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Speaker 1: Best Buy unveils a smaller store. Google Maps begins work

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Speaker 1: on on Richdemiro And this is Rich on Tech, the

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

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Speaker 1: send me. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel five

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show, Welcome to my

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Speaker 1: friends on Instagram Live. Well, that's gonna do it for

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Speaker 1: this episode of the show. Oh, it's just kidding. I

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Speaker 1: was reading the at the end of the script. Oh

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Speaker 1: it's Friday where I am. You know, it could be Monday,

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Speaker 1: could be Tuesday, could be any day when you're listening,

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Speaker 1: but today is Friday when I record this. So welcome

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Speaker 1: to the weekend. If you are listening to this before

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Speaker 1: the weekend starts, if you listen to it after the weekend,

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Speaker 1: prep for your next weekend. So it looks like my

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Speaker 1: well this week. Let me just explain one cool thing

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Speaker 1: about and I already I think I explained this last week.

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I don't want to tell the same story.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think, when did.

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Speaker 2: I go to that? Yeah? I did? All right, Uh,

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Speaker 2: do I have a story for this week? I don't

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Speaker 2: really have a story for this this week.

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Speaker 1: Usually I start the show with like a little, tiny story,

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Speaker 1: but I am so unprepared that, oh, you know.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you I got fitted for a suit this week.

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Speaker 1: So I was listening to a podcast, and I guess

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Speaker 1: this goes to show the power of social media marketing.

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Speaker 2: But I was listening to a podcast that I love.

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Speaker 1: It's called The All In Pod and it's hosted by

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Speaker 1: Jason Calacanis and others. And he mentioned Indo Indo Chino,

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Speaker 1: Indo Chino, Indo Chino suits and he's like, oh, should

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Speaker 1: get an Endochino suit. He just mentioned it in passing

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Speaker 1: on the podcast, and I looked it up. I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of cool. So it's like a tech startup,

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Speaker 1: but they're doing suits. So you go in there and

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Speaker 2: This little guy like measures me, you know, I call

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Speaker 2: And I thought it was pretty cool. So we'll see now.

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Speaker 1: The neat thing is that once you have all of

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Speaker 2: And so I thought that was pretty cool.

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Speaker 2: But I've been to, you know, a couple weddings, and I'm.

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Speaker 1: Always like this guy that you know, there's always like

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Speaker 2: first story of the week. Oh wow, pause to poor connection.

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Speaker 1: Best Buy is testing out a new, smaller format digital

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Speaker 1: first store. What does this sound like? It sounds like

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Speaker 1: So instead of having a bunch of stuff all stocked,

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Speaker 1: And so they realize that stores are getting smaller. They

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Speaker 1: all curated. So the idea is that this curated selection

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Speaker 1: It was like a good ten minutes and with two

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Speaker 1: just like in these genes, I'm going to buy another

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Speaker 1: Anyway, this store is already open, and they do have

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Speaker 1: so they do have anyway, it's kind of a departure

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Speaker 1: for Best bikesse we think of them as a big

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Speaker 1: box store, but this digital first, small format store is

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Speaker 1: don't think we're going to see them building a lot

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Speaker 1: let's get to the first question of the podcast. Sharon

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Speaker 1: writes in do I need Windows Defender on my Samsung

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Speaker 1: didn't even know that Microsoft had sort of an anti

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Speaker 1: if my luggage had made it, and I was like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: the luggage is at this airport, So I thought that

437
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Speaker 1: was kind of cool. Even before you know it comes

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Speaker 1: out in the luggage conveyor belt. So there's little there's

439
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Speaker 1: a little advantages to air tags. They're kind of those

440
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Speaker 1: things you just set and forget. You just kind of

441
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Speaker 1: put them on stuff and then you just forget about

442
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Speaker 1: it until you need it, and when you do need it,

443
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Speaker 1: it's kind of handy. I know, there are air tag

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Speaker 1: accessories for pets. You can put it around the pets

445
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Speaker 1: collar like you get like an air tag for their collar,

446
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Speaker 1: or you can get a caller that has like an

447
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Speaker 1: air tag hanger on it. Also for kids, I know,

448
00:21:02,960 --> 00:21:05,600
Speaker 1: they make a band like an air tag band, but

449
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Speaker 1: you have to keep in mind air tags do not

450
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Speaker 1: have built in GPS, so they will rely on a

451
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Speaker 1: phone or device being nearby for them to be located.

452
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Speaker 1: So if there's no phone or whatever, Like let's say

453
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Speaker 1: you're in the middle of a desert. Let's say you

454
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Speaker 1: dropped your kid in like the middle of a desert

455
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Speaker 1: and you walked away. You know you would not it

456
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Speaker 1: would show you the last known location of that air tag,

457
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Speaker 1: But if your kids started walking towards you, it may

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Speaker 1: not show that location because there's nothing that that little

459
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Speaker 1: air tag can ping off of to get a new location.

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Speaker 1: So you have to understand how air tags work to

461
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Speaker 1: understand why they're brilliant. But also there are limitations of

462
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Speaker 1: that system.

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Speaker 2: So if you just.

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Speaker 1: Dropped an AirTag out of an airplane into like a forest,

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Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't be able to locate that unless a

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Speaker 1: hiker walked by the air tag and it pinged that

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Speaker 1: little iPhone in the hiker's pocket and then it said, okay,

468
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Speaker 1: now I've got a lock on this location. For respect

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Speaker 1: to the luggage, Derek, I know that you should probably

470
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Speaker 1: put them inside your luggage because you probably want them

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Speaker 1: hidden from people. I just think it looks cool on

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Speaker 1: my luggage, so I leave it.

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Speaker 2: On the outside. It's like a kind of like hanging

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Speaker 2: off the luggage.

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Speaker 1: So I think It just looks cooler that way, and

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Speaker 1: so I keep it on the outside. Yes, someone could

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Speaker 1: theoretically just snatch the air tag and throw it away

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Speaker 1: and then steal my luggage, but you know what, that's

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Speaker 1: the risk I'm willing to take just to look cool.

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Speaker 1: All right, good question. Let's get to another topic of

481
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Speaker 1: the show. Facebook is raising the price of the Oculus Quest.

482
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Speaker 1: This is theoretically called the Meta Quest two. This is

483
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Speaker 1: their virtual reality headset. It's gonna cost one hundred dollars

484
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Speaker 1: more starting August first. Kind of odd for a product

485
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Speaker 1: that's been out for two years for them to raise

486
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Speaker 1: the price. But let's be honest, every price has gone

487
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Speaker 1: up in the past year or so, past year, past

488
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Speaker 1: two years. I can't think of a product or service

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Speaker 1: that I subscribe to that has not gone up. If

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Speaker 1: you pay for gas, if you pay for groceries, if

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Speaker 1: you pay for you know, every single little service that

492
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Speaker 1: I subscribe to, they have all gone up.

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Speaker 2: And so it's just the reality of our times. Right now.

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Speaker 1: Everything's getting more expensive, and that includes gadgets, I mean

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Speaker 1: these things. What I've noticed with gadgets is there's two

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Speaker 1: ways they can do it. Well, there's two ways I

497
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Speaker 1: guess prices can go up in general. Number one, they

498
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Speaker 1: can just raise the price, or number two, they can

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Speaker 1: cut back on something that is maybe included with that gadget.

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Speaker 1: So with this metaquest too, this is you know, Facebook's

501
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Speaker 1: virtual reality goggles that are very, very popular, by the way,

502
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Speaker 1: they are just raising the price by one hundred bucks.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I was listening to the tech Meum Ride Home podcast

505
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Speaker 1: and they said that they were going to include a

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Speaker 1: game now that they didn't include before. And but you know,

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Speaker 1: the reality is, if you have your eye on one

508
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Speaker 1: of these headsets, maybe you want to purchase it before

509
00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,359
Speaker 1: the first but you know, don't rush out and get it.

510
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Speaker 2: If you can't.

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Speaker 1: These things typically go on sale, and so I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that even though the price is going up

513
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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars, when it comes time during the holidays

514
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: for these sales to start, the prices you know, will

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Speaker 1: go down, maybe probably by fifty dollars, maybe not by

516
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Speaker 1: one hundred dollars. So that'll still make it fifty dollars

517
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Speaker 1: more than it is today. But you know, it's one

518
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Speaker 1: of these things. Just to know that it's happening. Now,

519
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Speaker 1: Facebook's coming out with another version of their VR headset,

520
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,159
Speaker 1: but apparently that's going to be eight hundred dollars, so

521
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Speaker 1: if you're waiting for like the new and improved version,

522
00:24:24,240 --> 00:24:26,800
Speaker 1: probably gonna be even more expensive. But just something to

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on. And Gaby says on the Instagram chat,

524
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Speaker 1: my gym membership is still the.

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Speaker 2: Same, yay.

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Speaker 1: I had a gym membership and every year, like clockwork,

527
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Speaker 1: it would just go up every single year by five

528
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Speaker 1: bucks ten bucks. And it was just so kind of

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Speaker 1: annoying because the service at the gym kept going down

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Speaker 1: and the price just kept going up. And it was

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Speaker 1: an expensive gym to begin with. So you know, I

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Speaker 1: keep seeing that nine to ninety nine advertised price for

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Speaker 1: the Planet Fitness, and I'm like, how are they doing

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Speaker 1: that for nine ninety nine a month.

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Speaker 2: I don't get it.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand how a gym could be ten bucks

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Speaker 1: a month. That's an amazing price, and I'm tempted to

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Speaker 1: join just for that price tag because I just want

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Speaker 1: to see like what a gym is like for nine

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Speaker 1: to nine. I mean, that's that's like quite the price tag.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get to the next question of the podcast.

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Speaker 1: Melissa says, when I open up my Safari on iOS.

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Speaker 1: I see a section below that reads privacy report? Should

544
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Speaker 1: I or can I delete this information on my phone

545
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: but continue having the app on for.

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Speaker 2: Does the privacy report matter? I opened it up on iOS.

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Speaker 2: I don't remember turning it on, but it looks good.

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Speaker 1: It looks like it's obviously giving me a report on

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Speaker 1: my privacy. I'm sure glad that you are so good

550
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Speaker 1: at what you do. Thanks for getting back to me

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Speaker 1: with my questions, Melissa, Melissa, this is a feature that's

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Speaker 1: built into Safari on iOS and on also on the desktop.

553
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Speaker 1: So Safari has something built in called third party cookie blocking,

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Speaker 1: and it also.

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Speaker 2: It does a lot like Safari does a lot of

556
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Speaker 2: stuff for privacy purposes.

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Speaker 1: Let me open up Safari on my computer just to

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Speaker 1: see what it says. So it blocks trackers by default.

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Speaker 2: Oh see, I don't have this like okay, So there's

560
00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 2: a okay. So it blocks trackers from profiling you.

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Speaker 1: It just basically blocks and prevents trackers from viewing your

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Speaker 1: IP address and showing you across websites and following you

563
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Speaker 1: across websites. So it does cross site trackers. It blocks

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Speaker 1: those intelligent tracking prevention uses on device Machine learning to

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Speaker 1: identify trackers and accessing identifying information. iCloud Private Relay adds

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Speaker 1: a layer of protection by preventing websites from viewing your

567
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Speaker 1: IP address. So even if a website, even if the

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Speaker 1: trackers are blocked on a website, the websites still know

569
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Speaker 1: your IP address. And Phil is saying incognito mode, the

570
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: fallacy about incognito mode is that it protects your privacy. Now,

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Speaker 1: what incognito mode does is all it does is keep

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Speaker 1: a record of whatever websites you went to off of

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Speaker 1: your browsing history. It does not keep those websites from

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Speaker 1: being able to identify who you are by your IP

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Speaker 1: address and other methods. So if you're visiting a website

576
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,879
Speaker 1: over and over, that website can recognize that it's you

577
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,479
Speaker 1: coming back because they've identified.

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Speaker 2: Your IP address.

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Speaker 1: Now, some of the newer browsers like Safari, will cloud

580
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Speaker 1: or will cloak your IP address or change it, and

581
00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: so that it makes it a little bit tougher, But

582
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,360
Speaker 1: believe me, these companies are very smart. Incognito mode does

583
00:27:41,359 --> 00:27:44,120
Speaker 1: not protect your employer from seeing the website that you're

584
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Speaker 1: going to, or your Internet service providers.

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Speaker 2: I've said this before.

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Speaker 1: Whoever is providing your internet connection, that pipe that gets

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Speaker 1: you onto the Internet, whether it is you know, Spectrum

588
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: or AT and T or a hotel Wi Fi, they

589
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:02,240
Speaker 1: can still see the websites that you're going to. They

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Speaker 1: may not be able to see what you're doing on

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00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,760
Speaker 1: those websites, you know, the search terms that you're doing,

592
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 1: or your banking or your email, but they can see

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Speaker 1: that you visited, say Gmail or overstock dot com or

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Speaker 1: whatever website that you might be going to. So keep

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Speaker 1: in mind that this, you know, this idea of private

596
00:28:17,440 --> 00:28:21,400
Speaker 1: browsing is only so private. A VPN is a better

597
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,880
Speaker 1: way of doing that. If you really want to protect

598
00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: the website address that you're going to, you need to

599
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:30,239
Speaker 1: look for a no log VPN. Last I interviewed a

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Speaker 1: VPN expert. He recommended MOLVAD, which was the VPN of

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Speaker 1: his choice.

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00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:38,560
Speaker 2: M u lll v A D And you have to

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Speaker 2: pay for it.

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00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: I think it's like five bucks a month at least,

605
00:28:41,040 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: let's see how much it is. Pricing is one month

606
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,880
Speaker 1: yet five dollars a month, so you know you're gonna

607
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 1: pay for this stuff. These this free ride with all

608
00:28:50,680 --> 00:28:54,479
Speaker 1: these services are just over so anyway to answer your question,

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00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: Melissa about this privacy report. It's totally fine. It's nice

610
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Speaker 1: to see it. If you don't like, you can turn

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Speaker 1: it off. So when you're on that page, when you

612
00:29:03,400 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 1: open up a new page on Safari, just scroll down.

613
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: There's an edit button. You can press edit, and then

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00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: you can just toggle that privacy.

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00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 2: Report on or off.

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Speaker 1: JK says, VPNs are recommended for people who use the

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Speaker 1: dark web. Unfortunately, they have less government oversight but more

618
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: international military protection. So yeah, that's another thing the VPNs

619
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: could be good for. If you're in a foreign country

620
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Speaker 1: that does not allow access to the website that you

621
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Speaker 1: are trying to make it to, Like in China, if

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Speaker 1: you're trying to use Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. A

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Speaker 1: lot of these websites are blocked and so you know,

624
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: you just can't get to them unless you have a VPN.

625
00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 1: I've been in that I've been in that place, and

626
00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:48,720
Speaker 1: believe me, it's just really frustrating that you can't access

627
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:52,120
Speaker 1: just very standard websites. Mando says non tech question. Have

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Speaker 1: you ever been to San Diego Comic Con? Thoughts on

629
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Speaker 1: the experience?

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Speaker 2: Yes, I have.

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Speaker 1: I did not go this year, but I've been many

632
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Speaker 1: years in the past, and it's really fun. People that

633
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: go to comic con are very kind. Some of them

634
00:30:03,280 --> 00:30:06,040
Speaker 1: look very scary because they're in like these get ups,

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Speaker 1: you know, like the I don't know if there are

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Speaker 1: a lots, I guess you can still dress up, but

637
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,840
Speaker 1: they're in like you know, like these when what was

638
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: that show that was really popular, The Walking Dead, So

639
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: you'd see these people like you know, look like zombies

640
00:30:16,880 --> 00:30:19,200
Speaker 1: and this, or they're like all these like clowns and

641
00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: evil clowns and stuff, and like they look really scary,

642
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: but they're like the nicest people ever.

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Speaker 2: I always found that to be funny.

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Speaker 1: Whenever, like I've done a lot of behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: stuff with like you know, like a scary farm or

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00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:32,840
Speaker 1: like whatever, like not scary farm, and the people are

647
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Speaker 1: all dressed up and with the chainsaw, but like they're

648
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:41,040
Speaker 1: just really nice, like an actor or something. It's very odd. Okay,

649
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Speaker 1: let's get to another topic of the podcast.

650
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Speaker 2: Let's see what I want to talk about.

651
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Speaker 1: Oh, Spotify is discontinuing their car Thing. So Spotify came

652
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: up with this thing called car Thing. Let me know

653
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Speaker 1: if you use it in the comments or if you've

654
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Speaker 1: got one of these things. So this The idea of

655
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Speaker 1: car thing is that you were able to use Spotify

656
00:31:02,200 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: in a car that only had an auxiliary input, and

657
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:11,040
Speaker 1: that auxiliary input was you know you typically need like

658
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: an I don't know, like an R whatever. The point is,

659
00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: this was like a little gadget that had a screen

660
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:21,719
Speaker 1: and a rotating wheel and it just made it really

661
00:31:21,800 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: easy to use Spotify in an older car. And I

662
00:31:26,480 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: guess nobody used it, so I guess it was not

663
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: very popular.

664
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Speaker 2: So Spotify is going to take a thirty.

665
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 1: One million dollar charge, basically a write off, like they

666
00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: have thirty one million dollars related to this product that

667
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,080
Speaker 1: is not going to see the light of day. I

668
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: got an email saying, hey, do you want to buy

669
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: one for fifty percent off? I think the thing was

670
00:31:45,960 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: invite only when it started. I emailed Spotify said hey

671
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: can I get one to test? Never heard back, So

672
00:31:52,640 --> 00:31:55,680
Speaker 1: I guess who won in this situation, Spotify. Maybe if

673
00:31:55,680 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: you had more people reviewing it, maybe it would have

674
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:00,320
Speaker 1: worked better, maybe it would have gotten the word out more.

675
00:32:00,360 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: But they ignored me on that. And this was ninety

676
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:08,920
Speaker 1: dollars when it started. Now it is fifty percent off

677
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: of that, so forty five dollars, but they're discontinuing it.

678
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: So if you have one, it will work, it will

679
00:32:14,200 --> 00:32:16,479
Speaker 1: continue to work. But it's just one of these things

680
00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:21,160
Speaker 1: that mister fit Urn says. I stopped using Spotify and

681
00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: just use serious XM and iTunes.

682
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: I use Spotify.

683
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: I actually had to subscribe to Spotify when I got

684
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: my Tesla because that is the service that is integrated

685
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:34,200
Speaker 1: into the Tesla, and I love it. I mean, Spotify,

686
00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: I think is really really good.

687
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:38,280
Speaker 2: But I also get.

688
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: YouTube music included for free with my YouTube membership, and

689
00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 1: so personally, if I had a choice, I would just

690
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: use YouTube. Now I was using Apple Music when my

691
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: Apple Watch would only work with Apple Music. And this

692
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: is the thing that really bugs me about all of

693
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: this stuff, every one of these companies. You know, I've

694
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: said this before. It's just it's I'm like a broken

695
00:32:57,960 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: record on this. But it used to be when tech started.

696
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 1: The people who started these tech companies, they had our

697
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:08,479
Speaker 1: best intentions at mind, right, So when you started like

698
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: YouTube music or whatever it was, whatever the product was,

699
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: these were nerds that started it, and nerds kind of

700
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,760
Speaker 1: like things to be open source, and they like things

701
00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:19,320
Speaker 1: to be you know, available to everyone. Because that's what

702
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 1: the Internet was all about at the beginning.

703
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 2: Well, then as.

704
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,200
Speaker 1: Corporate interests kind of applied their way more into all

705
00:33:25,240 --> 00:33:28,040
Speaker 1: of these services like a YouTube Music or an Apple

706
00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: Music or a Spotify, they say, well, let's let's make

707
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: this only work with this product because we have a

708
00:33:33,680 --> 00:33:37,040
Speaker 1: deal with We have a deal with Samsung on the

709
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 1: on their watches now, so only Spotify is gonna work there.

710
00:33:40,840 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: We have a deal with Tesla, only Spotify is gonna

711
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 1: work there. Apple we make the HomePod, We're only gonna

712
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: let Apple Music work on that. And oh we'll throw

713
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,000
Speaker 1: your bone, We'll let Pandora work on that. But it's

714
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 1: kind of complicated. I mean, it's just not fun for

715
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: the average consumer to have to deal with all of

716
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: these silos.

717
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 2: Like I'm looking around my house and I'm like, oh, oh,

718
00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 2: that device only works with that service and this device.

719
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: I actually wanted to come up with a spreadsheet of

720
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 2: the perfect music service.

721
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 1: I was gonna list all my things like Tesla HomePod, Sonos.

722
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: Sonos is the only product around that works with everything.

723
00:34:15,200 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: They are truly the Switzerland of streaming services. But little

724
00:34:19,960 --> 00:34:24,680
Speaker 1: caveat here when they came out with their voice service

725
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:28,520
Speaker 1: their voice service does not work with Spotify or YouTube Music,

726
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:31,439
Speaker 1: two of the biggest music services out there. So it's

727
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,839
Speaker 1: like I literally need a spreadsheet to figure out which

728
00:34:33,840 --> 00:34:37,240
Speaker 1: one to subscribe to because not everything works with everything

729
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: out there, and it's very, very frustrating for the average consumer. Anyway,

730
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,719
Speaker 1: So Spotify car thing is dead. I'm probably not gonna

731
00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: hear about that, but it makes sense. I mean, what

732
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,680
Speaker 1: was the what was the point of Spotify car thing?

733
00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 1: I mean, how many people still have old cars that

734
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: they that want to plug a high tech.

735
00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:58,280
Speaker 2: Little Spotify into.

736
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: I think that those people have cell phones and they've

737
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:03,279
Speaker 1: already figured out that they could just if they have

738
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: an oxport, they just plug in their cell phone into

739
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,480
Speaker 1: that oxport. And if they don't have an oxport, we're

740
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: talking really old cars, they probably already.

741
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,200
Speaker 2: Got an FM transmitter.

742
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: And if they have a really old car, they probably

743
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: got a cassette tape that goes into their phone. So

744
00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: this expensive car thing that requires a subscription to Spotify

745
00:35:22,840 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: only appeals to a very very small amount of people,

746
00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:29,200
Speaker 1: and so I think that that's why this was not

747
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: very popular. When you're talking Spotify, by the way, has

748
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: four hundred and thirty three million followers are a subscribers

749
00:35:37,960 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: or I guess active users. That's not subscribers, active users,

750
00:35:40,880 --> 00:35:45,240
Speaker 1: I should say, I think it's just a tiny percentage

751
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:47,919
Speaker 1: of those fall into that category of Oh, I really

752
00:35:47,920 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: want this high tech thing, but I'm a connect it

753
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,879
Speaker 1: in an old school way. And John says the fact

754
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,760
Speaker 1: that Tesla's don't have car play baffles me one hundred percent.

755
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,879
Speaker 1: Every day I look at that screen, I'm like, oh,

756
00:35:57,880 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: Tesla's done a nice thing like this is this is

757
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: it's pretty. But just give me CarPlay. Why do you

758
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,480
Speaker 1: have to reinvent the wheel? Just give me CarPlay, Give

759
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,799
Speaker 1: me Android Auto. With one software update, Tesla can make

760
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: the would make so many drivers infinitely happier by just

761
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: enabling car play on that giant, beautiful screen.

762
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 2: Just let me have it. Why do I need to

763
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: use your weird screen that like, I just I don't

764
00:36:25,480 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 2: want to go off.

765
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 1: But it's just like it's just every single day my

766
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: wife gets in my car and she has serious XM.

767
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,240
Speaker 1: She loves it because guess what she gets serious XM.

768
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:38,719
Speaker 1: When she gets into her car, it starts playing. It's

769
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: always playing, it's always working, it's no fiddling.

770
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:42,879
Speaker 2: I get into my car.

771
00:36:43,080 --> 00:36:45,680
Speaker 1: Every single time I need to press five or ten

772
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:49,360
Speaker 1: or fifteen buttons to get music going. It's never continuing

773
00:36:49,400 --> 00:36:53,160
Speaker 1: because Spotify does this weird thing where when you play

774
00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:55,279
Speaker 1: it in your house, it stops in your car. When

775
00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:56,759
Speaker 1: you play it in your car, it stops in your house,

776
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: and when you choose a different station at home, it

777
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: transfers that to your When you open the door of

778
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:01,920
Speaker 1: the car, it stops in the house.

779
00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: It's like this.

780
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,520
Speaker 1: They engineered it to like be seamless, but it actually

781
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: does not work out. So for me, I would just

782
00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 1: rather just have something that starts playing when I open

783
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:13,919
Speaker 1: my car door.

784
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 2: And yes, the radio does that, which is fine, and I.

785
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: Do have so many I do have actually like a

786
00:37:20,040 --> 00:37:23,160
Speaker 1: failsafe when my because sometimes, by the way, the serious

787
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:25,920
Speaker 1: does not download. It has to stream every time, so

788
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: nothing's like on your car. So where I live, for

789
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: some reason, it just doesn't like the signal. So I

790
00:37:32,239 --> 00:37:34,720
Speaker 1: get into my car and it's like just spinning, spinning, spinning,

791
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:36,760
Speaker 1: until I drive like all the way to the freeway,

792
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 1: and then finally it comes to like, h, I know,

793
00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,839
Speaker 1: first world problems, first world problems.

794
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:48,640
Speaker 2: I know. Let's get you another question. U. This is

795
00:37:48,640 --> 00:37:49,760
Speaker 2: not a question, it's a comment.

796
00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:52,240
Speaker 1: Kathy says, Hey, Rich, We're sitting in our beautiful Hilton

797
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 1: condo in way Kalowa, Hawaii by Kona, with the news

798
00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: on in the background, and suddenly.

799
00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:58,680
Speaker 2: We hear a very familiar voice.

800
00:37:59,160 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: Our Rich sure gets around heart and flower. Ah, that's

801
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 1: so nice of you, Kathy. Yeah, people don't realize that

802
00:38:07,360 --> 00:38:10,359
Speaker 1: I'm on in Los Angeles, but the segment is sent

803
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 1: out to like one hundred TV stations and they just

804
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: run it when they want to, And so Hawaii apparently

805
00:38:16,040 --> 00:38:18,120
Speaker 1: likes to run it a lot. And so I always

806
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:20,520
Speaker 1: say every time I get an email from Hawaii, I'm like,

807
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: I need to go there. I need to see what

808
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: my segment looks like on TV in Hawaii. Don't you

809
00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:27,960
Speaker 1: think I think that makes a lot of sense. But yes,

810
00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: I love my viewers in Hawaii. Thank you so much

811
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,160
Speaker 1: for watching. It's funny every time someone from LA travels

812
00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:38,200
Speaker 1: somewhere else, they have the TV on and all of

813
00:38:38,239 --> 00:38:40,480
Speaker 1: a sudden, I pop up. Because our company owns so

814
00:38:40,480 --> 00:38:43,600
Speaker 1: many TV stations all around the world, No, not around

815
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 1: the world, just around the US, and you'd be surprised.

816
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: You'd be surprised. We're rich on tech pops up. All right,

817
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,240
Speaker 1: since that wasn't a really question, I will ask another question.

818
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: Jerry says, how to remove your personal info from.

819
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:57,719
Speaker 2: Google search results.

820
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: I also saw this from Discover any thoughts and he

821
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: included a picture of Discover's privacy protection and I got

822
00:39:05,560 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 1: a bunch of emails about this. So privacy protection from

823
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 1: Discover is a new perk, and if you have it,

824
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: I guess they've been sending people emails about this perk.

825
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,160
Speaker 1: And what they do is this is according to the

826
00:39:19,160 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 1: point Sky website. You can enable this new privacy protection

827
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,319
Speaker 1: in the Discover mobile app. It's free for credit card

828
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 1: and banking customers. Once you enable it, it searches ten

829
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: common websites that collect and sell personal information online that

830
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:33,759
Speaker 1: includes data like your name, your address, your age, your

831
00:39:33,760 --> 00:39:37,800
Speaker 1: phone number, and it covers the following annoying websites and

832
00:39:37,920 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 1: tell us binverified yellowpages dot com, addresses dot com, people

833
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: Looker dot com, any Who dot com, instant peoplefinder dot com,

834
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,360
Speaker 1: people smart dot com, us search dot com, zabasearch dot Com.

835
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:51,759
Speaker 1: It will search these sites every ninety days and if

836
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: it finds a match, it will submit an opt out

837
00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: request on your behalf. So I say one hundred percent

838
00:39:57,200 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: do this. If this is offered as a privacy choice,

839
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:00,839
Speaker 1: do it.

840
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 2: So.

841
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:05,400
Speaker 1: I have done many segments with a woman named Haley Kaplan.

842
00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: She has a website called what Isprivacy dot com and

843
00:40:09,880 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: she is fantastic about this stuff. So my advice is

844
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: to get your personal information off as many.

845
00:40:17,120 --> 00:40:18,440
Speaker 2: Websites as possible.

846
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:24,200
Speaker 1: Why it's just annoying Number one. Number two, it's just

847
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: it's anytime you buy a house or do any sort

848
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: of public transaction, your information is out there. Now is

849
00:40:30,160 --> 00:40:32,880
Speaker 1: it bad if you're just an average regular person. I

850
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 1: mean it's it's annoying at most, but it could be

851
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,680
Speaker 1: scary at best if people are trying to figure out

852
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:40,720
Speaker 1: who you are, where you live, all that good stuff.

853
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:44,320
Speaker 1: Your phone number could be used for spam, your email address, whatever.

854
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: So if you can opt out automatically using this free service,

855
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: I would one hundred percent do that. The other thing

856
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:53,680
Speaker 1: is you can manually opt out of these websites, and

857
00:40:53,680 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: I've done it myself. It is a very big process.

858
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 1: It is not easy. I've actually consulted with Haley about

859
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:03,800
Speaker 1: getting some of my information off some of the tougher websites.

860
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: Google lets you do this, but it's not easy. It's

861
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: it's not for the faint of heart. It is almost

862
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:11,759
Speaker 1: impossible to find a way to get your information off

863
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,200
Speaker 1: these sites. But when you do it, they a lot

864
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: of times. It's a process, but it does work and

865
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: you can get your information off of there. It just

866
00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:20,960
Speaker 1: pops up again if you do another transaction, so you

867
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:23,160
Speaker 1: just have to you know, know that it's not going

868
00:41:23,239 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: to be perfect. You know, you get off of one,

869
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 1: it could be on another. But I would do this

870
00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:30,440
Speaker 1: if discovers offering this for free, one hundred percent do it.

871
00:41:30,920 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 2: I would definitely do that.

872
00:41:32,600 --> 00:41:35,240
Speaker 1: The less information you have out there about yourself, the better.

873
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:39,840
Speaker 1: Any app to block phone numbers not listed on my

874
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:46,880
Speaker 1: phone book asks on Instagram. On iPhone, you can go

875
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: into phone settings and you can block onknown numbers, block

876
00:41:52,880 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 1: unknown callers. It is I personally would not do this

877
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,560
Speaker 1: because I feel like, I don't know, you just don't

878
00:41:59,600 --> 00:41:59,880
Speaker 1: want to.

879
00:42:00,920 --> 00:42:02,200
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. I don't want to.

880
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: I don't want to block all these people that I

881
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:05,879
Speaker 1: don't know, because what if I get a call from

882
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: someone that I want.

883
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 2: So here's how you do it. If you want to

884
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: do it.

885
00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: Go to settings, go to phone, scroll down, and there's

886
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 1: a thing called tap silence unknown callers. You tap it

887
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:19,720
Speaker 1: and you turn it on silenced Unknown numbers are silenced

888
00:42:19,800 --> 00:42:21,640
Speaker 1: or sent your voicemail and they will appear in your

889
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:24,520
Speaker 1: recent call list. I personally don't want to do that

890
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:28,000
Speaker 1: because it just I'd rather get the spam calls than

891
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 1: have calls blocked, because sometimes unknown numbers are important. Could

892
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: be your kid's school, could be could be anything. So

893
00:42:36,239 --> 00:42:38,439
Speaker 1: I'd just rather pick up the phone number if it's random.

894
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 1: And I will pick up random calls every once in

895
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 1: a while. Sometimes I'll just let them go to voicemail.

896
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 1: Other times I will I'll just pick them up and

897
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 1: just say, hey, what's going on?

898
00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,399
Speaker 2: Who is this? Usually you can tell in a second

899
00:42:51,440 --> 00:42:53,479
Speaker 2: if it's spam. All right?

900
00:42:53,719 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: Uh oh, speaking of spam, this is something that I

901
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:59,359
Speaker 1: think you should do immediately. Google Calendar has this new

902
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: and I would do this. So do you remember back

903
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,120
Speaker 1: in the day. I don't know if it happens as

904
00:43:05,200 --> 00:43:07,479
Speaker 1: much anymore, but back in the day, people were getting

905
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:10,239
Speaker 1: a lot of calendar spam. So you would go on

906
00:43:10,280 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: your calendar and you would look and there'd be an

907
00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: event listed there that is a spam event, and what

908
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: they were trying to make you do is click some

909
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:24,160
Speaker 1: sort of link in the event calendar event bad stuff,

910
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: and so this was really really annoying for a while

911
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:29,080
Speaker 1: when the spammer's recognize that they can do this or

912
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: realize they can do it, and there was really no

913
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: way to turn it off very easily. There were some methods,

914
00:43:34,840 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: but now Google has come up with a method. So

915
00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: now to keep your Google Calendar free from spam, there's

916
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: an option to display events on your calendar only if

917
00:43:43,520 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: they come from a sender you know. If you select

918
00:43:46,200 --> 00:43:49,840
Speaker 1: this option, you'll still get email event invitations from unknown senders,

919
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: but they will only appear on your calendar after you accept.

920
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:57,480
Speaker 1: So what you need to do is go into your

921
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:01,040
Speaker 1: Google Calendar, go into your settings, go to your event settings,

922
00:44:01,080 --> 00:44:03,719
Speaker 1: and there is a section called add invitations to my

923
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:08,239
Speaker 1: calendar only if the sender is known, and so you

924
00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:13,040
Speaker 1: select that and basically it will include people in your

925
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: company domain. It will keep people in your contact list,

926
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: keep people that you've interacted with before.

927
00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 2: But if you get.

928
00:44:20,440 --> 00:44:24,759
Speaker 1: A random person sending you a calendar invite that's probably spam.

929
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:28,800
Speaker 1: It will just not put it automatically on your calendar.

930
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:30,719
Speaker 1: It will just send it to your email and say, hey,

931
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:32,000
Speaker 1: do you want to put this? Do you want to

932
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: accept this and put this on your calendar. I think

933
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:36,920
Speaker 1: that's a great little feature. I'm definitely turning that on.

934
00:44:37,480 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 2: For sure.

935
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 1: NESSA says, can you do that with iPhones? Yes, you

936
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: would have to do this setting though in Google Calendar

937
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: on the web. So go on the web, go to

938
00:44:50,520 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: Google Calendar, put those in your settings and then you

939
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: should be able to that would take that would still

940
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: take hold.

941
00:44:57,280 --> 00:44:58,000
Speaker 2: On your iPhone.

942
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: So good little tip there for Google brand new feature.

943
00:45:01,880 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 1: And I got a lot of people on the chat

944
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:09,400
Speaker 1: talking about the spam callers. Yes, all of the major

945
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: carriers offer a spam filtering app, so AT and T

946
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: has Call Protect, Verizon has Call Filter, and T Mobile

947
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 1: has Scamguard. You can download those apps, you can activate them,

948
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:26,839
Speaker 1: and they will help. Doesn't it doesn't get every call,

949
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:29,680
Speaker 1: believe me, I still get spam callers, but it is

950
00:45:29,719 --> 00:45:32,200
Speaker 1: something that definitely helps. So if you want install it,

951
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: it's free. All the major carriers have something that does

952
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,080
Speaker 1: help with spam, so for sure do that. All right,

953
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 1: let's get to the next email, all right, let's see.

954
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: Diana says, Hey, Rich, I love your podcast. Last night,

955
00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:50,839
Speaker 1: I was looking at my iPhone for some travel reservations

956
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,479
Speaker 1: that I store in my Gmail folder. As I click

957
00:45:53,520 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: to open the folder, I watch all current to December

958
00:45:56,080 --> 00:45:59,719
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, stored mail disappear. I checked another folder, same

959
00:45:59,760 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: thing happened. It's happening to all current to twenty twenty disappeared.

960
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,400
Speaker 1: Why I'm afraid to check another folder? What's happening? I

961
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:10,799
Speaker 1: have all Apple products. I checked my iPad, same thing gone.

962
00:46:11,040 --> 00:46:13,840
Speaker 1: Help Diana, Diana, this could be a fluke, but it

963
00:46:13,880 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: also could be in your settings.

964
00:46:17,160 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 2: Sometimes.

965
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:21,799
Speaker 1: I think that these email services only keep a certain

966
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 1: amount of emails, like going back to a certain amount

967
00:46:23,880 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: of time.

968
00:46:24,719 --> 00:46:25,640
Speaker 2: So if it's from.

969
00:46:25,520 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty to current, that is odd that they would

970
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: be disappearing. If it's before twenty twenty, it could be

971
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:33,880
Speaker 1: the fact that they just don't sink email before that.

972
00:46:34,120 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: So I'm not sure which one it is. I personally

973
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:43,600
Speaker 1: don't use the mail app on my iPhone. I use Gmail.

974
00:46:44,239 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 1: I do have the mail app logged in for a reason,

975
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,720
Speaker 1: that is so that serie can identify people in callers. Okay,

976
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:55,840
Speaker 1: a little aside so you ever, if someone ever calls

977
00:46:55,840 --> 00:46:57,719
Speaker 1: your phone and you know how it says maybe and

978
00:46:57,800 --> 00:47:00,680
Speaker 1: it's got the person's name, they say, it's getting that

979
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,840
Speaker 1: is it's using signals from your text messages and your emails.

980
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: So if someone sends you an email and they have

981
00:47:06,239 --> 00:47:11,439
Speaker 1: a signature underneath their email with their phone number, that

982
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: next time that person calls, even if they're not in

983
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 1: your address book, Siri says, oh, I remember that person

984
00:47:17,640 --> 00:47:20,960
Speaker 1: had their phone number in their signature and it was

985
00:47:21,000 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: this person's name. Now they're calling from that phone number.

986
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:27,280
Speaker 1: I will say, maybe it's John from the bank's office

987
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 1: or whatever, you know, whoever it was. So that's where

988
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:32,200
Speaker 1: they're getting that information for maybe. And for that reason,

989
00:47:32,840 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: that's why I always log into my Gmail on my

990
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: phone through the mail app, because that's where Siri is

991
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,000
Speaker 1: gathering that information. Siri can't look into the Gmail app,

992
00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: but they can look into the mail app, and so

993
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: that's where I use that feature to come in handy.

994
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,200
Speaker 1: So it's a great little feature because especially with me

995
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 1: and my job and you know, other jobs. I'm sure

996
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: you know a lot of people are you know, are

997
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:01,880
Speaker 1: calling you. If you're a realtor, you're getting calls from

998
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 1: various people that might have emailed you. You know, if

999
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 1: you're a journalist like I am, I'm always getting pr

1000
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: people calling me, and so I can identify those people

1001
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: because they sent me an email at some point and

1002
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 1: in their email signature was their phone number, and so

1003
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:15,680
Speaker 1: I'm like, ah, okay, that's that person.

1004
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: Anyway.

1005
00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: So Diana, what I would do is, if this is

1006
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:24,200
Speaker 1: continuing to happen, I would delete the Gmail out of

1007
00:48:24,239 --> 00:48:28,160
Speaker 1: your settings and I would just reset it up and

1008
00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:32,439
Speaker 1: hopefully that would trigger it to download the emails once again.

1009
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:33,880
Speaker 2: But this seems like a fluke.

1010
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 1: Maybe had a bad connection, maybe setting got changed. But

1011
00:48:37,640 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: I don't think that it's meant to work this way.

1012
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:41,120
Speaker 1: I mean, you should have a certain amount of back

1013
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: email on your phone. I know it doesn't download all

1014
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:45,080
Speaker 1: of it at the same time, because that could be

1015
00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 1: a significant amount of email. But if it's something before

1016
00:48:48,200 --> 00:48:50,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, that would make sense that maybe your phone

1017
00:48:50,480 --> 00:48:55,040
Speaker 1: just doesn't have that email stored locally. And sometimes when

1018
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: you search on your phone, it takes a little longer

1019
00:48:57,480 --> 00:49:03,200
Speaker 1: because it's actually searching online. When the iPhone first came out,

1020
00:49:03,239 --> 00:49:05,320
Speaker 1: this was kind of a major problem because connectivity on

1021
00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: the iPhone was so bad when it first came out,

1022
00:49:07,840 --> 00:49:10,000
Speaker 1: So anything that had to go to the cloud, like

1023
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: when you're searching your email, it was really bad because

1024
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,520
Speaker 1: it was looking on your you know, it was looking

1025
00:49:15,560 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 1: on the server for any sort of emails that weren't

1026
00:49:17,719 --> 00:49:20,239
Speaker 1: locally stored, and it was just like game over, like

1027
00:49:20,239 --> 00:49:22,480
Speaker 1: you're not finding that email for an hour. Because the

1028
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:25,839
Speaker 1: AT and T network at that point was so bad

1029
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: that it was just having an early iPhone. Oh it was.

1030
00:49:30,800 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 1: It was horrible the connectivity. Even though this phone was

1031
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 1: so magical and so amazing, the AT and T network

1032
00:49:36,920 --> 00:49:40,840
Speaker 1: was so nascent, it was so new that it just

1033
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: was painful and it was the only by the way,

1034
00:49:44,760 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: the only network you can get the iPhone on for

1035
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:50,759
Speaker 1: many many years was was AT and T. And I

1036
00:49:50,800 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 1: will never forget the day that Verizon had the iPhone.

1037
00:49:54,719 --> 00:49:57,520
Speaker 1: I ran into the Verizon store and got it, and

1038
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:01,840
Speaker 1: I got the I switched to Verizon that because the

1039
00:50:01,880 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: network was just so much better. Anyway, what's next, another story?

1040
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: Do we have time for another story?

1041
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 2: Yes we do?

1042
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: Oh as I predicted the Pixel six A. I talked

1043
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: about it in last week's podcast. Pixel six A is

1044
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: the new budget phone to beat fantastic budget phone if

1045
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 1: you can deal with a slower than typical fingerprint reader

1046
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 1: and a slower than typical screen. Otherwise, the camera is fantastic,

1047
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,000
Speaker 1: the price is fantastic, the software is fantastic, the size

1048
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:33,720
Speaker 1: is fantastic. Everything about the Pixel six A is really

1049
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:37,839
Speaker 1: good for a basic budget phone, except the price tag.

1050
00:50:38,280 --> 00:50:40,880
Speaker 2: I predicted that the price tag of four fifty would.

1051
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: Go down to three ninety nine, which is much more

1052
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: reasonable for this phone. In fact, I would even I

1053
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,400
Speaker 1: would even predict that during the holidays, this phone is

1054
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: going to be three hundred and forty nine dollars, which

1055
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: is one hundred dollars off the price tag right now.

1056
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,880
Speaker 1: Lo and behold nine to five Google reporting that Pixel

1057
00:50:56,920 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: six A is basically three hundred and ninety nine dollars

1058
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: right now because they're giving you a.

1059
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,399
Speaker 2: Fifty dollars Google Store credit if you buy it now.

1060
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: That's not fifty dollars off the price of the phone,

1061
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:09,959
Speaker 1: but it is fifty dollars that you can use towards

1062
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:11,919
Speaker 1: something else, which I know you have to find something

1063
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: else to buy. But at the same time, you know

1064
00:51:15,000 --> 00:51:18,080
Speaker 1: you can get a case for free. That's that's thirty dollars.

1065
00:51:18,080 --> 00:51:19,680
Speaker 1: The leather case is fifty, so it.

1066
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 2: Kind of is like fifty dollars off the price of

1067
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:22,120
Speaker 2: the phone.

1068
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:25,359
Speaker 1: So anyway I called it, I knew it was going

1069
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:28,680
Speaker 1: to happen. I'm pegging the price point for this phone

1070
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:31,360
Speaker 1: to be about three hundred and ninety nine dollars, not

1071
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:34,239
Speaker 1: four fifty. I think I will either even predict that

1072
00:51:34,280 --> 00:51:36,840
Speaker 1: it's going to go down to three forty nine during

1073
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:38,680
Speaker 1: the holidays, so be on the lookout for that. If

1074
00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:40,160
Speaker 1: you have your eye on this phone. No need to

1075
00:51:40,160 --> 00:51:44,920
Speaker 1: get it today. Pixel phones age, I think they age decently.

1076
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 2: With the software, but you have to, you know, just

1077
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 2: keep your eye.

1078
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: I don't think you need to get it right now,

1079
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,200
Speaker 1: but definitely a budget phone that I will recommend throughout

1080
00:51:54,239 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: the next year. Wendy's says, Hey, Rich, do you know

1081
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:03,440
Speaker 1: of any website that tracks when a hotel has undergone

1082
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:06,239
Speaker 1: a major remodel or basic refresh. I know I can

1083
00:52:06,280 --> 00:52:07,960
Speaker 1: call the hotel and ask, but when you're trying to

1084
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 1: choose among several hotel choices, it would be much easier

1085
00:52:10,360 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: to look up on a website. Thanks for your recent

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Speaker 1: video about trip Advisor. I love the tricks you demonstrate

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Speaker 1: on everything. Thanks again, Wendy, Wendy, I thought I was

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Speaker 1: the only crazy person that actually cared about when a

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Speaker 1: hotel was last remodeled, but I guess I'm not. So

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to know that there are other people like

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Speaker 1: myself that like to stay in fresh and clean hotel

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Speaker 1: rooms or brand new hotels, hotels that were just built.

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Speaker 1: I do not know of a website that aggregates this

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Speaker 1: information for every hotel.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I've seen this information on hotel listings, you know, every

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Speaker 1: once in a while you'll see it says hotel remodel

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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty twenty whatever.

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Speaker 2: I think. On the Mariot app.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes they list this, but it's not one of those

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Speaker 1: things that is always readily available.

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Speaker 2: And I agree.

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Speaker 1: I think that trip Advisor would be a perfect place

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Speaker 1: for this information to be listed, because I love it

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Speaker 1: if if a hotel was remodeled five years ago, it's like, okay,

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Speaker 1: that hotel is gonna be a little bit nicer than

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Speaker 1: a hotel that was remodeled, you know, fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know of an app that does this.

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Speaker 1: If you know of an app that does this, please

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Speaker 1: let me know. Hello at richontech dot TV and if

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Speaker 1: you're not following me on Instagram, please follow me. I

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Speaker 1: am at rich on tech I've been trying to do

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Speaker 1: more reels. I've been trying to do more informational reels.

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Speaker 1: Like sometimes I just know certain little tips and tricks

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, uh, I didn't know that.

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Speaker 2: Not everyone knows that.

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Speaker 1: Like I'll be doing something in front of a friend

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Speaker 1: or family member, or I'll be fixing their phone and

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Speaker 1: I do something real quick and they're like, wait, what

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Speaker 1: was that? You can put your phone on on low

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Speaker 1: power mode?

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Speaker 2: How'd you do that?

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, you didn't know that, Okay, let

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Speaker 1: me show you how to do it. So I've been

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Speaker 1: trying to put a little bit of those tips. But

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Speaker 1: the problem is, I'm always worried that people are gonna

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Speaker 1: make fun of me on Instagram for being like rich

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Speaker 1: everyone knows that tip, come on, give me a break.

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Speaker 1: That's like the most basic tip ever. But I have

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Speaker 1: to ride this line of there are a lot of

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Speaker 1: people out there that do not know technology, and so yes,

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Speaker 1: if you're following me on Instagram, maybe you know technology,

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Speaker 1: maybe you've known that tip forever, but there's also you

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Speaker 1: know one hundred other people that have never seen that tip. Like,

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Speaker 1: for instance, something I use all the time on my

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Speaker 1: web browser is a command shift T, which will bring

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Speaker 1: up the last tab that you close, like if you

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Speaker 1: close the tab.

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Speaker 2: I use this every single day.

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Speaker 1: If you close the tab by accident, you need to

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Speaker 1: open it back up, you just command shift to and

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Speaker 1: it's like boom, it opens up the last tab. And

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Speaker 1: so that's like one of those things that I know.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, should I share that as a tip?

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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's worth the sixty second reels,

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Speaker 1: but maybe it is. AnyWho, All right, do I have

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Speaker 1: any other stories I want to talk about?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, one other thing.

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Speaker 1: Oh, this is another thing I did on Instagram reels.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, Instagram reels take way longer to

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Speaker 1: make than you might think. So I am working a

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Speaker 1: full day at my TV job and then I'm trying to,

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Speaker 1: you know, do another like Instagram reel and I'm like, oh,

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Speaker 1: let me just bang this out real quick, and it's

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Speaker 1: like no, it's it takes an hour an hour, and

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Speaker 1: I have.

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Speaker 2: To actually do some of these reels.

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Speaker 1: So forgive me if I'm not doing a reel every

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Speaker 1: single day. What I see, Lasagna is saying any update

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Speaker 1: on the Endo Chino story. No, no updates just yet.

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Speaker 1: I haven't gotten any you know, anything yet. I haven't

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Speaker 1: got my suit yet. So I will update you and

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Speaker 1: maybe i'll do like a fitting, Like I'll.

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Speaker 2: Do like a little little swing with my suit, all right.

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Speaker 1: So on Instagram, I did a video about this map

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Speaker 1: update on Google Maps. I thought it was pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: So Google Maps has now turned one hundred landmarks into

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Speaker 1: these photo realistic aerial views, popular landmarks in Barcelona, London,

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Speaker 1: New York, San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: And Tokyo.

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Speaker 1: And this is their first step towards this immersive view

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Speaker 1: and this is gonna be phenomenal when it actually happens.

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Speaker 2: So let me tell you about these.

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Speaker 1: What you want to do is go on your Google Maps,

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Speaker 1: look up something like and I looked up like one

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Speaker 1: hundred of these things to see which ones they have.

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Speaker 1: They have a bunch leaning Tower of Pisa, Empire, State Building, London,

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Speaker 1: I Statue, Liberty, Eiffel Tower, Mount Rushmore, Buckingham Palace, Palace

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Speaker 1: of Versailles in France. So look up one of those

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Speaker 1: things I just mentioned and you'll see underneath on Google

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Speaker 1: Maps like a little three sixty spinning version of it.

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Speaker 1: Tap that and you'll see Google has created these like

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Speaker 1: photo realistic views of these popular landmarks that you can

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Speaker 1: look at right now. They're very basic, they're kind of rudimentary,

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Speaker 1: but this is all working towards what Google calls immersive view.

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Speaker 1: So in the future, very near future, they're using AI

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Speaker 1: to pair all those street view images that you that

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Speaker 1: they've taken over the years with satellite and aerial imagery.

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Speaker 1: So basically the idea that they're what they're doing is

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Speaker 1: they will they will eventually let you walk around anywhere

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Speaker 1: in the world virtually. So right now, yeaes StreetView. You

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Speaker 1: can walk down the street, you can look left, you

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Speaker 1: can look right. It's not very good. But what they're

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Speaker 1: gonna do is they're gonna merge where you can fly

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Speaker 1: swoop down into something, look at the street, stand around,

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Speaker 1: look around, then walk into a restaurant that's on that street,

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Speaker 1: and see what that restaurant looks like. So this is

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Speaker 1: stuff that is going to be incredible. Obviously, it is

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Speaker 1: well suited for VR virtual reality. Google knows that in

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Speaker 1: the future we're gonna put on these VR headsets like

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Speaker 1: the one I was talking about earlier, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: just like it. For say, for instance, if you're going

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Speaker 1: to Rome or if you're going to Paris, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: walk to your hotel. You're gonna walk down the street

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Speaker 1: where your hotel is, you're gonna look up at your hotel.

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Speaker 1: Then you're gonna walk into your hotel and check it out.

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Speaker 1: And they're building that right now. It is so so cool.

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Speaker 1: I am so excited about that, and we'll see how

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Speaker 1: cool it is. I I have very high hopes for this.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like street View, but very immersive and

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Speaker 1: just way more than what we have today. So this

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Speaker 1: little these little landmarks and aerial three D is just

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Speaker 1: kind of a small indication of what's to come.

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Speaker 2: And I think it's gonna be really cool. So look

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Speaker 2: one of those up.

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Speaker 1: See how they made them, See how they look kind

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Speaker 1: of like you're like, wait, is that computer generated?

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Speaker 2: Is that a real video? Is that a picture?

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Speaker 1: It's all of it mixed together, So very very cool Google.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's see if I can do one more

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Speaker 1: question before we have to go. Ruth says, I enjoy

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Speaker 1: your segment on Fox eight News in Cleveland, Ohio. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping that you have a segment on tablets. I've always

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Speaker 1: had a Kindle. I'd like to stay with them. I

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Speaker 1: do jigsaw puzzles, I read, and I do word games

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Speaker 1: on my tablet. I don't need high power, but I

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Speaker 1: do like to download my books and puzzles. Extra storage

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Speaker 1: is necessary. Thanks ruth an Um. Yeah, I think you

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Speaker 1: stick with the fire HD ten or ten plus. I

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Speaker 1: think that's going to be your best tablet. The fire tablets,

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Speaker 1: I don't recommend all of the time, but I do

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Speaker 1: recommend in specific use case scenarios. If you're reading books,

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Speaker 1: if you're watching movies, that's all you care about. You

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Speaker 1: don't need to download a bunch of apps. You're not

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Speaker 1: really even surfing the web that much because I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's a very good experience on the kindle tablets.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely what you're talking about, jigsaw puzzles, word games, reading,

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Speaker 1: downloading books and puzzles, extra storage. This has got all

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Speaker 1: of those things covered. Fire HD ten or ten plus.

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Speaker 1: Get it on sale if you can. They've got a

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Speaker 1: bunch of sales with the Amazon stuff. We just had

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Speaker 1: them on sale for Prime Day, so they probably will

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Speaker 1: go on sale right around back to school again, but definitely,

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Speaker 1: I think that's a good thing to check out. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for the question, Ruthann, and thanks for watching

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Speaker 1: Fox A Cleveland. That's a powerhouse station out there that's.

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Speaker 2: Going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: name is rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening. There

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Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend an hour of

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Speaker 1: your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here

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Speaker 1: with me. I'm gonna talk to you real soon.

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Speaker 2: Take care, Tandon