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Speaker 1: I'd like to remember a colleague of mine, Sam Rubin.

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Speaker 1: Those in Los Angeles know him best as a longtime

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Speaker 1: entertainment anchor at KTLA, the TV station that I've worked

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Speaker 1: for for thirteen years. Sam was also on this very

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Speaker 1: Sam's segment would often run right before mine, and we

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Speaker 1: in particular Rivian, but we also chatted about all kinds

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Speaker 1: were going with my career and lately this show. Sam

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Speaker 1: always had a smile on his face. He had a

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Speaker 1: sharp sense of humor and a wide range of knowledge

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Speaker 1: about people and places. I've never told anyone this story publicly,

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Speaker 1: but Sam would often go longer than his allotted segment time.

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Speaker 1: The guy like to talk something that would cut into

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Speaker 1: the time of my segment, and early on in my

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Speaker 1: career at KTLA, when I ask the producers about this,

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Speaker 1: they politely told me that Sam is the show, and

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Speaker 1: I guess that's right. I always have KTLA on in

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Speaker 1: the background all morning while I'm at work, and when

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Speaker 1: Sam comes on, the volume goes up. Sam died unexpectedly

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Speaker 1: at sixty four. They say life is short, but in

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Speaker 1: his case, it was way too short. Please let your friends,

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Speaker 1: your family, your colleagues know how much you love, appreciate

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Speaker 2: Embrace the people around you every day.

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Speaker 1: Ah, When something like this happens, it tells me that

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Speaker 1: we as humans are not truly equipped to understand the

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Speaker 1: mystery of our existence here. But we can love, we

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Speaker 1: can find joy and connection. We can help others and

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Speaker 1: make the most out of every moment we have. And now,

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Speaker 1: as they say, on with the show, Apple unveils new iPads,

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Speaker 1: Google has a five hundred dollars phone, and Sam's song

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Speaker 1: rolls out a major update for older devices. There's a

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Speaker 1: new cellular plan that gives you calling and texting for free,

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Speaker 1: plus access to essential apps. We'll explain five G home Internet,

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Speaker 1: and of course your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This

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

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

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Speaker 1: tech should be interesting, useful, and fun. Let's open up

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Speaker 1: If you have a question about technology. Email is also open.

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Speaker 1: Guests this week include Chris Sheldric, creator of the app

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Speaker 1: called What Three Words. He's gonna explain how to use

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Speaker 1: it to tell someone your exact location using three simple words. Later,

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Speaker 1: Eli Blumenthal of cnet will explain how your cell phone

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Speaker 1: carrier tracks you and how to change that, and later

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Speaker 1: in the show, Michael Motamedi we'll talk about how he

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Speaker 1: traveled the world for a year using AI. This week,

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Speaker 1: Apple held an event virtually called let Loose, and it

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Speaker 1: Rich Dmiro and you are listening to Rich on tech.

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Speaker 6: So I grew up on a farm where nobody finds

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Speaker 7: It could really really help.

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Speaker 1: Any locations you can rattle off the top of your

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Speaker 1: And how do people get these names? How do they

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Speaker 6: What three words has been really instrumental in a lot

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Speaker 6: of search and rescue situations because there are so many

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Speaker 6: times if you don't know where you are, you think

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Speaker 6: your cell phone might be able to communicate its exact location,

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Speaker 6: but there are problems, and so if you're calling nine

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Speaker 6: on one in a lot of cases now you can

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Speaker 6: then give them the three words for exactly where you

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Speaker 6: are or where help is needed, and they will get

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Speaker 6: it straight to that point.

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Speaker 7: So I think in nearly all fifty.

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Speaker 6: States now we have search and rescue, police and many

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Speaker 6: other first responders using what three was on a daily basis.

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Speaker 1: And what about the partnerships with different automakers and like,

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Speaker 1: tell me where you're trying to go with us.

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Speaker 7: Well, we want what three was to be a global standard.

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Speaker 6: So whatever you put an address into, we want you

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Speaker 6: to be able to put a threeword address into it.

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Speaker 6: So for example, with auto makers like Mercedes, Benz with subru,

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Speaker 6: with Mitsubishi, Lotus, Lamborghini, you can now start putting three

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Speaker 6: addresses into your car. And we're also working with e

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Speaker 6: commerce and logistics players. So really it's trying to transform

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Speaker 6: the whole way that we think about addresses.

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Speaker 1: How has this journey been for you creating this product

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Speaker 1: and getting people to believe in it?

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Speaker 7: I mean creating what three words?

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Speaker 6: Has been this kind of mind blowing journey where we

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Speaker 6: came up with this concept of three words for any

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Speaker 6: ten for square in the world. To have household name

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Speaker 6: status in our home country in the UK is just

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Speaker 6: astonishing and to feel like this is really now coming

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Speaker 6: alive in the US, it's just truly awesome. So the

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Speaker 6: fact that it's car makers, the fact that it's national parks,

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Speaker 6: we've now stas, we're in pretty much every fifty states now,

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Speaker 6: it really feels like, well three words is coming to

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Speaker 6: the US in a huge way, and that's brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Once again.

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Speaker 1: That is Chris Sheldrick, creator of the app called What

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Speaker 1: three Words. I love this app. It's handy to have

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Speaker 1: on your phone. Get used to it, download it, and

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Speaker 1: you never know when you might need it, especially if

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Speaker 1: you like to hike or it's just we find useful

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Speaker 1: in this app. When my photographer and I are meeting

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Speaker 1: at a location, and let's say we're in like a

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Speaker 1: huge area where there's multiple entrances, I will share my

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Speaker 1: what three words location with him that's exactly where I am,

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Speaker 1: so that he can find me very easily instead of

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Speaker 1: trying to like walk all around looking for me.

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Speaker 2: So I'll put a link up on the website. Just

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Speaker 2: go to Rich on tech.

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Speaker 1: Dot tv, hit the light bulb that will take you

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Speaker 1: to the show notes for this show and you'll see

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Speaker 1: in real time the link to what three Words. All right,

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Speaker 1: before we go to break here, let me just tell

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Speaker 1: you about this. If you have an older Samsung phone,

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Speaker 1: they are just on a roll here with this AI

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Speaker 1: stuff Galaxy AI. So rolling out now is the new

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Speaker 1: update for one UI six point one and this is

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Speaker 1: going out to the Galaxy S twenty two series, the

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Speaker 1: Galaxy Z Flip four, the Galaxy Z Fold four and

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Speaker 1: tab S eight users. These are phones that came out,

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Speaker 1: you know, two years ago, and they are now getting

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Speaker 1: the update for Galaxy AI.

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Speaker 2: This means you're gonna get.

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Speaker 1: My favorite favorite favorite feature called Circle. To search with Google,

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Speaker 1: you literally just press a hold on the home button

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Speaker 1: and then just scribble on anything on your screen and

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Speaker 1: that will search it on Google, whether it's a picture, text,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is.

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Speaker 2: It's really a cool way to search.

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Speaker 1: Chat Assist, which can translate your text messages, Live Translate,

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Speaker 1: no Assist, Transcript Assist, browsing Assist, Generative Edit, which means

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Speaker 1: you can edit your pictures using AI and AI generated wallpapers. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is all rolling out to the Galaxy S twenty

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Speaker 1: two series, so if you have an older Samsung phone,

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Speaker 1: this isn't your app update. This is actually a software

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Speaker 1: update that is in the settings, So check it out.

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Speaker 1: Go there and definitely download that because it's almost like

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Speaker 1: getting a new phone with all these new AI features.

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Speaker 1: First thing you should try doing is recording something with

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Speaker 1: the voice recorder and then using AI to summarize it.

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Speaker 1: It is quite quite incredible. Eighty eight rich one O

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. The website for the show Richontech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media. I am at

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we're gonna get to those phone lines.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to John in Lake Forest, California. John, you're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich Hi Rich.

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Speaker 8: The situation I have is my mom's eighty nine years

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Speaker 8: old on the East Coast and she's got a problem

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Speaker 8: with QBC, Home Shopping Network, KTV all the rest of them,

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Speaker 8: and how do I dabypoof for TV too? So she

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Speaker 8: can't get on those channels?

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Speaker 1: What type of service is she using to watch these channels?

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Speaker 8: Like you said, on the East Coast or whatever, the

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Speaker 8: local cable is, like Verizon, that's the local cable there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so she's just using a cable box, yes, okay,

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Speaker 1: so like traditional cable comes into the house connected to

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Speaker 1: the box sort of.

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Speaker 8: Thing, simplic TV.

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Speaker 2: Okay, got it?

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Speaker 1: Uh, Well, look, without understanding exactly what Verizon offers, this

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Speaker 1: is gonna be something that you'd probably have to go

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Speaker 1: and do yourself, or do you have a family member

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Speaker 1: that might be able to go because This is gonna

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Speaker 1: be like a physical You're gonna have to go and

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Speaker 1: change some settings on there.

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Speaker 8: I can have somebody. I can have somebody to do that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I think this is gonna be It's gonna

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Speaker 1: sound silly, but you're probably gonna have to elve into

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Speaker 1: prontal controls on this cable box, and inside those prontal

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Speaker 1: controls will probably be a way to block these channels,

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Speaker 1: almost like restricting the access to certain rating. But most

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Speaker 1: of them have a channel have most cable boxes, I

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Speaker 1: would say, and even streaming devices have a way to

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Speaker 1: lock out certain channels with a PIN. So I think

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Speaker 1: that's gonna be the best way to do it is

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Speaker 1: to go into settings and look for the prontal controls.

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Speaker 1: You said it was a Verizon box. Prontal controls, I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming they have them built into that box. You have

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Speaker 1: you tried looking for that, Yeah, it looks like they

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Speaker 1: do have it on Verizon TV. Go into Menus, Setting System,

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Speaker 1: p Rental Purchase Controls and follow the TV prompts to

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Speaker 1: create your pin and then you can decide from there

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Speaker 1: what you want to restrict on there. Have you talked

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Speaker 1: to mom about this and what's her response.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's only five payments, five easy payments.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I get it.

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Speaker 1: I've seen these channels and I'm you know, every time

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Speaker 1: I flip through, I'm I'm taken in. I want to

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Speaker 1: buy this stuff and I don't even need it, so

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like a world people get involved in, right,

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Speaker 2: I keep.

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Speaker 8: Telling me, they do the super salespeople, you know, it's

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Speaker 8: it's just stuff that goes wow that I know somebody

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Speaker 8: who could use that And no, yeah, all right, it

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Speaker 8: was the menu settings and parental control.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I would look for and uh and

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Speaker 1: report back because I'm always curious, uh you know, if

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Speaker 1: that's the case. But I think you send someone over

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Speaker 1: there and just uh, you know, have them go through

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Speaker 1: the prontal controls and block out these channels. And I

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Speaker 1: don't think Mom's going to be that happy.

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Speaker 8: Oh no, oh no, But that's okay, We're ready for that.

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Speaker 1: It's it's wild how things come full circle here. You know,

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Speaker 1: parents have to have to take care of the kids,

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Speaker 1: and then the kids have to take care of the

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Speaker 1: parents at some point.

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Speaker 8: Yep, yep, that's that's what we're trying to do here.

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Speaker 2: All right, John, I appreciate the call. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's uh, that's wild, that just happens.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Seraphine in uh studio city. I know

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Speaker 1: you've called before or you've emailed before. Did I say

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Speaker 1: your name right?

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Speaker 9: Correct? Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: All right? What's going on today?

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Speaker 9: Okay, I have an eye injury that's going to be

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Speaker 9: permanent forever. Well, that's exactly the same thing. And I'm

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Speaker 9: light sensitive on my computer. On my laptop, I have

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Speaker 9: a button that I while I'm watching something, if it

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Speaker 9: gets too bright, I can dim it or I can

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Speaker 9: go to the opposite direction. Okay, what I'm wondering is

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Speaker 9: there is there a television, a small television like for

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Speaker 9: a kitchen, with that kind of control on say the remote,

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Speaker 9: because sometimes I have to look away when the brightness

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Speaker 9: comes on it hurts my eyes. Oh often to see

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Speaker 9: if I could find something that I could live with.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I have not ever seen a TV with

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Speaker 1: dedicated brightness controls on the actual device, like physical controls.

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Speaker 1: Obviously all of them have them built into the settings.

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Speaker 1: But that's not what you want. You want something that

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Speaker 1: is a media and fast and you can just adjust

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Speaker 1: on the fly.

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Speaker 2: Correct, right, So.

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Speaker 9: You know, within a couple of seconds, I can just

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Speaker 9: press the button and it dims it, and then when

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Speaker 9: the show comes back on or something or the scenes

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Speaker 9: get too dark, I can brighten it up again.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that that's going to be something

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Speaker 1: you're going to find a TV that has that dedicated.

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Speaker 1: You know, TVs are getting less buttons in general. A

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Speaker 1: lot of the new TVs you know, just have one

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Speaker 1: or two if any on the actual physical device. So

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Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to find a TV that

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Speaker 1: has that. I mean, you can go take a quick

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Speaker 1: look at best Buy and see, but I just I've

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Speaker 1: never seen a TV that has that, you know, functionality.

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Speaker 1: But with that said, there might be some ways that

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Speaker 1: you can program the remote to do it quickly. If

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Speaker 1: you have, like maybe a streaming device connected to the TV,

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Speaker 1: you might be able to use your voice to say

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Speaker 1: dim or brighten the screen.

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Speaker 2: So you might be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: Or you might look into sort of a universal remote

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Speaker 1: that has a shortcut button on it and that way

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Speaker 1: you can assign that shortcut to do what you want

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Speaker 1: to do. I'm looking at Wirecutter for their universal remote

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Speaker 1: picks right now. Their top pick is called the Sofa

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Speaker 1: Baton and that is a sixty dollars remote, and so

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Speaker 1: that may be a nice way of doing it because

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Speaker 1: you can program tasks onto that remote. So that might

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Speaker 1: be a good way to do it if you want

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Speaker 1: just something that's simple. And then their other pick is

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Speaker 1: the Insignia eight device Universal Remote that's only thirty dollars.

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Speaker 1: They say the setup is a little bit tricky on

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Speaker 1: that one, and I'm not sure. I've got to look

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Speaker 1: at it a little bit more closely to see if

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Speaker 1: it has like a programmable shortcut button. But that's another

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Speaker 1: way to do it. I mean, the universal remote might

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Speaker 1: be the easiest way you can program that functionality of

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Speaker 1: dim or brightness into the TV. Have you looked around

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Speaker 1: for a TV that has anything like this?

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Speaker 10: Excuse me say that again.

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Speaker 2: Have you looked at any of that?

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Speaker 1: Have you gone to like best Buy and just taken

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Speaker 1: a look at the TVs to see if anything else?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know this is just a fantasy in my head,

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Speaker 9: so because I've been getting very irritated with my TV.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I understand.

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Speaker 9: It makes the sofa, but that's all.

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Speaker 1: It's just a company called Sofa Baton. So it's six company, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: sixty bucks on Amazon. You know, Logitech used to have

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Speaker 1: a really nice universal remote, but this other one, this

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Speaker 1: So if you're willing to spend you know, a couple

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Speaker 1: to program that. Universal remotes, in my experience, are just

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Speaker 1: tricky in general. They just kind of you really have

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if you have that time to

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Speaker 1: deal with, but you know, that could be the best

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Speaker 1: way of doing this. The other thing is what about

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Speaker 1: just leaving the dimness? Is it is it too much?

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Speaker 1: Just leave it dim the whole time that like, maybe

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Speaker 1: go to like a white screen, see what what level

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Speaker 1: looks good to your eyes, and then lower that to

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Speaker 1: that level and leave it there. That might be the

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Speaker 1: other way to do it. Surfing, Thanks for the question today.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. Rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: have more of your questions and tech news coming up

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

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

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Speaker 1: the phone number to call if you'd like to talk

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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, we are going to talk to

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Speaker 1: Eli Blumenthal of Cnet. He's gonna explain how your cell

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Speaker 1: phone carrier tracks you and how to change that. Plus

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why T Mobile and Verizon might be

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Speaker 1: buying a US cellular And Google's got a new smartphone

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Speaker 1: for just five hundred dollars.

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Speaker 2: And it's actually pretty good. Let's go to Marcel in Brooklyn. Marcel,

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Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 11: Good afternoon, Rich. I'm so sorry about your city on

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Speaker 11: the passing of Sam Rubin yesterday. Yeah, the prayers are

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Speaker 11: with him and his family work at KTLA over the years.

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Speaker 11: I've never seen Sam Ruben all in my life. When

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Speaker 11: I was here in New York as well too. Thoughts

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Speaker 11: and prayers, right, thanks for that, mister Sam Ruben. Now,

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Speaker 11: mister demo, I have a question about my social media

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Speaker 11: and their way to keep away from my hackers to

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Speaker 11: protect me everything I can, even my Instagram and threads

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Speaker 11: seriously activity the one thing is going to be controlled.

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Speaker 11: No one's hacking and even and I have to say,

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Speaker 11: I can tell you about my photos, my threads and everything,

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Speaker 11: et ceterud to keep away from all of it from

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Speaker 11: protecting themselves. So what can I do to keep away

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Speaker 11: from hackers and even the return of my Instagram and

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Speaker 11: threads from serious activity in not just one but it's

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Speaker 11: gonna be a so much, so much of it, so

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Speaker 11: use to FA and even the email as well before

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Speaker 11: not going to be the activatest. So what could I

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Speaker 11: do to keep away from hackers on my Instagram and threat?

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Speaker 2: Okay, great question?

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Speaker 1: And this is so number one, uh, the main way,

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Speaker 1: even if you have well number one, you got to

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Speaker 1: have two factor authentication. It sounds like you're aware of that,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like you have perhaps enabled.

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Speaker 2: That on these accounts.

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Speaker 1: But the actual thing that a lot of the hackers

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Speaker 1: get in number one, it's people reusing their passwords. So

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Speaker 1: you may be using the same password for Instagram that

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Speaker 1: you're using for some random website you signed up for

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Speaker 1: a long time ago. That information was leaked out on

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Speaker 1: the web due to a data breach, and now they're

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Speaker 1: trying that information on Instagram. That's one way that hackers

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Speaker 1: get in. Another way is they trick you, and so

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Speaker 1: they may trick you into a notification comes up on

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Speaker 1: your Instagram or your Facebook and it says, hey, you

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Speaker 1: are out of line. You posted something that is not

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Speaker 1: within the regulations of Facebook or Instagram. Please log in

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Speaker 1: here and dispute that. And people go, what what did

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Speaker 1: I post? And then they log in real quick, They

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Speaker 1: capture your they capture your password when you log in,

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Speaker 1: and then they log in on your behalf somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: Now Instagram does have some built in safeguards. They will

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Speaker 1: say are you sure you're logging in from some foreign

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Speaker 1: country somewhere halfway across the world, and you say, what, no,

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Speaker 1: And then that's one way that they may capture that,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't always work. So the best way to

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Speaker 1: protect yourself is, like you mentioned, two factor authentication, but

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Speaker 1: also being aware of this because if you're not aware

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Speaker 1: that people are trying to get in twenty four to seven,

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Speaker 1: you could have some issues. You got to turn on

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Speaker 1: the two factor authentication. There are two ways of doing it.

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Speaker 1: You can use an app or you can use a

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Speaker 1: phone number. Now I personally think that the phone number

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Speaker 1: is old school.

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Speaker 2: You should be using an app.

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Speaker 1: That is the recommended authentication method at this point. What

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Speaker 1: you need to do is download an app. Some of

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Speaker 1: the popular apps are called Duo Mobile. There's also Google Authenticator.

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Speaker 1: Microsoft has an authentication app. A caller recommended an app

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Speaker 1: called two fas dot com two fas dot com, so

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Speaker 1: that's another way you could do it. But no matter what,

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Speaker 1: you download one of these apps, you link it up

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Speaker 1: with a one time kind of linkage.

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Speaker 2: It's usually scanning a QR code.

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Speaker 1: And then every time you want to log into Instagram,

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Speaker 1: not every time you open the app, just every time

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Speaker 1: you need to log in fresh, it will say, okay,

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Speaker 1: we saw that you logged in.

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Speaker 2: Now give us a code from that app. And the

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Speaker 2: idea is that the.

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Speaker 1: Bad people may have your password, but they don't have

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Speaker 1: the app on your phone that's generating this what's called

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Speaker 1: two factor authentication.

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Speaker 2: So that is the best way to.

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Speaker 1: Protect it, along with being aware that hackers are always

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Speaker 1: trying to get into your account, and I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: they prey upon our good nature.

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Speaker 2: So, for instance, the.

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Speaker 1: Other day, I got an actual notification from Instagram that

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Speaker 1: said they took down one of my posts because it

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Speaker 1: violated their terms of service. Now I've seen that a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of times, and usually it's a hacker trying

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Speaker 1: to get my information, but this time it actually was real.

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Speaker 1: It said, we removed your post that I posted September sixteenth,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, and it was a little tiny image of

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Speaker 1: a post.

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Speaker 2: I couldn't tell what the post was. And I said,

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Speaker 2: it said why, And I said why did you do this?

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Speaker 1: And I said, we don't allow people to share nudity

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Speaker 1: or sexual activity. I said, what, I wouldn't post that

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Speaker 1: on my account, and examples of things we don't allow,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to say what they are, but

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Speaker 1: it's pretty specific what they sent me. And then it said,

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Speaker 1: you have freedom of expression. We want you to share

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Speaker 1: freely with others. We only remove things or restrict people

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Speaker 1: to keep the community respectful and safe. And I said, well, respectfully,

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Speaker 1: I would like a human to look this over because

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Speaker 1: there's no way I posted something nude or sexual on

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Speaker 1: my account, and it said, how did we make this decision?

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Speaker 1: Our technology found out your content does not follow our guidelines.

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Speaker 1: As a result, our technology took action. What does that

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Speaker 1: tell me? AI was going through old posts. Somehow something

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Speaker 1: in that post triggered their system to remove it. Now,

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Speaker 1: I said, I dispute this, and I would like a

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Speaker 1: human to look at it. And sure enough, a couple

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Speaker 1: hours later, it said, Hi, mister Demiro, we found our

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Speaker 1: technology made a mistake taking your post down. Thank you

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Speaker 1: for taking the time to request or review and helping

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Speaker 1: us improve our systems. Our priority is keeping the community

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Speaker 1: safe and respectful. Sometimes we have to take precautions, and

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Speaker 1: sure enough, my post is back up. I looked at

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Speaker 1: the post once it was back up. It was me

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Speaker 1: talking about the blood oxygen feature on the Apple Watch.

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Speaker 1: Nothing in there was sexual or nudity. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Craig in Iowa. Craig, you're on with rich need going.

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Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic. What can I help you with today?

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Speaker 12: Okay, I have a Champion dollars twenty four, the little one,

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Speaker 12: you know, the nine hundred dollars one can I get

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Speaker 12: AI on my own. I had to have been Mobo

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Speaker 12: doing and what.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I lost you there at the end. But you

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Speaker 1: have the S twenty four. You said it was a

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Speaker 1: little one, but you said it was nine hundred bucks,

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Speaker 1: so's that's a good one. That's the there's three models

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Speaker 1: of the S twenty four. You've got the S twenty four,

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Speaker 1: the S twenty four Plus and the S twenty four Ultra.

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Speaker 1: They all have Galaxy Ai built in. And this is

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Speaker 1: a great question because it got me thinking, like, yeah,

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Speaker 1: how do you find the Galaxy Ai features that Samsung

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Speaker 1: is rolling out? I just mentioned earlier they rolled it

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Speaker 1: out to the S twenty three a couple weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I mentioned that, and then today I mentioned that the

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Speaker 1: S twenty two series is getting it. So all of

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Speaker 1: these Samsung phones have it. How do you find it? Ready, Craig,

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Speaker 1: I am going to tell you. Go into your settings

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Speaker 1: on your Samsung device, and this is for all Samsung

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Speaker 1: phones if you have Galaxy Ai. So go into Settings

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Speaker 1: and then you tap Advanced Features. Okay, it might take

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Speaker 1: you a second to find that, and then you tap

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Speaker 1: Advanced Intelligence. And when you get there, you are going

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Speaker 1: to see you've got a whole list of AI features

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Speaker 1: and they explain each feature and you can tap to

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Speaker 1: learn more about it and see where to find it.

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Speaker 2: So what are these features? I mentioned them earlier.

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Speaker 1: On the phone app, you get real time translation during

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Speaker 1: voice calls. You can call someone in Tokyo. They can

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Speaker 1: speak Japanese and it will translate on your screen. Samsung Keyboard,

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Speaker 1: you can get spelling and grammar suggestions and translate messages,

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Speaker 1: interpreter live translation of spoken conversations available as voice or text.

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Speaker 1: In Samsung Notes, you can automatically summarize, correct, translate, and

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Speaker 1: generate covers for your notes. The voice recorder you can

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Speaker 1: transform recordings into text, transcripts and summaries, and Samsung Internet

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Speaker 1: will give you simple summaries of web page text along

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Speaker 1: with full translations. And don't forget about the photo editor.

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Speaker 1: You can reimagine photos by moving, removing or resizing people

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Speaker 1: and objects, and even generating new backgrounds. So again that

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Speaker 1: is all built into your phone. Go into Settings Advanced Features,

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Speaker 1: Advanced Intelligence, and that will give you all of those

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Speaker 1: features and tell you how to find them. Great question,

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Speaker 1: Craig in Iowa. Thanks for the call today. Eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight rich one Oh one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 2: Coming up.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why T Mobile and Verizon want to

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Speaker 1: split up US Cellular and how Google has a brand

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Speaker 1: new phone for five hundred dollars and it's a good one.

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Speaker 1: The website for the show rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: My name is rich Dumiro. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Let's go to Brad in West Los Angeles. Brad,

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 13: Hi, Rich.

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Speaker 14: So, my wife's traveling to Spain in France in the

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Speaker 14: next month with an iPhone fifteen plus pro sorry pro?

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Speaker 14: Is there anything she needs to do technology wise or

876
00:46:01,040 --> 00:46:05,840
Speaker 14: just keep everything running smoothly with text and email whatever

877
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:06,879
Speaker 14: she needs to do out there?

878
00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 2: What service does she have? What cell phone service?

879
00:46:11,000 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: Okay, So the way the way Verizon works is there's

880
00:46:14,760 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: really nothing you need to do. I mean, you may

881
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: you may need to turn on roaming in the settings,

882
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,239
Speaker 1: But the way Verizon works is that they charge you

883
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 1: ten dollars a day for the service when you're overseas. Now,

884
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,600
Speaker 1: is she on like an unlimited plan or what type

885
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:31,359
Speaker 1: of plan is she on?

886
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 15: Yeah?

887
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:35,839
Speaker 1: Okay, So the good news about that is that you

888
00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:40,400
Speaker 1: can if you're linked into the the Verizon app, you

889
00:46:40,440 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: can go online and see how many days you get free.

890
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:48,359
Speaker 1: So typically it all depends on the plan. But the

891
00:46:48,360 --> 00:46:51,520
Speaker 1: way the Verizon plans work is sometimes you will get

892
00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: one day of roaming free for every month that you're

893
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: a subscriber. Some plans have more, some plans have less.

894
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: But the last time I checked, I had like fourteen

895
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: days for my last trip of free roaming for ten

896
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: dollars a day.

897
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:08,360
Speaker 2: So I mean, that's how much the value was.

898
00:47:08,400 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: That's not how much it costs me, so the first

899
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: So this is my recommendation. What I would do is

900
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: either call Verizon or if you're logged linked into the app,

901
00:47:18,120 --> 00:47:20,160
Speaker 1: just go on the app and kind of look around

902
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: a little bit for the international section, and it should

903
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 1: tell you how many days of their Verizon what do

904
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: they call it international, like day pass or something. So

905
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 1: when you go there, it'll tell you, like, hey, a

906
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,480
Speaker 1: travel pass, that's what they call it. So it'll say

907
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:38,640
Speaker 1: you have ten travel pass days, and depending on how

908
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 1: many days she's going, that may cover it, or you

909
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:44,920
Speaker 1: can just pay the ten dollars a day when she

910
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:46,840
Speaker 1: gets over there. There's nothing really that you have to

911
00:47:46,880 --> 00:47:49,680
Speaker 1: do if you're going for the first time. I would

912
00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:51,800
Speaker 1: call Verizon and just say, hey, I'm going to be traveling.

913
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:53,439
Speaker 1: I just want to be sure that this is going

914
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,160
Speaker 1: to activate on my account. There's no block or anything

915
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: on that travel pass. Otherwise, you can get an eSIM.

916
00:48:01,760 --> 00:48:04,680
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more complicated, but that's another thing

917
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: you can do, is you can download an eSIM from

918
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: a company like Aralow, install that on her phone, and

919
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: then you can turn off the Verizon service or go

920
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: to Wi Fi only. The other thing I would do

921
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,799
Speaker 1: is make sure that you have Wi Fi calling and

922
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: texting turned on before you leave. So make sure that

923
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:24,720
Speaker 1: that's turned on, and that way most of her calling

924
00:48:24,719 --> 00:48:27,239
Speaker 1: and texting will route through Wi Fi when she's over there.

925
00:48:29,080 --> 00:48:32,280
Speaker 2: And I mentioned that you should turn on roaming. I

926
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:33,040
Speaker 2: think that.

927
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:36,960
Speaker 1: It's probably actually better to It sort of depends, like

928
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,960
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember the last time I went international

929
00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: if I had roaming on or off. Because you don't

930
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: want to roam onto a different network and then get

931
00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: charged from Verizon for roaming on that network.

932
00:48:47,960 --> 00:48:51,680
Speaker 2: So let me see here. I'm going into my settings as.

933
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 1: We speak, and let's see phone and let's see here,

934
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:00,680
Speaker 1: where am I looking cellular there we go, so cellular

935
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: data you can go in there, and yeah, I would,

936
00:49:03,400 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: I would just check the roaming situation. I would go

937
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: on just Google like Verizon roaming on or off, but

938
00:49:10,120 --> 00:49:12,799
Speaker 1: for the travel past. But I think you want that

939
00:49:12,920 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 1: turned off as far as I remember, because that way

940
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: you're not roaming on different networks when you get there.

941
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: But I will tell you the roaming and the international

942
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: has gotten a lot easier in recent years. It's almost

943
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:29,320
Speaker 1: seamless when you get to when she lands wherever she lands,

944
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,000
Speaker 1: when she turns on her phone, it'll say welcome to

945
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: you know, whatever country you're in, this is Verizon, and

946
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:38,240
Speaker 1: you know you're all good to go, so good question.

947
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:40,200
Speaker 2: It's it's a little.

948
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,319
Speaker 1: Daunting because we all remember the nineties and the two

949
00:49:44,360 --> 00:49:46,799
Speaker 1: thousands where you would go to a different country and

950
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: you'd come back with a giant surprise bill two months later.

951
00:49:51,280 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: It happened to me in China once I was I'm

952
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:58,160
Speaker 1: not kidding. I did everything right except I forgot to

953
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:02,000
Speaker 1: turn off my dropbox up loloft codes and it only

954
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:03,880
Speaker 1: uploaded like thirty six megabytes.

955
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,560
Speaker 2: But I'm not kidding. The bill was so expensive.

956
00:50:07,440 --> 00:50:10,279
Speaker 1: I think I called at and T At the time,

957
00:50:10,360 --> 00:50:12,879
Speaker 1: it was my carrier, and I just was like, there's

958
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,920
Speaker 1: no way I'm paying this, Like, you have to figure

959
00:50:14,920 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: out a way, and they actually backdated my international plan

960
00:50:19,680 --> 00:50:22,480
Speaker 1: and it worked pretty well. So things have gotten a

961
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: lot better, all right. Speaking of cellular carriers, T Mobile

962
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,760
Speaker 1: and Verizon are in talks to split up US Cellular.

963
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 1: According to the Wall Street Journal, T Mobiles close to

964
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:36,399
Speaker 1: a two billion dollar deal to acquire some of US

965
00:50:36,440 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: Cellular's operations and wireless spectrum. Verizon also in discussions for

966
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: a separate transaction that may or may.

967
00:50:43,600 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 2: Not happen, they says. They say US Cellular.

968
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: Has over four million customers, mostly rural customers in twenty

969
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:54,960
Speaker 1: one states from Oregon to North Carolina. The company has

970
00:50:55,000 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: four thousand cellular towers, and we have seen a lot

971
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: of consolidation in the United States. I think that's why

972
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:03,399
Speaker 1: one company is probably not going to take this over.

973
00:51:04,080 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: I think they're going to split it up between the two.

974
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 1: Kind of sad to see that final company go, but

975
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: it's not a done deal just yet. But it makes

976
00:51:12,520 --> 00:51:15,760
Speaker 1: a lot of sense. We will have three major carriers

977
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:20,359
Speaker 1: in the US that will pretty much control everything, even

978
00:51:20,400 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: the smaller mv and os, the smaller carriers like the

979
00:51:23,239 --> 00:51:26,440
Speaker 1: Mint mobiles and all these companies, they're getting gobbled up

980
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 1: by the big companies as well. We just saw that happen.

981
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:33,040
Speaker 1: T Mobile bought Mint Mobile. All right, coming up, speaking

982
00:51:33,120 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 1: of wireless carriers, Eli Blumenthal of cnet is going to join.

983
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:37,920
Speaker 2: He's going to talk.

984
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,400
Speaker 1: About how your wireless carrier is spying on you and

985
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: what you can do about it.

986
00:51:42,640 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 2: You are listening to Rich on Tech.

987
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:51,600
Speaker 1: We'll get back to the phone lines in just a moment.

988
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:55,720
Speaker 1: But joining me now is Eli Blumenthal, senior editor at cnet.

989
00:51:56,160 --> 00:51:59,080
Speaker 1: He covers all things wireless. Eli, welcome to the show.

990
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:00,799
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.

991
00:52:01,200 --> 00:52:04,840
Speaker 1: So your latest article got my attention. It's called data privacy,

992
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: All the ways your cell phone carrier tracks you and

993
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: how to stop it. You say that data tracking in

994
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,279
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four seems inevitable, So as a consumer, do

995
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:18,279
Speaker 1: we have any sort of hope of maintaining privacy in

996
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: this digital age?

997
00:52:20,440 --> 00:52:22,959
Speaker 5: We do, And that's some little bit of good news

998
00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,160
Speaker 5: there is that as much as it seems inevitable, these

999
00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:29,560
Speaker 5: companies do give you at least to varying degrees and

1000
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 5: ability to control what data they're collecting from you, and

1001
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:34,960
Speaker 5: what you can turn on and turn off.

1002
00:52:36,080 --> 00:52:38,080
Speaker 1: The main thing is that a lot of people probably

1003
00:52:38,120 --> 00:52:40,799
Speaker 1: don't go in and change those settings. Many of them

1004
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,440
Speaker 1: are on by default. And I'm guessing that the reason

1005
00:52:45,480 --> 00:52:47,520
Speaker 1: you wrote this article is because of this new thing

1006
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: T Mobile rolled out called profiling and automated decisions. Explain

1007
00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:53,720
Speaker 1: what that means.

1008
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, so T Mobile basically over the last month or

1009
00:52:57,960 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 5: so has started to put this new pool in there

1010
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 5: and that they're not necessarily using today, but that they

1011
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 5: could use in the future to basically create profiles about

1012
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:13,440
Speaker 5: you and make some actions based off of that profile.

1013
00:53:14,040 --> 00:53:16,360
Speaker 5: I was picked up by Reddit users and a website

1014
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,480
Speaker 5: called the Mobile Report, and it got me wondering what

1015
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:23,359
Speaker 5: other things are being tracked by these carriers and what

1016
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 5: can you do to turn them off? And looking at

1017
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,520
Speaker 5: the major carriers at and T, Verizon and T Mobile,

1018
00:53:29,000 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 5: you could pretty easily see that you have a host

1019
00:53:32,920 --> 00:53:35,920
Speaker 5: of different things that they're collecting, and thankfully a host

1020
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 5: of different things that you can turn off pretty easily

1021
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 5: just by going into your account settings.

1022
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: So, first off, explain kind of like what these internet

1023
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,400
Speaker 1: service providers, for a lack of a better term, are

1024
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:51,520
Speaker 1: collecting and what they're able to see. I mean, even

1025
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 1: if you're using something like in incognito window or a VPN,

1026
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: will that protect you from what they see?

1027
00:53:59,480 --> 00:54:02,680
Speaker 5: It touched on some aspects of it. But because these

1028
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:06,239
Speaker 5: are providers, they have access to the actual pipe. It's

1029
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:10,680
Speaker 5: not just looking at one particular app or one particular browser.

1030
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:14,640
Speaker 5: It's the actual connection itself. So sometimes this will be

1031
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 5: information like demographic data that they know about you because

1032
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,520
Speaker 5: you have an account with them. You gave them your age,

1033
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,280
Speaker 5: you gave them your location. It knows your zip code

1034
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 5: and knows a whole host of information just from regular

1035
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 5: day to day business aspects, and it puts that into

1036
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,879
Speaker 5: a profile. Other times they could look at, you know,

1037
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 5: certain activities you're using their networks for if you're going

1038
00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 5: to say, websites for news, or you're watching a lot

1039
00:54:42,640 --> 00:54:46,600
Speaker 5: of particular type of content. They're not necessarily capturing exactly

1040
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 5: what you're doing, but they can make general assumptions because

1041
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 5: you're going to YouTube dot com or you're going to

1042
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,640
Speaker 5: Netflix dot com. And having the ability in some of

1043
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 5: these settings, you can actually provide a little bit of

1044
00:54:59,880 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 5: a anonymity or take back some of that control.

1045
00:55:03,960 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: So you've got three major carriers, AT and T, T Mobile, Verizon.

1046
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 1: Are there any settings that you think people should change

1047
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 1: immediately or is it more of a preference thing.

1048
00:55:16,200 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 5: Almost all of these I think you should go and

1049
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 5: and turn off. You're not really gaining much data there.

1050
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 5: The biggest thing that will change is that the ads

1051
00:55:24,680 --> 00:55:27,719
Speaker 5: that these companies show you won't be as personalized. And

1052
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 5: I don't really know of anybody maybe maybe rich you

1053
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,319
Speaker 5: know of folks who like seeing more personalized ads. I

1054
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 5: personally don't care for them. Most people I speak to

1055
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,799
Speaker 5: don't particularly care for them and would rather not have

1056
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:43,120
Speaker 5: their data being used the market of other services. That said,

1057
00:55:43,280 --> 00:55:46,360
Speaker 5: some of these features should be left on, particularly something

1058
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 5: called identity verification. AT ANDT and Verizon both have distinct

1059
00:55:50,760 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 5: tabs that explain what this is, and it basically helps

1060
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:57,160
Speaker 5: prevent fraud, whether it's from a bank or for your account.

1061
00:55:57,600 --> 00:56:02,280
Speaker 5: Leave that one on. That's actually pretty useful and pretty valuable.

1062
00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: And of course I'll link up the article, the CET

1063
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:09,080
Speaker 1: article that explains you go through in the article exactly

1064
00:56:09,480 --> 00:56:12,279
Speaker 1: what to change and how to change it once you

1065
00:56:12,360 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: do this. Is there a way to fully opt out

1066
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:17,640
Speaker 1: of this or is there still some information that the

1067
00:56:17,719 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: carriers collect.

1068
00:56:20,400 --> 00:56:22,920
Speaker 5: You can ever fully opt out. As I mentioned before,

1069
00:56:23,160 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 5: they're still going to create profiles, but this is taking

1070
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:30,759
Speaker 5: a little bit of that control back and hopefully that

1071
00:56:30,800 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 5: will allow you to own a little more of your

1072
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,680
Speaker 5: digital life in a way that these companies won't necessarily market.

1073
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 5: You're still going to see ads that doesn't go away.

1074
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:42,040
Speaker 5: They're still going to be able to get information from

1075
00:56:42,120 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 5: any number of other sources that they collect from, whether

1076
00:56:45,560 --> 00:56:50,360
Speaker 5: it's other websites or services or partners. So these companies

1077
00:56:50,360 --> 00:56:52,080
Speaker 5: still know a lot about you. They are still going

1078
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 5: to know a lot about you, but maybe this gets

1079
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:57,759
Speaker 5: you a little bit more peace of mind.

1080
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,960
Speaker 1: Do you think the wireless carriers are enough to educate

1081
00:57:02,040 --> 00:57:05,640
Speaker 1: and inform consumers about what they're doing and what they're collecting.

1082
00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:08,800
Speaker 1: I'm assuming most of the time it's in an email

1083
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 1: buried at the bottom, or a text message, or the

1084
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 1: terms of service, or do they tell us.

1085
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:18,320
Speaker 5: It would be great if they were more proactive about this.

1086
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:20,840
Speaker 5: As you mentioned, it's in the terms of service or

1087
00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:24,360
Speaker 5: a privacy policy or buried somewhere. Maybe you'll get an email,

1088
00:57:24,680 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 5: but you probably delete that email pretty quickly, or you

1089
00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:29,240
Speaker 5: get a notification on your phone, swipe it away just

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Speaker 5: as fast as it comes in, if you even see

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Speaker 5: it at all. It would be great if companies were

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Speaker 5: more proactive, and that goes not just rewireless carriers, but

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Speaker 5: just our general providers that we use for everything from

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Speaker 5: social media to browsing to content consumption. It's always better

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Speaker 5: to have people be more active telling you what they're

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Speaker 5: doing with your data. But carriers aren't alone, and it

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Speaker 5: is nice to have, at least for the main carriers

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Speaker 5: and their main plans. I should note that people reach

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Speaker 5: out to me spensus article one life. I focus primarily

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Speaker 5: on the main plans offered by AT and T Rise

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Speaker 5: and that T Mobile. Obviously, there are a lot of

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Speaker 5: other smaller providers or prepaid providers, and some of those

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Speaker 5: carriers don't give you that much flexibility or control on

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Speaker 5: your privacy settings, so your mileage will vary. And it's

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Speaker 5: certainly nice though that the main providers on their main

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Speaker 5: plans allow you to have this level of control.

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Speaker 1: So, if you're not very tech savvy, is there a

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Speaker 1: particular setting you think that you know, the simplest thing

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Speaker 1: you can do, the simplest change you can make for

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Speaker 1: the average person is or one thing that you'd recommend

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Speaker 1: to do.

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Speaker 5: I would recommend honestly, since they're all generally bunched together

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Speaker 5: just logging in. If you log in and look at it,

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Speaker 5: it's not blanketed under one particular setting. It's not just

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Speaker 5: one on off switch. It's usually a few, as I

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Speaker 5: explained in the article, So there's not like a catch

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Speaker 5: all that could say turn this one off and you're good.

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Speaker 5: But once you log in you can very quickly see

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Speaker 5: exactly what's going on and make those decisions.

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Speaker 1: Now, Eli, I know you cover the big wireless carriers

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Speaker 1: pretty closely. The plans are always changing, the services are

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Speaker 1: always evolving, the pricing. Is there any difference between the

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Speaker 1: big three at this point? Do you feel like there's

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Speaker 1: a clear front runner when it comes to what they

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Speaker 1: offer at a particular price or is it all just

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Speaker 1: kind of what works for you and what system you're

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Speaker 1: already on.

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Speaker 5: It's a lot of what works for you. The differences

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Speaker 5: between the big three providers AT and T, Verizon and

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Speaker 5: T Mobile is honestly, for most people in most places,

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Speaker 5: probably not that large. But what works for you and

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Speaker 5: Los Angeles and me and New York may not work

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Speaker 5: for one of your viewers in a more rural area,

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Speaker 5: for example. The benefit there is, especially with the rise

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Speaker 5: of virtual sin cards, is you can now with an

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Speaker 5: unlocked phone pretty easily pessed out Verizon or AT and

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Speaker 5: T or T Mobile for anywhere between two weeks to

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Speaker 5: a month, I think T mobiles case three months, and

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Speaker 5: see how that data performs for you where you live.

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Speaker 5: So I've had friends who were debating switching from Verizon

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Speaker 5: to T Mobile. They travel in an area where they

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Speaker 5: don't always get It's on an interstate, they don't always

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Speaker 5: get good service, and they're worried if they go to

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Speaker 5: T Mobile, would they lose service, would their experience be

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Speaker 5: that much worse? They tried this thing. After a couple

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Speaker 5: of months, they still kept their Verizon number, so text

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01:00:25,560 --> 01:00:28,360
Speaker 5: called everything was still coming through, but they were able

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Speaker 5: to without giving a credit card, without adding anything or

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Speaker 5: changing too much on their phone, download this T Mobile

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Speaker 5: trial which T Mobile offers through their AT and tried

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Speaker 5: it out. They were happy with it, said some money

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Speaker 5: made the switch.

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Speaker 1: Eli Blumenthal, senior editor at CNAT what's the best way

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Speaker 1: for folks.

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Speaker 5: To follow you? I'm available on x or Twitter at

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Speaker 5: Eli Blumenthal and of course dot com.

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Speaker 1: I'll link up the article data privacy, all the ways

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Speaker 1: your cell phone carrier tracks you and how to stop

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Speaker 1: it on my website. Just go to rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: TV for the link. Eli, thanks for joining me, thanks

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Speaker 1: for having me or rich on Tech coming your way

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Speaker 1: right after this. Give me a call triple eight Rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four two

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. Let's go to another rich Rich

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Speaker 1: in Colorado Springs.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 10: Thank you. Two questions for you. I am set up

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Speaker 10: for two factor authentication on my I fourteen, but most

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Speaker 10: of the time when I started and then it says, okay,

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Speaker 10: we're gonna send you a message back, you know, for

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Speaker 10: the second factor, I never get anything.

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Speaker 1: It depends on the service. So sometimes that number that

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Speaker 1: is sending from could be blocked. Are using a standard

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Speaker 1: phone number or a like a Google Voice.

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Speaker 5: Or something regular?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 1: And is it with a particular service or is it

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Speaker 1: with all services?

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Speaker 10: No, I've noticed that it's pretty much everybody. Once in

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Speaker 10: a while it'll work right, but usually it doesn't.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 1: I would talk to your carrier and see if there's

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Speaker 1: any sort of block on texts, because those should be

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Speaker 1: coming through I know onmine I have issues with just one,

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Speaker 1: but it's only through Google Voice, not through my standard line,

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Speaker 1: so that shouldn't be happening on a standard phone line.

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Speaker 1: I would also the only other thing I would look

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Speaker 1: into is sometimes on your iPhone there's two different message banks,

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Speaker 1: and you could go into your settings and look for

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Speaker 1: a section called unknown senders, and the verification codes could

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Speaker 1: be in there, because that's where all mine live, and

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of them.

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Speaker 2: Scrolling down. I've got tons. What's the second question.

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Speaker 10: How do I know if I should get a vp Internet?

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Speaker 15: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Good question.

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Speaker 1: So VPNs are very heavily advertised and they're great for

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Speaker 1: protecting privacy, but in average you don't necessarily need one

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Speaker 1: all the time. Now, there are some reasons why you'd

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Speaker 1: want a VPN. Number one my rule of thumb is

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Speaker 1: to use a VPN if you want the most sort

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Speaker 1: of protection for what you're browsing, Like if you just

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Speaker 1: want to not deal with any company knowing where you're going,

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Speaker 1: what you're looking at, what you're doing, a VPN could

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Speaker 1: be a good way to do that. Now, you have

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Speaker 1: to also understand the quality of the VPN. There are

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Speaker 1: many many different VPNs out there. You typically want one

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Speaker 1: that's a no log VPN. And I did a segment

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Speaker 1: on VPNs and we had an expert that talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about this stuff. And by the way, VPN stands

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Speaker 1: for virtual Private network. So what it's doing is it's

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Speaker 1: creating a little tunnel that your data is. Imagine a

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Speaker 1: tunnel between your computer and the website that you're visiting.

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Speaker 1: So it's a little tunnel that is private, and nobody

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Speaker 1: can peer into that tunnel and see what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: So the reason I would recommend a VPN is if

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Speaker 1: you want to access things that you can't typically access

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Speaker 1: in the place you are. So for instance, when I

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Speaker 1: was in China, I couldn't access various social media networks,

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Speaker 1: so I used a VPN to get around that. The

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Speaker 1: other time you want to use a VPN is when

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Speaker 1: you are on public Wi Fi and you want to

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Speaker 1: protect what you're doing. Now, for most websites, I would

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Speaker 1: say a majority of websites, that is not necessary.

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Speaker 2: But if you are checking your.

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Speaker 1: Your bank account, something like that, something that's very sensitive,

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Speaker 1: then you might want to use a VPN in that aspect.

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Speaker 1: But my recommendation is if you are on your smartphone.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you're at a hotel, you're on your smartphone

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Speaker 1: and you need to check your bank account. Instead of

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Speaker 1: being on the Wi Fi at that hotel, turn off

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Speaker 1: the Wi Fi and use your cellular connection and that

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Speaker 1: will be much more private than the Wi Fi connection

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Speaker 1: at the hotel. But in general, the web has gotten

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Speaker 1: a lot better about privacy, and the Web's gotten a

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Speaker 1: lot better about secure websites. So in general, it just

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Speaker 1: really depends. It's more people just want VPNs to feel

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Speaker 1: like they're being protected, and it's not a bad idea.

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Speaker 1: Like I've used one in the past, and I have one.

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Speaker 1: I just use it, you know, at the times when

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Speaker 1: I think I need to use it. And also the

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Speaker 1: other thing about VPNs is you can connect using different profiles,

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Speaker 1: so if you want to. For instance, I was testing,

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Speaker 1: someone said that on travel websites in Ireland they have

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Speaker 1: to display the total including tax and everything, all the

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Speaker 1: fees up front versus at the end when you get

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Speaker 1: to that final screen. So I was like, oh, that's interesting,

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Speaker 1: let me try that out, and so I fired up

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Speaker 1: a VPN. I said I was in Ireland using the

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Speaker 1: VPN because you can change your location and you know,

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Speaker 1: I checked out the website, the travel website, and sure

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Speaker 1: enough everything was added up at the beginning. So Rich,

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Speaker 1: those are my suggestions for the UH the use of

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Speaker 1: a VPN. But I would also check. I will link

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Speaker 1: up an article that I did about the top VPNs.

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Speaker 1: Let me just tell you what the the main VPNs.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, there's a lot of good information here. Because

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Speaker 1: the downside of a VPN is it could slow down

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Speaker 1: your connection. So you want one that supports the WireGuard protocol.

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Speaker 1: Look for one that works on all your devices. I

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Speaker 1: would not use a free VPN. They're typically not very good.

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Speaker 1: And the article also goes through a couple of recommendations

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Speaker 1: that this expert I talked to recommended for good VPNs, and.

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Speaker 2: I will put that on the website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot tv and just click the light

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Speaker 1: bulb and that will bring you right to the show notes.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to UH. Let's go Let's go to Linda

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Speaker 2: in Burbank. Linda, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 16: Hey, I heard you mention how ag int Verizon. I

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Speaker 16: forget the name of the other one. You know, I'll

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Speaker 16: just say like a dictory, Yeah, are going to you

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Speaker 16: are going to eat up all the other cell phone

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Speaker 16: companies and they'll be the only ones. Well, what about

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Speaker 16: Pure Talk, what about Patriot Mobile? And what about Lively?

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Speaker 16: Lively that's mainly for senior citizens, That's what I have.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, great question.

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Speaker 16: I know Pure Talk and Patriot Mobile are very popular

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Speaker 16: by conservative talk show hosts. They're they're national.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: These these little carriers with their you know, we say

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Speaker 1: little mv and o's Mobile Virtual network Operator. So the

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Speaker 1: way that these carriers work, they all run on one

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Speaker 1: of the big three networks. So even if you have

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Speaker 1: something like a Lively, if you go to their website

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Speaker 1: or you go to Wikipedia, it will tell you what

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Speaker 1: network that Lively works on. And the same thing with

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Speaker 1: Mint Mobile, the same thing with Cricket, the same thing

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Speaker 1: with Visible.

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Speaker 2: They all run on one of.

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Speaker 1: The main you know, three networks, whether that's AT and T,

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Speaker 1: whether that's Verizon or T Mobile. A lot of them

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Speaker 1: run on T Mobile and AT and T some of

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Speaker 1: them run on Verizon. So these mv and o's are

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01:08:17,520 --> 01:08:20,559
Speaker 1: not going away anytime soon. So if that was the

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Speaker 1: way it sounded, part in my interpretation of that, what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that there are only three main pipes

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Speaker 1: in the United States. All of these other networks run

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Speaker 1: on top of those pipes, whether they advertise that or not.

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Speaker 1: You might see an advertisement where it says we run

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Speaker 1: on the big network or the big or the best

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Speaker 1: voice network in America, or the best data network or

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Speaker 1: the fastest. They all have different ways of kind of

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Speaker 1: signaling that. In the past, a lot of these mv

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01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:52,200
Speaker 1: and os never talked about the network that they're actually

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01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:54,599
Speaker 1: running on. But I've noticed more and more, Like we

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01:08:54,640 --> 01:08:58,599
Speaker 1: had a Mobile X on the other day and he said, yeah,

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01:08:58,600 --> 01:09:00,519
Speaker 1: we run on Verizon, which I was sup to hear

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01:09:00,600 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 1: him say that because typically they don't say that, but

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01:09:03,000 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 1: now they do.

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01:09:03,560 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 2: I guess, So that's what I mean.

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01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:07,519
Speaker 1: And the way that these mvn O is like, why

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01:09:07,560 --> 01:09:09,719
Speaker 1: would you go with an mv and O, Why would

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01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:13,160
Speaker 1: you go with a Lively over a Verizon. Well, it's

1315
01:09:13,200 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 1: because Lively has certain specific features and pricing plans that

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01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:19,720
Speaker 1: are very appealing to.

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01:09:19,720 --> 01:09:20,920
Speaker 2: A certain group of people.

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01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:25,120
Speaker 1: So, for instance, mint Mobile over the years was very

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01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: popular for their fifteen dollars plan, which people like a

1320
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:33,559
Speaker 1: fifteen dollars monthly fee that sounds amazing. Tello is another

1321
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:35,840
Speaker 1: mv and O, which I've been testing and I love

1322
01:09:35,840 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 1: it because you can just have talk and text no

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01:09:38,560 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: data for just a couple bucks a month. You can

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01:09:41,120 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 1: literally build your own plan. So again, these mv and

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01:09:44,280 --> 01:09:44,639
Speaker 1: os are.

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01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:45,439
Speaker 2: Not going anywhere.

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01:09:45,520 --> 01:09:49,000
Speaker 1: They compete on services and pricing and the different plans

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01:09:49,000 --> 01:09:52,799
Speaker 1: and the different features, whereas the networks just run the network.

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01:09:53,240 --> 01:09:59,200
Speaker 1: You are listening to Rich on Tech. It is a

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01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:01,960
Speaker 1: Mother's Day weekend. I would like to give a shout

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01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: out to my mom. She listens to the show, and

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01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: so does my mother in law, Believe, and my wife.

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01:10:10,080 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 1: Lot of women in my life and they are all

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01:10:12,200 --> 01:10:17,639
Speaker 1: very special to me. Edison Research did a report about

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01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:23,000
Speaker 1: moms and media in twenty twenty four. Moms smartphone ownership

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01:10:23,040 --> 01:10:28,559
Speaker 1: has reached ninety eight percent, nearly full saturation. Forty seven

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01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: percent of moms own a smart watch, up from thirty

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01:10:32,040 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 1: seven percent last year. Seventy five percent of moms have

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01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: wireless earphones or headphones, up from seventy one percent last year.

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01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,240
Speaker 1: Forty three percent of moms are weekly podcast listeners and

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01:10:44,360 --> 01:10:49,360
Speaker 1: eighty two percent have listened in the past week. Moms

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01:10:49,479 --> 01:10:53,600
Speaker 1: spend an average of four hours and four minutes daily online,

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01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,839
Speaker 1: mostly on their smartphone, and ninety seven percent of moms

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01:10:58,080 --> 01:11:01,960
Speaker 1: use social media, with ninety six percent having used it

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01:11:02,000 --> 01:11:05,120
Speaker 1: in the last week. Now, I have a funny story

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01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,920
Speaker 1: about my mom. This week. She calls me out of

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01:11:07,960 --> 01:11:10,840
Speaker 1: the blue and she's like, uh, well, actually it was

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:13,000
Speaker 1: from a different phone number. It was from a New

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01:11:13,080 --> 01:11:15,559
Speaker 1: Jersey phone number that I didn't recognize, but I figured, well,

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01:11:15,560 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 1: it's New Jersey, I might as well pick it up.

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01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:19,120
Speaker 2: And so I pick up the phone. It's my mom.

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01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:21,080
Speaker 1: She said, Hell, did you recognize the number? I said, no,

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01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:24,280
Speaker 1: who is this? She said, oh, it's my colleague's phone number.

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01:11:24,280 --> 01:11:26,679
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, okay, well what's going on. Well,

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01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:30,679
Speaker 1: my phone doesn't work. It says simcard not recognized. I said,

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01:11:30,680 --> 01:11:33,719
Speaker 1: what what are you talking about? My mom always calls

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01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 1: me with the oddest tech questions you have ever experienced,

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01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:41,720
Speaker 1: Like nothing happens to her that is like ordinary. It's

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01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 1: always the most random things. Like the last time, and

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01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,320
Speaker 1: I think I told this story on the radio. The

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01:11:46,400 --> 01:11:49,080
Speaker 1: last time. It was like her Roku or her firestick

1362
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:51,400
Speaker 1: just stopped working and I had to go through all

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01:11:51,400 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 1: these troubleshooting tips. And my brother went over there and

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01:11:53,960 --> 01:11:55,840
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, the thing just burned up like it's

1365
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:56,360
Speaker 1: just done.

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01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:58,680
Speaker 2: I said, what who does that happen to?

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01:12:00,240 --> 01:12:04,479
Speaker 1: So long story short, I'm like, I don't know how

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01:12:04,560 --> 01:12:06,640
Speaker 1: to explain this to you, mom, but you've got to

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01:12:06,640 --> 01:12:08,559
Speaker 1: pop that SIM card out and pop it back in.

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01:12:08,680 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: Maybe it got unseated, which I've never heard of my

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01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,320
Speaker 1: entire life. Like I've I've tested so many phones, I've

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01:12:14,320 --> 01:12:17,200
Speaker 1: never had a phone that says simcard not inserted. The

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01:12:17,200 --> 01:12:19,439
Speaker 1: only other thing I could think of is that she

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01:12:19,560 --> 01:12:22,080
Speaker 1: pays for her wireless bill a year at a time

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01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:24,760
Speaker 1: on one of those mv and o's, and so it

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01:12:24,840 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: saves her money to do it that way. And I

1377
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:30,760
Speaker 1: was like, well, maybe your cellular service went out, you

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01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:32,720
Speaker 1: know before, and said no, I just paid the bill

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01:12:32,760 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 1: and I renewed. And I said, okay, well it can't

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01:12:35,200 --> 01:12:37,439
Speaker 1: be that, So why don't you try popping this SIM

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01:12:37,439 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: card out? So she says, well, I don't know how

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01:12:39,080 --> 01:12:40,360
Speaker 1: to do that. I said, well, there's a little hole

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01:12:40,400 --> 01:12:42,880
Speaker 1: in the bottom of the phone and you got to

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01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:46,840
Speaker 1: pop in like a paper clip that you ondo. She goes, oh,

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01:12:46,880 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 1: we tried that my teacher, you know, the teacher she

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01:12:49,760 --> 01:12:51,760
Speaker 1: works with. We tried it. I said, what do you mean,

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01:12:51,800 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 1: you tried it. Every paper clip I've ever used has

1388
01:12:53,840 --> 01:12:56,120
Speaker 1: popped this thing out. She goes, well, it's a coded

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01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,600
Speaker 1: paper clip. I said, well, you got to find a

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01:12:58,600 --> 01:13:00,519
Speaker 1: paper clip that's not coded so it fits in the

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01:13:00,520 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 1: little hole. She goes, well, there's two holes down there.

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01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 1: I said, well, one it's a microphone. One is the

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01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,479
Speaker 1: simcard slot. Do not put it in the microphone hole.

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01:13:08,960 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 1: So she goes, okay, we got it. We got the

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01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:13,200
Speaker 1: they popped it out. I said, oh that was good.

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01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 1: I go, when you pop it out, just make sure

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01:13:14,920 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: you look at how it's seated so that you don't

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01:13:17,040 --> 01:13:17,479
Speaker 1: put it in.

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Speaker 2: The wrong way.

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01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:22,160
Speaker 1: And so her friend, I guess, pops out the card,

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01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:25,640
Speaker 1: pushes it back in, and all of a sudden, my

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01:13:25,640 --> 01:13:27,840
Speaker 1: mom goes, oh my gosh, all my messages are starting

1403
01:13:27,840 --> 01:13:30,680
Speaker 1: to come in. I said, really, this thing was physically unseated.

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01:13:30,720 --> 01:13:33,519
Speaker 1: I've never heard of this in my life. And then

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01:13:33,520 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I start hearing like something happened

1406
01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:36,519
Speaker 1: in the background. I said, what are you doing now?

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01:13:36,520 --> 01:13:38,800
Speaker 1: She goes, oh, my my colleague is blowing air into

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01:13:38,840 --> 01:13:42,559
Speaker 1: the float to clean it out. I mean, it was

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01:13:42,680 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: just the funniest thing sitting there listening to that, but

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01:13:45,360 --> 01:13:47,559
Speaker 1: she got it to work. She was very proud of herself.

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01:13:49,120 --> 01:13:52,120
Speaker 1: And I don't understand why these things happen to my mom,

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01:13:52,160 --> 01:13:56,960
Speaker 1: But love your mom, Happy Mother's Day, and to all

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01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: the moms out there, you do an amazing job. And

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01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:03,360
Speaker 1: I noticed that a lot of moms do have the technology.

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01:14:03,360 --> 01:14:06,599
Speaker 1: They've got the smart watch, they've got the phone. And

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01:14:06,640 --> 01:14:10,640
Speaker 1: I love having my mom personally send me. She is

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01:14:10,760 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: my supplier of all of the scams that are happening

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01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:17,080
Speaker 1: out there. Every day, she's got like an email that's like,

1419
01:14:17,200 --> 01:14:19,439
Speaker 1: you know, someone's trying to get her personal information whatever,

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01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: and she forwards it to me.

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01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:22,559
Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, thank you. I've never seen this one before.

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01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 1: Speaking of mobile service, text Now is a company that

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01:14:28,760 --> 01:14:33,320
Speaker 1: offers free mobile service like free calling and texting. But

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01:14:33,439 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: now they're upping the ante. They are introducing a new

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01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:41,840
Speaker 1: plan called Free Essential Data and this provides you with

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01:14:42,040 --> 01:14:46,839
Speaker 1: free data for email, map apps, and ride share apps

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01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:50,599
Speaker 1: along with unlimited calling and texting. They want to make

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01:14:50,600 --> 01:14:53,719
Speaker 1: sure that customers never lose connectivity due to unpaid bills.

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01:14:53,720 --> 01:14:55,760
Speaker 1: They say that people spend about two thousand dollars a

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01:14:55,800 --> 01:14:56,960
Speaker 1: year on cell phone bills.

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01:14:57,720 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 2: Many lack emergency money.

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01:15:00,800 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: Text now uses advertisers to pay for cell phone service.

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01:15:05,000 --> 01:15:08,360
Speaker 1: So I have not tested out this service, but I'd

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01:15:08,360 --> 01:15:10,680
Speaker 1: be curious how it works. I actually asked them to

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01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:12,599
Speaker 1: send me a SIM card so I can test this out.

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01:15:12,640 --> 01:15:15,639
Speaker 1: So the way it works, as I understand, is you

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01:15:15,680 --> 01:15:19,280
Speaker 1: buy the SIM card, which is five dollars one time fee,

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01:15:19,640 --> 01:15:22,200
Speaker 1: you pop it into your phone, and then you've got

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01:15:22,280 --> 01:15:26,720
Speaker 1: unlimited talk and tech, unlimited talk and text, and I'm

1440
01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,040
Speaker 1: assuming there's some sort of ads that are served up

1441
01:15:29,080 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: in some way, but now you get this essential data.

1442
01:15:32,880 --> 01:15:35,200
Speaker 1: So if you open up your email, you open up

1443
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:38,400
Speaker 1: a map app, or you open up a ride share app,

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01:15:38,520 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 1: it will understand that and it will give you the

1445
01:15:40,720 --> 01:15:43,759
Speaker 1: data to use those three apps or those three types

1446
01:15:43,800 --> 01:15:48,920
Speaker 1: of apps. They gave some examples, you know, Gmail, Google Maps, Ways,

1447
01:15:49,479 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 1: Uber Lift, but this is kind of neat. So you

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01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:58,599
Speaker 1: can theoretically have voice calling, texting, and then these essential

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01:15:58,640 --> 01:16:01,640
Speaker 1: apps that can get you around your emails, get your maps.

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01:16:01,680 --> 01:16:03,040
Speaker 2: All for free every month.

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01:16:03,960 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: And of course they're bigger play is to get you

1452
01:16:06,479 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 1: to buy more data, so they have an hourly data

1453
01:16:10,120 --> 01:16:13,840
Speaker 1: pass for ninety nine cents, daily data pass for five bucks,

1454
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 1: and then a monthly data pass for forty bucks. But

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01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: they say that over eighty percent of Text Now users

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01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,000
Speaker 1: are connected to Wi Fi most of the time, which

1457
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: means you don't need an expensive data plan. And I

1458
01:16:24,479 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 1: asked them if you can get these simcards in the store.

1459
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:28,719
Speaker 1: They said, no, you have to order it from the app.

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01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 1: So I've got the simcard on the way. I'm very

1461
01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:34,600
Speaker 1: curious to try this out because this could be a

1462
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:36,640
Speaker 1: good kind of like if you just want like the

1463
01:16:36,920 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 1: cheapest possible way to connect to the phone services. I mean,

1464
01:16:41,880 --> 01:16:43,920
Speaker 1: this is like five dollars and then you have access

1465
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:47,519
Speaker 1: to talk, text and these essential apps. Anyway, I'll give

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01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:49,320
Speaker 1: you an update when I get that and try it out.

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01:16:50,080 --> 01:16:51,040
Speaker 2: Google this week.

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01:16:50,920 --> 01:16:54,519
Speaker 1: Launched a new smartphone called the Google Pixel eight A.

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01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 1: This is their most durable A series smartphone, so the

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01:16:59,360 --> 01:17:03,519
Speaker 1: A series of the Pixel usually lags behind the standard

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01:17:03,520 --> 01:17:08,040
Speaker 1: Pixel about six months. And this has a metal frame.

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01:17:08,600 --> 01:17:12,000
Speaker 1: It's their budget device. It's got IP sixty seven water

1473
01:17:12,040 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 1: and dust resistance. It's not the highest, but that's still

1474
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:18,200
Speaker 1: pretty good. It's got a scratch resistant display that's kind

1475
01:17:18,200 --> 01:17:22,280
Speaker 1: of cool. And the price tag is incredible four hundred

1476
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:25,160
Speaker 1: and ninety nine dollars. Now you've heard me talk about

1477
01:17:25,160 --> 01:17:28,240
Speaker 1: the Pixel before. I really love this phone because it

1478
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 1: is simple, it has great software, and it's actually a

1479
01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 1: very smart smartphone. It's got the Google Ai features like

1480
01:17:37,320 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: image search, voice typing. The voice typing is next to

1481
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:45,479
Speaker 1: it's the best available on a smartphone live translation at

1482
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 1: a glance, which I just love.

1483
01:17:47,360 --> 01:17:49,360
Speaker 2: On the home screen or on the lock.

1484
01:17:49,240 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 1: Screen, I should say, it'll give you like information about

1485
01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: upcoming events and stuff like that.

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01:17:54,479 --> 01:17:55,360
Speaker 2: It's so handy.

1487
01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:58,639
Speaker 1: It's got the tensor G three chip, which is not perfect,

1488
01:17:59,120 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 1: but it's the same chip in their latest Pixel eight

1489
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:02,639
Speaker 1: and Pixel eight Pro.

1490
01:18:03,840 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 2: It's got the.

1491
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: Pixel camera, which of course is one of the best

1492
01:18:07,439 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: point and shoot cameras available on a smartphone for basic

1493
01:18:11,120 --> 01:18:13,559
Speaker 1: you know, every day just amazing pictures without a lot

1494
01:18:13,560 --> 01:18:14,040
Speaker 1: of fuss.

1495
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:14,439
Speaker 8: You know.

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01:18:14,479 --> 01:18:17,000
Speaker 1: I might argue that the Samsung is overall a more

1497
01:18:17,040 --> 01:18:20,599
Speaker 1: powerful camera, but the Pixel camera is pretty darn good

1498
01:18:20,640 --> 01:18:21,880
Speaker 1: if you just want to take a phone out of

1499
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 1: your pocket and take a picture. Now, the coolest part

1500
01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:27,559
Speaker 1: about this phone it's going to get operating system and

1501
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 1: security updates for ready seven years.

1502
01:18:31,640 --> 01:18:33,960
Speaker 2: What is seven years from now? Are we talking.

1503
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:38,439
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty thirty one, twenty thirty one. You could buy

1504
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:41,720
Speaker 1: this phone and not have to think about getting a

1505
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:44,080
Speaker 1: new phone until twenty thirty one because you're you'll be

1506
01:18:44,120 --> 01:18:45,960
Speaker 1: covered with security and software updates.

1507
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:48,520
Speaker 2: Also has a built in VPN.

1508
01:18:48,880 --> 01:18:52,120
Speaker 1: And it's just I can't speak highly enough of the

1509
01:18:52,160 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: Pixel series. If you're someone that doesn't want an iPhone

1510
01:18:56,200 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 1: right and you don't need a Samsung with all the

1511
01:18:58,920 --> 01:19:01,720
Speaker 1: high end features, you just want something that's basic but

1512
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:05,640
Speaker 1: really good. The Pixel is incredible at that. And uh,

1513
01:19:05,840 --> 01:19:09,559
Speaker 1: this is their brand new one Pixel EIGHTA. Do I

1514
01:19:09,600 --> 01:19:13,799
Speaker 1: have the availability date? I think it's available next week.

1515
01:19:14,680 --> 01:19:19,640
Speaker 1: I don't have the availability date here. Let me say

1516
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:21,400
Speaker 1: I know it's on pre order now, I think it's

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Speaker 1: available next week. So I have not gotten this into test,

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Speaker 1: but I requested a review unit from Google, and I

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01:19:28,520 --> 01:19:30,000
Speaker 1: have no doubt that this is going to be a

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Speaker 1: great device.

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Speaker 2: Eight and eight Rich.

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. You can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: show rich on Tech dot TV. I know I just

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Speaker 1: talked about that text now plan if you want to

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Speaker 1: check it out and get more information about anything I

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Speaker 1: mentioned here. Just go to the website rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. Hit the light bulb icon and that will

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Speaker 1: take you to the show notes immediately for anything that

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Speaker 1: I mentioned here. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

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01:20:06,800 --> 01:20:10,840
Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology. The website

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Speaker 1: for the show rich on Tech dot Tv. There you

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Speaker 1: can hit contact to send me an email. That's what

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Speaker 1: Olga did in Burbank. Olga says, can you refer me

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01:20:20,439 --> 01:20:25,759
Speaker 1: to someone who can unhack my Galaxy? A fifty one phone?

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01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:29,439
Speaker 1: Someone hacked it at and T keeps giving me the

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01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:33,960
Speaker 1: run around. Olga, I don't think your phone is hacked.

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01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:37,759
Speaker 1: Although it can happen, I don't think it's very typical

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01:20:38,240 --> 01:20:41,920
Speaker 1: for that to happen. More likely there's some malware on there,

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01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:46,439
Speaker 1: downloaded something that you know is not working right on

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01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,400
Speaker 1: your phone. But what I'd recommend if you do believe

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01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:54,320
Speaker 1: that your phone is hacked, I would do a factory reset,

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01:20:55,320 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: and so I would just I would do a recovery mode.

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01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:01,280
Speaker 2: That's that's what I would do. This is like full strength.

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01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:03,960
Speaker 1: So what you want to do make sure that your

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01:21:04,040 --> 01:21:06,719
Speaker 1: important information is backed up. Let me say that again.

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01:21:07,320 --> 01:21:09,720
Speaker 1: Make sure your important information is backed up. This will

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01:21:09,760 --> 01:21:13,439
Speaker 1: erase everything on your phone. And so what you want

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01:21:13,479 --> 01:21:15,160
Speaker 1: to do is turn your phone off. This is what

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01:21:15,200 --> 01:21:18,000
Speaker 1: you do on Samsung. It's called recovery mode. You want

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01:21:18,040 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: to make sure your phone is turned off, and then

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01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:23,120
Speaker 1: you want to press the power button and the volume

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01:21:23,200 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 1: up at the same time simultaneously until the Samsung logo appears.

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01:21:29,520 --> 01:21:31,560
Speaker 1: And when this thing boots up, it's not going to

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01:21:31,600 --> 01:21:33,360
Speaker 1: look the same as it typically does. It's not going

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01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: to open up into your phone screen. It's going to

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01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: open up into something called Android Recovery, and it's going

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01:21:38,120 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: to look like an old school computer screen, and it's

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01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:42,720
Speaker 1: going to have a couple of options on it.

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01:21:42,720 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 2: It's going to say, reboot.

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01:21:43,840 --> 01:21:47,559
Speaker 1: System, apply update from ADB, apply update from sd card,

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01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:52,719
Speaker 1: wipe data, factory reset, wipe cash, partition, view recovery logs,

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01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:56,479
Speaker 1: run graphics test, run locale test, power off. What I

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01:21:56,520 --> 01:21:59,160
Speaker 1: would do is wipe the cash and then I would

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01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:03,679
Speaker 1: wipe the data slash factory reset. That will pretty much

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01:22:04,240 --> 01:22:07,040
Speaker 1: get your phone back to a place where it is

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01:22:07,640 --> 01:22:12,840
Speaker 1: completely pristine. Now, there may be someone out there that's listening, this,

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01:22:12,920 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 1: says Rich What about the bios? Could it be you know,

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01:22:16,240 --> 01:22:19,360
Speaker 1: could there be a malware in the in the firmware

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01:22:19,400 --> 01:22:22,160
Speaker 1: of this phone. Yeah, there's a potential for that, but

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01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,280
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what's happening here. That would be

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01:22:24,320 --> 01:22:27,639
Speaker 1: really really tricky to get. So that's what I recommend doing.

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01:22:27,800 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 1: And then once you do that, your phone will be

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01:22:30,040 --> 01:22:33,840
Speaker 1: factory fresh, reinstall everything, whatever you need to do, and

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 1: I think that your hacking issue should go away. Thanks

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01:22:38,960 --> 01:22:39,519
Speaker 1: for the email.

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Speaker 2: OGA, Let's go to Gary and Laguna Niguel. Gary, you're

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01:22:43,560 --> 01:22:44,120
Speaker 2: on with Rich.

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Speaker 13: Yes, Rich, I got one of these watches here. It's

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01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:52,080
Speaker 13: called a AM's. Yeah, it's kind of hard to pronounce

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01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:53,000
Speaker 13: it because I always want to.

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01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:56,639
Speaker 5: Call it Amazon, oh Amaze fit and yeah.

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Speaker 13: I thank you. It's what's called a b ip Repro

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01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,280
Speaker 13: and a good friend of mine, Bob Allen, helped me

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01:23:04,280 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 13: buy it last Sunday. And it is just confused that

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Speaker 13: for Jesus out of me.

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01:23:08,439 --> 01:23:10,000
Speaker 5: Okay, And the thing I.

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Speaker 13: Want to know we're here, Rich, is this one if

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01:23:12,520 --> 01:23:16,719
Speaker 13: you watches that you can get that does not need

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01:23:16,960 --> 01:23:20,920
Speaker 13: a telephone hooked up to it. Because see, I'm a

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01:23:20,920 --> 01:23:25,400
Speaker 13: full time nature photographer. I'm out photographing birds, butterflies, reptiles,

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01:23:26,080 --> 01:23:29,160
Speaker 13: and so many times I'm out and I don't want

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01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:32,000
Speaker 13: to carry my cell phone on me. I just want

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01:23:32,000 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 13: to carry a minimum amount of equipment in my photo list.

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01:23:35,400 --> 01:23:37,360
Speaker 13: But yet I do want to know how many steps

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Speaker 13: I've taken.

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Speaker 2: So okay, well, question, are you using iPhone or Android

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Speaker 2: with S?

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Speaker 13: I use an Android phone? Okay, I use an old one.

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01:23:46,520 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 13: It's a Samsung Galaxy S tanny.

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01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:53,400
Speaker 1: Oh wow, S ten, we're going back away bit there

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01:23:53,439 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 1: it works.

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01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:54,120
Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:23:54,160 --> 01:23:56,559
Speaker 1: Hey, look I always tell people, you know, I'm not

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01:23:56,640 --> 01:23:58,680
Speaker 1: sitting here trying to sell you a new phone. If

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01:23:58,720 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 1: your phone that you have works, keep using it as

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01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 1: long as the security is up to date.

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01:24:02,600 --> 01:24:05,599
Speaker 2: That's the important part. I'm not sure with. Yes, Okay, good,

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01:24:06,120 --> 01:24:06,880
Speaker 2: But here's the deal.

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01:24:06,920 --> 01:24:10,400
Speaker 1: So this, this watch does not It will work without

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01:24:10,400 --> 01:24:12,360
Speaker 1: a phone nearby, but it's not going to give you

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01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: your texts or cellular calls because this does not have

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01:24:15,120 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: cellular built into it. So if you were ever in

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01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:19,600
Speaker 1: a place where you're taking a picture out in the

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01:24:19,640 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 1: woods and you know there's an emergency or you need

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01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:25,479
Speaker 1: to reach someone, this watch would not do that. So

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01:24:27,320 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 1: my recommendation is this is fine for you know, just

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01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 1: basics and a maze fit. Is you know, people like

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01:24:33,520 --> 01:24:35,960
Speaker 1: these watches because they're inexpensive and they have the features

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01:24:35,960 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: they need, like you said, and it basically looks like

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01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:43,000
Speaker 1: an Apple Watch, but you're not going to get that

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01:24:43,040 --> 01:24:46,200
Speaker 1: cellular connectivity. So if you want cellular, you got to

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01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:50,320
Speaker 1: go with a watch that has a cellular connectivity built in,

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01:24:50,600 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 1: and that is a watch from Samsung, a watch from Google,

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01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 1: the Pixel Pixel Watch, and also the Apple Watch, which.

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01:24:59,439 --> 01:25:00,960
Speaker 2: Will not work with your Android phone.

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01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:03,800
Speaker 1: There may be some third party watches out there that

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01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 1: have it, but I know the recent watch I tested

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01:25:07,240 --> 01:25:09,840
Speaker 1: from one Plus did not have cellular built in.

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01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 2: So you have to.

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01:25:10,680 --> 01:25:12,479
Speaker 1: Decide when you when you have a smart watch with

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01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 1: your phone, that watch will function when it's not near

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01:25:15,840 --> 01:25:19,720
Speaker 1: your phone. And it's confusing because when it's by your phone, yes,

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01:25:19,760 --> 01:25:21,559
Speaker 1: you're going to get your texts, you may even get

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01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:24,200
Speaker 1: your calls through that watch when you're near your phone,

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01:25:24,439 --> 01:25:26,920
Speaker 1: but as soon as you leave the range, the Bluetooth

1638
01:25:27,000 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: range of that phone, your watch is only going to

1639
01:25:29,520 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: do things that it can do on its own without

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01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: a cellular connection, which is, you know, track your steps,

1641
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:38,160
Speaker 1: the different you know functionalities on there that all run

1642
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,760
Speaker 1: on the watch, and your watch may have WI Fi

1643
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:42,360
Speaker 1: on it as well, but out in the woods, Wi

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01:25:42,360 --> 01:25:45,120
Speaker 1: Fi is not really going to help. So the bottom line,

1645
01:25:45,120 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: if you want to get your calls and texts on

1646
01:25:48,120 --> 01:25:50,839
Speaker 1: a smart watch and be able to use data away

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01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:54,960
Speaker 1: from your phone anywhere, then you do need to get

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01:25:54,960 --> 01:25:58,360
Speaker 1: a watch that has a cellular connection and that's in

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01:25:58,560 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 1: you know, typically it's an LTE connection, so you have

1650
01:26:00,880 --> 01:26:03,559
Speaker 1: to look it's a different version of the watch. Apple

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01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:07,000
Speaker 1: sells a different version, Google sells a different version, and

1652
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 1: Samsung they all sell LTE versions of their popular watches.

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01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:12,720
Speaker 2: That's what you want to look out for.

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01:26:13,320 --> 01:26:15,240
Speaker 1: Not everyone needs that, but I run a lot by

1655
01:26:15,280 --> 01:26:17,760
Speaker 1: myself and I want that on my watch because I

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01:26:17,760 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: want to go with just my watch. And also, if

1657
01:26:21,000 --> 01:26:22,640
Speaker 1: you want to be less distracted, you don't want your

1658
01:26:22,640 --> 01:26:25,120
Speaker 1: phone screen near you. You can use just your watch,

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01:26:25,360 --> 01:26:27,759
Speaker 1: all right. Coming up, a guy who traveled the world

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01:26:27,800 --> 01:26:30,760
Speaker 1: for a year just using AI. We're going to talk

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01:26:30,800 --> 01:26:32,840
Speaker 1: to him about it. Coming up right here on rich

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01:26:32,920 --> 01:26:40,000
Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

1663
01:26:40,120 --> 01:26:45,280
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology. Five G home Internet.

1664
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:47,640
Speaker 1: This is a question that we get from time to

1665
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:51,599
Speaker 1: time on this show because they're being heavily advertised by

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01:26:51,640 --> 01:26:56,320
Speaker 1: providers including T Mobile, Verizon, and AT and T. So

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01:26:56,400 --> 01:26:59,600
Speaker 1: I figured all Connect which is a great resource for

1668
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:03,120
Speaker 1: all things like choosing plans and stuff. They had a

1669
01:27:03,120 --> 01:27:06,800
Speaker 1: great article about five G home Internet, so if you

1670
01:27:06,800 --> 01:27:09,640
Speaker 1: don't know what it is, it uses cellular networks to

1671
01:27:09,720 --> 01:27:12,799
Speaker 1: deliver a fixed wireless internet connection to your house.

1672
01:27:13,200 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 2: So you buy this or you just basically get a box.

1673
01:27:16,600 --> 01:27:18,679
Speaker 1: It's almost like a hot spot but for your house,

1674
01:27:18,720 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 1: so it takes that cellular connection and turns it into

1675
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:25,759
Speaker 1: Wi Fi for your house. Five G Internet speeds range

1676
01:27:25,760 --> 01:27:29,880
Speaker 1: from twenty to one thousand, with upload speeds of ten

1677
01:27:29,960 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 1: to fifty.

1678
01:27:31,360 --> 01:27:33,360
Speaker 2: So T Mobile five.

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01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: G has speeds from thirty five to two hundred and

1680
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:39,840
Speaker 1: forty five megabits per second, Verizon five g's a little

1681
01:27:39,840 --> 01:27:43,479
Speaker 1: bit faster, eighty five to one thousand megabits per second,

1682
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: and then AT and T Internet Air five G has

1683
01:27:47,360 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 1: up to one hundred and forty megabits per second. There's

1684
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:54,560
Speaker 1: also one called Starry Internet. It's available in much less places,

1685
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,559
Speaker 1: but they've got speeds ranging from two hundred to five hundred.

1686
01:27:59,240 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 2: Now obvious fiber.

1687
01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:05,240
Speaker 1: Is going to be faster and more reliable, but five

1688
01:28:05,320 --> 01:28:09,320
Speaker 1: G has you know, an affordable, no contract option, and

1689
01:28:09,400 --> 01:28:12,040
Speaker 1: usually there's no data caps, although that may be changing.

1690
01:28:12,760 --> 01:28:15,439
Speaker 1: So again, the providers here are T Mobile, Verizon, AT

1691
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:18,439
Speaker 1: and T and Starry. Prices are very good right now

1692
01:28:18,479 --> 01:28:22,400
Speaker 1: because these carriers are trying to publicize this and try

1693
01:28:22,400 --> 01:28:24,719
Speaker 1: to get people to sign up, So right now, price

1694
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:26,960
Speaker 1: or anywhere from thirty five to fifty dollars a month,

1695
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:29,680
Speaker 1: and if you're a subscriber of T Mobile, Verizon or

1696
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,519
Speaker 1: AT and T, you may get a cheaper plan. T

1697
01:28:32,720 --> 01:28:36,240
Speaker 1: Mobile has sixty percent of the US covered, which is

1698
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,360
Speaker 1: pretty good. Verizon's offering it in a bunch of places,

1699
01:28:39,560 --> 01:28:42,080
Speaker 1: and AT and T is only offering it where they

1700
01:28:42,160 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 1: don't have their fiber network, and it's pretty limited compared

1701
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:48,280
Speaker 1: to T Mobile and Verizon.

1702
01:28:48,920 --> 01:28:50,360
Speaker 2: So bottom line, five.

1703
01:28:50,200 --> 01:28:52,599
Speaker 1: G may not match the speed you're going to get

1704
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 1: from cable or fiber, but it's kind of a good

1705
01:28:55,600 --> 01:29:00,120
Speaker 1: low cost option for someone who does not need extremely.

1706
01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:00,679
Speaker 2: High speed internet.

1707
01:29:00,760 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 1: So if you're considering, you know, trying to save money,

1708
01:29:03,439 --> 01:29:07,519
Speaker 1: definitely look at these five G home internet plans. All right,

1709
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:13,639
Speaker 1: So Michael Motamedi traveled the world for a year using

1710
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:15,280
Speaker 1: AI as his guide.

1711
01:29:16,240 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 2: Michael, Welcome to the show.

1712
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:19,040
Speaker 3: Hey, how are you.

1713
01:29:19,320 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 1: I'm doing fantastic, So tell me we talked. It must

1714
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,960
Speaker 1: have been a year ago at this point you used

1715
01:29:25,000 --> 01:29:28,280
Speaker 1: an AI tool called guide Geek. Right, so explain to

1716
01:29:28,320 --> 01:29:30,599
Speaker 1: me kind of how this call came about, Like, what

1717
01:29:30,600 --> 01:29:31,439
Speaker 1: what made you do this?

1718
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:35,639
Speaker 15: Yeah, I mean it's actually been a year. Just got

1719
01:29:35,680 --> 01:29:38,400
Speaker 15: back to the States about a month ago. It's been

1720
01:29:38,439 --> 01:29:42,719
Speaker 15: a crazy twelve months. I'm in a crazy experiment really,

1721
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:46,240
Speaker 15: just to kind of see how it would be to

1722
01:29:46,320 --> 01:29:49,400
Speaker 15: have AI control where we travel and what we did

1723
01:29:49,439 --> 01:29:52,640
Speaker 15: when we got to those destinations. But guy Geek is

1724
01:29:53,120 --> 01:29:55,559
Speaker 15: a pretty cool app. After using it for a year,

1725
01:29:55,600 --> 01:29:56,639
Speaker 15: I feel like I'm somewhat of.

1726
01:29:56,560 --> 01:29:57,280
Speaker 10: An ex Kurt.

1727
01:29:58,760 --> 01:30:00,080
Speaker 3: But yeah, it's all through.

1728
01:30:00,680 --> 01:30:03,880
Speaker 15: Or Instagram messengers, so there's no app to download, which is,

1729
01:30:04,520 --> 01:30:07,400
Speaker 15: you know, obviously a huge benefit. But it's been pretty

1730
01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:08,000
Speaker 15: nuts man.

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01:30:08,439 --> 01:30:10,639
Speaker 2: And you traveled with your family, right, didn't you take

1732
01:30:10,680 --> 01:30:11,920
Speaker 2: your wife and kid?

1733
01:30:12,560 --> 01:30:12,800
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1734
01:30:12,920 --> 01:30:15,240
Speaker 15: Wife and daughter all the way around everywhere everywhere I go,

1735
01:30:15,320 --> 01:30:15,639
Speaker 15: they go.

1736
01:30:15,800 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 2: And how many places did you go?

1737
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 15: Oh my gosh, I can't even count, but I think

1738
01:30:21,080 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 15: it was a rat I mean from a country perspective,

1739
01:30:23,360 --> 01:30:25,040
Speaker 15: I think it was around nine to ten countries.

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Speaker 1: Oh, my gosh, but place wise you were. I mean

1741
01:30:27,920 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 1: I watched I watched your journey, and I'm not kidding.

1742
01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,680
Speaker 1: You are a very brave man with the stuff you

1743
01:30:33,720 --> 01:30:38,000
Speaker 1: were eating on your Instagram. I I just what was it?

1744
01:30:38,040 --> 01:30:40,680
Speaker 1: One of them like live worms or something. I don't know,

1745
01:30:40,720 --> 01:30:42,719
Speaker 1: it's just like tongue or either.

1746
01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:44,800
Speaker 3: There was a duck embryo.

1747
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:49,799
Speaker 15: Called Ballot which was in the Philippines, a very international

1748
01:30:49,840 --> 01:30:52,360
Speaker 15: one of their national dishes, which was actually pretty fantastic.

1749
01:30:52,400 --> 01:30:55,200
Speaker 1: Okay, I shouldn't be saying, oh that's my personal but

1750
01:30:55,280 --> 01:30:57,439
Speaker 1: I get it these things. You know, people eat all

1751
01:30:57,520 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Okay, So that was.

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01:30:58,840 --> 01:31:03,280
Speaker 15: One, and there was another one where it was like

1753
01:31:03,439 --> 01:31:08,000
Speaker 15: just an eel restaurant, all different eels, served ten different ways.

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01:31:08,080 --> 01:31:08,559
Speaker 2: That's the one.

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01:31:08,600 --> 01:31:13,640
Speaker 1: I saw it, catch it right in the water. They

1756
01:31:13,640 --> 01:31:15,519
Speaker 1: were in this bucket just all it looked like a

1757
01:31:15,560 --> 01:31:18,479
Speaker 1: bunch of giant tongues. It's like moving around and then

1758
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're eating it. I'm just like, okay,

1759
01:31:20,320 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 1: I I can't right now. So okay, so tell me,

1760
01:31:25,040 --> 01:31:27,120
Speaker 1: like how this worked. So every morning, let's say you

1761
01:31:27,120 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 1: were in like Morocco, would you just say, like, hey, guy, geek,

1762
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:32,240
Speaker 1: like what's the coolest places to go?

1763
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:35,000
Speaker 2: Like, how did you prompt this? Ai? And how how

1764
01:31:35,000 --> 01:31:35,840
Speaker 2: accurate was it?

1765
01:31:36,640 --> 01:31:38,800
Speaker 15: Yeah, so I think when we started this journey it

1766
01:31:38,920 --> 01:31:40,880
Speaker 15: was just like that. It was like prompting it in

1767
01:31:41,040 --> 01:31:43,679
Speaker 15: very you know, normal ways, somewhat like how you would

1768
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:44,360
Speaker 15: use Google.

1769
01:31:44,680 --> 01:31:44,840
Speaker 1: Right.

1770
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:47,840
Speaker 15: As time went on, we wanted to get more and

1771
01:31:47,920 --> 01:31:50,120
Speaker 15: more creative with the way that we prompted it. We

1772
01:31:50,240 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 15: realized that there's a lot of different ways where you

1773
01:31:52,560 --> 01:31:55,160
Speaker 15: can kind of have a conversation with guy geek. In

1774
01:31:55,200 --> 01:31:57,880
Speaker 15: some places like Spain, for example, I would say, hey,

1775
01:31:57,920 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 15: pretend you're Anthony and Bourdaine and plan me a day.

1776
01:32:01,479 --> 01:32:03,640
Speaker 15: What would you do if you were Anthony Bourdain in

1777
01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:06,120
Speaker 15: Spain and it planned this awesome day?

1778
01:32:06,720 --> 01:32:06,920
Speaker 16: Right?

1779
01:32:07,280 --> 01:32:07,559
Speaker 1: Wow?

1780
01:32:08,560 --> 01:32:12,479
Speaker 15: Super super creative with the way that you prompt guide geek.

1781
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:14,960
Speaker 15: It's not just hey, tell me that the best pizza

1782
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:19,760
Speaker 15: place right right, Like, pretend you're whoever and now let

1783
01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:23,200
Speaker 15: me experience the city like that, you know, Or Hey,

1784
01:32:23,439 --> 01:32:25,640
Speaker 15: I have a hundred in Paris and I have one

1785
01:32:25,680 --> 01:32:28,599
Speaker 15: hundred bucks to spend in Paris, which obviously we all

1786
01:32:28,640 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 15: know is not a lot of money in Paris, I said,

1787
01:32:31,280 --> 01:32:32,920
Speaker 15: I have one hundred dollars for the rest of for

1788
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:36,400
Speaker 15: one day, plan my day, and it planned this awesome,

1789
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:41,519
Speaker 15: cool day, you know, So it's super super interesting. I

1790
01:32:41,520 --> 01:32:43,519
Speaker 15: think this is definitely where the future is going to

1791
01:32:43,600 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 15: be going, especially because it's just the ease of being

1792
01:32:46,840 --> 01:32:49,800
Speaker 15: able to go into your pocket, right and it's a tool,

1793
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:51,639
Speaker 15: it's not it's your friend.

1794
01:32:52,760 --> 01:32:55,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's it's weird because it definitely

1795
01:32:55,479 --> 01:32:58,559
Speaker 1: feels that way with the way these ais talk to us.

1796
01:32:58,600 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just it don't almost like to me.

1797
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:02,960
Speaker 1: I always think it's like almost like the smartest person

1798
01:33:03,040 --> 01:33:04,800
Speaker 1: you can have a conversation with because they just know

1799
01:33:04,880 --> 01:33:05,839
Speaker 1: everything about everything.

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01:33:06,840 --> 01:33:09,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, And I actually used that tip.

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01:33:09,200 --> 01:33:11,320
Speaker 1: I was in New York City last year and I

1802
01:33:11,360 --> 01:33:14,000
Speaker 1: was looking for a restaurant and I asked, Ai, I

1803
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:16,160
Speaker 1: forget what I was using, and I think I might

1804
01:33:16,200 --> 01:33:17,640
Speaker 1: have used a little bit of guy Geek and a

1805
01:33:17,640 --> 01:33:19,400
Speaker 1: little bit of like Google. I think it was called

1806
01:33:19,400 --> 01:33:23,360
Speaker 1: Bard at the time, obviously, but I said, like, give

1807
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:26,280
Speaker 1: me a list of all the restaurants that Bobby Flay

1808
01:33:26,479 --> 01:33:28,080
Speaker 1: likes in New York City, and I think it was

1809
01:33:28,120 --> 01:33:30,920
Speaker 1: Italian and then also Giata and I said, now cross

1810
01:33:30,960 --> 01:33:33,280
Speaker 1: reference them and give me the ones that they both like,

1811
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:35,280
Speaker 1: and it came up with like two places and I

1812
01:33:35,320 --> 01:33:36,760
Speaker 1: picked one and we had a great night.

1813
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:38,360
Speaker 2: So it is interesting.

1814
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:41,479
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's funny how you can get

1815
01:33:41,520 --> 01:33:44,639
Speaker 1: really you know, unique and I don't.

1816
01:33:44,400 --> 01:33:45,800
Speaker 2: Know specific with these things.

1817
01:33:45,880 --> 01:33:48,479
Speaker 1: So was it accurate, Like did it actually like I'm

1818
01:33:48,520 --> 01:33:50,080
Speaker 1: sure there are some things where it told you were

1819
01:33:50,120 --> 01:33:52,519
Speaker 1: like I can't really do that, or like how good

1820
01:33:52,680 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 1: was it?

1821
01:33:54,280 --> 01:33:54,479
Speaker 10: You know?

1822
01:33:54,520 --> 01:33:56,960
Speaker 15: For the most part, it was pretty bang on. Obviously,

1823
01:33:57,000 --> 01:34:01,280
Speaker 15: there are some you know, some improvements that they're making constantly, right.

1824
01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:03,599
Speaker 15: I think they made a major improvement by now pulling

1825
01:34:03,640 --> 01:34:08,160
Speaker 15: all the locations from the Google Maps API, which makes

1826
01:34:08,200 --> 01:34:11,120
Speaker 15: sure that they're open. You know, there were some times

1827
01:34:11,120 --> 01:34:13,760
Speaker 15: in the beginning where you know, the place wasn't open

1828
01:34:13,760 --> 01:34:17,400
Speaker 15: anymore information, so I'm glad they fixed that.

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01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:20,640
Speaker 3: And yeah, I mean from it it also.

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01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:22,160
Speaker 15: For me it was great because I'm a little bit

1831
01:34:22,160 --> 01:34:26,160
Speaker 15: of like a I don't know, a knowledge freak where

1832
01:34:26,160 --> 01:34:27,640
Speaker 15: I just like to know everything. So I'll be at

1833
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 15: a restaurant, I'll ask the history of the restaurant. You know,

1834
01:34:32,120 --> 01:34:32,599
Speaker 15: even in.

1835
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:34,040
Speaker 8: Spain, I spent the day like.

1836
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:38,320
Speaker 2: Picasso, So how did you do that? Explain that.

1837
01:34:38,960 --> 01:34:39,200
Speaker 8: Yeah.

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01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:42,560
Speaker 15: I mean they basically said, hey, you're pretending. Oh I

1839
01:34:42,640 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 15: actually did Salvern Dordali as well too. I said, pretend

1840
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:47,759
Speaker 15: you're Salven Doardalis and what would you do if.

1841
01:34:47,640 --> 01:34:48,960
Speaker 3: You were in Spain for a day?

1842
01:34:49,400 --> 01:34:51,519
Speaker 15: And it sent me to his favorite bars.

1843
01:34:52,760 --> 01:34:56,040
Speaker 2: I love it. That is so wild.

1844
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:58,400
Speaker 1: I love the idea of like kind of the role playing,

1845
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:00,560
Speaker 1: like you know this person who's in there, and you

1846
01:35:00,640 --> 01:35:03,479
Speaker 1: kind of get where is guide geek pulling this information?

1847
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:05,080
Speaker 2: You said it gets the Google Maps api?

1848
01:35:05,160 --> 01:35:07,879
Speaker 1: Like is it just kind of like program like explain

1849
01:35:08,120 --> 01:35:10,600
Speaker 1: for something that may not understand, Like why why is

1850
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 1: this better than like just searching Google?

1851
01:35:12,439 --> 01:35:14,679
Speaker 2: Like you know, why why would it be different?

1852
01:35:15,200 --> 01:35:18,479
Speaker 15: It is based off a chat GPT model, but with

1853
01:35:18,600 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 15: guyde Geek, which is really cool about it. They do

1854
01:35:20,680 --> 01:35:24,800
Speaker 15: have actual human intervention to ensure that you know your

1855
01:35:24,800 --> 01:35:27,760
Speaker 15: stuff is up to date and making sure that it's

1856
01:35:27,800 --> 01:35:33,080
Speaker 15: travel oriented right. And there's also the ability to even

1857
01:35:33,120 --> 01:35:35,160
Speaker 15: book flights through WhatsApp.

1858
01:35:35,240 --> 01:35:37,479
Speaker 2: Now oh wow, So it's awesome.

1859
01:35:37,520 --> 01:35:39,160
Speaker 15: And I mean I even use it as a translator

1860
01:35:39,200 --> 01:35:40,320
Speaker 15: at one point as well too.

1861
01:35:41,520 --> 01:35:43,960
Speaker 1: And so to start this you go to like guide

1862
01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:48,080
Speaker 1: geek dot ai on Instagram and then you say chat basically.

1863
01:35:49,160 --> 01:35:50,920
Speaker 15: Yeah, So you can either message it or you can

1864
01:35:51,000 --> 01:35:52,720
Speaker 15: just go to the website and then it'll message you

1865
01:35:52,800 --> 01:35:54,960
Speaker 15: on WhatsApp as well too. You can message it on WhatsApp.

1866
01:35:55,000 --> 01:35:58,479
Speaker 15: I use it on WhatsApp just because it feels so

1867
01:35:58,560 --> 01:36:01,160
Speaker 15: much more natural for me. But I guess you know,

1868
01:36:01,320 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 15: people nowadays actually use Instagram DM as a form of

1869
01:36:05,120 --> 01:36:06,439
Speaker 15: communication as well.

1870
01:36:06,680 --> 01:36:07,439
Speaker 2: It does well.

1871
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:10,200
Speaker 1: I mean, whatever, hey, whatever works, whatever you have installed,

1872
01:36:10,240 --> 01:36:13,599
Speaker 1: why not exactly tell me about the podcast you're now

1873
01:36:13,640 --> 01:36:14,880
Speaker 1: doing a podcast about all this.

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01:36:16,040 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 15: Yeah, actually the podcast is not about the AI. It's

1875
01:36:18,360 --> 01:36:22,240
Speaker 15: it's actually called No Fixed Address, The World's Most Extraordinary People,

1876
01:36:22,920 --> 01:36:25,640
Speaker 15: And it's like the one of the only podcasts that

1877
01:36:25,680 --> 01:36:27,919
Speaker 15: I know of that's on the road. So we literally

1878
01:36:28,000 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 15: meet and my wife, who's the producer and co host

1879
01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 15: on the show, lug around a suitcase into the middle

1880
01:36:33,880 --> 01:36:37,400
Speaker 15: of the villages of the Philippines or into the hills

1881
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:40,559
Speaker 15: of the rice fields in Indonesia, and we go to

1882
01:36:40,600 --> 01:36:44,040
Speaker 15: the place where these extraordinary people live and work and

1883
01:36:44,120 --> 01:36:46,800
Speaker 15: have a real time conversation with them and actually be

1884
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,400
Speaker 15: able to tour their facility or see what they do

1885
01:36:49,520 --> 01:36:51,320
Speaker 15: for a living and how we ended up getting here

1886
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:52,040
Speaker 15: in the first place.

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01:36:52,120 --> 01:36:53,839
Speaker 12: It's it's pretty it's.

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01:36:53,640 --> 01:36:56,599
Speaker 15: Pretty crazy, actually, I mean there's no studio, there's no nothing.

1889
01:36:56,640 --> 01:36:57,360
Speaker 5: We got mics, we.

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01:36:57,400 --> 01:36:59,479
Speaker 15: Got a mixer, we've got a computer, and we got

1891
01:36:59,479 --> 01:37:00,759
Speaker 15: two I Fi and we filmed.

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01:37:01,120 --> 01:37:02,280
Speaker 2: That's amazing. I love it.

1893
01:37:02,320 --> 01:37:05,400
Speaker 1: And I'm sure you are following the news about what

1894
01:37:05,520 --> 01:37:08,439
Speaker 1: Apple launched with their you know, their camera app with

1895
01:37:08,479 --> 01:37:10,559
Speaker 1: Final Cut Pro on the iPad. You can now link

1896
01:37:10,640 --> 01:37:13,559
Speaker 1: up those two phones and use it as two different

1897
01:37:13,560 --> 01:37:15,880
Speaker 1: angles for your video and and you know, it's like

1898
01:37:15,920 --> 01:37:19,439
Speaker 1: a whole production facility inside an iPad. Now, it's pretty incredible,

1899
01:37:19,479 --> 01:37:22,599
Speaker 1: like multi Cara shoes. Yeah, it's it's something to look into.

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01:37:23,320 --> 01:37:25,880
Speaker 1: Michael Motameti. How do people find you on social media?

1901
01:37:25,920 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 1: What's the best way to follow you and your adventures?

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01:37:28,080 --> 01:37:31,200
Speaker 15: Michael Mosameti. So Michael M I C H A E L.

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01:37:31,520 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 15: Last name Motamedi m O T A M E b I.

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01:37:35,600 --> 01:37:38,120
Speaker 15: The latest podcast episode is out now. We actually just

1905
01:37:38,120 --> 01:37:41,040
Speaker 15: did an interview with Macy Gray Grammy Award winner Macy Gray,

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01:37:41,040 --> 01:37:41,800
Speaker 15: which is pretty fun.

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01:37:42,000 --> 01:37:45,320
Speaker 1: Oh wow, very cool and I've definitely enjoyed watching you

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01:37:45,800 --> 01:37:46,880
Speaker 1: travel for the past year.

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01:37:46,920 --> 01:37:48,240
Speaker 2: Where are you off to next.

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01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:51,680
Speaker 15: We are actually we haven't made the announcement yet, but

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Speaker 15: we are on our way to curse ow.

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Speaker 2: Oh wow. That be really really fun, amazing.

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01:37:56,439 --> 01:37:57,760
Speaker 1: I love it, and I love the fact that you're

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01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:00,360
Speaker 1: able to do this and continue to bring us the

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01:38:00,360 --> 01:38:03,080
Speaker 1: weirdest stuff that you've eaten in all of these different countries.

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01:38:03,120 --> 01:38:05,479
Speaker 1: So thank you for doing the stuff that I personally

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01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:08,920
Speaker 1: won't do because I'm too scared. There you go, one

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01:38:08,960 --> 01:38:12,479
Speaker 1: hundred percent, Michael MOTAMEDI thanks so much for joining me today.

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01:38:13,240 --> 01:38:16,640
Speaker 1: Check it out guide geek dot Ai. I'll link it

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Speaker 1: up on the website and his podcast as well. Richon

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV just hit the light bulb.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to do a couple more items.

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Speaker 1: Disney Hulu and Max are teaming up. There's a security

1925
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Speaker 1: update for iTunes on Windows, in an iPhone scam you

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Speaker 1: don't want to fall for. Plus the feedbag segment you

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Speaker 1: are listening to rich on Tech. Let's get through a

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Speaker 1: couple items here. Before we get to the feedbag, Disney

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Speaker 1: Hulu and Max announce a streaming bundle partnership. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe this? Disney and Warner Brothers collaborating to offer a

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Speaker 1: streaming bundle that includes Disney Plus Hulu and Max. Now,

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Speaker 1: these are two separate companies, but they are teaming up

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Speaker 1: to offer a streaming bundle otherwise known as in the

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Speaker 1: past cable tv.

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Speaker 2: So we've come full circle here.

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Speaker 1: There will be ad supported and ad free options. Pricing

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Speaker 1: and details are not announced, but it will launch in

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Speaker 1: the US this summer. I'm expecting the pricing to be

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Speaker 1: attractive at first. And by the way, all these streaming

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Speaker 1: companies want you to pay for a year in advance now,

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Speaker 1: and they want you to pay for a yur in

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Speaker 1: advance so you save the most money. But let me

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Speaker 1: tell you why they want you to pay for a

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Speaker 1: year in advance, because guess what you are going to

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01:39:37,360 --> 01:39:40,720
Speaker 1: forget when that renewal time comes up and now you

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Speaker 1: have exactly a day to cancel or whatever, because now

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get charged for a whole year in advance

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Speaker 1: on that next time and you're like, oh, I'll just

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Speaker 1: let it ride. Instead of every month, if you're doing

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Speaker 1: something by the month, you have every month to cancel this,

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Speaker 1: you only have a little window every year where you're

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Speaker 1: probably gonna forget and you're gonna get ding for another

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Speaker 1: year there, Apple has released a security update for iTunes

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Speaker 1: on Windows. As you might remember, Apple has launched standalone

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Speaker 1: apps for Apple Music and Apple TV.

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Speaker 2: But if you still want to get podcasts.

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Speaker 1: Or use iTunes for something on Windows, there's still iTunes

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Speaker 1: as a standalone app. It's version twelve point thirteen point two.

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Speaker 1: There is a security vulnerability in the app, so if

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Speaker 1: you have iTunes for Windows still installed on your system,

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Speaker 1: check for updates using the app.

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Speaker 2: If you installed it through.

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Speaker 1: The Microsoft Store, it should automatically update. But again, if

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Speaker 1: you're using iTunes on Windows, check for a security update.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of the iPhone, don't fall for this new scam.

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Speaker 1: It's called the iPhone activation lock scam. Basically, if your

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Speaker 1: phone is lost and it's locked, you might get a

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Speaker 1: text from someone claiming they have access to your personal information.

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Speaker 1: They say, oh, we have your phone and we found

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Speaker 1: it and we just want to erase it. So just

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Speaker 1: you know, they try to urge you to remove your

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Speaker 1: iPhone from your Apple ID so that you know your

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Speaker 1: information is safe. But what they're really trying to get

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Speaker 1: you to do is get rid of activation lock. Because

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Speaker 1: let's say someone steals your iPhone and you report it

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Speaker 1: as lost or stolen. A person who finds that iPhone,

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Speaker 1: they can go through the whole motions of factory resetting

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Speaker 1: if they know what to do. But when they try

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Speaker 1: to activate that phone, it's gonna say sorry, there's an

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Speaker 1: activation lock. You got to contact this person to get

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Speaker 1: that lock removed. So that's what they're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: They're trying to trick you into removing that activation lock,

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Speaker 1: and once you do, they then have full access to

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Speaker 1: your device. They're not going to have your personal information

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Speaker 1: per se, but then they can now set that device

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Speaker 1: up as their own. So if anyone says, hey, you know,

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Speaker 1: we found your phone, can you please take off this

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Speaker 1: activation lock so we can you know, save it for

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Speaker 1: you and make sure everything's safe, do not listen to them.

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Speaker 1: That is the part that is the scam. If your

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Speaker 1: phone is tied to your Apple ID, your personal data

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Speaker 1: is safe and the stolen device is useless to thieves.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, you might also want to enable

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Speaker 1: the new stolen device protection that Apple has enabled. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's get to the feedbag. This is a combination of

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Speaker 1: your feedback and also the mail bag. I call it

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Speaker 1: the feedbag, And so let's get right into that. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: This one's actually funny. This is from my mother in law.

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Speaker 1: She said, Hi, Oh, whoops, never mind, I thought it

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Speaker 1: was feedback. It's actually a question, so I got it.

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Speaker 1: That's another segment.

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Speaker 2: Let's see Richard in Hilton, New York. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: A couple weeks ago, you mentioned an earbud that was

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Speaker 1: selling for about one hundred and twenty dollars. I thought

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Speaker 1: to myself, I have an earbud, the best I ever had,

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Speaker 1: for ten dollars. It's called the new Bee, available on

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Speaker 1: Amazon and Walmart. I use it only for a connection

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Speaker 1: to my PC and iPad. I do not use it

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Speaker 1: with my cell phone. But it's very clear, excellent range,

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Speaker 1: holds a charge forever. It's the best I ever had.

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Speaker 1: Love your show, all right.

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Speaker 2: I haven't tried it, but Richard says, the new Bee

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Speaker 2: on Amazon and Walmart for ten bucks. Why not? Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, there's so many emails here, Michael says,

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Speaker 1: your caller wondered if one hundred slash five is enough.

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Speaker 1: My experience, most people think they need way more than

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Speaker 1: they actually do. My elderly parents have had thirty down

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Speaker 1: five up for two to three TV streaming twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven. I'm always amazed at how much data they use,

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Speaker 1: over one terabyte a month. With these slow speeds, you

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Speaker 1: could have asked if anyone in the home was a gamer,

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Speaker 1: as they're more sensitive to the latency of congestion.

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Speaker 2: Yes, that is very true.

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Speaker 1: And let's see here. Okay, there's just yeah, there's just

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Speaker 1: too many questions here.

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Speaker 2: Oh, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Here's a comment, Franklin says in Butler, Pennsylvania. Thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for all the great info, Rich Franklin, and Bruce

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Speaker 1: in San Diego says, Hey, Rich, I followed your advice

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Speaker 1: and I checked Google for the dark web. Everything turned

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Speaker 1: up clean. Also, I was able to add a two

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Speaker 1: step verification to my account. Thanks again, Bruce and San Diego.

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Speaker 1: All right, that is going to do it for this

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Speaker 1: episode of the show. Next time, I'll be more organized

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Speaker 1: for my feedback. Caught me off guard. There you can

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Speaker 1: find links to everything I mentioned on the website. Go

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Speaker 1: to rich on tech dot tv. You can find me

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Speaker 1: on social media. I am at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Next week it is Google Io.

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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear about all the goodies they

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Speaker 1: are going to launch when it comes to AI. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. There are so many ways you

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Speaker 1: can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it

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Speaker 1: right here with me. My name is rich Demiro.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon