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Speaker 1: Microsoft gives us their vision for the metaverse. Facebook ditches

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Speaker 1: facial recognition, the two factor tech scam you need to

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Speaker 1: know about? Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on?

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Speaker 1: Amriche Demiro And this is rich on Tech, the podcast

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

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Speaker 1: So I've been doing this podcast for I think about

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Speaker 1: I do want to say that after all my complaining,

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Speaker 1: So here it is. Oh you can't see on the

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Speaker 1: podcast because you're you're listening, but it is a It

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Speaker 1: is definitely, I will say, the best phone that Google

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Speaker 1: I mean, the fingerprint reader is just as slow as

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Speaker 1: the first story of the week, Facebook by any other

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Speaker 1: First question of the day, high Rich, please help I

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Speaker 1: Thank you as always. Marsha Marsha Marsha. Marsha, I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure there is a way to blanket stop follow requests

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431
00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,680
Speaker 1: timing with mine. And by the way, I continue to absolutely,

432
00:23:20,560 --> 00:23:23,200
Speaker 1: absolutely love my car. I got my first software update,

433
00:23:23,200 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: I think I mentioned it last week in the show.

434
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:29,160
Speaker 1: And I also installed the charger now in my garage.

435
00:23:29,240 --> 00:23:32,760
Speaker 1: So it's just it literally like once you have all

436
00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:34,879
Speaker 1: this stuff set up, like I really really want to

437
00:23:34,920 --> 00:23:37,000
Speaker 1: get my wife one of these cars because I love

438
00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: it so much, but she does not need a new car.

439
00:23:39,840 --> 00:23:42,520
Speaker 1: So I am resisting and we're not doing that right now, right,

440
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 1: We're not doing it. No, we are not. Okay, So,

441
00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,679
Speaker 1: what are the top five tech wish list items for

442
00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:55,000
Speaker 1: consumers in twenty twenty one? Number one smartphones and so

443
00:23:55,040 --> 00:24:01,520
Speaker 1: smartphones number one, number two, laptops and notebook computers number three,

444
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,000
Speaker 1: wearable devices, which actually jumped from fifth last year now

445
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: they're up to number three, And I think the interest

446
00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:09,760
Speaker 1: in the Apple Watch is a huge driver in that,

447
00:24:10,359 --> 00:24:14,239
Speaker 1: although they don't specifically say that, Television's number four and

448
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: then tied video game consoles and tablets and e readers. Now,

449
00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:20,919
Speaker 1: I'm guessing that video game console sort of drop down

450
00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: the list a little bit just because there is not

451
00:24:24,320 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 1: a new, brand new console this year. We saw that

452
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:30,040
Speaker 1: last year during the holidays, and so maybe people who

453
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,240
Speaker 1: got those or that were interested already got those. But

454
00:24:33,280 --> 00:24:36,600
Speaker 1: the reality is the Xbox and the PlayStation five still

455
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:40,200
Speaker 1: seem pretty elusive even this year, and so I'm sure

456
00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:43,240
Speaker 1: people will be purchasing those in big numbers. But when

457
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,639
Speaker 1: when you compare them to smartphones and laptops and wearables

458
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:51,200
Speaker 1: and TVs, definitely those are higher up on the list

459
00:24:51,200 --> 00:24:54,200
Speaker 1: because I would say video game consoles are a little

460
00:24:54,200 --> 00:24:58,119
Speaker 1: bit more niche for most people, Like if they want that,

461
00:24:58,160 --> 00:25:00,960
Speaker 1: they've sort of you just go in and buy it,

462
00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:03,560
Speaker 1: like you've you've wanted to have, You've you've had your

463
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 1: eye on that for a while now. The other interesting

464
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: part about this release is that smartphone replacement rates are

465
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:16,560
Speaker 1: now reaching four plus years, so smartphone interest during this

466
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:20,159
Speaker 1: holiday season is expected to be strong. CTA says, these

467
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: are the folks that put on cs. By the way,

468
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,320
Speaker 1: forty eight percent of holiday tech shoppers expect to purchase

469
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,679
Speaker 1: one as a gift, up from forty one percent in

470
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,520
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. And that makes a lot of sense because

471
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:34,520
Speaker 1: the iPhone thirteen and you've got you've got phones this

472
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:39,720
Speaker 1: year that were probably the best reviewed phones of any

473
00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: year I can remember. So you've got the iPhone thirteen,

474
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 1: which is probably the best reviewed phone I've ever seen.

475
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:51,400
Speaker 1: Then you've got the foldables from Samsung, which were very

476
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:56,800
Speaker 1: well received, especially the Z the z Flip three that's

477
00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: the smaller the fold great, but yeah, it's it's very

478
00:26:00,359 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: so it's not totally mainstream, but the Flip people said, hey,

479
00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:06,760
Speaker 1: this is a great alternative to the standard Samsung phones.

480
00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:10,200
Speaker 1: The S twenty one Ultra well reviewed. And then you've

481
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: got the Pixel six and Pixel six Pro, which are

482
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: also really well reviewed phones. And so I can definitely

483
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:22,359
Speaker 1: see I think this holiday season will probably be the

484
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:27,360
Speaker 1: highest sales we've ever seen for smartphones, just because all

485
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:30,920
Speaker 1: of the stars are aligned. You've got great phones, and

486
00:26:31,160 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: people are sort of looking for that upgrade. Maybe they

487
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:36,320
Speaker 1: held off and since they're seeing all the reviews come

488
00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: out for these phones equally as well, Like you can't

489
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,800
Speaker 1: go wrong whether you go with the S twenty one Ultra,

490
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,000
Speaker 1: whether you got the Pixel six Pro, whether you go

491
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:46,639
Speaker 1: with the flip or whether you go with the iPhone,

492
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: you're going to get a fantastic phone. Now, there are

493
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: preferences in there, and I have my preferences, but there's

494
00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, you can't go wrong. If you want a foldable,

495
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:59,159
Speaker 1: there you go. Twenty nine percent of people, according to

496
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: this are going to buy a foldable. Also, work at

497
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: home continues to play out according to the CTA. Printers,

498
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,679
Speaker 1: desktop computers, and monitors also high on the list of

499
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: things that people will purchase. I just purchased a brand

500
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: new HP printer. I talked about it on the show

501
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,879
Speaker 1: I Believe, and it's been good. I mean it's been

502
00:27:19,040 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: it's been ten years I think since I purchased a printer.

503
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: It's one of those things that is not really top

504
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: of the list, but when you get one, it's kind

505
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: of nice. Kids are enjoying the color printing. Broaderick says

506
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: Oculus would be cheaper to get it now or should

507
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: I wait until the hollid Hollywood holiday sales? Thanks uh oh, Broaderick.

508
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 1: This perfectly fits into what I was just talking about.

509
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: But I would I would wait. Oculus is probably one

510
00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: of those things that will go down in price over

511
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,119
Speaker 1: Black Friday and during the holiday shopping season. So what

512
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: I would do is set up a couple of price alerts.

513
00:27:56,600 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: So I would do, do they even sell this on

514
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,359
Speaker 1: ammaz on Oculus Let's see, let's see Oculus Quest two.

515
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:07,240
Speaker 1: Yes they do, Okay, So Oculus Quest two is two

516
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,240
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars for the one hundred and

517
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:13,639
Speaker 1: twenty eight gigabyte version, and let's just see if the

518
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: price on that has gone down at all. So I'm

519
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,760
Speaker 1: going to Camel Camel Camel, and I'm gonna pop this

520
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: into their little system and see if the price has

521
00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: ever gone down and ooh, it is not so interesting.

522
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,919
Speaker 1: Price has never changed on Amazon as long as this

523
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,000
Speaker 1: thing has been on Amazon. So I would say what

524
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: they might do. You might not get a discount, but

525
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,920
Speaker 1: you might get a bundle situation going on, or they

526
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,240
Speaker 1: might bundle like a you know, an extra maybe not

527
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 1: an extra controller, but I don't know what you'd get bundled,

528
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: maybe an extra game, maybe some sort of extra accessory.

529
00:28:51,040 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: But at this point, it doesn't look like the price

530
00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:58,000
Speaker 1: historically has gone down. But at the same time, uh,

531
00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 1: it probably will. I mean you'll probably get something for

532
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: oh wow, sorry, I'm a little distracted. I'm on Amazon's

533
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 1: website right now, and my pal Tricia Hirschberger is on

534
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,920
Speaker 1: the banner. I guess she's on celebrating Amazon's or Alexa's

535
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: birthday with Amazon Shopping Live. That's so funny. Trisha is

536
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:20,240
Speaker 1: a gosh. She's a friend that we used to run

537
00:29:20,280 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: around a lot with. Oh there's a group of us

538
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 1: in LA that used to run around a lot at

539
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 1: these tech events and she was one of them. So anyway,

540
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: that's cool. Good to see her doing so well. Anyway,

541
00:29:31,040 --> 00:29:35,600
Speaker 1: I digress as I typically do. But the yeah Oculus

542
00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,760
Speaker 1: quest too. I don't know. It might go down in price,

543
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,080
Speaker 1: it might not, but I would definitely if you've waited

544
00:29:40,080 --> 00:29:42,240
Speaker 1: this long, I would say just wait in general and

545
00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:43,800
Speaker 1: just see what kind of deal you might get a

546
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,320
Speaker 1: you might get a discount somewhere, or some sort of

547
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,080
Speaker 1: gift card thrown in. I was trying to look and

548
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 1: see if there was any sort of deals last year.

549
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:53,120
Speaker 1: I didn't at first glance, didn't really see that, but

550
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:57,440
Speaker 1: you never know, so good question. Always at this point,

551
00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,440
Speaker 1: always a good time to sort of wait through the

552
00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: holidays for some of those deals. If you've got your

553
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: eye on a tech product. All right, So I talked

554
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 1: about Facebook's new camera sunglasses called ray Band Stories. I'm

555
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:12,680
Speaker 1: not sure how much I went into them on the

556
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 1: last show or previous shows. Maybe I mentioned that I

557
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: was using them, but I will give you my review now.

558
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,400
Speaker 1: I did this review on KTLA, and so they're called

559
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:25,480
Speaker 1: the ray Band Stories. These are Facebook sunglasses. There's a camera,

560
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,520
Speaker 1: there's a microphone, and there's speakers so you can capture

561
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: what you see. So I put these on for probably

562
00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: warm for you know, on and off for two weeks,

563
00:30:33,200 --> 00:30:37,240
Speaker 1: three weeks, whatever, and they're really fun. They are definitely

564
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:39,960
Speaker 1: the best camera sunglasses I've ever put on, and I've

565
00:30:39,960 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: put on several pairs, especially the ones from Snapchat and

566
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 1: maybe some others, but these are the best. They look

567
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:50,880
Speaker 1: and feel like regular sunglasses. They're lightweight, they've got the

568
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: everything was for a first generation these were These really

569
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,120
Speaker 1: nailed it. Now. The number one thing that I kind

570
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: of figured is the privacy factor is a big one.

571
00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: So I kind of felt like when I put them on,

572
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:03,600
Speaker 1: like I was almost doing something wrong, Like I was

573
00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,479
Speaker 1: a little not creepy, but you know, I was kind

574
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: of like, I don't know, skirting the law or something like.

575
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 1: People need to know that these have a camera in them.

576
00:31:11,960 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: And yes, there's a little light on them that lets

577
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: you know when you're that let other people know when

578
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:21,000
Speaker 1: you're recording as well as yourself. But do people expect

579
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:23,840
Speaker 1: to be recorded with a pair of sunglasses? Not necessarily,

580
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,920
Speaker 1: and so that was one thing. But you know, they

581
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:30,200
Speaker 1: are fun. They are three hundred dollars, so they're expensive,

582
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: but they do look a lot like my regular ray bands.

583
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: The stems are just a bit thicker. They also come

584
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: in that charging case I mentioned, which charges it a

585
00:31:38,360 --> 00:31:40,960
Speaker 1: couple of times. I think maybe the rated is I

586
00:31:41,000 --> 00:31:43,000
Speaker 1: don't know how many times, but it was fine. So

587
00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 1: you would plug in the charging case, charge them in there,

588
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:46,960
Speaker 1: and then it would charge them up a couple of

589
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: times after you charge them. So battery life was just

590
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:52,120
Speaker 1: okay on the glasses, but I never I never like

591
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,800
Speaker 1: ran out. But if you have the the Hey Facebook

592
00:31:55,800 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: functionality turned on, it definitely uses the battery much longer,

593
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,240
Speaker 1: are much faster than it does if you just press

594
00:32:03,320 --> 00:32:05,480
Speaker 1: the shutter button on it. And if you press the

595
00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:08,480
Speaker 1: shutter button, it'll capture up to thirty seconds of video

596
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: and you can also press a hold to capture photos,

597
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:14,680
Speaker 1: so video is definitely preferred. Let's be honest. These are

598
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: They're called ray Band Stories. The whole point of these

599
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: glasses is that you can share what's happening in front

600
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,840
Speaker 1: of you to your Instagram Stories or to your Facebook Stories.

601
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:24,959
Speaker 1: But you can also export this video to work on

602
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: any social media app. In fact, the app that you

603
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 1: use to sort of sync these glasses is called Facebook.

604
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: It's not even Facebook, it's just called View. And so

605
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: when you open up this app, it'll show you all

606
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:39,920
Speaker 1: the stuff that you recorded. You can download that video

607
00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: to your phone and then edit it. It can make

608
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 1: little highlight reels, or it can share it out as well. Now,

609
00:32:46,640 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: the process to share that or to sync that video

610
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: from the glasses to your actual phone is a bit

611
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,960
Speaker 1: convoluted because they give you like a little preview thumbnail,

612
00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: but then it's like still downloading the background. So I

613
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: kept like wondering, like, wait is this done? And on

614
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: Android it downloads a lot better in the background, but

615
00:33:04,720 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: on iOS not so much. Just the way iOS is built,

616
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 1: you have to kind of sit there with the app

617
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: open and make sure that you download these things so

618
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: the video images and videos look great in bright light

619
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,640
Speaker 1: quality is not so good in low light, and it's

620
00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: fun to capture life's little moments. I mean, there's no

621
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: denying that these things are really fun, but the video

622
00:33:26,360 --> 00:33:28,120
Speaker 1: is just okay. In fact, a lot of it is

623
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:31,840
Speaker 1: not usable. And even myself, who is a video professional,

624
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:34,680
Speaker 1: found myself with a lot of video that just was

625
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: too wobbly. It was all over the place. I'm looking around,

626
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: I'm darting my eyes all around. And there's one weird

627
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: thing about these glasses that I think you should know

628
00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:48,680
Speaker 1: is that what you're looking at is not necessarily what

629
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: the glasses are capturing. So I feel like the glasses

630
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,920
Speaker 1: are tuned to a bit of a higher point of

631
00:33:56,040 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: view than your eyes where they look naturally. And that's

632
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: a problem because when I was looking at something like

633
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 1: a smartphone, Let's say I had something in my hand

634
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,040
Speaker 1: that I wanted to show you, it would only capture

635
00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:09,279
Speaker 1: like half of that because the glasses need to be

636
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: like much further looking down, like she almost need to

637
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: like really aim your neck down or your chin down

638
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,759
Speaker 1: to capture what you're truly looking at. So that was

639
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:20,680
Speaker 1: kind of weird, and actually, I would say that's the

640
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,920
Speaker 1: biggest downside of these things, is that they just weren't

641
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: really capturing what I was specifically looking at, which I

642
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,960
Speaker 1: think is kind of a problem. But otherwise they are

643
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:31,359
Speaker 1: really cool. I think they're going to continue to get better.

644
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:33,759
Speaker 1: I think they're going to work on the stabilization the

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Speaker 1: image quality. But it does remove sort of that barrier

646
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:40,719
Speaker 1: to social sharing, and that may or may not be

647
00:34:40,760 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: a good thing. But three hundred dollars available now in

648
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: a bunch of stores, including Sunglass Hut. All Right, Keith says,

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00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: good afternoon, mister Demiro. My name is Keith. I'm a

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Speaker 1: forty nine year old quadraplegic who has been mentoring, training,

651
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:02,320
Speaker 1: and co coaching basketball players for more than thirty years.

652
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: Well at least I was until the pandemic, sooner than later.

653
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,439
Speaker 1: I hope to get back to doing what I love best,

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00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:08,920
Speaker 1: and I would like to be able to record my

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Speaker 1: activities in coaching, but also my adventures when traveling. My

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00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,719
Speaker 1: question for you, which cell phone would you suggest as

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00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:17,680
Speaker 1: best for someone who is a quadriplegic. I have no

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00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: use in my upper body, but soon I hope to

659
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,359
Speaker 1: have a robotic arm, but until then I would need

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00:35:22,400 --> 00:35:25,440
Speaker 1: something that has the most accessibility with voice command. I

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00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:27,840
Speaker 1: look forward to your thoughts on the subject. Have a

662
00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: great day, Keith. This person that emailed me has no

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00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 1: use of their upper body, and I can tell just

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Speaker 1: from this email that Keith is an amazing person with

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00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: an amazing outlook on life. He has been mentoring, training,

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00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: and coaching basketball players for more than thirty years. I mean,

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00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: just I don't even have words for this right now

668
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,120
Speaker 1: when I read this, and I'm just sitting here saying

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00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:58,960
Speaker 1: this person is amazing, And the fact that he's just

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00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: emailing and explaining his situation in life, and just me

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00:36:04,800 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: understanding that I can already tell that Keith is a positive,

672
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: amazing person is pretty cool that I can tell that

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00:36:12,760 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 1: through his email. So Keith, number one, keep up the

674
00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:19,839
Speaker 1: amazing work, keep up that amazing attitude. I bet you're

675
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:24,680
Speaker 1: an amazing coach for these players. With that said, which

676
00:36:24,800 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: phone do I think is the best for someone like you?

677
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: I have not. Now there's a couple of things here.

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00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:34,560
Speaker 1: You want to you record your activities in coaching and

679
00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,399
Speaker 1: also your adventures when traveling, but you want voice command. Now,

680
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,440
Speaker 1: the iPhone is probably the best when it comes to

681
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: video overall, and you know, recording things just setting it

682
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,719
Speaker 1: and forgetting it. There's a lot of accessories that you

683
00:36:48,760 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: can use, like a tripod to set it up. But

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00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: when it comes to voice command, I'm not sure that

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00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:58,800
Speaker 1: that's the best phone out there. But you know, especially

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00:36:58,800 --> 00:37:00,400
Speaker 1: if you're going to be trying to do tech and

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00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: things or just in general using your voice for this

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00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: to command this phone. So Apple does have a lot

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Speaker 1: of accessibility features, and I think they've done a really

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00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: great job with their accessibility features. In fact, some of

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00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: them have become so popular they sort of crossed over

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Speaker 1: into mainstream use. But with that said, I think that

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00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: the phone to look at would maybe be the new

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00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,839
Speaker 1: Pixel six. And the reason for that is that the

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: voice command on Google is pretty phenomenal, not just the

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00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,360
Speaker 1: transcription that you get, but also the things that you

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00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: can do with this phone just by asking it to

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00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: do things. And it's interesting because Google did the entire

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00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,479
Speaker 1: announcement for the Pixel six without really putting a lot

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00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: of emphasis into the Google Assistant as they had in

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00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: years past. But it's pretty powerful in reaching into the

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00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: far corners of this phone in being able to do

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00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: a lot of functionality that you might not be able

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Speaker 1: to do on the iPhone and so so I would

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00:38:00,960 --> 00:38:03,319
Speaker 1: I would take a look at that, and if there's

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00:38:03,520 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: a way that you can, you know, get one of

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00:38:05,080 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 1: these phones to play with or take a look at,

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00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: I would definitely do that before you make a purchase,

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00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,120
Speaker 1: and maybe also go to the Apple Store and kind

710
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: of check out some of the accessibility settings on the

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00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: iPhone and see which one you think might do a

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00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,120
Speaker 1: better job in assisting you with what you're trying to accomplish.

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00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: But you say voice command, I don't know, I'm thinking

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00:38:25,760 --> 00:38:28,680
Speaker 1: voice command. Google is pretty much the leader when it

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00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: comes to voice control. So I would I would probably,

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00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: I would probably look there first. Good question, Keith, thanks

717
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:42,959
Speaker 1: so much for listening. Zoom is going to start having advertisements. Yeah,

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00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: we knew this was probably gonna happen. It's been a

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00:38:45,000 --> 00:38:47,759
Speaker 1: free ride on Zoom for a very long time. So

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00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: you have to keep in mind Zoom started out as

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00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: a service for enterprise users. What does that mean enterprise?

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00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:58,680
Speaker 1: These are companies with big bucks. These are companies to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're not going to create our own video chat system,

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00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: we are going to use Zoom to video chat with colleagues.

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00:39:05,040 --> 00:39:08,400
Speaker 1: And when you think about it, video chat has always

726
00:39:08,440 --> 00:39:10,560
Speaker 1: been around. We've been for a long time now. I

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00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,399
Speaker 1: mean we've had FaceTime, we've had Skype, we've had some

728
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:17,000
Speaker 1: sort of video chat functionality for a long time. But

729
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:22,319
Speaker 1: when the pandemic hit, Zoom became a proprietary eponym for

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00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: video chat or web chatting whatever you want, or video

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00:39:25,400 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it, video meetings, and now

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00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,600
Speaker 1: everyone says, you know, this is this is it, this

733
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 1: is uh you know, when you want to take a

734
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: video call, it's Zoom. And free users have enjoyed a

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00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: lot of the same features that paid users have enjoyed,

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00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: with that exception of the forty minute limit on Zoom

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00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: free meetings, but otherwise it's been pretty amazing how many

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Speaker 1: people have used Zoom without paying a penny to Zoom.

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Speaker 1: And that costs Room money. I mean, they've got to

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Speaker 1: pay for servers, they've got to pay for develop and

741
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,120
Speaker 1: they've been kind of floating this bill for a long time,

742
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: but now they need to pay it. And so they said,

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00:40:06,280 --> 00:40:10,680
Speaker 1: beginning today, we are going to start rolling out ads

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00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: on a browser page for free users, and so free users,

745
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:17,479
Speaker 1: so free to free users. So this is someone who

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00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:20,799
Speaker 1: is making a free call to another Zoom user. They

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00:40:20,840 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: will see an advertisement on their web browser at the

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Speaker 1: end of the meeting, and it's very small. It's one

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00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,480
Speaker 1: little banner page right now and or one little banner

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00:40:31,520 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 1: ad right now, And that's how they're going to pay

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00:40:34,600 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 1: for a portion of what they're doing. I don't think

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00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:38,239
Speaker 1: that's going to take in a lot of money. Maybe

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00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,640
Speaker 1: it will because there's so many calls being placed on Zoom,

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00:40:41,040 --> 00:40:42,799
Speaker 1: But the main thing that they want you to know

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00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,000
Speaker 1: is that this is rolling out. You may not see

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00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:47,440
Speaker 1: it immediately. They got to pay their bills. That's what

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00:40:47,440 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: they're explaining. And there is one thing that the blog

758
00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:52,399
Speaker 1: post says they want to be very clear about. They

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00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: have updated their privacy statement to say they will not

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00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 1: use meetings, webinars, or any messages that you send through Zoom,

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00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: specifically audio, video files and messages, any chats for marketing

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00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: promotions or third party advertising. So what they're saying is

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00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,960
Speaker 1: they're not going to use the contents of your meeting

764
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:18,839
Speaker 1: to target ads against you. So if you were doing

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00:41:18,880 --> 00:41:23,239
Speaker 1: a meeting about you know, Instagram influencers and you were

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00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:26,160
Speaker 1: talking about you know, marketing tactics, they would not put

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00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: an ad for hoot Suite on your on your page

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00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 1: because they know that you're talking about marketing. But that

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00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,759
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you won't see that ad because there's

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00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,280
Speaker 1: other ways of targeting you, and that might involve cookies,

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00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: that might involve third party content that you've you know,

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00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,120
Speaker 1: websites that you've gone to, So don't be surprised if

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00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,520
Speaker 1: you see stuff that could be related to your field

774
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,960
Speaker 1: of work. But they're saying that you know your your

775
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: content is not being scanned to target these ads towards you,

776
00:41:56,120 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: which is nice. I'm glad they clarified that. But anyway,

777
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:07,320
Speaker 1: ads on Zoom coming soon or maybe already there. Ryan

778
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 1: writes in Hello, how do I set my Android phone

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00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: to announce who the caller is? I can't find it

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00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: on your website? Sincerely, Ryan, Uh Ryan. I know the

781
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: website is kind of tricky sometimes to find stuff, but

782
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: here's the best way of finding something that I've mentioned

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00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: on TV or on social media or anywhere that you

784
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:31,279
Speaker 1: hear me. The best way is to google me. So

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00:42:31,480 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: google when I when someone says, uh, you know, caller ID,

786
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:39,320
Speaker 1: so I would type caller I d announce ktla DeMuro

787
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: And when I do that, I see the story that

788
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: I mentioned this I think I mentioned this in and

789
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,880
Speaker 1: this this is called how to uh here are some

790
00:42:50,920 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: of the latest ways to stop spam calls. And so

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00:42:54,560 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: let's see, did I mention this. I didn't announce I

792
00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:04,480
Speaker 1: didn't mention it in there, but let's see im now

793
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 1: maybe I mentioned it on TVs and passing or something. Anyway,

794
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:10,480
Speaker 1: So the way to do this on an Android phone

795
00:43:10,719 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: is you have to download the phone by Google app.

796
00:43:15,080 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: And if you download the phone by Google App, go

797
00:43:17,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: into the settings. This will replace your standard phone call

798
00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: system on the Android. You can do that under Advanced

799
00:43:24,400 --> 00:43:27,560
Speaker 1: you'll see something called caller ID announcement. You flip that

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00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,480
Speaker 1: on and then your phone will speak the caller ID

801
00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:33,680
Speaker 1: information when someone calls. I actually have this turned on

802
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 1: on my iPhone, and you know, it's one of those

803
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: things that's kind of nice. I don't get a ton

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00:43:39,600 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: of phone calls that I answer. I mean, I you know,

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00:43:44,920 --> 00:43:47,200
Speaker 1: most people text nowadays, and if they're calling you, they

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00:43:47,239 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: text you first, which is I find a little odd,

807
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,240
Speaker 1: but that's the way people do it. Whenever I call people,

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00:43:51,760 --> 00:43:55,759
Speaker 1: you know, this is kind of the scenario. Someone I'm

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00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:57,640
Speaker 1: emailing with, I'm like, hey, can I call you real quick?

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00:43:57,640 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: And they're like no, They're like, uh, you can call

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00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,080
Speaker 1: next Tuesday at two o'clock. I'm like, oh, okay, I

812
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: thought you were at your email. But today I did this.

813
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: Just this morning, I emailed someone about a story. They

814
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,680
Speaker 1: wrote me back and I said, hey, you have a

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00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 1: couple of minutes to hop on a call, and sure enough,

816
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: I gave my phone number and they called right away.

817
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: And so anyway, that's how you set it up. Download

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00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: the phone by Google app, look under caller ID announcement

819
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,439
Speaker 1: under advance. I don't think that Samsung has a way

820
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: to do this built into their phones, so if they do,

821
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: I could be mistaken. But you can just go into

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00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: your phone settings on Samsung and see if they have

823
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:35,359
Speaker 1: anything that says caller ID announcement. They very well may.

824
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:37,000
Speaker 1: I just don't have a Samsung in front of me

825
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:40,000
Speaker 1: right now to test that. On iPhone you can do

826
00:44:40,040 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: it as well. It is under the phone settings in

827
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,879
Speaker 1: your phone, so just go ahead and you can turn

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00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,160
Speaker 1: that on. I have it turned on. It's it's a

829
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,719
Speaker 1: little jarring because it does announce publicly. You know, if

830
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:55,080
Speaker 1: someone's around you, they'll hear who's calling you, and so

831
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,040
Speaker 1: you may or may not like that. But that's how

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00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 1: that's how you turn it on. Good question, Ryan, thanks

833
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 1: listening to the show and asking. Oh, speaking of phone calls,

834
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: this I thought was a really interesting new scam from

835
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,839
Speaker 1: reported by Vice Motherboard, which is their kind of tech

836
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: section there. Joseph Cox, Joseph Cox is the reporter on this,

837
00:45:20,000 --> 00:45:25,680
Speaker 1: and this is a really interesting scam, one that I

838
00:45:25,719 --> 00:45:28,720
Speaker 1: was not aware of, and it's it's quite brilliant actually.

839
00:45:29,239 --> 00:45:33,800
Speaker 1: But here's what they do. So you know how, you're okay,

840
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:35,719
Speaker 1: there's so many layers to this, but you know how

841
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:38,560
Speaker 1: when you're I always say, don't use the same password

842
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:40,560
Speaker 1: over and over. Okay, Well there's a reason for that

843
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,359
Speaker 1: because right now on the internet, one of your old

844
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:47,239
Speaker 1: passwords is floating around with your email address. It just is.

845
00:45:47,880 --> 00:45:51,640
Speaker 1: And so what happens is, there's been so many data

846
00:45:51,640 --> 00:45:55,040
Speaker 1: breaches over the years. What these hackers do is they

847
00:45:55,040 --> 00:45:59,120
Speaker 1: buy a whole bunch of user names and passwords and

848
00:45:59,160 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: then they go ahead they try them, and so they

849
00:46:02,200 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: try to see which combinations work and on different websites.

850
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: So if you're using the same email address and password

851
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: on a different website than the one that was originally hacked, well,

852
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:14,880
Speaker 1: now they have access to that website. And this has

853
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: happened to me. I can tell you firsthand because a

854
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:22,240
Speaker 1: website that I used was hacked and thankfully I had

855
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:27,719
Speaker 1: a specific password on that website. Because this password's out there.

856
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,359
Speaker 1: I know it is because I got an alert on

857
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:34,239
Speaker 1: my monitoring situation that I subscribe to, and so or

858
00:46:34,320 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: monitoring service I should say. And so I said, hey,

859
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: this password has been hacked. We found it not just

860
00:46:38,719 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 1: with your password, but here's your email address and also

861
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: your address and all this other information. And so they

862
00:46:43,640 --> 00:46:46,320
Speaker 1: have that. But I've always talked about how you should

863
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:51,840
Speaker 1: always use two factor authentication, and what that does is

864
00:46:51,840 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: when someone logs in with your information, it will send

865
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:57,279
Speaker 1: you a code to your phone or you use your

866
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,480
Speaker 1: authentication app, which is a better way of doing it

867
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:06,279
Speaker 1: to authenticate this log in. Well, the scam artists know

868
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,239
Speaker 1: that people are starting to use this two factor authentication.

869
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: So how do you get around that. Well, here's what

870
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: they do. They now log into your they now have

871
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,239
Speaker 1: let's say they have your website, your email and password,

872
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,760
Speaker 1: and they're ready to try to log into your bank account.

873
00:47:22,000 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: So what they'll do is they will call you and

874
00:47:25,239 --> 00:47:28,880
Speaker 1: say they'll use these automated bots. And so these automated

875
00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: bots will call you. You'll get a voice a message

876
00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: on your phone, not a message like a phone call

877
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: that says, Hello, this is PayPal. Someone is trying to

878
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: log into your account. Please, we have just texted you

879
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: with a one time password. Please type in that password

880
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,319
Speaker 1: so we can secure your account. And this might be

881
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: for Apple, this might be for PayPal, Amazon, Coinbase, all

882
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 1: kinds of different banks. And you say, oh gosh, oh

883
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: my gosh, thank you for finding this this breach. Let

884
00:47:57,320 --> 00:47:59,440
Speaker 1: me type in this code, and sure enough the code

885
00:47:59,440 --> 00:48:02,400
Speaker 1: comes right, it's your phone. As you are listening to

886
00:48:02,440 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 1: this message, you type in the code, and guess what

887
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: just happened. You actually just gave access to your account

888
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:12,840
Speaker 1: to the hackers. Because now they have the two factor

889
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:14,840
Speaker 1: authentication code to your account. And what are they going

890
00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 1: to do? Immediately? They're going to go ahead and change

891
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: the password. They're going to turn off two factor or

892
00:48:19,880 --> 00:48:22,960
Speaker 1: change it to their information. And now they're gonna they're

893
00:48:23,000 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 1: going to take all your information that they can and

894
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:27,400
Speaker 1: all your money and whatever they can do. And so

895
00:48:27,520 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: this is something that's really scary. It's something that could

896
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 1: trick even a smart savvy tech person, because it's so

897
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:39,880
Speaker 1: new and it's so unique, and so this is something

898
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: that you just have to be aware of. Do not

899
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: give those two factor authentication codes to anyone, and just

900
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:50,719
Speaker 1: be very anytime you're logging into a website. I know

901
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 1: we want to do these things very quickly. And I

902
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: know that people use these variations of passwords and they

903
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: think they've got it down and they think it's not

904
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,120
Speaker 1: going to happen to them. But I'm telling you, I've

905
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,799
Speaker 1: told you once, I've told you twice, I will tell

906
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: you a thousand times. Please be careful with your credentials.

907
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:11,319
Speaker 1: Please use a password manager. Please use unique passwords for

908
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:14,160
Speaker 1: every website that you are logging into, even when you

909
00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: sign up on your phone. I know you want to

910
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 1: do it so fast. I'm guilty of this. Just take

911
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:23,280
Speaker 1: the extra sixty seconds to go into your password manager,

912
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: create a password, save the log in information, copy and paste,

913
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,160
Speaker 1: and then put it into the field that says password,

914
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 1: and then set up two factor authentication. And then anytime

915
00:49:34,000 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 1: you're logging into one of your accounts, just just think

916
00:49:37,200 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: before you type in any of this information, look at

917
00:49:39,920 --> 00:49:42,319
Speaker 1: the website you're typing it into. Look at the two

918
00:49:42,400 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: factor authentication code. Make sure that you're actually trying to

919
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 1: get into a website at the time you're being sent

920
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 1: one of these things, and just take a deep breath

921
00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: and just realize that there are people that are actively

922
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:56,000
Speaker 1: trying to get a hold of your account. And if

923
00:49:56,040 --> 00:49:58,280
Speaker 1: you can just take a little bit of extra time

924
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: to create those passwords and those logins, and then take

925
00:50:02,360 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: your extra time to log in with the two factor

926
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:08,080
Speaker 1: and make sure everything is verified, it will. Believe me,

927
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,320
Speaker 1: it will save you a big headache in the future.

928
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead. I already contacted Joseph at

929
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:17,440
Speaker 1: Motherboard to do a story about this for TV. I

930
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: think this is something that people really really need to

931
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:23,399
Speaker 1: know about on a very basic consumer level. The fact

932
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:31,279
Speaker 1: that this is happening is pretty scary. Brenda writes in Hey, Rich,

933
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,360
Speaker 1: I hope you and your family had a great Halloween.

934
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,640
Speaker 1: I've been debating about downloading the new iOS fifteen point

935
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: one to my iPhone eleven pro, but I finally caved in. Unfortunately,

936
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: I keep getting an error message, so I don't really

937
00:50:42,680 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 1: know what could be wrong. Hopefully you can give me

938
00:50:44,800 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: some recommendations. PS. Thanks for always posting cool stuff Brenda s.

939
00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: Brenda also attached a screenshot that says unable to install

940
00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: update and error occurred installing iOS fifteen point one. Okay, hey,

941
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: let's break this down. Brenda number one, hope you and

942
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: your family had a great Halloween. Yes we did. The

943
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: kids went out with their friends, We had all the

944
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:13,040
Speaker 1: adults over, We had nice dinner before and then we

945
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:15,080
Speaker 1: all went out trick or treating, and then we came

946
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 1: back and we continued to have some fun while the

947
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,800
Speaker 1: kids all looked at their candy dumped it on the floor.

948
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: So it was really fun. The only thing that was

949
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:25,760
Speaker 1: missing this year was the brand new Pixel. So Halloween

950
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: every year is literally when I get to test out

951
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:33,480
Speaker 1: the nightsight prowess on the new Google Pixel. And since

952
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:35,840
Speaker 1: I didn't have mine in time, I was using the

953
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: iPhone thirteen Pro, which I have to say has gotten

954
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: really good. I mean, I just think that the iPhone

955
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,239
Speaker 1: thirteen Pro camera overall and the device is just so good.

956
00:51:45,440 --> 00:51:51,360
Speaker 1: It's it's like, it's like pretty much my my perfect phone.

957
00:51:51,920 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: Dare I say, except for some of the features of iOS,

958
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 1: but even that has gotten so good that, you know,

959
00:51:57,680 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: there are some things I like about Android better. But

960
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 1: iOS has gotten so good and the ecosystem. So anyway,

961
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:06,160
Speaker 1: we had a great time. Halloween was awesome and we

962
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: didn't get a ton of trigger truders. But we came

963
00:52:08,000 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: back to the house so late that we did the

964
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: thing where we left out the candy on the doorstep,

965
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,920
Speaker 1: and people were respectful and took the candy. But I've

966
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: got my video cameras anyway outside the front door, so

967
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: I would have seen if anyone was too too wild

968
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: with that. Thanks for posting cool stuff. I appreciate it.

969
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:26,560
Speaker 1: I do try to post cool stuff, and it's funny

970
00:52:26,560 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 1: when I post stuff to my social media, like good example,

971
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: I posted a video of the cart escalator at Target,

972
00:52:34,440 --> 00:52:36,680
Speaker 1: and I was in Target, and I've seen the cart

973
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 1: escalator a thousand times, but it never ceases to amaze

974
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: me because it's so mesmerizing. You know, you put your

975
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 1: cart on this little escalator, it latches into the bottom

976
00:52:45,160 --> 00:52:46,840
Speaker 1: of it and it brings it up to the second

977
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: floor or down to the first floor. Here in Los Angeles,

978
00:52:49,680 --> 00:52:53,320
Speaker 1: they're very commonplace because you know, Land is at a

979
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,239
Speaker 1: very very tight premium here and so they build these

980
00:52:56,280 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: Targets and other stores that are several floors high. You know,

981
00:53:00,360 --> 00:53:03,720
Speaker 1: usually two floors maybe I don't think I've seen a three,

982
00:53:04,080 --> 00:53:06,719
Speaker 1: but in other places they're not. But anyway, I just

983
00:53:06,760 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 1: posted this saying like, hey, this never ceases to amaze me.

984
00:53:09,640 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: It's also quite frightening because I always think of like

985
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: getting stuck in this thing and like just it ripping

986
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 1: you apart, because it's like this machine that is just

987
00:53:17,800 --> 00:53:20,120
Speaker 1: you know, it's grabbing this cart at the bottom, and

988
00:53:20,160 --> 00:53:22,440
Speaker 1: like there's all these pieces and it's just really it's

989
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: like an escalator somewhat exposed. So like, escalators are still dangerous.

990
00:53:26,800 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: Believe me, I had to save someone of the lax

991
00:53:29,640 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: one time who fell backwards and I caught them, thank god,

992
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:35,160
Speaker 1: but you know, I had to like hold them up,

993
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: and it was you know, these things you can lose

994
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,279
Speaker 1: your Don't take an escalator for granted. They are very

995
00:53:40,320 --> 00:53:43,120
Speaker 1: dangerous and if you lose your footing while on an escalator,

996
00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 1: especially with luggage or whatever, believe me, in a matter

997
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: of seconds you could be hurt. And so don't you know,

998
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,920
Speaker 1: don't think that an escalator, don't don't be on your phone,

999
00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,680
Speaker 1: don't do anything like stay stay on task when you're

1000
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:57,919
Speaker 1: on the escalator. It is. It is a dangerous piece

1001
00:53:57,920 --> 00:54:00,520
Speaker 1: of machinery, and I feel like the car escalator is

1002
00:54:00,560 --> 00:54:02,640
Speaker 1: even more dangerous because a lot of it's exposed to

1003
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:06,320
Speaker 1: be able to grab onto the car. Anyway, I posted

1004
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: that video not thinking much about it, and it sort

1005
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: of blew up on social media because people were amazed

1006
00:54:10,960 --> 00:54:13,360
Speaker 1: by it. They had not seen it before. They're also

1007
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:15,560
Speaker 1: amazed by it if they had seen it. So anyway,

1008
00:54:15,920 --> 00:54:17,839
Speaker 1: I'm glad you like when I post cool stuff, because

1009
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: sometimes it just post stuff that I find interesting, and

1010
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: I have no idea if people are gonna like it. Anyway,

1011
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:25,799
Speaker 1: what to do about this unable to install update. What

1012
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,000
Speaker 1: I would recommend is you probably have filled up your

1013
00:54:29,000 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: phone and it's not able to get the space that

1014
00:54:31,960 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 1: it needs to actually download and install the software update

1015
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 1: on your iPhone. That's what I'm guessing. It's one of

1016
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: those things where apples should probably be able to figure

1017
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: out a way around this, but they can't. And so

1018
00:54:44,840 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: I would go through and delete maybe a couple of apps,

1019
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:49,440
Speaker 1: maybe a couple of big videos that are backed up,

1020
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,000
Speaker 1: and try it again and see if you can install

1021
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: the update. All right, now, we're gonna get hungry and

1022
00:54:56,520 --> 00:54:59,319
Speaker 1: at the time i'm recording this, I am hungry. I'm

1023
00:54:59,360 --> 00:55:01,959
Speaker 1: really hungry. And yesterday I had a chance to try

1024
00:55:01,960 --> 00:55:07,720
Speaker 1: the new mcplant Burger at McDonald's. And before you say, rich, rich, rich,

1025
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: how is all this food talk tech? Give me a break.

1026
00:55:12,760 --> 00:55:15,920
Speaker 1: You just like to go eat food at these places

1027
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: and talk about it, And yeah, that's part of it.

1028
00:55:18,320 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: I do. But I'm also fascinated. You know that I'm

1029
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: very much into this plant based stuff. Not because I

1030
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:27,879
Speaker 1: am a vegetarian or a vegan. I'm not. I love

1031
00:55:27,920 --> 00:55:30,240
Speaker 1: a steak on a Saturday night. Believe me, my wife

1032
00:55:30,239 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: and I that's our favorite meal. So the mcplant burger

1033
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,040
Speaker 1: is now at McDonald's. It's at eight US restaurants. And

1034
00:55:36,080 --> 00:55:38,440
Speaker 1: the reason why this is tech is because they're using

1035
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:44,040
Speaker 1: Beyond meat patty, and this patty is exclusive to McDonald's.

1036
00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,640
Speaker 1: This is not the same patty that you would buy

1037
00:55:46,680 --> 00:55:48,839
Speaker 1: in the grocery store from Beyond. So if you want

1038
00:55:48,840 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: to try this version of the patty, you have to

1039
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:54,840
Speaker 1: go to McDonald's. And the reason once you taste this patty,

1040
00:55:54,920 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: you know that it is a McDonald's specific patty. So

1041
00:55:58,040 --> 00:56:02,040
Speaker 1: this burger has it's it's not a big mac it's

1042
00:56:02,080 --> 00:56:04,799
Speaker 1: more like a quarter pounder with cheese. So it's got

1043
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,759
Speaker 1: the beyond patty, which is made from let's see, what's

1044
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 1: it made from? Rice, peas, potatoes and other things. It's

1045
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:15,480
Speaker 1: served on a sesame seed bun. It's got tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, ketchup,

1046
00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: and mustard, and then a slice of American cheese. Now,

1047
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,840
Speaker 1: notice some of those ingredients are not vegan. Mayonnaise and

1048
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:25,240
Speaker 1: American cheese, So if you want to make this vegan,

1049
00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: it's not really possible. Even for the fact, well, you

1050
00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: can leave those things out, but they do say that

1051
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: the meat is griddled on the same grill as the

1052
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:38,160
Speaker 1: meat patties the standard burger. So if you're trying to

1053
00:56:38,200 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: be vegan, you know, maybe you don't care about that.

1054
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I imagine some people do if you're

1055
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: a strict vegan. So I tasted this burger and I

1056
00:56:46,719 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: got to say it was excellent. It tasted just like

1057
00:56:49,480 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: what you would expect from a McDonald's burger. It was

1058
00:56:52,120 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: really good. I actually ate one and a half of

1059
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: these burgers because I recorded all my videos for KTLA

1060
00:56:57,640 --> 00:56:59,239
Speaker 1: and then social media, so I had to eat one

1061
00:56:59,280 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 1: and then another Well, I didn't have to eat the

1062
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:02,719
Speaker 1: full thing. I ate it because I liked it. It

1063
00:57:02,800 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: was really good. The burger itself is a little mushier. Yeah,

1064
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,879
Speaker 1: the standard burger is probably going to be a little

1065
00:57:09,920 --> 00:57:12,840
Speaker 1: bit more satisfying, because if that's what you're used to.

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Speaker 1: Like me, I am a meat eater, so I am

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Speaker 1: used to the standard burger flavor and taste and the

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Speaker 1: way it feels. But at the same time, I also

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Speaker 1: I think Beyond doing them really well. And Beyond is tech.

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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying this is a Franken patty, but

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Speaker 1: the technology is used to recreate the feeling and taste

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Speaker 1: of a meat product. And so I've been inside Beyond

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Speaker 1: Meats facility, and believe me, they employ a lot of

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Speaker 1: food technologists. And what these food scientists do is they

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Speaker 1: sit there all day breaking down meat to a molecular

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Speaker 1: level to figure out what makes it taste this way,

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Speaker 1: what makes it feel this way in your mouth, what

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Speaker 1: makes it break up a certain way, what makes it

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Speaker 1: smell a certain way, and what makes it smell another

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Speaker 1: way when it cooks. And so for all these reasons.

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Speaker 1: I'm not defending my segments on plant based food because

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Speaker 1: it is technology. In fact, a lot of the food

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Speaker 1: that we eat today, sadly is technology. Sad or for

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Speaker 1: better or worse, I should say not sadly. Some of

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Speaker 1: it's really good because we're able to feed people in

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Speaker 1: ways that we were never able to feed them in

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Speaker 1: a mass way before. Now you can argue me on

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Speaker 1: McDonald's whether it's good or bad, whether they should be

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Speaker 1: doing this, but the reality is it's options. It's just

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Speaker 1: another option for people that go to McDonald's. If I

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Speaker 1: go to McDonald's with my kids, and typically I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to eat a burger, you know, because I've already

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Speaker 1: had meat that day or whatever, this gives me another

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Speaker 1: option to say, Okay, cool, I'll get the plant based burger.

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Speaker 1: And the nutrition facts on this thing. It's about five

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Speaker 1: hundred calories for this burger. It does have, you know,

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Speaker 1: a decent amount of fat and saturated fat, not so

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Speaker 1: much cholesterol. I think it was like eight percent, about

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Speaker 1: forty five percent of your sodium, and about twenty two

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Speaker 1: grams of protein. So they're not there. There is nothing

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Speaker 1: this is a healthy alternative to a burger. No, they

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Speaker 1: just say it is an option, and that's all it

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Speaker 1: is at this point, is an option. McDonald's is testing

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Speaker 1: this at eight restaurants. I'll tell you the locations, Irving

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Speaker 1: and Carrollton, Texas, Cedar Falls, Iowa, Jennings and Lake Charles, Louisiana,

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Speaker 1: and then Elsigundo and Manhattan Beach, California. I visited the

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Speaker 1: Manhattan Beach, California location. We will see if they expand

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