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Speaker 1: Top tech from IFA twenty twenty three in Berlin, Germany.

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Speaker 1: Apple and Google announced dates for their next big events.

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Speaker 1: The day the government will blast you with an emergency

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Speaker 1: text message, plus your tech questions answered. What's going on?

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

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

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Speaker 1: answer your questions about technology. I believe that tech should

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Speaker 1: be interesting, useful and fun. Phone lines are now open

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Speaker 1: Guests this week on the show Oliver Merlin, Managing director

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Speaker 1: of EFA Management, and Mark Vina, principal analyst at Smart

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Speaker 1: Tech Research. They will join me to talk about what

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Speaker 1: I'm doing here and where am I? Berlin, Germany. That's

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Speaker 1: right coming to you live from Berlin site of IFA

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. This is Europe's version of CES. So

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Speaker 1: hear me talk about CS in Las Vegas. Every year

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Speaker 1: Europe does their own show called EFA and it is

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Speaker 1: a big, big show. Believe me, my legs are tired

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Speaker 1: from walking it. More than two thousand exhibitors from forty

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Speaker 1: eight countries, twenty six halls, So when you go to

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Speaker 1: CS it's a couple of big giant halls. In Las

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Speaker 1: different levels in each hall, and they're kind of like

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Speaker 1: meters of stuff to see. It is kind of like

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Speaker 1: a tech festival. There is food, there is drink. And

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Speaker 1: the big difference between this show and the show in

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Speaker 1: Las Vegas is that visitors are welcome. The public is

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Speaker 1: invited to buy a ticket to this show, so it's

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Speaker 1: kind of like going to the largest best buy you've

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Speaker 1: five days, it's pretty pretty wild. They also have a

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Speaker 1: summer garden in the middle of it all. Excuse my

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Speaker 1: boord German. I haven't learned too many words since I've

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Speaker 1: been here. It's been a fun trip, it's been a

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Speaker 1: fun event. And I love doing stuff like this because

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Speaker 1: it really gives you so much perspective on the different

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Speaker 1: companies and the different brands, not just in the US

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Speaker 1: but around the world. Now. Whenever I do a trip

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Speaker 1: like this, I always get lots of thoughts on international travel,

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Speaker 1: international travel because it's something that many people do maybe

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Speaker 1: It's actually been a lot more recently when COVID was happening,

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Speaker 1: But I did get to try for the first time

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Speaker 1: on my way out here, my new California digital driver's license.

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Speaker 1: So a couple of states, just a handful of states,

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Speaker 1: and you download that, you scan your driver's license, you

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Speaker 2: With rich.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. And

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Speaker 1: it's a big week if you like phones and gadgets,

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Speaker 1: because both Google and Apple announced separate events. Google's holding

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Speaker 1: and Mark, welcome to Welcome.

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Speaker 6: Back to the show for having thank you for having me.

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Speaker 1: All Right, so you are the expert in all things Apple.

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Speaker 1: You are known for your proven track record of basically

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Speaker 6: But if you look at over time, these lower end phones,

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Speaker 6: as those prices come down, but for instance, the fifteen

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Speaker 6: to fifteen plus I think are going to be extraordinarily

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Speaker 6: popular in like a year or two from now, right

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Speaker 6: as those prices come down to the four hundred and

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Speaker 6: five hundred dollars range.

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Speaker 1: Right right now. One thing I'm curious about is the

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Speaker 1: refresh rate on the standard phones. Has that caught up

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Speaker 1: to the premium the pros No, I.

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Speaker 6: Believe they're about two years away from moving to the

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Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty hertz. On the lower end phones,

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Speaker 6: they're still going to be. I believe it's a sixty

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Speaker 6: or ninety hertz refresh rate. And it's so interesting because

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Speaker 6: nobody knew that they wanted one hundred and twenty hertz

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Speaker 6: refresh rate until they had it on the propones and

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Speaker 6: on the iPad pro right right now, it's so impressive

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Speaker 6: on the propones, and it's if you compare it side

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Speaker 6: by side, it is such a big difference that you

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Speaker 6: wouldn't know until you look at it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's the thing. If you're using an iPhone,

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Speaker 1: you know, a standard one that doesn't have the higher

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Speaker 1: refresh rate, you would never really know. And my wife,

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Speaker 1: so every time I basically use my wife's phone, I

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Speaker 1: notice it and I'm like, wow, this almost feels like

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Speaker 1: it's slower than my phone because it just doesn't have

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Speaker 1: that smooth refresh rate.

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Speaker 6: But if you're not refresh rates right, But the performance

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Speaker 6: is pretty good overall, but like when you just look

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Speaker 6: at it, it just looks so much different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, one hundred percent. Okay, So now what about the

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Speaker 1: USB C switchover? Is that going to happen with the phones?

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Speaker 6: So the USBC change will happen across all four phones

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Speaker 6: in the air pods, and obviously this is because of

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Speaker 6: the European Union. The benefits to consumers now is you

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Speaker 6: can have one charging cable that will work on your map,

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Speaker 6: your iPad, and your iPhone and your ex generation AirPods.

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Speaker 6: You no longer you need to jump, you know, between

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Speaker 6: lightning and USBC and all that. So this is going

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Speaker 6: to be quite an improvement for consumers, but also a

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Speaker 6: headache for those who are now going to need to

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Speaker 6: buy new charging bricks and new accessories.

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Speaker 2: And the like.

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Speaker 1: Now people always joke, and I'm sure the mets will

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Speaker 1: come out that Apple continues to change the charging port

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Speaker 1: on the bottom. I remember when it happened from the

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Speaker 1: thirty pin connector to lightning. People are complaining, but it's

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Speaker 1: been a while since that happened.

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Speaker 6: Right, It's been eleven years since the last charging change.

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Speaker 6: There was in twenty sixteen, the headphone jack removal. I

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Speaker 6: have to tell you, I don't think this is a

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Speaker 6: change that Apple wanted to make. I don't think this

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Speaker 6: is something that they would have chosen to do on

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Speaker 6: their own. I think there's a lot of drawbacks for

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Speaker 6: them from moving to USBC on the iPhone. This is

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Speaker 6: something that they're doing pretty much, almost exclusively to appease

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Speaker 6: the European Commission. It is a law there, and then

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Speaker 6: you're seeing more and more places try to bring this

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Speaker 6: into law, believe it or not. I actually read the

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Speaker 6: other day, actually yesterday, that California, just the state of California,

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Speaker 6: they're bringing a bill to action next year related to USBC.

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Speaker 6: And so this is something that was going to continue.

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Speaker 6: It was going to be a drum beat, it was

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Speaker 6: going to be something that would snowball and have a

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Speaker 6: domino effect, and all sorts of countries were going to

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Speaker 6: push it this. I believe even India was talking about

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Speaker 6: USBC as well as a bill.

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Speaker 1: Well, it does eventually make things easier, obviously less proprietary.

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Speaker 1: What about the zoom on these phones are they going

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Speaker 1: to get Is the zoom going to get any better?

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Speaker 6: The zoom is the same on the first three phones.

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Speaker 6: The top end phone, you're moving from a three X

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Speaker 6: lens to a six NX optical zoom. And why that's

505
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Speaker 6: so important is because if you do a digital zoom

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Speaker 6: right now, you can see how the quality quickly degrades,

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Speaker 6: but by using an optical hardware zoom, the quality actually

508
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Speaker 6: does not significantly when you zoom in up to the

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Speaker 6: six X and then you actually get an expanded digital

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Speaker 6: zoom as well. I believe it's a twenty or thirty X,

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Speaker 6: so quite impressive and better competition to the cameras on

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Speaker 6: the Google devices that you mentioned, which they have pretty

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Speaker 6: good cameras, and they have for years. Apple's doing a

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Speaker 6: little bit of catch up.

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Speaker 1: Here, Okay, speaking of ketchup, you know, we're seeing a

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Speaker 1: big push with these foldable phones from Samsung, Google. You know,

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Speaker 1: obviously the Chinese companies are doing a lot of foldables,

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Speaker 1: and Motorola even has one, and of course one plus.

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Speaker 1: So are we going to see a foldable from Apple.

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Speaker 6: I think we'll see some sort of foldable device from Apple.

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Speaker 6: In which form that takes, I think it's still a

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Speaker 6: little unclear. It could be an iPad, it could be

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Speaker 6: a type of a Mac. It could be a type

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Speaker 6: of an iPhone, but I don't see anything foldable from

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Speaker 6: Apple in the next twenty four months.

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Speaker 1: All right, if you're into Apple stuff and you'd like

527
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Speaker 1: to hear what Apple's going to do before the company

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Speaker 1: even announces it. Mark German is your guy, chief correspondent

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Speaker 1: at Bloomberg. What's the best way for folks to follow you, Mark?

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Speaker 6: No, thank you rich for having me. I truly appreciate it.

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Speaker 6: Twitter dot com or x dot com slash Mark German.

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Speaker 6: You can get updates most quickly there, but also subscribe

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Speaker 6: to my weekly column on Sundays. It's Bloomberg dot com slash. However,

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Speaker 6: on to sign up.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me today, Mark,

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. There you have it, all of the

537
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: rumors and the speculation on the iPhone, but it usually

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Speaker 1: comes true. Mark knows his stuff. So if you're considering

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Speaker 1: the upgrade, you know it's probably going to be the

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Speaker 1: year to upgrade because of the entire USB c changeover.

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Speaker 1: If you're like me, and especially when you travel, I

542
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Speaker 1: literally have to think about, Oh I need that lightning

543
00:27:30,040 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: cable because it's the one thing I need everything else,

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Speaker 1: even the iPads have gone over to USBC in recent years,

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Speaker 1: so we'll be looking forward to that. That event again

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Speaker 1: happens on September twelfth, and again I'm expected to be there.

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Speaker 1: So a lot of things going on in the next

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Speaker 1: couple of weeks. All right, let's take some more of

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Speaker 1: your calls 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. You're listening to rich on Tech live from Berlin, Germany.

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Speaker 1: Oh no, you didn't. Oh man, I think we're getting

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Speaker 1: all German artists on this week's show. So funny story

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Speaker 1: this is This is Milli Vanilla, right, yeah, so blame

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Speaker 1: it on the rain. I'll never forget we were doing.

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Speaker 1: This is such a long funny story anyway, I'll save

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Speaker 1: you the drama of it. But my friend and I,

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Speaker 1: when we were in like middle school, we were gonna

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Speaker 1: do like a talent show with this song and our teacher.

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Speaker 1: We were so embarrassed to tell our teacher and then

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Speaker 1: so we were gonna lip sync the song. And then

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Speaker 1: we later found out that the whole thing was lip sync.

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Speaker 1: So it was like this like meta kind of situation. Anyway,

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

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology from Berlin, Germany. What a

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Speaker 1: great city, really really interesting, lots of history. Obviously, people

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Speaker 1: here like to be out in the streets. They like

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Speaker 1: to I've seen a lot of families, a lot of kids,

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Speaker 1: a lot of tourists, just a lot going on here

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Speaker 1: and it's interesting. I took my walk the other day,

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Speaker 1: my audio tour, which I really like to do when

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Speaker 1: I go to these cities, and there was nobody out,

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Speaker 1: I mean nobody. It was a weekday, and then today

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Speaker 1: I was out and it's a weekend and there was

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Speaker 1: just so many people in the same places where there

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Speaker 1: was almost no one the time before. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you want to do these audio walking tours, which

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Speaker 1: I highly recommend self guided, use your phone. The app

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Speaker 1: that I use is called voicemap dot Me, so voicemap me,

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Speaker 1: and it's just a really easy way you download the app.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of like listening to a podcast, but it

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Speaker 1: gives you step by step, turn by turn directions and

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Speaker 1: if you get off court like I have it sometimes

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Speaker 1: it just says, hey, you know, look at the map

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Speaker 1: and get back on course. You can leave your phone

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Speaker 1: in your pocket pretty much the whole time you do this.

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Speaker 1: It's very very cool VOICEMAP dot em and they have

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Speaker 1: them for cities around the world. I've taken them in

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Speaker 1: and here, let's see where it was at Austin, and

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Speaker 1: I did one more somewhere else. All right, let's go

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Speaker 1: to alex Innuay. Tell me if I'm saying this right,

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Speaker 1: Nuevo California. I know you tried call them before. We

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Speaker 1: had some trouble connecting. You're on with Rich line three.

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Speaker 8: Yes, Rich, I'm having problems with an SD card I

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Speaker 8: bothered about two and a half years ago. It was

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Speaker 8: working fine, and last weekend it quit. I've turned off

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Speaker 8: the phone, pulled the stem car SD card out, put

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Speaker 8: it back in, tried to reformat it. It gets up

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Speaker 8: to about twenty five percent, and then it says my

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Speaker 8: phone is not compatible with their SD card.

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Speaker 1: How are you trying to reformat it?

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Speaker 5: When it's a little icon comes up says format SD

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Speaker 5: card to use.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So I'm saying, when you plug it into your phone,

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Speaker 1: are you formatting it?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Have you tried formatting it using a computer?

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Speaker 5: I don't have an adapter.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, so it sounds like this card has failed,

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Speaker 1: but that is just my preliminary thoughts. But the thing is,

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Speaker 1: you can't really tell unless you try to format this

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Speaker 1: in another device. So, for example, we have a special

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Speaker 1: microphone we use where you have to use an SD

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Speaker 1: card in it a thirty two gig maximum, and sometimes

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Speaker 1: when we put those cards in this MIC, it just

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Speaker 1: goes nuts and it can't recognize it, and it kind

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Speaker 1: of just the screen flashes. And there is an option

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Speaker 1: to format the card on that MIC, but it doesn't

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Speaker 1: always work. But if you take that same exact SD

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Speaker 1: card and format it in a computer, somehow it figures

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Speaker 1: it out and it formats it properly, and then it

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Speaker 1: works in the MIC. So that would be what I'd

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Speaker 1: recommend to do. Why did you lose anything on this card?

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Speaker 1: Are you worried about the data on this card?

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Speaker 5: Well, apparently all the games I downloaded went to the card,

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Speaker 5: so I lost all the games, my photos and stuff

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Speaker 5: I backed up to a computer.

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Speaker 1: Okay, very good, and all the rest of those stuff.

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Speaker 5: It's just it's annoying. Yeah, I agree, and a half

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Speaker 5: two years and then all of a sudden, I'm getting

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Speaker 5: this there. Stupid things it's not recognizing the SD card.

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Speaker 5: Please format I try that. It gets up to about

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Speaker 5: twenty five and quits.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is very frustrata. And I will tell you

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Speaker 1: that I've used many many SD cards in my time

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Speaker 1: and I have yet to see one fail. And so

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Speaker 1: I find it hard to believe that this has failed.

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Speaker 1: But it could happen. Is this a micro SD card.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming it's a small one, like it's the size

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Speaker 1: of like a SIM card almost.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's probably a core in the size of a

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Speaker 5: posty stamp. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So I mean, look at the end of the day,

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Speaker 1: and what's the size on this card? How big is it?

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Speaker 5: I think it's uh thirty thirty or thirty two?

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Speaker 1: Okay, and what brand is it?

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Speaker 5: I picked it up at Walmart, like I said, a

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Speaker 5: couple of years ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, I would say, maybe bring it back to Walmart,

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Speaker 1: but I think it's been past the ninety days. Do

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Speaker 1: they have they may have a extended return policy. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but.

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Speaker 5: What I don't think so years.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're straight up with them and just

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Speaker 1: say hey, look i've had this, you know, if you

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Speaker 1: go to Costco, they'll take it back. So maybe Walmart

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Speaker 1: will do the same. I was actually trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out what their return policy was. I looked it up

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Speaker 1: the other day. I think it's ninety standard. But look,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think if you're

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Speaker 1: if you're not concerned with what's on this card, a

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00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:28,440
Speaker 1: new SD card, a thirty two gig is about ten bucks.

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Speaker 1: You can get a two pack of them for twelve

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Speaker 1: dollars on Amazon. So I understand it's frustrating. I understand

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Speaker 1: that it's not ideal, but it could just be that

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Speaker 1: this failed. It happens, especially if it maybe is an

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Speaker 1: off brand. If I recommended getting an adapter, I probably

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Speaker 1: wouldn't recommend that because the adapter is going to cost

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Speaker 1: you more than the price of this card. So my

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Speaker 1: advice is to see if you have a friend that

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Speaker 1: has an adapter and a card reader and try doing

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Speaker 1: the formatting there on a computer, whether it's a or

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00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:05,239
Speaker 1: a PC. That might work. You can also try a

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Speaker 1: disc repair on the same computer because that may work

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00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: as well. But otherwise I would say, if you're not

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Speaker 1: too attached, I'm glad you backed up your photos, and

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Speaker 1: if you're not too attached to this thing, I would

679
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:19,160
Speaker 1: just call it a complete loss and move on because

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Speaker 1: the cost of getting that adapter is going to be

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Speaker 1: a lot more than just buying a new card. And

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Speaker 1: hopefully this does not happen again. I rarely, rarely see

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Speaker 1: these things fry like that. So thanks for the call,

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Speaker 1: appreciate it. Let's see what do we want to talk

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Speaker 1: about real quick before we go to break here, Let's

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Speaker 1: talk about Google raising prices of nest Aware and nest

687
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Speaker 1: Aware Plus. These are the subscriptions if you have nest products.

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Speaker 1: The basic nest Aware is now going to cost eight

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Speaker 1: dollars a month, up from six bucks a month. That's

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Speaker 1: eighty dollars a year or sixty dollars a year. The

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Speaker 1: nest Aware Plus is going to be fifteen a month,

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Speaker 1: up from twelve dollars a month. The new price takes

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Speaker 1: effect on November sixth, and uh new subscribers right now. Yep,

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00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: every streaming service is going up in price. Give me

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Speaker 1: a call triple eight, Rich one oh one. This is

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

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. Welcome to

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Speaker 1: the show. Our number two. I just got word from

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Speaker 1: producer Bobo that Rob Thomas is indeed German, which I

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Speaker 1: didn't believe, but I looked it up and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: he was born in Germany. Where's my bell? I always

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Speaker 1: say that triple eight rich one O one is the

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Speaker 1: phone line to call eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. There we go, We've got

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Speaker 1: some boisterous applause. So this week, Verizon has come up

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Speaker 1: with a new way to protect you from spammy email

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Speaker 1: to texts. It's very, very simple. Have you ever gotten

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00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:03,799
Speaker 1: one of these things? It basically looks like a text

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Speaker 1: message that comes from an email address and it's just annoying.

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Speaker 1: Their Verizon says eighty percent of them are spam and

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Speaker 1: it's just an easy way for people to spam because

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Speaker 1: all it takes is for them to set up an

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Speaker 1: email and so these most of the time are for

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Speaker 1: like shipping confirmations, all this stuff. It's just total junk.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to block these now and your

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Speaker 1: this is only for Verizon customers, you text the word

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Speaker 1: off off to forty forty. Again, if you want to

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Speaker 1: stop these annoying spam email to text messages, just text

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Speaker 1: the word off to forty forty. If you're a Verizon customer,

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Speaker 1: and that will disable email to text messages to your phone.

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Speaker 1: Now you might be saying, Rich, why would I do that,

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to get my texts. Eighty percent of

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Speaker 1: those are bogus. So there may be an example of

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Speaker 1: a legitimate company that uses this or legitimate use of that,

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00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:04,040
Speaker 1: but most of the time it's not. And you can

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Speaker 1: always turn it back on. I believe you just text

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Speaker 1: on to forty forty and it'll turn them back on.

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Speaker 1: But you can look it up online and see what

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Speaker 1: they say about it. I'll put the link on the website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV keep the show notes for

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Speaker 1: the show so you can see what Verizon says about

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Speaker 1: all of that. But a lot of people doing it.

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Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to Reggie Line too in Charleston,

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Speaker 1: South Carolina. Reggie, you're on with Rich. And it's interesting

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Speaker 1: that you say you're in Charleston, because I've fallen in

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Speaker 1: love with European cities and I looked up today no joke,

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Speaker 1: best US cities that feel like Europe, and Charleston was

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Speaker 1: like on the top list. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 10: It it's a gorgeous city, a little bit flood ridden

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Speaker 10: right now, but gorgeous, just the same. Oh no, your

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Speaker 10: producer asked me if I had called them before, and

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Speaker 10: I'll remember you helped me with the photo enhancing program.

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Speaker 10: I'm a pet porch artist.

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Speaker 1: Oh yes, I remember, yes.

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Speaker 10: And you did help me with that. But I had

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Speaker 10: a bigger problem this week. I went onto my Facebook

747
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Speaker 10: page where I do do marketing and use marketplace and

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Speaker 10: all my customers contact me there, and it asked for

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Speaker 10: a new password. I've done that before, put it in

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Speaker 10: a word.

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Speaker 1: Why did I ask you for a new one?

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Speaker 10: I don't know. Maybe I just forgot it. I don't remember.

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Speaker 10: But it asked me to put in my password, which

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Speaker 10: I had no idea why it did that, and I

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Speaker 10: may have forgotten it. So I went to put in

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Speaker 10: a new password, and it told me there was no

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Speaker 10: account under my email address. And I've had my email

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Speaker 10: address for a long time because I'm still with AOL so.

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Speaker 1: Good old al America Online.

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Speaker 10: All right, I've had it since I think ninety eight.

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Speaker 10: So it was gone. Everything was gone. All my customers,

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Speaker 10: all my friends, all my posts I've ever done, everything

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Speaker 10: had disappeared. I had no way to get You can't

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Speaker 10: get in touch with them, you know, I think you

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Speaker 10: know there's nook or Meta.

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Speaker 1: No, nope. So wait, okay, let me get this straight.

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Speaker 1: Did you lose access to your page?

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Speaker 10: Yes? Completely? You know, it was gone and even the

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Speaker 10: people that tried to contact me told me that it

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Speaker 10: said no messaging available. They they had blocked me once

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Speaker 10: before because they thought I was selling pets.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and you're not right, just to just to

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Speaker 1: confirm the portraits. I know we talked about that last time. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so where do you stand and what can I help

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Speaker 1: you with?

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Speaker 10: Well, is there any way to get in touch with them?

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Speaker 10: I went, I opened a new page. I did it

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Speaker 10: under my old email, which is still my email. They

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Speaker 10: accept did all that, and I opened a new page

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Speaker 10: altering my name just a little bit, and try and

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Speaker 10: trying to get back in touch with all of my

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Speaker 10: customers and people that had contacted me. But I can't

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Speaker 10: get to them at all. When I posted that I

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Speaker 10: had the problem on Facebook, of course I got eight

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Speaker 10: hundred scammers who want three hundred and fifty dollars to

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Speaker 10: find my Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Page for Yeah, if you type in the word hacked

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Speaker 1: on if you post the word hacked on Facebook, they say, oh,

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Speaker 1: Johnny five, really helped me get unhacked, and it's like

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Speaker 1: this whole scam thing. These programs just look for keywords

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Speaker 1: and then post stuff on the page. Okay, so here's

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Speaker 1: what I think happened. I actually think you might have

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Speaker 1: gotten hacked. I think the notification that you saw was bogus.

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Speaker 1: You click the notification, you put in your password that

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Speaker 1: was real, and as soon as you did that, these

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00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 1: scam art It's got a hold of your account and

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00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:07,800
Speaker 1: then immediately either try to message everyone on that account

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Speaker 1: or do something with it that Facebook recognized to be bad,

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Speaker 1: and so they immediately block the account. That's where I

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Speaker 1: think you stand. And the reason why that you were

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Speaker 1: able to create a new account and it has a

802
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:24,040
Speaker 1: slightly different username is because that old account is still

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Speaker 1: percolating in the back end of the system somewhere. And

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Speaker 1: so if you had like petit facebook dot com slash

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00:42:30,040 --> 00:42:32,680
Speaker 1: pet portraits, you know, they gave you pet portraits one

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00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:36,040
Speaker 1: because that other username is still sort of taken up.

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00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,719
Speaker 1: So what I recommend couple of things. Number One, you

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00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: got to be very careful with notifications on Facebook about

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Speaker 1: your password. It is very rare that Facebook asks you

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Speaker 1: to just randomly put in your password. It's even rareer

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Speaker 1: for them to send a notification that says you need

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Speaker 1: to put in your password. So yeah, there's pages that say,

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00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:00,800
Speaker 1: you know, if you're logging in from a different area

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Speaker 1: or device, but it's it's pretty rare and usually those

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Speaker 1: pages are pretty well marked. And always look at the

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Speaker 1: URL when you're logging into any website to make sure

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Speaker 1: that it is the website that you should be logging into. Now,

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00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: on Facebook, people really try to trick folks with these

819
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 1: scam logins. What they'll do is they'll just they'll give

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Speaker 1: you a notification that says, hey, your page, you know

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Speaker 1: doesn't meet the community standards. Click here to to you know,

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Speaker 1: dispute it, and then you have to log in. As

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Speaker 1: soon as you log in, you're actually logging into a

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Speaker 1: spammer's account or a scam artist account and they take over. Now,

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00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: if this happens to you before you go ahead and

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Speaker 1: create a new account. Number one to protect yourself, turn

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Speaker 1: on two factor authentication. I know I'm a broken record,

828
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: I say it every week on this show, but you

829
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,080
Speaker 1: have to turn on two factor authentication. That will actually

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Speaker 1: protect you from yourself because if you do log in

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Speaker 1: next time with your password and they get it, it's

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00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,879
Speaker 1: going to send a code to your phone, and that

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00:44:00,120 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: will stop the bad guys from actually getting in because

834
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Speaker 1: they won't have that code. Now, if you you know,

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Speaker 1: they may message you and ask you for that code,

836
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Speaker 1: don't give it to them. Now, if you do get

837
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Speaker 1: hacked on Facebook, you immediately want to go to Facebook

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Speaker 1: dot com slash hacked. That is the official place to go. Now,

839
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Speaker 1: you have to understand Facebook has almost three billion people

840
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:26,479
Speaker 1: using the platform, so to get someone on the phone

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00:44:26,680 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 1: is not possible. They don't do that. They do it

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00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: all through email, They do it all through automated systems,

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00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: and they do it all starting with Facebook dot com

844
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Speaker 1: slash hacked. Go there, it'll tell you, it'll give you

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Speaker 1: a questionnaire about what's happening with your account. Many times

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00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 1: people will regain access to their account, but it can

847
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 1: take a while because it's not always the number one

848
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Speaker 1: priority of Facebook to help people get back into their accounts. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you had a high profile account, maybe, but just

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00:44:56,480 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: you know, your everyday account, you know it's not necessarily

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00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:02,280
Speaker 1: their profile. The other thing I would do is set

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Speaker 1: if you're listening to this and you have any sort

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Speaker 1: of business presence on Facebook. Number one, always always have

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00:45:10,560 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: two factor authentication. On number two, you have to set

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Speaker 1: a secondary admin for your Facebook page. What will that

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00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: do If the person that manages your page gets locked out,

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00:45:21,480 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 1: the other person will be able to still get in.

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Speaker 1: And so now, look, if you hand over your password

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Speaker 1: to the scam artists, they know to check and see

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Speaker 1: if there's an admin, and they may delete that person.

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Speaker 1: But it's better to have this on your page because

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Speaker 1: I've gotten stories of the primary person that works at

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Speaker 1: a business passing away, leaving the company, whatever happens, they

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Speaker 1: get angry and they lock you out of the page.

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Speaker 3: How you doing, Rich?

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic? Can you tell in my voice?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I hear you loud and clear. Excuse me, I

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Speaker 3: got a little cold. I hear you loud and clear.

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Speaker 3: And Juliani day, I know.

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Speaker 1: Isn't it amazing what technology can do? We can go

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Speaker 1: live from pretty much anywhere. So what can I help

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Speaker 1: you with? Greg?

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Speaker 3: I'm legally blond, okay, I got two friendship for you.

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Speaker 3: I'm paying on a d flip three and and Roy

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Speaker 3: is not great paid off. Now they have a d

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Speaker 3: flip five from Google Oteam Bowler bo pone. Uh is

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Speaker 3: that a good phone? Or should I just keep the

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Speaker 3: phone I have. I don't well ow any of that

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Speaker 3: because of my eyesight, you know what I mean. I'm

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Speaker 3: not fab here at computers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what do you what are you doing on

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Speaker 1: the phone?

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Speaker 3: I had my Norse stand up some apps for me.

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Speaker 3: When she comes in, I g if I want to

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Speaker 3: please can if I want Pandora? I talk to my

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Speaker 3: phone okay. And I don't know if this is a

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Speaker 3: good phone or not. I like the I like the

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Speaker 3: d flip five because it got that prolable front clean

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Speaker 3: and I don't want to get your apps on it

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Speaker 3: or not?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's a great question. So here's the thing. So

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Speaker 1: you've got the fold three, which is a couple of

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Speaker 1: the changes on the three to the five. So the

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Speaker 1: inside screen is identical, it's going to be the same size.

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Speaker 1: The outside screen is much bigger on the five. So

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Speaker 1: are you able to see the screen at all or no?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I think the bigger screen would actually be

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Speaker 1: a better thing for you, especially given the the eye condition.

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Speaker 3: So I'm blinded one eye and I got doc coma

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Speaker 3: in my right eye down.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think the bigger screen. I think the

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Speaker 1: bigger screen would serve you well otherwise. Okay, So that's

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Speaker 1: the next part I was going to get to.

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Speaker 3: So, and I have one other question for you. Do

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Speaker 3: it very important for me?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 3: Okay, right right? I did mine. Take I I redeede

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Speaker 3: my incoming and out going calls so people don't get

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Speaker 3: in my phone and be knowed, you know what I mean? Sure,

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Speaker 3: And I adjectantly hit the content. Oh what do you

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Speaker 3: call it? Where you save your addresses or your phone numbers?

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Speaker 1: And so yeah, sure, like the contact information.

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Speaker 3: Contact contact, I deleted them all. So I went in

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Speaker 3: right away and said all the places that I want

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Speaker 3: to uh call, you know, like my hospital, my plan,

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Speaker 3: my cousins, you know. Okay, but the numbers show up

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Speaker 3: and let me give you the name bad.

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Speaker 1: I will, I will tell you. Okay, So let me

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Speaker 1: let me answer your first question. So the first question

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Speaker 1: about the upgrade, Uh, I think that the outer screen

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Speaker 1: and it will probably be easier to see because it

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Speaker 1: is considerably larger. Now, you said you're still paying on

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Speaker 1: your old phone. Samsung is giving a pretty aggressive trade

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Speaker 1: in credit for your old phone six hundred dollars to

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Speaker 1: be exact, So depending on how much you got to

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Speaker 1: do the math. So this phone is one thousand bucks

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Speaker 1: phoneus how much you owe or I guess plus how

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Speaker 1: and see if it's worth it to do that. So

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Speaker 1: let's say this one thousand bucks minus six hundred, that'd

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Speaker 1: That means this phone be six hundred dollars. I know,

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Speaker 1: I just did that math very quick, but you got

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Speaker 1: to figure out if that's worth it. Now, there may

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Speaker 1: on the Samsung offer programs. They've got education, government, military, employee,

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Speaker 1: first responder, I'm not sure maybe veteran that might apply,

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Speaker 1: but you can look into those as well. Now, your

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Speaker 1: second quest question about the contacts. Google stores a backup

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Speaker 1: of your contacts, even if you delete them. So what

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Speaker 1: I want you to do is go to Contacts dot

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Speaker 1: Google dot com and you should be able to find

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Speaker 1: a backup of your contacts that you deleted and you

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Speaker 1: should be able to restore those contacts from there. So again,

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Speaker 1: Contacts dot Google dot com is where you go to

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Speaker 1: find a backup of your contacts. That is, given you're

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Speaker 1: using Google Contacts, but since you're on an Android phone,

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Speaker 1: that's typically how they're backed up. Greg and des Moines,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for calling today. All right, coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we are going to talk to Oliver Merlin. He is

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Speaker 1: the guy who basically put on IFA twenty twenty three.

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Speaker 1: So we're here in Berlin. IFA is the big tech

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Speaker 1: trade show. Coming up. Oliver Merlin, Managing director of EFA Management,

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Speaker 1: will tell you all about what EFA is here for.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech, Rich DeMuro here on location in Berlin at

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Speaker 1: EFA twenty twenty three. This is a massive tech show.

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Speaker 1: And joining me now is Oliver Merlin, Managing director for

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Speaker 1: EFA Management. Thanks so much for joining me.

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Speaker 7: Today, pleasure, Good morning, how are you.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing great? So this is my first time to Berlin,

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Speaker 1: first time to EFA. Explain this show to someone who

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Speaker 1: hasn't been.

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Speaker 7: Right sure, well, first of all, welcome, thank you for coming.

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Speaker 11: EFA is the biggest consumer electronics and home appliances tech

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Speaker 11: show in the world.

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Speaker 1: And so twenty six floors of things to see everything

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Speaker 1: from smart appliances, gadgets, healthcare. Is there any way to

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Speaker 1: see it all?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 11: Absolutely, Bring lots of pairs and comfortable shoes and download

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Speaker 11: the app and you'll find your way around, no problem.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So explain to me what is here and listen.

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Speaker 11: Everything from gaming consoles to frich freezer's washing.

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Speaker 7: Machines, smart living, Internet of Things.

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Speaker 11: You've heard of all of these things, right, this is

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Speaker 11: where you come to see them all living and breathing.

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Speaker 1: What are the trends you're seeing with this year's exhibitors.

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Speaker 11: There's been two huge trends this year that have blown

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Speaker 11: almost everything else side of the world. Honestly, sustainability is

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Speaker 11: obviously the first one. Almost all of our exhibitors are

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Speaker 11: talking about sustainability, and the really enlightened ones are really

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Speaker 11: taking this so seriously. They know that consumers have put

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Speaker 11: sustainability at their number.

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Speaker 7: One priority when it comes to perching.

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Speaker 11: It's gone beyond brand or pricing or brand loyals or

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Speaker 11: anything like that.

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Speaker 7: Now sustainability is right up there.

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Speaker 11: If you haven't got a credible story about it, the

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Speaker 11: consumers will look elsewhere.

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Speaker 7: So that's number one. The second one is AI. Right.

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Speaker 11: Nobody was talking about AI year ago, and now AI

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Speaker 11: is everywhere. Everybody's grandmother is an expert on AI, right,

1043
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Speaker 11: and everybody's scared AI is going to end the world.

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Speaker 7: Those two are probably the biggest by far.

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Speaker 1: Give me an idea for some of the numbers. This

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Speaker 1: is a very large show, a lot of exhibitors, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of people come from around the world to

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Speaker 1: see this.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's incredible.

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Speaker 11: So this whole we've taken every square centimeter that we

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Speaker 11: can good of the MESA Berlin.

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Speaker 7: It's about one.

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Speaker 11: Hundred and thirty thousand square meters. We've got two and

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Speaker 11: fifty nine exhibitors coming from forty eight countries, and we're

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Speaker 11: hoping for Again, these are projections because we don't know

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Speaker 11: until we get to the.

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Speaker 7: End of the five days.

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Speaker 11: Something like one hundred and eighty thousand people to come

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Speaker 11: through the door over the five days, right, So that's

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Speaker 11: an incredible amount of people from over one hundred countries.

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Speaker 11: I think maybe something like one hundred and forty countries

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Speaker 11: around the world.

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Speaker 7: It's a truly, truly huge event.

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Speaker 11: There are very few events of this size and scale

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Speaker 11: around in the industry, and certainly in this industry, and

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Speaker 11: this is the biggest.

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Speaker 1: One of the unique aspects of EFA is that the

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Speaker 1: public is allowed to attend. Unlike a lot of other

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Speaker 1: shows trade shows, public isn't invaded. So what does that

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Speaker 1: add to the mix.

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Speaker 11: Well, we've only believe that EFA is actually the best

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Speaker 11: trade show for consumer electronics and.

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Speaker 7: Home appliances in the world.

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Speaker 11: But really, you know, as events develop and face to

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Speaker 11: face comes back and people really want to return to

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Speaker 11: events and trade shows, that's not enough just being a

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Speaker 11: trade show, right, So we really think about the consumer.

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Speaker 11: We've always had the consumer at the heart of what

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Speaker 11: we do, and our customers, you know, they have.

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Speaker 7: To think about the consumer. This is essentially a consumer industry.

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Speaker 11: So the show runs from a Friday to a Tuesday,

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Speaker 11: and in the middle of that is a weekend, and

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Speaker 11: obviously most consumers will tend to come on the weekend.

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Speaker 11: They can actually come any of the five days, but

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Speaker 11: we feel that that gives us a really really nice feel.

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Speaker 11: We feel that in the future the balance between B

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Speaker 11: to B and B two Z is going to blur,

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Speaker 11: and so we encourage us a general mixing of all

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Speaker 11: different points of view that encourage our exhibitors to really

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Speaker 11: think about the consumers, not just their trade.

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Speaker 7: Fuyers and charges consumers to come and.

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Speaker 11: See the latest innovations and what their TVs might look

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Speaker 11: like next year and the year after, what robots are happening,

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Speaker 11: you know, what the latest tech really is.

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Speaker 1: How do you balance the tradition of the show but

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Speaker 1: also innovation for the next year. You always want to

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Speaker 1: build upon it.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, absolutely so. EFHA is a show that's actually been

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Speaker 11: going ninety nine years. Obviously, there's a few years they've

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Speaker 11: been interrupted, and for a while the show is every

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Speaker 11: other year. So there's a huge amount of history and

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Speaker 11: tradition that's associated with EFA. Albert Einstein, for example, was

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Speaker 11: one of the first openers, the keynote speakers of ef

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Speaker 11: and we've got some tremendous speakers going back through history.

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Speaker 11: Various Prime ministers have opened the show and.

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Speaker 7: All those sorts of things.

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Speaker 11: However, the bedrock of the show is innovation, what's going

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Speaker 11: to happen tomorrow, what's happening next year, what's happening in

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Speaker 11: the year after, Right, So we like to pride ourselves

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Speaker 11: on the fact of that, the historical association of EFO

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Speaker 11: with Berlin and this amazing venue, plus with the fact

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Speaker 11: that we're always looking forward.

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Speaker 1: You've got also an area where you're fixing different devices.

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Speaker 1: Tell me about that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, So one of the things that we do

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Speaker 11: is that, you know, again going back to this idea

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Speaker 11: of the balancing the trade show with adding some new things.

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Speaker 7: So the Mend and repair shop.

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Speaker 11: That you refer to, we partner with the local Menda

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Speaker 11: Repair Cafe in Berlin, and the Menda Repair Shop sits

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Speaker 11: within the Sustainability Village.

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Speaker 7: The Sustainability Village.

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Speaker 11: Is a particular zone several thousand square meters in Hall

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Speaker 11: two where you can go and listen to all of

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Speaker 11: our exhibitors talking about sustainability, world experts and sustainability talking

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Speaker 11: on the sustainability stage. And within that there's a Menda

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Speaker 11: Repair shop where I think predominantly local people, right, I

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Speaker 11: don't expect people have taken the plane with their washing machine,

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Speaker 11: but Berliners and German people and maybe some people have

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Speaker 11: come from Europe can bring their hair dryers, gaming consoles,

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Speaker 11: you know, small things they might bring that are broken

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Speaker 11: or it needed a bit of a TLC and they

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Speaker 11: can take them to the Menda repair shop right there.

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Speaker 1: And then can you give us a sneak peak of

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Speaker 1: what's to come for next year?

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Speaker 7: Well?

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Speaker 11: Next year is the one hundredth year obviously of EFO,

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Speaker 11: so it's going to be truly enormous. I think one

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Speaker 11: of the things we haven't focused on so much this

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Speaker 11: year is the outside area, which at Messer Berlin we've

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Speaker 11: got a tremendous kind of opportunity to use a fantastic garden. Generally,

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Speaker 11: thing ascross the weather is okay, you'll see a lot

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Speaker 11: of more use of the outdoor space.

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Speaker 7: I don't want to give too much away, but in

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Speaker 7: terms of a kind.

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Speaker 11: Of festival vibe, if you like concerts and things like that,

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Speaker 11: you'll see us majoring on that. And I think just

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Speaker 11: being the one hundredth year, you'll see also a lot

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Speaker 11: more activations within.

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Speaker 7: And in and around the city of Berlin.

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Speaker 1: As you've organized this and talked to these companies and

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Speaker 1: kind of gotten sneak peaks of what they're going to

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Speaker 1: show off anything that's really kind of caught your eye.

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Speaker 11: Well, look, I think the thing is with technology, there

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Speaker 11: are periods where, you know, sort of like if you

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Speaker 11: look at when the advent of the smartphone happened, right,

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Speaker 11: all the technology is suddenly left right, And I think

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Speaker 11: you're going to see that in the next year, probably

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Speaker 11: to eighteen months with AI.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 7: So, a lot of our big home appliance companies have

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Speaker 7: been talking about.

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Speaker 11: The Internet of Things and smart things and smart homes

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Speaker 11: all these things. Now I don't think that's really, you know,

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Speaker 11: really caught fire.

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Speaker 7: I think with the advent of AI that you're.

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Speaker 11: Going to see that enormously in the next year or two,

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Speaker 11: and I think that will really power their businesses and

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Speaker 11: obviously for one hundred and one hundred and one as

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Speaker 11: we go along like that.

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Speaker 1: And finally, let's talk Berlin for a moment. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you're from here, but you probably know this city

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Speaker 1: pretty well at this point. So what is Berlin all about?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I can't quite yet do the JFK. It

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Speaker 11: could be nine in Berlin. I mean, you know, so

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Speaker 11: I've been here for about a year now and I

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Speaker 11: love it, you know, it's I'm from London and it's

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Speaker 11: it's strange. It's got a lot of similarity to London,

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Speaker 11: many many different types of areas within the city, a

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Speaker 11: lot of vibrancy. You feel the history and you're wandering

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Speaker 11: around and you just feel that kind of you know,

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Speaker 11: intensity about the city.

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Speaker 7: It really kind of lives and breathes. You really feel that.

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Speaker 7: And IFA has.

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Speaker 11: Been here in IFA is at Berlin Institute if you like,

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Speaker 11: one of the first things that I did in my role,

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Speaker 11: because I've partnered with the city and you can become

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Speaker 11: a partner of the City of Berlin. And we've tried

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Speaker 11: to set up, as I said, this platform Berlin Tech

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Speaker 11: Week where we do various activations around the city. That

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Speaker 11: Iconic Platz is and there's a Soho house in Berlin

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Speaker 11: so doing things there. We've got a gaming afternoon at

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Speaker 11: a place called Level Lvl. There's any of your listeners

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Speaker 11: that know Berlin a little bit, a big gaming impouring

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Speaker 11: where we're.

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Speaker 7: Doing some things there.

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Speaker 11: So we're really trying to make that close association with

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Speaker 11: the city.

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Speaker 7: You know, we have a really good advantage Berlin.

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Speaker 11: It's one of those cities that really lends itself to

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Speaker 11: you know, it would be a shame to not use Berlin.

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Speaker 1: If someone wants to come for next year, do you

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Speaker 1: already have the dates?

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Speaker 11: Yes, it's the sixth to the tenth next year, so

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Speaker 11: slightly later for your listeners that want to come from

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Speaker 11: the US. I think there's no clash with Labour Day,

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Speaker 11: which sometimes you know, stops people coming from the US.

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Speaker 11: So yeah, sixth and tenth of September, Marketing and daries

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Speaker 11: please come.

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Speaker 1: Oliver Merlin, Managing director for EFA Management, Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today.

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Speaker 7: Thanks very much. Be an absolute pleasure.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 1: If you want to learn more about IFA twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: three or plan your trip for twenty twenty four, go

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Speaker 1: to my website for more information. Rich on Tech dot

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Speaker 1: TV more rich On Tech show coming up right after this.

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

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Speaker 1: technology at triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: I'm told Green Day also German. Wow, the things you'll

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Speaker 1: learn when you travel. Let's go to line three. Patty

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Speaker 1: is in Santa Clarita, California, back home.

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Speaker 9: Welcome to the show, Patty, Hi, thank you so much,

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Speaker 9: so I'm hoping you can explain things in terms that

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Speaker 9: I can understand, because I just don't get it. I

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Speaker 9: got a new show because I went swimming with my

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Speaker 9: old phone and my iPhone, and so I restored them backup,

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Speaker 9: and none of my old text message threads came back.

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Speaker 9: So I went to the Apple store and he was

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Speaker 9: helping me out, and he said, it's something that needs

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01:03:17,640 --> 01:03:19,840
Speaker 9: to go to the next level because they can try

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Speaker 9: to retrieve it from a different place that it gets stored.

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Speaker 9: Even though I have my backups always on and I

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Speaker 9: have my messages safe forever, they're no longer there. So

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Speaker 9: I've had two people try to help me to try this,

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Speaker 9: try this. Why didn't it back up? And how do

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Speaker 9: I prevent this from happening in the future.

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Speaker 6: Well, number one way to get them?

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Speaker 1: Well there may be a way. So, okay, you got

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Speaker 1: to explain number one, what happened to the old phone?

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Speaker 1: Because phones, you know, the most of them are water

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Speaker 1: resistant at this point, So what was it? An older device?

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Speaker 6: Right?

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Speaker 9: It was an older one. It was an iPhone eleven

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Speaker 9: and I guess it was in the water for too long.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that that can explain it.

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Speaker 9: So it got Yeah, so I couldn't transfer from that phone.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So most phones are water resistant for about thirty

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Speaker 1: minutes in the water, so now they could last longer

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Speaker 1: depending on the situation and how deep it is. But basically,

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Speaker 1: the deeper the phone goes and the longer it's in

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Speaker 1: there are the deeper it is, the shorter it's going

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Speaker 1: to be okay, because it more pressure builds up on

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Speaker 1: the phone. So that's what's happening there. So the phone

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Speaker 1: was a total loss, Like they couldn't retrieve anything.

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Speaker 9: I could not turn anything on, and it was not

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Speaker 9: like thirty minutes. It was like at the most ten

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Speaker 9: minutes in the water.

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Speaker 3: But I tried.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, So how did you restore the new phone?

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Speaker 10: To back it up?

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Speaker 9: I mean went to back up from one of the

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Speaker 9: previous backups, like July twenty first, I had a backup

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Speaker 9: to like twenty eighth, there was a backup, okay, So

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Speaker 9: we tried to life eight. Didn't happen, was it?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: From iCloud everything okay, always keep that up.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And so do you have now you have that

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Speaker 1: in iCloud? Do you have the uh, let's see, do

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Speaker 1: you do you ever connect your phone to the computer

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Speaker 1: if you have a backup there.

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Speaker 9: I do have a backup there. I didn't connect it

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Speaker 9: to the computer, but I try to access my messages

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Speaker 9: on iCloud and I couldn't find them there. There's no

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Speaker 9: there's no icon for I message when I go to iCloud.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, I know. This is the this is the

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Speaker 1: beauty of what Apple has done here. They've made this

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Speaker 1: incredible messaging service that is incredibly frustrating. Yeah, because people

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Speaker 1: don't know where their messages are. They don't know how

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Speaker 1: to find them. They're not. You would think you could

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Speaker 1: just go to iCloud dot com and they would all

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Speaker 1: be there, but of course they're not. You would think

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Speaker 1: that you would be able to just open up the

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Speaker 1: backup that they do on your computer and find your messages.

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Speaker 1: You cannot. You would think that they would allow a

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Speaker 1: third party app to go in on your phone and

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Speaker 1: download your messages for safe keeping. They do not. Now

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Speaker 1: some of this is because of security reasons, but most

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Speaker 1: of it is because of Apple's stubbornness. Here's what I think.

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Speaker 1: Number one, do you have messages in iCloud enabled on

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Speaker 1: your phone? That's my first question. I do, And are

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Speaker 1: you okay? So have you gone to I have to

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Speaker 1: remember how to do this. I've gotta. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to your Apple I D and you go to

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Speaker 1: iCloud and then show all messages, is that toggled.

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Speaker 9: On on my phone?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 9: Yes, well it is now at least I mean I know,

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Speaker 9: I know I had it. I'm so sure that I

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Speaker 9: had it because I am and how much?

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Speaker 1: Okay, can you go to your phone? Can you go

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Speaker 1: to your phone right now and see that? Because I'm

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Speaker 1: curious what it says about managed storage?

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Speaker 9: Okay?

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Speaker 6: Hold on, let me check.

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Speaker 1: I guess my phone. Okay. So you go to settings

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Speaker 1: and then iCloud. Okay, that's the thing at the top.

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Speaker 9: Okay, let me find it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean Apple ID, it says, he says settings

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Speaker 1: Apple ID at the top, and then iCloud okay, and

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Speaker 1: then show all apps using iCloud click show all Yes,

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Speaker 1: and now that okay. Now when you tap that, does

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Speaker 1: it say sync this phone? And how much managed storage

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Speaker 1: are you using? Up there?

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Speaker 9: It says, yes, I think this sto managed storage? One

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Speaker 9: point four do the bikes?

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Speaker 1: Okay? So one point four gigs? I have nine gigs, which, yeah,

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Speaker 1: so I'm not sure that your messages are are there. Right,

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Speaker 1: Here's what here's what I recommend if you want to

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Speaker 1: see if these are on there. There's a couple of

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Speaker 1: things you do. Do you do you have an Apple computer?

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Speaker 1: I do, okay, So on your Apple computer, there is

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Speaker 1: the same thing. If you go into your settings and

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Speaker 1: you can go into your messages and there is a

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Speaker 1: little I a little selection that says messages in the cloud.

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Speaker 1: You toggle that on and it will attempt to download

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Speaker 1: all of your messages from iCloud to your computer. That's

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Speaker 1: one way. The other way. The other way is there's

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Speaker 1: an app called Amazing, and this is a paid app,

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Speaker 1: so it's gonna cost you some money, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's about maybe thirty bucks. But you can download that

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Speaker 1: and you can take that backup that you have from

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Speaker 1: your computer and you can have this app analyze it

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Speaker 1: and see if those messages are there. So that's another way,

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Speaker 1: but I would only do that as your last resort.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 1: The other thing you can do is you can go

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Speaker 1: to something like an iPad and try to toggle on

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Speaker 1: and off the messages in the cloud and see if

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Speaker 1: they show up. But this is this is I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: it's not just you, Patty, there is no easy way

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Speaker 1: to do this, and so I'm trying to explain it

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Speaker 1: in the simplest terms. But these things are locked away

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Speaker 1: in a system that nobody knows how to access. And

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Speaker 1: I love the Apple said, you know the escalation all

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01:09:00,200 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: this stuff like, I'm not really sure what that means,

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01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:06,320
Speaker 1: but you know, these are the places that you can

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Speaker 1: look for these. But it sounds like you've got a

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Speaker 1: gig of messages and I'm not sure how many messages.

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Speaker 1: How long have you been using this new phone?

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Speaker 9: Oh, just like a month?

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Speaker 1: Okay. The other thing you can do is if you're

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Speaker 1: still are you still on your iPhone?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 7: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to iCloud okay, okay, and it

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Speaker 1: says device backups. Do you see that?

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Speaker 9: Get it again?

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Speaker 1: It says device backups yes, and then it says iCloud backup.

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Speaker 1: If you tap that, it should give you a list

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Speaker 1: of the older phones. Do you see your old phone

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Speaker 1: in there?

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Speaker 3: I do?

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Speaker 1: Okay? How many gigs is that?

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Speaker 9: It says fourteen gigs?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So there's a chance there's there's a chance that

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Speaker 1: your messages are still in that backup. So if you

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Speaker 1: try to restore you can either. I mean, I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: want to do this, but you can try restoring that

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Speaker 1: back to your phone and see if something got hiccuped

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Speaker 1: during the transfer that's annoying. You should probably use an

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Speaker 1: app like I amazing to extract that backup and then

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Speaker 1: see if it can find the messages. But again it

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Speaker 1: depends how valuable these messages are to you, because this

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Speaker 1: is a lot of work, and it may be worth

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Speaker 1: it to just kind of, you know, say this didn't

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Speaker 1: work out and it's unfortunate. But it's definitely frustrating, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. It's one of those things where I wish

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Speaker 1: I had a simple way. People ask me all the time,

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Speaker 1: how do I back up my eye messages? How do

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Speaker 1: I print them out? How do I do all this stuff? Yes,

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Speaker 1: third party programs can help you do it, but they

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01:10:45,360 --> 01:10:48,759
Speaker 1: are still not perfect, and they're expensive and they cost money,

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01:10:48,800 --> 01:10:52,120
Speaker 1: and they may not work. But the I Amazing is

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Speaker 1: probably your best bet if you want to try to

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Speaker 1: extract these messages from the old backup. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for the call today, appreciate it. Sorry that happened. I

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Speaker 1: think you were doing the right thing. You had the

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Speaker 1: backup on you had I message on you had the

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Speaker 1: I message in the cloud on, but somehow this all

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Speaker 1: got lost and it just shouldn't happen that way. Speaking

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Speaker 1: of text messages, you are going to be getting an

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Speaker 1: emergency test message very soon. FEMA and the FCC are

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01:11:21,720 --> 01:11:25,400
Speaker 1: conducting a test of the emergency alert system. If you

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Speaker 1: are in the Los Angeles well, this is nationwide, but

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Speaker 1: my point is if you are if you were in

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Speaker 1: the Los Angeles area over the past couple of weeks

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Speaker 1: when we had the earthquakes and the tropical storm and

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Speaker 1: the hurricane, you got a lot of these wireless alerts,

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Speaker 1: so you're pretty familiar with them. But FEMA's going to

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Speaker 1: do a nationwide test and this will be sent to

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Speaker 1: all cell phones in English and Spanish. They're also going

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Speaker 1: to broadcast it on radio and TVs nationwide. This is

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Speaker 1: the third and seventh test issued nationwide, so the third

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Speaker 1: for the wireless emergency alerts, the seventh for the the

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Speaker 1: one on TV, and basically they're just trying to make

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Speaker 1: sure this all works. I have a feeling it does,

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Speaker 1: and we're very familiar with it. But again, uh oh,

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Speaker 1: I should probably tell you the date October fourth, Did

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Speaker 1: I tell you that the message is going to say

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Speaker 1: this is a test. It's gonna appear for thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: It'll appear for a minute on TV and cable and radio.

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Speaker 1: But again, if you want to put it in your

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Speaker 1: calendar October fourth, hopefully they'll do it when we're asleep.

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Speaker 1: That would be very, very cruel. Hopefully it's during the day.

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Speaker 1: But no matter what, even when you know this is coming,

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Speaker 1: it still makes you jump because it's so jarring. You're

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Speaker 1: That's what a lot of folks are doing let's see. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm broadcasting live from Berlin, Germany, my first time here.

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Speaker 1: I've had more pretzels than I could ever imagine, than

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Speaker 1: you could ever imagine. I've had pretzels for breakfast, let's

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Speaker 12: You're on with rich Well Dudaben. Hey, I want to

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Speaker 12: ask you a question about if you're traveling to another

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Speaker 12: country like your you want to take your own phone.

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Speaker 12: Do you need to get a new SIM card or

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Speaker 12: do you need to rent a phone or what's the

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Speaker 12: best way to do it?

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Speaker 1: Good question. So a couple of things you need to do.

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Speaker 1: Number One, call your carrier. Start with that, because depending

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Speaker 1: on your carrier, many of them either include some level

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Speaker 1: of international calling these days, or they'll charge you ten

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Speaker 1: dollars a day if you take your phone to a

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Speaker 1: different country. Now, for some people they may say, okay,

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Speaker 1: that sounds really easy. Just keep in mind the data

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Speaker 1: is typically limited when you do that. I think it's

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Speaker 1: easier to get what's called an eSIM, so if your

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Speaker 1: phone supports it. An eSIM is basically something that you

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Speaker 1: just activate from an app on your phone. My favorite

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Speaker 1: app is called Rolo Ai r Alo. In fact, that

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Speaker 1: is powering the show right now. This show is running

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Speaker 1: off of an eSIM that I have purchased from them,

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Speaker 1: so the data is going strong. It works well. And

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Speaker 1: what you do is you buy that from your phone

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Speaker 1: before you leave the country. So you download the Aerlow app.

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Speaker 1: You type in the country or region that you're going to.

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Speaker 1: You can you know, it's basically cheaper to buy it

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Speaker 1: for the specific country than the region, and you type

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Speaker 1: that in. It tells you what your plans are. It's

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Speaker 1: usually pre paid. You you know, pay fifteen bucks for

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Speaker 1: five gigs of data, it lasts for a week. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you're paying fifty dollars for thirty days that you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty gigs of data. Whatever it is. They give you

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Speaker 1: the options. Once you purchase it, you then install it

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Speaker 1: on your phone. And the way you install it is

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Speaker 1: you just basically tap a link. It will install the

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Speaker 1: SIM card, the eSIM and then you don't need to

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Speaker 1: activate it until you get to the country that you're

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Speaker 1: going to use it. And so once you get off

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Speaker 1: the plane, what I do is I'll toggle off data

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Speaker 1: roaming for my primary carrier, and that way I could

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Speaker 1: still use Wi Fi calling and I'll get my texts

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Speaker 1: through the Wi Fi and then you toggle on the

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Speaker 1: eSIM and it will take a minute to kind of

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Speaker 1: find the network and turn on and activate, and then

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Speaker 1: you're good to go. Now, esimsically only work with data,

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Speaker 1: but I just actually open the airlow app and now

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Speaker 1: they give you a phone number two if you want,

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Speaker 1: so you can also roam with a foreign phone number

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Speaker 1: as well. Now I don't really think you need that

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Speaker 1: because you can easily just turn on your Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: calling and still get your phone calls through Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: of course, and your text messages through Wi Fi as well.

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Speaker 1: So it has gotten a lot easier to travel to

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Speaker 1: different countries because of eSIMs, because of the way phones work,

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Speaker 1: because of the roaming agreements. It used to be a

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Speaker 1: very expensive, very prohibitive and phones just didn't work in

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Speaker 1: different places. Now they work pretty much everywhere. Now. On

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Speaker 1: a separate note, there's another way you could do it.

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Speaker 1: You can get a hot spot. So I've been testing

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Speaker 1: this hot spot called Solace five G. SOLS Solace five

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Speaker 1: G hotspot and it looks like almost like a battery

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Speaker 1: bank with a screen and this has its own SIM inside.

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Speaker 1: And what you do is you go on their website

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Speaker 1: and you just say where you're going to go, and

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Speaker 1: you can buy data on this and it becomes your

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Speaker 1: own personal hotspot. You can connect up to sixteen different devices.

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Speaker 1: And I think what this is handy for is if

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Speaker 1: you are traveling with a family or a group, it's

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Speaker 1: much easier. Instead of buying everyone a simcard or an

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01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:36,680
Speaker 1: e SIM, you can just activate this, tell everyone to

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01:17:36,720 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 1: turn on their WiFi. You keep this in your backpack

1511
01:17:39,320 --> 01:17:43,400
Speaker 1: and everyone can hotspot off of this. So they would

1512
01:17:43,439 --> 01:17:46,400
Speaker 1: connect to the Wi Fi on this little device and

1513
01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:50,759
Speaker 1: the battery has lasted pretty long. It's also a battery

1514
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:54,479
Speaker 1: bank as well. So the plans. Now, the downside to

1515
01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: this Solas five G is that you have to go

1516
01:17:56,760 --> 01:18:01,840
Speaker 1: with their plans. And it's easier because it's simple, but

1517
01:18:02,040 --> 01:18:03,680
Speaker 1: you know it's going to cost you a little bit more. So,

1518
01:18:03,800 --> 01:18:07,479
Speaker 1: convenience always comes with a cost, and that's what this

1519
01:18:07,560 --> 01:18:10,439
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of convenience. It works everywhere you

1520
01:18:10,479 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 1: can purchase one plan, you can go to a bunch

1521
01:18:12,400 --> 01:18:16,200
Speaker 1: of different countries, and the data lasts, let's see by

1522
01:18:16,200 --> 01:18:19,200
Speaker 1: the month, the day, or the gigabyte, and so they

1523
01:18:19,200 --> 01:18:21,080
Speaker 1: have a whole bunch of plans that you can purchase.

1524
01:18:21,479 --> 01:18:23,680
Speaker 1: I think it's actually really cool. If you have a

1525
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,839
Speaker 1: bunch of devices like myself, If you bring a tablet,

1526
01:18:26,960 --> 01:18:30,080
Speaker 1: a laptop, a phone, you know you can connect them

1527
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:32,519
Speaker 1: all to this device and it'll work no matter where

1528
01:18:32,520 --> 01:18:33,959
Speaker 1: you go. So you just throw it in your backpack,

1529
01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 1: set it forget it now. Keep in mind, when you're

1530
01:18:36,720 --> 01:18:38,720
Speaker 1: in the hotel room most of the time you're going

1531
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,559
Speaker 1: to get free Wi Fi. And in fact, around Europe

1532
01:18:41,600 --> 01:18:45,440
Speaker 1: and many other countries, free Wi Fi is pretty ubiquitous,

1533
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 1: so you probably need less data than you think. I'm

1534
01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:51,439
Speaker 1: looking at the data eSIM that I bought. I bought

1535
01:18:51,479 --> 01:18:55,080
Speaker 1: a twenty gigabyte card and I've only used about fourteen

1536
01:18:55,280 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 1: on my phone that I was using a lot. I

1537
01:18:57,439 --> 01:18:59,240
Speaker 1: told you I was testing the pixel fold. I mean

1538
01:18:59,280 --> 01:19:02,639
Speaker 1: I was using that a lot. Oh one pro tip

1539
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,520
Speaker 1: you want to turn off if you're backing up your photos,

1540
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,800
Speaker 1: especially through Google Photos or these other apps. You want

1541
01:19:08,840 --> 01:19:13,080
Speaker 1: to turn off roaming. Do not back up your pictures

1542
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:17,200
Speaker 1: while you're roaming, and maybe turn off data backups completely

1543
01:19:17,600 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: unless you're on Wi Fi. So there's an option in

1544
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:23,720
Speaker 1: the settings to turn off cellular data backups on all

1545
01:19:23,760 --> 01:19:26,879
Speaker 1: these apps that back up your photos. You're on vacation

1546
01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:29,559
Speaker 1: or you're on a trip, you're taking a lot of pictures.

1547
01:19:29,600 --> 01:19:31,760
Speaker 1: If your phone is uploading all of those pictures in

1548
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 1: real time, not only is it going to burn through

1549
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:38,000
Speaker 1: your battery instantly, but it's also going to burn through

1550
01:19:38,000 --> 01:19:41,679
Speaker 1: your data really really fast. So those are a couple

1551
01:19:41,720 --> 01:19:43,519
Speaker 1: of the options that you have. They used to have

1552
01:19:43,520 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 1: another option where you could rent one of these Solas

1553
01:19:46,439 --> 01:19:49,480
Speaker 1: five G type devices and you can rent a hotspot.

1554
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,360
Speaker 1: A lot of times, they are not doing that anymore.

1555
01:19:52,360 --> 01:19:54,400
Speaker 1: A lot of the companies that were renting them have

1556
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:57,080
Speaker 1: gone out of business because data has gotten so cheap

1557
01:19:57,479 --> 01:20:01,200
Speaker 1: and eSIMs have gotten so easy, and finally, Downtown Brown,

1558
01:20:01,560 --> 01:20:03,760
Speaker 1: like you said, the other thing you can do is

1559
01:20:03,920 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: just buy a real SIM card and pop that into

1560
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:10,879
Speaker 1: your phone. And so you could typically at the airport

1561
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:14,240
Speaker 1: they'll have people selling SIM cards and they will help

1562
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:17,040
Speaker 1: you pop that into your phone. I think that's a

1563
01:20:17,080 --> 01:20:20,760
Speaker 1: little tricky because not every phone is unlocked. Not every

1564
01:20:20,800 --> 01:20:23,280
Speaker 1: phone works in every place, not every SIM card will

1565
01:20:23,280 --> 01:20:26,320
Speaker 1: work on your phone. So to me, I think the eSIM,

1566
01:20:26,320 --> 01:20:29,559
Speaker 1: if your phone supports it, is really the surefire way.

1567
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:31,720
Speaker 1: And I will tell you from experience. I don't want

1568
01:20:31,720 --> 01:20:34,599
Speaker 1: to put my mom on a blast here, but she

1569
01:20:34,800 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: went to Germany a while ago and she was able

1570
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:43,880
Speaker 1: to activate her eSIM herself. And so it was one

1571
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:45,919
Speaker 1: of these things where I was a little bit concerned

1572
01:20:46,200 --> 01:20:47,559
Speaker 1: because I set her up with it and I said,

1573
01:20:47,560 --> 01:20:48,800
Speaker 1: all you have to do is activate it when you

1574
01:20:48,840 --> 01:20:51,599
Speaker 1: get to the place you're going. And sure enough, it

1575
01:20:51,640 --> 01:20:54,040
Speaker 1: worked just fine, and it worked for her when people

1576
01:20:54,040 --> 01:20:56,360
Speaker 1: in her group could not figure out their text or

1577
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 1: their their data. So that was pretty cool. Great question.

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01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling from Durango, Colorado. Today. Let me tell

1579
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:07,040
Speaker 1: you about Google. This was a very popular story I

1580
01:21:07,080 --> 01:21:09,720
Speaker 1: did on TV and I think you probably want to

1581
01:21:09,720 --> 01:21:12,040
Speaker 1: know about it. Google has this new feature that lets

1582
01:21:12,040 --> 01:21:16,080
Speaker 1: you remove your personal information from their Google Search results.

1583
01:21:16,479 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 1: This is information like your phone number, your email, your

1584
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: home address. Just go ahead and search yourself. You'll find

1585
01:21:22,200 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: all kinds of results with your personal information in it.

1586
01:21:25,360 --> 01:21:28,120
Speaker 1: Now Google is making it much easier to get this

1587
01:21:28,439 --> 01:21:31,600
Speaker 1: out of their search results. Now I say that specifically,

1588
01:21:31,920 --> 01:21:34,639
Speaker 1: it does not delete it from the website that posted it,

1589
01:21:34,920 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 1: but it makes it a lot tougher for people to

1590
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:39,040
Speaker 1: find it because it's not going to show up when

1591
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 1: someone searches your name and address or phone number, and

1592
01:21:42,439 --> 01:21:45,040
Speaker 1: it won't show up in those search results. So this

1593
01:21:45,120 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: is a free service. It's called Results about You. Google

1594
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:52,840
Speaker 1: introduced it last year. It was much more complicated. Now

1595
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:56,720
Speaker 1: it is much easier. Google will actually once you tell

1596
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: them your name, your phone number, your address, your email.

1597
01:21:59,280 --> 01:22:01,559
Speaker 1: You can put in multi variations. I know you have

1598
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 1: to trust Google to give them that information, but they

1599
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,000
Speaker 1: say they're not going to use it for anything else.

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01:22:06,280 --> 01:22:08,320
Speaker 1: But once you put that information in there, it will

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01:22:08,360 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: search the web on a daily basis to see if

1602
01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:14,040
Speaker 1: new sites pop up with your info, and if it does,

1603
01:22:14,120 --> 01:22:16,000
Speaker 1: it'll send you an alert and you can say, oh,

1604
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,600
Speaker 1: can you get rid of that? And they will in

1605
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:21,639
Speaker 1: many cases take it down, not all cases, but in many.

1606
01:22:22,000 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 1: So here's how you do this. Open up the Google

1607
01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:27,799
Speaker 1: app on your phone, iOS or Android, tap your profile

1608
01:22:28,120 --> 01:22:31,080
Speaker 1: icon in the upper right hand corner, and then select

1609
01:22:31,200 --> 01:22:34,240
Speaker 1: the option for Results about You. It'll say that in

1610
01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:36,600
Speaker 1: the menu You follow the steps to put in your

1611
01:22:36,640 --> 01:22:38,840
Speaker 1: personal information, and then you sit back and you wait.

1612
01:22:39,240 --> 01:22:41,599
Speaker 1: Google will send you an alert when it has crawled

1613
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:43,840
Speaker 1: the web for your information, and it will say do

1614
01:22:43,840 --> 01:22:46,160
Speaker 1: you want us to remove these? You select the ones

1615
01:22:46,200 --> 01:22:48,360
Speaker 1: that you want to remove, and you press submit and

1616
01:22:48,400 --> 01:22:50,519
Speaker 1: Google will send you an email letting you know if

1617
01:22:50,560 --> 01:22:53,080
Speaker 1: they've removed them or not. This is not the end

1618
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,120
Speaker 1: all to get your personal information off the internet, but

1619
01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,679
Speaker 1: it is a very good step in the right direction

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01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:02,080
Speaker 1: of of cleaning up some of that mess that you

1621
01:23:02,080 --> 01:23:04,680
Speaker 1: see on all these people find our websites. Again, it's

1622
01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:06,439
Speaker 1: not going to take it down off of those, but

1623
01:23:06,479 --> 01:23:08,400
Speaker 1: it will take it off Google search results, which is

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01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:11,320
Speaker 1: where ninety nine percent of people look when they're starting

1625
01:23:11,320 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 1: a search for someone. So again this is called Google

1626
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Speaker 1: Results About You. If you want those step by step

1627
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Speaker 1: on Tech coming your way from Berlin, Germany. Welcome back

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01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:01,000
Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here at talking technology

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01:24:01,120 --> 01:24:06,120
Speaker 1: with you. Let's go to UH line to Sylvie in

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01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: San Diego, California. Sylvie, you're on with Rich.

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01:24:10,640 --> 01:24:14,880
Speaker 13: I'm wondering about a recommendation for a video doorbell. The

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01:24:15,000 --> 01:24:19,200
Speaker 13: only one I'm really familiar with is ring, and then

1643
01:24:19,240 --> 01:24:22,679
Speaker 13: I'd also would like to plug in somehow to hear

1644
01:24:22,720 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 13: it upstairs when the doorbell rings.

1645
01:24:28,000 --> 01:24:30,200
Speaker 1: Okay, well it sounds like you want to ring, because

1646
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 1: that's exactly what they do. I think ring. They invented

1647
01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:37,760
Speaker 1: this genre of doorbells, and I still think they are

1648
01:24:37,800 --> 01:24:42,120
Speaker 1: one of the best. So okay, there you know some

1649
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:46,400
Speaker 1: people you know. It depends kind of depends what ecosystem

1650
01:24:46,400 --> 01:24:48,639
Speaker 1: you're in. Are Do you have any smart home products?

1651
01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 3: Yes, like what.

1652
01:24:54,240 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 13: Sonos We have another door bell, but I can't hook

1653
01:25:01,720 --> 01:25:03,720
Speaker 13: up to it, so I want to replace it.

1654
01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 1: And what do you mean you can't hook up to it.

1655
01:25:07,760 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 13: On my phone? For some reason? Only my husband can

1656
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:13,799
Speaker 13: hook up to it, and it doesn't have the option

1657
01:25:14,280 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 13: of it doesn't ring, so if I don't have my

1658
01:25:18,280 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 13: phone near me, I don't hear it.

1659
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:21,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely a problem.

1660
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 13: Ring on my phone. It only rings on his.

1661
01:25:26,840 --> 01:25:28,840
Speaker 1: Now, do you want to do hardwired or do you

1662
01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:29,800
Speaker 1: want to do wireless?

1663
01:25:32,640 --> 01:25:35,439
Speaker 13: Probably wireless. I don't think we have the wiring.

1664
01:25:36,520 --> 01:25:39,679
Speaker 1: Okay, I think the ring is probably your best bet.

1665
01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:42,920
Speaker 1: The main thing is that you're probably going to have

1666
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:48,120
Speaker 1: to subscribe to their basic service, which is I think

1667
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: it's anywhere between twenty to forty dollars a year at

1668
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:53,479
Speaker 1: this point. I know everyone has raised prices, so i'd

1669
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 1: have to I have to check to see what the

1670
01:25:55,520 --> 01:25:57,960
Speaker 1: price is at this point. But what I like about

1671
01:25:57,960 --> 01:26:01,720
Speaker 1: the ring doorbell is it simple. It's ubiquitous. You know

1672
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:03,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people have them, so there's a lot

1673
01:26:03,280 --> 01:26:06,200
Speaker 1: of them out there. They work well, They work across

1674
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:09,479
Speaker 1: multiple phones, so if your husband wants to check it

1675
01:26:09,520 --> 01:26:11,400
Speaker 1: on his phone, you want to check it on your phone,

1676
01:26:11,439 --> 01:26:14,439
Speaker 1: you can do that. You can keep it pretty secure

1677
01:26:14,479 --> 01:26:17,920
Speaker 1: because they enable a two factor by default, which means

1678
01:26:18,439 --> 01:26:21,280
Speaker 1: other folks can't look at what's happening on your doorbell

1679
01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,960
Speaker 1: and they have that chime. So if you want to

1680
01:26:24,000 --> 01:26:28,320
Speaker 1: have it ring upstairs where you want to be, that's

1681
01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:29,640
Speaker 1: a good way to do it. You just plug in

1682
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:31,880
Speaker 1: the little chime, you hook it up. It's very very simple,

1683
01:26:32,320 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: activate it in the app, and now you can hear

1684
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:36,880
Speaker 1: your doorbell anywhere in the home. It's funny because they

1685
01:26:36,920 --> 01:26:38,640
Speaker 1: didn't have that when it first came out. And when

1686
01:26:38,640 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: I first got this thing, I was like, wait a second,

1687
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:43,679
Speaker 1: I have to have my phone, Like, what if there's

1688
01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 1: like a babysitter in the house, how are they going

1689
01:26:45,360 --> 01:26:47,640
Speaker 1: to hear the doorbell? Not that I really want them

1690
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:50,840
Speaker 1: opening the door, but you know what I mean, Yes,

1691
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:53,240
Speaker 1: does that sound like something that will work?

1692
01:26:54,160 --> 01:26:56,800
Speaker 13: Yes, it does. I know Ring was sold and so

1693
01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,799
Speaker 13: I didn't know if it was still the same good company.

1694
01:27:01,000 --> 01:27:04,400
Speaker 1: Well yeah, I mean, look it's it's owned by Amazon now,

1695
01:27:04,479 --> 01:27:07,920
Speaker 1: so there is some debate over you know, and the

1696
01:27:07,960 --> 01:27:10,880
Speaker 1: founder recently left. So I mean that, you know, it

1697
01:27:10,920 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 1: tells you something. But I will tell you that I

1698
01:27:13,600 --> 01:27:15,760
Speaker 1: test a lot of stuff. I still think that the

1699
01:27:15,800 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: Ring video doorbell has some of the best features. It's

1700
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:22,479
Speaker 1: the simplest and they, you know, as much as they

1701
01:27:22,479 --> 01:27:26,400
Speaker 1: are now pushing the subscription side of things. More, I

1702
01:27:26,439 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: think that they've got a lot of accessories, They've got

1703
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: a lot of you know, and a lot of people

1704
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:32,640
Speaker 1: using them, and so I think in a lot of

1705
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 1: different versions too, So it depends you can you can choose.

1706
01:27:35,240 --> 01:27:37,120
Speaker 1: You can go on their website and see all the

1707
01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: different doorbells they have. They used to have one, but

1708
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:42,160
Speaker 1: now they've got, you know, several doorbells. And the cool

1709
01:27:42,160 --> 01:27:45,440
Speaker 1: thing is too, is that it does work with Alexa,

1710
01:27:45,600 --> 01:27:48,720
Speaker 1: it does work with other items in sort of their

1711
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:52,400
Speaker 1: their ecosystem is is huge at this point, and so

1712
01:27:52,720 --> 01:27:55,160
Speaker 1: you can get lights, you can get cameras, so you

1713
01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:57,760
Speaker 1: can build upon the video doorbell, which is of course

1714
01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 1: what they want you to do. So the basic video

1715
01:28:00,600 --> 01:28:03,920
Speaker 1: doorbell looks like it's about seventy bucks. They go up

1716
01:28:03,960 --> 01:28:07,000
Speaker 1: to one hundred and sixty. The new one is the

1717
01:28:07,120 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 1: video Doorbell four and those are the wireless ones. And

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01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:14,800
Speaker 1: what I recommend pro tip is to get two batteries

1719
01:28:15,320 --> 01:28:17,960
Speaker 1: so that you can swap out the battery without having

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Speaker 1: to wait to recharge. And I can't take credit for

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01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,320
Speaker 1: that idea. What's up?

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01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:24,880
Speaker 13: Well, I was going to ask you you can put

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01:28:24,880 --> 01:28:28,639
Speaker 13: them anywhere you don't need a power source because their

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01:28:28,720 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 13: battery yep, rechargeable.

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01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:35,960
Speaker 1: Exactly, yep, yep. Now I wish the battery recharged faster,

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01:28:36,000 --> 01:28:38,599
Speaker 1: and I wish to recharge with USBC. Maybe the new

1727
01:28:38,640 --> 01:28:41,160
Speaker 1: ones do, but mine does not. But I can't take

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01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:43,680
Speaker 1: credit for the two battery set up. That was my

1729
01:28:43,760 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 1: friend Brian when he came over and he said, hey,

1730
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:48,639
Speaker 1: you know, I said, oh, my ring. The only thing

1731
01:28:48,680 --> 01:28:51,120
Speaker 1: is that you guys switched the battery out. Depending on

1732
01:28:51,760 --> 01:28:55,519
Speaker 1: the battery lasts anywhere between three and six months. Now

1733
01:28:55,560 --> 01:28:58,040
Speaker 1: that is a wide range, and it could last even

1734
01:28:58,120 --> 01:29:03,120
Speaker 1: less depending on how all often you have your device

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01:29:03,200 --> 01:29:07,240
Speaker 1: set to record, how long you're making these recordings, and

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01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 1: also if your doorbells in direct sunlight, that will wear

1737
01:29:11,360 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 1: down the battery faster too, But in general you'll probably

1738
01:29:15,240 --> 01:29:17,400
Speaker 1: get around three to six months, depending on how much

1739
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,840
Speaker 1: you're using this thing. I find that I get on

1740
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:22,760
Speaker 1: the lower end. I would say probably at this point,

1741
01:29:22,800 --> 01:29:25,200
Speaker 1: I'm getting like two months. But my batteries are a

1742
01:29:25,200 --> 01:29:28,240
Speaker 1: little bit older, and I do have it. My car

1743
01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:31,240
Speaker 1: got hit outside my house. That was a story I

1744
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:34,439
Speaker 1: told in this radio show. And of course, you know,

1745
01:29:34,520 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: I like to have my thing running a little bit

1746
01:29:36,160 --> 01:29:39,120
Speaker 1: more these days because of that incident where it did

1747
01:29:39,120 --> 01:29:41,240
Speaker 1: not record because I had it set to not record

1748
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:46,040
Speaker 1: as much. Anyway, that's my problem, Sylvie, not yours. Are

1749
01:29:46,080 --> 01:29:47,280
Speaker 1: you excited for this doorbell?

1750
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:48,280
Speaker 8: Yes?

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01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: Yes, I think you'll like it all right. Thanks for

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01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 1: the call, Sylvie. Check it out ring video doorbell and

1753
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:57,960
Speaker 1: also get the chime and the secondary battery and I

1754
01:29:58,000 --> 01:30:00,960
Speaker 1: think you'll be set up pretty well. Coming up on

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01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: the show, we are going to talk to Mark Vina.

1756
01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:09,800
Speaker 1: He is the principal analyst at his own company, tech

1757
01:30:10,280 --> 01:30:13,680
Speaker 1: smart Tech Research. Mark is a great guy. Met him

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01:30:13,680 --> 01:30:17,120
Speaker 1: this week at IFA. Very smart guy. We're gonna talk

1759
01:30:17,160 --> 01:30:20,280
Speaker 1: about the show. We're gonna talk about what Apple's doing.

1760
01:30:20,560 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about AI whole bunch of stuff coming up.

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Speaker 1: Right here, you are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome

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01:30:31,760 --> 01:30:35,280
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech, Rich DeMuro on location here

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01:30:35,320 --> 01:30:39,240
Speaker 1: in Berlin at IFA twenty twenty three. We are on

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01:30:39,320 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 1: the show floor. Joining me now is Mark Vina, principal

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01:30:42,520 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 1: analyst at Smart Tech Research. Mark. Thanks so much for

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01:30:45,880 --> 01:30:46,400
Speaker 1: joining me.

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01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:49,080
Speaker 2: Rich, Thank you for having me all right.

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Speaker 1: So, IFA twenty twenty three, this is my first year here.

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01:30:52,640 --> 01:30:54,760
Speaker 1: This is a large show, the only thing I really

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01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,719
Speaker 1: have to compare it to is CEES. How are they different?

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01:30:58,560 --> 01:31:01,400
Speaker 14: It's a tough compare because she yes, Obviously, it really

1772
01:31:01,400 --> 01:31:03,920
Speaker 14: caters to a US audience. It's a very much a

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01:31:03,920 --> 01:31:07,120
Speaker 14: B to B type of event, so consumers technically can't

1774
01:31:07,120 --> 01:31:10,280
Speaker 14: go to CEES. What I love about efan I've been

1775
01:31:10,280 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 14: coming here many years, is that it's got a tremendous

1776
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 14: international flavor, a lot of legacy. The show goes back

1777
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:17,280
Speaker 14: to nineteen twenty four.

1778
01:31:17,400 --> 01:31:19,479
Speaker 2: The first color.

1779
01:31:19,800 --> 01:31:23,320
Speaker 14: Television was introduced here, the first European car radio was

1780
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:25,760
Speaker 14: introduced here, So it really has kind of a not

1781
01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:28,400
Speaker 14: only an international flavor, but it has a strong entrepreneurial

1782
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:31,559
Speaker 14: and innovative spirit. So not to say the cs IS

1783
01:31:32,760 --> 01:31:34,960
Speaker 14: doesn't have an equal level of innovation, but it really

1784
01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:37,280
Speaker 14: is a kind of different show because of the cultural

1785
01:31:37,360 --> 01:31:38,720
Speaker 14: international aspect of it.

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01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they really play up the fact that it takes

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01:31:41,000 --> 01:31:43,880
Speaker 1: place in Berlin and also the public is allowed to

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01:31:43,880 --> 01:31:45,400
Speaker 1: come to this show, which is one of the biggest

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01:31:45,439 --> 01:31:48,280
Speaker 1: questions I get about CES every year. People see it

1790
01:31:48,320 --> 01:31:49,760
Speaker 1: on TV and they say can I go, And I

1791
01:31:49,800 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 1: say sorry, it's press only in analysts. What do you

1792
01:31:53,400 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 1: make of the fact that the public is invited here.

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01:31:56,400 --> 01:31:59,160
Speaker 14: I think that's a huge differentiator and I wish CES

1794
01:31:59,200 --> 01:32:01,720
Speaker 14: would do that, but they will. I think it's a

1795
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:03,760
Speaker 14: great way to be able to see things in action.

1796
01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:08,040
Speaker 14: There's no substitute. Despite the Internet, despite surfing and exploring

1797
01:32:08,040 --> 01:32:10,240
Speaker 14: and getting information on the web, there's nothing like touching

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01:32:10,240 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 14: and feeling products. And for example, if you're interested in

1799
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 14: the smart appliance for your kitchen, seeing just the incredible breadth.

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Speaker 2: Of products around here, there's no substitute.

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01:32:21,320 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 1: For seeing that in person and also being able to

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01:32:23,600 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 1: talk to someone immediately. So if you're on YouTube, if

1803
01:32:26,520 --> 01:32:28,800
Speaker 1: you're online, you're reading a whole bunch of stuff. But

1804
01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:30,519
Speaker 1: to be able to talk to someone from the company

1805
01:32:30,520 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 1: and ask the questions that you have to me as

1806
01:32:32,800 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 1: a journalist, I always find that invaluable.

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01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:35,760
Speaker 2: That's a huge deal.

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01:32:35,840 --> 01:32:38,880
Speaker 14: And in addition to that, I would also say competitive comparisons.

1809
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:41,040
Speaker 14: So you can go to LG, you can go to

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01:32:41,080 --> 01:32:43,559
Speaker 14: with Samsung Boo if you can see Hire, which is

1811
01:32:43,560 --> 01:32:46,559
Speaker 14: obviously a big European brand out here, and actually see

1812
01:32:46,600 --> 01:32:48,720
Speaker 14: the different models that compete with each other in one

1813
01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:50,120
Speaker 14: exact in one location.

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Speaker 1: How has this show changed over the years, because in

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01:32:53,840 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: years past. When I tell people about EPA, they say, yeah,

1816
01:32:55,880 --> 01:32:58,519
Speaker 1: it's a lot of appliances. Has that changed?

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01:32:58,880 --> 01:32:59,639
Speaker 2: It has changed.

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01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:01,639
Speaker 14: I'd be going to the show for about just five

1819
01:33:01,720 --> 01:33:04,000
Speaker 14: years and the show has evolved quite a bit.

1820
01:33:04,560 --> 01:33:05,720
Speaker 2: Now it has a.

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01:33:05,720 --> 01:33:08,120
Speaker 14: Very strong smart home flavor to it, a very strong

1822
01:33:08,240 --> 01:33:12,160
Speaker 14: smart home component to it. I would say focus on sustainability.

1823
01:33:12,520 --> 01:33:15,000
Speaker 14: Just about every vendor here is not only offering great

1824
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:18,720
Speaker 14: technology products that solve real problems, but sustainability, which is

1825
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 14: a huge, huge deal Europe, is absolutely reflected in the

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01:33:22,200 --> 01:33:24,280
Speaker 14: products that you see here. So that's become a big,

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01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 14: big tenant here.

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Speaker 1: There's the irony of sustainability with you know, products that

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01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:31,360
Speaker 1: you throw out or you know, people don't repair their

1830
01:33:31,400 --> 01:33:32,719
Speaker 1: tech as much these days.

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01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:35,439
Speaker 2: That's exactly right, That's exactly right. And I think the

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01:33:35,520 --> 01:33:36,519
Speaker 2: thing that folks.

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Speaker 14: Don't realize just we're talking about smart smart appliances, it's

1834
01:33:40,479 --> 01:33:43,519
Speaker 14: not just about convenience. The smart applying products, just to

1835
01:33:43,560 --> 01:33:47,200
Speaker 14: focus on that for a second, are incredibly efficient. I mean,

1836
01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 14: without even ignoring the productivity advantages you get from the

1837
01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:51,360
Speaker 14: smart aspect of it.

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01:33:51,400 --> 01:33:52,480
Speaker 2: That it can do certain.

1839
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 14: Things with AI and other capabilities that are interesting. Now,

1840
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:58,519
Speaker 14: if you're replacing a refrigerator at that's fifteen or twenty

1841
01:33:58,600 --> 01:34:01,000
Speaker 14: years old, You're going to see your savings and I

1842
01:34:01,040 --> 01:34:04,040
Speaker 14: would I would encourage people to check that out because

1843
01:34:04,240 --> 01:34:06,719
Speaker 14: it's just a huge opportunity that some people just don't appreciate.

1844
01:34:07,080 --> 01:34:10,160
Speaker 1: AI is obviously a big part of things. What do

1845
01:34:10,160 --> 01:34:13,120
Speaker 1: you make of the recent developments in AI? And do

1846
01:34:13,160 --> 01:34:13,960
Speaker 1: you see that here?

1847
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:15,080
Speaker 2: Yes, you do.

1848
01:34:15,640 --> 01:34:17,600
Speaker 14: I think you see in a very smart and intelligent

1849
01:34:17,640 --> 01:34:21,680
Speaker 14: way here. Uh, the AI category I'm in love with.

1850
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:26,000
Speaker 14: I think it offers enormous advantages and productivity benefits.

1851
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:28,000
Speaker 2: There are aspects of AI that.

1852
01:34:28,080 --> 01:34:30,800
Speaker 14: Concern me a bit in terms of deep fakes and

1853
01:34:30,840 --> 01:34:32,960
Speaker 14: things like that that have obviously have a very negative

1854
01:34:33,000 --> 01:34:36,320
Speaker 14: connotation to it. But the AI thing is here to stay,

1855
01:34:36,800 --> 01:34:38,760
Speaker 14: and you see it actually integrated and a lot of

1856
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,200
Speaker 14: different products that are very very practical. For example, I

1857
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:44,320
Speaker 14: saw a demo the other day that they showed a

1858
01:34:45,120 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 14: robot vacuum that was intelligent enough to know that Let's

1859
01:34:48,520 --> 01:34:50,800
Speaker 14: say you it scanned your you gave it access to

1860
01:34:50,840 --> 01:34:53,599
Speaker 14: your email. Let's say you had a party the night

1861
01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:56,639
Speaker 14: before without you telling it, it would know the following

1862
01:34:56,680 --> 01:34:58,280
Speaker 14: day you know you had a party, so you probably

1863
01:34:58,280 --> 01:35:00,840
Speaker 14: want to get to the living room back. So that's

1864
01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 14: a very very interesting productive way that you were seeing

1865
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:05,920
Speaker 14: and doing. It's being integrated into products in a very

1866
01:35:06,000 --> 01:35:06,679
Speaker 14: useful manner.

1867
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:10,600
Speaker 1: I would have never thought vacuum would want access to

1868
01:35:10,640 --> 01:35:15,120
Speaker 1: my email, but maybe my calendar. I'll start out slow now.

1869
01:35:15,280 --> 01:35:17,240
Speaker 1: One of the things that's really interesting about all of

1870
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Speaker 1: these tech trade shows is Apple. They pretty much don't

1871
01:35:21,280 --> 01:35:23,479
Speaker 1: attend in a big way with a booth or anything

1872
01:35:23,520 --> 01:35:26,400
Speaker 1: like that, but they really have an impact on every show.

1873
01:35:27,080 --> 01:35:27,960
Speaker 2: That's very interesting.

1874
01:35:28,000 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 14: You know, Apple does cast a very long shadow even

1875
01:35:30,640 --> 01:35:32,080
Speaker 14: when they're not here, they are here.

1876
01:35:32,720 --> 01:35:33,840
Speaker 2: It's hard not to.

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01:35:33,800 --> 01:35:36,200
Speaker 14: Go into a booth here, regardless of what the product

1878
01:35:36,240 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 14: is and not see that the vendor or fering the solution,

1879
01:35:39,280 --> 01:35:41,800
Speaker 14: regardless of what it is, is not compatible in the

1880
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 14: Apple ecosystem in some way.

1881
01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:43,720
Speaker 7: You have to be.

1882
01:35:43,800 --> 01:35:44,960
Speaker 2: It's almost like table stakes.

1883
01:35:45,160 --> 01:35:47,080
Speaker 14: If you're not part of the Apple ecosystem and you're

1884
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:50,840
Speaker 14: not compatible in some way, you know pretty much you

1885
01:35:50,880 --> 01:35:53,360
Speaker 14: box yourself out from a pretty significant portion of the market.

1886
01:35:53,400 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 14: So even though they're not here, and by the way,

1887
01:35:55,800 --> 01:35:58,120
Speaker 14: there probably is Apple people here kind of checking things out.

1888
01:35:58,200 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 14: You know, they don't wear identification, But I am sure

1889
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:02,880
Speaker 14: there are Apple pbo here because it's such.

1890
01:36:02,760 --> 01:36:03,320
Speaker 2: A big event.

1891
01:36:03,680 --> 01:36:06,760
Speaker 14: But every vendor here has an Apple element or an

1892
01:36:06,760 --> 01:36:09,000
Speaker 14: Apple attribute to their presence here at the show.

1893
01:36:09,560 --> 01:36:11,760
Speaker 1: Now, speaking of Apple, a couple of big changes. We

1894
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:14,759
Speaker 1: have a big event coming up from them on September twelfth.

1895
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:18,200
Speaker 1: USB C is rumored to be a major switch for

1896
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 1: the iPhone and also Apple Vision Pro. Will we get

1897
01:36:21,120 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 1: an update on that? First off, the USB C, what

1898
01:36:24,200 --> 01:36:25,800
Speaker 1: impact do you think that's going to have on the

1899
01:36:25,840 --> 01:36:26,719
Speaker 1: electronics world.

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Speaker 14: Well, I can tell you for myself personally, They'll probably

1901
01:36:28,920 --> 01:36:30,600
Speaker 14: be about ten pounds worth of cable, so I'll be

1902
01:36:30,640 --> 01:36:32,800
Speaker 14: able to get out of my bag as we kiss

1903
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,280
Speaker 14: Lightning the Lightning interface goodbye.

1904
01:36:35,680 --> 01:36:36,559
Speaker 2: You know again.

1905
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:39,280
Speaker 14: I doubt that will be the only announcement they make

1906
01:36:39,320 --> 01:36:42,400
Speaker 14: as part of the iPhone fifteen refresh. There are rumors

1907
01:36:42,439 --> 01:36:46,360
Speaker 14: around a much better camera, a telescoping lens for better

1908
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:48,200
Speaker 14: zooming quality that I'll be interesting to see.

1909
01:36:48,280 --> 01:36:50,759
Speaker 1: They're not going to go one hundred times like Samsung though, Oh.

1910
01:36:50,800 --> 01:36:51,680
Speaker 2: I doubt they'll do that.

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01:36:52,080 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 14: I think that's going to be interesting is that there

1912
01:36:55,360 --> 01:36:57,920
Speaker 14: is some rumors that the price points may be going up.

1913
01:36:58,560 --> 01:37:03,240
Speaker 14: They may be adding kind of a iPhone Pro ultra Moniker,

1914
01:37:03,320 --> 01:37:06,080
Speaker 14: which that's a translation for we can raise the price

1915
01:37:06,120 --> 01:37:08,519
Speaker 14: one hundred and two hundred dollars. So I know the

1916
01:37:08,520 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 14: Apple's not immune to inflation. It's probably infecting them that way.

1917
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:14,360
Speaker 14: But they want to continue to innovate, of course, and

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01:37:14,439 --> 01:37:16,680
Speaker 14: I think they'll be bringing some interesting technology. And they

1919
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:19,400
Speaker 14: have to because, as you know, the smartphone category is

1920
01:37:19,439 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 14: flattening out. They have a very strong presence in the

1921
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:25,680
Speaker 14: high end part of the smartphone market, and the only

1922
01:37:25,720 --> 01:37:27,960
Speaker 14: way you maintain that presidency you have to continue to innovate.

1923
01:37:28,800 --> 01:37:32,080
Speaker 1: Apple Vision Pro this is there. They don't call it VR,

1924
01:37:32,160 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 1: but it's VR ar headset. You got a demo, I

1925
01:37:35,240 --> 01:37:37,840
Speaker 1: got a demo. It's pretty incredible. Do you think we'll

1926
01:37:37,840 --> 01:37:40,639
Speaker 1: get an update on the progress at this year's event.

1927
01:37:41,400 --> 01:37:42,519
Speaker 2: I think we'll see something.

1928
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 14: I think we'll get some type of feedback on how

1929
01:37:45,960 --> 01:37:48,479
Speaker 14: they're doing with developers. I mean, there's been some news

1930
01:37:48,520 --> 01:37:53,400
Speaker 14: reported recently that the developers who have gotten demo units

1931
01:37:53,800 --> 01:37:56,000
Speaker 14: are freaking out in a positive way over.

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Speaker 2: What they get, what they can play with.

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Speaker 14: Because I'll remind the audience here that Vision is a

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01:38:00,800 --> 01:38:03,240
Speaker 14: literally a spatial computer that sits on your head. This

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Speaker 14: is not just an accessory like an Oculus quest or

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Speaker 14: some of the other hear this out there. It's really

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Speaker 14: meant to be a computer in many, many different ways.

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Speaker 14: And when you're if you're a developer and you have

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Speaker 14: access to that type of technology, the applications are.

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Speaker 2: Just mind blowing in terms of what we'll see.

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Speaker 14: So I suspect we'll probably get an update on the

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Speaker 14: developer component to it that they announced at WWDC.

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Speaker 1: Okay, back here to IFA, twenty six different halls, one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty thousand square meters. There is a lot

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Speaker 1: to see here? Is there any way to see it all?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 14: The advice I give people who are lucky enough to

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Speaker 14: come to this show is you have to almost treat.

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Speaker 2: It like a trip to Disney World.

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Speaker 14: You know, you've got the Magic Kingdom, you've got to

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Speaker 14: have Cut Center, and then a.

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Speaker 2: Number of other parks.

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Speaker 14: You really can't knock it off from one day.

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Speaker 1: All right, Now, maybe I'm nostalgic about, you know, the

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Speaker 1: days of tech past, But because I was watching that

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Speaker 1: movie BlackBerry, and then I watched Tetris. You've been doing

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Speaker 1: this for a while. How do you think the tech

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Speaker 1: industry has changed over the years.

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Speaker 14: In some ways, it's different in many ways. It's rise

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Speaker 14: and repeat, you know, from a technology standpoint. You know,

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Speaker 14: when I walk around and I look at going to

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Speaker 14: and see different products. You know, I was involved with

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Speaker 14: a lot of the early consumer computers at Compac and

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Speaker 14: at Dell years ago. And while the devices have gotten

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Speaker 14: smaller and more efficient, the battery life have gotten longer.

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Speaker 14: You know, silicon and silicon software is software. There's much

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Speaker 14: more of a consumer flavor today than there was maybe

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Speaker 14: twenty years ago with different products. So the consumerization of

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Speaker 14: technology is much more prominent today than it was back

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Speaker 14: in the day.

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Speaker 1: Mark Vina, a principal analyst at Smart Tech Research. How

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Speaker 1: can folks find your podcast?

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Speaker 14: They can find me on my YouTube channel at a

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Speaker 14: smart Tech Check podcast, Very very popular.

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Speaker 2: Well, it's free, please.

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Speaker 14: Sign up and you can find me on Twitter or

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Speaker 14: x as it's now called at Marketing the Tech don

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Speaker 14: All right.

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Speaker 1: Mark, thanks so much for joining me today at IFA

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Speaker 1: more Rich on Tech come in your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here closing

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Speaker 1: out the show from Berlin, Germany, wanted to tell you

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Speaker 1: about one product that I saw here that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people know it's getting a lot of

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Speaker 1: press because it's kind of nice. You can turn your

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Speaker 1: old speakers into Airplay compatible speakers. It's from a company

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Speaker 1: named Eve. They make a bunch of smart home devices.

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Speaker 1: They announce the Eve Play. So this adds Airplay two

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Speaker 1: capabilities to existing speakers with digital and analog outputs. It

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Speaker 1: that means that you can connect basically your old speakers

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Speaker 1: and make them modern. So with Airplay too, you could

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Speaker 1: do multi room audio. You can also pair them with

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Speaker 1: HomePods and other Airplay speakers. This is going to go

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Speaker 1: on sale November fourteenth, twenty twenty three. That's well, that's

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Speaker 1: this year for one hundred and fifty bucks. This is

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Speaker 1: called eve Play ev E. I've got a couple of

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Speaker 1: things from Eve in the house. They were a big

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Speaker 1: home kit producer and now they're doing everything with matter

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Speaker 1: so that's the new smart home standard. Anyway, Eve Play.

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Speaker 1: If you've got some old speakers you want to bring

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Speaker 1: them into the modern world, you can do that with

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Speaker 1: their new system. Gosh, I saw a lot of stuff

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'll talk more about the products I saw

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Speaker 1: next week because that'll give me time to put them

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Speaker 1: on KTLA and then that way you can see video

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Speaker 1: of these things. But I'm also going to post them

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Speaker 1: to my social media as well. All right, let's get

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Speaker 1: to the feedback segment. Let's see Paul says, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I'm preparing for a cross country trip. I was wondering

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Speaker 1: if you know of any route planning sites or app

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Speaker 1: that would be good for identifying tourist attractions along possible

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Speaker 1: routes for the trip.

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Speaker 7: Oh, yes, I do.

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Speaker 1: I did a story about this a couple years ago,

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Speaker 1: and I've used a bunch of these apps. The first

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Speaker 1: one is Roadsideamerica dot com. This will give you offbeat

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Speaker 1: kind of things to find, you know, like the largest

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Speaker 1: ball of twine. Then there's Atlas Obscura. This has twenty

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Speaker 1: four thousand curious and unexpected places. You can get that

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Speaker 1: on your phone as well. Atlas Obscura road Trippers is

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Speaker 1: a good planning guide. They have three hundred extraordinary places.

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Speaker 1: They also say they've been to these places, so they

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Speaker 1: tell you a little bit more about that. Indispensable is

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Speaker 1: an app called I Exit. This is an app that

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Speaker 1: will tell you what's up ahead at the exit. So

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Speaker 1: if you want to find that Krispy Kreme or that

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Speaker 1: Chick fil A or that specific as food place, that cinnabon,

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Speaker 1: this will tell you what's up ahead and the gas prices,

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Speaker 1: so you may be able to save a couple of

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Speaker 1: bucks just by stop at a gas station. That's you know,

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Speaker 1: two exits ahead instead of one. And finally, another one

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Speaker 1: is called Audio a u TiO. Kevin Costner actually had

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Speaker 1: a hand in this app. This is ten thousand location

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Speaker 1: based audio stories. So when you're driving through a place,

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Speaker 1: it will give you little audio snippets of cool things

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Speaker 1: that happened or the history or you know, interesting attractions.

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Speaker 1: That's called Audio au TiO. Used to be called here

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Speaker 1: here I believe, and now it's called audio. The other

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Speaker 1: one I would I would tell you that's incredible and

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Speaker 1: I've been using it on this trip well, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about on the show we didn't interview, but it's

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Speaker 1: called guide geek dot ai and if you want a

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Speaker 1: really smart travel assistant to ask a bunch of stuff too.

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Speaker 1: I have been using this all week here in Berlin

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Speaker 1: and it is really really cool. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: I'll put all those on the website as well. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Stephanie says, I'm currently going on a work related trip

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Speaker 1: and we'll be leaving my children at the care of

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Speaker 1: their nanny. Do you have any suggestions for a good

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Speaker 1: discrete camera that has a long lasting battery for about

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Speaker 1: two weeks? Stephanie, Well, I don't know. I guess I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I can condone the spying on the nannycam,

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Speaker 1: but if you have to, there's a website called spyguy

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Speaker 1: dot com. Spy guy dot com. They made their name

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Speaker 1: with a little camera thing that you can look for

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Speaker 1: hidden cameras and airbnbs and it's called Scout. But they

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Speaker 1: also sell a whole bunch of hidden cameras that you

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Speaker 1: can prouse on their website again, spy guy dot com.

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Speaker 1: All right, now for some comments, let's see. Oh gosh,

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Speaker 1: so many. Greg says, I took your recommendation for the

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Speaker 1: Google Pixel tablet on Amazon Prime Day. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: the recommendation. It's my first tablet. I'm very happy. Okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: The Google Pixel is their return to tablets. Tom says, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: glad you had a safe journey to Berlin. I assume

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Speaker 1: you went on United all the way. Did you have

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Speaker 1: a chance to check out other carriers en route? Could

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Speaker 1: you please tell me the name of that twelve South

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Speaker 1: bluetooth transmitter for the airplane? Thank you, Tom. I did

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Speaker 1: take United all the way very smooth. It was a

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Speaker 1: connecting flight and I had no issues whatsoever. It was

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Speaker 1: I love when that happens, when it was just literally

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Speaker 1: comfortable from takeoff to landing both times and really really

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Speaker 1: no issues whatsoever. Thank you United for that. It's called

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Speaker 1: the twelve airfly by twelve twelve South airfly is the

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Speaker 1: bluetooth transmitter. Let's see em says when you're talking about

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Speaker 1: the Rob Thomas being from Germany, you said, where's my bell?

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Speaker 1: But they had applause instead. We could hear the applause.

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Speaker 1: H Bobo, that's that's you know what. Look when you're

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Speaker 1: when you're doing a show from Berlin. We've got people

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Speaker 1: all over the world doing this show right now coordinating.

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Speaker 1: So I'm I'm just glad we got the show. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna work on drops a little bit more. Bobo,

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Speaker 1: I know likes doing them. We haven't really coordinated that

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Speaker 1: so we will, we will coordinate more drops.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Stephen says Rich, I listened to you all the time,

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Speaker 1: but could you improve your show by pausing between sentences

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Speaker 1: some silence and try to cut out. But you know

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Speaker 1: and so well, but you know, so Stephen, you do

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Speaker 1: the show. It's tough. I'm a TV guy. I'm learning radio,

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Speaker 1: so you know. There you go. Jim says, hey, it's

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Speaker 1: actually pronounced yeomen. Oh this was from last week. I

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Speaker 1: said yeoman. I guess what does that mean? Yeomen yeoman.

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Speaker 1: That means uh, a servant in a royal or noble household. Okay, oh,

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Speaker 1: someone called me a yeoman. I called a yeoman. It's

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Speaker 1: a yeoman. Thanks for that. Let's see. Ron says, I

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Speaker 1: have a Note on my Samsung nine. I'm disappointed that

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Speaker 1: I've had the phone three years, bought it new for

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Speaker 1: one thousand bucks. Now they say they're not going to

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Speaker 1: support it and do updates. These phone companies expect you

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Speaker 1: to renew your phone every couple of years. I guess

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Speaker 1: this phone for one thousand dollars should last me ten years.

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Speaker 1: I like the Note nine because it has a headphone jack,

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Speaker 1: which the new ones do not. And if you want

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Speaker 1: to get radio like talk radio. Yeah, I like that,

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Speaker 1: and over the airwaves. The headphone acts like the antenna.

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Speaker 1: In addition, when you upgrade to new phones, you lose

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Speaker 1: information and apps. You have to redo everything. It's a

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Speaker 1: real pain in the neck. Oh I should know, Ron,

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Speaker 1: because I do that like every three weeks when I'm

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Speaker 1: testing out a new phone. I agree, But I do

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Speaker 1: think phones last pretty long. Three years and a lot

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Speaker 1: of the carriers now are or a lot of the

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Speaker 1: phone makers are given like four years maybe five of

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Speaker 1: security updates. I got to check on Samsung, though, but

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Speaker 1: they are doing pretty well. Note nine has been out

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Speaker 1: for a while. Let's see here. Randy says, someone asked

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Speaker 1: about clean up tools for their Windows PC. Let me

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Speaker 1: give you my list. Did I already mention this? Bleach bit,

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Speaker 1: auto runs, glary utilities, malware bytes, revo on installer, cleaning

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Speaker 1: out all of the apps you do not use in

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Speaker 1: the Window. Apps that come with Windows should be removed

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Speaker 1: if you do not use them. I would agree with that,

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Speaker 1: all right, if you can believe it, that is going

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Speaker 1: to do it for this episode of the show. You

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Speaker 1: can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Just go to richontech dot TV. This is show number

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Speaker 1: thirty five. We're still a baby here. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see my Berlin trip in quite detail,

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Speaker 1: I just made a highlight so if you go to

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Speaker 1: my profile it says Berlin It's got the Pretzel. You

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Speaker 1: can check out all the cool stuff I did here.

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Speaker 1: I'll be back in the States next week gearing up

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Speaker 1: for events from Apple and Google. Thank you so much

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Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend

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Speaker 1: your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here

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Speaker 1: with me. I know, believe me. I just read a

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Speaker 1: small sample of the many, many messages I get every

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Speaker 1: week via email, Instagram, text, whatever. Thank you. Thank you

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Speaker 1: to everyone who makes this show possible, including Kim, Bobo,

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Speaker 1: Bill and an army of engineers, especially when I'm halfway

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Speaker 1: across the world from Berlin, Germany. My name is rich Dumuro.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon.