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Speaker 1: Black Friday, shopping Tips, is Hive the new Twitter, some

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Speaker 1: personal news plus your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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

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

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Speaker 1: answer the questions you send me. I'm the tech reporter

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Speaker 1: at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles and soon host

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Speaker 1: of Rich on Tech on Premier Networks, debuting January seventh,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you heard me correctly.

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Speaker 1: This little podcast is becoming a radio show.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow.

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Speaker 1: Feels kind of wild to say those words because I've

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Speaker 1: been doing this podcast for so many episodes pretty much,

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Speaker 1: you know, almost every week for years now, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's something I always dreamed of doing and something I

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Speaker 1: always wanted to do, and and kind of in the

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Speaker 1: back of my head, I always imagine, like, wow, what

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Speaker 1: would this be like this was actually on the radio,

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Speaker 1: and now it's happening. So the story is Leo Laporte.

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Speaker 1: You know him as the Tech Guy. He's had a

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Speaker 1: show on radio for many, many years and he is retiring.

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Speaker 1: So it came to you know, who's going to take

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Speaker 1: over this show? Who's going to do this show, who's

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Speaker 1: going to be on the radio. And I got some

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Speaker 1: calls and you know, said absolutely. I mean, there there

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Speaker 1: other than the details of the decision. So, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I this is an incredible opportunity. I am so honored

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Speaker 1: that Leo trust me with the show. It's changing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's a new show. It's a different show, but some

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Speaker 1: things are similar. I mean, obviously I'll be taking.

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Speaker 2: Callers live callers on the radio.

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Speaker 1: Obviously I will be talking about technology, talking about gadget reviews.

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Speaker 1: But I think what's going to be the most different

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Speaker 1: is really trying to fuse what I do on TV

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Speaker 1: the radio, bring them on the radio to talk about

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Speaker 1: whatever is interesting, and so we'll have a rotating cast

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Speaker 1: of guests in that regard. But also just the useful nature.

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Speaker 1: I just want to make this show really, really useful.

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Speaker 1: And how do you do that? Well, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean I've tried to do that over the years

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Speaker 1: with my TV segment, and that's kind of what I'd

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Speaker 1: like to do with this segment is just anything, whether

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to be very useful to people. And realistically,

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Speaker 1: you know, when you're talking the radio, Yes, some people

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Speaker 1: will tune in specifically to listen, but a lot of people,

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Speaker 1: you know, I call them drive by on TV. They're

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Speaker 1: just they're just passing by and they see me on

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Speaker 1: TV and they say, oh, that's interesting. Same thing with

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Speaker 1: the radio now, so you know, we'll see what happens

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Speaker 1: with that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously there'll be.

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Speaker 1: A bigger opportunity to reach more people. And so it's

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Speaker 1: just gonna be really, really fantastic. So Leo's last show

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Speaker 1: don't get me wrong. This is just really really a

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Speaker 1: lot to navigate, right. I mean, I'm gonna continue doing

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Speaker 1: my KTLA stuff and now this this is on Saturdays

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Speaker 1: there'll be a podcast to be able to live stream it.

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Speaker 1: I don't believe we're doing video live stream, which, to

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Speaker 1: Although I will say Leo always dressed up for the show,

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Speaker 1: We'll say everyone who has had a part in making

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Speaker 1: You don't have to change anything yet. You don't have

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Speaker 1: Anyway, I am very excited, and I'll give you more

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Speaker 1: information as I have it. But January seventh, twenty twenty three, Saturday,

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Speaker 1: January seventh, twenty twenty three, rich On Tech Radio show

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Speaker 1: three hours on the weekends, live callers will be happening.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's get to the first story of the week,

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Speaker 1: Black Friday Shopping So Black Friday is, you know, the

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Speaker 1: day after Thanksgiving. It's when the retailers traditionally, I mean,

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Speaker 1: But Black Friday is really morphed into an entire weekend

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Speaker 1: of shopping starts, you know, it starts earlier and earlier.

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Speaker 1: But I think the best deals really do happen on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday.

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Speaker 2: But that's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I hope you have a list of things

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Speaker 1: aimlessly shopping now. According to wallet hub, discounts are around

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Speaker 1: thirty seven percent this year, which is up from last

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Speaker 1: to be good deals this year. I think, incredible deals.

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Speaker 1: Some of the best places to look for deals. I

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Speaker 1: love the website Slick Deals. I mean, this has been

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Speaker 1: every single day. I typically find something that's interesting and usable,

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Speaker 1: and whether it's a coupon or whether it's a promo code,

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Speaker 1: And it's crowdsource, so anyone can submit a deal and then.

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Speaker 1: The best ones go to the top, and that's how

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Speaker 1: News is another great website. And what I like about

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Speaker 1: The way, you know, it's not as like, oh, here

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Speaker 1: Black Friday sale one year at two dollars a month,

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Speaker 1: and they say the best offer we've seen since last

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Speaker 1: Black Friday. New and eligible returning subscribers get sixty five

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Speaker 1: So they give you that perspective and that basis so

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Speaker 1: Sometimes these things say they're a deal, but it's like,

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Speaker 1: deal News. Another site to look is called best Reviews.

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Speaker 1: for the first time ever, and Gadget the Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: Couple of like a TLC TLC TCL phone had this feature,

438
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Speaker 1: and a couple other phones have had like dual audio

439
00:22:11,280 --> 00:22:16,399
Speaker 1: output and so it's able to send one signal to

440
00:22:16,480 --> 00:22:18,760
Speaker 1: two phone or two speakers at the same time. And

441
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:22,960
Speaker 1: also iPhone with their air pods and those kind of

442
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 1: things have a built in share audio functionality. I don't

443
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:30,359
Speaker 1: think that functionality is built into Android at large, but

444
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,639
Speaker 1: Samsung may have it as well. But the reality is

445
00:22:33,760 --> 00:22:37,879
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't recommend eight random Bluetooth speakers synced up

446
00:22:37,920 --> 00:22:40,800
Speaker 1: because you're just never I don't think you're ever really

447
00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:44,040
Speaker 1: going to get a good signal that sounds good and

448
00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:46,880
Speaker 1: is in sync across all of these speakers. I think

449
00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,359
Speaker 1: that there's a lot of software at play on the

450
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Speaker 1: back end with Sonos and with Google and with Amazon

451
00:22:54,560 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: and with the HomePods to make them sound perfectly in sync.

452
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Speaker 1: And so the old only thing. I mean, I'm looking

453
00:23:01,320 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: at like, there's this website or this this product line

454
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:09,479
Speaker 1: called twelve South, and they do a bunch of like

455
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:12,560
Speaker 1: probably the most popular device, which I need to buy

456
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: actually because I needed this on a plane the other day.

457
00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,639
Speaker 1: But it's a device that allows you to plug in

458
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Speaker 1: your use your Bluetooth headphones with the three point five

459
00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:26,919
Speaker 1: millimeter jack on an airplane. So if you're on an

460
00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:29,800
Speaker 1: airplane or a treadmill, you can plug in this little

461
00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: Airfly device and then you can use any Bluetooth AirPods

462
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:37,359
Speaker 1: that you want. So and what this says, Airfly says

463
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Speaker 1: connect two pairs of headphones. So I think that the

464
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Speaker 1: two pairs is kind of the max for a lot

465
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Speaker 1: of these things. I do know that they do this

466
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Speaker 1: thing called Silent Disco, and so I'm wondering what those

467
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Speaker 1: headphones use?

468
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Speaker 2: Are they?

469
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm looking at this. So if we look

470
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Speaker 1: at these silent Disco headphones, how are they broadcasting?

471
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Speaker 2: What is that?

472
00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,800
Speaker 1: So a ten piece bundle is okay? Yeah, So the

473
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Speaker 1: transmitter does not look like it's Bluetooth. It is some

474
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Speaker 1: sort of other does it say what it does for

475
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:17,640
Speaker 1: the transmitter. Okay, Yeah, the wireless kit uses RF two

476
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Speaker 1: point four gigahertz technology, not Bluetooth, and that reduces the

477
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Speaker 1: audio lag, which is thirty milliseconds, significantly less than the

478
00:24:25,520 --> 00:24:30,360
Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty milliseconds of standard Bluetooth. So I

479
00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,840
Speaker 1: think that this situation is best solved by buying. If

480
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Speaker 1: I was going to recommend speakers, i'd recommend the one.

481
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Speaker 2: Where is it. I'm trying to look for mine right here?

482
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:43,439
Speaker 1: Oh there it is the Sonos Rome, which is just

483
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,359
Speaker 1: a fantastic little speaker. It was I think it was

484
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,160
Speaker 1: about two hundred dollars, might be a little bit less

485
00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: than that. It's probably a good time to buy it

486
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: over the Black Friday Cyber Monday shopping weekend. But those

487
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,399
Speaker 1: speakers are small, their weather proof. You can set them

488
00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:58,320
Speaker 1: up all over your backyard. Yeah, you're talking about one

489
00:24:58,359 --> 00:25:02,000
Speaker 1: thousand dollars for eight those things, but I think.

490
00:25:01,920 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 2: That will give you the best solution.

491
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,199
Speaker 1: Or you can just go with the SOS Move and

492
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 1: the Soas Move is a much bigger speaker. You may

493
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Speaker 1: not need eight of them. That's what I personally use,

494
00:25:13,119 --> 00:25:15,440
Speaker 1: and I just it's always on the charger in the house.

495
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:17,520
Speaker 1: When I go outside, I just take it in the

496
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Speaker 1: backyard and it sounds great. Sometimes I bring the room

497
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:22,800
Speaker 1: as well, depending on how you know how much of

498
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Speaker 1: the backyard we're using. But this is this is one

499
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Speaker 1: of my best purchases that I got during the pandemic

500
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Speaker 1: because it's just every time I go outside, sit by

501
00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 1: the fire pit, whatever, grilling it, just take the Sos

502
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: Move with me and listen to the music. The cool

503
00:25:39,400 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 1: thing about the Sonas Move and the rom is that

504
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,200
Speaker 1: they work in your house with the Sonos network, and

505
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,879
Speaker 1: then when you leave your house, they will work with

506
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Speaker 1: the Bluetooth.

507
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 2: On your phone.

508
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:51,280
Speaker 1: So but you can't have them SYNCD up with the

509
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Speaker 1: Bluetooth as far as I know.

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Speaker 2: All Right, great question and good luck.

511
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,639
Speaker 1: Sounds like you want to have some real fun out

512
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Speaker 1: in your backyard, and I don't blame you on that one.

513
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 2: All right.

514
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a new website called way Away. This

515
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,879
Speaker 1: is a travel website, and I'm always sort of suspicious

516
00:26:08,920 --> 00:26:14,200
Speaker 1: about new travel websites because you know, I mean, everyone

517
00:26:14,400 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: I personally really like to book direct.

518
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,120
Speaker 2: In fact, I booked a hotel.

519
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: In Japan that was not direct, and I was very

520
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: surprised to find out that you don't get any points

521
00:26:26,119 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 1: with that hotel when you don't book direct. Now I'm

522
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: not sure if that is something that happens across all

523
00:26:31,320 --> 00:26:34,720
Speaker 1: hotel brands or if that was just IHG, but I

524
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:38,200
Speaker 1: was very surprised that you don't get any points because

525
00:26:38,200 --> 00:26:40,440
Speaker 1: it was booked on a third party website. So I

526
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,639
Speaker 1: guess I never do that. I always book direct, and

527
00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:47,560
Speaker 1: so when I heard that, I was like, wait, really interesting.

528
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: So I stick to kind of like booking on the

529
00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: airlines and hotels own websites. But I also do look

530
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:55,960
Speaker 1: at some of these search engines just to see what's

531
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:58,359
Speaker 1: out there, like I do like hotels dot Com. I

532
00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:01,159
Speaker 1: think their app is the best when it comes to

533
00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: finding the hotel closest to where you're going. So it's

534
00:27:05,119 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: the only app I know of that lets you put

535
00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:11,920
Speaker 1: in an address and then sort hotels by that address.

536
00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: And so what I'll do is I'll put in, you know,

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00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: let's say I'm going to the San Jose Convention Center.

538
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:21,040
Speaker 1: I'll put that into the app hotels dot com app,

539
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,360
Speaker 1: and then once the results come up, I'll sort by distance,

540
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: and I'll kind of see based on those results, like okay,

541
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Speaker 1: I want to stay at, let's say, a Hilton. Okay,

542
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 1: so that's that's like this is the closest Hilton to

543
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:38,439
Speaker 1: that hotel or that that place, but not just a Hilton.

544
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,000
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a maybe the Hilton is three miles away,

545
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: and there's a hotel that's point one tenth of a

546
00:27:43,320 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 1: mile away, and I'm like, ah, that's the one I

547
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: want to stay at. I phone a walk to the

548
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: convention center because it's much easier. And so those are

549
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:52,399
Speaker 1: the kind of things that I think even with like

550
00:27:52,480 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: Kayak and all these other ones, they'll do like city center,

551
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: but they don't really do like an actual address, so

552
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: I do like hotels dot com for that anyway. So

553
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: this this website is called way Away, and this a

554
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,760
Speaker 1: new travel website that lets you do flights, lets you

555
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: do car rentals and hotels and so basically, you know,

556
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: it's a standard travel website, but they compare options from

557
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: seven hundred different partners for flights. Then they have this

558
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:24,280
Speaker 1: membership plan that basically it's one hundred dollars for the year.

559
00:28:24,400 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: Right now it's fifty because they just started, but they

560
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: pay you cash back on your travel purchases. So not

561
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:33,440
Speaker 1: only can you see the best deals, but you also

562
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: get a percentage back. So when I tested it, I

563
00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 1: saw a flight that I typically would take to New Jersey.

564
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: It was like a five hundred dollars flight. You got

565
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:43,080
Speaker 1: about seven bucks back. So you're not going to become

566
00:28:43,200 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: rich with this cash back, but it kind of depends

567
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: on what you're doing. I think that if you book

568
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 1: your own travel and you work for a company that

569
00:28:49,800 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: lets you book your own travel on third party sites,

570
00:28:52,480 --> 00:28:55,200
Speaker 1: this could pay for itself in you know, with one

571
00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 1: thousand dollars worth of bookings at five percent at fifty

572
00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: dollars for the service. So so you know, it's kind

573
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: of cool if it's the same price that you're paying

574
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: on another website, with the same perks you're getting, especially

575
00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:10,240
Speaker 1: with airfare, like why not and I don't know, I mean,

576
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: you know, these sites, these travel sites really push you

577
00:29:13,600 --> 00:29:16,200
Speaker 1: to book direct, and so I think that that's kind

578
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: of like the main thing is that you do lose

579
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: some privileges when you don't book direct, But if you're

580
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:23,400
Speaker 1: getting the same stuff, then all things considered, it's all

581
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: things equal.

582
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 2: It's kind of cool.

583
00:29:25,600 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 1: So flights up to five percent back booking dot Com

584
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: up to ten percent back, and then rental cars up

585
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: to five percent. They have ticketing and hostels. Those are

586
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: all you know, different percentages back. So the other cool

587
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: thing is that there's customer service. You can you know,

588
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 1: get in touch with this way away and they'll help

589
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:44,640
Speaker 1: you with what you need. They also work with two

590
00:29:44,720 --> 00:29:48,480
Speaker 1: hundred local guides in ninety five cities to create travel guides,

591
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 1: so it can tell you like where the best bars

592
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: and restaurants are, the must see places, and also neighborhoods. Now,

593
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:57,480
Speaker 1: I think that's great that they've curated that. I really

594
00:29:57,520 --> 00:30:01,040
Speaker 1: like this tool on Google Travel. If you go to

595
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: Google Travel and you go to the explore tab or no,

596
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: the things to do tab, it's pretty phenomenal. You type

597
00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: in any city. Let's just type in let's see hold

598
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:16,440
Speaker 1: on what's the cool city Chicago. So if we type

599
00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 1: in Chicago, it will give me the top sites, the

600
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:26,640
Speaker 1: top sites by interest, kid friendly, outdoors, museums, top experiences,

601
00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: notable neighborhoods, and then travel articles.

602
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's.

603
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Speaker 1: Really really pretty good how they've used the wisdom of

604
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Speaker 1: the web to you know, and just use AI to

605
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 1: pretty much slice and dice all that information and make

606
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:44,160
Speaker 1: it into a travel guide on Google. So Google dot

607
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: com slash travel, look at the things to do tab,

608
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: but I was looking at the in the nutshell guides.

609
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:52,560
Speaker 1: There's something to be said for that too. An editor,

610
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 1: an actual human has gone through and said, here's the

611
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:57,600
Speaker 1: cool place is. I just am concerned as how up

612
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Speaker 1: to date they can keep those right, because that's a

613
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Speaker 1: lot of that's like a whole you know, travel site,

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Speaker 1: like a photo how do you say a photos f

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Speaker 1: O D O R foot I don't know how to

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00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: say it, but you know that website and all these

617
00:31:11,040 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 1: other guide websites like that's a full time job, the

618
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: ones that are not crowdsourced. And they say, on average,

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Speaker 1: our users cover the cost of their plus membership with

620
00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: the cash back from a single trip. And with the

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Speaker 1: cash back you do get PayPal cash back, so it's

622
00:31:25,360 --> 00:31:27,920
Speaker 1: not like a rewards program. It's literally just cash back

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Speaker 1: on your travel. So if you want to check it out,

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Speaker 1: it is way away dot io, Way Away dot Io.

625
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Speaker 1: All right, uh, Resa says, convert videotapes to digital? Can

626
00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:48,960
Speaker 1: you recommend a trustworthy company that can convert family home

627
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: videos from tape to digital? Great question, And this is

628
00:31:54,080 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: something that I've done a couple of years ago.

629
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,840
Speaker 2: I ended up doing these myself. But you can do

630
00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:00,560
Speaker 2: a couple of ways.

631
00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: So number one, I recommend, if you have the Camquard

632
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: and you've got a computer, and you've got a VCR

633
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:08,320
Speaker 1: or whatever plays these tapes, do them yourself. I mean

634
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,600
Speaker 1: locally in your home is probably the best way to

635
00:32:10,640 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: do these. It's time consuming, but it also means that

636
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,120
Speaker 1: you don't have to send these out. That it can't

637
00:32:16,120 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: get lost in the mail. You know, they can't get

638
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,920
Speaker 1: messed up, you know, all these things that can happen

639
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: when you send them out. But I would recommend doing

640
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: them yourself. So the two things that you can do

641
00:32:26,320 --> 00:32:31,160
Speaker 1: that is Roxio is a big brand that does that.

642
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: And then gosh, I can't remember this. I can't remember

643
00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,880
Speaker 1: what this other one is called. Ah, I'm trying to remember.

644
00:32:39,680 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can remember this. El Gato, El

645
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 1: Gato and Roxio. So those are the two that I

646
00:32:46,080 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: tested and they worked pretty well, and I think those

647
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,240
Speaker 1: are the easiest ways. It's very analog, it's very you.

648
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:56,520
Speaker 2: Know, old school to do this, but it works.

649
00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:58,440
Speaker 1: And it's time consuming, but once you do it, you

650
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: have a nice digital copy. Of your tape, you can

651
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,120
Speaker 1: throw that into Google Photos. And the coolest part is

652
00:33:04,160 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: that it will actually identify the people in your videos,

653
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: which is just phenomenal to me. So all you know,

654
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Speaker 1: your nephews and cousins and grandparents and aunts and uncles,

655
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: all these people that.

656
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 2: Appear in these videos over the years, Google will find

657
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 2: them and put that in.

658
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: You know, when you search for your uncle or whoever,

659
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: it'll show that they're in this video, which is which

660
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: is really really cool. So the other are two ways

661
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: I would recommend is there is a website that I

662
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,760
Speaker 1: like and a service called scan my photos dot com.

663
00:33:39,120 --> 00:33:42,719
Speaker 1: This is based in Irvine, California, and I've recommended them

664
00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:46,479
Speaker 1: many many times over the years scan my Photos. They

665
00:33:46,520 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: will digitize just about everything, slides, videos, everything. And the

666
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 1: cool thing is if you're in California, you can actually

667
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: drop off your stuff. I know they were offering that

668
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: before the pandemic. I'm not sure if they still do that.

669
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 1: You'd have to check with them, but you can drive

670
00:34:00,400 --> 00:34:01,880
Speaker 1: down there and drop them off if you don't want

671
00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:03,320
Speaker 1: to put your stuff in the mail. I mean, I

672
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:06,080
Speaker 1: think the biggest risk with putting your stuff in the

673
00:34:06,120 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: mail when it comes to getting these things scanned is

674
00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:11,879
Speaker 1: you know, something can go wrong, and if you lose

675
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: those tapes, that's it. There's no there's no recourse. You're

676
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: not going to get them back. So scan my photos

677
00:34:17,200 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: dot com is another good one. And then the other

678
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:22,000
Speaker 1: one I like is is to go on Yelp. There's

679
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,919
Speaker 1: a lot of local places, a lot of little small

680
00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,120
Speaker 1: businesses that have popped up to do this in local places.

681
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:31,719
Speaker 1: So go on Yelp and just look up VHS digital

682
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: and just sort by.

683
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:36,120
Speaker 2: Let's see.

684
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,600
Speaker 1: Let me do this in real time so I can

685
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: tell you what I would do. So if I go

686
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 1: to Yelp and I search VHS digital, okay, VHS digital

687
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,399
Speaker 1: d I T I g A l okay, this will

688
00:34:51,400 --> 00:34:54,920
Speaker 1: come up with a bunch of places that will, oh gosh,

689
00:34:54,960 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 1: hold on VHS to digital. Sorry, I gotta I gotta

690
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: spell the words right otherwise it's not gonna okay.

691
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,280
Speaker 2: There we go. VHS to DVD is what suggested came up? Okay?

692
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: So if I go sort by recommended or most reviewed,

693
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:12,319
Speaker 1: So I'll do most reviewed, and now I can see

694
00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 1: I've got in my area. After you scroll through the

695
00:35:17,239 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: all the sponsored stuff, it's got the results and so

696
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,560
Speaker 1: one of them is about a mile from me, that's

697
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: top reviewed.

698
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:27,680
Speaker 2: Another one's another mile.

699
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,959
Speaker 1: So what I would do is I would call these

700
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: places and I would get someone on the phone. And

701
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:34,879
Speaker 1: if you can't get someone on the phone, well that's

702
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,160
Speaker 1: your first clue that there's a problem. And so I

703
00:35:38,280 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: call these places, call the top two places, and just

704
00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,839
Speaker 1: talk to them and just see what they say, and

705
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: you can get an idea about how this service is

706
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: going to be from one of those two people. Go

707
00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: with the one that you feel more comfortable with. The

708
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: one that you feel most comfortable with. You can order

709
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: and bring your stuff in, and since it's local, you

710
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:56,440
Speaker 1: can just drop them off. But that's what i'd recommend.

711
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: That's what I would do if you can't do them yourself.

712
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 2: All right.

713
00:36:02,800 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: Next story here, Lift is teaming up with Motional to

714
00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:11,560
Speaker 1: launch driverless taxis in Los Angeles.

715
00:36:12,120 --> 00:36:13,880
Speaker 2: So I am very excited about this.

716
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:17,080
Speaker 1: It's also quite scary, and I don't mean that it's

717
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:18,520
Speaker 1: just scary because it's like different.

718
00:36:18,560 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: You know, I've been in self.

719
00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,840
Speaker 1: Driving cars like this and it's a little odd, you know,

720
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:26,560
Speaker 1: to have the car making the decisions fully autonomously is

721
00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: kind of wild. So Lifting, Emotional will launch their ride

722
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: hailing service in Los Angeles. Residents will be able to

723
00:36:35,200 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: request an autonomous vehicle in the Lift app. They're using

724
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: motionals all electronic ionic five based robotaxis. LA is the

725
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: second city they're doing this in, following Las Vegas. I

726
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 1: have not been in the Las Vegas automated car. In fact,

727
00:36:52,080 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 1: when I was in Vegas, I was trying to get

728
00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: one of them on the Lift app. I never got it,

729
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:58,120
Speaker 1: but I would. I would definitely try it there.

730
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 2: Let's see.

731
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,319
Speaker 1: Riders in LA will have a choice. Obviously, you can

732
00:37:03,360 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: do autonomous or you can do classic ride share. They

733
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 1: say that La is one of Lift's largest ride sharing markets.

734
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:13,680
Speaker 1: Emotional has been learning stuff about this for a while

735
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,279
Speaker 1: and they're just very excited to put these taxis in

736
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:18,280
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.

737
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:18,520
Speaker 2: Now.

738
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: This comes on the heels of Weimo announcing a couple

739
00:37:22,320 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that they are doing robotaxis in Los

740
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: Angeles as well. So if all goes as planned, people

741
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:32,160
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles will have the option of two different

742
00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 1: robotaxi companies in the next couple of years. And that's

743
00:37:36,160 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 1: pretty wild. I mean, we're seeing things really change with

744
00:37:39,120 --> 00:37:42,640
Speaker 1: this stuff now. Uber tried this many years ago and

745
00:37:42,680 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 1: they gave up on it. They're not really as far

746
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: as I know, they're not focusing on robotaxis anymore.

747
00:37:48,360 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 2: But I think that.

748
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:53,759
Speaker 1: Lift and weimo it's a very slow process. I mean,

749
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,320
Speaker 1: these companies have been doing this for many, many years.

750
00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 2: It's very slow.

751
00:37:57,680 --> 00:37:59,760
Speaker 1: They've got a lot of regulations, a lot of hurdles

752
00:37:59,800 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 1: to get it through, and it's nothing that happens very fast.

753
00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:06,479
Speaker 1: And so I think they're taking that slow approach because

754
00:38:06,480 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: they don't want they know that this is kind of

755
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:11,919
Speaker 1: a big deal and they want to do it right,

756
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 1: and I don't think they want the media, you know,

757
00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,799
Speaker 1: latching on to any sort of major accidents that may

758
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: happen with these cars, and so I think they're just

759
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:26,600
Speaker 1: taking it slow, taking it easy, and methodically building these

760
00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 1: services slowly but surely. So in my informal Instagram poll,

761
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: people were overwhelmingly against this, and not against the having it,

762
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: but against going in these cars. And so I said,

763
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,320
Speaker 1: you know, would you take a lift, an automated lift,

764
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: and seventy percent said no, thirty percent said yes, I'm

765
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 1: kind of in the you know, I would probably do

766
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: it obviously to test it for a story. But I mean,

767
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,480
Speaker 1: I would hope that these things are well tuned. But honestly,

768
00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,760
Speaker 1: driving Tesla, I've seen that it's kind of scary sometimes

769
00:39:03,800 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: the idea that your car is making these decisions and

770
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: if it makes one wrong decision, you know, you could

771
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: be toast. And it's not like that with a lot

772
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:16,959
Speaker 1: of other things. You know, you've got automated this and that.

773
00:39:17,239 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: It's just very different when it's your car because it's

774
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:23,200
Speaker 1: such a big piece of machinery that's moving as such

775
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: a fast rate of speed. There's not much room for

776
00:39:26,600 --> 00:39:29,279
Speaker 1: error there. And I think about this a lot when

777
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,719
Speaker 1: I'm kind of cruise controlling in my car, and I

778
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 1: get it.

779
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 2: The level of.

780
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,120
Speaker 1: Autonomy that my Tesla has is not the full and

781
00:39:37,200 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: so mine is just basically glorified cruise control. But still

782
00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:44,880
Speaker 1: it definitely slows down around big trucks and things like that,

783
00:39:45,040 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: and it you know, kind of jerks the wheels sometimes

784
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,719
Speaker 1: when it's you know, making a correction or something, so

785
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: you know it could be I don't know, it's just dicey.

786
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 2: At times.

787
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:56,719
Speaker 1: It feels like, oh my gosh, like that, you know,

788
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 1: that was a close call, but maybe the car knows

789
00:39:59,560 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: better than I because it has more sensors than I do.

790
00:40:01,480 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 2: Who knows.

791
00:40:02,080 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: We'll say, all right, let's get to the next question

792
00:40:10,440 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: of the show. Let's see where are we up here?

793
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes I lose track of where we are. Okay, Samsung

794
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: tab A eight, Mike says Rich. I had to buy

795
00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: my wife a new tablet because the battery puffed enough

796
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:28,880
Speaker 1: to distort the screen. The new one is a tab

797
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,560
Speaker 1: A eight. I want to add a five hundred and

798
00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,640
Speaker 1: fifteen gigabyte SD card. Amazon has Type A one and

799
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,040
Speaker 1: A two. Is there a preference? Well, if you find

800
00:40:39,080 --> 00:40:41,440
Speaker 1: a five hundred and fifteen gigabyte SD card, I think

801
00:40:41,440 --> 00:40:45,520
Speaker 1: you won the lottery because most of the time they

802
00:40:45,719 --> 00:40:48,399
Speaker 1: come in five hundred and twelve megabyte.

803
00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:49,919
Speaker 2: SD card.

804
00:40:50,040 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: So I'm just giving you a little grief mic, just

805
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: because it's probably a typo.

806
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: But I know what you're talking about here.

807
00:40:55,680 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: The type you say that, it's got the type A

808
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: one and A two. So let's just type in SD

809
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:08,640
Speaker 1: card five twelve on Amazon. And so I'm looking at these,

810
00:41:08,719 --> 00:41:10,839
Speaker 1: and I see A one and I see A two,

811
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:16,000
Speaker 1: So you are right now. The A one has two

812
00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:18,799
Speaker 1: hundred and eighty seven thousand reviews. The A two has

813
00:41:18,920 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: thirty two thousand reviews, So immediately that is telling me

814
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 1: that the A one is more popular. I'm guessing it's cheaper,

815
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:29,440
Speaker 1: and is it?

816
00:41:30,320 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 2: Well, these are.

817
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:33,760
Speaker 1: Different sizes, so I guess it's kind of tough to compare.

818
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 1: Let's see, I was trying to find. Oh, here we go,

819
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,239
Speaker 1: here's the five twelve. Okay, so five twelve A one

820
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: And does the A two have a five twelve?

821
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:40,879
Speaker 2: Yes it does.

822
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,960
Speaker 1: Okay, so now we can compare apples to Apple. So

823
00:41:44,000 --> 00:41:48,759
Speaker 1: the the A one if it will come up here

824
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:53,000
Speaker 1: for some reason, it's not the A one is. Let's

825
00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,520
Speaker 1: see thirty nine ninety nine for a five hundred and

826
00:41:55,560 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: twelve gigabyte model, the A two is for some reason.

827
00:42:00,480 --> 00:42:02,799
Speaker 2: Oh here we go seven. No, I can't. I can't

828
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:04,960
Speaker 2: seem to get this to load the price of this.

829
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 2: There we go.

830
00:42:06,200 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: Okay, the five hundred and twelve A two is, and

831
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 1: I'm still trying to get this price to come up,

832
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,239
Speaker 1: but it just won't come up. I've got the one

833
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: terrorbyte is one hundred and seventy two dollars, which wow,

834
00:42:17,560 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: so and the two fifty six is twenty six sixty seven.

835
00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:26,960
Speaker 1: The five twelve just will not come up for some reason.

836
00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:27,799
Speaker 1: I don't know why.

837
00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:29,960
Speaker 2: But here's the thing.

838
00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: So it depends on the speed of these cards. So

839
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,920
Speaker 1: A two is rated for faster loading and in app performance.

840
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,799
Speaker 1: So basically it's a speed thing. So if you look

841
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 1: at the speed, A one performance is fifteen hundred read

842
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,560
Speaker 1: five hundred wright and if you look at A two,

843
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,320
Speaker 1: it's four thousand read two thousand.

844
00:42:55,480 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: Right, So the A two is.

845
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: Going to be a bit more expensive and it's going

846
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,239
Speaker 1: to read and write faster. Now with that said, what

847
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: do I think you need for this tablet? I think

848
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:06,719
Speaker 1: you're gonna be just fine with the A one. I

849
00:43:06,800 --> 00:43:09,720
Speaker 1: don't now if you were doing like real, real intense

850
00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:12,920
Speaker 1: like photo or video work on this tablet, I would say, okay,

851
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: go with the A two. But I just don't think

852
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: that's the case. I don't think that you need that.

853
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:19,920
Speaker 1: I think that the uh, the A one is going

854
00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:23,040
Speaker 1: to be just fine for this solution. I don't think

855
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: you have to spend more money to go with the

856
00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: A two. And I wish I could tell you how

857
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: much the A two was, but it just for will

858
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,760
Speaker 1: not show up. Oh there we go seventy two to fifty. Okay,

859
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:36,919
Speaker 1: So it's double the price. So h yeah, I'd save

860
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: the money go with the A one. I think it's

861
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine in that, in that Samsung tab

862
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:46,360
Speaker 1: A eight, which, by the way, I've i've kind of

863
00:43:46,400 --> 00:43:50,160
Speaker 1: pooh pooed the Android tablets in years past, but and

864
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,279
Speaker 1: I might have talked about this in a previous show,

865
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: but I will tell you when I tested the Amazon

866
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: Fire tablet. Now, the fire tablets are notoriously slow and

867
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:00,200
Speaker 1: kind of slow.

868
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:01,239
Speaker 2: And basic whatever.

869
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: They're good for just watching movies, not really much else,

870
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,560
Speaker 1: but or listening to music, reading books, whatever.

871
00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:09,240
Speaker 2: Like basic stuff.

872
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: But what was refreshing about the Android tablet over the

873
00:44:14,239 --> 00:44:17,279
Speaker 1: iPad is that the iPad doesn't do anything in the background.

874
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: So if you're trying to download a bunch of movies

875
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:22,320
Speaker 1: for the plane, you've got to have those apps open,

876
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: and they only download when they're open and sort of alive.

877
00:44:27,360 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: And so it was really a breath of fresh air

878
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:33,239
Speaker 1: when I loaded up a bunch of stuff on the

879
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:35,800
Speaker 1: Fire tablet and I closed out the apps, not closed

880
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 1: them out, but just you know, put them in the background,

881
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 1: and oh the movie is still downloaded. That was like

882
00:44:40,719 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: really really nice. And so anyway, the iPad I still

883
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,080
Speaker 1: think is the best tablet out there. It's got the

884
00:44:46,120 --> 00:44:48,920
Speaker 1: best apps, it's got the best accessories. But I'm not

885
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 1: against these Android tablets. In fact, I had someone the

886
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 1: other day at work that said, hey, what do you

887
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: think of the A eight, And I said, it's great.

888
00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:00,560
Speaker 1: You know, Samsung tablets I would recommend obviously getting on

889
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 1: sale because it's just a lot of the Samsung prices

890
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,440
Speaker 1: are you know, they're kind of I don't know if

891
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:10,799
Speaker 1: they're inflated. They're just a little bit more expensive than

892
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: they should be, and then they go on sale and

893
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 1: they're a much better deal. So the Galaxy tab A

894
00:45:15,520 --> 00:45:19,160
Speaker 1: eight is, oh, this is a really basic one. So

895
00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:21,200
Speaker 1: I'm not sure this is, uh the one the person

896
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: was asking me about. This is the tab a So

897
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:26,759
Speaker 1: this is only seventy five bucks. So yeah, I guess

898
00:45:26,800 --> 00:45:29,759
Speaker 1: to answer your question even more, Mike, is that if

899
00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: you're talking to seventy five dollars tablet, I don't think

900
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: you need to put that other card in there, because

901
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be way too much for

902
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:39,759
Speaker 1: that tablet. So if I look at let's just see

903
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:40,279
Speaker 1: what's the.

904
00:45:40,160 --> 00:45:44,320
Speaker 2: Top of the line tablet here? Oh tab essay?

905
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:46,479
Speaker 1: Sorry, Okay, the essay is the one the person asked

906
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: me about. So that's a much much more high powered device,

907
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: and I think you're gonna pay more because of that.

908
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: So right now, if I look at the website and

909
00:45:57,280 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 1: apparently nothing's working on my computer right now, I don't

910
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: know what's going on with my Wi Fi here, but anyway, yeah,

911
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:06,920
Speaker 1: that's that's probably gonna be on a good Black Friday

912
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:09,920
Speaker 1: Cyber Monday deal since everything's at a pretty big discount.

913
00:46:10,440 --> 00:46:11,359
Speaker 2: Good question, all right.

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00:46:11,400 --> 00:46:17,440
Speaker 1: Speaking of Android, if you want to protect your Android

915
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 1: with the same sort of protection that Apple has on

916
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:24,040
Speaker 1: their iPhone with the app tracking Transparency.

917
00:46:23,640 --> 00:46:24,920
Speaker 2: That's where it asks you.

918
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:29,719
Speaker 1: It asks apps not to allow third party tracking, which

919
00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: most people say, you know when you see that little

920
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,680
Speaker 1: screen come up says can this app track you? And

921
00:46:33,760 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: who's gonna say yes to that?

922
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 2: Right? Well, now you can have this.

923
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: Across your entire Android phone and this is through Duck

924
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: Duck Go for Android. Basically they're using a VPN that

925
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: will filter out anything that is you know, these apps

926
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: that are trying to send information to a third party tracker,

927
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 1: and this could be your precise location, your age, a fingerprint,

928
00:46:56,120 --> 00:46:58,720
Speaker 1: a digital fingerprint, of your phone.

929
00:46:59,320 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 2: And so this is.

930
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: Called app tracking protection in Duck duck Go. And so

931
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 1: you can download the Duck dot go app. This is

932
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: free and it will give you that similar protection. I

933
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,200
Speaker 1: think they say it's even better than what the iPhone does.

934
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: And so, you know, if you really want to protect

935
00:47:16,440 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: your privacy and not have these apps talk to each other,

936
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: then that's probably a good thing to do. So according

937
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,800
Speaker 1: to Duck douck Go, the average Android user has thirty

938
00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:27,720
Speaker 1: five apps on their phone. They found that with thirty

939
00:47:27,719 --> 00:47:30,120
Speaker 1: five apps, you can experience between one thousand and two

940
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,720
Speaker 1: thousand tracking attempts every.

941
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: Day, and those.

942
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: Apps might contact seventy different tracking companies.

943
00:47:36,040 --> 00:47:36,400
Speaker 2: Wow.

944
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: So they give the example of let's say you're planning

945
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: a getaway on Southwest Airlines app, then you look at Zillo,

946
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,359
Speaker 1: then you look at seat geek, and then you check

947
00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:47,000
Speaker 1: the weather on the weather network. With these four apps,

948
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: they say forty five over forty five tracking companies will

949
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,560
Speaker 1: collect your information your precise location, your email, your phone number,

950
00:47:53,600 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: your time zone, a fingerprint of your phone like your resolution,

951
00:47:56,680 --> 00:48:00,640
Speaker 1: your device making model, language, your internet provider. All of

952
00:48:00,680 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 1: that stuff can be used to identify who you are.

953
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 1: So this will block that sort of information from leaving

954
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 1: your phone. Now, the way they do this is with

955
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:13,680
Speaker 1: a VPN, and so not everyone's going to be excited

956
00:48:13,680 --> 00:48:15,760
Speaker 1: about that situation because you got to run a VPN

957
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: on your phone at all times. They do the filtering

958
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,200
Speaker 1: of this stuff locally so that it's.

959
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:22,360
Speaker 2: Not going out to the wider web.

960
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you want to try it out, I'll

961
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: probably download this just to check it out on Android

962
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: Duck Duck Go for Android. The Duck Duck Go is

963
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,720
Speaker 1: you know, I think that they're doing a lot with privacy.

964
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 1: They're really putting this like, you know, stick in the

965
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: ground and saying, look, we're we are the privacy centric

966
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: sort of you know, Apple, but for everyone, and I

967
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: like it. I just don't know about the search results

968
00:48:44,480 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 1: from Duck Duck Go. I don't know if they're very good, and.

969
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 2: I don't know.

970
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: I can't really vouch because I don't really use it.

971
00:48:53,480 --> 00:48:56,879
Speaker 1: But you know, they've got they have my story from

972
00:48:56,880 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 1: today up there, but yeah, it kind of takes a

973
00:48:59,880 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: no Like I just searched for myself on here, and

974
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: like literally after the first result, it's like the second

975
00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: and third and fourth results are pretty bad. And then

976
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,360
Speaker 1: the next one's pretty bad.

977
00:49:11,040 --> 00:49:11,320
Speaker 2: Yeah.

978
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: So I mean, look, it's gonna be fine for some

979
00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,760
Speaker 1: things like basic stuff, but if you're really like, Google

980
00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,719
Speaker 1: is still the best when it comes to actual search results,

981
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:22,040
Speaker 1: and that's kind of why.

982
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 2: I stick with it.

983
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:27,080
Speaker 1: All right, Tesla might be coming or Apple Music might

984
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:27,960
Speaker 1: be coming to Tesla.

985
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: Just a small little story here.

986
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,800
Speaker 1: Tesla apparently is teasing the integration of an Apple Music

987
00:49:33,840 --> 00:49:38,560
Speaker 1: app and it's vehicle software. The information, according to Electric,

988
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:43,040
Speaker 1: came from the Peterson Automotive Museum. They are opening up

989
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,960
Speaker 1: this Tesla exhibit and I guess one of the cars

990
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 1: someone who went through here saw. They're like, wait a second,

991
00:49:48,880 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: is that Apple Music on the Tesla home screen? And

992
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: sure enough, it seems like it is. This would be

993
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: huge because Apple Music. If you have an iPhone and

994
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 1: you're like me and you've got this whole Apple one bundle,

995
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:02,440
Speaker 1: you're using Apple Music because you kind of have to

996
00:50:02,440 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: to get your money's worth over Spotify, and so I had.

997
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,560
Speaker 1: In fact, I subscribed to Spotify for the first time

998
00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: when I got the Tesla, and so I was using it.

999
00:50:11,600 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 1: I actually don't think the integration of Spotify is very

1000
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: good in the Tesla. I think it could be better,

1001
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:21,480
Speaker 1: and so anyway, let's just hope that this does happen

1002
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: because I think it would give people one more option

1003
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,160
Speaker 1: for getting the most out of their music service. So

1004
00:50:26,760 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on that one. The other little

1005
00:50:28,680 --> 00:50:30,840
Speaker 1: story I thought was interesting, maybe just because I use it,

1006
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:35,080
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. But Evernote is being purchased by

1007
00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: a company called Bending Spoons, and so Bending Spoons, You're like,

1008
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: who's that. Well, I wouldn't have known Bending Spoons from

1009
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: anyone else except for the fact.

1010
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:45,600
Speaker 2: And it's always nerve.

1011
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:49,000
Speaker 1: Racking when a company like ever Note, you know, with

1012
00:50:49,040 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: all of your data inside, is being purchased, because you

1013
00:50:51,160 --> 00:50:53,960
Speaker 1: never know what's gonna happen. But Bending Spoons happens to

1014
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: make one of my favorite mobile editing apps in the world,

1015
00:50:57,200 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 1: which is called Splice. And so I am very trustworthy

1016
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:05,760
Speaker 1: of this company. I believe they're They're located overseas, and

1017
00:51:06,600 --> 00:51:07,239
Speaker 1: you know so, but.

1018
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,000
Speaker 2: I really feel like, gosh, I don't love.

1019
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: To see where Bending Spoons is. Let's see where they are.

1020
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,799
Speaker 2: Bending Spoons is in. Oh, Italy. Oh wow, they're had

1021
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:19,960
Speaker 2: another Italian Milan Italy. Wow, it's.

1022
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: So so they've got Splice, which I really really love.

1023
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 1: They've got this AI powered photo app. They've got let's

1024
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: see what else they have. Well, this is too long

1025
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:39,839
Speaker 1: for a website to do AI remedy Remedy, and I

1026
00:51:39,840 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 1: think that's it for now. Oh they've got thirty Day

1027
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:47,000
Speaker 1: Fitness and now they'll have ever Know. So I'm excited

1028
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: because I love the Splice app is really really slick, Like,

1029
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: it is such a great looking app. It's it's very

1030
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,880
Speaker 1: well written, it's very well designed, and so I really

1031
00:51:57,920 --> 00:52:00,279
Speaker 1: think that that's going to be a good thing for

1032
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:02,440
Speaker 1: ever Note because Every Note is kind of it's kind

1033
00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:04,600
Speaker 1: of lost its way over the years, and it's it's

1034
00:52:04,640 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: kind of gotten clunky, it's kind of gotten slow. I

1035
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: still use it because there's a lot of features on

1036
00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:11,239
Speaker 1: it that I like and that are useful to my job.

1037
00:52:11,360 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: But every year when I have to pay that whatever

1038
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: it is they want, you know, sixty seventy bucks, it's like, ugh,

1039
00:52:16,560 --> 00:52:19,360
Speaker 1: do I really need this? Apple Notes does like ninety

1040
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,400
Speaker 1: nine percent of whatever Note does. But again, that's one platform,

1041
00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:24,480
Speaker 1: and I like Every Note because it's cross platform and

1042
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:27,880
Speaker 1: it's independent, and so you know, I've been using it

1043
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:30,920
Speaker 1: for many many years. Sometimes I've paid, sometimes I haven't.

1044
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:34,000
Speaker 1: And I think that bending spoons purchasing them will be

1045
00:52:34,520 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 1: a really good thing. So that's exciting to hear. Oh wow,

1046
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,520
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1047
00:52:44,600 --> 00:52:47,920
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