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Speaker 1: Amazon sets this year's Prime Day. Air tags get their

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Speaker 2: The website that will.

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Speaker 1: Buy your old gadgets for cash, even if they're broken.

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Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on? I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the podcast where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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

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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Hope you are having a

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Speaker 1: fantastic day. We are into the summer. I don't even

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Speaker 1: know is it summer just yet?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could be listening to this next year

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Speaker 1: for all I know, or you could be listening to

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Speaker 1: it last year. If you're a time traveler, that would

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Speaker 1: you'd be much smarter than me. Let's see, so I

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Speaker 1: was going through my I'm on this quest, you know,

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Speaker 2: So like this one, uh, I don't know, these were like.

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Speaker 1: This was like the music that I would use for

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Speaker 1: Say hello, how about this one? Like all this kind

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Speaker 2: And then this was my intro initiating rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: This was from DJ Ski. He made a couple of

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Speaker 2: Laying around your house. Now. I know there's a.

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Speaker 1: Bunch of these websites, like Gazelle. Swap a Glide is

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Speaker 1: Then you've got the next level where you know it's

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Speaker 1: And you know, I did not tell I was at

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Speaker 1: Gizmo Go. It seemed great, you know, they led me around,

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Speaker 1: And so after I got back, I actually took my

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Speaker 1: and so I put this on gizmo Go and they

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Speaker 1: I was recommending for you, I would pay the I

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Speaker 1: think it's ninety nine cents for fifty gigs on iCloud.

434
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Speaker 1: I would recommend doing that. It's a dollar a month.

435
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Speaker 1: I know you don't want to pay the monthly fee,

436
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Speaker 1: but you know it is a buck, and I bet

437
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Speaker 1: you spend a buck somewhere throughout the month. That's not like,

438
00:20:56,200 --> 00:20:58,639
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, a big return on your money. So

439
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Speaker 1: I know it's twelve dollars a year. It's not the

440
00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:03,359
Speaker 1: answer you wanted, but it just makes life a little

441
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Speaker 1: bit easier. And since it doesn't sound like you are

442
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Speaker 1: spending a lot of or using a lot of storage,

443
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Speaker 1: I think you should be okay for a long time

444
00:21:12,359 --> 00:21:15,040
Speaker 1: with that fifty gigs. And you're asking about the flash drive.

445
00:21:15,119 --> 00:21:17,119
Speaker 1: I mean, by the time you spend forty dollars on

446
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:19,639
Speaker 1: the flash drive, forty to fifty bucks, you know, that

447
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 1: could pay for like three years of the cloud storage

448
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Speaker 1: on your on your iCloud. So that's what I would

449
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Speaker 1: go with. I think that would be the simplest, easiest

450
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Speaker 1: way for you to do that. And that's what I'm

451
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Speaker 1: gonna say. All right, Well, Apple is already doing kind

452
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Speaker 1: of the first big update for the air tags. According

453
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,880
Speaker 1: to Sinet, they are going to add a little bit

454
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Speaker 1: a little more security to these things, especially for Android users.

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Speaker 1: So number one, let's see, So if you the whole

456
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,840
Speaker 1: thing about these air tags is that. And by the way,

457
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Speaker 1: these things have been around for a month now and

458
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Speaker 1: we haven't heard one major like oh my gosh, like

459
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:05,280
Speaker 1: this stalking situation happened because of air tags. We haven't

460
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Speaker 1: heard any of that. And the only thing I've seen

461
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Speaker 1: is that. You know, everyone I've talked to is just

462
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Speaker 1: thinks these things are amazing because you clip them and

463
00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:15,840
Speaker 1: you forget about them, and when you need them, they're there,

464
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Speaker 1: And I think they're pretty amazing. I've got one of

465
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Speaker 1: my keychain and it's just like one of those things

466
00:22:21,280 --> 00:22:23,840
Speaker 1: that's just okay, you know, you just know it's there

467
00:22:23,840 --> 00:22:25,720
Speaker 1: when you need it. And I think a lot of

468
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Speaker 1: people feel that way. And yes, there are some privacy concerns,

469
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Speaker 1: so Apple is addressing those. Number One, it used to

470
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Speaker 1: be a couple of days before an air tag that

471
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Speaker 1: was kind of clinging on to you would play a sound.

472
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Speaker 1: Now they're gonna play a sound anywhere between eight and

473
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Speaker 1: twenty four hours of it being kind of around you.

474
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Speaker 1: And Apple's not giving you the exact time because they

475
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Speaker 1: don't want people to plot around that. Right, Like they

476
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Speaker 1: knew it was eight hours, they would do their nefarious

477
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Speaker 1: measures in seven hours before the thing dinged, right, So

478
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Speaker 1: they're not going to say when this thing's gonna be.

479
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Speaker 2: Then.

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Speaker 1: Apple is developing an app, according to Cnepp, for Android

481
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Speaker 1: devices that will help people detect an air tag that's

482
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Speaker 1: traveling with them. And so the iPhone obviously has this

483
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Speaker 1: built in, but Android will be released later this year.

484
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Speaker 1: Now that's kind of weird though, because you know what,

485
00:23:18,119 --> 00:23:20,720
Speaker 1: so every Android person now has to download this app

486
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Speaker 1: to keep air tags from stalking them. Like, it's kind

487
00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:27,480
Speaker 1: of weird, right, So it's not a perfect situation. It's

488
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Speaker 1: not a perfect solution, but it is one solution in

489
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Speaker 1: one way that if you are kind of a little

490
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Speaker 1: bit paranoid about these things, or you're in a bad

491
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Speaker 1: situation and you just worry about this, then yeah, you

492
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Speaker 1: can get this app on your phone and hopefully, I mean, look,

493
00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:47,960
Speaker 1: is it going to stop all instances of stalking or whatever.

494
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,240
Speaker 1: Probably not, but it could help. And it just I

495
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Speaker 1: think it's more for the user to feel better knowing, like, Okay,

496
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Speaker 1: well I'm an Android, so I'm kind of left out

497
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Speaker 1: of this whole find my situation. But I can put

498
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Speaker 1: this on my phone and feel a little bit better

499
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:02,679
Speaker 1: knowing that I will be able to detect these things

500
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Speaker 1: if they happen to be near me.

501
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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Kiki from California says, Hey, Rich, I love your show.

503
00:24:14,280 --> 00:24:17,240
Speaker 1: It's so informative and a source I can trust. Well,

504
00:24:17,240 --> 00:24:20,719
Speaker 1: thank you just want it to know if there are

505
00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: any reputable trustworthy sites that offer free Microsoft Office software downloads,

506
00:24:26,520 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: not an introductory offer free lifetime. I lost my job

507
00:24:30,840 --> 00:24:33,000
Speaker 1: to COVID. I had to buy an inexpensive computer to

508
00:24:33,040 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: search for jobs. It doesn't have any software loaded, and

509
00:24:35,400 --> 00:24:36,639
Speaker 1: I need Microsoft Office.

510
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Speaker 2: Can you help? Thank you? Kiki in California.

511
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Speaker 1: Kiki, Well, I'm sorry to hear about you losing your

512
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Speaker 1: job due to COVID. I'm sorry. I know what happened

513
00:24:46,160 --> 00:24:49,639
Speaker 1: to a lot of people. But the good news is

514
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: there are a lot of jobs out there right now,

515
00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: so hopefully you'll land on your feet. And it sounds

516
00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:56,919
Speaker 1: like you spent your money on this computer, which you

517
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Speaker 1: know is a good step. I'm glad you got that

518
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:01,240
Speaker 1: because you need it in today's day and age to

519
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:06,040
Speaker 1: look for a job. But this Microsoft Office situation, I

520
00:25:06,080 --> 00:25:08,359
Speaker 1: think that I get this question a lot, which is

521
00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: kind of odd. You don't need it. You don't need

522
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: Microsoft Office now. If you have it, or if you

523
00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:15,679
Speaker 1: have access to it, it's amazing.

524
00:25:15,720 --> 00:25:17,159
Speaker 2: It's great. Like I love it.

525
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,280
Speaker 1: I mean it's I don't use it personally, I mean

526
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Speaker 1: I use it for work. We have you know, our

527
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 1: company does have a deal with Microsoft to use teams

528
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,800
Speaker 1: and all the Office three six five.

529
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Speaker 2: And it's fantastic.

530
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Speaker 1: In fact, one of my favorite features on Word that

531
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:35,359
Speaker 1: you may not even know about is the transcription feature.

532
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:38,760
Speaker 1: You can upload basically as far as I can tell

533
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Speaker 1: an unlimited amount of audio to Microsoft Word and it

534
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:45,719
Speaker 1: will transcribe it word for word, and it's pretty phenomenal,

535
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:49,000
Speaker 1: and it'll even put time codes and stuff. I think

536
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:50,680
Speaker 1: it's it's really good. I used it a couple of

537
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: days ago twice for two different little things I needed

538
00:25:53,840 --> 00:25:54,960
Speaker 1: and it worked perfectly.

539
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:55,520
Speaker 2: Oh.

540
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Speaker 1: Actually, I'll tell you what I used it for. This

541
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Speaker 1: was just a this is embarrassing, But I'll tell you

542
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,240
Speaker 1: what I used it for. Are So I've been listening

543
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:07,640
Speaker 1: to Bobby Flay and his daughter Sophie Flay's new podcast.

544
00:26:08,400 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 2: Oh what's it called?

545
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:12,880
Speaker 1: Something about food? I don't know what's cooking? I don't

546
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Speaker 1: what's it. I don't even know what it's called. Let

547
00:26:14,480 --> 00:26:15,399
Speaker 1: me see what it's called.

548
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:21,200
Speaker 2: What is it called? It is recently updated? Where is it? Oh?

549
00:26:21,400 --> 00:26:22,680
Speaker 2: How embarrassing is this? Oh?

550
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Speaker 1: Always hungry, that's what it's called. So I've always loved

551
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Speaker 1: Bobby Flay. I've just I don't know why, Like I

552
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,760
Speaker 1: just always have loved Bobby Flay, and so when he came,

553
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, and his daughter is a reporter here in town,

554
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,440
Speaker 1: and so I followed her for a while. She does

555
00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 1: she's a really cool kind of this new age reporter

556
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 1: that they it's like they call him m MJ's where

557
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,080
Speaker 1: they shoot their own stuff, but they take it even

558
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:50,439
Speaker 1: a level further. She is just focused on a single

559
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Speaker 1: area of LA and I think it's like either Echo

560
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:55,200
Speaker 1: Park or Silver Laker. It's like one of the cool

561
00:26:55,240 --> 00:26:57,959
Speaker 1: like neighborhoods, you know. And so she just literally like

562
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,120
Speaker 1: you know, goes around and like finds cool restaurants, opening

563
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: things that are happening in the community. And she does

564
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,359
Speaker 1: it all herself, like she produces, she edits whatever she

565
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:08,960
Speaker 1: puts it on air, I think on social media anyway.

566
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: So I've been following her and then when I saw that,

567
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 1: you know, they have a podcast, I'm like, oh my gosh,

568
00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:15,200
Speaker 1: of course, easy listen, and I've just loved every episode.

569
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:17,600
Speaker 1: They just talk about one type of food each episode

570
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: and Bobby gives kind of his tips on how to

571
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 1: do it and his thoughts. Anyway, long story short, Bobby

572
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: mentioned one of his favorite bakeries in Los Angeles and

573
00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 1: he said it really quick, and I was in the car,

574
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,199
Speaker 1: so I just told Siri to you know, remember this

575
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: name of this bakery. But the way I said it,

576
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: I totally butchered it, like I didn't get the right thing.

577
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 1: And so I was like, how in the world am

578
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: I going to find the name of this bakery. I'm

579
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: not gonna listen to the whole podcast again. And for

580
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:46,840
Speaker 1: some reason, Apple, if you're listening, can you make a

581
00:27:46,880 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: bookmark on a podcast? Just? Can you please give us

582
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,119
Speaker 1: the ability to bookmark a spot in a podcast? It

583
00:27:52,119 --> 00:27:54,879
Speaker 1: would be such an easy thing, Right you're listening in

584
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,639
Speaker 1: the car, they say something interesting, you bookmark it, and

585
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: you come back to it. I mean, why is that

586
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: such a It's such a winning feature.

587
00:28:02,920 --> 00:28:04,280
Speaker 2: Just please someone come up with that.

588
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:06,800
Speaker 1: So anyway, so I couldn't book mark, I was like, Okay,

589
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 1: how am I gonna find this without listening to the

590
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 1: entire podcast again? And it occurred to me that I

591
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 1: could transcribe the entire podcast using Microsoft Word and so

592
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,520
Speaker 1: I downloaded the podcast, I uploaded it to Microsoft Word.

593
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 1: It gave me a transcription within like, you know, a

594
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:23,440
Speaker 1: minute or two, and I searched for the word bakery

595
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,360
Speaker 1: and sure enough I found the bakery and I will

596
00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:30,800
Speaker 1: tell you what the name is. It's Tartin t a

597
00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:34,320
Speaker 1: r t i n E. Tartin Bakery. So next time

598
00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 1: I'm in Santa Monica, I will have to go to

599
00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:39,200
Speaker 1: Tartin Bakery because that's the one that Bobby said is

600
00:28:39,200 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: his favorite. And so they also, by the way, have

601
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,840
Speaker 1: locations all over the world. They have them in the

602
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:52,720
Speaker 1: Bay Area, Los Angeles, and then Korea. So yeah, interesting, right,

603
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: So that was a long story, but I gotta say,

604
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: I mean, it was just such a brilliant This is why.

605
00:28:57,920 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: This is why I'm so happy that you listened to

606
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: a like this, not to hear me drone on and

607
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: on about all this stuff, but it's all about building

608
00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,440
Speaker 1: that that base of knowledge in your head.

609
00:29:07,800 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: You may have.

610
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:10,280
Speaker 1: You may say, Rich, you're going on and on about

611
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:14,160
Speaker 1: this transcription feature. Well, yeah, until the day comes that

612
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:16,800
Speaker 1: you need something like that, and then you go, oh

613
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: my gosh, I remember Rich talking about that, And that's

614
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: why we do stuff like this. That's why we enrich

615
00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,680
Speaker 1: our brains with knowledge. And yeah, you may say I'm

616
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:28,640
Speaker 1: not a tech person, I'm not at this, but like

617
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: you may be at work and someone says, oh, I

618
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: got this whole big thing, this interview I did with someone,

619
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Speaker 1: and I gotta find this one thing that they talked about.

620
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:39,320
Speaker 1: And your light comes on and you say to your boss, like,

621
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Speaker 1: I can do that.

622
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 2: I can.

623
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Speaker 1: I can find where he said the uh where he

624
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: referenced Tokyo. And you're like, really, and this hour long

625
00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: thing that I talked to him, Oh yeah, I can

626
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: find Tokyo. Let me let me show it and you

627
00:29:51,560 --> 00:29:53,280
Speaker 1: and you take the audio and you upload it to

628
00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 1: Microsoft three sixty five into a word and you search

629
00:29:56,120 --> 00:29:58,080
Speaker 1: for Tokyo and next thing you know, you here's what

630
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Speaker 1: he said. The best restaurant in Tokyo and the best

631
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:02,760
Speaker 1: hotel to stay out are these two. And you're like,

632
00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, and your boss just gives you a race.

633
00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:08,200
Speaker 1: So that's why we do this kind of stuff. And

634
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: that's why you know, I, as a tech person listen

635
00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:13,200
Speaker 1: to other people and other stuff because I'm always looking

636
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 1: for cool new tips. I don't know it all and

637
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 1: again it's not something you might use today, but you

638
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: never know. And that's it's like one of these things.

639
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,120
Speaker 1: It's just building that reference. Like this is as the

640
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:26,680
Speaker 1: older I get, I wonder like what is my value

641
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 1: as a human or as a person, or as a

642
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 1: tech reporter, or as a parent or as a friend.

643
00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:37,280
Speaker 1: It's like it's really just you build up kind of

644
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:40,320
Speaker 1: layers of things. And so as a parent, you know,

645
00:30:40,400 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: when I see a new parent, I'm like, ah, I

646
00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:44,440
Speaker 1: remember those days, like and you know, and you give

647
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 1: them a little bit of advice on something or whatever.

648
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Speaker 1: Or as a as an employee, you know you've been

649
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Speaker 1: there for a long time and you know a new

650
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: person comes on board and you're like, okay, let me,

651
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,720
Speaker 1: let me show you the ropes here. So if everyone

652
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:57,920
Speaker 1: was fresh and new and you know, clean to something,

653
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,719
Speaker 1: it would be a bad because we need people that

654
00:31:01,760 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: bring perspective to things. And that's why, you know, I

655
00:31:04,840 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: get it when you're little and your grandpa starts going

656
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:09,040
Speaker 1: off about something, You're like, oh, come on, grandpa, I

657
00:31:09,120 --> 00:31:10,520
Speaker 1: know how to do it better on my phone with

658
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,560
Speaker 1: an app and just hear them out because you know

659
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:17,400
Speaker 1: things have changed, but a lot of it. You know,

660
00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:20,840
Speaker 1: they say history repeats itself. I mean you just have

661
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: to just just be open to that perspective around you, right,

662
00:31:24,680 --> 00:31:26,960
Speaker 1: Just be open to it because you never know when

663
00:31:26,960 --> 00:31:29,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a little nugget that might really help

664
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,520
Speaker 1: you in the future. All right, So to answer your question, Kiki,

665
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,560
Speaker 1: that was a very long roundabout way. You don't need

666
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: Microsoft Office for free. After I just said how great

667
00:31:39,400 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: it is, I think you need Google Docs. You can

668
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 1: always subscribe to Microsoft Office later if you actually need it,

669
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,800
Speaker 1: but micro Google Docs will do just what you need.

670
00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:50,959
Speaker 1: Go to Docs dot Google dot com. It's what I

671
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:53,000
Speaker 1: use for ninety nine percent of what I do on

672
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 1: a daily basis. It works phenomenally, it's free, and it

673
00:31:58,880 --> 00:32:00,680
Speaker 1: just does what you need and you'll be able to

674
00:32:00,720 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: make your resume, You'll be able to make documents, spreadsheets,

675
00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: slide presentations, whatever you need, you'll be able to do

676
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: it there. And if you need Microsoft Office as you

677
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: go along, if there's a feature that Docs doesn't have

678
00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:14,960
Speaker 1: that you need, then you can go ahead and when

679
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: you've got your feet on the ground, maybe subscribe for

680
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: seven bucks a month to Office three six five and

681
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: go that route. All right, good question, very long winded answer,

682
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 1: but I hope that I made some sense there. Speaking

683
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: of Microsoft, let's just make this the Microsoft podcast. Microsoft

684
00:32:36,800 --> 00:32:40,600
Speaker 1: is going to reveal the next generation of Windows on

685
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: should I do my drum roll.

686
00:32:43,240 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: Let's do let's do the drum roll? Please? Hold on?

687
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 2: How do I get my drum roll again? Hold on?

688
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: Oh, this is a really really great podcast, Rich. Oh,

689
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 1: you're just so on top of things here. Let's let's

690
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:59,840
Speaker 1: start this over. Let's see where is my drum roll? Okay,

691
00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: it is ready, it is right about.

692
00:33:06,400 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 2: Drum roll please.

693
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Speaker 1: June twenty fourth, Microsoft will reveal the next generation of Windows.

694
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Speaker 2: Wow.

695
00:33:20,120 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: You know my friend Bald Brian does the sound effects

696
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: for the Adam Kroller Show. He would be so embarrassed.

697
00:33:26,040 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: I know he doesn't listen to this podcast because he's

698
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: a good friend, and they don't do that. I always

699
00:33:33,520 --> 00:33:35,280
Speaker 1: had this idea that you just mention a bunch of

700
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:37,360
Speaker 1: random people in your podcast every week and then they

701
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: clearly like you'll know if they're listening because they'd.

702
00:33:39,800 --> 00:33:41,520
Speaker 2: Be like, oh, I heard you mentioned me. But that

703
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,200
Speaker 2: never happens.

704
00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 1: But anyway, So he does the audio for the Adam

705
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Speaker 1: Kroller Show, and he's so The reason why he's had

706
00:33:47,160 --> 00:33:48,960
Speaker 1: his job for so long there is because he's so

707
00:33:49,040 --> 00:33:51,800
Speaker 1: quick witted and he's so fast. What you just saw

708
00:33:51,960 --> 00:33:56,920
Speaker 1: is the one opposite of that. It's just like, Rich,

709
00:33:57,040 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: it took you fifteen minutes to get a drop, as

710
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: they call them. I think he calls him a drop anyway.

711
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: So Microsoft detailing the next generation of Windows. The events

712
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,680
Speaker 1: happening on June twenty fourth, probably going to be virtual,

713
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:17,120
Speaker 1: I think, as everything has been, but they'll have a CEO,

714
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: Satya Na Nadella is going to be there, and then

715
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: Chief Product Officer Panos Piney.

716
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Speaker 2: Who I have met.

717
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Speaker 1: He came to the KTLA studios when the first Surface

718
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: launched to do a personal one on one with me, which,

719
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,359
Speaker 1: like I've said in the podcast before, he'd never do that. Now,

720
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: I mean, this guy went from you know, I mean

721
00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: he was big back then he was like the main designer,

722
00:34:38,719 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: but now he's like chief product officer and he's he's

723
00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,400
Speaker 1: like big time because Microsoft has had a lot of

724
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 1: success with their Surface lineup and he has been kind

725
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: of the guiding force for that. So these are two

726
00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,680
Speaker 1: big names, and so what is what are those two

727
00:34:50,680 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 1: big names tell us that this is going to be

728
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Speaker 1: focused on software but also how it works with their hardware,

729
00:34:57,239 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: because the hardware, the hardware side of things with these

730
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,919
Speaker 1: big tech companies has become just as important. I mean,

731
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: obviously we know with Apple, but Microsoft, yes, same thing.

732
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: I mean, they're you know, they've had a lot of

733
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Speaker 1: success with Windows, but a lot of their success has

734
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Speaker 1: been integrations with things. You know, how does office work

735
00:35:17,200 --> 00:35:20,120
Speaker 1: with their laptops or how does office work across a

736
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 1: lot of different devices? Right, how does it work with

737
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: Samsung devices? And of course how do they optimize their

738
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: software and services to work on their stuff? But everyone's

739
00:35:29,600 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: stuff too, So the fact that they're both going to

740
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:35,400
Speaker 1: be there tells me a lot about the next generation

741
00:35:35,480 --> 00:35:37,880
Speaker 1: of Windows. They did not see a lot of success

742
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:42,399
Speaker 1: with their little dual screen devices, but that doesn't mean

743
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 1: that those are going away. So maybe they'll have a

744
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: two point zero or something, or a new approach to

745
00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:52,240
Speaker 1: those devices. Because I think there's one thing that's pretty

746
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: clear in our world is that more screens are happening.

747
00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 1: We're not getting less screens. We're getting more screens. Screens

748
00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Speaker 1: are everywhere, and Microsoft doesn't want to miss the boat.

749
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:04,880
Speaker 1: You know, when screens come to everything, right, don't forget

750
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:06,359
Speaker 1: you know, right now we've got all these little smart

751
00:36:06,360 --> 00:36:10,440
Speaker 1: speakers and you know they're getting screens. TVs are getting

752
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,239
Speaker 1: are sorry not TVs. TVs are getting screens. Oh my gosh,

753
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: I can't believe it. No, all these little smart devices,

754
00:36:17,080 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 1: the first step was to connect them to the internet.

755
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:21,359
Speaker 1: The next step is to give them a screen. And

756
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,719
Speaker 1: you know, we've seen this with you know a lot

757
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:28,359
Speaker 1: of little things like refrigerators, appliances. They're all getting screens, grills,

758
00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: everything's getting a screen. And Microsoft does not want to

759
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 1: miss the boat on running their software on these screens.

760
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: So anyway, eleven am Eastern, eight am Pacific, June twenty fourth, Oh,

761
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: why do you have to Why do you have to

762
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 1: do this to me? Microsoft? Eight am Pacific? You're in Seattle.

763
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,200
Speaker 1: Why would you do eight am? Why couldn't you just

764
00:36:45,239 --> 00:36:47,480
Speaker 1: split the difference and do like, you know, what's a

765
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: nice time on the East coast and West coast?

766
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 2: Right?

767
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:55,120
Speaker 1: Maybe eleven am ten am Pacific, which would be like

768
00:36:55,280 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: what one pm Eastern? You know, I'm from New Jersey

769
00:36:58,520 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: and I still can't get the time right. I don't

770
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: know what it is. Why is it so tough for

771
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 1: me to do this? The other thing that Microsoft said

772
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,440
Speaker 1: is that they were they this Windows ten X, this

773
00:37:10,120 --> 00:37:12,120
Speaker 1: operating system that they were making that was like a

774
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: lot simpler and kind of like, you know, just like

775
00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: super easy and for for dual screens that apparently is

776
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: not happening. I think what they're gonna do is just

777
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:22,600
Speaker 1: make one operating system that works on various things. I

778
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: think that's you know, these operating systems get really really complicated,

779
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:30,359
Speaker 1: because it's kind of like Apple. They've got one thing

780
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:33,239
Speaker 1: going on with their desktop systems, like the you know,

781
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: the mac os, and then they've got iPad os.

782
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 2: But you've got people that.

783
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: Are kind of like, okay, you're they're going between both,

784
00:37:39,440 --> 00:37:42,360
Speaker 1: and it's really complicated to have like a totally different

785
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 1: methodology of doing things on two devices that you use.

786
00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 1: So and I know Microsoft tried, like remember back in

787
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 1: the day, like the Microsoft Windows Phones. They were literally

788
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 1: like a tiny version of Windows that ran on phones.

789
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:57,839
Speaker 1: And so then they came out with Windows Mobile, which

790
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: was a totally completely you know, different an operating system

791
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 1: with the tiles. But it goes to show that we

792
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: have seen so many, you know, just variations of this

793
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 1: stuff over the years. Like these companies are just are

794
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,200
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out in real time, and we're

795
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: here for the ride, and it's not always easy, it's

796
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: not always simple, but things are progressing all right, Steve

797
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:27,120
Speaker 1: says my late model Samsung four k Q ninety Oh

798
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,840
Speaker 1: good system, Wow, Steve. Nice Nice TV is not yet

799
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:35,080
Speaker 1: making KTLA plus available. Deep in its instruction manual, Samsung

800
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:37,839
Speaker 1: seems to suggest there's a manual way of downloading apps.

801
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:39,840
Speaker 1: I haven't tried any luck with that. Do you know

802
00:38:39,880 --> 00:38:42,400
Speaker 1: a way of manually downloading the KTLA plus app? I

803
00:38:42,440 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: suspect suspect Samsung and other TV makers are waiting for

804
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: very for a little financial incentive to add more streaming apps.

805
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:53,760
Speaker 1: I don't think Roku lists everything. Thank you, Steve and Colton. Steve,

806
00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:57,400
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what operating system the Samsung

807
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: smart TVs work on. I don't know if it's their

808
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,920
Speaker 1: own thing or what. But I know they have their

809
00:39:05,960 --> 00:39:08,320
Speaker 1: own app store, but I'm not sure if it's Android based.

810
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 2: I know the Sony's.

811
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: Are, I don't know what the what the Samsung's use.

812
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,479
Speaker 1: I haven't I haven't tested these you ever, I don't

813
00:39:18,480 --> 00:39:23,600
Speaker 1: think but anyway, So to answer your question, so this

814
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: is why I always recommend just skip the smart TV

815
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,640
Speaker 1: and just get a smart device. And if you've listened

816
00:39:31,680 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 1: to this podcast, you've heard my reasoning for this. Okay,

817
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:36,360
Speaker 1: and I'll just go through it once again. So Ktla

818
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,799
Speaker 1: Plus our app is available on Apple TV, Roku, and

819
00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: Fire TV. And of course, as soon as we said that,

820
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:45,879
Speaker 1: everyone comes out of the woodwork saying, Rich, how come

821
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:48,960
Speaker 1: it's not on this platform? Rich, how come it's not

822
00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:50,960
Speaker 1: on the Sony TVs. How Come it's not on the

823
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: Samsung TVs. How Come it's not on Visio. How Come

824
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: it's not on Chrome Cast. How come it's not on

825
00:39:55,600 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: It's like, yes, there are a million platforms out there

826
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: to get your your content on your TV. The reason

827
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:08,279
Speaker 1: I'm assuming our corporate folks decided on Roku, Apple and

828
00:40:08,360 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 1: Amazon is because those are the three largest platforms. And

829
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 1: after that, yes, there's a whole long tail of other platforms,

830
00:40:15,120 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: but it drops off a cliff pretty quickly. Like, yes,

831
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people using Chrome Cast and Android TV,

832
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: but not as many as Roku and not as many

833
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: as Amazon.

834
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Speaker 2: I mean, Amazon and.

835
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Speaker 1: Roku are just the two biggest out there. Apple TV,

836
00:40:28,960 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: you know you have to sort of have an app there.

837
00:40:30,719 --> 00:40:33,960
Speaker 1: Everyone does. It's it's like, you know, it's might not

838
00:40:34,040 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: be as big as the other platforms, especially when you

839
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,040
Speaker 1: look at the iPhone, but it is it is kind

840
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:42,719
Speaker 1: of a standard platform, and it's easy to develop for

841
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:45,080
Speaker 1: and and of course it does beautiful things. So I

842
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,799
Speaker 1: think that's another reason we're there. I don't know, I'm

843
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:49,960
Speaker 1: not part of that situation. I don't you know, I'm

844
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,680
Speaker 1: not like the developer of this app. But I would

845
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: say that's kind of the reasoning. And that's why when

846
00:40:54,560 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: people are like, oh, I like my Samsung Smart TV

847
00:40:56,840 --> 00:40:59,920
Speaker 1: and it's just easy, the apps are integrated, Well, that's great.

848
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:01,759
Speaker 1: You run into an app that you want that they

849
00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 1: don't have, and a lot of this long tail of apps,

850
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: and I would consider ktla plus to be one of those.

851
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:11,959
Speaker 1: They're not on all these random, you know, platforms because

852
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,480
Speaker 1: just be too cost prohibitive to be on those. Yeah, ideally,

853
00:41:15,960 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: you know. And if you're like an HBO Max, like, yes,

854
00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:21,600
Speaker 1: you have like your entire business is streaming, so you

855
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:23,040
Speaker 1: have a lot of people that are trying to plan

856
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:25,120
Speaker 1: for this. But even HBO Max took a long time

857
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: to get to every platform, and they may not still

858
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: be there. May still not be there. So my recommendation, uh,

859
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: get a firestick, get a get a Roku and plug

860
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: it into the back of the TV. You can get

861
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,799
Speaker 1: one for under fifty bucks. I would say that's the

862
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,080
Speaker 1: best way to go if you want the biggest selection

863
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,719
Speaker 1: of your apps, and not just the biggest selection, but

864
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: also apps that are updated the most, you know, if

865
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:52,319
Speaker 1: the Again, when you go through the big app developers,

866
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 1: even if you're a Hulu or an HBO Max or

867
00:41:55,520 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 1: a Disney Plus or a YouTube TV, you're going to

868
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:02,880
Speaker 1: update the apps that are on the biggest platforms first.

869
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:05,840
Speaker 1: You're gonna update them with your newest features, your latest features,

870
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,960
Speaker 1: and your best features because that's where a majority of

871
00:42:09,000 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: your customers are. If you see that, you know, ten

872
00:42:12,080 --> 00:42:15,680
Speaker 1: thousand people are streaming through an Android Shield TV, you're

873
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: gonna say, Okay, that's great, and we love those customers.

874
00:42:17,960 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: But you know we're gonna get to that Apple when

875
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,320
Speaker 1: we can, because we've got to put our our priorities

876
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,799
Speaker 1: and our and our our energies in places that will

877
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:28,800
Speaker 1: affect the most people. So, Steve, I'm not just saying

878
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: like go out and buy something, but again, it's an

879
00:42:32,000 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: easy solution, and I think it's a better solution than

880
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,520
Speaker 1: what Samsung offers you on screen. And I know there's

881
00:42:38,560 --> 00:42:40,360
Speaker 1: some ads on screen with Samsung. If you want to

882
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: avoid those. You know, you can get an Apple TV

883
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,440
Speaker 1: that's really fancy. But I'm guessing you're not an Apple

884
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: guy because it says sent from mail for Windows ten

885
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: and you've got a Samsung TV. So I'm guessing that

886
00:42:52,120 --> 00:42:55,640
Speaker 1: maybe you're an Android slash, you know, non Apple person,

887
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: which is fine, and so maybe you know. I personally

888
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: think the the Roku or the fireTV are fantastic solutions

889
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:07,120
Speaker 1: for streaming if you want something that's inexpensive. I was

890
00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 1: using the fire TV last night. The old I mean,

891
00:43:10,640 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: I've gotten old firestick. I'm talking. It's like from twenty nineteen.

892
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: The thing was fine. I mean, the only thing you'll

893
00:43:16,239 --> 00:43:18,880
Speaker 1: notice with the older devices is that it takes a

894
00:43:18,880 --> 00:43:22,520
Speaker 1: little bit longer to load the apps. Like on Apple TV,

895
00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: it's pretty fast. On the Roku Ultra, it's pretty fast.

896
00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: But like when you start getting into these lower end

897
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: devices that are twenty five thirty forty bucks, it's just

898
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,840
Speaker 1: gonna take a little bit longer to load your favorite apps.

899
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 2: That's the main downside.

900
00:43:34,120 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: As long as they're four k HDR all this stuff like,

901
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,080
Speaker 1: they're gonna be fine for the picture once it's playing,

902
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,400
Speaker 1: doesn't take much to play the video. It's just a

903
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,680
Speaker 1: matter of like how long do these things take to

904
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: load your favorite apps?

905
00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 2: Right?

906
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: The response time, that's really where you notice the difference.

907
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about Amazon. Speaking of Amazon, everything

908
00:43:54,040 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: just rolls into each other. Amazon's sidewalk is bubbling up

909
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 1: once again. I did a story on this back in

910
00:44:01,560 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: I think it was like December, and gosh.

911
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:05,799
Speaker 2: When was that.

912
00:44:07,200 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 1: Let me see, I did the story on December fourth.

913
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's December fourth.

914
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 2: Oh. This is cool.

915
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:20,239
Speaker 1: Because I'm my computer connected, I can actually pipe in

916
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:21,520
Speaker 1: here's the story.

917
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:24,359
Speaker 2: Look at this. Here's what I used.

918
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: Here's what I Said's network called sidewalk. It's powered by

919
00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,360
Speaker 1: a portion of home Internet connections along with millions of

920
00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 1: ring and echo devices installed in homes across America. If

921
00:44:35,600 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: you have one of these devices, you'll help power the

922
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: network by default. Okay, So anyway, so that's I feel

923
00:44:40,840 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 1: like now I feel like I'm really on the radio

924
00:44:42,480 --> 00:44:44,520
Speaker 1: here because that's like kind of you know, they they

925
00:44:44,560 --> 00:44:47,560
Speaker 1: play like little clips of like news. In a recent email,

926
00:44:47,640 --> 00:44:50,800
Speaker 1: Amazon says, side, I don't know, I just love it. Okay,

927
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: So what do you need to know about sidewalk? So

928
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: Sidewalk is Amazon's.

929
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:58,239
Speaker 2: New you know.

930
00:44:58,280 --> 00:45:02,480
Speaker 1: It's basically a low low power, low frequency network that

931
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: will long range, by the way, that is powered by

932
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: Amazon devices like echos, a lot of echos, and then

933
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: ring devices, but not the thing they left out was

934
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: the doorbell, the video doorbell. So that's like the number

935
00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 1: one ring device that is not part of this network.

936
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: So if you have one of those and that's your

937
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:21,600
Speaker 1: only ring device, you don't have to worry about being

938
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,880
Speaker 1: part of the sidewalk network. Now, if you have an

939
00:45:23,920 --> 00:45:26,879
Speaker 1: echo or you have some of the higher end ring

940
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: devices like the floodlights, those are part of the echo

941
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: network and are the ring the sidewalk network. And I

942
00:45:35,360 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: think they did that, and they did all these things

943
00:45:37,360 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 1: that are that are wired right, so they have a

944
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:43,520
Speaker 1: constant connection to power and a constant connection to the Internet.

945
00:45:44,080 --> 00:45:46,279
Speaker 1: And so what these devices do is they take a

946
00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,080
Speaker 1: little tiny bit of your bandwidth and they rebroadcast it

947
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: out as part of this mesh network, which is a

948
00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: new network called the Sidewalk Network. And I think this

949
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:58,839
Speaker 1: is brilliant. I think it's really smart. I think it's

950
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:00,680
Speaker 1: actually going to be very helpful in the future. But

951
00:46:00,719 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 1: I know it's scary because it's using our internet. I

952
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 1: don't think it's that scary. I think that Amazon did

953
00:46:06,040 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: their homework. They figured out a way to use a

954
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: tiny bit of your bandwidth.

955
00:46:10,160 --> 00:46:11,040
Speaker 2: I think they said.

956
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,360
Speaker 1: It's like under, let's see what they say, five hundred

957
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:21,000
Speaker 1: megabytes a month. Five hundred let's see, yeah, five hundred

958
00:46:21,000 --> 00:46:24,000
Speaker 1: megabytes a month. So you're not like they're not using

959
00:46:24,000 --> 00:46:24,760
Speaker 1: all your Internet.

960
00:46:24,840 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: They're not.

961
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: Okay, the number one headline I'm seeing everywhere is Amazon Evil.

962
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: Amazon is sharing your WiFi with your neighbors.

963
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,760
Speaker 2: Bump, bump, bump. That is not true.

964
00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,880
Speaker 1: You cannot just latch onto this Wi Fi connection you

965
00:46:39,920 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: do not have.

966
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,839
Speaker 2: You can't go on your phone and say, oh, let

967
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 2: me connect to the sidewalk network.

968
00:46:44,400 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 1: Because it's free, and I'll just cancel my internet at

969
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:49,200
Speaker 1: home and I'll just use my contents. He used my

970
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: neighbor's Wi Fi. No, that's not how it works. What

971
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: this is doing, Okay, there's a couple of things this

972
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:59,560
Speaker 1: is doing that's gonna make your life actually a lot better.

973
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:01,480
Speaker 2: So let's say you have.

974
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 1: A ring video doorbell, right and you're setting it up

975
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 1: for the first time, and this thing is for some

976
00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,080
Speaker 1: reason you're just having trouble setting it up and it's

977
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: not working. Well, maybe this device is sniffing around and

978
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,879
Speaker 1: it actually senses the sidewalk network and it says oh.

979
00:47:17,920 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: And then you call Ring tech support and they say, well,

980
00:47:20,920 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 1: hold on, let me give me the serial number on

981
00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:24,960
Speaker 1: that Ring device and you say, well, here it is,

982
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: and they go, okay, we see what the problem is

983
00:47:27,239 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: because they can connect to it through the sidewalk network.

984
00:47:30,080 --> 00:47:32,480
Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying that's possible today, I'm not even sure.

985
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: But these are just ideas of how Amazon's going to

986
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: use this, okay. And then they say, okay, we can.

987
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,560
Speaker 1: We can flip this switch. Do you mind if we

988
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,920
Speaker 1: flip this switch for you and we'll get this work

989
00:47:41,960 --> 00:47:43,359
Speaker 1: in And then you say yeah, and you say okay,

990
00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: and they help guide you along and boom, now you're

991
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,239
Speaker 1: up and running. That's one scenario. Another scenario, you've got

992
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: a TILE device, and Tile is kind of an early

993
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 1: early ally of the sidewalk network, and the Tile, which

994
00:47:58,480 --> 00:48:02,200
Speaker 1: generally has been limited in past years to just working

995
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,400
Speaker 1: off of random people's Bluetooth on their phones, now it

996
00:48:05,440 --> 00:48:09,959
Speaker 1: can use this sidewalk network to have connectivity no matter

997
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: where it is as long as this sidewalk network is nearby.

998
00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: And so apparently the sidewalk network does not need a

999
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,640
Speaker 1: lot of nodes for it to cover a wide swath

1000
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:20,360
Speaker 1: of area. So if you know a couple people in

1001
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 1: your neighborhood leave this thing turned on, it could be

1002
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:26,920
Speaker 1: a very powerful network. And yes it's evil, it's Amazon,

1003
00:48:26,960 --> 00:48:29,759
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, but when you lose your dog and

1004
00:48:29,840 --> 00:48:33,239
Speaker 1: you've got a tile connected to it, you'll really appreciate

1005
00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: the power of the sidewalk network.

1006
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 2: Or when you lose.

1007
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: Let's say you lose power at your house and you're

1008
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 1: on vacation and your devices can still connect to the

1009
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:48,680
Speaker 1: sidewalk network to sort of keep them in a state

1010
00:48:48,760 --> 00:48:52,360
Speaker 1: that is sort of still protecting your house. You know,

1011
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: you may not have all the functionality, but you might

1012
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: not be able to stream video and stuff, but maybe

1013
00:48:56,400 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: they'll still have enough to just kind of keep alerts

1014
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 1: going or whatever. You'll be like, oh, that's kind of cool.

1015
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: So again, you know, I think that we need to

1016
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 1: keep a critical eye when it comes to anything that

1017
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: big tech does.

1018
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:13,920
Speaker 2: But I think that these stories are a little.

1019
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 1: Bit overblown sometimes and it makes the average person just

1020
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:19,919
Speaker 1: say no, I will not do that. I'm not letting

1021
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: Amazon share my Wi Fi with my neighbors. Well, that's

1022
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: not what's happening here. And when you think about what's

1023
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:26,960
Speaker 1: happening and you think about how we can create a

1024
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,919
Speaker 1: network that you know, it may bring prices down from

1025
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 1: you know, this network has the potential to compete with

1026
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 1: something like Verizon or AT and T or T Mobile,

1027
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:41,040
Speaker 1: because now you can empower a whole bunch of these

1028
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:43,719
Speaker 1: new devices that may connect to the sidewalk network and

1029
00:49:43,760 --> 00:49:48,440
Speaker 1: have connectivity all the time to do little tiny things like,

1030
00:49:48,640 --> 00:49:51,799
Speaker 1: you know, check in on GPS or whatever. You know,

1031
00:49:51,840 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: maybe in the future it could even check email.

1032
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 2: Who knows.

1033
00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:56,239
Speaker 1: I'm just saying this. This network has a lot of

1034
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,520
Speaker 1: potential to do a lot of cool things in the future.

1035
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: Why should we just immediately cut it off and say no,

1036
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: I'm not going to be a part of that without

1037
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:07,280
Speaker 1: any reasoning, I personally am leaving mine on. I'm leaving

1038
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,120
Speaker 1: it on on my gadgets. I have a couple of

1039
00:50:09,120 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 1: them here that will will latch on. I'm happy to

1040
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 1: help this thing take off, because you know, when you

1041
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: look at something like and I don't want to knock

1042
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: Apple again, but when you look at something like Apples

1043
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,799
Speaker 1: find my network. Oh, it's pretty much turned on by

1044
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: default with every iPhone user in the world, which is

1045
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,439
Speaker 1: you know, they say, nearly a billion devices. No one

1046
00:50:27,480 --> 00:50:30,040
Speaker 1: cried about that. No one said, oh, Apples so evil

1047
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:31,799
Speaker 1: for doing this. They said, oh, my gosh, Apple is

1048
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: so cool that I can use these find my you know, tags,

1049
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: to these air tags to find my stuff all over

1050
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: the world. Now that's great, but why don't we have

1051
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: some competition? And Amazon is building something that could potentially

1052
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,360
Speaker 1: compete with find my and give Apple a run for

1053
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:49,920
Speaker 1: their money and importantly give us consumers a choice. And

1054
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,120
Speaker 1: so now that Apple air tags, yeah, thirty bucks doesn't

1055
00:50:52,160 --> 00:50:54,759
Speaker 1: seem like a big deal, but now we may see

1056
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,720
Speaker 1: these things come down to five dollars because other people

1057
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: can tap into sidewalk and make devices that are just

1058
00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:04,319
Speaker 1: as powerful, just as great. And you know, now we

1059
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 1: have choices, consumers. So I think that's what you need

1060
00:51:07,239 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 1: to know about sidewalk. It is your opportunity to turn

1061
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:11,840
Speaker 1: it off if you like. You can opt out in

1062
00:51:11,920 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: the settings on the Ring app or on the Alexa app.

1063
00:51:16,120 --> 00:51:19,239
Speaker 1: Just go into your settings and look for Amazon Sidewalk.

1064
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 2: I guess I can.

1065
00:51:20,719 --> 00:51:25,080
Speaker 1: Give you the the full you know, whatever you want

1066
00:51:25,080 --> 00:51:27,840
Speaker 1: what I just do here, But if you look at

1067
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 1: let's see where is it? So the settings, it's Alexa

1068
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 1: on your iPhone or Android, Tap more, tap settings, type

1069
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 1: account settings, tap Amazon sidewalk, and then toggle off on

1070
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: the Ring app. It's Ring And then it's not exactly

1071
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:43,920
Speaker 1: where you would think it would be. I have to

1072
00:51:43,920 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 1: look in my I did it on a Facebook post,

1073
00:51:46,600 --> 00:51:47,200
Speaker 1: so you can.

1074
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 2: Let's see here where is it?

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00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:54,080
Speaker 1: Hold on, I gotta gotta scroll down. Let's see where

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Speaker 1: it's How do you opt out with.

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Speaker 2: A Ring device?

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Speaker 1: It is Ring app menu, which is the three bars

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Speaker 1: at the top, left, control center, and then Amazon sidewalk.

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Speaker 1: So there you have it. I mean, make your own decisions.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just one opinion, and I'm an optimist

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Speaker 1: when it comes to tech. So my opinion maybe not

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Speaker 1: what you think, and that's fine. So I'm just giving

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Speaker 1: you mind so you can understand why I'm staying on

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Speaker 1: board with this thing unless Amazon proves me wrong, and

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Speaker 1: if they do, then I will turn it off. But

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Speaker 1: right now I feel like I'm contributing to something that

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Speaker 1: has potential to be pretty cool, pretty powerful, and pretty helpful.

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Speaker 1: For other people, and that's why I'm doing it.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: So Richard, I did a story on how to avoid

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Speaker 1: robo calls, and Richard put in his suggestion. The main

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Speaker 1: point of the story, and I think I went through

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Speaker 1: this last week, was that you download the app from

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Speaker 1: your carrier, you install on your phone, and you can

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Speaker 1: stop the robo calls that way. But then some people

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Speaker 1: you know, got a lot of response. By the way,

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Speaker 1: but Richard emailed in and said, I have a suggestion

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Speaker 1: to help avoid robo calls. So here's what he did.

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Speaker 1: He edited all of his contacts to a favorite same

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00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: ring tone. When that ringtone is ringing, no problem answering

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Speaker 1: these calls. It's a friendly call for all other incoming calls.

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Speaker 1: Have a default ring tone that you know is for

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Speaker 1: unknown callers that you can ignore. Let it go to voicemail.

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Speaker 1: If someone needs to contact you, they can leave a

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Speaker 1: message and you can have your unanswered message saying I

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Speaker 1: do not answer any unknown numbers while I'm driving. Uh oh, sorry,

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Speaker 1: I do not answer any unknown phone numbers or while

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Speaker 1: I'm driving. Please leave a brief message if you wish

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Speaker 1: me to call you back.

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Speaker 2: He said.

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Speaker 1: It takes time to edit each contact, but it's worth it.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean this is something that is an

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Speaker 1: alternative to sort of all these apps, and it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like it's almost like a do not disturb. Like

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Speaker 1: on my iPhone, you know, I have a feature called

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Speaker 1: do not Disturb, and you know, you put your friends

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00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 1: in there and your your family and while you're sleeping

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Speaker 1: at night, if they need to call you or they

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Speaker 1: need to get through, it will still ring. But for

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of other people, if they're not on

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Speaker 1: that starred list or you know an Android, it's starred

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Speaker 1: on iPhone, it's favorites. If they're not on that list,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to ring your phone. And so that's

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Speaker 1: pretty useful. That's that's another way of doing it. You

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Speaker 1: can just leave your phone on do not Disturb all

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Speaker 1: the time. But then you know, just add your friends

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Speaker 1: to your favorites list and anyone on that list will

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Speaker 1: be able to call you.

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Speaker 2: Now, the only time that doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Work is in a real emergency where it could be

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Speaker 1: you know, someone calling you that may not be calling

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Speaker 1: from a number that's on your preferred list. And so

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Speaker 1: in that case, there are provisions apples thought of all

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Speaker 1: this so is Android, if someone calls you a couple

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Speaker 1: times in like fifteen minutes time period, it will still open,

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Speaker 1: it will still ring your phone. So the first time

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00:54:39,719 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 1: they call, it won't ring. But you know, if you're

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00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,960
Speaker 1: an emergency, you know, call someone a couple times, right,

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00:54:44,000 --> 00:54:45,759
Speaker 1: You're trying to get a hold of them, and so

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00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,839
Speaker 1: you're trying to get their attention. And usually spammers don't

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Speaker 1: call a whole bunch of times in a row. But

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Speaker 1: so I think, Richard, your suggestion is a good one.

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Speaker 1: It's it's one option, right. There's a lot of ways

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Speaker 1: to do things with tech, and that's just one option,

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00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: and I think that's a it's a good one. It's

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00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:05,400
Speaker 1: a little bit of work, but you know, you know,

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00:55:05,640 --> 00:55:09,319
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta spend the time to get the

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Speaker 1: return right. All right, let's talk about this as our

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Speaker 1: maybe our final story United. I'm so excited about this

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Speaker 1: bringing back supersonic speeds. They're buying fifteen aircraft from a

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Speaker 1: company called Boom Supersonic. And the cool thing about these

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00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,439
Speaker 1: supersonic planes is that not only do they look cool

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00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:34,400
Speaker 1: even though they're an artist rendering, they will go twice

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Speaker 1: the speed of your typical airliner and So as for

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Speaker 1: someone who flies from LA to New York a lot,

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Speaker 1: I think this would be just so cool to go.

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Speaker 1: It's like twenty five hundred miles by plane, so it's

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Speaker 1: like usually anywhere between four and six hours, So just

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Speaker 1: cut that in half. So to get to from LA

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Speaker 1: to New York, New York to LA in two hours

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Speaker 1: or maybe three hours is would be groundbreaking.

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Speaker 2: It'd be really really cool.

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Speaker 1: Now, apparently after I posted that, people said, well, they

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Speaker 1: don't really use SuperSonics over the trans continental because I

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00:56:06,160 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: guess the sonic boom is too much. But I don't

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Speaker 1: really know, so I mean, maybe they'll do this in

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Speaker 1: the future. But these airliners are expected to run by

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty nine. It's gonna be the first large commercial

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Speaker 1: aircraft to be net zero carbon from day one. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna roll out in twenty twenty five, fly out fly

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, and carry passengers by twenty twenty nine.

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Speaker 1: And so the sonic boom situation, all the all of

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Speaker 1: the examples they gave of routes were all from you know,

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Speaker 1: places that were like international, right, and so let's see

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Speaker 1: what were the examples they gave Newark to London in

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Speaker 1: three and a half hours, Newark to Frankfurt four and

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Speaker 1: a half hours, San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: To Tokyo in six hours.

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Speaker 1: And of course they showed how beautiful the interior space

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Speaker 1: is on these things, and they look awesome. But again,

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Speaker 1: this is not gonna be cheap. This is not something

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00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:03,759
Speaker 1: that you and I will just be taking on a

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00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: regular basis. Maybe you will, I don't know, probably not me,

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Speaker 1: because it's my dream to fly first class from coast

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00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:12,040
Speaker 1: to coast once in a while, which you know has

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00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:14,359
Speaker 1: happened in the past, but it's not my regular and

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Speaker 1: that's my ultimate dream, is to just be able to

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Speaker 1: do that.

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Speaker 2: All the time.

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Speaker 1: I had a friend who worked for a big company

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Speaker 1: and they got to fly first class to London. That

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Speaker 1: was like the standard, like they flew well business class,

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Speaker 1: I guess, and that's like my dream because can you

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Speaker 1: imagine just the creature comforts of lying flat. I got

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Speaker 1: to do this once to Europe. I was working a

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Speaker 1: job and they flew me business class and it was

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Speaker 1: just like I got off that flight and I said

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Speaker 1: I could I could fly to Europe every day if

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Speaker 1: I wanted to with this with the way I flew there,

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Speaker 1: Because you had a nice dinner, you watched a nice movie,

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Speaker 1: and then oh you laid your flat, your seat flat,

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Speaker 1: and you went to bed and you slept in like

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Speaker 1: a real bed, basically over to Europe, and it was

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Speaker 1: just unbelievable. But most of the time on a plane,

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Speaker 1: I'm in a cramp sea. You know, if I can,

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Speaker 1: if I'm lucky, I'll get economy plus, which is amazing,

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00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:09,479
Speaker 1: you know, it's that's enough. But it would be nice

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Speaker 1: to have that live flat or that nice big seat anyway,

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Speaker 1: but this one would be a lot more expensive. You know,

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Speaker 1: you're talking you know, five ten thousand dollars for a seat.

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Speaker 1: Perhaps we don't know because all this is brand new,

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Speaker 1: and also we don't know if they'll be doing you know,

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00:58:24,400 --> 00:58:26,800
Speaker 1: you know, LA to New York or if it'll be

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Speaker 1: just international stuff. But anyway, I thought it was pretty

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Speaker 1: cool because supersonic flights, you know, they were they were

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Speaker 1: they had them at some point with the concord, and

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Speaker 1: then all of a sudden they took them away. And

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00:58:36,760 --> 00:58:38,840
Speaker 1: now it's like we're getting back to where we were,

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Speaker 1: but in like a new high tech maybe the technology

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Speaker 1: has gotten better, who knows, But thank you Unitas for

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Speaker 1: doing that pretty cool?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: All right, let's see do we have anything else? Or

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Speaker 1: is it the end of the show? I think it is.

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Speaker 1: Actually yeah, that music means it is the end of

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