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Speaker 1: right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, All Trails is the world's most popular and

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Speaker 1: And so this has been around for a while. I

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Speaker 6: And I'm slightly embarrassed to admit, as an employee of

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Speaker 6: an outdoor tech company that I just got an Apple

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Speaker 6: Watch for Christmas.

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Speaker 7: So while I had I had.

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Speaker 6: Of course seen our Apple Watch app in action before this,

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Speaker 6: I now can use it every day myself.

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Speaker 7: And it's fantastic.

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Speaker 6: It's you know, we recognize that while we are an

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Speaker 6: app that you have on your phone, we're here to

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Speaker 6: help people get outside and enjoy their time outside. So

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Speaker 6: I'm having your watch and your stats and your navigation

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Speaker 6: at a glance.

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Speaker 7: Really great feature.

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Speaker 2: We love it.

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Speaker 1: So how much of this is sort of like crowdsource?

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Speaker 1: Like when I take a walk or a hike or whatever, like,

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Speaker 1: do I help build the database of like, Hey, here's

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Speaker 1: where the trail is, Here's where you know the markings are.

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, I know people can submit pictures and

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Speaker 1: things like that, but how much of this is crowdsource

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Speaker 1: versus like, I don't know, do you guys go out

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Speaker 1: there and like look at trails yourself?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I love this question.

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Speaker 6: So you absolutely, as a member of our community, are

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Speaker 6: contributing to our collection of more than four hundred and

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Speaker 6: fifty thousand trails that so many trails are on the

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Speaker 6: platform today by far the biggest and most comprehensive collection

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Speaker 6: of trails in the world, and the community is.

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Speaker 7: A big part of helping grow that collection.

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Speaker 6: But something that a lot of people, I think don't

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Speaker 6: know about us is we have a dedicated team of

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Speaker 6: trail data integrity specialists who all day, every day are

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Speaker 6: monitoring and digitally maintaining that collection of trails. So when

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Speaker 6: you get out there with all trails, you're doing so

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Speaker 6: with not just the support of our community of seventy

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Speaker 6: five million members, but with the knowledge and expertise of

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Speaker 6: people whose literal job it is to help you get outside,

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Speaker 6: have a great time, and do it safely.

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Speaker 1: And that's cool. I mean I can't speak enough to

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Speaker 1: like how much. I mean, we're in front of screen

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Speaker 1: so much during the day, and so the ability to

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Speaker 1: sort of look for a trail that has you know,

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Speaker 1: epic views or waterfalls. Every time I do one of these,

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Speaker 1: I just feel like I've done something good for myself.

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Speaker 1: And if I can get my kids to join me

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Speaker 1: or someone else, you know, it's it just feels really

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Speaker 1: really nice. So explain the I guess the other thing

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about is privacy. So, you know,

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Speaker 1: since this is a community, you know the things that

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Speaker 1: you do sometimes could be put on your profile that

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Speaker 1: could be public explained like what's public versus private, like

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Speaker 1: without changing any settings, and what people should look at

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Speaker 1: if they want to change those settings.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, so privacy and safety of our community are

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Speaker 6: of the utmost importance, and we think mainly you know,

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Speaker 6: we think about getting outside all the time, but we

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Speaker 6: think about that all the time too, you know, as

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Speaker 6: a community based platform, you know, by default a lot

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Speaker 6: of activity is public, but we have built the ability

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Speaker 6: for any activity that you do with All Trails to

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Speaker 6: be adjusted in your privacy settings. You can make it

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Speaker 6: either totally private so that only you can see it

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Speaker 6: if you don't want to share your outdoor adventures with

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Speaker 6: anyone else. You can also set it to just people,

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Speaker 6: you know, a sort of smaller group, or you can,

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Speaker 6: of course, like you said, have it be public and

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Speaker 6: our public trove of you know, reviews and photos. That's

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Speaker 6: a huge part of what makes All Trails special and

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Speaker 6: our communities united by love of the outdoors. So we're

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Speaker 6: really grateful that people continue to pick us outside that way.

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Speaker 1: And what do you get for the free versus sort

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Speaker 1: of the upgrade to All Trails Plus?

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Speaker 6: Yes, great question. So All Trails is it's available for

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Speaker 6: free to download like I said, in the Apple or

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Speaker 6: Google app stores. All Trails Plus is really our you know,

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Speaker 6: that's our premium and paid offering, and.

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Speaker 7: You get so many.

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Speaker 6: Features with All Trails Plus things that you mentioned like

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Speaker 6: wrong turn alerts. That's an Ultrails plus feature. It allows

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Speaker 6: you to go offline, which is huge. You can either

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Speaker 6: download an individual trail for offline use or actually, just

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Speaker 6: a few weeks ago, we introduced offline parks where you

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Speaker 6: can download an entire park, every single trail in the park,

518
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Speaker 6: recent reviews, photos, plus essential park information like ours, fees,

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Speaker 6: accessibility info. Really kind of game changing if you're planning

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Speaker 6: a trip to a place where there might not be

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Speaker 6: great service, and so many spectacular outdoor places are exactly

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Speaker 6: that way.

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Speaker 1: And I just saw you can print maps. Look at this.

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Speaker 1: You can print your own customizable maps for backup on

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Speaker 1: through the website. So that's neat. I mean, you go

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Speaker 1: to these national parks, a lot of them do not

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Speaker 1: have sell connectivity, so that offline feature is really crucial.

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Speaker 1: So Kit, tell me about you. What what got you

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Speaker 1: interested in all trails why? I mean, are you a

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Speaker 1: hiker or you do you like doing that stuff or

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Speaker 1: what already have to do?

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Speaker 6: Now that you work there, certainly I see getting outside

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Speaker 6: as something that not that I have to do, but

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Speaker 6: that I love to do. I had been in the

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Speaker 6: outdoor industry before this, Prior to that, I worked at

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Speaker 6: Nike for a long time. I'm coming to you here

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Speaker 6: from Portland, Oregon, near where the company's based. But you know,

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Speaker 6: I was just I was really drawn to All Trails

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Speaker 6: as this incredibly interesting intersection of outdoors and tech. You know,

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Speaker 6: this is a company that is so focused on innovation

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Speaker 6: and moving incredibly quickly, but also fundamentally so deeply committed

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Speaker 6: to being intentional technology. You know, you mentioned earlier. We're

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Speaker 6: on our screens so much, we're at our desks so much.

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Speaker 6: We know that time outside is essential to physical and

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Speaker 6: mental health, and so we want to make sure that

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Speaker 6: people can do that as part of their everyday life.

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Speaker 6: That is not a special occasion to go outside. And

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Speaker 6: so just that that mission, the commitment to the mission

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Speaker 6: to get the world, help the world find its way outside.

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Speaker 5: Let me in.

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Speaker 7: And it's been a really fun ride so far.

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Speaker 1: All right, Kaitwan, move from All Trails the website AllTrails

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Speaker 1: dot com. If you go to the website, rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot tv, I've got a link for a month

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Speaker 1: free of the premium, so just go to the show

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Speaker 1: notes for that. Kai, thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 7: Thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, I'll tell you about Turo, explain

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Speaker 1: what that's all about, plus more of your calls at

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Speaker 1: at the top. Rich on tech dot TV. So no

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Speaker 1: doubt you heard about these two attacks, one in New Orleans,

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Speaker 1: one in Las Vegas. They both involved cars that were

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Speaker 1: rented through a service called Turo. And this is not

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Speaker 1: the publicity they wanted, but obviously a lot of people

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Speaker 1: are now just hearing about Turo for the first time.

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Speaker 1: So what is Turo. Turo is like Airbnb, but for cars.

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Speaker 1: So if you have a car, let's say, you know,

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Speaker 1: use it a couple of days a week, but the

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Speaker 1: rest of the time it just sits there. You can

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Speaker 1: rent this out to other people. And this has been

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Speaker 1: around for a long time. It's not like a new thing.

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Speaker 1: I've personally not used Turo. I'm well aware of it.

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Speaker 1: For me, it's always been a matter of every time

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Speaker 1: I look to rent a car on there, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, it started out really cheap, but now I

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Speaker 1: feel like it's not anymore. It was just always kind

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Speaker 1: of like the same price and more hassle than getting

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Speaker 1: from Hurtz or Avis or something like that. So what's

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Speaker 1: the deal with this Turo thing? So they have what's

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Speaker 1: called a Turo risk score algorithm. So when someone rents

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Speaker 1: a car from you, you know, they put all the

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Speaker 1: information into the app, their driver's license, stuff like that

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Speaker 1: credit card number, and then they, according to Bloomberg, look

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Speaker 1: at fifty different data points to screen renters. Now I

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Speaker 1: don't know how both of these renters got through this

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Speaker 1: risk score with no problem, but Turo did confirm that

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Speaker 1: both of these cars were rented through them. One was

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Speaker 1: a Tesla cyber truck. Obviously you know that because that

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Speaker 1: was very much in the news. The Ford f one

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Speaker 1: point fifty was a lightning, which is their electric car

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Speaker 1: or electric truck, I should say, So what went wrong here?

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Speaker 1: I mean, this just brings up the idea of you've

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Speaker 1: got these peer to peer platforms and they're everywhere. You've

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Speaker 1: got Airbnb, I mean Uber is really peer to peer.

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Speaker 1: You're driving your car picking up strangers. Turo is where

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Speaker 1: you're literally renting someone else's car from them and they

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Speaker 1: may drop it off to you at the airport. You

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Speaker 1: may pick it up at a parking lot if it's

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Speaker 1: something like a Tesla or another car that has like

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Speaker 1: you know, easier sort of digital key access. That makes

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Speaker 1: life a lot easier with renting these things out. But

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Speaker 1: you know, it just it just raises a lot of

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Speaker 1: questions about like what's the vetting process of these companies?

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Speaker 1: Are we safe using them? Are you safe renting through

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Speaker 1: them or you know, driving through them? How are these

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Speaker 1: people screened? You know, you think about Uber, you know

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Speaker 1: this driver, It's like, how do you know what this

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Speaker 1: driver's all about? And every time I've asked Uber or

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Speaker 1: Lift about their screening process, you know, they do a

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Speaker 1: very if you ask me, it's a very light background check.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I'll tell you the story that I told

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Speaker 1: when I went to Nashville last year or year before.

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Speaker 1: I think it was my driver, you know, I got

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Speaker 1: to the area of my hotel I said, oh, it's

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Speaker 1: a really nice area, Like, what's the deal with it?

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Speaker 1: And he's like, Oh, I don't know. I'm just I'm

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Speaker 1: just driving for my brother who's in the hospital. What like.

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Speaker 1: He literally just used his Relatives app to sign in

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Speaker 1: and you know it was just picked up his phone

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Speaker 1: and started driving the car. Now, that is something I

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Speaker 1: never thought of in a million years, Right. You think

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Speaker 1: that the driver that you have is the driver on

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Speaker 1: the app that you ordered. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: you've ever looked at the picture of the driver on

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Speaker 1: the app, but it's always blurry. It's not like the

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Speaker 1: clearest thing. It's not like you could tell exactly who

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Speaker 1: this person is. And so ever since then I'm like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's an a fear unlocked that I never really thought about.

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Speaker 1: Someone could just literally drive with someone else's app. So

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Speaker 1: I know that Uber does sort of like because I

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Speaker 1: looked into it. Afterwards, they will ask drivers to take

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Speaker 1: like a selfie at the beginning of their shift or

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Speaker 1: something like that. But again, these systems aren't perfect, and

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Speaker 1: so being aware of the implications of these is always

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Speaker 1: a good thing. And for me now I always check

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Speaker 1: the driver. I always check their picture I always kind

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Speaker 1: of try to make sure it's the person that's driving me.

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Speaker 1: But again, you know, it's just one of these things

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Speaker 1: where we have to think about this stuff. Turo, for

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Speaker 1: their part, they said they're, you know, cooperating with law enforcement.

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Speaker 1: Neither attacker had a criminal background according to their research

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Speaker 1: that they did. And this is a company where you know,

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Speaker 1: they've got like four hundred thousand cars listed for rent,

652
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:58,800
Speaker 1: billions of dollars that's been done through this. I look

653
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 1: at Turro reported hundred and twenty two million dollars in

654
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,960
Speaker 1: revenue in the first nine months of twenty twenty four.

655
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Speaker 1: So people are using it for the most part. It's fine,

656
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: but it's just stuff to keep in mind when you're

657
00:33:10,200 --> 00:33:14,520
Speaker 1: using this stuff. Let's go to Mike in Los Angeles. Mike,

658
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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

659
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 2: Hey, Rich, thanks Jay, and I call yeah.

660
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Speaker 8: I don't know if you have an answer to this,

661
00:33:19,400 --> 00:33:22,440
Speaker 8: but maybe you have some insight. I have at my email.

662
00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: Is with hotmail. Lately the past year or.

663
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Speaker 8: So, whenever I email someone with a dot net packed

664
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Speaker 8: all dot net, att dot net, Sbcglobal, dot net, its

665
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 8: returned to me undeliverable. I went online and found out

666
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Speaker 8: this is happening to everybody, from hotmail to dot net,

667
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 8: and some people have speculator or maybe they know more

668
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:45,360
Speaker 8: than I do that across the board atp, dot net,

669
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Speaker 8: et cetera is rejecting all emails from Hotmail, possibly due

670
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Speaker 8: to they say something about it has the most hacking

671
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Speaker 8: or scamming.

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Speaker 2: Have you heard of this or do you know anything

673
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Speaker 2: about it?

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Speaker 9: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I mean so number one, I've not heard of this.

676
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: I know that emails get rejected for various reasons. I

677
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:08,160
Speaker 1: don't think that this is something that's across the board

678
00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: with Hotmail, although you know, hotmail is one of those

679
00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: services that I know people still use it, but it's

680
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: definitely not the most up to date email. So what

681
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: I would try to do is use an alternative email

682
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: address and see if the same thing happens, and when

683
00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:25,200
Speaker 1: you send to those people, maybe use that. I mean,

684
00:34:25,239 --> 00:34:27,719
Speaker 1: it depends how much you're sending. But just taking a

685
00:34:27,800 --> 00:34:31,879
Speaker 1: quick look online, you know, some people are reporting that

686
00:34:31,960 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 1: the dot net domains are sometimes associated with more spam,

687
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: so maybe Hotmail has sort of flagged these servers, but

688
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,240
Speaker 1: it's odd that it's happening with all of those domain emails.

689
00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:44,759
Speaker 1: Now the other side of this is that you know,

690
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: Yahoo has taken over sort of servicing all of those

691
00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,000
Speaker 1: email addresses that you mentioned, the Cox email, the SBC,

692
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 1: the AT and T that's all being done by Yahoo now,

693
00:34:55,880 --> 00:34:59,560
Speaker 1: so there could be something there as well. I would

694
00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:01,920
Speaker 1: just make sure sure before you send these, just make

695
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Speaker 1: sure that your account is on the up and up,

696
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Speaker 1: like you're you're not at your limit, you know, these

697
00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:09,920
Speaker 1: attachments things like that, and see if that helps. But

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Speaker 1: I'll keep an eye out on this. That's an interesting

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight rich one oh one eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight seven four two four one zero one. Welcome back

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00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

702
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:26,640
Speaker 1: talking technology at triple eight Rich one oh one. That's

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. The website for the show is rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot tv. If you want links to anything I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: just hit the episode number one oh three, and coming

707
00:35:43,280 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: up this hour, we're gonna talk pictures. I don't know

708
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Speaker 1: if you've scanned in your pictures yet or if you

709
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: have a way to kind of organize and manage your

710
00:35:52,120 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: digital photo collection, which mind just grows by the dozens

711
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: every day, every single day. We're gonna have Christa Kowalchik

712
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: talk to us about preserving and organizing both your digital

713
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: and print photos. We'll have her on just a little

714
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,160
Speaker 1: bit later. Greg writes in through the website. When I

715
00:36:11,200 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: open up the passwords app on my iPhone and select

716
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi option, I see my Wi Fi information

717
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: and other networks I've accessed. Some are listed as WPA

718
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: two personal, and I can unmask their passwords, including my own.

719
00:36:26,840 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: I have two big concerns. Can I unmask my Wi Fi?

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Speaker 1: Can others unmask my Wi Fi password using the passwords app?

721
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: How can I prevent this? Is it normal for me

722
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: to see passwords for other networks? This feels like a

723
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: security issue. I'm worried my Wi Fi password could be

724
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Speaker 1: exposed to anyone nearby. Has Apple addressed this as a

725
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:52,359
Speaker 1: security flaw? Good question, Greg. For many years password Wi

726
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,720
Speaker 1: Fi passwords were sort of hidden on the iPhone, mostly

727
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:59,000
Speaker 1: inaccessible unless you really knew what you were doing. But

728
00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:02,359
Speaker 1: now they are all inside the passwords app. So this

729
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,279
Speaker 1: does bring up some good concerns. Number One, there there's

730
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:09,280
Speaker 1: not a security flaw here. This is just what's new,

731
00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:13,640
Speaker 1: and so Apple has by default put all of your

732
00:37:14,000 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: passwords for Wi Fi networks that you've connected to in

733
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Speaker 1: the past in your Passwords app. That's the new app

734
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 1: they introduced with iOS eighteen. It's on most iPhones at

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00:37:24,480 --> 00:37:28,080
Speaker 1: this point if you've upgraded to the software, the latest software,

736
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 1: and so before there were ways of seeing the passwords

737
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Speaker 1: for Wi Fi networks that you connected to with previous

738
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Speaker 1: iOS versions, but it wasn't clear and it wasn't easy.

739
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:40,520
Speaker 1: Now this is much easier. So I understand the concern there.

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00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,080
Speaker 1: These are networks that you have connected to, So these

741
00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:49,040
Speaker 1: are not random networks. These are not networks that our secret.

742
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,799
Speaker 1: They are everything that you've connected to. So the answer

743
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: to your first question, can others unmask your Wi Fi password? Yes,

744
00:37:56,280 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 1: they can, only if you've given them access to your

745
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network. So that's the main thing to know here. Now,

746
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,360
Speaker 1: I understand that a lot of people scan QR codes

747
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: to log onto Wi Fi networks and the password is

748
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: just in there. It's not secretive. So typically what I'd

749
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: recommend is that you do not use a password for

750
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,759
Speaker 1: your Wi Fi network that is easily guessed or that

751
00:38:19,880 --> 00:38:24,359
Speaker 1: accesses other stuff anywhere. And I take it a step further,

752
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:27,040
Speaker 1: I would not allow people in your home to use

753
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,279
Speaker 1: your primary Wi Fi network, I would set up a

754
00:38:30,320 --> 00:38:33,120
Speaker 1: guest network. And I understand there's a little bit of like,

755
00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 1: you know, it's a little bit of social awkwardness when

756
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,120
Speaker 1: someone comes to your house and they're like, oh, what's

757
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,600
Speaker 1: the coach pat your WiFi and you're like, oh, here's

758
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: the guest network. I get it. It's a little awkward,

759
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:48,160
Speaker 1: but for security reasons, and I usually just tell people, Hey,

760
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: for security reasons, I have everyone log onto my guest network.

761
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: In case there's a major issue, I can wipe all

762
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: those off the network very easily. So I would suggest

763
00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: having a guest network in general. Is it normal for

764
00:38:59,719 --> 00:39:01,960
Speaker 1: me to see passwords of other networks? This feels like

765
00:39:02,000 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: a security issue, Yes, now it is. So again, it

766
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:09,399
Speaker 1: goes back to that whole idea of don't use a

767
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: password that is easily guessed or that accesses other stuff

768
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: in your life. So do not use your email password

769
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: as your Wi Fi password. Let's see, I'm worried my

770
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: WiFi password could be exposed to anyone nearby. No, that's

771
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: not true. They would have to connect to your network

772
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: before they can see the password, and you would have

773
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:33,880
Speaker 1: to give them the password for them to connect to

774
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,680
Speaker 1: the network, so it's a chicken versus Egg kind of thing.

775
00:39:37,160 --> 00:39:40,000
Speaker 1: You know, you have to give them the password. Once

776
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: they have that password, they'd be able to see that

777
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 1: password even if they sign in with a QR code.

778
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,279
Speaker 1: That QR code has the password embedded in it, so

779
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: anyone with a QR code reader could look at that.

780
00:39:52,160 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: So I'm looking through all my passwords and it's actually

781
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: kind of funny like looking through these because people do

782
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,719
Speaker 1: use some interesting passwords for their works, so yes, be

783
00:40:02,840 --> 00:40:06,000
Speaker 1: aware of that. It is available. And on the Android

784
00:40:06,040 --> 00:40:08,280
Speaker 1: side of things, you can see the passwords as well.

785
00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,919
Speaker 1: So if you go into your settings, you go into

786
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:16,239
Speaker 1: connections and you look at let's see here, I got

787
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 1: to find where they are on here, but if you

788
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: look at the let's see, I'd have to look for it.

789
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: But if you look for oh, managed networks there it is.

790
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:27,920
Speaker 1: So if you go to manage networks, you tap one

791
00:40:27,920 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: of those networks, you can easily see the password for

792
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:33,040
Speaker 1: that network as well all the networks that you've connected to.

793
00:40:33,640 --> 00:40:35,160
Speaker 1: I actually think it's kind of fun to see all

794
00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:37,880
Speaker 1: the networks you've connected to because it's kind of like

795
00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: a little who's who list of where you've been. But yeah,

796
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:44,800
Speaker 1: please be careful with your Wi Fi passwords. Don't just

797
00:40:44,840 --> 00:40:47,560
Speaker 1: give them to anyone and set up a guest network.

798
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:53,279
Speaker 1: Kia is recalling over twenty two thousand of their EV

799
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Speaker 1: nine electric SUVs. The reason some of the back seats

800
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: might be missing their bolts. Yeah, not a good not

801
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:06,279
Speaker 1: a good look, Kia. So this apparently was an assembly

802
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: line worker error at their plant in South Korea. The

803
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,600
Speaker 1: good news is no one's been hurt. There's not been

804
00:41:12,640 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 1: any reports of injuries or accidents. But this is this

805
00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: is twenty over twenty two thousand EV nine electric SUVs

806
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: from model years twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five. Now,

807
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: these are the SUVs that have second and third row seats.

808
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,720
Speaker 1: This was a hot this is still a hot suv.

809
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: It's all electric, it's got third row seats. This was

810
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 1: one of the first EV's that had third rows besides

811
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: like the Rivian, and so you know, this was a

812
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: very popular car, still is. And so this is not

813
00:41:46,760 --> 00:41:49,479
Speaker 1: exactly the look that Kia wanted with this car because

814
00:41:49,520 --> 00:41:51,279
Speaker 1: a lot of people probably got it thinking oh this

815
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,560
Speaker 1: is cool, this is new, and now this is happening.

816
00:41:55,000 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: So not every car has the issue, but Kia will

817
00:41:58,960 --> 00:42:01,360
Speaker 1: You're gonna have to bring this car into a dealer

818
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,800
Speaker 1: to have them inspect it and put in the bolts

819
00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: if they're not there. So Key is going to start

820
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: notifying affected owners by male starting January twenty fourth. This

821
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: will all be free, of course, for the fix. But

822
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: you know loose, You might hear loose or rattling seats

823
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:20,080
Speaker 1: and if that was driving you nuts, because you have

824
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:23,840
Speaker 1: one of these cars, it's not just you, it's them.

825
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: Let's go to eight eight eight rich one O one

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

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Diane in a menafee. You're on with rich.

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Speaker 9: Dian. Hi, I have a Samsung Galaxy phone and when

829
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,160
Speaker 9: I take pictures, I have it on pictures. But it

830
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:52,000
Speaker 9: wants to take a movie. Come, how can I change?

831
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 4: Yes?

832
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 1: Okay, So when you say it's taking a movie, does

833
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: that mean when you're looking back through your picture it

834
00:42:58,040 --> 00:42:58,839
Speaker 1: moves a little bit?

835
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 9: Yeah?

836
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,160
Speaker 1: Okay, So I think that's a feature called motion photo.

837
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: So what this is is it's basically capturing a couple

838
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: of seconds of video before and after you hit that

839
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:15,320
Speaker 1: shutter button or right when you hit that shutter button,

840
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,800
Speaker 1: and some people like that because you can go back

841
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,359
Speaker 1: and let's say someone blinked in your picture, you can

842
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,760
Speaker 1: go back and choose a different frame of that photo,

843
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: almost like going back in time and changing the look

844
00:43:28,160 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 1: of that picture. But it's because it's capturing. It's almost

845
00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 1: like a think of a film strip, right, So you've

846
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:37,200
Speaker 1: got when you take a picture, you're taking just one

847
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: of those frames of that film strip. But what this

848
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:44,080
Speaker 1: phone is doing, it's capturing a couple of those film stripped,

849
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:46,799
Speaker 1: you know, those frames. So if you want to turn

850
00:43:46,840 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: this off, it's actually quite easy. It's a feature called

851
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:53,000
Speaker 1: motion photo. And in the upper part of your frame

852
00:43:53,040 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: of your phone, when you're taking a picture, you should

853
00:43:55,719 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 1: see a little square box that almost looks like a

854
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: play button, and if you press that, you can toggle

855
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: it on or off. It's called motion photo. And so

856
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: that is that is the feature that I would toggle off.

857
00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: You can also go into your settings for camera and

858
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: toggle it off that way as well. So if you

859
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,239
Speaker 1: can't find it on your screen, you can go into

860
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 1: your camera settings and you can switch it off inside there.

861
00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 1: So if you go, let's see, I'm looking for my

862
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 1: camera settings, let's see here is it in there? Let's see, Yeah,

863
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 1: shooting methods, okay, settings to keep let's see. I'm on

864
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:37,760
Speaker 1: a beta version of the software, which I realized quickly

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Speaker 1: of this show, because my settings are completely different. But Bobo,

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Speaker 1: you've got the Samsung. Do you see that little when

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Speaker 1: you open up your camera? Do you see a little

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Speaker 1: almost like looks like a play button inside you know,

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Speaker 1: a square? Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 10: Is that the second to last thing on the right? Okay, right,

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Speaker 10: that's okay, So on my it's the last thing on

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Speaker 10: the right. So if you toggle that, this a motion

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Speaker 10: photo off?

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Speaker 9: Okay, on, Oh, I see it now.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 8: Diane, thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks for listening to us. There and Menafie

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Speaker 1: I think you should know. Let's go to Steve in Edmunds, Washington. Steve,

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Speaker 1: you're on with rich.

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Speaker 2: Hi, Rich, thanks for taking my call. I really like

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 1: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: My question is about Google. I added that to my

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Speaker 2: phone at Galaxy S twenty one. I have a five

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Speaker 2: twelve gigabytes. I have a lot of pictures, family pictures,

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Speaker 2: and they're all organized files and all that, and so

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Speaker 2: I do have them backed up at My kids were

910
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Speaker 2: telling me, you know, get the Google Photos and you

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Speaker 2: can never go wrong. Well, as soon as I loaded it,

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Speaker 2: and I have because I have a lot of photo

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Speaker 2: files on my and videos on my phone, Google Photos

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Speaker 2: started backing those up and telling me, oh, you you've

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Speaker 2: exceeded the free level. You're going to have to pay,

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Speaker 2: And so I thought, well, you know, what's a few bucks?

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Speaker 2: Well just kept Now I'm paying like ten dollars a

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Speaker 2: month because of the level that I'm at for a

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Speaker 2: five to twelve phone, and so I thought, well, they

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Speaker 2: I'll just do this on my own. I'll turn off

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Speaker 2: Google Photos. I know there's a lot of tips online

922
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:34,480
Speaker 2: about doing that, but I don't see anything that works.

923
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Speaker 2: And I'm reading about that people complaining you really can't

924
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 2: turn it off, and so if you do, try to

925
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 2: just nuke it on your phone, you risk losing all

926
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Speaker 2: your pictures. There's no assurance that I can see that

927
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:51,160
Speaker 2: you're gonna that I can survive that. Even if I

928
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 2: do have back my pictures back up backed up, I

929
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Speaker 2: just don't want to go through that hassle. So so

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Speaker 2: that's why I'm I'm wondering about how do I.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you want to Google phone, you want to cease

932
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Speaker 1: using Google Photos, Okay, I actually think it's it's relatively

933
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Speaker 1: easy compared to anything with iCloud. So this I think

934
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Speaker 1: that's the good news here. So my first concern though,

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Speaker 1: where your pictures backed.

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Speaker 2: Up a couple of external drives.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what happened was, just to understand your question,

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Speaker 1: you have all your pictures on your phone, right, so

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Speaker 1: you said you have like a five hundred and twelve

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Speaker 1: gigabyte phone. You've got a whole bunch. Let's say you

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Speaker 1: have one hundred gigabytes of pictures on there, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: ten gigs, whatever it is, it's definitely over the fifteen

943
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Speaker 1: gigs that Google gives you, right, four hundred gigs. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: you've got four hundred gigs of photos and videos. Oh wow, Okay,

945
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Speaker 1: that's a lot I've got. I mean, I'm saying that

946
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Speaker 1: I've got like two terabytes. It's I mean, my my

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Speaker 1: Google photos is a whole other concern. But ill, let's

948
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Speaker 1: get through yours. So what i'd recommend is, you know

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Speaker 1: what you need to do is, first off, I would

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Speaker 1: just back up all these photos from your phone to

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Speaker 1: an external drive. Once you know you have them all

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Speaker 1: backed up, are good, then you can go into Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: and you can turn off Google Photos. There's a setting

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Speaker 1: on there that just says, you know, back up, and

955
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Speaker 1: if you go into your settings, you just turn off backup.

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Speaker 1: And so.

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Speaker 2: Look at it with me, go to the there. So

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Speaker 2: if you go to their version, I don't see it.

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Speaker 1: Go to photos upper right hand corner and you're in

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Speaker 1: Google Photos for sure, right. Okay, do you see where

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Speaker 1: it says backup. I don't know if you're says backup

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Speaker 1: complete or backup in progress whatever it says, so backup complete?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Do you see that.

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Speaker 2: Going there? Now, let's see backup, getting ready to back

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Speaker 2: up and storm.

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Speaker 1: So if you go so, once you go into Google Photos,

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Speaker 1: you should see your own picture in the upper right

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Speaker 1: hand corner. That's your Google account profile, right, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: tap that and then it should say either backup complete

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Speaker 1: or in backup or there's things waiting to be backed up.

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Speaker 1: It says something about backup on like the second section there.

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Speaker 1: If you see that, yeah, what does it say?

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Speaker 2: I'm getting ready to back up?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So tap that and it should bring you to

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Speaker 1: where it says backup is on. Yes, okay, so now

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Speaker 1: how much does it say? Now in mind it says

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Speaker 1: I've got two hundred and fourteen, six hundred and ten

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Speaker 1: photos and videos backed up to Google Photos. That's a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I do not see a number.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well mine, Yeah, mine's backup of complete. So that's

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Speaker 1: probably why it's showing the number. But now, is there

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Speaker 1: a toggle that says backup photos and videos on this device?

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00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: Is there a toggle that you can turn off? So

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Speaker 1: turn that off now? Now that's going to stop your

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Speaker 1: photos from being backed up to Google Photos if you're

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Speaker 1: getting those error messages because your Google Photos is still

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Speaker 1: all filled up. There's a couple of things you can

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Speaker 1: do there. So you can go to one dot Google

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Speaker 1: dot com from your computer. Don't do this on your phone.

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Speaker 1: Do this on your computer and you'll see where it

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Speaker 1: says storage. You tap that and it says clean up space.

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00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:06,080
Speaker 1: And once you go in there, you can clean up

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Speaker 1: either large files. Like what I would do is for

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Speaker 1: you just get rid of some of the big photo files, right,

996
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: some of the big photos or videos that you have

997
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 1: inside there. So you can do that and that's very easy.

998
00:51:19,280 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 1: It'll organize all your pictures by large and you can

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00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: just delete, like whenever I need more space or want

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00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:25,759
Speaker 1: to get rid of some stuff. I just literally go

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00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:28,600
Speaker 1: through there and delete, you know, ten or twenty files whatever.

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Speaker 1: The other thing you can do is, if you want

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Speaker 1: to get rid of these photos from Google but keep

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00:51:32,920 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 1: them on your phone, go to photos dot Google dot

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00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: com from a web browser and you can now delete

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00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,279
Speaker 1: pictures out of your Google account, but they will not

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00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: delete off your phone. And that's what I would do there.

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Speaker 1: So those are the two things that I would do.

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Speaker 1: One dot Google dot com free up storage. If you

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00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: want to get rid of these pictures completely, go to

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00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,320
Speaker 1: photos dot Google dot com and you can select a

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00:51:56,360 --> 00:51:58,840
Speaker 1: whole bunch at once and just delete them. They'll remain

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00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: on your phone, and make sure that backup has turned off.

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Speaker 1: Great question today, Steve eighty eight rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about pictures and videos coming up

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Speaker 1: right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at Triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. The website for the show

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Speaker 1: is rich on Tech dot tv eighty eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. I was just checking

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Speaker 1: my Facebook. I forgot that I posted about this, but

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Speaker 1: Facebook dot com slash rich on Tech. My kid got

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00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: this uh weighted blanket for Christmas. My my mother in

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Speaker 1: law gave it to him. I don't know if you

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00:52:36,920 --> 00:52:38,799
Speaker 1: asked for it or what, but I was like, what

1026
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:42,000
Speaker 1: is the deal with a weighted blanket? And so he

1027
00:52:42,040 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: said he loved it, and I was like, I don't

1028
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: let me try this thing. You put this thing on.

1029
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:47,360
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've ever been to the dentist

1030
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Speaker 1: where they put that extray blanket, that's what it feels like.

1031
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,120
Speaker 1: But I'm not kidding. I've had my like three best

1032
00:52:53,239 --> 00:52:56,080
Speaker 1: naps I've ever had in my life. We were joking

1033
00:52:56,120 --> 00:52:58,880
Speaker 1: because my wife put it on on our drive to Sodona.

1034
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,360
Speaker 1: She put it on in the car. She never falls

1035
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Speaker 1: asleep in the car, fell asleep like a baby. So

1036
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:08,319
Speaker 1: we think this is like a magic blanket. You know it.

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00:53:08,440 --> 00:53:10,920
Speaker 1: I have one, You have a weighted Why is everyone

1038
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:11,800
Speaker 1: keeping these a secret?

1039
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:14,239
Speaker 11: It's amazing, bro, I swear to you, I love this

1040
00:53:14,320 --> 00:53:16,320
Speaker 11: thing so much. Oh my gosh.

1041
00:53:16,520 --> 00:53:18,320
Speaker 1: So I didn't know this was a thing. So people

1042
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 1: my bit all the time. That is hilarious. People are

1043
00:53:20,960 --> 00:53:24,919
Speaker 1: commenting all about them. They say it improves their sleep, relaxation.

1044
00:53:26,000 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 1: Some people say it takes them getting used to because

1045
00:53:27,960 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 1: it is heavy. Uh, some people buy them too heavy.

1046
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 1: So I guess there's different you know, weights of these things.

1047
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: But and now someone also said, try a weighted sleep mask.

1048
00:53:38,480 --> 00:53:43,959
Speaker 1: That's next. I do like my sleep mask. I'm telling you. See,

1049
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,560
Speaker 1: I thought the sleep mask was the way to fall asleep,

1050
00:53:46,600 --> 00:53:48,800
Speaker 1: and now it's like the sleep mask, the weighted blanket.

1051
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 1: Slept like a baby yesterday. All right, joining me now.

1052
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:57,560
Speaker 1: Professional photographer Christa Kowalcik. Christa, thanks for joining me.

1053
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:58,920
Speaker 7: Thanks for having me.

1054
00:53:59,040 --> 00:53:59,239
Speaker 8: Rich.

1055
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:04,759
Speaker 1: So you worked with helping Hurricane Ian survivors recover some

1056
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: of their damaged photos and memory. So you've built quite

1057
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:11,760
Speaker 1: the following online talking about Well, I'll let you explain.

1058
00:54:11,800 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: So how did you I mean, you've been doing this,

1059
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:15,960
Speaker 1: you're photographer, but what sort of like pushed you into

1060
00:54:16,400 --> 00:54:18,200
Speaker 1: you were on a bunch of TV shows to talk

1061
00:54:18,239 --> 00:54:20,480
Speaker 1: about preserving memories? Explain what happened?

1062
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure. So I am a lifelong photographer. I've

1063
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:26,240
Speaker 3: loved photography since I was a child. It's the only

1064
00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:30,120
Speaker 3: real job I've ever had. So I've just always been managing,

1065
00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 3: way back to the film days, I've managed my photos,

1066
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 3: managing digital photos. But it wasn't until Hurricane Ian came

1067
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:40,080
Speaker 3: and it just devastated my area where I live here

1068
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 3: in southwest Florida. And when that storm came thru it

1069
00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 3: was floodwater and it just destroyed homes. There were over

1070
00:54:46,320 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 3: five thousand homes that they lost every they lost their photos.

1071
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:51,000
Speaker 7: They were just gone. Everything was gone.

1072
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 3: But then there was another forty some thousand homes that

1073
00:54:54,280 --> 00:54:57,399
Speaker 3: had severe damage, and I was able to just jump

1074
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,680
Speaker 3: in and start volunteering to help people to try to

1075
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 3: sell bitch some of those water damaged photos.

1076
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:04,560
Speaker 7: So that's kind of how I got started in this.

1077
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,080
Speaker 3: But it was really then that I realized the things

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Speaker 3: that I do every day managing all of those photos

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Speaker 3: that I have, that a lot of people just don't

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Speaker 3: know how to manage their photo collection.

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Speaker 7: So I started to help people.

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Speaker 3: After that experience, I realized that most of the people

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Speaker 3: I was helping, they didn't know that there was even

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Speaker 3: an option to get a digital copy of those photographs

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Speaker 3: before disaster.

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Speaker 7: Happened and have that memory saved.

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Speaker 3: So now I just coach people every day and I

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Speaker 3: share the easy, easy tips and tricks to get digital

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Speaker 3: copies of those pictures and also make sure that digital

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Speaker 3: pictures are safe too.

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Speaker 1: All right, So what's the first step that people should

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Speaker 1: take to protect their pictures from natural disasters? What's you know?

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Speaker 1: These are the printed pictures.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, absolutely.

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Speaker 3: The very first thing you need to do is get

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Speaker 3: a digital copy of those pictures. I've heard there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of myths about ways to store photographs to keep

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Speaker 3: them safe, but at the end of the day, there's

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Speaker 3: just so many things can go wrong. The one way

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Speaker 3: to just make sure those pictures are always safe and

1101
00:56:05,080 --> 00:56:06,920
Speaker 3: that memory is always safe is to just get that

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Speaker 3: digital copy of.

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Speaker 7: All of the photographs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And so what I mean, where do they do this?

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Speaker 1: Do they send it out to someone? Do they do

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00:56:15,040 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: it themselves? I know it takes a long time to

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Speaker 1: do it yourself. I sent all mine out. What do

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Speaker 1: you like to do? You know?

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Speaker 7: I think it's it's The answer is different for different people.

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Speaker 3: It depends on what your budget is and the amount

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00:56:26,640 --> 00:56:28,920
Speaker 3: of time that you have to commit to it. There

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Speaker 3: are some really fabulous scanning options now though, that make

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00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:34,000
Speaker 3: it easy. So if you are somebody has a little

1114
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Speaker 3: bit of time and you want to diy it, EPSN

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Speaker 3: has a photo that has a feater, you can scan

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Speaker 3: as many as thirty or forty pictures a minute with

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Speaker 3: the scanner, so you just put them in and it zips,

1118
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Speaker 3: it's it, It scans up.

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Speaker 7: It's so easy a child could do it.

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Speaker 3: So I think it's an easy project to diy if

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Speaker 3: you want to. There's also phone apps that allow you

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Speaker 3: to get a digital copy of your pictures too, So

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Speaker 3: there's ways to diy and do it. But there's also

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Speaker 3: fabulous services. There's there's a company in Gosha, Wisconsin. I

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Speaker 3: believe they're it's Pixology. They are a small business that

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Speaker 3: will digitize your pictures for you. They even have a

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Speaker 3: service where they will come right to you. They have

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Speaker 3: a few clients a year. They go right to them

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Speaker 3: and help them to organize and digitize their pictures.

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Speaker 7: So there's there's a lot of ways to do it.

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Speaker 3: I think as long as you are getting that digital copy,

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Speaker 3: it's that's the only thing, no matter.

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Speaker 7: How you do it.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the phone apps. Is there an app that

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Speaker 1: you like? Because I tested one called I think it

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00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,480
Speaker 1: was photo Mine or something. Is there one that you

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00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:33,120
Speaker 1: like that works better than others?

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Speaker 7: You know, photo Mine is the best that I've seen

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Speaker 7: of the phone apps.

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Speaker 3: You know there is the quality is not as good

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Speaker 3: as a traditional scanner. If you get a desktop scanner

1142
00:57:42,960 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 3: or that apps and scanner with the feeder, that's going

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00:57:45,040 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 3: to be your best quality scan But if you have

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Speaker 3: just old memories that you want to keep, and a

1145
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 3: lot of our photographs are that they aren't pictures we're

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Speaker 3: going to be printing again, but we'd be devastated if

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Speaker 3: we lost them. They're you know, the birthday party or

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Speaker 3: the baby shower, just things that we have old print

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Speaker 3: photos of that aren't necessarily being passed down for generations,

1150
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:05,960
Speaker 3: but we want to have that memory saved, and I

1151
00:58:05,960 --> 00:58:08,040
Speaker 3: think photomine is a fabulous app for that.

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00:58:08,560 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: What about a picture that's like damage, Like is there

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00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:12,760
Speaker 1: a good app that you like that will fix it up?

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Speaker 7: So, you know, one thing that's.

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Speaker 3: Neat with photomine and also the apps, the epps and

1156
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 3: photo scanners is they have some enhancements that they can do.

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Speaker 7: Just that's easy.

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00:58:23,240 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 3: You're getting the scan of the photo and they get

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Speaker 3: that enhancement for you. So that's the first thing I

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00:58:27,880 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 3: usually suggest. You'd be surprised how they can Either of

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00:58:30,600 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 3: those can just bring back to life an old photo.

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Speaker 7: But there's also.

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Speaker 3: Lots of services online if you have something that has

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Speaker 3: damaged to it that you can send a photo off

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Speaker 3: And it's amazing what you can do. Now anybody with

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00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:46,240
Speaker 3: just a tiny bit of photoshop skills can use the

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Speaker 3: AI tools in Photoshop and can restore almost anything. So

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Speaker 3: I do tell people if you have a damaged photo,

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Speaker 3: don't just throw it out.

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Speaker 7: There's a lot of times that you can save, even

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Speaker 7: things that look pretty bad.

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Speaker 1: Now, do you recommend scanning the actual film negatives or

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Speaker 1: the actual picture? Like, if you have both, which one

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00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: would you prefer?

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Speaker 3: So that's you know, that just depends on the situation.

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Speaker 3: The negative is going to give you the best quality.

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Speaker 3: So I think if you're looking for the best quality scan,

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Speaker 3: if this is an heirloom photo and it's so important

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Speaker 3: to you, I'd.

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Speaker 7: Go with the negative.

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Speaker 3: But what I found is ninety percent of people's photo

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Speaker 3: collections or just great memories they want to keep, And

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Speaker 3: I think it's easier to get a scan of a

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Speaker 3: print photo.

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Speaker 7: So if you're just looking to make sure.

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Speaker 3: That that memory is safe, I think that using using

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Speaker 3: the print is just fine.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk digital photos. I take so many.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to go through them. I usually go through

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Speaker 1: them at the end of the day to kind of

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Speaker 1: get rid of all my screenshots and random images. But

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Speaker 1: what do you recommend for someone who's trying to start

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00:59:47,240 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 1: the decluttering process.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I think what you're doing is great.

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Speaker 3: I think having a routine is the is the key.

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Speaker 3: I personally, I'm similar to you. I am going through

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Speaker 3: my pictures once a day, you know, I have been

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Speaker 3: been at night, I do a quick roll of the

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Speaker 3: pictures I took that day. I think favoriting your best

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Speaker 3: pictures is just an easy way to narrow down your

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Speaker 3: best ones, deleting things at that point, or you know,

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Speaker 3: even once a week doing that.

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Speaker 7: There's also an app it's called Daily Delete. I love

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01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,720
Speaker 7: this app. It really makes it mindless. So it does

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Speaker 7: go through all of your pictures. It shows your photos

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Speaker 7: in a calendar.

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Speaker 3: Basically, you select the date you want to look at

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Speaker 3: and it will show you all the pictures from that date,

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Speaker 3: and then it uses an AI technology to tell you

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Speaker 3: which ones it thinks you need to delete.

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Speaker 7: But then it also learns your preferences.

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Speaker 3: So let's say you have a pet and you never

1213
01:00:35,800 --> 01:00:37,880
Speaker 3: want a single photo of that pet to be deleted.

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Speaker 3: It will learn that you've decided you don't want those,

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Speaker 3: So you're kind of correcting its work as it goes along.

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Speaker 3: And after a few days or a week of just

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Speaker 3: kind of correcting what Daily Delete has done, it's going

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Speaker 3: to start doing it mindlessly for you.

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Speaker 1: That's interesting. Okay, what about storage apps? Like I always

1220
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Speaker 1: recommend Google Photos, that's my favorite. But what do you

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Speaker 1: like for different photo storage apps?

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Speaker 3: So I'm an Amazon Photos user just because it's free

1223
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Speaker 3: with Amazon Prime.

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Speaker 7: So you know, that makes it easy.

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Speaker 3: It's got an app that just automatically is backing up

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Speaker 3: my photos. But Google Photos was free.

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Speaker 7: Everything is.

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Speaker 3: I don't believe it's going to be free forever, so

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Speaker 3: I think that's just you know, something to well.

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Speaker 1: It's free with Prime, so as long as we're and

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Speaker 1: it's also the photos only, just to be clear, the

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01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 1: videos are an extra you know, costs. But I always

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Speaker 1: mention to people, if you have Amazon Prime and you're

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Speaker 1: gonna stick with it, which most people do, it's a

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Speaker 1: great way to kind of back up your photos as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: No, I think it's great. I think Google Photos is great.

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Speaker 7: I think they're all great.

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Speaker 3: There's one storage called forever storage that is dedicated towards photos.

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01:01:41,520 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 7: They it says it guarantees.

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01:01:43,560 --> 01:01:46,360
Speaker 3: Your photos will be there for one hundred years or

1242
01:01:46,360 --> 01:01:50,280
Speaker 3: something ridiculous. I personally don't trust anywhere. I think everything

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01:01:50,360 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 3: needs to be stored in multiple places, and I think

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01:01:53,600 --> 01:01:56,160
Speaker 3: that's the only safe way to keep your photos.

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Speaker 1: I would agree like anything that I mean forever storage.

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01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:01,760
Speaker 1: I love the idea forever, but we know nothing's really forever.

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01:02:01,920 --> 01:02:04,960
Speaker 1: So I always have two places where they are backed

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01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:09,000
Speaker 1: up and any and we have like less than a minute.

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01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,200
Speaker 1: Common to mistake. You see when people are trying to

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Speaker 1: organize their photos, taking on too much.

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Speaker 3: I think that it's huge having a lifetime of photographs

1252
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 3: or photos going back your parents photos. Sometimes, if you

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01:02:20,160 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 3: have a lifetime of photos, don't don't sit down and

1254
01:02:22,160 --> 01:02:23,680
Speaker 3: try to do it all at once. Break it into

1255
01:02:23,680 --> 01:02:27,400
Speaker 3: small projects and just check off one month or one year.

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01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,120
Speaker 3: It's not like cleaning the garage. It's an emotional it's

1257
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:33,840
Speaker 3: an emotional project and sometimes you need to walk away

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Speaker 3: from it for a minute. So break it into small

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Speaker 3: projects and just get a little.

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Speaker 5: Bit done at a time, all right.

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Speaker 1: Christa Kowalchik the website the christak dot com the Krista

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Speaker 1: with a k k dot com. So the k R

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Speaker 1: I s t a k dot com and I picked

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Speaker 1: up one of your tips from your Instagram to get

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Speaker 1: a photo album for the year and then print out.

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Speaker 1: So this year my goal is I got like a

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Speaker 1: six hundred one. I'm going to print out a couple

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01:03:02,120 --> 01:03:03,840
Speaker 1: of pictures each month at the end of the month

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Speaker 1: of my favorites and put them in this album that's

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01:03:06,200 --> 01:03:07,920
Speaker 1: gonna sit on my coffee table. So at the end

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Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, I should have a full photo

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Speaker 1: album of like some of my favorite pictures. I think

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Speaker 1: that's very exciting.

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01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,120
Speaker 7: Oh absolutely, I think you'll love it.

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Speaker 1: Printed, by the way, not just on my phone where

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Speaker 1: I'm showing people my phone. Christa, thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today. Thanks rich Christa Kowalcik. Follow her on

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Speaker 1: social media. I love the tips that she offers the

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Speaker 1: christak dot com. I'll link it up on my website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot tv. Coming up, I'll explain what

1281
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:38,280
Speaker 1: advanced data protection is on the iPhone and explain if

1282
01:03:38,280 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 1: you should keep it on, turn it on, or keep

1283
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,880
Speaker 1: it off. This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to

1284
01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:45,360
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you

1285
01:03:45,440 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: talking technology took me a bit there. I was furiously

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01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,240
Speaker 1: typing up the show notes for all the things that Christa,

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Speaker 1: our photo guest, mentioned. It's all on the website rich

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01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:59,240
Speaker 1: on tech dot tv. So everything that she just mentioned,

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01:03:59,280 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: all the different ways to organize your photos, it's all

1290
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Speaker 1: right there on the website rich on tech dot TV.

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01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 1: Let's see here coming up, Let's see. Oh that's next hour.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about that next hour. Let's talk about Gloria.

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Speaker 1: She wrote in is it a bad idea to buy

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Speaker 1: electronics like cell phones, tablets or laptops from shopping channels?

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Speaker 1: Good question, Gloria, I don't think so. I would say

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Speaker 1: my main concern would be to make sure the return

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Speaker 1: policy is good, like make sure it's easy to return,

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Speaker 1: because you're getting these site on scene, and that the

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Speaker 1: warranty matches what you're getting if you bought it from

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Speaker 1: somewhere else. That's the main thing. The other thing I

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Speaker 1: would say is just, you know, just make sure you

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Speaker 1: know what you're buying and if it's actually a good deal.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of times are these home shopping

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Speaker 1: networks and these home shopping channels you know, the whole

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Speaker 1: point is like you've either have credit with them or

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Speaker 1: it's for easy pay or something like that, so you

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Speaker 1: may be spending more than you need to on these gadgets.

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Speaker 1: So i'd always look up the actual model number on

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Speaker 1: something like an Amazon or Best Buy and just see

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Speaker 1: if it's the same price. If it is, it might

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Speaker 1: be easier just to buy it from a place you

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Speaker 1: already go to. But and then also make sure that

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Speaker 1: it's the current model. So sometimes you may be getting

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Speaker 1: a really good deal on these things because it's the

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Speaker 1: previous model or a model that's no longer being made.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I don't know, I have no problem

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Speaker 1: with this. I actually I actually have always thought that

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Speaker 1: I'd be a great person to be on these channels,

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Speaker 1: Like I love talking about gadgets. In fact, it's funny

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Speaker 1: when you do kind of like a first look at gadgets,

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Speaker 1: you know, that's what you're doing. You're you're basically like

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Speaker 1: if you're talking about it to camera, you're kind of

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Speaker 1: memorizing all these different little features and then kind of

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Speaker 1: selling it to camera. So I always thought it'd be

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Speaker 1: really fun to be on like a home shopping channel.

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Speaker 1: But I think a lot of people just buy this

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Speaker 1: stuff because it sounds really cool, and then they get

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Speaker 1: it and I don't know do they open it or

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Speaker 1: use it. But Gloria, if you like it, it looks good,

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Speaker 1: go ahead get it. I have no problem with it.

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Speaker 1: I got an email from someone asking about advanced data protection. Actually,

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Speaker 1: this person contacted me on Instagram. They said, hey, I

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Speaker 1: saw this reel tells me to turn on advanced data

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Speaker 1: protection on the iPhone. Should I do it? So, let

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Speaker 1: me explain what advanced data protection is. This basically gives

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Speaker 1: you end to end encryption on your iCloud data. So

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Speaker 1: iCloud data is pretty much a lot of your stuff

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Speaker 1: that's on your iPhone is already end to end encrypted,

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Speaker 1: but this increases that protection from certain categories, like certain

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Speaker 1: things like already it's end to end encrypted, but this

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Speaker 1: increases that protection of more categories, including your entire device, backup,

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Speaker 1: your photos, and your notes, which means only trusted devices

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Speaker 1: can access them. So with ADP, which Advanced Data Protection activated,

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Speaker 1: Apple cannot access your encrypted data in any way, shape

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Speaker 1: or form. So this means that if there's a data

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Speaker 1: breach on Apple servers and your stuff got out there,

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Speaker 1: no one would be able to see your pictures, or

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Speaker 1: your data or your info. Sounds great, right, But the

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Speaker 1: downside is if you forget your password or you forget

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Speaker 1: the recovery key for your iCloud, there is no way

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to recover this data ever, never, ever, ever,

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Speaker 1: So if you're someone that loses your passwords can't remember things,

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Speaker 1: this might not be the best thing to turn on.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the downsides. The other downside is that

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Speaker 1: all of your devices that are linked to your iCloud

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Speaker 1: account have to be updated to the latest operating system

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Speaker 1: to have this benefit turned on. So that means if

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Speaker 1: you're running a combination of devices on your account, all

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Speaker 1: of them have to be updated. If some of them

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Speaker 1: can't be, then you cannot. You either have to remove

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Speaker 1: that device from your account or you can't activate this.

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Speaker 1: The other downside is that a lot of functionalities of

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Speaker 1: act accessing your iCloud data via the web will be

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Speaker 1: disabled because you cannot access this stuff via the web

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Speaker 1: because it's a whole complicated situation, but because it's not

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Speaker 1: a trusted device that has the key to unencrypt your information,

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Speaker 1: it can't access it. And the web browser is not

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Speaker 1: equipped to do that, So that means you just can't access.

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Speaker 1: So if you ever said, oh, I lost access to

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Speaker 1: my phone, let me go to iCloud and grab my

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Speaker 1: pictures or grab my contacts, No, not going to happen

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Speaker 1: because you have this ADP on. So this would fall

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Speaker 1: under the category of stuff you see online and it

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Speaker 1: looks really good and you see this expert quote unquote

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Speaker 1: telling you what to do and you don't realize there

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01:08:44,840 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 1: are implications, pros and cons of every action in this world.

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Speaker 1: And so I get these things all the time. Cybersecurity experts,

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Speaker 1: data experts, iPhone experts, Android experts, expert, expert, expert. If

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Speaker 1: someone calls themselves an expert, I'm always concerned, right because

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Speaker 1: what does that mean? Do you have a PhD and iPhone?

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Speaker 1: You have a PhD and Android? Like, what is expert

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Speaker 1: mean you've studied these or does it mean that you

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01:09:09,120 --> 01:09:11,240
Speaker 1: just you know? Like I always, I don't consider myself

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Speaker 1: an expert anything. I just know a lot about technology

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Speaker 1: and I don't even know everything about technology. I just

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Speaker 1: cover this stuff on a daily basis, so I'm versed

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Speaker 1: in it. And again, when it comes to answering tech questions,

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Speaker 1: you know people think you have all the answers. I

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Speaker 1: don't have all the answers. But the difference between someone

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01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:30,719
Speaker 1: like myself and you know, people that are smart about

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Speaker 1: technology is that you understand how to figure out the answer,

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01:09:35,000 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 1: Where to go for the answer, who to talk to

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Speaker 1: for the answer, what the implications of that answer is,

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01:09:40,120 --> 01:09:42,760
Speaker 1: the pros and cons of things that, to me is

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01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 1: much more useful than expert tells you to turn on

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Speaker 1: this setting, turn off this setting. If you look at

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Speaker 1: all the stuff that I post to Instagram, Facebook, I

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01:09:50,520 --> 01:09:54,280
Speaker 1: explain the pros and cons. I explain what's going on,

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Speaker 1: so you understand and you can make an informed decision.

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Speaker 1: I don't just say you should turn this feature on.

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01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:02,639
Speaker 1: I explain what the feature is and why you might

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01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:05,679
Speaker 1: want to turn it on. So with this advanced data protection,

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01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,240
Speaker 1: in all these advanced security features, there's a reason why

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01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,799
Speaker 1: Apple doesn't just turn them on for you, or Android

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01:10:11,920 --> 01:10:14,240
Speaker 1: doesn't just turn them on for you. It's because there

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01:10:14,400 --> 01:10:17,040
Speaker 1: usually are reasons why you may want them on and

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01:10:17,080 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: you may want them off. If you're smart, you know

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Speaker 1: what you're doing, You're with it. You understand technology, turn

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Speaker 1: it on, understand it, you understand the pros and cons

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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:33,080
Speaker 1: My name is rich Demiro, hanging out with you talking technology.

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Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: If you want to send me an email, go to

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Speaker 1: the website rich on tech dot tv. Hit contact and

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01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:49,640
Speaker 1: there you can submit feedback, submit questions, comments, whatever you'd like.

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01:10:49,760 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 1: That's what KL did. KL wrote in about my comments

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Speaker 1: about the weighted blankets, saying kids have died using weighted

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01:10:57,320 --> 01:11:00,599
Speaker 1: blankets and that was news to me, but I did

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01:11:00,600 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 1: look it up and apparently, yes, there were a couple

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Speaker 1: of kids that did die in April twenty twenty two

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Speaker 1: by these weighted blankets sold by Target, which led to

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Speaker 1: a huge recall. Now those were apparently a design flaw,

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Speaker 1: but you know, just looking at the tips here, it's

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01:11:18,439 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 1: saying that you got to be age appropriate, not recommended

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01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:25,479
Speaker 1: for babies or toddlers. Check the manufacturers age recommendations, proper

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Speaker 1: size and weight. Kids should be supervised. And you know

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01:11:29,479 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 1: this is all common sense. It goes without saying. But

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01:11:32,760 --> 01:11:34,719
Speaker 1: you know, since I did mention them, I should probably

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01:11:34,760 --> 01:11:35,960
Speaker 1: say that. You know, if you're going to use one

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Speaker 1: of these blankets, you know, probably make sure that your

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Speaker 1: child can handle something like this.

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Speaker 10: With all these lawsuits going on, you should realize common

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,200
Speaker 10: sense isn't all that common anymore.

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Speaker 1: Is there anything as common sense? No? I mean, look,

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01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 1: you know when you're talking about I am a big

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Speaker 1: believer in if there are issues with the product, Like

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Speaker 1: clearly this had a design flaw with the zipperk so

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01:12:00,120 --> 01:12:02,960
Speaker 1: got like entangled in this thing, that makes sense. Like

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Speaker 1: if it's a if it's a design flaw, if there's

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01:12:05,520 --> 01:12:10,240
Speaker 1: a problem, like yes, But common sense in general, I

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01:12:10,320 --> 01:12:13,080
Speaker 1: feel like has gone out the window with a lot

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Speaker 1: of things in life.

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Speaker 12: Now.

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Speaker 11: The blanket that I have isn't a zipper blankets.

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Speaker 10: It's like a almost like knitted Yeah, it's a weighted

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Speaker 10: knitted blanket.

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01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:21,439
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: And it's not big. It literally just covers me from

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Speaker 11: my chest down on my feet.

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01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:27,799
Speaker 1: Yeah. The one that my kid has is a smaller one.

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01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 1: But again, I mean, if I had an infant, I'm

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Speaker 1: not putting a weighted blanket on the infant. Like that's

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01:12:32,680 --> 01:12:35,519
Speaker 1: just to me, that would be common sense, right. I

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Speaker 1: think if you're a parent in general, there are so

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01:12:37,479 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: many things that you need to learn and understand, and

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01:12:40,560 --> 01:12:43,599
Speaker 1: there's just I mean, look, there's things that our parents

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01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:46,439
Speaker 1: did with us that you would never do now. My

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01:12:46,520 --> 01:12:48,880
Speaker 1: father in law was telling me, you know, they're in car.

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Speaker 1: I mean there wasn't even seatbelts. I mean kids would

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Speaker 1: sleep like on the you know they had these big

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Speaker 1: old station wagons, right and kids would sleep on like

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Speaker 1: the back like you.

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Speaker 10: Know, I don't know what you call it. I can

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Speaker 10: get my dad in trouble with this one corvette. My

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Speaker 10: dad had an older corvette, was at eighty six, and

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Speaker 10: me and him my mom would ride in this corvette,

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Speaker 10: but I would ride in the trunk of the car

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Speaker 10: and the closed trunk like the back where the yeah, yes,

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Speaker 10: laid back there. Yes, And to me it was the

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Speaker 10: most coolest thing ever you did. No, no, no, not

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Speaker 10: at all. But back then it was fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah. I mean just this, if you look at

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Speaker 1: some of the pictures of things, the stuff we take

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Speaker 1: for granted now, the safety measures we have, the everything,

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01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: it's all just like it's because something bad happened. And

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Speaker 1: I mean I remember we've test drove like this uh

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Speaker 1: big old giant station wagon when I was a kid,

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Speaker 1: and it had like the two seats that faced backwards,

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Speaker 1: you know, like out the back, and it was like,

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Speaker 1: that was the coolest thing ever. And now when you

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Speaker 1: think about, like how these rear end crashes, like maybe

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Speaker 1: not the best place to put your kids something so.

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Speaker 11: Simple drinking from a water holes as a child.

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Speaker 1: Yes, nobody ever died doing that, did they?

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Speaker 11: But I wouldn't now what you wouldn't no now right now?

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Speaker 1: Uh huh? Well, I guess I've had no BPA in

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Speaker 1: the I'll get out everything. I mean, you mentioned anything

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Speaker 1: and someone has some sort of issue. Ron writes into

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Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich On Tech. Hey, rich I've been

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01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:18,519
Speaker 1: listening to your radio show since day one. I'm curious

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01:14:18,880 --> 01:14:21,280
Speaker 1: can we actually see you live? You always post a

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Speaker 1: pick with you in the station, but I was wondering

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Speaker 1: if we can see you live in some of these episodes.

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Speaker 1: Keep up the great content in twenty twenty five. This

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Speaker 1: has been an ongoing question since day one of this show.

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Speaker 1: The short answer is no. The other answer is if

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Speaker 1: you want to see the first ten minutes of the

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Speaker 1: show that is part of my rich On Tech Weekly show,

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Speaker 1: which airs on KTLA plus, part of the TV station

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Speaker 1: I work for here in Los Angeles, you can see

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Speaker 1: the first ten minutes of the show that you would

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Speaker 1: have to download the KTLA plus app on your Roku,

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Speaker 1: your Apple TV, your Fire TV, or your Samsung Smart TV.

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Speaker 1: And that's a weekly show that airs and you can

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Speaker 1: see the first ten minutes of the radio show. Don't

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01:15:02,560 --> 01:15:05,000
Speaker 1: really have plans for live right now. I'm on TV

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01:15:05,120 --> 01:15:07,640
Speaker 1: Live every day, and so this is sort of like,

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01:15:08,280 --> 01:15:10,040
Speaker 1: you know, a time when I'm not doing live unless

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01:15:10,040 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: something changes, we'll see. Let's go to Deborah in Santa Monica. Deborah,

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich by Rich.

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Speaker 9: Okay, the reason I'm calling them is I have a

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Speaker 9: one plus seven pro Android phone.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I've had it for years.

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01:15:28,439 --> 01:15:28,960
Speaker 1: I love it.

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01:15:28,960 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 2: It's a wonderful phone.

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01:15:30,280 --> 01:15:36,160
Speaker 9: However, in the last couple of weeks, something has happened

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01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:39,200
Speaker 9: to the settings that I didn't do anything with. Okay,

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01:15:39,200 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 9: I didn't change it.

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01:15:40,240 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 1: Oh no, nobody ever changes anything on their phone.

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Speaker 3: Really.

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01:15:44,360 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 2: I said, that's the.

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Speaker 9: Way I want it, and then I leave it alone

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01:15:47,360 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 9: unless it's something you know, serious, Okase, But I would

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01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 9: remember that if I had been anything to the setting.

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01:15:53,240 --> 01:15:53,519
Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 9: So what's been happening, and it's very annoying, is when

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Speaker 9: there's when the system apparently when a here's talking, it'll revert.

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Speaker 2: It to text.

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Speaker 9: Which will stream across my screen. It'll do it. And

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Speaker 9: any app or program that I'm aware of when I

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01:16:16,200 --> 01:16:19,040
Speaker 9: was on and anytime I've been on X recently. If

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Speaker 9: there's talking and I'm listening to a tweeter watching a tweet,

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Speaker 9: it'll it'll put the put the talking right.

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Speaker 1: It's almost like close captions, right, Is that kind of

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01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:31,120
Speaker 1: what it is.

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Speaker 9: Calling live cat Yes. I cannot figure out in any

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01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:38,879
Speaker 9: of the apps or on my Android phone, even in settings,

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01:16:38,920 --> 01:16:41,720
Speaker 9: and I've spent hours going through the settings to see

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01:16:41,800 --> 01:16:45,120
Speaker 9: that it's in somewhere. You know, I have to drill down.

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01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 9: It's not there. I even did a Google search and

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01:16:49,560 --> 01:16:51,360
Speaker 9: they actually said, yes, there's a way to do it.

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01:16:51,360 --> 01:16:54,400
Speaker 9: Go to settings, go to this good event. Guess what

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01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,080
Speaker 9: what they say to go through is missing on my phone.

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01:16:57,640 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 1: Okay, well, so you have stumbled upon a fee. Sure

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01:17:00,320 --> 01:17:02,040
Speaker 1: that is quite helpful for people.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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01:17:02,800 --> 01:17:04,240
Speaker 1: I think there's a couple of things going on here.

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Speaker 1: Number one, So what you're talking about is live captions.

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01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: This is available on both iPhone and Android, and it's

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01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 1: a feature that on Android, it came a couple of

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01:17:14,040 --> 01:17:16,639
Speaker 1: years ago. On iPhone, I think it's within the last

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01:17:16,720 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: year or so. But what it does is it listens

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01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,800
Speaker 1: to the audio on the phone and it transcribes it

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01:17:22,840 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 1: in real time and puts it in a little box.

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01:17:24,960 --> 01:17:28,320
Speaker 1: And so for people that you know could be hard

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01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:31,000
Speaker 1: of hearing, they want this on their screen. That's one

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01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:33,360
Speaker 1: reason to use it. Another reason is you just want

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01:17:33,400 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: captions because you're, you know, watching something in class. You

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01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,240
Speaker 1: don't want to disturb someone else. You know, there's lots

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01:17:38,240 --> 01:17:41,120
Speaker 1: of reasons why you might activate this. I made the

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01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:45,519
Speaker 1: joke Tebra about no one ever changes features, because it's

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01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,799
Speaker 1: an ongoing joke. When someone comes to me with a problem,

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01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:51,240
Speaker 1: they say, I didn't change anything. But you know, sometimes

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01:17:51,280 --> 01:17:54,240
Speaker 1: what happens is we tap a button by accident. We

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01:17:54,360 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: you know, just something you know, gets hit in our pocket,

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01:17:56,560 --> 01:17:59,000
Speaker 1: whatever it is. And so that's just kind of my

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Speaker 1: inside tech show for anyone. My mom calls me with

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01:18:02,280 --> 01:18:04,080
Speaker 1: a problem and I'm like, she's like, and I didn't

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Speaker 1: touch a thing. I was like, Okay, no one ever

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01:18:05,920 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 1: touches anything. But here's how we do it. So this

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Speaker 1: is an accessibility feature. So there are a couple of

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Speaker 1: ways to turn it on and off. The first way

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Speaker 1: is to go into settings and tap accessibility and to

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Speaker 1: choose live captions and turn that on or off. Are

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01:18:21,080 --> 01:18:22,599
Speaker 1: you is that the feature that's not there?

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01:18:23,479 --> 01:18:23,879
Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 9: When I go into my settings, there's no specific accessibility.

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01:18:28,080 --> 01:18:32,559
Speaker 9: You have to go to something like it's either in

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01:18:32,840 --> 01:18:36,799
Speaker 9: system or Apps and Notifications. I'm going to see apps

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Speaker 9: and notifications.

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Speaker 1: Well, it wouldn't be under Apps and Notifications. There's usually

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Speaker 1: a separate setting just for accessibility on almost every Android phone.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, the one day I did not bring the

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01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:49,880
Speaker 1: Android phone that I'm testing with me, I said, nobody's

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Speaker 1: gonna have a question about one plus today, and of

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Speaker 1: course you have the question about one plus, so I

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01:18:53,280 --> 01:18:56,559
Speaker 1: don't have it in front of me. But typically if

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Speaker 1: you go into settings accessibility, that's going to be the

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01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:04,439
Speaker 1: first place to and then you should find it under privacy. Okay,

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01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:04,840
Speaker 1: what's that.

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01:19:06,800 --> 01:19:11,639
Speaker 9: You have to in settings? There is something called privacy okay,

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01:19:11,720 --> 01:19:13,599
Speaker 9: and permissions and personal data.

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01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,400
Speaker 1: No, that's not going to be it. Okay. So the

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01:19:15,439 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: other way to look for it, it's.

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Speaker 9: On it is because there's accessibility usage. That's the only

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01:19:21,280 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 9: way I found anything having to do with assessibility.

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01:19:24,040 --> 01:19:26,280
Speaker 1: Well, okay, accessively, that's not it though, that's not the

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01:19:26,400 --> 01:19:28,160
Speaker 1: that's not the part. So the other way to do

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Speaker 1: it is to go in the upper right hand corner

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Speaker 1: when you go into your settings and type in live captions. Okay,

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01:19:34,479 --> 01:19:37,120
Speaker 1: so you can type in live caption and that should

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01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:39,519
Speaker 1: bring up the setting of where to find it. So

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01:19:39,680 --> 01:19:43,000
Speaker 1: on this Samsung phone I'm looking at, it's under hearing enhancements,

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01:19:43,439 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: under accessibility accessibility, So settings accessibility, hearing enhancements. That's one

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01:19:48,320 --> 01:19:50,360
Speaker 1: way of bringing it up. The other way to bring

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Speaker 1: it up is to press the volume button on your

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01:19:52,400 --> 01:19:56,080
Speaker 1: Android phone, and when you press that volume button, there

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01:19:56,200 --> 01:20:01,240
Speaker 1: is a little captions icon. So if you press volume

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01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:04,120
Speaker 1: up and then press Settings, you should see a little

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01:20:04,160 --> 01:20:08,439
Speaker 1: live caption's icon. In that main settings page of your volume.

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01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:10,760
Speaker 1: You'll see a whole bunch of sliders you tap there

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01:20:11,240 --> 01:20:14,080
Speaker 1: and that should toggle it on or off. The third

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Speaker 1: way to find it is to swipe down from the

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01:20:16,880 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 1: top of your screen and you see a whole bunch

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01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:22,880
Speaker 1: of widgets like to turn on and off, the airplane mode,

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01:20:22,920 --> 01:20:27,160
Speaker 1: the flashlight location, whatever it is. And then if you

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01:20:27,240 --> 01:20:30,880
Speaker 1: tap the little edit button there, it's like a maybe

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01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 1: a pencil icon, and then you tap edit on your

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01:20:34,479 --> 01:20:37,680
Speaker 1: widgets for your These are called quick tiles that it

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01:20:37,720 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: should say available buttons, and one of those should be

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Speaker 1: labeled live captions. Tap that and you should now it'll

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01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:49,360
Speaker 1: put it into those quick tiles. Tap done, and then

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01:20:49,360 --> 01:20:51,879
Speaker 1: once you swipe down to bring up those quick tiles,

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01:20:52,040 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: make sure you expand it. You should have a new

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01:20:54,200 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: option that says live caption and you can toggle it

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Speaker 1: on or off right there. So those are three ways, Deborah,

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01:21:02,520 --> 01:21:05,799
Speaker 1: to turn that on and off. Please send me an email.

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01:21:06,160 --> 01:21:08,040
Speaker 1: Go to rich on Tech dot TV. Send me an

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01:21:08,040 --> 01:21:10,760
Speaker 1: email so I have your email address and I will

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01:21:10,760 --> 01:21:12,240
Speaker 1: give you when I get home, I will give you

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01:21:12,280 --> 01:21:15,680
Speaker 1: specific directions for the one plus phone. But that is

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Speaker 1: the three ways in general on Android that you can

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01:21:19,080 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 1: turn on and off live caption. If you ask me,

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Speaker 1: they should have it right on the captions when they

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01:21:25,720 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 1: show up. That would make the most sense. Let me

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01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:31,800
Speaker 1: just see, I'm playing a YouTube video and you would

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01:21:31,800 --> 01:21:35,080
Speaker 1: think it would have them right on, you know, a

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01:21:35,120 --> 01:21:38,400
Speaker 1: little toggle right on there. But I guess it doesn't

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv. Don't forget this show is available

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Speaker 1: as a podcast. Just search rich on Tech in your

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01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: favorite audio app. Never miss an episode. Of course, the

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01:22:07,080 --> 01:22:10,439
Speaker 1: best way to listen is live right here on the radio.

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01:22:10,560 --> 01:22:13,719
Speaker 1: That's my preferred way. But the podcast is fun as well.

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01:22:14,800 --> 01:22:17,360
Speaker 1: Apple Fitness Plus. I don't know if you're a person

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01:22:17,400 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 1: that wants to close your rings on a daily basis,

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01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:22,040
Speaker 1: I know I am. If you have an Apple Watch,

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01:22:22,080 --> 01:22:25,680
Speaker 1: those rings represent the move minutes that you get on

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01:22:25,720 --> 01:22:29,519
Speaker 1: a daily basis standing up every hour for like twelve hours.

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Speaker 1: And then what's the third one? The steps you take

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Speaker 1: on a daily basis. Let me say, I don't even know.

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01:22:35,439 --> 01:22:39,479
Speaker 1: I'm only worried about the move minutes. Let's see here, Oh,

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01:22:40,000 --> 01:22:42,479
Speaker 1: great segment, rich You don't even know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: Move minutes exercise interesting? Oh move is your calories? Okay,

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01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,880
Speaker 1: I don't worry about that. So you got the calories,

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01:22:50,400 --> 01:22:55,320
Speaker 1: exercise minutes and then stand minutes. So yeah, if you're

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Speaker 1: someone who wants to do that. Apple came up with

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01:22:56,960 --> 01:22:59,120
Speaker 1: this thing called Apple Fitness Plus a couple of years ago.

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01:22:59,439 --> 01:23:01,799
Speaker 1: During the pan lets you work out from your phone

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01:23:01,920 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: or your Apple Watch. It started out you had to

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01:23:04,320 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: have an Apple Watch. Now you can do it just

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01:23:06,400 --> 01:23:10,479
Speaker 1: through your iPhone. But I visited their Apple Fitness Plus

1668
01:23:10,520 --> 01:23:13,760
Speaker 1: studio in Santa Monica to get a little preview of

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Speaker 1: some of the new programs they have for twenty twenty five.

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01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: They're launching all of these on Monday, January sixth, largest

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Speaker 1: ever lineup of their fitness and mindfulness programming. And they've

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01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:29,439
Speaker 1: got new strength training. So the thing about strength training,

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01:23:29,479 --> 01:23:32,479
Speaker 1: it's very intimidating. You've got people like Bobo that work

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01:23:32,520 --> 01:23:34,360
Speaker 1: out all the time and they know what they're doing.

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01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:37,040
Speaker 1: Every time you go on Instagram, he's with lifting more weight.

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01:23:37,439 --> 01:23:41,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, I never lift that. But if if you're

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01:23:41,000 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 1: intimidated by that, you know, maybe you just want to

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01:23:44,320 --> 01:23:46,639
Speaker 1: start small. So this program you can start with any

1679
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:48,920
Speaker 1: weight and it could be anything. So if you if

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01:23:48,960 --> 01:23:50,760
Speaker 1: you strong and you already want to lift a lot,

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01:23:50,800 --> 01:23:52,400
Speaker 1: you can start with that, or if you don't want

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01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:54,439
Speaker 1: to lift a lot, you can start with that. Then

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01:23:54,439 --> 01:23:58,080
Speaker 1: they've got pickleball conditioning, so that's new. I know pickleball

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01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: is very popular. They've got these programs so you can

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01:24:01,680 --> 01:24:04,559
Speaker 1: learn like specific yoga poses and then of course breath meditation.

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Speaker 1: The other feature I really think is great. If you're

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01:24:07,680 --> 01:24:09,880
Speaker 1: just trying to move your you know, move yourself, get

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01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:12,320
Speaker 1: yourself up and out of the house, it's called time

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01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: to walk. And so they interview all these like celebrities

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01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:18,439
Speaker 1: and notable people and you just walk with them, so

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01:24:18,479 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: they're in your ear. You just walk and they talk

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01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:22,600
Speaker 1: and tell their story and before you know it, you

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Speaker 1: got thirty minutes of walk time. Fitness Plus is also

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01:24:26,320 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 1: integrating with Strava for the first time ever in a

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Speaker 1: big way, so you can see detailed tracking and workouts

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01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:35,840
Speaker 1: shared on the app, so it's a bigger integration. I

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01:24:35,880 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 1: don't use Strava, so I'm not totally knowledgeable about that,

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01:24:39,160 --> 01:24:40,719
Speaker 1: but I know a lot of people love it, especially

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01:24:40,720 --> 01:24:42,600
Speaker 1: I think it start out with like the biker community,

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01:24:43,120 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 1: not the motorcycle bikers.

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Speaker 10: The I use Strava, do you Yeah? I use it

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01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 10: around my neighborhood. It's pretty simple.

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Speaker 1: What do you do with it?

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Speaker 10: You just started like, wherever you go, you hit the

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01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,000
Speaker 10: button to record your pace, and it keeps track of

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Speaker 10: your miles, your elevation, and amount of calories that you

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Speaker 10: could have possibly burned in the process and the time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so so it's like a tracker app.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, but it tracks to your map, like to your

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01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:10,519
Speaker 10: areash o. God, you like the path that you went

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01:25:10,600 --> 01:25:13,000
Speaker 10: and everything like that. And there's a friend network on

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Speaker 10: it too, so like I can see what you did

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01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:16,559
Speaker 10: and like it, or you can.

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Speaker 1: See what right you don't like it. And I think

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Speaker 1: that's what the big improvement is with Fitness Plus is

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01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,639
Speaker 1: that it now shows the specific workout that you did

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01:25:24,000 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 1: to your friends. Fitness Plus is ten dollars a month,

1718
01:25:27,640 --> 01:25:30,439
Speaker 1: eighty dollars a year. You can share it up to

1719
01:25:30,680 --> 01:25:32,559
Speaker 1: six people in your family. You can get a free

1720
01:25:32,560 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 1: trial by going to like I think best Buy has

1721
01:25:35,040 --> 01:25:36,840
Speaker 1: two months. If you have a new Apple device, you'll

1722
01:25:36,880 --> 01:25:39,479
Speaker 1: get it. But anyway, it's kind of fun. Let me

1723
01:25:39,520 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 1: just give you a quick idea of Apple, how they operate,

1724
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,840
Speaker 1: you know, and I know I talk about Apple a lot.

1725
01:25:44,880 --> 01:25:47,439
Speaker 1: I also talk about Android. I like both, but you

1726
01:25:47,439 --> 01:25:49,840
Speaker 1: know they're two very different companies, right, But like Apple,

1727
01:25:49,920 --> 01:25:52,360
Speaker 1: So I go to these studios and they open the

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01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,120
Speaker 1: door for me and they're like, hey, before you go in,

1729
01:25:54,280 --> 01:25:55,559
Speaker 1: just so you know, we have a lot of energy

1730
01:25:55,560 --> 01:25:57,000
Speaker 1: around here. I'm like, all right, what does that mean?

1731
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:01,760
Speaker 1: They opened the door. They had secretly collected every employee

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01:26:01,760 --> 01:26:04,040
Speaker 1: in the building. So I'm talking like I don't know

1733
01:26:04,120 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: one hundred people at this building, and they were all

1734
01:26:06,840 --> 01:26:09,240
Speaker 1: standing there in the lobby when I walk in, and

1735
01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:13,519
Speaker 1: all just like clapping and shouting and saying welcome, rich

1736
01:26:13,880 --> 01:26:15,880
Speaker 1: and it's just like, you know, these big smiles. And

1737
01:26:15,920 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: I was so taken aback because it's just like this

1738
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:20,559
Speaker 1: is Apple is just such a unique company. I mean,

1739
01:26:20,640 --> 01:26:22,639
Speaker 1: to grab everyone. Can you imagine doing that at any

1740
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 1: company you work for? Say, hey, this guy's coming in today.

1741
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 1: Let's let's grab everyone downstairs and let's have them all,

1742
01:26:27,560 --> 01:26:29,840
Speaker 1: you know, say hello in the lobby and like cheer

1743
01:26:29,840 --> 01:26:34,839
Speaker 1: for him. Bill from Kingston, Pennsylvania, who listens to the podcast,

1744
01:26:34,840 --> 01:26:38,200
Speaker 1: writes in I'm considering replacing my Moto Edge twenty twenty

1745
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,360
Speaker 1: two with a Pixel xcel Pro. I'm also intrigued by

1746
01:26:41,360 --> 01:26:43,760
Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen, which is coming out in January.

1747
01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:46,439
Speaker 1: The Pixel has a higher price plus two extra years

1748
01:26:46,479 --> 01:26:49,479
Speaker 1: of support, but the one plus looks impressive. What's your take?

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01:26:49,560 --> 01:26:51,320
Speaker 1: You don't mention one plus often, but I know you're

1750
01:26:51,320 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 1: a fan of the Pixel. Here's my take historically, and

1751
01:26:56,000 --> 01:26:58,280
Speaker 1: I am testing the one plus thirteen, so I have

1752
01:26:58,360 --> 01:27:01,080
Speaker 1: been using it. I can't tell you everything I'm under embargo,

1753
01:27:01,400 --> 01:27:04,559
Speaker 1: but I will tell you that here's my thought. The

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01:27:04,600 --> 01:27:08,759
Speaker 1: Pixel is all about the software and camera. One plus

1755
01:27:08,960 --> 01:27:13,080
Speaker 1: is all about very very good hardware at a great price.

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01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for the best camera out there,

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01:27:16,040 --> 01:27:18,639
Speaker 1: I'd say probably go with the Pixel. If you're looking

1758
01:27:18,680 --> 01:27:22,120
Speaker 1: for a great value of hardware and price, I think

1759
01:27:22,120 --> 01:27:25,720
Speaker 1: the one plus thirteen might be your best bet. But

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01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: I will have more about the one plus when I

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01:27:27,479 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: can talk about it and give my full review. That

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01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 1: will be coming up soon in the next couple of weeks.

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01:27:33,680 --> 01:27:36,840
Speaker 1: But I will say the photos are looking good off

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01:27:36,840 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: of this one plus thirteen. Coming up next, we're going

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01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:43,720
Speaker 1: to talk to Gerald Casulis of nord VPN about the

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01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:46,240
Speaker 1: biggest scams to watch out for in twenty twenty five.

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01:27:47,280 --> 01:27:51,639
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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01:27:51,760 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: technology with you. We're going to get to the top

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01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 1: scams of twenty twenty five in just a second here,

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01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 1: But first, Kenny from Warwick, Rhode Island, rights in I

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01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:08,599
Speaker 1: rented a Kia EV six while traveling in North Carolina

1772
01:28:08,680 --> 01:28:13,280
Speaker 1: and love the quiet responsive drive. However, finding a reliable

1773
01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 1: EV charger was a challenge. I dealt with charging anxiety

1774
01:28:17,680 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 1: when Google Maps led me to chargers I couldn't use

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01:28:20,439 --> 01:28:23,559
Speaker 1: or were occupied. Is there an app that makes finding

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01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:29,120
Speaker 1: chargers easier for non Tesla drivers, Kenny? This is why

1777
01:28:29,240 --> 01:28:32,559
Speaker 1: I only rented a EV once, and I drive an EV,

1778
01:28:32,680 --> 01:28:35,400
Speaker 1: so believe me, I love them, but I think renting

1779
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,120
Speaker 1: one is a little bit different because people are not

1780
01:28:37,160 --> 01:28:39,679
Speaker 1: prepared for the fact that you do have to charge

1781
01:28:39,680 --> 01:28:43,439
Speaker 1: this thing, and charging a non Tesla EV can be tricky.

1782
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:47,600
Speaker 1: As you experienced, these third party charging stations can be

1783
01:28:47,720 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 1: very hit or miss. Sometimes they don't work, they're not maintained,

1784
01:28:51,560 --> 01:28:55,400
Speaker 1: just it's a mixed bag. So two apps that can help.

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01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:59,600
Speaker 1: One is called plug Share plug Share. This is a

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01:29:00,360 --> 01:29:03,719
Speaker 1: really handy app. It's crowdsourced. People put information in about

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01:29:03,920 --> 01:29:07,960
Speaker 1: apps or sorry about apps, about the charging stations everywhere,

1788
01:29:07,960 --> 01:29:10,360
Speaker 1: so you can look for them that way. The other

1789
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,559
Speaker 1: one is called a Better Route Planner a Better Route

1790
01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:17,800
Speaker 1: Planner and this was actually bought by Rivian, but it

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01:29:17,920 --> 01:29:21,400
Speaker 1: still operates. It looks like it operates independently, and they

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01:29:21,400 --> 01:29:23,320
Speaker 1: do have an app and so you can put in

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01:29:23,360 --> 01:29:25,919
Speaker 1: your information you want to look for, you know, chargers

1794
01:29:25,960 --> 01:29:28,000
Speaker 1: along the way, you can say what kind of car

1795
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:30,400
Speaker 1: you have. It's got a lot of great information there,

1796
01:29:30,439 --> 01:29:32,759
Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, like you experience,

1797
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:36,200
Speaker 1: sometimes when you get to these places, the charger may

1798
01:29:36,360 --> 01:29:39,200
Speaker 1: just not work. And that's getting better because Tesla is

1799
01:29:39,280 --> 01:29:43,080
Speaker 1: opening up its super charging network to third party cars

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01:29:43,280 --> 01:29:46,080
Speaker 1: and brands. But you need an adapter most of the time.

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01:29:46,200 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 1: And it is a kind of a slow process because

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01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:51,439
Speaker 1: they've announced this, but not everyone's on board right away.

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01:29:52,000 --> 01:29:54,360
Speaker 1: So Kenny, thanks for the email, Thanks for listening to

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01:29:54,400 --> 01:29:59,280
Speaker 1: the podcast to appreciate it. Gerald casulis now on the

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01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:03,480
Speaker 1: line from nord VPN. You probably have heard of NordVPN.

1806
01:30:03,520 --> 01:30:06,480
Speaker 1: They have all kinds of security programs and VPN programs.

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01:30:07,120 --> 01:30:09,160
Speaker 1: He's going to talk to us about twenty twenty five

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01:30:09,400 --> 01:30:14,360
Speaker 1: top cyber threats. Gerald, thanks for joining me today. Hi Rich,

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01:30:14,520 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 1: thanks for having ny So what is NordVPN all about?

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01:30:17,320 --> 01:30:19,240
Speaker 1: What I mean, I know the VPN, but you guys

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01:30:19,280 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of products.

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01:30:20,360 --> 01:30:22,080
Speaker 11: Huh oh yeah.

1813
01:30:22,080 --> 01:30:25,760
Speaker 12: Absolutely, we want to make Internet a safer place, so

1814
01:30:25,800 --> 01:30:30,719
Speaker 12: we have of course NORDPN to protect your identity online. Also,

1815
01:30:30,760 --> 01:30:33,640
Speaker 12: we have Bustard Manager, we have business tools, we have

1816
01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:36,719
Speaker 12: cyber Efects Intelligence, So we have a bunch of things

1817
01:30:37,040 --> 01:30:41,920
Speaker 12: fully focusing on cybersecurity and you and your business safety online.

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01:30:42,320 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 1: I guess my first question is do people actually get

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01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:47,559
Speaker 1: scammed on a daily basis? I know that I share

1820
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,360
Speaker 1: kind of these scams and text messages and all kinds

1821
01:30:50,400 --> 01:30:52,479
Speaker 1: of things that are going around on a daily basis.

1822
01:30:52,880 --> 01:30:54,360
Speaker 1: Are people falling for this stuff?

1823
01:30:55,600 --> 01:30:59,960
Speaker 5: Sadly? Absolutely, people, businesses, everyone does.

1824
01:31:00,200 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 12: I think we live way too hectic and fast space

1825
01:31:03,479 --> 01:31:06,719
Speaker 12: of a life that we easily get tricked by receiving

1826
01:31:06,720 --> 01:31:09,439
Speaker 12: an email, clicking on a link that we shouldn't, could

1827
01:31:09,439 --> 01:31:11,559
Speaker 12: be text messages Here in US, you know, we get.

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01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 5: A lot of that as well.

1829
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:16,479
Speaker 12: It's very easy, and if you do fall for something,

1830
01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 12: you don't need to feel the silly bad about it.

1831
01:31:18,520 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 12: It's just obviously what you do about it straight afterwards

1832
01:31:21,720 --> 01:31:25,080
Speaker 12: and what tools you implement on digital devices that you

1833
01:31:25,200 --> 01:31:26,559
Speaker 12: use to protect yourself better.

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01:31:27,160 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: All right, So we're talking about some of these things

1835
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:30,719
Speaker 1: you need to watch out for in twenty twenty five

1836
01:31:31,479 --> 01:31:34,080
Speaker 1: combo lists. What does that mean and why are they

1837
01:31:34,120 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 1: a big concern?

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01:31:35,120 --> 01:31:39,680
Speaker 12: For cybersecurity, great question, Rich, So, combo list is a

1839
01:31:39,680 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 12: combination of information that's available in a dark web. And

1840
01:31:43,680 --> 01:31:45,600
Speaker 12: when you know, when we talk about dark web, we

1841
01:31:45,640 --> 01:31:51,160
Speaker 12: always think of this mythical, mystical place somewhere that is unreachable,

1842
01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:54,160
Speaker 12: but actually dark web and deep webs it's very popular

1843
01:31:54,200 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 12: among cyber criminals. And the combo list is basically a

1844
01:31:57,439 --> 01:31:59,200
Speaker 12: list of information that's.

1845
01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:00,719
Speaker 5: Originated from breaches.

1846
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,720
Speaker 12: So it could be a website got breached somewhere that

1847
01:32:03,800 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 12: could be your email. There's another website I got breached

1848
01:32:05,920 --> 01:32:07,920
Speaker 12: somewhere that could be your address, And that combo list

1849
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,040
Speaker 12: is going to be basically everything, all the information accessible

1850
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 12: from numerous different breaches that could potentially have your full

1851
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 12: contact details, your social security number, your telephone number, your addresses,

1852
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 12: a bunch of information that would made for cyber clinels

1853
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:27,519
Speaker 12: to potentially steal your identity a lot easier and purchase

1854
01:32:27,600 --> 01:32:28,800
Speaker 12: those type of combolists.

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01:32:29,040 --> 01:32:33,000
Speaker 1: So they're piecing together information from various breaches. One may

1856
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 1: not be a big deal, Okay, your phone number, but

1857
01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:37,799
Speaker 1: now they've got your phone number, your social your address,

1858
01:32:37,840 --> 01:32:40,879
Speaker 1: your email address, a couple of your old passwords, whatever,

1859
01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:41,920
Speaker 1: all in one place.

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01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:45,920
Speaker 12: Absolutely, and that's where it all kind of leads to

1861
01:32:46,040 --> 01:32:50,479
Speaker 12: account takeovers, which is very popular. You don't necessarily need

1862
01:32:50,520 --> 01:32:55,400
Speaker 12: to look at a massive infringement such as someone stealing.

1863
01:32:55,120 --> 01:32:56,920
Speaker 5: Your identity, but even account takeover.

1864
01:32:57,040 --> 01:33:00,599
Speaker 12: So imagine I get your email address, maybe I get

1865
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:02,880
Speaker 12: a couple of different passwords that you use somewhere that

1866
01:33:03,240 --> 01:33:06,000
Speaker 12: on the websites that were breached, and maybe you are

1867
01:33:06,080 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 12: reusing one of the passwords that you use somewhere else,

1868
01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 12: which could be even secure passwords for instance.

1869
01:33:11,040 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 5: Or maybe using a really weak password.

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01:33:13,600 --> 01:33:17,759
Speaker 12: Of course, that full cube of criminals utilizing AI tools

1871
01:33:17,800 --> 01:33:21,320
Speaker 12: would take only a split second to guess pass get

1872
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:22,799
Speaker 12: that type of password.

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01:33:22,920 --> 01:33:23,880
Speaker 5: So for me to.

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01:33:23,880 --> 01:33:26,720
Speaker 12: Gain access into into one of your logins, into one

1875
01:33:26,720 --> 01:33:29,839
Speaker 12: of your tools, and it could be banking information and whatnot,

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01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:31,559
Speaker 12: would be very very simple.

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01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:34,360
Speaker 1: That's wow. That's why I always tell people you have

1878
01:33:34,439 --> 01:33:36,400
Speaker 1: to use a password manager, you have to use a

1879
01:33:36,439 --> 01:33:40,240
Speaker 1: unique password. It's just it's vital at this point, I mean,

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01:33:40,240 --> 01:33:43,439
Speaker 1: you just can't, there's no way around it. Okay, Now

1881
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:46,360
Speaker 1: this one, what is synthetic identity fraud and how does

1882
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 1: it differ from sort of traditional ID theft?

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01:33:50,400 --> 01:33:54,000
Speaker 12: Yeah, a really good question, and that's actually Sentetic identity

1884
01:33:54,040 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 12: fraud is actually getting gaining a lot popularity, so to say.

1885
01:33:57,760 --> 01:34:01,479
Speaker 12: Synthetic identity fraud basically criminals create a new identity by

1886
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:06,200
Speaker 12: combining real and fixtious information. So potentially could be using

1887
01:34:06,200 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 12: a real social security and number that has been available

1888
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:11,639
Speaker 12: somewhat and they combine it with fake information like fake

1889
01:34:11,760 --> 01:34:14,599
Speaker 12: name to open a pounds of some sort to commit

1890
01:34:14,680 --> 01:34:18,600
Speaker 12: fraud somewhere and potentially utilizing AI tools as well or

1891
01:34:18,680 --> 01:34:23,040
Speaker 12: deep fake technology. It makes that type of synthetic identity

1892
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:27,120
Speaker 12: fraud a lot easier, and combining the real information with

1893
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:30,000
Speaker 12: fake information will be would be a lot harder for

1894
01:34:30,040 --> 01:34:33,200
Speaker 12: you to get triggered to know that's happening in the background.

1895
01:34:33,640 --> 01:34:37,280
Speaker 12: And it differs from the traditional identity debt where normally

1896
01:34:37,439 --> 01:34:40,200
Speaker 12: your full information would be used where you might find

1897
01:34:40,240 --> 01:34:42,519
Speaker 12: out about it a lot sooner because it could come

1898
01:34:42,600 --> 01:34:44,240
Speaker 12: up on your credit report a lot easier.

1899
01:34:44,680 --> 01:34:47,680
Speaker 1: Wow, this is just wild. We're talking to Gerald Cassulis

1900
01:34:47,760 --> 01:34:52,000
Speaker 1: from NordVPN about some of the top cyber threats to

1901
01:34:52,080 --> 01:34:54,839
Speaker 1: look out for in twenty twenty five. How are hackers

1902
01:34:54,960 --> 01:34:58,759
Speaker 1: using AI to make phishing attacks and social engineering more effective?

1903
01:34:58,800 --> 01:34:59,679
Speaker 1: I know this is a big.

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01:34:59,479 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 12: One, absolutely Rich, and that's one of the things we've

1905
01:35:03,479 --> 01:35:07,599
Speaker 12: seen sort of rising in sort of say popularity over

1906
01:35:07,600 --> 01:35:09,160
Speaker 12: the last year or so.

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01:35:09,960 --> 01:35:11,960
Speaker 5: Basically, you can imagine AI.

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01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:13,519
Speaker 12: Tools, you know, a lot of us use it on

1909
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:15,920
Speaker 12: daily basis, you know, to make our lives easier. Could

1910
01:35:15,960 --> 01:35:18,120
Speaker 12: be to draft an email for us, to do a

1911
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:21,479
Speaker 12: bit research for work, university, you name it. So in

1912
01:35:21,520 --> 01:35:23,960
Speaker 12: a similar manner, there are AI tools in the dark

1913
01:35:24,000 --> 01:35:28,240
Speaker 12: word that don't have traditional limitation and security measures, meaning

1914
01:35:28,240 --> 01:35:30,679
Speaker 12: that you can ask those type of AI tools to

1915
01:35:30,880 --> 01:35:35,160
Speaker 12: put a fraudulent email together, to put deep fake together

1916
01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:38,559
Speaker 12: of some sort, to put malware attacked together. Right, So

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01:35:39,120 --> 01:35:43,719
Speaker 12: meaning that for me, the entry barriers as a potential

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01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:46,479
Speaker 12: hacker gets very very low, where I don't need to

1919
01:35:46,600 --> 01:35:50,719
Speaker 12: know how to code, how to put active activities frogun

1920
01:35:50,760 --> 01:35:53,559
Speaker 12: activities together. AI tools would do that for me, and

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01:35:53,600 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 12: I'll be able to target Rich. I could have your email,

1922
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,719
Speaker 12: I'd be able to send out automate I think emails

1923
01:36:00,720 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 12: that would be AI generated with intention of defrauding you.

1924
01:36:04,000 --> 01:36:07,559
Speaker 12: So sophistication itself, it goes to the roofs and make

1925
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:13,240
Speaker 12: it makes it a lot easier for individuals to actually

1926
01:36:13,680 --> 01:36:15,160
Speaker 12: operate in a negative manner.

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01:36:15,400 --> 01:36:17,839
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean if you ask like a chat GBT

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Speaker 1: or a Gemini to do some of these things that

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Speaker 1: I'll say, sorry, I can't. But that does not mean

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Speaker 1: that there are not one hundred thousand tools out there

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Speaker 1: that will do it that are not necessarily in regular

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Speaker 1: consumers hands or the mainstream tools. So keep in mind

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Speaker 1: that you know, just because you can't do it doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean that no one else can. Finally, what is reverse

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Speaker 1: identity theft?

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Speaker 12: Good question, Rich, So, same as with synthetic identity that

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Speaker 12: we see a lot of reverse identity theft are now

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Speaker 12: gaining popularity as well in the dark web in the

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Speaker 12: forums that being discussed as well. Basically, it's it's a

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Speaker 12: alarming concept where individuals assume.

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Speaker 5: Someone else's identity and not to mention the silly for.

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Speaker 12: Financial gain, not to steal your identity, but to actually

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Speaker 12: live as you. In a simple way put it where

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Speaker 12: they could be securing jobs, they could be accessing certain

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Speaker 12: services under false three tenses with different intentions, and those

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Speaker 12: type of intentions could be looking to frame person for

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Speaker 12: a crime, could be doing credit sabotage, impersonation of some

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Speaker 12: sort of online employments, broad so there are many.

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Speaker 5: Different factors that play into it.

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Speaker 12: So you can think of it reverse identity, where someone

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Speaker 12: would actually try to take your identity and live as

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Speaker 12: you for fraudulent purposes.

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Speaker 1: Ah, that's scary, all right. Have we got about thirty seconds.

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Speaker 1: What do you think consumers should do to prepare for

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Speaker 1: all these challenges? Like, what do you think are their

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Speaker 1: main steps to take to protect themselves?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, rich, as you said at the beginning, passive managers

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Speaker 12: one of the easiest tools to implement it. So and

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Speaker 12: then beyond that, you know, there are three things to consider,

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Speaker 12: So make sure you always enable to factors negation on

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Speaker 12: tools that you have. You use unique passwords, so never

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Speaker 12: reuse the password, and never create a week password like

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Speaker 12: passed one two threek and also regular your accounts. Uh,

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Speaker 12: you know, as frequently as you can. Make sure you

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Speaker 12: update your Internet of Things devices. If you've got like

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Speaker 12: a smart refrigerator, make sure you update those devices because

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Speaker 12: being they're not tooriously weak in terms of cybersecuity measures,

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Speaker 12: some very easy to for hackers to actually get into them.

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Speaker 12: So I think that many things that we can do

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Speaker 12: so not all of it is lost, which is a

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Speaker 12: good thing.

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Speaker 1: All right, great information. Wow, a lot of things to

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Speaker 1: watch out for in the new year. Gerald casulis from

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Speaker 1: nord VPN. The website nord vpn dot com is where

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Speaker 1: you want to go if you want to learn more

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Speaker 1: about some of those products and services. Thanks a lot

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Speaker 1: for coming on today, Gerald, appreciate it.

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Speaker 5: Thanks che stay stay safe online.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Coming up, we're gonna we're gonna open up

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Speaker 1: the feedback, get some of those messages you've sent to

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Speaker 1: me throughout the week, and we'll see what you said

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Speaker 1: right here on rich On Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech. A couple of things to talk about before

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Speaker 1: we get to the feedback here. A couple of little things.

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Speaker 1: So I mentioned, I drove to Sedona and on our

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01:39:20,240 --> 01:39:26,519
Speaker 1: way through Arizona, we drove past this giant, giant manufacturing plant.

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Speaker 1: I was like, what is that? It looks so high tech.

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Speaker 1: It was like looked brand new. And it turned out

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Speaker 1: I was trying to you know. When we passed by,

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Speaker 1: I was like to my wife, I was like, I

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Speaker 1: got to take a picture of this thing? What is this?

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Speaker 1: And sure enough I see a little sign TSMC like

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Speaker 1: TSMC What I did not realize they had a giant

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Speaker 1: manufacturing facility in Arizona. That's a Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company.

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Speaker 1: They make chips for all kinds of devices. So this

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Speaker 1: is kind of like the I mean, I know some

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Speaker 1: of you will get angry for me saying this, but

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01:40:02,040 --> 01:40:04,479
Speaker 1: this is almost like the intel of our you know,

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Speaker 1: current times. Like they just make all kinds of chips

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Speaker 1: and everything. And this was a multi billion dollar plant

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Speaker 1: anyway near Phoenix. So the cars in that parking lot.

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Speaker 1: You can always tell a good company by the quality

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Speaker 1: of the cars in the parking lot, and these were

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01:40:20,840 --> 01:40:24,280
Speaker 1: some nice cars. The entire parking lot was solar paneled,

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01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:28,160
Speaker 1: you know, coverage. So you're looking for a good job,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, this might be the place. Anyway. I

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01:40:31,080 --> 01:40:33,479
Speaker 1: thought that was really cool to, you know, remind us

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01:40:33,520 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 1: that all this stuff we take for granted, there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of chips that go into these phones and computers

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Speaker 1: we have. They got to be made somewhere. This was interesting.

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Speaker 1: Someone asked me to test out something like a free

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Speaker 1: trial of a program, like some security program, and so

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01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:51,000
Speaker 1: I signed up. It was like fifteen dollars a month.

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01:40:51,040 --> 01:40:53,960
Speaker 1: They offered like a seven day free trial. And here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, Usually when I sign up for something, I

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Speaker 1: cancel it right away, or I snooze the welcome email

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Speaker 1: for you know, two or three days after so I

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Speaker 1: can check it out and then remind myself to cancel. Well,

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01:41:05,080 --> 01:41:07,639
Speaker 1: I didn't get that welcome email, so I thought, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of shady. Come on, if you're signing up for

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Speaker 1: something that requires your email address, you should get an

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01:41:14,320 --> 01:41:16,880
Speaker 1: email from that company that says thank you for signing up.

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Speaker 1: Your trial ends on this day. Companies that don't send that,

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Speaker 1: I would be wary of doing business with them, because that,

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Speaker 1: to me is already getting off on a bad foot,

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01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:30,720
Speaker 1: because you know, I had no way of remember like it.

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Speaker 1: Just a couple like hours later, I'm like, wait, where's

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01:41:33,320 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 1: this email? Never got it, went to the website directly

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Speaker 1: and canceled it. But anyway, and finally before we get

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Speaker 1: to the feedback, my wife and I the other night

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01:41:43,720 --> 01:41:47,599
Speaker 1: needed some stuff for you know, like a little like whatever,

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01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:50,080
Speaker 1: just random stuff around the house. I forget what the

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01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:53,160
Speaker 1: one thing we needed was. But anyway, I said, why

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Speaker 1: don't we try doordashing It Like, by the time we

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01:41:55,240 --> 01:41:57,879
Speaker 1: drive to Target pick up these three items, like DoorDash

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01:41:58,080 --> 01:41:59,960
Speaker 1: might be cheaper actually I think it was Uber Eat.

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Speaker 1: And here's the thing. A lot of these companies are

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Speaker 1: doing like first time deals. So Uber was giving like

2039
01:42:05,560 --> 01:42:08,559
Speaker 1: fifty percent off your first like non food delivery order.

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Speaker 1: So Target, you know, qualified, I'm not kidding. This stuff

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01:42:12,160 --> 01:42:14,760
Speaker 1: was at our house within twenty minutes. We ordered like

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01:42:14,800 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 1: five items and it was so cheap. It was cheaper

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Speaker 1: than going there ourselves. And by the way, when you

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01:42:19,720 --> 01:42:21,559
Speaker 1: go to Target, you spend extra money because you buy

2045
01:42:21,600 --> 01:42:23,280
Speaker 1: stuff that you weren't thinking you were going to get.

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Speaker 1: And this thing was at our door, and I was like,

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Speaker 1: this is wild, Like what world do we live in

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01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:29,760
Speaker 1: where this stuff is at our door quicker than we

2049
01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:32,640
Speaker 1: can drive to Target? And so I thought about that,

2050
01:42:32,680 --> 01:42:34,160
Speaker 1: but I was like, you know, the catch about all

2051
01:42:34,200 --> 01:42:36,840
Speaker 1: this is that, of course it's fifty percent off right now.

2052
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:38,880
Speaker 1: All they want you to do is try it so

2053
01:42:38,920 --> 01:42:40,559
Speaker 1: that the next time, by the way, it's not going

2054
01:42:40,640 --> 01:42:43,519
Speaker 1: to be fifty percent off, you'll remember how convenient was

2055
01:42:43,560 --> 01:42:45,559
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll do it again. And that's how these

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01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: all these tech companies build business, so that they do

2057
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:50,559
Speaker 1: it really cheap at the beginning, and then when you actually,

2058
01:42:50,600 --> 01:42:52,280
Speaker 1: you know, later on, use it again. It's like, Oh,

2059
01:42:52,360 --> 01:42:55,400
Speaker 1: where'd that discount go? There's no there's no promo codes anymore.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the feedback. Howard writes in

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01:42:58,360 --> 01:43:01,320
Speaker 1: I enjoy your segments and radio show. I received an

2062
01:43:01,320 --> 01:43:03,759
Speaker 1: email about a one hundred dollars settlement from an auto

2063
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:07,400
Speaker 1: parts antitrust case, but wasn't sure if it was legitimate.

2064
01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:10,360
Speaker 1: I searched online and found mixed results, but no news coverage.

2065
01:43:10,400 --> 01:43:12,719
Speaker 1: Can you suggest how to verify this? Yes, I can

2066
01:43:13,240 --> 01:43:19,320
Speaker 1: go to the website top class actions dot com, topclassactions

2067
01:43:19,360 --> 01:43:22,400
Speaker 1: dot com. He actually forwarded me the email and I

2068
01:43:22,439 --> 01:43:25,960
Speaker 1: popped it into this website the actual case number, and

2069
01:43:26,000 --> 01:43:28,519
Speaker 1: sure enough it came up. And so any class action

2070
01:43:28,640 --> 01:43:31,320
Speaker 1: lawsuit type in a keyword into this website and it

2071
01:43:31,360 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 1: will tell you all the details on that. That's where

2072
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:38,120
Speaker 1: I go to verify Top Classactions dot Com. There's a

2073
01:43:38,200 --> 01:43:42,320
Speaker 1: lot of those class action lawsuits, you know, percolating. Make

2074
01:43:42,320 --> 01:43:46,559
Speaker 1: sure they're legit before you do anything with them. Let's

2075
01:43:46,560 --> 01:43:49,320
Speaker 1: see here. Rudy from San Jose writes in you had

2076
01:43:49,360 --> 01:43:51,439
Speaker 1: a caller with an epsoen printer and an AT and

2077
01:43:51,479 --> 01:43:54,760
Speaker 1: T wireless internet who mentioned they had printing issues. I

2078
01:43:54,760 --> 01:43:57,480
Speaker 1: wanted to share a tip. Many routers create two networks,

2079
01:43:57,880 --> 01:44:00,680
Speaker 1: a personal network and a guest network. The phone or

2080
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:02,960
Speaker 1: computers on one network and the printer is on the other,

2081
01:44:03,320 --> 01:44:05,479
Speaker 1: they might not see each other. I had a similar

2082
01:44:05,520 --> 01:44:08,880
Speaker 1: issue at home and discovered this was the case. Thanks

2083
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:14,840
Speaker 1: Rudy JL from Illinois rights in. I'd love for influencers

2084
01:44:14,880 --> 01:44:17,360
Speaker 1: like you to help educate people about the downsides of

2085
01:44:17,479 --> 01:44:21,040
Speaker 1: vertical video. It's becomes so common, but many people don't

2086
01:44:21,040 --> 01:44:23,559
Speaker 1: realize how much better videos look if they were shot

2087
01:44:23,560 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 1: and horizontal. Even when the issue is pointed out, the

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01:44:26,400 --> 01:44:30,240
Speaker 1: trend continues. Can you help spread the word, you know, Jl,

2089
01:44:30,360 --> 01:44:32,639
Speaker 1: I used to care about this, and now I'm sorry.

2090
01:44:32,720 --> 01:44:36,439
Speaker 1: With TikTok and Instagram reels and all these vertical videos,

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01:44:36,840 --> 01:44:40,640
Speaker 1: that format is here to stay. My best solution is,

2092
01:44:40,680 --> 01:44:43,599
Speaker 1: if you are shooting anything that you're not sharing on

2093
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:46,640
Speaker 1: social media, yes, shoot it in widescreen because that's what

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01:44:46,680 --> 01:44:49,880
Speaker 1: you see on your TV. But you know it's I

2095
01:44:49,920 --> 01:44:51,920
Speaker 1: have no problem with it anymore. I have to shoot

2096
01:44:51,960 --> 01:44:54,559
Speaker 1: videos both ways because I'm shooting for TV and social

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Speaker 1: It's just kind of the way of the world. Vanessa

2098
01:44:58,560 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 1: from Nevada rights in this while camping in Montana, my

2099
01:45:01,560 --> 01:45:03,640
Speaker 1: e bike was stolen. I tracked it with tile for

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01:45:03,720 --> 01:45:06,920
Speaker 1: nine hours all around town without success. Then two days

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01:45:06,960 --> 01:45:09,840
Speaker 1: later it pinged at a storage unit across town. With

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Speaker 1: help from my son, daughter in law, her brother, and nephew.

2103
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:14,920
Speaker 1: Oh wow, they brought out everyone. We went to the location.

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01:45:15,120 --> 01:45:17,320
Speaker 1: I rang the tile, called the Sheriff's department and they

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01:45:17,360 --> 01:45:20,160
Speaker 1: heard the ring. After getting a warrant and cutting the lock,

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01:45:20,240 --> 01:45:23,639
Speaker 1: I got my one thousand dollars plus e bike back.

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01:45:23,800 --> 01:45:26,160
Speaker 1: I listened to you on KFI through iHeart on my echo.

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01:45:26,240 --> 01:45:30,000
Speaker 1: I love your show. Be careful when you're getting Just

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01:45:30,040 --> 01:45:32,840
Speaker 1: because you can see the location doesn't necessarily mean you

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01:45:32,880 --> 01:45:35,920
Speaker 1: should go in like the but you did the right thing,

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Speaker 1: got the officer involved. Teresa from Chicago rights in. I

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Speaker 1: saw your segment before Christmas and immediately went out and

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Speaker 1: got the remote control Geko at my local Target. It

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Speaker 1: was the last one. My four and a half year

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Speaker 1: old granddaughter loves it. I'm not very tech savvy, but

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Speaker 1: I enjoy your segments. Thank you. My kid also loved

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Speaker 1: the remote control Geko. We got it for him and

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Speaker 1: now we're getting it for can't mention because they might

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Speaker 1: be listening. Kids love it, that's gonna do it. You

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Speaker 1: can find links on the website rich on Tech dot TV,

2121
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Speaker 1: follow me on social media at rich on tech. Very

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Speaker 1: important this week because I'll be at CES twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: five in Las Vegas sharing the latest and AI wearables, cars, TVs,

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Speaker 1: all the other good stuff. Thanks to everyone who makes

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Speaker 1: this show possible. My name is Richdmiro. I will talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon.