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Speaker 1: A review of Apple's new air tags. Your car is

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Speaker 1: spying on you, but you probably already knew that. How

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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Dumiro and this is Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech

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

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Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me. And

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Speaker 1: believe me, I say it all the time. You send

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Speaker 1: me a lot of them. I feel very loved. Although

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Speaker 1: maybe it's just because you like the free tech help.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, whatever it is, thanks for sending them in.

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Speaker 1: I will do my best to answer your questions here.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Thank you so much for tuning

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Speaker 1: me in. Oh, I forgot to start a time or whatever.

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Speaker 1: right now to Twitter spaces, which I have not used before,

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Speaker 1: kind of fun. Lots going on in the tech world

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Speaker 1: this week. Got a little little Apple trial going on.

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Speaker 1: You know, you've got Apple battling or I guess you

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Speaker 1: got it's really Epic battling Apple. Epic makes Fortnite one

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Speaker 1: of the most popular games in the world. Apple makes

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Speaker 1: the iPhone one of the most popular phones in the world,

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Speaker 1: and of course the App Store. And what I find

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Speaker 1: fascinating about this entire little skirmish what do you want

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Speaker 1: to call it, you know between these two big companies,

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Speaker 1: is that Apple all the stuff coming out of the

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Speaker 1: trial is is kind of like making me like Apple less. Now.

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Speaker 1: I already knew that Apple was very you know, pacific

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Speaker 1: in the way that they deal with their stuff, you know,

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Speaker 1: the way they market things, the way that they you know,

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Speaker 1: with the iPhone, and I message not being you know,

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Speaker 1: they want to make sure that everything you use keeps

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Speaker 1: you in the Apple ecosystem. And just seeing the emails

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Speaker 1: come out of this trial and seeing the thought behind

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Speaker 1: all of this is like it's kind of icky, Like

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Speaker 1: it makes me like I'm reading it and I'm kind

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Speaker 1: when I think about something like Google, and I think

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Speaker 1: about how open they are and how they are they literally,

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Speaker 1: world at once, right, no matter what language you speak,

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Speaker 1: no matter what operating system you use, no matter what

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Speaker 1: that's what I've always appreciated about Google. Now I appreciate

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Speaker 1: comes from Kristin. Kristin says, hey, Rich, I've been trying

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Speaker 1: get it. Yes, Tyle came up with this idea many

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Speaker 1: many years ago. This is not a new thing. GPS

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Speaker 1: this kind of stuff that you're like, well, I don't

427
00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,359
Speaker 1: do anything bad, I'm I'm you know, I'm okay. I

428
00:21:40,359 --> 00:21:42,159
Speaker 1: don't need to worry about this stuff. No, you do

429
00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:44,000
Speaker 1: need to worry because this is where it comes into

430
00:21:44,080 --> 00:21:48,040
Speaker 1: play in everyday situations. And so this is you know,

431
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:49,720
Speaker 1: I've always talked about even when I was a kid,

432
00:21:49,760 --> 00:21:54,639
Speaker 1: I talked about the concept of what keeps you know,

433
00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:57,840
Speaker 1: what keeps law enforcement or even a city or whatever

434
00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,760
Speaker 1: a state from just autumn printing out tickets. Right, the

435
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:04,680
Speaker 1: technology is there. Your car speeds, it's got some sort

436
00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 1: of sensor transponder, they calculate the license plate whatever, They

437
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,639
Speaker 1: have a camera on the freeway and it just goes, okay,

438
00:22:10,680 --> 00:22:13,000
Speaker 1: there you go. We're mailing a ticket to your house

439
00:22:13,040 --> 00:22:15,720
Speaker 1: because you went over seventy miles an hour. So how

440
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:17,720
Speaker 1: are the laws created? Like, are the laws created? Do

441
00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 1: they say you're not allowed to speed only when a

442
00:22:20,640 --> 00:22:23,520
Speaker 1: police officer's watching and they catch you, or is it no,

443
00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:25,240
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to speed at all and we can

444
00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:27,520
Speaker 1: use any means possible to ticket you for that. I

445
00:22:27,520 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: don't know. But again, these are the kind of things

446
00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: that we're going to address in the future as technology

447
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:36,320
Speaker 1: just continues to get better and better when it comes

448
00:22:36,359 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 1: to doing things automatically. Already, a lot of cities in

449
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:44,159
Speaker 1: America and in the world, probably you know, they've outfitted

450
00:22:44,160 --> 00:22:47,440
Speaker 1: their their cars that, you know, whatever city cars they

451
00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:50,640
Speaker 1: have driving around with cameras that can do a lot

452
00:22:50,640 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: of different things. They use AI to identify stuff they identify,

453
00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: you know, it could be they scan every license plate

454
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:01,160
Speaker 1: and just look for stolen cars. And hey, these people

455
00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:04,719
Speaker 1: are driving around the city anyway, like our our ticket people,

456
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:08,320
Speaker 1: So why don't we just scan cars while we're driving around?

457
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,479
Speaker 1: So I just find this stuff super duper fascinating. That's

458
00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:13,520
Speaker 1: why I mention it. I don't know what the answer is.

459
00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:15,679
Speaker 1: I don't know what the answer is. But when I

460
00:23:15,720 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 1: was a kid, I always imagined that cars in the future.

461
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:20,760
Speaker 1: I always said, like, what's to keep your car from

462
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,080
Speaker 1: just spitting out a ticket on your dashboard in the future?

463
00:23:23,280 --> 00:23:27,359
Speaker 1: Like what we have the tech, I don't know, lots

464
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:33,000
Speaker 1: lots to think about in our high tech world. Robert says, Hello, Rich,

465
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: can you walk me through setting up a new T mobile?

466
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: Galaxy S twenty one five G phone and transferring data

467
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:43,280
Speaker 1: from my Galaxy No. Eight h Robert, I don't need

468
00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,680
Speaker 1: to walk you through because there's a there's an app

469
00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:51,439
Speaker 1: called smart Switch that is just phenomenal. This is from Samsung,

470
00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: and if you're going to Samsung to Samsung, you are

471
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:57,200
Speaker 1: really really doing well. I mean everything when you when

472
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 1: you turn on that S twenty one to five G

473
00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,239
Speaker 1: and you follow the prompts and you make sure that

474
00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:04,720
Speaker 1: you you smart switch with your old phone which have

475
00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:08,359
Speaker 1: it nearby. It can be wireless. I prefer wired because

476
00:24:08,359 --> 00:24:12,480
Speaker 1: it's just faster and simpler and it'll be easier. You

477
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 1: literally plug the two phones into each other and it's

478
00:24:16,760 --> 00:24:19,760
Speaker 1: going to transfer over everything, and it's going to not

479
00:24:19,960 --> 00:24:23,080
Speaker 1: just transfer everything, like your background's going to be there,

480
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,400
Speaker 1: the placement of your apps is going to be there.

481
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,040
Speaker 1: Everything's going to be literally like you just took this

482
00:24:28,119 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: phone and just took the new one and kind of merged,

483
00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:34,159
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It's just you just swapped out the

484
00:24:34,160 --> 00:24:37,520
Speaker 1: hardware and it works really well with smart Switch. So

485
00:24:38,160 --> 00:24:41,480
Speaker 1: now I've had mixed results with this. This also works

486
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:45,560
Speaker 1: really well iPhone to iPhone and it you know, it

487
00:24:45,680 --> 00:24:49,560
Speaker 1: also somewhat works on other Androids, like if you went Android,

488
00:24:49,600 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: you know, like a Samsung to one plus or one

489
00:24:53,359 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: plus to pixel or you know whatever these random Android

490
00:24:57,480 --> 00:25:01,800
Speaker 1: devices are. So it works, O OK. It sometimes will

491
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,360
Speaker 1: bring the whole screen in. Sometimes it won't, like your

492
00:25:04,440 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 1: your icons may or may not be placed where they were.

493
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,800
Speaker 1: It's always kind of random. But if you're going Samsung

494
00:25:09,840 --> 00:25:13,200
Speaker 1: to Samsung, You're gonna be just fine. Super simple process. Robert,

495
00:25:13,280 --> 00:25:15,199
Speaker 1: let me know how it goes. And congrats on the

496
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,080
Speaker 1: new phone. That's a good upgrade cycle. You went No. Eight,

497
00:25:18,200 --> 00:25:20,959
Speaker 1: you kept that for a while, and you went S

498
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:26,119
Speaker 1: twenty one standard. I've got my eye. I keep looking up.

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00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: I'm I'm every day I go on Amazon and I

500
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 1: look up the S twenty one Ultra and I just

501
00:25:32,359 --> 00:25:34,240
Speaker 1: I want it, but I you know, and it's like

502
00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: they could deliver it same day. Right now. It's out

503
00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: of stock, but it's two hundred dollars cheaper. It's nine

504
00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: ninety nine right now. That's for the one twenty eight.

505
00:25:42,119 --> 00:25:45,439
Speaker 1: I want the five to twelve, which is totally out

506
00:25:45,480 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: of stock. They don't even have it. The two fifty

507
00:25:47,840 --> 00:25:50,320
Speaker 1: six you can get, no, totally out of stock. So

508
00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:52,359
Speaker 1: I think this little price cut of the of the

509
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:54,440
Speaker 1: nine ninety nine it used to be twelve hundred. I

510
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have purchased it. Yeah, this

511
00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:58,639
Speaker 1: one's even out of stock. But I've had my eye

512
00:25:58,680 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: in the s twenty one Ultra five because I just

513
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: I want that, like zoom, I want I don't know,

514
00:26:03,960 --> 00:26:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm getting antsy with my iPhone, like I

515
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 1: but it's tough, like I've said in the beginning of

516
00:26:09,240 --> 00:26:11,320
Speaker 1: the podcast, like I can't give up my Apple Watch,

517
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:14,199
Speaker 1: so I'd have to come up with some weird scheme

518
00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,480
Speaker 1: to still use my Apple Watch with the Samsung. But

519
00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:20,040
Speaker 1: then I'm thinking the new pixels coming out, Pixel six,

520
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: which I'm very high hopes for, that will likely be

521
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,399
Speaker 1: my next phone, as long as if it's an Apple

522
00:26:25,520 --> 00:26:30,520
Speaker 1: or sorry, if it's a Google designed processor. Oh my gosh,

523
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: I can't wait. I am I you know, phones, I

524
00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,640
Speaker 1: get it. They're not that exciting to people anymore. They're

525
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: still very exciting to me, especially especially the Pixel, because

526
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: it is just I feel like the Pixel is a

527
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:48,120
Speaker 1: device that throw a phone in the dryer, and that's

528
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,199
Speaker 1: the Pixel. It's just bouncing around. It's there's just no

529
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: there's no definitive trajectory for the Pixel. Every year the

530
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: Pixel come comes out, Google does some wild and weird

531
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,639
Speaker 1: and wacky thing with that. You're just like, ah, I

532
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 1: thought this was gonna be the one. No, no, it's not.

533
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I can't. I'm trying to think the last

534
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,879
Speaker 1: time the Pixel was like the best phone I ever

535
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,439
Speaker 1: like loved in my life, and it might have been

536
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: like the three. I don't know. It's like it was

537
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:17,320
Speaker 1: a while ago. But I still love the idea of

538
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: the Pixel. I love how smart the Pixel is. And

539
00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,080
Speaker 1: so the Pixel five was a major disappointment for me,

540
00:27:22,119 --> 00:27:24,720
Speaker 1: even though it's a great little phone. And I'll be honest,

541
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,080
Speaker 1: for a regular phone, like if you're just you know,

542
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: not a power user, but if you just want like

543
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: the best inexpensive camera on a phone, the Pixel four

544
00:27:33,000 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: A and the four A five G are just phenomenal phones,

545
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,240
Speaker 1: you know. Like I've said, I've said this before. My

546
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,359
Speaker 1: mom has a Pixel. She loves it. She loves her Pixel,

547
00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:45,479
Speaker 1: and she just doesn't understand everyone says her pictures are

548
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 1: so great. You know. She also has mint Mobile, which

549
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:51,919
Speaker 1: she loves, you know, and it's just one of these

550
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:54,240
Speaker 1: things she doesn't understand why people are like so obsessed

551
00:27:54,280 --> 00:27:57,880
Speaker 1: with like iPhone, and they're expensive data plans, and I'm like, mom,

552
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,919
Speaker 1: I know, it's just you know, people don't realize they're

553
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:02,399
Speaker 1: caught up in a lot of this hype. But like

554
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: your phone is fantastic, you know, like your phone is great,

555
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:07,760
Speaker 1: your service is great. As long as your mint Mobile,

556
00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: which runs on T Mobile, works where you go and

557
00:28:10,440 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 1: live and do things, You're fine. Yeah, fifteen bucks a month,

558
00:28:14,160 --> 00:28:16,040
Speaker 1: you're okay, Like why do you have to pay more?

559
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: She doesn't understand it, as she's like, why my friends

560
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,480
Speaker 1: pay more for phone? I'm like, I don't know, I

561
00:28:20,520 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: know why I do. I have Verizon. I need Verizon.

562
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: The coverage is fantastic, and I have an Apple Watch.

563
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,199
Speaker 1: So I can't go with one of these third party

564
00:28:30,320 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 1: mv and o's, these smaller carriers because they don't offer

565
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: all of the futures that I need. I need, you know,

566
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: full upload a video. I want HD video when I

567
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: watch videos on my phone, and some of these things

568
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 1: you just can't get when you're with a smaller carrier.

569
00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: But they're the things that the average person who just

570
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:49,520
Speaker 1: needs a connection, who's just checking Facebook, who's just looking

571
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:52,400
Speaker 1: at Instagram, who's uploading a picture, who wants to make calls?

572
00:28:52,440 --> 00:28:57,120
Speaker 1: It all works, it's all all good. All right, let's

573
00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: talk about Twitter. I don't talk too much about Twitter

574
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: because I feel like it's not very mainstream. Although if

575
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:06,760
Speaker 1: I had to pick one social media network to stick

576
00:29:06,800 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: with forever, I think it would be Twitter. Even as

577
00:29:09,560 --> 00:29:13,640
Speaker 1: much as I love Instagram, everything is so you know,

578
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: they they make it so tough, right, there's no links

579
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 1: you get, it's just you've got stories you have. I mean,

580
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: just the amount of thought I have to put into

581
00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,640
Speaker 1: anything that I post to Instagram is so my brain literally.

582
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why I gets headaches so much, because I

583
00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: just feel like I have to sit here and think

584
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: about formats of video. So, like, you know, the new

585
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,719
Speaker 1: thing on Instagram is you know, igtv is like how

586
00:29:38,720 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: they want you to post your videos, which, yes, you

587
00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: can post your videos as Okay, I'll just I'll just

588
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: go off for a second here. So on Instagram, the

589
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: easiest video is is the sixty second square video, right,

590
00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: And that is the easiest way to get a video

591
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:58,040
Speaker 1: on Instagram because the most people will see it. It's simple,

592
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:00,880
Speaker 1: it shows up in the feed, it plays the entire video,

593
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,200
Speaker 1: but your limitations are it can't be more than sixty seconds.

594
00:30:04,480 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: It has to be square, which is fine, and you

595
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: know it shows the entire video when you're scrolling through

596
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: the feed, and it will show it to the most

597
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: people because it's in the feed. Then you have IGTV,

598
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,560
Speaker 1: which of course they love, but it's so complicated because

599
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 1: if you post, you can post a full, you know,

600
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:24,480
Speaker 1: rectangular sixteen by nine video. But guess what that looks

601
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,240
Speaker 1: tiny on a phone screen. It looks like a thumb.

602
00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:31,160
Speaker 1: Uh what is it? A posted stamp? So who wants

603
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: to watch a video like that? Not me? So that's

604
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 1: why you rarely see me post videos like that unless

605
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 1: I'm being really lazy and I'm just like, I don't

606
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:40,240
Speaker 1: feel like figuring this out, so I'm just gonna post

607
00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:42,920
Speaker 1: sixteen by nine. When I see other people post sixteen

608
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,920
Speaker 1: by nine, guess what I do, I scroll right past it.

609
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,880
Speaker 1: If you want to post a video on Instagram that

610
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 1: sort of really captures the eye, it's an IGTV video

611
00:30:52,880 --> 00:30:55,920
Speaker 1: in sixteen by nine, but vertical format, which we've been

612
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: taught as journalists and video creators our entire lives never

613
00:30:59,480 --> 00:31:04,719
Speaker 1: shoot vertical video. But yet that's the video format that

614
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: Instagram wants. Now, when I'm out there shooting my videos,

615
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: like today, i posted a video from inside Firestone Walker Brewery.

616
00:31:11,880 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm sitting there in the brewery literally, I'm like, Okay,

617
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,600
Speaker 1: do I shoot this sixteen by nine? Do I shoot

618
00:31:17,640 --> 00:31:19,640
Speaker 1: square so I can later edit it? Or do I

619
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: shoot up and down vertical so I can make a

620
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,440
Speaker 1: longer video. Oh and by the way, if it's longer

621
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,280
Speaker 1: on Instagram, if you want you know, the unlimited time

622
00:31:28,160 --> 00:31:31,600
Speaker 1: you go IGTV because then you get you're not within

623
00:31:31,680 --> 00:31:34,840
Speaker 1: that sixty seconds of timeframe. So this is the kind

624
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:36,719
Speaker 1: of stuff that when you just see my stuff on

625
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:40,040
Speaker 1: Instagram and it's oh, Rich posted something new, how cute,

626
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:42,680
Speaker 1: Oh cool, let me like it. You have no idea

627
00:31:43,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: the psychological torture that is going on for me as

628
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: someone who is trying to deal with all these different

629
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:50,520
Speaker 1: formats and noo. And then by the way, I want

630
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 1: to post the same thing to Facebook, and I'm like, ah,

631
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: do I want to post square? Because if people are

632
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: watching it on Facebook on their TV, it's gonna look

633
00:31:57,200 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: all messed up, or you know, it's gonna have the

634
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 1: wings we call them on the sides, you know where

635
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,720
Speaker 1: it's like the blurry background, or if they're watching on

636
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:08,200
Speaker 1: their computer, don't they want to watch it full screen?

637
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:12,600
Speaker 1: So it is very, very complicated anyway. So I say

638
00:32:12,600 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: this all because Twitter just is so easy, Like you

639
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: just tweet and you can put links and you can

640
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: it's just everything just works so nicely. They don't try

641
00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: to play games with you, right and they just you know,

642
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,959
Speaker 1: it just works. You can have a conversation, people can comment,

643
00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, you can at people, you can tag places,

644
00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: you can put videos in there, you can put pictures

645
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:33,200
Speaker 1: in there, you can put links in there, you can

646
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: put audio in there. It just all works. But the

647
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: problem is it doesn't have the audience that Instagram and

648
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 1: Facebook have, especially for me. Now some people have built

649
00:32:42,440 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: their audiences on there. The problem is my audience is

650
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: more of a typical consumer, and the typical consumer is

651
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: on Instagram, not on Twitter. You're still there, okay. So

652
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: with all that said, Twitter has a really cool feature

653
00:32:58,600 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: now called tip jar, and this is how it sounds.

654
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:08,480
Speaker 1: You basically connect a payment system, whether it's cash app, Patreon, PayPal, Venmo,

655
00:33:09,560 --> 00:33:11,600
Speaker 1: and people can leave you a tip. So if they

656
00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: like what you're doing on Twitter, they can leave you

657
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: a tip. Now. This is enabled for me on Facebook.

658
00:33:17,240 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: I haven't really publicly mentioned this very much, but there's

659
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:23,239
Speaker 1: something called stars that Facebook invited me to test, and

660
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: people can leave me stars, which somehow equates into money.

661
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: I haven't really seen the money from this, but it does.

662
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:32,320
Speaker 1: Like if you leave me one hundred stars, I think

663
00:33:32,360 --> 00:33:35,480
Speaker 1: it's like a dollar. So I see them from time

664
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Speaker 1: to time, and I guess it works. I don't really

665
00:33:38,680 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: call them out, I don't really say anything about them,

666
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:44,640
Speaker 1: so I'm not like actively pursuing stars. But I think

667
00:33:44,640 --> 00:33:47,000
Speaker 1: it's amazing if you made, if you make your living

668
00:33:47,080 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: as a creator, you want all these different avenues. You know,

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Speaker 1: if you have a video that goes totally viral, and

670
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: you know, look, if I love the idea of supporting

671
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: creators that I like, like I want people to be

672
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: independent if they can, right, if you can be independent

673
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 1: and do your job and love it, like, more power

674
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:05,760
Speaker 1: to you, Like I want to support that. And if

675
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: it takes a buck for me to send you on

676
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: venmo or cash app or Patreon or whatever, cool. So

677
00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:15,359
Speaker 1: the thing that I think is interesting here is that

678
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: Twitter is not taking any cut of this tip jar,

679
00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: which I think is kind of odd, like, I think

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00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:23,879
Speaker 1: that's a missed opportunity for them. I get it, maybe

681
00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 1: they don't need the money, but I feel like they

682
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 1: could have taken like even ten percent or one percent

683
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:30,200
Speaker 1: and people still would have been happy to have this.

684
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:32,239
Speaker 1: But hey, you know what, it's cool if they're doing it,

685
00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: if you want to see if it's enabled for you.

686
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: Right now, they're doing it for journalists and experts. I'm

687
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 1: somehow not included in that. I didn't see it online,

688
00:34:40,160 --> 00:34:43,680
Speaker 1: but you can go to your profile, pick edit profile

689
00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:52,320
Speaker 1: and see if it's enabled for you. All right, shout

690
00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:54,880
Speaker 1: out to the folks in the spaces on Twitter. I

691
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 1: know I just talked about Twitter, so hey, it seems

692
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: like there's a couple of people in there. My mic

693
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:03,040
Speaker 1: is actually working now. I understand what I'm doing on

694
00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: spaces right now, which I'm broadcasting live to Twitter, is

695
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 1: totally anti to everything Spaces is about, right Spaces is

696
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: about conversations, and right now you're just listening to a

697
00:35:13,160 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: one way feed of what I have to say, and

698
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: you can't talk back. Now, maybe this could be something

699
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,760
Speaker 1: I could do in the future, Like if someone raises

700
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: their hand, I guess I could bring them on the podcast,

701
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,840
Speaker 1: which would be kind of cool. But I don't know.

702
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,759
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never that would be an interesting thought.

703
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do it next time. But yeah, says tap

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00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: on an avatar to invite someone to speak. Oh yeah,

705
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:37,480
Speaker 1: so people are like doing little waves and little like

706
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: symbols and stuff. It's really cool. Again one of the

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00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:44,160
Speaker 1: reasons I love Twitter. It's just it's they've they've built

708
00:35:44,160 --> 00:35:46,560
Speaker 1: in all the things you need as like the best

709
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: communication system, right without fooling around, without trying to trick

710
00:35:49,640 --> 00:35:53,360
Speaker 1: people like Instagram and Facebook everything like Facebook, you know,

711
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: you put a YouTube video in there and somehow it

712
00:35:56,160 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: doesn't embed. You're telling me Facebook's engineering team can't figure

713
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: out how to make a Facebook video playable in Facebook

714
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: on the news feed. No, it's because Facebook doesn't want

715
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: you to play a YouTube video. In fact, they don't

716
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: want you to post a YouTube video. They'd rather you

717
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: upload a video natively to their platform so that they

718
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:19,280
Speaker 1: get the recognition, they get the money, they get the ads,

719
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: they get the everything. And it's those little kind of

720
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 1: decisions that like, I just ugh, it makes my skin

721
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: crawl because now, by the way, videos used to play

722
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: embedded in Facebook, but they made a decision to take

723
00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: it out. Same thing as Instagram. When you used to

724
00:36:35,160 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: tweet a picture on Instagram, yeah, it used to go

725
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: to Twitter, and of course they took that out. So again,

726
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,720
Speaker 1: all these companies I talked about Apple in the beginning,

727
00:36:44,040 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 1: None of these companies are innocent. They all do things

728
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: that are that fly in the face of what's best

729
00:36:50,440 --> 00:36:54,480
Speaker 1: for the consumer. And as consumers, you may not realize that,

730
00:36:54,920 --> 00:36:57,920
Speaker 1: but I do. And this is why you know, I

731
00:36:58,000 --> 00:36:59,520
Speaker 1: keep on top of this stuff, and this is why

732
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: I talk about so that you understand that there's no

733
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: technical reason why a YouTube link that you paste into

734
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:09,480
Speaker 1: your newsfeed should not play inside Facebook. They don't want

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00:37:09,520 --> 00:37:11,120
Speaker 1: it to play inside Facebook. They want to make it

736
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,319
Speaker 1: as horrible as an experience as possible, so that you

737
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 1: don't post a link to a YouTube video, or a

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00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:22,439
Speaker 1: creator doesn't use Facebook to just put their YouTube links.

739
00:37:22,480 --> 00:37:23,920
Speaker 1: They don't want to do that. They want the creator

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00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: to use Facebook's platform. Okay, Christine says, hey, Rich, don't

741
00:37:29,480 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 1: even get me started on links on Instagram. Oh hey, Rich,

742
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: I'm looking at finally getting a streaming device since my

743
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: smart TV won't hold too many apps. I'm not sure

744
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: which one I should get. So I wanted to get

745
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: your advice. I saw your review of the new Apple

746
00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: TV device. I'm not really sure that's worth the extra

747
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 1: money in your opinion, What is the best device to get,

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00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: Christine Christine Christine, Well, I think the Apple TV is

749
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:58,480
Speaker 1: you're asking me, which is the best device? You know,

750
00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:02,200
Speaker 1: I probably that's a tough one. I think the Apple

751
00:38:02,239 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: TV is really really nice. I'm not it is expensive,

752
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:07,920
Speaker 1: so I don't think it's worth it for the average

753
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,319
Speaker 1: person to get. I love mine. I think that it's

754
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: really nice. I also really love the Chrome Cast with

755
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 1: Google TV, but I can't recommend that one because it's

756
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,200
Speaker 1: such a newer. Like Okay, when you look at when

757
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:25,479
Speaker 1: you look at the state of streaming devices, right, you've

758
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: got Roku, You've got Apple, and you've got Amazon. And

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00:38:30,600 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: I will tell you out of those three, which are

760
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:34,799
Speaker 1: the most popular. I mean, Chrome Cast is popular, but

761
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:39,080
Speaker 1: that's definitely you know, people kind of like to have

762
00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: these things with a remote control, and so I think

763
00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:44,960
Speaker 1: Google was smart to do the Google TV, but I

764
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:47,360
Speaker 1: also don't think it's as prominent as these other ones.

765
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,560
Speaker 1: So when I look at platforms, here's what I look

766
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,839
Speaker 1: at Amazon and Roku are pretty much the top two. Now,

767
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: the reason why people love Roku and Amazon is because

768
00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: they are cheap. They've got streaming sticks that are so

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00:38:59,360 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: cheap you buy I am like a ten pack. It's

770
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:03,319
Speaker 1: like a pack of gum and you just you know,

771
00:39:03,320 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: put them on the backs of all your TVs. Now,

772
00:39:05,840 --> 00:39:09,400
Speaker 1: I think that those those really cheap streaming sticks are horrible.

773
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,320
Speaker 1: They're slow, they're jittery. Yeah, you don't need much power

774
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: to stream stuff. Like believe me, you can use a

775
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: streaming stick that's a couple of years old and it's fine,

776
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: but it's not going to be the smoothest experience. So

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00:39:20,840 --> 00:39:23,360
Speaker 1: when it comes to the streaming sticks, I would go

778
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,440
Speaker 1: a little higher and if you can spend fifty dollars

779
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 1: instead of twenty five, and you'll get a much better

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00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: experience on these sticks. Now, with that said, Roku versus Amazon,

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00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,160
Speaker 1: that's a tough one. If you're an Amazon subscriber, like

782
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 1: a prime subscriber, I would probably go Amazon. The problem

783
00:39:41,719 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 1: is Amazon's their interface is all over the place. It's

784
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: just so like cluttered with like stuff. I'm like, it's

785
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,080
Speaker 1: just like you're like bombarded with like do I watch this?

786
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 1: Do I watch that oh this is on Prime Video. Oh,

787
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,520
Speaker 1: it's like so much. But I also like how they

788
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,200
Speaker 1: highlight stuff from the services that you subscribe to, so

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00:39:58,280 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. Roku, on the other hand, is

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00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,319
Speaker 1: very simple. They're just ad filled. There's ads everywhere. It's

791
00:40:04,360 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: just ads galore. So it's like you just on that screen.

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00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: I just it's like, I hate seeing the ads on

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00:40:10,520 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: the Roku. But with that said, I like the Roku

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00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:17,200
Speaker 1: devices because they're universal, like pretty much. I think at

795
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:19,480
Speaker 1: this point every app is on. There might be a

796
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:22,239
Speaker 1: couple on missing, but all the major apps are on

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00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: Roku and Fire. I know that there's a little fight

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00:40:26,280 --> 00:40:29,919
Speaker 1: right now between Roku and YouTube TV, so I'm sure

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00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: that will be figured out. That it's always a money thing.

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00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:35,520
Speaker 1: It's always a money thing, so it will be figured out.

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00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:39,279
Speaker 1: It's like back in the day when cable channels used

802
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: to fight with the cable systems. Right just notework is

803
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:45,160
Speaker 1: taking away my Fox Sports. Well now that battle has

804
00:40:45,239 --> 00:40:48,439
Speaker 1: just moved to the streaming services. Because if you don't

805
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,360
Speaker 1: think that Amazon and Roku are making a little cut

806
00:40:51,480 --> 00:40:53,960
Speaker 1: off of all these streaming services that they allow on

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00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,399
Speaker 1: their device, oh yeah, they are. Believe me. That's why

808
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: it took so long for HBO Max to arrive on Fire.

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00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,440
Speaker 1: That's why it took re cool while to get I

810
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: forget what it was, but it was something they had

811
00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: a problem with. But it's all about the money. It's

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00:41:07,160 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 1: all about the money. So with that said, I would

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00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:13,880
Speaker 1: I mean, if I had my way, I would go

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00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:15,640
Speaker 1: with the Chrome Cast. I think that one's the best

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00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 1: because I feel like it when I use my Chrome

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00:41:18,160 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 1: Cast with Google TV. I mean, the beauty of it

817
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:25,160
Speaker 1: is that it suggests all content from services that you

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00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: pay for. And I just love that because I go

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00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,959
Speaker 1: on the home screen of Google TV and I see

820
00:41:31,000 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: twenty five things I want to watch, and guess what

821
00:41:33,280 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 1: It clearly shows right underneath that that movie or TV

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00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: show if it's included in one of your streaming packages.

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00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 1: I love that. That is a major, major plus in

824
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:48,359
Speaker 1: my book, because if you know me, you know I'm

825
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,120
Speaker 1: not paying five ninety nine to stream a movie. Ever,

826
00:41:51,360 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 1: it just doesn't happen. I don't pay. I'm paying for

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00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,239
Speaker 1: HBO Max, I'm paying for uh Hulu, I'm paying for

828
00:41:58,239 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 1: Disney Plus, I'm paying for NETFLI the most expensive one

829
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:03,400
Speaker 1: with four K, which I don't even understand the difference.

830
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: It doesn't even look any different. But I've got like

831
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:07,200
Speaker 1: twenty people on my account watching, so I mean, I

832
00:42:07,280 --> 00:42:09,920
Speaker 1: can't you know, I need as many simultaneous devices as

833
00:42:09,960 --> 00:42:13,080
Speaker 1: possible before they cut me off. I only had it

834
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 1: happen once where I sat down to watch Netflix and

835
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: it was like, sorry, your account was in use, and

836
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,480
Speaker 1: I was like, what someone that I you know, I

837
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: get maybe maybe you share your password with a few

838
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 1: family members. And I was like, so I had to

839
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 1: call them in or a text them all, and I'm

840
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:29,040
Speaker 1: like a group text who's watching Netflix? Someone needs to

841
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,920
Speaker 1: log off? I'm watching I need to watch something, Okay,

842
00:42:34,880 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: but Christine, Uh, Okay. My bigger point about all these

843
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 1: streaming devices is you want to go with one that

844
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 1: is updated. Often. I don't like the smart TVs because

845
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:49,360
Speaker 1: the software on them. Like, okay, this is the example

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00:42:49,400 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: I always give your HBO max. Right, You've got eighty

847
00:42:53,480 --> 00:42:57,600
Speaker 1: percent of people watching on a Roku, twenty nineteen percent

848
00:42:57,640 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: watching on a fire, two percent watching on Apple TV,

849
00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,480
Speaker 1: and two percent watching on chrome Cast TV. Okay, which

850
00:43:05,600 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: app are you going to update with the newest features? First?

851
00:43:09,280 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: Probably the Roku app right, followed by the Amazon app,

852
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,839
Speaker 1: and maybe you'll get to the other two later. Now,

853
00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: I'm just that's just a you know, I think the

854
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: Apple TV apps are updated and are really good, but

855
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:22,879
Speaker 1: the reality is like, as a developer, you know, you're

856
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 1: probably not gonna update the random video platform app from

857
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:29,440
Speaker 1: you know, two thousand and nine. It's just it. Yeah,

858
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,160
Speaker 1: it's on your TV, but it's probably not gonna be

859
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: updated very often. So that's why I like to get

860
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,760
Speaker 1: one of these streaming devices, plug it into the TV,

861
00:43:37,239 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: and that way you get the best apps and features

862
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:45,960
Speaker 1: that are readily available. So finally, I guess my my

863
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:49,240
Speaker 1: summation of all this is go with which one you

864
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:54,160
Speaker 1: like the best, whether it is Roku or Amazon. If

865
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,479
Speaker 1: you're all Apple products, maybe you go with the Apple TV,

866
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:57,840
Speaker 1: But like you said, you don't want to spend the

867
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:00,920
Speaker 1: extra money and it is tough to justify. So and

868
00:44:01,000 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: I love the Chrome Cast one, especially with the remote.

869
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 1: That's the one i'd probably go with personally, but I

870
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:08,880
Speaker 1: just feel like it's not going to be as updated

871
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:11,279
Speaker 1: as frequently as the other two. But I don't know.

872
00:44:11,320 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the one I feel like does the

873
00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:15,719
Speaker 1: best job of what I want. When I sit down

874
00:44:15,760 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: in front of the TV. All right, let's get to

875
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: another story. This is Google Assistant new features. A couple

876
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,719
Speaker 1: of new features to tell you about. One of them

877
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: is broadcast. And this is not a new feature for

878
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 1: Google Assistant, but they're extending it. And so now it

879
00:44:31,080 --> 00:44:35,640
Speaker 1: used to be you could say, hey G, broadcast, how

880
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:37,880
Speaker 1: about we go to lunch at noon or I'm coming

881
00:44:37,880 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: home soon, and it would it would say your little

882
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,840
Speaker 1: voice on all your speakers. So let me give you scenario.

883
00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 1: You are leaving work, you fire up Google Assistant on

884
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,759
Speaker 1: your smartphone, whether you have an iPhone or Android. Yes,

885
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 1: there's a Google Assistant for iPhone. You can download the

886
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:54,240
Speaker 1: app and use it, and you say to that Google Assistant,

887
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:58,680
Speaker 1: hey G, broadcast, I'm coming home and I'll be home

888
00:44:58,719 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: in ten minutes. And at home your speakers all you know,

889
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,840
Speaker 1: if you have a Google Home speaker or a Google

890
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: Nest Hub display, it will announce in your voice what

891
00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:12,880
Speaker 1: you just said. And that's a cool feature. It's been

892
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:14,640
Speaker 1: around for a while. I don't think anyone uses it.

893
00:45:14,719 --> 00:45:17,319
Speaker 1: Maybe they do. I always forget about it. But now

894
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:21,840
Speaker 1: they're extending this to phones, So on Android or iPhone,

895
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:25,480
Speaker 1: you'll see the little notification with that pop up and

896
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: it'll say the same thing. So I thought that was

897
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,239
Speaker 1: really cool. That's brand new. And I gotta remember I

898
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: scared the heck out of my family one time when

899
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:36,480
Speaker 1: I tested this feature, because I tried it, you know,

900
00:45:36,520 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: and I was like, hey, everyone, what's up or whatever

901
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: I said, and everyone, like my wife said, she just

902
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,840
Speaker 1: about you know, jumped out of the house when she

903
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: heard that because it was so out of there. Okay,

904
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:49,280
Speaker 1: the other things, I mean, there's a bunch of features

905
00:45:49,280 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 1: that they're talking about, these new Google Assistant features. I'm

906
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 1: just going over the ones I think are cool for kids.

907
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:56,680
Speaker 1: They've got new stories and this is kind of cool.

908
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,879
Speaker 1: You can say, hey, gee, talk to who was hero?

909
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: And you can listen to stories about over one hundred

910
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 1: different people that are kind of like big in history.

911
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:11,640
Speaker 1: And so that's really cool because I know the kids

912
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,520
Speaker 1: love to play with these Google Assistant devices, but anytime

913
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:16,640
Speaker 1: you can get them to learn something and enrich their

914
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,799
Speaker 1: little brains, I think that's pretty cool. And then this

915
00:46:18,840 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: one's really fun. You can play the popular game show

916
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: Are You Smarter Than a fifth Grader on the Nest Hub,

917
00:46:25,480 --> 00:46:27,600
Speaker 1: so you just say, hey, gee, talk to are you

918
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,640
Speaker 1: smarter than a fifth grader? And you can play that game.

919
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,279
Speaker 1: And while I have on that topic, we played in

920
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:37,359
Speaker 1: the car. If you have Android Auto, you can ask

921
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:39,160
Speaker 1: to play games in the car. And I know it

922
00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: sounds really scary and kind of dangerous, but I got

923
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,920
Speaker 1: to say, once you're on like an open stretch of

924
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:45,680
Speaker 1: the freeway, if you're on a road trip and you

925
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: know there's not a lot of traffic around, and you

926
00:46:47,239 --> 00:46:50,000
Speaker 1: can kind of, you know, play this game. We played.

927
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 1: It was like Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? And

928
00:46:52,960 --> 00:46:54,800
Speaker 1: it was so much fun. We had a great time.

929
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:57,560
Speaker 1: And it's it's really slick like how they do it.

930
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: You know, they basically ask questions, you say your answers,

931
00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:04,399
Speaker 1: and it's it's back and forth. It's very interactive. It's

932
00:47:04,440 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 1: a little odd that you're playing games in the car,

933
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,120
Speaker 1: like while you're driving with your family, but you know,

934
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: it seemed relatively safe. I think it's mainly if you're

935
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:16,360
Speaker 1: not really putting a lot of brain power into driving,

936
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: Like if you're just on like an open stretch right

937
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,279
Speaker 1: where you're just kind of there's not a lot going on,

938
00:47:21,440 --> 00:47:23,879
Speaker 1: and you you know, you can I don't know, maybe

939
00:47:23,880 --> 00:47:26,040
Speaker 1: it's not meant for the driver. Maybe it's just passengers only.

940
00:47:26,040 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 1: So I'll leave it at that, all right, Genny says,

941
00:47:33,600 --> 00:47:36,640
Speaker 1: I have several Apple products to recycle or even get

942
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 1: a credit for. I've gone through Apple and receive the

943
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: shipping statement. It appears that I do not need to

944
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,239
Speaker 1: remove my data and they will do it for me.

945
00:47:44,320 --> 00:47:47,239
Speaker 1: Do you think this is safe? If not, I do.

946
00:47:47,280 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: I just do a reset on all the products. Some

947
00:47:49,560 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: have the old charging connection and I don't know if

948
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:56,680
Speaker 1: they will even power up. Thanks, Ginny, Ginny. Okay, So

949
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: my advice in general is if I'm ever sending something

950
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,759
Speaker 1: in I want to you know, format it, like I

951
00:48:03,800 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: want that hard drive or that device wiped clean. Now,

952
00:48:08,760 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: the reality is, if if you have a password on

953
00:48:11,640 --> 00:48:14,120
Speaker 1: your device, chances are they're not gonna crack. They're not gonna,

954
00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: you know, get to the recycling facility and someone's gonna

955
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:19,439
Speaker 1: spend an hour trying to crack your password. I mean, yes,

956
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:23,279
Speaker 1: that's a possibility, but most of these recycling facilities or

957
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:27,720
Speaker 1: these uh, you know, refurbishing facilities have safeguards in place

958
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: to keep their employees from doing that, and it's just

959
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: not something that probably happens very often. It could, and

960
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: I think that you should take safeguards against it just

961
00:48:37,920 --> 00:48:41,759
Speaker 1: to be sure. And there will be some places like

962
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:43,720
Speaker 1: I you know, like I've said, I've been to places

963
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: where I've left my computer and they said, hey, can

964
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:48,719
Speaker 1: you write down your password? And I'm like, no, I'm

965
00:48:48,719 --> 00:48:50,960
Speaker 1: not writing down my password to my computer. So if

966
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,399
Speaker 1: they ever ask you to do that, say no, and

967
00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: they will figure out a way around it. Now, they

968
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: may have to format your drive, and you know, so

969
00:48:57,760 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: you want to make sure you have a backup of

970
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,840
Speaker 1: this stuff if you're sent in Now in your situation,

971
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,480
Speaker 1: you're sending stuff into recycle. So my advice is if

972
00:49:05,520 --> 00:49:07,720
Speaker 1: you can power it up, plug in the old charging cable.

973
00:49:07,719 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 1: If it's a really old gadget, you can't just plug

974
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,799
Speaker 1: it in and expect it to power up. It may

975
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:14,960
Speaker 1: take an hour for that thing to come alive because

976
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 1: it's the battery is so dead that it's going to

977
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:19,880
Speaker 1: take a bit for it to even get to a

978
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,400
Speaker 1: place where it can do anything on that screen. So

979
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:24,440
Speaker 1: you may plug it in and it may look like

980
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:26,840
Speaker 1: it's not charging, but just leave it there for a

981
00:49:26,960 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: solid hour and it may come to life with a

982
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 1: little charger symbol after an hour's I've noticed that with

983
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,719
Speaker 1: my gadgets that I have very old that I'm kind

984
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: of trading in, not trading in, but like getting rid of,

985
00:49:38,680 --> 00:49:40,600
Speaker 1: and I or I haven't used them in a really

986
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,880
Speaker 1: long time, and that's the case. And then yes, do

987
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: a reset. You want to go into your settings and

988
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:52,759
Speaker 1: it's settings reset, and it's factory reset, so you can.

989
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: You can do that on most of the Apple gadgets

990
00:49:55,840 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: have that built in, or in fact, all of the

991
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,960
Speaker 1: gadgets pretty much these days have some sort of factory

992
00:50:01,480 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: reset built in which will erase the data on them.

993
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: And that should be fine. Now, if you can't power

994
00:50:06,600 --> 00:50:08,239
Speaker 1: up a product it doesn't work, I think you'll be

995
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: okay sending it in again. If you had a pass

996
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: code on that product or a password at some point,

997
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:16,360
Speaker 1: it should be fine. It's gonna get to the factory.

998
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 1: They're just gonna do the wipe, either manually somehow, or

999
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:22,840
Speaker 1: they're even just gonna recycle it, you know, crunch it

1000
00:50:22,920 --> 00:50:24,720
Speaker 1: up if it's so old that they don't need anymore.

1001
00:50:24,760 --> 00:50:27,920
Speaker 1: So good question. I'm glad that you are, you know,

1002
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:30,799
Speaker 1: interested in protecting your privacy. I think that is very

1003
00:50:31,040 --> 00:50:36,880
Speaker 1: very smart. Let's talk about this. This is just a

1004
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,000
Speaker 1: small story. Well I'll just do this one. We did

1005
00:50:40,000 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: a story on KTLA about scanning in old slides, and

1006
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: it depends, you know, if you're of a certain age,

1007
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 1: like for me personally, I don't have any slides. I

1008
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: never shot slides. I don't I never used them. I mean,

1009
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,400
Speaker 1: the only thing I remember is as a kid, we

1010
00:50:53,480 --> 00:50:57,239
Speaker 1: did have I'll never forget my dad setting up a

1011
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,800
Speaker 1: slide show just once, like it wasn't even our projector.

1012
00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 1: I think it was his parents projector. And I remember

1013
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 1: like looking at some slides, but that's really it. I mean,

1014
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,400
Speaker 1: my childhood was mostly film and then of course digital

1015
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: cameras and now smartphones. But if you're of a certain

1016
00:51:13,360 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: age and you have a bunch of slides laying around,

1017
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:18,640
Speaker 1: or you know your family might have left you slides

1018
00:51:18,760 --> 00:51:21,239
Speaker 1: or they have slides, you know you can scan these

1019
00:51:21,239 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 1: in and make them digital. And so we tested two

1020
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:26,320
Speaker 1: different methods. One was a one hundred and forty dollars

1021
00:51:26,760 --> 00:51:29,800
Speaker 1: digital scanner. It was from a company called digit Now

1022
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,080
Speaker 1: Scan Slides. Let's see, I think I want to make

1023
00:51:34,120 --> 00:51:36,759
Speaker 1: sure that was the name. So I okay, this is

1024
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:39,239
Speaker 1: this is what happens sometimes with stories. So I was

1025
00:51:39,280 --> 00:51:42,000
Speaker 1: sent this scanner to test and I thought it was

1026
00:51:42,040 --> 00:51:44,000
Speaker 1: forty dollars. For some reason, I don't know why I

1027
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 1: missed the one and so I was like, oh, this

1028
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,239
Speaker 1: is such a great deal. It's so easy. Then I

1029
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:50,000
Speaker 1: saw that it was one hundred and forty dollars, which

1030
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 1: you know, that's expensive for a standalone device, but it's

1031
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: still not that expensive for converting your slides. So we

1032
00:51:56,560 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: tested that. I thought it was great. You put the

1033
00:51:59,280 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 1: slide in. It's a it's a time consuming process. You

1034
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 1: have to slide each scan in manually, take a picture

1035
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: of it, you know, it kind of lights it from behind.

1036
00:52:08,600 --> 00:52:10,160
Speaker 1: It puts it on a memory card and then you

1037
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:12,960
Speaker 1: can put that on your computer. The quality is excellent,

1038
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,919
Speaker 1: it comes out great. It's simple, it's easy, and it's

1039
00:52:15,960 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 1: done right. And then you can either put this on

1040
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 1: eBay or give it to a friend or split the

1041
00:52:20,600 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: price with a family member. It also does film, It

1042
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,919
Speaker 1: does all kinds of stuff, so that was great. Then

1043
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 1: we tried, because I know I like giving people options,

1044
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 1: we tried an app called slide scan and I could

1045
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:35,440
Speaker 1: not believe that an app could scan a slide. I

1046
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: was like, how, well, here's how it does it. It uses

1047
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: just your iPhone or Android. You hold your your slide

1048
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: up to your computer screen and the slide scan app

1049
00:52:45,800 --> 00:52:47,920
Speaker 1: gives you like a QR cod scan to just basically

1050
00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 1: take you to a blank white page on your browser.

1051
00:52:51,400 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: So that's this nice bright white background. You hold your

1052
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: scanner or your slide in front of that, and then

1053
00:52:56,560 --> 00:52:58,759
Speaker 1: you hold your phone in front of the slide and

1054
00:52:58,920 --> 00:53:01,680
Speaker 1: you you know, it's lit from behind, and you take

1055
00:53:01,680 --> 00:53:04,520
Speaker 1: a picture of it with the app. It's not just

1056
00:53:04,560 --> 00:53:06,960
Speaker 1: your regular camera. And then the app you know, performs

1057
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:09,719
Speaker 1: a little magic and AI to bring that slide back

1058
00:53:09,760 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 1: to life as a digital file. And I gotta say

1059
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:16,440
Speaker 1: it works really well, like extremely well. Not as clear

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00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: as the scanner. But the main issue is that since

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00:53:20,040 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 1: you're holding it in your hand, you're holding the slide

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00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: and you're holding your phone, it's like it's an you know,

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00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: it's a lesson in like steadiness, because I noticed with

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00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: my father in law, whose hands you know a little

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00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:34,400
Speaker 1: bit shakier than mine. You know, he's a little bit older.

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00:53:35,440 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 1: Nothing against him, it's just you know, when you get older,

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00:53:37,520 --> 00:53:40,160
Speaker 1: you're not as like steady as you are when you're younger.

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00:53:40,239 --> 00:53:42,680
Speaker 1: Maybe that's not everyone, but I feel like that's maybe

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00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 1: what happens. And so he had a little bit of

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00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: trouble kind of steadying the slide to get it perfect

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00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,359
Speaker 1: for the phone, whereas I really didn't. But still then

1072
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:53,080
Speaker 1: you have glare and you have all these other things.

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00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 1: So bottom line, the slide scan app is pretty miraculous.

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00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to scan in like a

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00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,160
Speaker 1: couple of slides, like, definitely it out. It's available for

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00:54:01,200 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: iPhone and Android. You can try it for free, although

1077
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 1: you do have to pay. It's like seven bucks a

1078
00:54:05,400 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 1: month if you want to do unlimited slides. I would

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00:54:08,960 --> 00:54:12,200
Speaker 1: recommend putting a towel over your like kind of using

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00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: Remember when people would take pictures back in the old days,

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00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,520
Speaker 1: like the really old days, like the old West, where

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00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: they would like put their head underneath like a some

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00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:23,799
Speaker 1: sort of I don't know, covering on the camera. Like

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00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:26,319
Speaker 1: they would go underneath like a what do you call

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00:54:26,400 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: like a tarp or something I don't know, like a blanket,

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00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,080
Speaker 1: I don't know what you call that thing whatever it's

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00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,680
Speaker 1: like attached to the camera and they would go they

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00:54:32,680 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: would lift it up and they would go underneath like

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00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:36,560
Speaker 1: a sheet. Well, that's kind of what you need to

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00:54:36,560 --> 00:54:39,680
Speaker 1: do here with your with your phone scanning your slides,

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00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:41,920
Speaker 1: because you don't want any external light on top of

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00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: the slide because it will reflect. And so I took

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00:54:44,440 --> 00:54:45,960
Speaker 1: a towel, I put it over my head, I put

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00:54:46,000 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: it over my computer, and I did the picture like

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00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,759
Speaker 1: that and it came out great. It's just not as

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00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,520
Speaker 1: clear as the slide scanner. But I got to say,

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00:54:53,560 --> 00:54:56,880
Speaker 1: there were two really cool methods of getting those slides scanned.

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00:54:56,920 --> 00:54:59,840
Speaker 1: And believe me, anytime you can get old things scanned

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00:54:59,840 --> 00:55:02,600
Speaker 1: in digital, definitely do it. It is such a cool

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00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: thing people, you know, you send it to your friends

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00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,640
Speaker 1: and family. I personally love to just dump all this

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00:55:06,680 --> 00:55:11,359
Speaker 1: stuff into Google Photos and then it automatically slices and

1103
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 1: dices it all. You can, you know, now, click on

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00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:15,840
Speaker 1: the head of you know, the picture of the face

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00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:17,600
Speaker 1: of someone that's in one of the pictures. It shows

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00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: you all the pictures that're in. You make a little album,

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00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:21,879
Speaker 1: you send it off to them, and it's just such

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00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:29,240
Speaker 1: a cool, cool thing to do, all right. Barbara asks,

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00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,080
Speaker 1: is there a way to totally block YouTube from iPad

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00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: and our iPhone? My seven year old grandson watched things

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00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: that are not appropriate for him. Oh I'm laughing, but

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00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 1: I'm not. We've tried blocking, but where he goes on

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00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,279
Speaker 1: the iPad or iPhone, he knows how to unblock it.

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00:55:44,320 --> 00:55:45,960
Speaker 1: I'd rather just totally take it off so we can

1115
00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:49,839
Speaker 1: see nothing regarding YouTube. We do have kids YouTube. Please help.

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00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 1: Barbara in Mount Prospect, Illinois. All right, Barbara, So I

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00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,720
Speaker 1: think the easiest way to block YouTube is just too well,

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00:55:57,760 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 1: there's two ways. If you have an app, you're gonna

1119
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,520
Speaker 1: have to set up screen time. This is like the simplest,

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00:56:02,600 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 1: cheapest way. You don't have to buy any extra equipment.

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00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,120
Speaker 1: But there's two things you gotta do. Number one, you

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00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 1: got to go on screen time. Set that up. You

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00:56:09,760 --> 00:56:11,480
Speaker 1: can set that up from your phone. If he's on

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00:56:11,560 --> 00:56:13,600
Speaker 1: your family plan, you can do it all from your

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00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:16,440
Speaker 1: phone and then it'll carry over to his device. You know,

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00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 1: you just set them up as a family member and

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00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:20,040
Speaker 1: you can do all the settings from your phone. If

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00:56:20,080 --> 00:56:21,919
Speaker 1: he's not a family member, you could just go onto

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00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:24,719
Speaker 1: his iPad set up screen time, and basically you have

1130
00:56:24,800 --> 00:56:26,359
Speaker 1: to come up with a code. My kids have been

1131
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: able to figure out the codes I've set up which

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00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,560
Speaker 1: make them tricky and don't let them watch you type

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00:56:30,600 --> 00:56:33,000
Speaker 1: them in. And then once you're done with that, you

1134
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:36,319
Speaker 1: can approve only certain websites that he can go to,

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00:56:36,440 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: so you can block YouTube completely, or you can just

1136
00:56:39,239 --> 00:56:41,120
Speaker 1: pick a list of like ten websites so he's allowed

1137
00:56:41,160 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 1: to go to PBS kids or whatever. And then you

1138
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:45,680
Speaker 1: got to get rid of the app, so delete the app,

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00:56:45,719 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: and then you have to change a setting on the

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00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: iPad that says they cannot install or delete apps, and

1141
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: that will keep him from reinstalling the app. But my

1142
00:56:55,760 --> 00:56:58,359
Speaker 1: kids also found another way around this. This is they're

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00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:01,439
Speaker 1: really tricky. They what they do is they go into

1144
00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:05,320
Speaker 1: my purchased apps. They can go into the family purchased

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00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 1: apps on my account through their iPad and search for

1146
00:57:08,719 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 1: an app that they want to download, and then it

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00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: doesn't ask for permission from the parent. So I don't

1148
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,160
Speaker 1: know if that's like a They love finding hacks and

1149
00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:17,240
Speaker 1: it seems to be a pretty good one. But you

1150
00:57:17,280 --> 00:57:19,960
Speaker 1: can still block out any app with screen time by

1151
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 1: saying you can limit the time on it, and that's

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00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: the easiest way that I'd recommend. If you're looking for

1153
00:57:25,360 --> 00:57:28,400
Speaker 1: a little more control, you can block YouTube from the

1154
00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: entire network using Circle. This is a device that you

1155
00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: connect to your network, and this is what I have here,

1156
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,480
Speaker 1: and it is it's complicated, but it is very thorough

1157
00:57:37,680 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 1: and you will have all the controls you need to

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00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: keep your kids in line, or most of them, I

1159
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:47,680
Speaker 1: should say. There's a website called next dns, dot Io

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00:57:47,720 --> 00:57:49,840
Speaker 1: and Barber that's going to be a little bit more complicated,

1161
00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,240
Speaker 1: but I'm just giving you options that will let you

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00:57:52,280 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 1: control all the network settings and block certain websites from

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00:57:56,480 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: your entire network. You also have Eero if you have

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00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,160
Speaker 1: an ear or you know, one of your your routers

1165
00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: with the newer routers give you a lot of these

1166
00:58:04,440 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: controls inside your router. So I subscribe to something called Eurosecure.

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00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: It's thirty bucks a year and it gives you a

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00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:14,320
Speaker 1: lot of controls to filter things on your Internet at home.

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00:58:14,480 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: So those are the things I'd recommend. Good luck. It

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00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 1: is an ongoing battle in my home with YouTube. It

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00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,920
Speaker 1: took me so long to figure out how to block

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00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: YouTube on my smart displays because once you get into

1173
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: like the way the Google Nest Hub works, it's fascinating.

1174
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 1: They have like two different connections. It's like one is

1175
00:58:34,800 --> 00:58:37,160
Speaker 1: like a chrome cast connection, and one is like another,

1176
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 1: and anyway, it took me forever to figure out how

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00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: to block YouTube on those things. And then it's it's

1178
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: very I don't want to get into it all, but

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00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 1: it's it's super complicated because when I want to sit

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00:58:47,920 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: down and watch YouTube on the main TV, I can't

1181
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: because it's blocked for my kids, and there's no easy

1182
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,360
Speaker 1: way for me to unblock it. So I had to

1183
00:58:55,360 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: come up with a way of basically coming up with

1184
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: a family the home profile that blocks out YouTube unless

1185
00:59:03,480 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: I reward myself with fifteen minutes of time for YouTube.

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00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,400
Speaker 1: I know, it's wild. This is the stuff I deal with,

1187
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: and I understand it's so so complicated, and this is

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00:59:11,720 --> 00:59:13,840
Speaker 1: why parents just let their kids have free roam because

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00:59:14,120 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: they don't want to deal with it. And I understand that.

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00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: But you got to keep these kids in line with

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00:59:18,040 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: this YouTube stuff because there is a lot of stuff

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00:59:20,000 --> 00:59:22,320
Speaker 1: on there, and some of it they should not be watching.

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00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:29,120
Speaker 1: All right, let's see, let's just it fire. Amazon has

1194
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,720
Speaker 1: a bunch of new Toshiba smart Fire TVs, and I

1195
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:33,520
Speaker 1: didn't want to spend a whole bunch of time on these,

1196
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:35,160
Speaker 1: but if you need it like a fire TV all

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00:59:35,200 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: on one kind of thing. It's kind of cool, but

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00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:38,960
Speaker 1: I thought this was neat. They have a new feature

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00:59:38,960 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: called Live Picture and Picture and it will let you

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00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 1: see your video doorbell on your TV when someone rings it,

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00:59:45,400 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 1: and I just thought that was so cool. They don't

1202
00:59:48,640 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 1: say that it's a ring doorbell, but I'm guessing it

1203
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 1: has to be ring. Maybe not, I don't know, but

1204
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:56,160
Speaker 1: I just thought that was so cool because I love

1205
00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: that feature that if someone rings your doorbell, you can

1206
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: see the ring pop up on your TV screen. I mean,

1207
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:05,600
Speaker 1: that's such like a useful feature. But again, all these

1208
01:00:05,640 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 1: tech companies love to put us in silos, right, so

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01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: if you want the most out of all of them,

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01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:12,280
Speaker 1: you have to kind of stick with all their brands.

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01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what I'm seeing here, I'm assuming.

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01:00:15,320 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 1: But anyway, I've got a lot more questions, but we're

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01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:21,920
Speaker 1: running out of time here, so I'm just gonna do

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01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:23,760
Speaker 1: one more real quick. I'm gonna just gonna do an

1215
01:00:23,880 --> 01:00:27,240
Speaker 1: article from a PetaPixel dot com. They name their best

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01:00:27,280 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: smartphones first Photography in twenty twenty one, and I totally

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01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:32,120
Speaker 1: agree with them, so I'm just gonna go over them

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01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 1: real quick best overall smartphone for photography Samsung Galaxy S

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01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,360
Speaker 1: twenty one Ultra. One percent agree with this. It is

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01:00:39,400 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 1: such a versatile phone. The pictures are phenomenal, but it's

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01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:44,880
Speaker 1: not just the pictures, because I think the iPhone twelve

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01:00:45,040 --> 01:00:49,040
Speaker 1: Pro has amazing pictures and video. But I think what's

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01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: different about the Ultra is it gives you more options,

1224
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: you know, like there's just the zoom capabilities of that

1225
01:00:55,160 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 1: phone are so phenomenal. You're just not gonna get that

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01:00:57,840 --> 01:01:00,400
Speaker 1: on the iPhone. Now, not everyone needs that, but it's

1227
01:01:00,440 --> 01:01:05,000
Speaker 1: again best overall smartphone for photography as twenty one Ultra

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01:01:05,120 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: and what you know edges it out is really the

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01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:10,600
Speaker 1: the zoom lens on that thing that is just so phenomenal.

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01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:16,080
Speaker 1: Best for computational photography is the is the pixel Google

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01:01:16,960 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: the Google Pixel five, And again I agree, computational photography

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01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,440
Speaker 1: means this camera is not equipped with like the best lens,

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01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:27,680
Speaker 1: the best sensor, the best anything. But somehow the pictures

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01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:31,439
Speaker 1: from the Google Pixel five still look phenomenal, and it's

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01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:34,240
Speaker 1: just it's just great. HDR on the Pixel five is

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01:01:34,360 --> 01:01:37,080
Speaker 1: just amazing. It's better than any phone I've seen. It

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01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,360
Speaker 1: just does if you want to point and shoot. That

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01:01:39,480 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: just nails it every time. It's going to be the

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01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:45,760
Speaker 1: Pixel five. But with that said, I would recommend the

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01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 1: what they say the best bang for the Bucks smartphone

1241
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:52,320
Speaker 1: for photography is the Google Pixel four A. Now i'd

1242
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 1: probably go four A five G just because you know,

1243
01:01:55,160 --> 01:01:56,760
Speaker 1: I think you should probably get on five G if

1244
01:01:56,760 --> 01:02:00,440
Speaker 1: you're buying a new phone today. But the the fora

1245
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:03,280
Speaker 1: is just phenomenal, and if you're on a budget, it's

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01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 1: literally the best phone cameras money can buy less money

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01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 1: can buy. That's what they said, and I agree with

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01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 1: that because it's just it's just a simple phone. It

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01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 1: takes great pictures and it's not that expensive. There's not

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01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 1: a lot of fuss. Yeah, it's not as sexy as

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01:02:15,640 --> 01:02:18,479
Speaker 1: the iPhone or the Samsung, but it does the job.

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01:02:18,520 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: If you just want to take nice pictures and be

1253
01:02:21,360 --> 01:02:23,440
Speaker 1: on your merry way, it's gonna take a great picture

1254
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:26,640
Speaker 1: every time. Then they say the best smartphone for video

1255
01:02:26,840 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 1: is the iPhone twelve Pro Max, which is interesting. I

1256
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: use the iPhone twelve Pro and they say the Max

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01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: is better because it's got a larger sensor forty seven

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01:02:36,840 --> 01:02:39,680
Speaker 1: percent larger sensor in the ultra wide, which, yeah, that's

1259
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 1: gonna bring in more light, and that means it's going

1260
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:45,280
Speaker 1: to be great to shoot footage with. But I gotta

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01:02:45,320 --> 01:02:49,720
Speaker 1: say the phone that I've been using for the past year,

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01:02:49,880 --> 01:02:52,479
Speaker 1: the uh, you know, the iPhone twelve pro or since

1263
01:02:52,480 --> 01:02:55,280
Speaker 1: it came out. I mean, the video I shoot on

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01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:57,720
Speaker 1: that is just so phenomenal. It's just so buttery. I

1265
01:02:57,720 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 1: don't know how to explain it, but it's just it's buttery.

1266
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: Like it just everyone always asks me on my Facebook

1267
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: and Instagram, like what camera are you using, And I'm like,

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Speaker 1: My name is rich Dedimiro. Thanks so much for listening.

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