option you haven't heard, haven't

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Speaker 1: heard you mentioned is using an old phone. I use

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Speaker 1: an older phone and a phone holder behind below my

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Speaker 1: mirror and get a decent view of my drive wondering

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Speaker 1: if there's something I need to be aware of. I

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Speaker 1: can also be used as a home security camera with

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Speaker 1: the Alfred app. I used it to monitor my hotel

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Speaker 1: room when I'm out. Okay, all right, that's going to

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Speaker 1: do it for this episode of the show. Links to

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Speaker 1: everything I mentioned on the website rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: I'm on social media at rich on tech. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for listening. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Take the time

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Speaker 1: to relax, enjoy being with your left ones. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: to recharge with some downtime happy Thanksgiving. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who makes this show possible. I'm Rich Tomiro. Talk to

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Speaker 1: you real soon.