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Speaker 1: lots of streaming apps finally make it to lots of

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Speaker 1: different places. Plus your tech questions answered? What is going on?

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro and this is Rich on Tech,

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

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Speaker 1: I think you should know about. It's also the place

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Speaker 1: where I answer the questions you send me. Yes, I'm

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Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five in Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: and also for Nextstar TV stations nationwide. It's been interesting because,

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Speaker 1: you know, Katla was purchased by a new company that

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Speaker 1: I used to work for actually, which is kind of

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Speaker 1: interesting back in my early days of my career, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we own a whole bunch of TV stations,

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Speaker 1: it's really been fun to kind of see my stuff

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Speaker 1: really good expanding, you know, the reach and just kind

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Speaker 1: always been sort of helping people understand technology, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know, there's every one of us has to use technology,

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Speaker 1: whether we like it or not. That's just the reality

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Speaker 1: And you know, then you have the apps and you know,

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Speaker 1: hope that comes through because that's that's really what my

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Speaker 1: mission is. I can't believe that we are done, almost

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Speaker 1: done with twenty twenty. I mean, I just can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I can remember sitting in a van at CS doing

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Speaker 1: like it's yesterday, and here we are a year later,

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Speaker 1: almost a year later, and honestly, this is the year

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Speaker 1: So wow, I just can't believe it. But holidays are here.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited. This is the last show of twenty twenty,

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Speaker 1: which is pretty wild. Be back next year. But let

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Speaker 1: me and I hope you're you know, I hope you're

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Speaker 1: staying safe during the holidays. I know all my plans

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Speaker 1: are canceled. I was supposed to go to New Jersey.

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Speaker 1: That is not happening. Then we were supposed to go

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Speaker 1: And honestly, I'll enjoy the time, the downtime and just sit.

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Speaker 1: to be one of their hosts for the digital show.

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Speaker 1: So we've talked a lot about CS in this podcast

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Speaker 1: because it's kind of the biggest event of the year.

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Speaker 1: and the note. The note was just too big for me,

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Speaker 1: and I just it was just I don't need the

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Speaker 1: S twenty and that's smaller form factor, slightly smaller, I'm

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Speaker 1: all for it. And it would be tough to move

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Speaker 1: from iPhone in the Apple Watch, but I would probably

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Speaker 1: come up with somewhere in the middle where I maybe

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Speaker 1: still wear the Apple Watch but use the Android. But

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Speaker 1: we'll say, you hear me drinking my tea?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Should we check a voicemail? Let's check a voicemail. If

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Speaker 1: you haven't left a voicemail for the show, you can

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Speaker 1: do so at rich on tech dot TV slash podcast.

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Speaker 1: There's a little microphone in the lower right hand corner

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Speaker 1: and you can leave a message just like Jeff Thomas did.

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Speaker 2: Hey Rich, Jeff Thomas, listen to your show your podcast

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Speaker 2: not just have one simple to make and that's it. Otherwise,

446
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Speaker 2: I really liked it that as you give and glad

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Speaker 2: to know that you and Brian Tong are good friends

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Speaker 2: because you guys in terms of how you just keep

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Speaker 2: it real for everyone, stay safe, man.

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Speaker 1: All right, So, clearly some technical difficulties with that voicemail.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not sure what happened there. It could have

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Speaker 1: been a connection thing or whatever, but I kind of

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Speaker 1: heard I think he said I have one comment to

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Speaker 1: make that. I think you said you're amazing. That's just

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Speaker 1: what I heard, So I'm gonna take that. But I

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Speaker 1: don't know, but it just sounded like you just, you know,

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Speaker 1: Jeff is a fan of the show, just wanted to,

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Speaker 1: you know, leave a voicemail and voice that. And I

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Speaker 1: love it. So thanks Jeff for leaving the voicemail. Try

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Speaker 1: it again. I'm not sure. I tried doing this on

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Speaker 1: like Chrome on my iPhone. It definitely is a little quirky.

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Speaker 1: It seems to work best on a desktop web browser

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Speaker 1: to hit the microphone. But I mean, you would think that,

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Speaker 1: you know, since everyone's using phones, and especially with the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: and this is I don't want to get into the

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Speaker 1: differencestween an iPhone Android, but it always everything's a little

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Speaker 1: more complicated because when you're in a browser on the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: it's always like a browser inside of a browser, inside

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Speaker 1: of an app. If you're getting to somewhere from an app,

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Speaker 1: it's very complicated. But anyway, that's the way the architecture

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Speaker 1: set up most of the time on the iPhone, so

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Speaker 1: I feel like that has something to do with it.

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Speaker 1: But like when I tried to do this from Instagram,

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Speaker 1: it was like it was a web browser inside Instagram

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Speaker 1: from a link. It just was weird. So anyway, thank

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Speaker 1: you Jeff for the voicemail. I'll do a question as well,

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Speaker 1: since you know that was sort of a just a comment.

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Speaker 1: Steve Brown says, first off, I really enjoy your podcast.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate what you do for us in the

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Speaker 1: tech world. I watch you on KTLA. Enjoy your podcast.

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Speaker 1: I've been an Apple across the board for decades, but

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Speaker 1: never had a MacBook Pro. I'm looking at getting a

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Speaker 1: new m one MacBook Pro, but had a few questions.

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Speaker 1: I'm a photographer with thirty years and do a lot

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Speaker 1: of photo editing with Pixel Made or Pro. I started

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Speaker 1: dabbling in video using emovies. I might upgrade to final cut.

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Speaker 1: My question is do I need sixteen gigs a RAM

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Speaker 1: or should I be good with the eight I've read

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Speaker 1: conflicting articles online stating that with the powerful M one chip,

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Speaker 1: sixteen isn't needed for what I would do. I don't

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Speaker 1: mind spending the extra two hundred, but if it wouldn't

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Speaker 1: make a difference, I'd rather throw the money into some

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Speaker 1: extra memory or use external drives. I'd appreciate and respect

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Speaker 1: your feedback, Steve from Long Beach. All right, Steve, definitely

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Speaker 1: go with the sixteen gigs. I have not personally tested

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Speaker 1: the M one, but everything I've seen from other tech folks,

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Speaker 1: they love it. It's fast, it's amazing. Apple of course

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Speaker 1: applied their magic and did a great job. But I

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Speaker 1: come from the world that you can never have enough memory.

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Speaker 1: And yes, a lot of the new apps will be

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Speaker 1: written and optimized for this computer, but some of them

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Speaker 1: may not be. And I would just especially if you're

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Speaker 1: telling me you're getting into videos, I think that, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to edit a little simple things on

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Speaker 1: your you know, with just eight gigs. You know, I

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Speaker 1: could edit little videos on my iPhone. But I think

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Speaker 1: if you you know, this is a this is a

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Speaker 1: MacBook that you're going to keep for at least three

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Speaker 1: to four years, I'm guessing, so you know, if not more,

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Speaker 1: and so why you know you're going the the eleven

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks, go the extra two hundred, right, So that's

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Speaker 1: what i'd recommend. Always, always, always get the extra when

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Speaker 1: you buy laptop. You got to max out to your

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Speaker 1: budget the memory and the storage because you will always

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Speaker 1: need more of both of those things. That is what

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Speaker 1: I recommend. We got a little bit of news this week,

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Speaker 1: good news if you're in the streaming world, and I

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Speaker 1: just I gotta say, I'm seeing what's happening here and

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm very much liking it. And I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: if it's due to like the whole anti trust, you know,

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Speaker 1: crackdowns that have been going on, or these tech companies

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Speaker 1: are just realizing that they can't be emote. But I

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Speaker 1: like what's going on and I'm seeing it more and more.

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Speaker 1: And two announcements this week. Number one, HBO Max coming

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Speaker 1: to Roku and they made this announcement and you know,

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Speaker 1: they said just in time for Wonder Woman eighty four,

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four, which is gonna be on HBO Max

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Speaker 1: streaming on Christmas Day. I asked my wife I'm like,

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Speaker 1: do you think we'll be able to watch that on

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Speaker 1: Christmas Day? She's like, I don't know, but definitely the

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Speaker 1: day after if I can't get to it on Christmas Day.

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Speaker 1: But there you have it, HBO Max on Roku. This

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Speaker 1: was a you know, really a big missing piece on Roku.

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Speaker 1: So many people emailed me saying, rich, where is HBO Max.

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Speaker 1: And it's confusing because like the old HBO app was

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Speaker 1: on there and it's just you know, not a good thing.

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Speaker 1: So it took them what six months to make a deal.

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Speaker 1: And this is because these platforms like Roku, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I would say Roku and fire tv probably have a

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Speaker 1: lot of what's the word the power when you negotiation

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Speaker 1: power because they are the two biggest And so it's

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Speaker 1: no longer Oh, I'm HBO Max and I just published

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Speaker 1: my app to rokuh. It doesn't seem to work that

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Speaker 1: way anymore. Maybe back in the day it did, but

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Speaker 1: it doesn't seem to work that way now. You have

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Speaker 1: to be approved and you have to be negotiated in

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Speaker 1: and that means that Roku wants a little cut of

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Speaker 1: the money because HBO Max, you know, if they're just

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Speaker 1: on the platform and you know, if any if everyone

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Speaker 1: just used Roku to access these apps and Roku didn't

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Speaker 1: get a little cut of the you know, action, Roku

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Speaker 1: would not survive because their business is not selling those

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Speaker 1: streaming sticks. Their business is advertising, and so they get

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Speaker 1: a little bit of a commission. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: what they get. I mean, that's all, that's all private,

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Speaker 1: but they do get something, whether it's a cut of

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Speaker 1: someone who signs up to HBO Max through Roku, or

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Speaker 1: when they stream they get like a little portion of

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Speaker 1: you know, some ad time on there, or they get

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Speaker 1: you know, some free movies for their HBO or their

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Speaker 1: Roku channel. There's something, you know, there's some kind of

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Speaker 1: deal that's made. So anyway, the deal has been made,

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Speaker 1: and we all know that HBO Max can be showing

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Speaker 1: all the Warner Brothers films next year on for thirty

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Speaker 1: days on HBO Max. That's gonna be amazing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what a good year to be an HBO Max subscriber.

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Speaker 1: To get at least I mean, in this article in

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Speaker 1: the Roku blog, one Matrix, four Dune, Suicide Squad and

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Speaker 1: Space Jam and New Legacy. So at least four movies

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Speaker 1: right there. The other piece of news is that Apple

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Speaker 1: TV app is coming to chrome Cast with Google TV.

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Speaker 1: And this is a big win because when I initially

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Speaker 1: set up my Chrome Cast with Google TV, I was

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Speaker 1: scratching my head and I was like, no, what am

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Speaker 1: I missing here over Apple t Oh yeah, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: missing the Apple TV the Apple TV app, And sure

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Speaker 1: enough it's coming to Google chrome cast with Google TV.

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Speaker 1: Does it say when it says let's see the all

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Speaker 1: new early next year, which I'm I mean, come on,

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Speaker 1: that's like a long I mean early next year. It

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Speaker 1: could be like any that could be like January, February, March.

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Speaker 1: Why does it take so long? I mean, how long

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Speaker 1: does it take to make an Apple TV app for Android?

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Speaker 1: So with the Apple TV app, it's very confusing because

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Speaker 1: so a couple things you'll be able to do. You'll

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Speaker 1: be able to watch Apple TV plus stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: the stuff that needs a subscription, but you'll also be

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Speaker 1: able to watch, you know, all the movies that you

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Speaker 1: purchased in the past on Apple TV or through Apple

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Speaker 1: or iTunes whatever. You know. It gets so complicated because

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Speaker 1: it's you know, it's so it's there's too many Apple

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Speaker 1: things with Apple. Everything is Apple, Apple, Apple something. Let's

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Speaker 1: see it says this makes Chrome cast with Google TV

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Speaker 1: one of the only streaming devices with all the major

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Speaker 1: video subscriptions. But I think at this point that's uh

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Speaker 1: kind of that's no longer the case because now HBO

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Speaker 1: Max has made its way to Roku and fire TV,

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Speaker 1: and I think that was the last holdout. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know, these major apps are mostly on these platforms

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Speaker 1: at this point. Oh wow, I guess that will be

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Speaker 1: my new audio for the voicemails. Let's go to another

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Speaker 1: voicemail at rich on tech dot tv slash podcast. This

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Speaker 1: is from Jerry Rick.

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Speaker 3: It's Jerry Good. Heard you mentioned the ear muffs on

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Speaker 3: your bows headsets and showing where signs on them. Same

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Speaker 3: thing happened to my wife. So I ordered some new

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Speaker 3: muffs from Amazon and it comes with a little tool

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Speaker 3: for inserting them. Hope this helps enjoy your podcast and

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Speaker 3: your segments on kate La and buy now now.

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Speaker 1: This is why I love doing a podcast with an

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Speaker 1: amazing community of folks like Jerry, because I mentioned on

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Speaker 1: my podcast, I don't know if it was last week

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Speaker 1: or the week before, probably last week when I talked

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Speaker 1: about the AirPods Max headphones from apple that my bows.

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Speaker 1: You know, when you put them on, there's sort of

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Speaker 1: like little little fragments of the ear muffs or whatever

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Speaker 1: you call them, the pads on the ears that sort

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Speaker 1: of stay on my ear because they're kind of disintegrating.

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Speaker 1: And he said, you know they're on Amazon and you

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Speaker 1: can get you know, replacement, And why didn't I think

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Speaker 1: of that? I mean, that's such a bowse replacement earpads,

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Speaker 1: I mean so brilliant. There they are left and right

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Speaker 1: now these are twelve ninety nine. Now I will say

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Speaker 1: the ones, okay, the ones that came with it are

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Speaker 1: extremely comfortable. And yes they have the official ones which

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Speaker 1: are thirty five dollars, so you can get anything as

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Speaker 1: cheap as twelve ninety nine sixteen ninety nine, or you

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Speaker 1: can go official and get the thirty five dollars. But

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Speaker 1: I love that. It's great, great voicemail. Thank you, Jerry.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know, I'm I'm a little bit tempted

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Speaker 1: to splurge on those headphones, but I don't know, it's

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Speaker 1: like it's it's a big that's a big investment. And

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at some of the reviews and they're not

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Speaker 1: like glowing, so I don't know. Maybe maybe just stick

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Speaker 1: with what I got and go with that. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's do another question here from Kathy. Hey, Rich, love

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Speaker 1: your tips. I'm a long time iPhone user, want to

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Speaker 1: upgrade to get a better camera. I'm currently using the

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Speaker 1: iPhone seven. Can you suggest a next step up on

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Speaker 1: getting a better camera? I don't want the Pro model,

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Speaker 1: just want a better pictures and don't want to spend

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Speaker 1: a bundle. Also, if I get something unlocked, does that

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Speaker 1: mean AT and T my preferred provider can insert their

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Speaker 1: SIM card. Help Kathy in Kansas City. So, Kathy, to

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Speaker 1: answer your first question, I would recommend I'd recommend the

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Speaker 1: iPhone twelve and I would trade in the iPhone seven.

647
00:32:24,640 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: You're not going to get a whole bunch for that,

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00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: but I would trade that in and go with that.

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Speaker 1: And you know, see what the deal is there, I

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00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:34,920
Speaker 1: you know, and I think that you know. The reason

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Speaker 1: I recommend the twelve is because realistically you could go.

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00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 1: I would also say the eleven is just fine as well.

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Speaker 1: And the reason why I would say the eleven is

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00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: because you want you know, the eleven had a good

655
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Speaker 1: camera on it, So I think that the well, actually

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Speaker 1: I think you have to go eleven pro. Yeah, I

657
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: think you have to go. Let me see here. It's

658
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: been a while since I looked at this. But the

659
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: you know, because Apple's only selling certain phones. So let's

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Speaker 1: see what they're selling in the eleven lineup. They are

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00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 1: selling Oh interesting, so they're selling just the eleven, not

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00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:12,479
Speaker 1: the eleven pro. Okay, but I think the eleven will

663
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Speaker 1: be fine. So I mean, if you want to go

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Speaker 1: with the eleven, you can do that. But I would

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Speaker 1: just say, duke a price comparison between the twelve, just

666
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:21,680
Speaker 1: the standard twelve and the eleven, and see how much

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00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: that is. Now, when it comes to your second question,

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Speaker 1: if I get something unlocked, that means AT and T,

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00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: my preferred provider can insert their SIM. Yes, so unlocked

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00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,960
Speaker 1: means that the phone will work with any carrier. But

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00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,640
Speaker 1: here's the thing. You don't necessarily need unlocked if you're

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Speaker 1: sticking with your carrier and if they give you a

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Speaker 1: better deal, I would go with that because unlocked is

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Speaker 1: good for people like me that you know, are finicky

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00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: and we switch providers and we're moving from Google five

676
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: to Verizon, to Sprint to T Mobile, and we're trying

677
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 1: to you know, we're always moving around, not that I'm

678
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:53,960
Speaker 1: doing that often, but you know, it's just and it.

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00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:56,160
Speaker 1: You know, it's just nice when you sell your phone,

680
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,440
Speaker 1: it's easy to sell because it's unlocked. But if you're

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Speaker 1: sticking with AT and T, like you said, you have

682
00:33:59,880 --> 00:34:01,920
Speaker 1: an iPhone seven, which tells me you've probably had this

683
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: phone for a good you know, four years, so uh,

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00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: you know, just stick with AT and T and get

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Speaker 1: their deal and see if it's better than what Apple

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00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: offers you, which I think it would be. So it's

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Speaker 1: if you're not moving providers, it's not a big deal

688
00:34:14,680 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: to stick with the lock device to AT and T

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00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: and after a certain amount of time anyway, they will

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Speaker 1: unlock it, which is generally you know, when your contract,

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00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: not that you have a contract, but like when your

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Speaker 1: phone is paid off usually that's what it is. And

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Speaker 1: most people are doing their phones on a on a

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00:34:30,120 --> 00:34:33,840
Speaker 1: monthly installment anyway, So buying unlocked doesn't really mean anything

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Speaker 1: because even if you wanted to move, you couldn't because

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Speaker 1: you have to pay off your phone. So I feel like,

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Speaker 1: if your carrier's given you a good deal, no need

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Speaker 1: to go the unlocked route. But yes, if you're buying

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Speaker 1: from the Apple website. I would probably go the unlocked

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00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 1: route for sure, So I hope that makes sense. All right,

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about third party extensions, and this is this

702
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Speaker 1: disconfirms my fears about all these Chrome extensions that I

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Speaker 1: install the time. And I think that Google and I

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00:35:03,640 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: think I heard that they're going to start kind of

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00:35:05,800 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: clamping down a little bit on these things because I

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00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: think it's a big privacy hole. So when you install

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Speaker 1: a lot of these extensions, it says this can read

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Speaker 1: and change site data like what like you can see

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Speaker 1: every website that I'm going to because I install this

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00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:22,000
Speaker 1: extension that shouldn't be but it is. And so a

711
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: vast you know, they make security products. They identified malware

712
00:35:26,480 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: in twenty eight third party Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge extensions.

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Speaker 1: And what they do is they redirect your traffic to

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Speaker 1: ads or phishing sites to try to steal your information

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Speaker 1: or just make money off of you. And this is

716
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Speaker 1: what happens when you do a search and it brings

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00:35:41,520 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: you to some like googly looking site, but it's not

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00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: it's like my search, my way, and like it's like

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00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: what has all ads on the screen? You're like, how

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00:35:48,680 --> 00:35:50,800
Speaker 1: did that happen? When I just did a Google search. Well,

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00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: it's a it's malware redirecting you. So these extensions, they

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00:35:56,160 --> 00:35:59,799
Speaker 1: are all about downloading videos from various platforms, which is

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00:35:59,880 --> 00:36:01,880
Speaker 1: very popular because people are always trying to like, you know,

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00:36:01,960 --> 00:36:04,319
Speaker 1: download videos and put them on their Instagram or their

725
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,080
Speaker 1: Facebook page. And so a lot of these extensions piggyback

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00:36:08,160 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 1: on popular names like video downloader for Facebook, Vimeo video downloader,

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:18,080
Speaker 1: Instagram story downloader, VK on block and you know, they

728
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: they basically, you know, hijack your computer. And so you know,

729
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: some of these extensions are still available. Others have probably

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Speaker 1: been taken down. But they said three million people have

731
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Speaker 1: installed these and I've got the full list on my

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00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:32,640
Speaker 1: website or I'll put it in the show notes. But

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Speaker 1: the reality is this just makes me very, you know,

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Speaker 1: wary about these these third party extensions I have. I

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Speaker 1: have a couple of them. I'll tell you which ones

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Speaker 1: I use. I use Pocket, I use ever Note, I

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00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:50,680
Speaker 1: use print Friendly, I use Buffer And how do I

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Speaker 1: see the rest of my extensions? They like hide them, honey,

739
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:59,719
Speaker 1: keep a let's see grammarly. And then I have a

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00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:04,799
Speaker 1: couple that a popcart screen recorder, auto scroll. See I'm

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00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:06,560
Speaker 1: gonna turn some of these off because I don't need them.

742
00:37:06,920 --> 00:37:08,279
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean it's like one of these things

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00:37:08,320 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: that you know you have to I mean you kind

744
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: of have to like be just be aware when you

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00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: put these extensions, and you know, if they get installed

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Speaker 1: on your computer, you know accidentally, that could be you know,

747
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,960
Speaker 1: a problem too. And the extensions in Chrome have really

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00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: greatly increased the functionality of the web browser. But at

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00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,960
Speaker 1: the same time, again, they are sort of a glaring

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00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: security hole, I think, and I think that in twenty

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00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,879
Speaker 1: twenty one, we're going to see Google do a lot

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00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:36,080
Speaker 1: more to make sure that stuff like this does not happen.

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00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, Chris says, I have a question.

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00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: We're looking to cancel our cable. It's two hundred and

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00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,399
Speaker 1: sixteen dollars a month. We're looking at YouTube TV it's

756
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: sixty five bucks a month. What's your thoughts on it.

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00:37:53,920 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 1: We move from California to Boise three years ago, but

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00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:00,880
Speaker 1: we still watch your show. We enjoy it. Thank you, Chris. Well.

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Speaker 1: The thing about switching from cable to YouTube TV or

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00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: any of these streaming services is that you're not gonna

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00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:12,040
Speaker 1: get You have to still pay for internet and when

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00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: you get rid of the bundle, they boost your monthly

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00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,759
Speaker 1: for your internet. So if you're paying to sixteen a month,

764
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: that is high. But you probably have everything in that bundle.

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00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 1: I'm guessing you probably have high speed internet, you probably

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00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: have a phone line, and you also have you know,

767
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,600
Speaker 1: a top of the line cable TV package that you

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00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: probably don't need because you're probably not using all of it.

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Speaker 1: So if you switch to YouTube TV, which I thought

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00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:39,319
Speaker 1: YouTube TV just raised prices, let me see how much

771
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 1: it is. Okay, yeah, it's sixty five bucks. Okay, so

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00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,640
Speaker 1: sixty five dollars that includes the DVR. So yeah, I

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00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,279
Speaker 1: mean I love YouTube TV. I think it's one of

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00:38:47,320 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: the best out there as long as it has the

775
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,920
Speaker 1: channels that you want in Boise. Yeah, Now, the thing

776
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: is your internet is gonna go up. So right now,

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Speaker 1: you know, whatever you're paying for internet in that bundle,

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00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it's it's going to be more expensive.

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00:39:02,480 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 1: Now you might get a deal to switch to a

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00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: new provider or whatever. But you're looking at let's say

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00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,479
Speaker 1: another let's just say it was sixty to eighty a month,

782
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:11,960
Speaker 1: you're still looking at only one hundred and you know,

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00:39:12,000 --> 00:39:14,840
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty bucks, so you're still saving fifty

784
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:17,759
Speaker 1: dollars a month with this changeover. The only thing you

785
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: just need to be aware of is if your local

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00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,440
Speaker 1: channels are available on YouTube tv. You can go to

787
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:24,480
Speaker 1: YouTube tv and type in your zip code and it

788
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: will tell you that in a second. But otherwise sure,

789
00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: now I would argue, do you even need YouTube tv?

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00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: You know? With all these other services, don't forget you

791
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: have to pile those on top of this price as well.

792
00:39:35,160 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 1: So unless you're not subscribing to Netflix or Disney Plus

793
00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:43,200
Speaker 1: or Hulu or HBO Max, you know, yeah, that's one fifty.

794
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 1: But now when you add all those in, now you're

795
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:49,640
Speaker 1: back up to two sixteen. So to me, the idea

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00:39:49,680 --> 00:39:51,239
Speaker 1: of cutting the cord, which I did a couple of

797
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,319
Speaker 1: years ago, has never been about saving money, because I'm

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00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,920
Speaker 1: still not convinced I'm saving money at this point with

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00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,960
Speaker 1: all the subscriptions. But what I love is that I'm

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Speaker 1: in control, and so if I wanted to cancel anything,

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00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: I can, And it's a matter of these services have

802
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:09,080
Speaker 1: to provide a value for me for me to continue

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00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,359
Speaker 1: with them, and so far, you know, so good. I mean,

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00:40:11,520 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: I pay for you know, pretty much all of them

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00:40:13,520 --> 00:40:20,000
Speaker 1: at this point, Netflix, Hulu with no ads, Disney plus

806
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:25,279
Speaker 1: what else do I have? HBO Max Right now, we're

807
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: doing a Hallmark channel for all their sappy Christmas movies.

808
00:40:29,320 --> 00:40:32,240
Speaker 1: But you know again, I'm gonna cancel that when Christmas

809
00:40:32,280 --> 00:40:34,640
Speaker 1: is over. So for seven bucks a month, it's been

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00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,719
Speaker 1: great and I feel like we've gotten our value because

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Speaker 1: we've watched you know, four movies. Of course, I'm sharing

812
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:43,319
Speaker 1: that log in with several folks. Can I say that? No,

813
00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:48,400
Speaker 1: I'm not. No one does that, and so you know,

814
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:49,880
Speaker 1: it's one of these things where you just have to

815
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Speaker 1: decide if it's worth it. I think it's worth it

816
00:40:52,000 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 1: because of the control you get, and you get a

817
00:40:54,120 --> 00:40:57,160
Speaker 1: slicker interface for me. I get my interface on either

818
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,759
Speaker 1: you know, a Roku device or a Chrome cast or

819
00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:04,560
Speaker 1: Apple TV, which is infinitely better than what most of

820
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,280
Speaker 1: the cable companies offer you. So for all those reasons, Chris,

821
00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: go ahead, drop the cable and pick up YouTube TV.

822
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, guess what, you can

823
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,440
Speaker 1: get rid of it and you don't have to call

824
00:41:13,440 --> 00:41:14,799
Speaker 1: someone to come over to your house to do it.

825
00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:17,719
Speaker 1: Story out of Apple all the well, I guess not

826
00:41:17,800 --> 00:41:20,280
Speaker 1: all the developers, but maybe some of them are going nuts,

827
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:23,839
Speaker 1: but definitely Facebook. You know, these privacy labels are now

828
00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: on the iPhone in the app store. So if you

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Speaker 1: go into the app store, if you select one of

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00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: the apps that you like, you can scroll down and

831
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 1: see what their privacy policy is. So let's go to

832
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: Snapchat and if we scroll down, it's kind of like

833
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: a nutrition facts label but for app privacy and so

834
00:41:42,160 --> 00:41:47,000
Speaker 1: data use to track you contact info identifiers, data link

835
00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 1: to you, purchases, contact info, user content identifiers, diagnostics, location,

836
00:41:52,160 --> 00:41:56,800
Speaker 1: contact search history, usage data. Wow. Snapchat, you know, tracks everything,

837
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 1: and that's kind of what they're doing is bringing to

838
00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,239
Speaker 1: light the fact that these apps, as much as we

839
00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,160
Speaker 1: love them, you know, their business is making money. And

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00:42:04,239 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: how do they make money by tracking the heck out

841
00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: of us? And that means, you know, watching everything we

842
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: do on Snapchat to sort of make us use Snapchat

843
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:17,759
Speaker 1: more and also target ads to us. And that just

844
00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,960
Speaker 1: happens with every one of these apps. And so these

845
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: little nutrition facts labels for data is what it's all about.

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00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:27,839
Speaker 1: And if you know, so, the main thing is that

847
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: Facebook is going kind of you know, they're saying, look,

848
00:42:30,719 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: you know now that we have to, you know, put

849
00:42:33,040 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: all this out there. It looks scary. Number one. And

850
00:42:35,560 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 1: then number two, they're saying that the they're not able

851
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:43,520
Speaker 1: to target our businesses, can't buy ads and target small

852
00:42:43,520 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: business or people as well as they used to be

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00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: able to. And that's probably true because now on you know,

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00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:51,759
Speaker 1: on iPhone, you can choose to not be you know,

855
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: not hand over your location, your bluetooth, your precise location.

856
00:42:56,320 --> 00:43:01,319
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot of privacy of privacy protections

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00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: in place on the iPhone this year than there ever

858
00:43:04,400 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: have been, and so it is, it is tough for

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00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:09,640
Speaker 1: these companies that have built their entire business on targeting ads.

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00:43:10,480 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 1: It makes it a lot tougher for them. And I

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00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 1: would argue that, yeah, it's you know, especially if you

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00:43:14,680 --> 00:43:17,680
Speaker 1: have a small business that you're used you're used to

863
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: targeting people in a very specialized way. It does take

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00:43:21,080 --> 00:43:24,440
Speaker 1: that away and that is tough. But I'm not crying

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00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,160
Speaker 1: for Facebook. I mean, you know, they've had some privacy

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00:43:27,200 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: issues in the past, and you know, I think that

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Speaker 1: it's nice that Apple is is kind of giving a

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00:43:32,120 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 1: wake up call to everyone with this privacy and we've

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00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: taken it for granted for so many years on the

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00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: phones that yeah, we're all just being tracked and everything's

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Speaker 1: being seen, and they've really given us a lot of

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00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:47,320
Speaker 1: the the power back to the consumer. Whether a consumer

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00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:50,399
Speaker 1: chooses to use all of it is remains to be seen.

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00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,480
Speaker 1: And it's also very confusing even myself when I get,

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00:43:53,760 --> 00:43:55,680
Speaker 1: you know, an app, it's like Google Maps has been

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00:43:55,760 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: using your location in the background. Do you want to

877
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 1: switch to just you know, just when you're using the app?

878
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh yeah, sure, oh wait, no, no,

879
00:44:03,360 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: Like there's some of these things that they write, these

880
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: little warning labels are tricky. You have to really read

881
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: them before you accept anything that they say. But it's

882
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:17,839
Speaker 1: nice to know that we can do that, all right.

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00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:20,480
Speaker 1: Final question from Babs happy holidays. Is there a way

884
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Speaker 1: to do a holiday or any other backgrounds on Zoom

885
00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:25,480
Speaker 1: with an iPhone? And I had to do some searching

886
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 1: on this, but yes, there is a way to do it.

887
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Speaker 1: And you have to start a meeting in Zoom on

888
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: your iPhone. So make sure that your iPhone has Zoom downloaded,

889
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: you know, sign in all that good stuff, do new meeting,

890
00:44:38,080 --> 00:44:41,759
Speaker 1: start a meeting, and then you know, you get this

891
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:44,280
Speaker 1: weird thing that says to hear others. Please join audio

892
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: call using Internet audio, which makes no sense to me.

893
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:48,640
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means. But that means

894
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: that you're using the audio on your phone, like you're

895
00:44:50,680 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: not calling, you're just whatever weird, weird message from them.

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00:44:54,880 --> 00:44:57,800
Speaker 1: Then you go to more and it says virtual background

897
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: and you've got three to choose from that are defaults

898
00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: or you can add your own and let's see, I

899
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:06,440
Speaker 1: can put a nice background there. Done, and there you

900
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 1: go right on your iPhone. So it may not be

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00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:12,160
Speaker 1: every version of the iPhone software, Like if you have

902
00:45:12,200 --> 00:45:15,200
Speaker 1: an older phone, it may not work because I do

903
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,480
Speaker 1: know that the virtual backgrounds take a little heavy lifting.

904
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,360
Speaker 1: So if you have like I don't know, but I

905
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: do know on this iPhone, which is the newest one,

906
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 1: it does work. So there you go again, just open

907
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 1: up the app and go into more and virtual background

908
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:31,479
Speaker 1: and there you have it all. Right, final story, real quick.

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00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,799
Speaker 1: Just Google Pay is Google's new app that's sort of

910
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: like their venmo slash, you know, banking app whatever, payment

911
00:45:37,960 --> 00:45:40,719
Speaker 1: to payment, person to person. But right now they're trying

912
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:42,399
Speaker 1: to get people to sign up and you can net

913
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,000
Speaker 1: twenty one dollars if you refer someone to the app,

914
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:48,520
Speaker 1: So if you bring a new user to the app,

915
00:45:48,520 --> 00:45:53,120
Speaker 1: you get twenty one dollars and the person that signed

916
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 1: up also gets twenty one dollars as long as they

917
00:45:55,280 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: spend ten dollars using the app. It used to be

918
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,560
Speaker 1: you could refer like a whole bunch of people, ten people.

919
00:46:00,600 --> 00:46:02,120
Speaker 1: Now you can only do three because I guess so

920
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: many people did this. So if you want an easy

921
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:09,160
Speaker 1: twenty one bucks, refer a friend to this and boom. Also,

922
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: they have an offer at Target in the US if

923
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 1: you spend fifty using Google Pay at Target, you'll get

924
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: twenty one dollars cash back, which is really cool and

925
00:46:19,719 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: that's awesome. It's funny. I was at the gas station

926
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: the other day and I saw a sticker with a

927
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 1: QR code for Google Pay. So clearly Google is really

928
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:30,320
Speaker 1: going all out on this mobile payment app this time,

929
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 1: because you know, at my local gas station it had

930
00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: the sticker, which is you know, goes to show that

931
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:40,000
Speaker 1: they're really promoting this app. The thing is I can't

932
00:46:40,000 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: sign up for I don't know what the problem is,

933
00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:44,759
Speaker 1: but my phone number is clearly in some sort of

934
00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: Google limbo because when I go to sign up It

935
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:49,279
Speaker 1: just gives me an error message every single time. And

936
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 1: I tried both my phone numbers, my cell phone and

937
00:46:52,719 --> 00:46:55,000
Speaker 1: my Google Voice and it just didn't work. So I

938
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: don't know what the deal is. But I'd like to

939
00:46:56,640 --> 00:47:00,040
Speaker 1: sign up, but I can't, so I don't know. You

940
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: know what that music means. It means that is going

941
00:47:03,560 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: to do it for this episode of the show. If

942
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: you'd like to submit a question for me to answer,

943
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:12,359
Speaker 1: just go to richon tech dot TV slash podcast and

944
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: you can hit a little voicemail microphone or of course

945
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: you can send an email as well. It says contact

946
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:20,759
Speaker 1: on there. Just hit that and boom, it'll get right

947
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:23,400
Speaker 1: to me. Probably won't get it till next year's show,

948
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 1: but yeah, because this is it. This is the last

949
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Speaker 1: show of twenty twenty. Also, I would love it if

950
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: you would rate and review this podcast to help other

951
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,799
Speaker 1: people discover it. You can also just go to rich

952
00:47:34,880 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: on tech dot, TV, slash podcast and you'll see a

953
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:40,759
Speaker 1: rate button. See everything's in one place now. How cool

954
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: is that? You can also find me at rich on

955
00:47:43,239 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: tech and I think those social media links are there

956
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 1: as well. My name is rich Demiro. I want to

957
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: say a sincere thanks to you for listening in twenty twenty.

958
00:47:52,680 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: I really do appreciate it. I have a blast doing

959
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:57,520
Speaker 1: this show. I know there's been some changes with the

960
00:47:57,560 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: show over twenty twenty, but I feel feel like it's

961
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: gotten to a really good place, and I'm happy where

962
00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: it's at. I love the community that we've built with

963
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: the show. The questions keep coming, the comments. It is

964
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: so interesting to me that, just as many people say

965
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,160
Speaker 1: when they email me that hey, Rich, I listen to

966
00:48:14,200 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 1: your podcast, as people say they hear me on the

967
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,640
Speaker 1: radio or on KTLA or some other stations that I'm on,

968
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,959
Speaker 1: and I just love it. So Thank you so much.

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00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: Have a fantastic holiday season. Hang in there. We are

970
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:28,360
Speaker 1: almost through this pandemic. I do believe that. Stay safe.

971
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:30,359
Speaker 1: I'm going to talk to you in twenty twenty one.

972
00:48:30,480 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: My name is Rich Demiro. Have a fantastic day. I'll

973
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:34,839
Speaker 1: talk to you real soon.