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Speaker 2: Hi, thank you. My wife and I were watching the

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Speaker 1: And that's the proof that it's safe. Well, guess what.

434
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 1: Once the scam artists get that QR code, they are

435
00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:52,359
Speaker 1: stealing your money. That's how they steal it. So how

436
00:22:52,359 --> 00:22:55,600
Speaker 1: do you protect yourself? Do not respond to these calls,

437
00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,879
Speaker 1: these messages, or even these pop ups you see that

438
00:22:57,920 --> 00:23:00,680
Speaker 1: come up on your computer. If they're on and you're

439
00:23:00,720 --> 00:23:03,320
Speaker 1: not thinking that something should be happening, don't do it.

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00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: Verify any contact information, so if someone contacts you and

441
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Speaker 1: they say they're from a particular place, go to the

442
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Speaker 1: back of your bank card, call the bank from that

443
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,000
Speaker 1: phone number and ask take time to think, consult with

444
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Speaker 1: others like friends and family. Like I mentioned, never withdraw

445
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Speaker 1: cash from your account in response to these requests. And

446
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 1: if anyone's asking you to use a Bitcoin ATM, a

447
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:28,359
Speaker 1: gift card or something like that to move money to

448
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Speaker 1: protect it. Come on, you just know that's not right.

449
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,199
Speaker 1: You have a feeling, and what does it go back to?

450
00:23:34,280 --> 00:23:36,359
Speaker 1: It goes back to that old adage, if it seems

451
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Speaker 1: too good to be true, it probably is. So if

452
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Speaker 1: someone's calling you out of the blue and saying, hey,

453
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Speaker 1: you got to move fifty grand out of your your

454
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Speaker 1: hard earned savings account and put it into a bitcoin ATM,

455
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,199
Speaker 1: come on, just think how silly that sounds. Don't do it.

456
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:54,040
Speaker 1: Don't do it at all. On a lighter note, Google

457
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Speaker 1: Photos has a really cool feature that I've been playing with.

458
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Speaker 1: It is an AI feature. You know, I love Google Photos.

459
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: I have got all of my photos in there. I've

460
00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: been using it since day one. In fact, before it

461
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 1: was Google Photos, it used to be called Picasa and

462
00:24:07,440 --> 00:24:10,680
Speaker 1: I loved it even back then. And Google Photos now

463
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Speaker 1: has this new feature called ask Photos and it's AI

464
00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: to search your collection, which is really really incredible. So

465
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Speaker 1: you can now use natural language to search through your

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Speaker 1: photo collection. Now, I don't know about you, but I've

467
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Speaker 1: got I don't know, one hundreds, I've got so many photos.

468
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Speaker 1: Let's see if I can see how many photos I

469
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Speaker 1: have in my photo collection it's not an easy thing

470
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Speaker 1: to do on Android. But let's see. If I go

471
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Speaker 1: to my posts and let's see, I can go to

472
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Speaker 1: photos and let's see here, that's really tough. See all. Yeah, okay,

473
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Speaker 1: I don't really know how to see all my pictures,

474
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Speaker 1: but I've got a lot I think over like one

475
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Speaker 1: hundred thousand. Yeah, it doesn't let me do this very easily.

476
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Speaker 1: I thought there's a way to do that, but I

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Speaker 1: guess not. Anyway, The point is I've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of pictures in there, and once you have a lot

479
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Speaker 1: of pictures in there, it's kind of scary because there's

480
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Speaker 1: so many that it's like, I need to get these

481
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,399
Speaker 1: backed up somewhere else, that's for sure. Anyway. My point

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Speaker 1: is finding photos I think is really easy on Google

483
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Speaker 1: Photos because you can search for things like airplane or

484
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Speaker 1: park or flowers or you know, someone's name that's in

485
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Speaker 1: your contacts. But now you can use much more natural language.

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Speaker 1: So you can say show me that concert I went

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Speaker 1: to in Las Vegas last year and it will bring

488
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Speaker 1: up those pictures, or show me all my pictures from

489
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Speaker 1: Ireland that involve food and it can bring up pictures

490
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Speaker 1: like that. So again it's much more like we're getting

491
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Speaker 1: used to it chat, GBT where we can just ask

492
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Speaker 1: things in a natural language. Now that's for your photo collection,

493
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: and this isn't unique to Google. Apple has also announced

494
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,800
Speaker 1: that in iOS eighteen, with their AI powered stuff, you'll

495
00:25:55,800 --> 00:25:58,240
Speaker 1: be able to do this as well. But again, all

496
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Speaker 1: of these AI features are just making life so much

497
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: easier for us as humans because we can finally interact

498
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Speaker 1: with computers the way that we interact with other humans.

499
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't go up to another human and say concert like,

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00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: you wouldn't say that to them, right, you would say,

501
00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: remember that concert we went to in Las Vegas last year,

502
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Speaker 1: how much fun it was. And now that's the way

503
00:26:19,040 --> 00:26:21,920
Speaker 1: we're able to talk to AI and it's able to respond.

504
00:26:22,359 --> 00:26:24,879
Speaker 1: But for so many years, everything that we've searched on

505
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Speaker 1: our computer has been like you have to think of

506
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:29,840
Speaker 1: like maybe what the file name is, or like a

507
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Speaker 1: keyword in that file presentation. It's like, okay, you wouldn't

508
00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: just search. You wouldn't ask someone presentation. You would say

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Speaker 1: that presentation that I did last year about elephants, and

510
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Speaker 1: that's how you'd find it. And that's how we're getting

511
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Speaker 1: to search on our computers. And that's what I think

512
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:49,440
Speaker 1: is the best part of this AI revolution is we're

513
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Speaker 1: finally able to interact in the way that we've always

514
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:54,359
Speaker 1: wanted to. In fact, I shared a little tip in

515
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Speaker 1: my newsletter this week, which you can sign up for

516
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:58,280
Speaker 1: at the website rich on Tech dot TV. I know

517
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Speaker 1: I mentioned that I mentioned a lot because I love

518
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Speaker 1: my newsletter and I think I really give out great

519
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:05,920
Speaker 1: free information for that thing. But I gave a tip

520
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,800
Speaker 1: because last week I was trying to figure out how

521
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Speaker 1: to keep my coffee maker on past the automatic shut

522
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Speaker 1: off and it was really like I was like, there's

523
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:17,400
Speaker 1: only so many buttons on this thing, like which one

524
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,639
Speaker 1: does this? And so I downloaded the PDF for the

525
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,000
Speaker 1: coffee maker. It's a brand new coffee maker, so I

526
00:27:23,040 --> 00:27:24,879
Speaker 1: didn't really know how to use it very well. And

527
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: I was like searching the PDF for that, like how

528
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: to keep this thing on? Couldn't figure it out. Well,

529
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: I said, you know what, let me try this. I

530
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,720
Speaker 1: uploaded the entire pdf to AI and now I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you some questions about this, and

532
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Speaker 1: I said, how do I keep my coffee maker on

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Speaker 1: past the auto shut off? And it said there are

534
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Speaker 1: three ways to do it, and it gave the three

535
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:48,199
Speaker 1: ways in natural language, and the way that I wanted

536
00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:51,680
Speaker 1: was there's a caraffe icon you press that, you press

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Speaker 1: and hold it for three seconds, and it turns your

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Speaker 1: machine back on without brewing a whole nother brew. And

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Speaker 1: so it's like something that was very simple. I didn't

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Speaker 1: find it in the manual even though it was there,

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Speaker 1: but AI found it in seconds eighty eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up, I'll tell you why Roku

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Speaker 1: is getting better when it comes to screen savers and

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Speaker 1: backdrops for your TV. This is rich on Tech. Welcome

546
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 1: zero one. Still lots to get through. On today's show,

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Speaker 1: Instagram is introducing comments for stories. I'll tell you about that.

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00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: And Roku is introducing a really really cool feature that

552
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 1: turns your TV into a work of art. I'll explain that.

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Speaker 1: Let's let's go to Mark in San Diego. Mark, You're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich. Hi, Rich, great show, Thank you. You know.

555
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Speaker 4: I have had problems in the last couple of days

556
00:28:56,040 --> 00:29:01,800
Speaker 4: only watching YouTube on my piece at home and I

557
00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 4: get a notice. It says, aw snap, something went wrong,

558
00:29:06,120 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 4: and then it says tie clearing your your.

559
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 1: Cash and cookies. So I did that on the computer.

560
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:16,160
Speaker 4: But now I'm thinking maybe I should have done it

561
00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:17,440
Speaker 4: on the Chrome browser.

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00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: Yes, that's that's the thing. So this, uh, is this

563
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:22,040
Speaker 1: an older computer?

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00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's an older nice old pavilion swim line. It's

565
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Speaker 4: I don't know, later nine years old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, if it's working right. Okay, So here's how

567
00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:35,480
Speaker 1: you do this on on the Chrome web browser. So

568
00:29:36,880 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: you go into your settings and there is you know,

569
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Speaker 1: those three little dots in the upper right hand corner.

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Speaker 1: It's weird. I really wish that Chrome would add like

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Speaker 1: an actual like I don't know, like those three little

572
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: dots are just so tough to explain to people. But anyway,

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00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:54,040
Speaker 1: you see them. So you go there and then you

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00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:56,680
Speaker 1: go into your settings. Okay, and then on the left

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Speaker 1: hand side it says privacy and security, and then there's

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Speaker 1: something that says delete browsing data, and it says delete history, cookies,

577
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,480
Speaker 1: cash and more. Do you see that?

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00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 4: Here we go studying you just got the setting jab okay.

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Speaker 1: And on the left hand side Privacy and Security. You

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Speaker 1: see that, Oh yes, okay, tap that and that the

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00:30:15,880 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: almost the middle of the screen. It says delete browsing data.

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00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:22,600
Speaker 1: Do you see that, clear browsing data. Oh, your says clear. Interesting,

583
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: you might have an older version of Chrome.

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Speaker 4: Uh clear history cookies cash.

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00:30:27,320 --> 00:30:29,840
Speaker 1: Now does it give you when you click there? Does

586
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Speaker 1: it say cashed images and files? And it tells me

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Speaker 1: that I would free up ninety megabytes to say how much?

588
00:30:35,360 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: How much you have it.

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Speaker 4: Freed up less than three point four megabytes?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay? Interesting? Oh well, what's the time range? Jack?

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00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 1: Seven days? Oh okay, so I would do all time. Now,

592
00:30:46,720 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: this is going to get rid of all of your

593
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Speaker 1: history on your on your browser. So you know, you know,

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Speaker 1: how you start typing in a website and you've gone

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Speaker 1: to and it like completes it, you're gonna that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be gone. And also your logins are also going to

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Speaker 1: go away, so you're gonna have to, you know, make

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Speaker 1: you know how to log into the websites that you

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00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:05,880
Speaker 1: typically go to. So just that's but anyway, so if

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Speaker 1: that's all fine, then you can just tap that and uh,

601
00:31:09,480 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: you know, once you do that, you can delete the

602
00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: data and you're good. Now. The other thing you might

603
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:16,880
Speaker 1: want to look at if you go into Advance before

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00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 1: you do this, see where it says hosted app data.

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00:31:23,760 --> 00:31:28,000
Speaker 1: Let's see all the way at the end. So that

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00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:30,520
Speaker 1: may have some fragments of YouTube in there as well,

607
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,760
Speaker 1: so you might want to delete that as well, and

608
00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 1: so that that may help and include that in the

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Speaker 1: clear data. Okay, yeah, so once you do all that,

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Speaker 1: hopefully that should clear it out. I would also if

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Speaker 1: I were you, once you do all this, I would

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Speaker 1: also go into your settings on Chrome and I would

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Speaker 1: go into about Chrome. So if you go in the

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Speaker 1: lower left hand corner where you saw the Privacy and

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00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,080
Speaker 1: security all the way at the bottom, it says about Chrome.

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00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: You tap that. And I think that everyone should do

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Speaker 1: this because look at this. I just found Mike. Chrome

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00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,360
Speaker 1: has an update. It doesn't always tell you update immediately.

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Speaker 1: It does generally, but sometimes you can find the update

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Speaker 1: quicker by going into this little settings about Chrome, and

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Speaker 1: mine says relaunch Chrome to finish updating. So Mark, I

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Speaker 1: would also go to there and make sure that your

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Speaker 1: Chrome is the latest for this computer. It may be

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Speaker 1: that you're running an older version of Chrome. Just because

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00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: this computer is an older model, it may not support

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Speaker 1: the latest Chrome. But that's what I would do, and

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Speaker 1: then I would relaunch Chrome once it's done, and then

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Speaker 1: I would restart your entire computer and go back to

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Speaker 1: YouTube and hopefully that takes care of that problem. So

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00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 1: a good question, and thanks for the call today in

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Speaker 1: San Diego. Appreciate it. Let's see here Instagram is adding

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Speaker 1: comments for stories. Now. This is funny because I actually

633
00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,880
Speaker 1: tweeted the guy who runs Instagram, Adam Oseri, and I said, hey,

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Speaker 1: why are you going to introduce comments for stories? And

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Speaker 1: this was years ago, maybe two years ago. He was like, ah,

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Speaker 1: We're not doing that, and he's like, stories are more

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00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:04,920
Speaker 1: personal bla blah blah blah. I was like, I'm just saying,

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00:33:05,000 --> 00:33:07,320
Speaker 1: you know, people would like this, and A it was

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00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: cool that he actually took the time to write back

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Speaker 1: to me, but B I knew it was a matter

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00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:14,120
Speaker 1: of time before they added this because stories are the

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00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 1: hottest growth area on Instagram. I mean, reels are hot,

643
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Speaker 1: but everyone posts stories. Not everyone posts reels, right, but

644
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: everyone posts stories. And so now instead of just being

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Speaker 1: able to send a direct message, you can now comment

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Speaker 1: on stories. Now, this is rolling out, not everyone's going

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Speaker 1: to have it, so if you don't have it right away,

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Speaker 1: I've only seen one person that has it so far.

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Speaker 1: And the comments act just like they act on the posts.

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Speaker 1: Right you see a story that you like, instead of

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Speaker 1: direct messaging someone at the bottom, you can now comment

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Speaker 1: and other people will be able to see it. Now,

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Speaker 1: there are some caveats there, so comments will be visible

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Speaker 1: to anyone who can view the story, but for private

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Speaker 1: accounts only people that you also follow can leave a comment,

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Speaker 1: So if I follow someone on Instagram, they can comment

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Speaker 1: on my stories. Comments are temporary, they last up to

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Speaker 1: not letting you turn this off, just the whole thing,

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Speaker 1: like it's going to be on every story that you

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Speaker 1: comments can be preserved if you save the story as

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Speaker 1: a highlight. Otherwise they seem to go away. That's kind

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Speaker 1: of interesting to me. Since I don't have this, I

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Speaker 1: can't test it but I'm curious if you go into

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Speaker 1: stories on Instagram are archived, right, so if you go

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Speaker 1: into Instagram and you know those stories don't really disappear

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Speaker 1: after twenty four hours. If you tap your profile and

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Speaker 1: go into archive, it'll show you all of your stories

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Speaker 1: that you've ever posted, which is good and bad. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you posted something silly and you want to get

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Speaker 1: rid of it, you can go into that actual story

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Speaker 1: and and delete it for real, but otherwise it's going

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Speaker 1: to be saved anyway. Kind of fun. I'm all about

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Speaker 1: this because I get so many messages on a lot

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Speaker 1: that little bit of conversation. But it has to be

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Speaker 1: people I follow, so it only limits it to certain

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Speaker 1: people anyway. Eight to eight rich one O one eight

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Speaker 1: Give me a call if you have a question about technology.

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Speaker 1: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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Speaker 1: your call and get you on the show. We'll take

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Speaker 1: some more calls in just a moment. Coming up this hour,

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Speaker 1: we've got the Apple Circle host Robert Rosenfeld. He's going

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Speaker 1: to discuss all things Apple. We've got a big Apple

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Speaker 1: event coming up next week. You can talk about his

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel and the coverage he does of the Apple ecosystem.

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Speaker 1: Have a fun conversation with him. My Instagram at rich

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Speaker 1: On Tech, I posted I was in Vegas. If you

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Speaker 1: heard the first segment, I was talking about my time

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Speaker 1: in Vegas. We stayed at this new hotel I think

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Speaker 1: you say it the fontin blue. It's kind of at

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Speaker 1: the end of the strip. Beautiful hotel, really really nice.

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Speaker 1: But I posted an instagram of the first thing I

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Speaker 1: do when I get to the hotel room. So I

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Speaker 1: So if you want to see that at rich On Tech,

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Speaker 1: and you can comment and let me know if you

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Speaker 1: do the same thing or if you do something different.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people commenting there. Beverly writes in on

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Speaker 1: the website rich On tech Dot TV hit contact and

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Speaker 1: you can get your email to me. Beverly says, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: great weather jokes. The heat wave is unbelievable, but listening

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Speaker 1: to your show and reading your fantastic newsletter provide some

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Speaker 1: great distractions. My question is it okay to use the

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi when renting an Airbnb? I wonder about the

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Speaker 1: security of connecting phones and computers with bank accounts and

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Speaker 1: other sensitive information. Generally, I would say, yes, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: like your email and pretty much anything else you're doing

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Speaker 1: on there. But when it comes to checking your bank account,

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Speaker 1: specifically logging in there, I would say, use a VPN

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Speaker 1: or flip your phone, flip the Wi Fi off on

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Speaker 1: your phone, and use your mobile data. But anything else

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Speaker 1: you're going to do, whether you're using Netflix or whether

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Speaker 1: you are just surfing the web, that's all gonna be fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, modern Wi Fi networks are pretty secure.

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Speaker 1: Now you are using a quote unquote public network here,

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Speaker 1: because many people have access to this network. People could

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Speaker 1: have modified the network to spy on you. People could

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Speaker 1: have you know, there's just many, many things that could

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Speaker 1: happen when you're in an airbnb where many people have

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Speaker 1: access to this router and network, So I would be cautious,

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Speaker 1: So use a VPN if you're checking your bank account.

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Speaker 1: But better yet, save the money. Just flip your phone

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Speaker 1: out of Wi Fi into just mobile data from your

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Speaker 1: cellular carrier if you have to check your bank account

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Speaker 1: while you're there, and do that. And that's what I do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's funny because the other day I'd noticed

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Speaker 1: myself I was doing my routine on my computer. Then

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, I was like, I want to

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Speaker 1: check something in my bank and I was like, oh

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Speaker 1: wait a second, I got to turn the Wi Fi off.

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Speaker 1: Same thing. Just anytime you're at an airport or a hotel,

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Speaker 1: anytime you're on a public network, just kind of be

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Speaker 1: aware of what you're doing. I think ninety nine point

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Speaker 1: and all the stuff that's built in to modern systems

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Speaker 1: is going to protect you to a certain extent, but

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Speaker 1: it can only go so far. So just be aware

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Speaker 1: that anything you do that's sensitive. I would flip off

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Speaker 1: that flip off that didn't sound right, I would turn

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Speaker 1: off your Wi Fi and I would go into your

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Speaker 1: cellular or use your hotspot. So yesterday at the airport

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Speaker 1: in Vegas, I just said, you know, I want let

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Speaker 1: me just use my hotspot because that's the easiest thing

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Speaker 1: to do. So good question, Beverly. And I'm glad you

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Speaker 1: liked my weather jokes. I don't do jokes very often.

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Speaker 1: I may joke around, but I'm glad you enjoyed those.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Angela in San Diego. Angela, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for teting my call.

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Speaker 1: Rich.

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Speaker 5: I caught a piece of the back end of a

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Speaker 5: piece that you did on the Bill Handle show last

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Speaker 5: week about making the best use of airline miles. And

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Speaker 5: I'm wondering if you could repeat that information because it

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Speaker 5: sounded like something that was really valuable.

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Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. You know, I try to share

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Speaker 1: valuable information all the time. But I'm glad what kind

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Speaker 1: of miles and points are you most interested in? Like,

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Speaker 1: what do you collect them? Do you try to get

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Speaker 1: them or what?

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Speaker 5: Well, ordinarily I collect them and use them for flights,

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Speaker 5: but you pointed out that that wasn't the most prudent

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Speaker 5: thing to do. In fact, you if I, if I understood,

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Speaker 5: correctly recommended using them for upgrades rather than flights. And

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Speaker 5: you even alluded to some websites that indicate when you're

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Speaker 5: better off buying a ticket than using mile.

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Speaker 1: Yes, okay, good listener, Angela, you get a gold star

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Speaker 1: for listening.

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Speaker 5: That's but I don't I heard enough.

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Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell I'll go through it right now. So okay,

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal. So I did mention a couple

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Speaker 1: of websites. This was inspired by my segment on KTLA

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Speaker 1: about tools to maximize your travel rewards. Now, with all

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Speaker 1: this said, I have hung out with the points guy.

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Speaker 1: Points are big business. This is big money. So if

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Speaker 1: you think you're getting ahead by, you know, getting these

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Speaker 1: points from your credit card and all these places, you're not.

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Speaker 1: They are having the last laugh. They are making money

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Speaker 1: on this stuff. And yes, you can enjoy free flights, upgrades,

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Speaker 1: all that good stuff. Just keep in mind don't go

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Speaker 1: into debt trying to rack up airline points because that

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Speaker 1: is not a winning game. And by the way, when

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Speaker 1: you are trying to use your credit card to accrue

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Speaker 1: money than you typically would because it's on a credit

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Speaker 1: card versus cash. Anyway, now I'm off my soapbox with

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Speaker 1: all those warnings. I collect points. I think they're fun.

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Speaker 1: I do them in a responsible way, and I'm not

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Speaker 1: setting out to try to game the system. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm a member of Mario, I've got their points.

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Speaker 1: I'm a member of United, I've got their points and

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Speaker 1: various other things out there. So with all that said,

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Speaker 1: the things that you need to know Number one Points

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Speaker 1: Yeah dot com. We had Bart Welch from Points Yeah

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Speaker 1: on this show to talk about his points search engine.

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Speaker 1: This searches across twenty different airline programs and six different

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Speaker 1: bank programs. And what's really unique about that is, let's

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Speaker 1: say you have Chase points, or let's say you have

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Speaker 1: City Bank points. Those points are very valuable and they

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Speaker 1: could be transferred into airline programs at a higher usage

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Speaker 1: rate and a higher value than they would if you

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Speaker 1: just booked through Chase. So I think, Angela, that's what

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Speaker 1: you were alluding to when I was talking about some

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Speaker 1: of that stuff. So that's a great search engine. A

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Speaker 1: lot of it's free, but it is paid if you

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Speaker 1: want to get the maximum out of it, which means

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Speaker 1: searching on more days at once and also getting alerts

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Speaker 1: when the flight that you want for the points that

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Speaker 1: you want is available. Also, the Daydream Explorer tool is

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Speaker 1: a really cool tool because you can say, look, I

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Speaker 1: want to go to Europe business class, and let's see

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Speaker 1: the cheapest times or days or ways to do that,

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Speaker 1: and it may be on an airline that you didn't

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Speaker 1: think of, but because you can transfer those miles from

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Speaker 1: American Express or whatever, or even a different airline into

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Speaker 1: another airline and get more value out of them, that

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Speaker 1: could really be a unique way to do that. The

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Speaker 1: other one that I really like is called point dot me,

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Speaker 1: and so point me is a great one. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of similar to Points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think it's a little bit simpler in look because

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Speaker 1: it only really does one thing and it just searches

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Speaker 1: across all different points programs to find the best value

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Speaker 1: for your points. And I use this to find a

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Speaker 1: flight for my mom. Didn't even realize that we could

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Speaker 1: use our points with Jet Blue, and it found a

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Speaker 1: super cheap Jet Blue flight with points, and I immediately

844
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Speaker 1: signed up for Jet Blue their points program whatever it's called,

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Speaker 1: transferred my points into there and was able to buy

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Speaker 1: a flight for my mom way cheaper than the going

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Speaker 1: rate for cash for any flight for that weekend, And

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Speaker 1: so I was a believer there. Now point dot me

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Speaker 1: is a paid system. They used to offer like they'll

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Speaker 1: have specials here and there where you could do a

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Speaker 1: search for free or something like that, but they do

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Speaker 1: want you to pay if you're getting serious about using that. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a really cool browser extension. It's called points Path,

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Speaker 1: and so you can install this on Chrome and then

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Speaker 1: when you search Google flights, it puts the points equivalent

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Speaker 1: right next to the flight prices. So it's really easy

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Speaker 1: to see, Like if you're searching for a flight to

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Speaker 1: let's say Hawaii, and it's you know, three hundred and

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Speaker 1: forty eight dollars with dollars, but it says this same

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Speaker 1: flight is only twenty thousand points. It will actually point

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Speaker 1: an arrow to the better value of your time and

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Speaker 1: money and resources. So if points are a better deal,

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Speaker 1: it will say use points. If money is a better deal,

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Speaker 1: it'll say, use your money and save your points. It

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Speaker 1: supports United American, Delta Jet Blue in Alaska. Now the

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Speaker 1: Points Guy mentioned the points Guy, Brian Kelly. He does

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Speaker 1: a great job with his website very successful there. He

868
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Speaker 1: has a calculator on his website called Awards versus Cash Calculator.

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Speaker 1: So if you go there and I'll link this all

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Speaker 1: up on my website, rich on tech dot TV, hit

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Speaker 1: the light bulb and you can get show notes for

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Speaker 1: today's show. This is show number eighty eight. It will

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Speaker 1: be in there. So if you go there, you can.

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Speaker 1: This is kind of a manual way of that points

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Speaker 1: path I just talked about. You pop in like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's the deal I found with points. Compare it to cash,

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Speaker 1: and it will tell you it's a better deal to

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Speaker 1: use your cash, or it's a better deal to use

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00:44:54,360 --> 00:44:57,359
Speaker 1: your points, because sometimes it might be cheaper to use

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Speaker 1: cash because your points are worth more. And that's the

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Speaker 1: other thing I was talking about. Angela's a lot of

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Speaker 1: people like to use their points to upgrade because it

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Speaker 1: is a better value for them because they're getting like

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Speaker 1: a first class flight for something that they feel is

885
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Speaker 1: almost free. You know, they're points that they've racked up,

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Speaker 1: So always look at that as well. The points guy

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Speaker 1: there you go a ward wallet. I really like this

888
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: because it tracks your account balances across all the loyalty programs.

889
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Speaker 1: So for instance, myself, I signed up for this and

890
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Speaker 1: I had some Hyatt points, which by the way, are

891
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Speaker 1: very very valuable. So even though I only had thirteen

892
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Speaker 1: thousand points, that was like basically a free night. A

893
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Speaker 1: free night was fifteen thousand, and I didn't even realize that.

894
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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, I have only thirteen thousand. I'm

895
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Speaker 1: just gonna let those go to waste because I haven't

896
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Speaker 1: stayed at Higatt in a while. I'm not going to

897
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Speaker 1: get more points. And I got this alert from a

898
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Speaker 1: ward wallet that said, hey, use your points with Hygat.

899
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Speaker 1: They're going to expire at the end of September, and

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Speaker 1: my wife and I were going to a concert in

901
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:54,680
Speaker 1: Orange County and I said, let me see if there's

902
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 1: any Hyatts near our concert we wanted to stay overnight,

903
00:45:57,480 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: and so sure enough, it saved me like a couple

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Speaker 1: hundred bucks on a hotel room. And I did have

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Speaker 1: to transfer in about a thousand points. But my point

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Speaker 1: is no pun intended that a ward walle it came

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Speaker 1: to save me about three hundred dollars, and it's a

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Speaker 1: free service. Just by saying, hey, these points are about

909
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 1: to expire, use them or lose them, and it gives

910
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: you all the ways you can actually extend those points.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times all you have to do is

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Speaker 1: some sort of transaction, like it might only take a

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Speaker 1: dollar transaction to extend the life of these points. So

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Speaker 1: a ward wall is really great for that. And then

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Speaker 1: the expert advice we got from Bart. You know, don't

916
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Speaker 1: don't don't keep, don't hold on to these points. They

917
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Speaker 1: don't earn interest, so it's best to just use them

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Speaker 1: as you accrue them, because otherwise the value of them

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Speaker 1: is going down. Great question, Angela from San Diego, Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for calling. Eight to eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four two core one zero one,

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Speaker 1: rich on tech dot TV coming up. I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what Roku is doing to your TV. It's pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at eight eight eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: the trend with the songs today. Yeah, it's hot in

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. It is a heat wave. I think we're

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Speaker 1: finally close to getting through. But stay safe out there.

931
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Speaker 1: Don't do too much, you know what, you have an

932
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Speaker 1: excuse to just not do that much, you know, because

933
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Speaker 1: it's like you don't want to overheat yourself. Eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Roku introducing a cool new feature.

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Speaker 1: I love this feature. It's called backdrops. You know how

937
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,040
Speaker 1: when you have a Roku, it just shows that like

938
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Speaker 1: weird like Digital City with like the weird ads like

939
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Speaker 1: scrolling through. If you have a Roku, you know what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Well, you can finally set this new

941
00:47:55,480 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 1: backdrop as your TV background. It's weird because I kind

942
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:02,880
Speaker 1: of did it a little bit half, you know what,

943
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: so it's not going to be your screen saver. It

944
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:09,399
Speaker 1: sounds like you have to activate this manually every single time.

945
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Speaker 1: But I'll take it because it's pretty neat. So they

946
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Speaker 1: call it backdrops, and it's basically a way to display

947
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Speaker 1: classic artwork and landscape photos on your Roku device when

948
00:48:20,120 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: it's not in use. And they give you a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of images, so thousands of images like Claude Monet

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Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of other stuff. There are also

951
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Speaker 1: descriptions so you can understand what the art is all about,

952
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: plus geography. But the cool thing is You can also

953
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: upload your personal photos to use with this, or connect

954
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 1: your Google Photos account, and that is incredible. So no

955
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Speaker 1: matter what, you now can turn your Roku into sort

956
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: of a piece of art for your living room or

957
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,680
Speaker 1: wherever your TV is. This feature is rolling out to

958
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Speaker 1: Roku branded TVs in the coming weeks, and if you

959
00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:59,799
Speaker 1: have a Roku box, you have to wait until the

960
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Speaker 1: some time. It already kind of is the fall, so

961
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 1: I'm guessing the next couple of months. But it's kind

962
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:07,440
Speaker 1: of cool. I'm very excited for this. You have to

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Speaker 1: activate it manually. Apparently, maybe they'll change that if people say, hey,

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00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: can we just make it so that when my screen

965
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: times out after five minutes, it'll display this instead of

966
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 1: that weird scrolling city scape thing that's been around. It

967
00:49:19,239 --> 00:49:21,520
Speaker 1: looks like it's like, you know, ten years old from

968
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: the nineties or something. But I think Roku sells ads

969
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: on that weird digital screenscape thing, so that's probably why

970
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 1: they want to keep that there. But anyway, you'll be

971
00:49:31,480 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 1: able to activate this either manually with your voice or

972
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Speaker 1: by the settings. But kind of cool backdrops from Roku

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Speaker 1: that's new and it kind of gives new life to

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Speaker 1: your TV. I love putting on like kind of a

975
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Speaker 1: photo screensaver when I have people over. But then my

976
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: TV like times out after a while, and then it

977
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Speaker 1: like goes off, but it's kind of fun. And then

978
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Speaker 1: people get like they start looking at the pictures on

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Speaker 1: the TV. I'm like, you're not supposed to be like

980
00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 1: looking at them. It's not a slide show. It's just

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Speaker 1: like the background, you know. And then like people are like,

982
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: what's that picture? What's that?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, let's go to Paul and Columbus, Ohio. Paul

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Speaker 1: your own with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Well keep it cool, hey, Paul, a little a little

987
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Speaker 6: cooler you are today. But anyway, I've got a using

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Speaker 6: a fire TV cube with a High Sense TV and

989
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Speaker 6: I've got a Denim AV receiver and in the last

990
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Speaker 6: several days or a week or so, maybe periodically just

991
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:30,400
Speaker 6: randomly a few times a day or evening, it goes

992
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:32,759
Speaker 6: just goes to pause.

993
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Speaker 7: To make a.

994
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Speaker 6: Difference with the video sources as far as what channel

995
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Speaker 6: or service anything like that. But when it is on

996
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:45,839
Speaker 6: a station, like I say, it just all of a

997
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:47,480
Speaker 6: sudden will just pause itself.

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00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,480
Speaker 1: Hmm. Interesting, and it's just pausing any any kind of

999
00:50:51,520 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: streaming content is pausing.

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Speaker 6: Whatever's on the whatever's on the system at that time.

1001
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay. And are you are you pressing anything, touching anything,

1002
00:51:01,360 --> 00:51:02,920
Speaker 1: doing anything when this happens?

1003
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 8: No?

1004
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:04,640
Speaker 1: Nothing?

1005
00:51:04,680 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 3: And is it?

1006
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 6: Is it?

1007
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: Is it a buffering issue? Like can you tell if

1008
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,040
Speaker 1: your screen is buffering?

1009
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Speaker 6: It'll tell us the just the most show that it's

1010
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:15,840
Speaker 6: buffering if it's buffering.

1011
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 5: But okay, this is besides it.

1012
00:51:17,760 --> 00:51:20,280
Speaker 6: And I've got a good solid five hundred downs.

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00:51:20,320 --> 00:51:23,160
Speaker 1: Oh nice. Now when this happens, do you see the

1014
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: playbar come up on the screen with the pause like enabled.

1015
00:51:26,440 --> 00:51:29,880
Speaker 1: Is that what it looks like? No, it doesn't.

1016
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:31,400
Speaker 6: It just pauses.

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00:51:31,640 --> 00:51:32,520
Speaker 1: Oh that's interesting.

1018
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, no, I don't want to say that absolutely

1019
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 6: that nothing shows up otherwise because I'm visually impaired. But

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Speaker 6: my wife would say there may be. Okay, So I

1021
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,960
Speaker 6: just pushed the pause button to you know, go back

1022
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Speaker 6: to play, and it starts to play right away.

1023
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Speaker 1: Okay, So that would be that That would be something

1024
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Speaker 1: I would be curious about, is the if the play

1025
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Speaker 1: button comes up. There's a couple of things that could

1026
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Speaker 1: be going on here. You know, another device on your

1027
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: network could be interfering and controlling this and stopping it.

1028
00:52:03,280 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: So there's something with HDMI called CEC, which is basically

1029
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:11,680
Speaker 1: one device can control another through little signals that they

1030
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:13,560
Speaker 1: send to each other. So if you have another device

1031
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: on this network that's sort of turning on or firing up,

1032
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,160
Speaker 1: it may be sending that signal that's causing your fireTV

1033
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:21,400
Speaker 1: to pause. That's one thing. The other thing that I

1034
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,799
Speaker 1: would do is check your fireTV to make sure you

1035
00:52:23,840 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: have the latest software. You can go into your settings

1036
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: and check for the latest software update. Go to the

1037
00:52:30,480 --> 00:52:33,120
Speaker 1: about page and that's where you find it and see

1038
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:35,759
Speaker 1: if that's the case. And I would also restart your

1039
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: fireTV and I might disconnect it from your denin system

1040
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 1: and see if this continues to happen because it sounds

1041
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: like something is sending a signal. And don't forget some

1042
00:52:43,920 --> 00:52:46,520
Speaker 1: of the other remotes can also pause these things too,

1043
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: so make sure you're not like sitting on a remote

1044
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: or something like that. Thanks for the call, Paul. Coming up,

1045
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Speaker 1: we're talking Apple. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich

1046
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: Demiro here hanging out with you talking technology at triple

1047
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:02,320
Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight seven

1048
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Speaker 1: four two four one zero one give me a call

1049
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 1: if you have a question about technology. We'll get back

1050
00:53:07,200 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 1: to the phone lines in just a little bit, but first,

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Speaker 1: Robert Rosenfeld is joining us. He is a YouTuber and

1052
00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 1: host of The Apple Circle, where he discusses all kinds

1053
00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:21,719
Speaker 1: of Apple stuff and it's a great site, a great

1054
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:24,520
Speaker 1: a great channel on YouTube. So if you like Apple stuff,

1055
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Speaker 1: go ahead and follow him. Robert, Welcome to the show, Rich,

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having me absolutely. Let's first off,

1057
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Speaker 1: so you started this YouTube channel. You've had some pretty

1058
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:37,840
Speaker 1: good success. What's it like to be a YouTuber like people?

1059
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:39,680
Speaker 1: You know, people used to want to be like an

1060
00:53:39,719 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: actor or a singer, like someone like a If you

1061
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: ask a kid like what they want to do, they

1062
00:53:43,640 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: want to be someone famous. You're living like the YouTube dream.

1063
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:47,759
Speaker 1: So what's that like?

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00:53:48,600 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 6: It is like.

1065
00:53:49,160 --> 00:53:51,760
Speaker 9: Living a dream as a kid. I was the one

1066
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 9: watching YouTube videos. That's where I sort of got my news.

1067
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Speaker 9: I was sort of the kid watching Apple keynotes like

1068
00:53:58,360 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 9: it was Christmas Day, sort of seeing what presence there

1069
00:54:01,520 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 9: would be to sort of unpack and what Steve Jobs

1070
00:54:04,040 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 9: would sort of unveil on stage and to sort of

1071
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:08,719
Speaker 9: really take a couple of weird turns and be able

1072
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Speaker 9: to do this like full time as a career. Is

1073
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Speaker 9: It's a dream come true and it is so much fun,

1074
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:15,719
Speaker 9: especially with big days coming up, like the big Apple

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00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:16,520
Speaker 9: event on Monday.

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Speaker 1: Is it a lot of work because people think, you know,

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Speaker 1: you make it look easier, videos are slick, But is

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Speaker 1: it a lot of work.

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Speaker 9: It's a lot of work with you know, research and

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Speaker 9: shooting and editing, and it's a lot of going down

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00:54:28,280 --> 00:54:32,360
Speaker 9: rabbit holes and reading through legal jargon and technical documents

1082
00:54:32,400 --> 00:54:35,200
Speaker 9: and going on Reddit threads and watching you know, great

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00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:39,120
Speaker 9: reports from reporters like you, and trying to consolidate consolidate

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Speaker 9: that information in a way that hopefully is entertaining and

1085
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 9: fun and hopefully not too long because I could ramble

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Speaker 9: and ramble for twenty five minutes, So to get that

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00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:47,880
Speaker 9: into a nice, you know, eight to ten minute package

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Speaker 9: can sometimes be a little tough.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I know, as someone who is creative as well, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's like you sometimes go longer than you think and

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00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 1: you're like, I don't want to cut any of this,

1093
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:01,280
Speaker 1: It's all my baby, but sometimes you have to be brutal.

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00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:04,799
Speaker 1: So what resonates on your YouTube channel the most with

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00:55:04,840 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: people when it comes to Apple, I mean pretty much.

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00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,480
Speaker 1: You know, I joked earlier that if you do an

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00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 1: Apple video it could like go viral because people just

1098
00:55:10,719 --> 00:55:13,239
Speaker 1: they're fascinated with this company. But what do you find

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00:55:13,280 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 1: that resonates with your viewers the most? You know, it's

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00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:20,280
Speaker 1: so funny. It's the secrecy of Apple. The Apple lovers

1101
00:55:20,560 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: want to know what Apple's going to do. The Apple

1102
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:24,520
Speaker 1: haters want to know what Apple's going to do next.

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00:55:24,920 --> 00:55:28,239
Speaker 1: And because everything this company does is show shrouded in

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00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: mystery and secrecy, it's just fun to try to read

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00:55:31,760 --> 00:55:33,760
Speaker 1: the tea leaves, so to speak, and put the puzzle

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00:55:33,760 --> 00:55:37,040
Speaker 1: pieces together to see what is sort of coming up

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00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:38,480
Speaker 1: next and what the new feature could be or what

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00:55:38,480 --> 00:55:40,320
Speaker 1: the new product could be. I think a lot of

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00:55:40,360 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 1: the people in our community who watch our videos, they're

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00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:43,800
Speaker 1: Apple fans. They're the geeks.

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00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 9: They want to geek out and sort of know and

1112
00:55:45,719 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 9: be in the loop on what could be coming next.

1113
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 9: But I think more and more these days it's people

1114
00:55:50,080 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 9: just trying to sort of validate their purchase decision. If

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00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 9: they're going to invest into a new iPhone or a

1116
00:55:55,200 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 9: Mac or an iPad or whatever it may be, they

1117
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,160
Speaker 9: want to make sure they're buying the right device at

1118
00:56:00,200 --> 00:56:01,799
Speaker 9: the right time, and they don't want to miss out

1119
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,520
Speaker 9: on something amazing that could be coming in two days

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Speaker 9: or three weeks or three months.

1121
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:07,399
Speaker 1: So they just want to know what's coming next.

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00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:10,440
Speaker 9: So I think everyone sort of either selfishly sort of

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00:56:10,440 --> 00:56:12,759
Speaker 9: an Apple fan maybe the Apple hater sort of wants

1124
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Speaker 9: to know where Apple's going next door. Hey, I want

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00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:16,480
Speaker 9: to spend a thousand bucks on a phone. I want

1126
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Speaker 9: to make sure I'm buying at the right time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I always joke that the Apple stuff has

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Speaker 1: like this like ticking time bomb of a timeline where

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Speaker 1: if it's a product that they come out with, you

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00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:27,640
Speaker 1: almost have to get it like right when it comes

1131
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:29,239
Speaker 1: out because they're going to have a new version like

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00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,799
Speaker 1: a year later. And so like with a MacBook, I mean,

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00:56:31,960 --> 00:56:34,440
Speaker 1: I know that they have a long lifetime with these things,

1134
00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,279
Speaker 1: but for me personally, I'm like, Okay, I want that

1135
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:38,400
Speaker 1: new MacBook now because I know they're going to come

1136
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:40,239
Speaker 1: out with the new generation in a year, and I

1137
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: want to like feel like I've gotten my use out

1138
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:44,279
Speaker 1: of this. If I buy it six months in now,

1139
00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:45,839
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, I could have had six more months

1140
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,640
Speaker 1: of use before the new one. But anyway, that's just me.

1141
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the hot kind of like

1142
00:56:51,400 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 1: iPhone apps and accessories that you like. Do you have

1143
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,160
Speaker 1: anything that we, you know, would find interesting.

1144
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:59,400
Speaker 9: Yeah, you know, I'm always on the hunt for really

1145
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:02,239
Speaker 9: cool apps that extend beyond the iPhone. If they can

1146
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,440
Speaker 9: sort of tie into other parts the Apple ecosystem, AirPods,

1147
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,719
Speaker 9: Apple watches, I'm all in for that. One I've been

1148
00:57:08,760 --> 00:57:11,400
Speaker 9: testing that I really like is an Apple called train Well.

1149
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 9: And the idea of this app is they connect you

1150
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,480
Speaker 9: to sort of a real fitness professional. You've got your

1151
00:57:16,480 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 9: own sort of personal trender who sort of you know,

1152
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 9: you do a Google meet with them and they sort

1153
00:57:21,120 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 9: of are able to craft their custom workout plan for you,

1154
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:25,680
Speaker 9: and then you go to the gym or you work

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00:57:25,720 --> 00:57:27,360
Speaker 9: out a home. You open up the app whenever you

1156
00:57:27,360 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 9: want to work out, and not only do you have

1157
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:32,200
Speaker 9: sort of you know, videos of what the workout is,

1158
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 9: you can sort of see what you're doing and sort

1159
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 9: of track along and make sure you're staying on pace.

1160
00:57:35,960 --> 00:57:38,320
Speaker 9: But also, I think the secret sauce here is their

1161
00:57:38,360 --> 00:57:40,600
Speaker 9: integration with the Apple Watch. So because a lot of

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00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:42,760
Speaker 9: us are wearing these Apple watches on our wrists. It's

1163
00:57:42,800 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 9: collecting our heart rate information, it's analyzing our movement. So

1164
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:49,880
Speaker 9: as I work out, the Apple Watch Companion app is

1165
00:57:49,920 --> 00:57:52,439
Speaker 9: tracking all this information and I can get real time

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00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:55,000
Speaker 9: info and feedback. So maybe I've got my AirPods in,

1167
00:57:55,080 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 9: I'm doing dumbbell curls. I'm listening to the Ridge on

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00:57:57,400 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 9: Tech podcast as I work out, and I'm getting sort

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00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:02,520
Speaker 9: of a voice in my ear saying, hey, you're going

1170
00:58:02,560 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 9: a little too high at the top or a little

1171
00:58:04,240 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 9: too low at the bottom, or slow down that move

1172
00:58:06,280 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 9: So I'm getting that real time feedback as I work out.

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00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 9: And then what's also cool is sort of post workout,

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00:58:11,240 --> 00:58:13,600
Speaker 9: your trainer, wherever they are in the world, is able

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00:58:13,600 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 9: to sort of look at that info, see if your

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00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 9: heart rate was where it needed to be, see how

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Speaker 9: your e motion was, and then they sort of message

1178
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,320
Speaker 9: you in the app and give you feedback to say, hey,

1179
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,120
Speaker 9: great job, or know this, you were a little too

1180
00:58:22,120 --> 00:58:25,200
Speaker 9: fast on that, maybe we should adjust the weight. So finding,

1181
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:27,480
Speaker 9: you know, apps that sort of use the different parts

1182
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,200
Speaker 9: of the ecosystem, that's been super fun for me, and

1183
00:58:30,240 --> 00:58:32,320
Speaker 9: this one has been quite love The Apple Watch integration

1184
00:58:32,440 --> 00:58:33,120
Speaker 9: is so so cool.

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00:58:33,360 --> 00:58:36,080
Speaker 1: That's cool. Okay, so train well dot Net is that one.

1186
00:58:36,440 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 1: So we've got this big event coming up on Monday.

1187
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 1: This is the iPhone launch event. What do they call it?

1188
00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:46,120
Speaker 1: Glow time? That's their It's glowtime. It's glow time. So

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00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 1: what are we expecting? I know the iPhone sixteen obviously,

1190
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:52,600
Speaker 1: but is there going to be any surprises with that

1191
00:58:52,640 --> 00:58:55,080
Speaker 1: device or what? I hope We.

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00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,360
Speaker 9: Always sort of hope for that one more thing, that

1193
00:58:57,560 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 9: special magical moment, and sometimes Apple does sort of throw

1194
00:59:00,320 --> 00:59:02,800
Speaker 9: us for a loop and show us something we weren't expecting.

1195
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 9: But I think that the Apple leaks have gotten so good,

1196
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:07,800
Speaker 9: especially the last couple of years, that we typically sort

1197
00:59:07,800 --> 00:59:11,400
Speaker 9: of know by and large what's coming before Apple announces it.

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00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,000
Speaker 9: So we will, of course see the iPhone sixteen. We're

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Speaker 9: expecting some minor re spec bumps to every Apple watching

1200
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:20,040
Speaker 9: the lineup, and I think the one wild card could

1201
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:23,000
Speaker 9: be in the air pods category. We're expecting an AirPods

1202
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:25,960
Speaker 9: Gen four, so a nice update to the regular standard

1203
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:28,439
Speaker 9: air pods with active noise cancelation for the first time

1204
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 9: in a non pro seat of AirPods. That'd be awesome. Well,

1205
00:59:31,280 --> 00:59:34,040
Speaker 9: we've also heard these rumblings about a ninety nine dollars

1206
00:59:34,040 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 9: pair of AirPods, maybe a more base entry level Gen

1207
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:40,640
Speaker 9: four that we still have slick, you know, us sinking

1208
00:59:40,640 --> 00:59:43,320
Speaker 9: between all your Apple devices, great batter like maybe minus

1209
00:59:43,320 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 9: some of the bells and whistles of the pro stuff.

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00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,400
Speaker 9: But you know, ninety nine dollars will not inexpensive in

1211
00:59:48,440 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 9: the Apple world. That's sort of a bargain because they

1212
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 9: don't usually do you know, higher end pristine products at

1213
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 9: these price points. So that would be cool. And that's

1214
00:59:55,800 --> 00:59:58,680
Speaker 9: the one thing I'm sort of hoping to see, hopefully

1215
00:59:58,680 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 9: Tim or another exec show off on Monday.

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Speaker 1: I mean that that sub one hundred dollars price is

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01:00:03,240 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 1: music to anyone's ears, because I'm looking at the current AirPods.

1218
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,960
Speaker 1: You've got one hundred and twenty nine, one sixty nine

1219
01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,120
Speaker 1: and two forty nine. So if you can get a

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01:00:12,200 --> 01:00:15,240
Speaker 1: ninety nine dollars AirPods, and that's by the way, you know,

1221
01:00:15,360 --> 01:00:17,680
Speaker 1: not on sales. I've seen AirPods as they get a

1222
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 1: little bit aged up there, they do drop in price

1223
01:00:21,000 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 1: a little bit, and you know, there this is an

1224
01:00:22,800 --> 01:00:25,760
Speaker 1: easy win, like on Black Friday, Cyber Monday, like the

1225
01:00:25,800 --> 01:00:29,040
Speaker 1: discounts on AirPods because people love getting earbuds and it's

1226
01:00:29,040 --> 01:00:31,280
Speaker 1: like an easy gift, It's an easy thing to get yourself.

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01:00:31,600 --> 01:00:33,920
Speaker 1: So that ninety nine dollars price point would be really nice.

1228
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:38,360
Speaker 1: And I know Samsung has done the fee models of

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01:00:38,400 --> 01:00:40,200
Speaker 1: their stuff, which is a little bit cheaper but kind

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01:00:40,240 --> 01:00:43,320
Speaker 1: of premium and so and I've seen that. You know,

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01:00:43,320 --> 01:00:45,960
Speaker 1: there's just so many earbuds out there, and when people

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Speaker 1: look at the Apple stuff compared to the others, like

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Speaker 1: ah wa shuld I pay a little bit more, but

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01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:53,320
Speaker 1: you do get that integration with the ecosystem. Do you

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01:00:53,800 --> 01:00:56,480
Speaker 1: use like other devices like ever like Samsung or Google,

1236
01:00:56,560 --> 01:00:58,480
Speaker 1: like to sample them or what you know?

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Speaker 9: I do. I try to dabble in world of the

1238
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:02,919
Speaker 9: pixel and you know, Samsung devices, and I mean credit

1239
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:06,120
Speaker 9: to where credits do. Samsung and Google and other Android

1240
01:01:06,120 --> 01:01:08,840
Speaker 9: manufacturers are doing some really great innovative things and bringing

1241
01:01:08,840 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 9: a lot of competition to the space. But the problem

1242
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 9: I always have time and time again is that I'm

1243
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:17,200
Speaker 9: so entrenched in the Apple ecosystem, this Apple walled garden,

1244
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 9: that it can be sort of hard to sort of

1245
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,439
Speaker 9: break out. And there are ways to do it, but man,

1246
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:23,520
Speaker 9: when you've got a Mac and an iPad and air

1247
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:25,960
Speaker 9: pods and everything so seamlessly works, and you rely on

1248
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 9: technologies like air drop while there are alternatives.

1249
01:01:29,280 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 1: To be used.

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Speaker 9: It's so it's nice and you know, as cliches it sounds,

1251
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:35,880
Speaker 9: Apple does have a little bit of that Apple magic

1252
01:01:35,920 --> 01:01:38,200
Speaker 9: in there when you use all their stuff that it's

1253
01:01:38,520 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 9: kind of hard to sort of break away.

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01:01:40,120 --> 01:01:42,800
Speaker 1: And you said something interesting. I interviewed you from my

1255
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:46,080
Speaker 1: KTLA segment which is airing Monday, and you said something

1256
01:01:46,120 --> 01:01:50,200
Speaker 1: interesting there about how Apple does things a little bit

1257
01:01:50,280 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 1: later sometimes, you know, like like a lot of the

1258
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:54,680
Speaker 1: features that have come out I was looking at like

1259
01:01:54,720 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: some of the features that came out on the iPhone

1260
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:59,600
Speaker 1: over the years, like wireless charging and water resistance and

1261
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:01,520
Speaker 1: stuff like that, and like it's a lot of stuff

1262
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:05,160
Speaker 1: that Samsung had done in the past, you know. But

1263
01:02:05,520 --> 01:02:08,960
Speaker 1: to explain what you said about how Apple does things, Yeah,

1264
01:02:09,000 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: there's this mantra that Apple. You know, typically they're never

1265
01:02:11,520 --> 01:02:15,000
Speaker 1: the first to enter a new product category or bring

1266
01:02:15,040 --> 01:02:16,880
Speaker 1: a new feature. Usually they're a little late to the

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01:02:16,920 --> 01:02:20,120
Speaker 1: party on some of these things. Other manufacturers have done

1268
01:02:20,120 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: it first. But typically when Apple does decide to do something,

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01:02:23,440 --> 01:02:25,760
Speaker 1: they do it really well. They bring their own spin

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01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 1: on things, They bring some sort of integration that we

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01:02:28,800 --> 01:02:32,080
Speaker 1: just haven't seen before. And again, as cliche as it is,

1272
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: that Apple Magic does exist. And when they're able to

1273
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:37,560
Speaker 1: introduce a new feature that fans have been clamoring for,

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01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,240
Speaker 1: even if it's you know, laid and Android fans have

1275
01:02:40,280 --> 01:02:42,760
Speaker 1: had it for five years, it's always sort of nice.

1276
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,480
Speaker 1: And Apple's always able to do sort of their unique

1277
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:47,400
Speaker 1: spin and do things their own way that users and

1278
01:02:47,440 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 1: fans definitely appreciate. All right, And I imagine you'll be

1279
01:02:50,480 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 1: watching very closely Monday morning, ten am Pacific. That's when

1280
01:02:54,200 --> 01:02:56,200
Speaker 1: this event happens, and you'll have your whole round up

1281
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:57,080
Speaker 1: and all that good stuff.

1282
01:02:57,600 --> 01:03:00,240
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I will have full coverage, breakdown and every think

1283
01:03:00,240 --> 01:03:01,800
Speaker 9: and I don't want to spoil things too much, but

1284
01:03:01,840 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 9: I will say we've already got rumors. News cycle never

1285
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 9: sleeps on the iPhone seventeen, So in a couple of weeks,

1286
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,240
Speaker 9: the iPhone rumor train will leave the station and start

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Speaker 1: Apple coverage. Thanks for joining me today. Honor to be here, Rich,

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Speaker 1: Thank you again. All right, thanks a lot, so exciting,

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Speaker 1: lots of fun stuff. Apple. You know, it's a it's

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Speaker 1: each his own. All right, coming up more of your questions.

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech dot TV. Let's go to Deborah in Carson, California. Deborah,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 10: Hello.

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Speaker 7: I have a situation where several times a year we

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Speaker 7: stay at this one house and we stay for about

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Speaker 7: two to three weeks, but there's no Wi Fi connection.

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Speaker 10: There's no Wi Fi there.

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Speaker 3: Up.

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Speaker 7: What we've been doing is she's using my phone or

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Speaker 7: our phones to create a hotspot so we can, you know,

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Speaker 7: get onto our computers. But it does use up a

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Speaker 7: lot of data and it runs the phone battery down.

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Speaker 7: So I just came across a real quick myths about something.

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Speaker 7: I think it's called a travel modem. Okay, okay, would

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Speaker 7: that help us in this situation? They have better WiFi?

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, so how many times a year are you

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Speaker 1: going to this house?

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Speaker 7: About three times a year and then we're for about

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Speaker 7: two to three weeks?

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you're there for a while, okay, okay.

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Speaker 1: So there's a couple of things you can do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think that using your phone as a hotspot is

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Speaker 1: actually the best thing to do because you already have

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Speaker 1: the phone, and it's by the time you buy another

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Speaker 1: plan for like a Wi Fi hotspot, a dedicated Wi

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Speaker 1: Fi hot spot, it's probably going to cost you more

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Speaker 1: than just upgrading your phone plan to have more hotspot data.

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Speaker 1: What carrier are you using?

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Speaker 10: Spectrum?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you're okay, So what do they give you?

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Speaker 1: How much do they give you on your on your WiFi?

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Speaker 10: Uh I I don't know off my head, but I

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Speaker 10: do know that or there maybe about four three fourths

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Speaker 10: of the time that we're there, we're getting messages.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're over. Yeah. Okay. So it looks like Spectrum

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Speaker 1: gives you five gigabytes of monthly hotspot, which is not

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Speaker 1: very much because if you're using any kind of streaming

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Speaker 1: or whatever. Yeah, so if you're on an Unlimited Plus line,

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Speaker 1: you get ten gigabytes, which a little bit better. But

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Speaker 1: after your five gigs or ten gigs are up, they

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Speaker 1: slow you down to a crawl, which you've probably noticed.

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Speaker 1: You can't do anything at that speed. It's really really bad.

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Speaker 1: So with that said, so you can either you may

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Speaker 1: not be able to upgrade your plan if you're already

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Speaker 1: on that Unlimited Plus, or you can ask them and

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Speaker 1: see what the difference is. If it's like five or

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Speaker 1: ten dollars, that may be worth it. For one hundred

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Speaker 1: and twenty dollars for the year, you can get a

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Speaker 1: separate What you would need is a hot spot, so

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Speaker 1: you can go to like Verizon, you need a mobile hotspots,

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Speaker 1: you can go to Verizon, you can go to AT

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Speaker 1: and T, you can go to T Mobile and buy

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Speaker 1: one of these hot spots. The problem is the hot

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Speaker 1: spot itself is going to cost you anywhere from one

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Speaker 1: hundred to two to you know, sometimes three hundred dollars

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Speaker 1: for that. Then you have to have a monthly plan

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Speaker 1: for that as well, so that is that's going to

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Speaker 1: be kind of an expensive proposition for six weeks a year,

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Speaker 1: so or nine weeks a year or whatever you're doing there.

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Speaker 1: The other thing you can do is you can get

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Speaker 1: what's called five G home Internet and that is through

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Speaker 1: te Mobile or Verizon, and the plans on those are

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Speaker 1: around i'd say thirty five dollars a month, so again

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Speaker 1: you're talking thirty five times twelve. That's four hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty dollars for the year. So that's another option, but

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Speaker 1: that's again kind of pricey. The other option you can

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Speaker 1: do is there are standalone kind of dedicated like you

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Speaker 1: mentioned travel hotspots. The company that I like is Solace Solis.

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Speaker 1: They have a product where you can get hot spot.

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Speaker 1: They have one that's the light or the five G

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Speaker 1: So this is anywhere from one hundred and fifty to

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Speaker 1: three hundred dollars, but that's meant to be used worldwide,

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of a hot spot that's used everywhere,

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Speaker 1: and so you're going to pay more for your data,

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Speaker 1: which is you know, it's it's going to be an

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Speaker 1: expensive proposition for the data. That's the problem with that.

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Speaker 1: So if you look at their plans that they have,

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Speaker 1: let's see their plan that they have. The plan, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they have USA unlimited data is let's see here how

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Speaker 1: much eighty nine dollars for let's see twelve months. Let's

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Speaker 1: just see how much it is. Five six months would

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Speaker 1: be three hundred and seventy three dollars. So again, all

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Speaker 1: of these options, besides your phone as a hotspot, are

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Speaker 1: getting very expensive. Now here's my other question. Where this

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Speaker 1: house is located, do they have a free Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: signal that you can latch onto or does Spectrum have

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Speaker 1: a Wi Fi signal in that area that you can

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Speaker 1: log onto, because you would get that included in your

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Speaker 1: Spectrum plan. Good question, I would look into that.

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Speaker 7: Don't show the answer to that.

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Speaker 1: So now the other thing you can do is you

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Speaker 1: can get what's called an eSIM for your phone, and

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Speaker 1: that's an add on, and you can get an eSIM

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Speaker 1: for the US and use that as a hotspot. So

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Speaker 1: if you can find a cheap eSIM that that would

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Speaker 1: work in the US, which there are several, you can

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Speaker 1: do that, or you can switch carriers. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you go to something like Visible, you're still going to

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Speaker 1: be on that Verizon network that you're on with Spectrum.

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Speaker 1: But they do offer unlimited hot spot for forty five

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Speaker 1: dollars a month and that includes a plan, So that

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Speaker 1: may be another way to go, But of course that

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Speaker 1: involves changing carriers, something not everyone wants to do. So Deborah,

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Speaker 1: you've got options, but I think I mean, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what my dad did. He he switched carriers. He

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Speaker 1: was at a place where he goes to a vacation

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Speaker 1: home where his phone didn't work, and he switched to

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Speaker 1: another carrier where and he upgraded to the one hundred

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Speaker 1: gargabytes of Wi Fi hotspot a month because he needed

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Speaker 1: his hotspot when he went there, and so he took

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Speaker 1: that plunge there and changed carriers. She may have to

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Speaker 1: do that, Debra, Thanks for the call. Eighty to eight

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Speaker 1: rich one oh one more rich on Tech right after this,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The phone line is eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight rich one oh one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv and feel free to follow me

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Speaker 1: on Instagram. At rich on Tech, we just had a

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Speaker 1: caller who was trying to figure out her hotspot situation

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01:11:38,040 --> 01:11:40,320
Speaker 1: in a place where she was running through her hotspot

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01:11:40,400 --> 01:11:43,880
Speaker 1: on her phone very quickly. Leslie from Santa Ana writes

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Speaker 1: in rich I'm listening to your show right now, and

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Speaker 1: I wanted to suggest a solution. Why not recommend visibles hotspot.

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01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:53,000
Speaker 1: I use it for streaming Hulu, Netflix and other services.

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01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:55,759
Speaker 1: It works great. She can even buy an affordable phone

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01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:57,960
Speaker 1: like the Moto G Play for about ninety bucks to

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Speaker 1: use as a dedicated hotspot. Just trying to help out

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Speaker 1: a fellow listener. Have a great day you're listening to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Haha, thank you, Leslie.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I did recommend Visible because of their unlimited hotspot service,

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01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:14,840
Speaker 1: but and I do think they have it capped at

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Speaker 1: a certain speed, but I think that should be fine.

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01:12:16,640 --> 01:12:19,479
Speaker 1: Like you said, it works for Hulu, Netflix, but that

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Speaker 1: would require, like you said, a different phone completely and

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Speaker 1: you know, I think that most people probably don't want

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Speaker 1: to have a separate phone for just for hotspot. But

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Speaker 1: you know, if you switch to Visible, you could use it.

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Speaker 1: And I did recommend that, so good choice, good selection,

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Speaker 1: and it's definitely. It's a very visible is really like

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Speaker 1: a sleeper service because it's great for the price. I mean,

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Speaker 1: let's see, if you go to the website, I mean, oh,

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Speaker 1: right now they're doing oh wow, if you're a T

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Speaker 1: mobile customer, you can switch and you get fifteen dollars

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: a month for five years. Wow, that's pretty good. Now

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01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,680
Speaker 1: that's for their basic plan. They have two plans, so

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01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:03,120
Speaker 1: their basic plan is usually twenty five dollars a month

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01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:07,480
Speaker 1: that just includes your talking text and your data like unlimited.

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01:13:07,960 --> 01:13:10,719
Speaker 1: But if you move up to their forty five dollars

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01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 1: a month plan, you get the premium data, faster, hot Spot,

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01:13:14,560 --> 01:13:18,240
Speaker 1: smart watch service included, and even some global roaming. So

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Speaker 1: that's pretty good. I mean, this is very very good.

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,120
Speaker 1: And it's the trick is it is visible. They own

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01:13:24,560 --> 01:13:27,599
Speaker 1: Verizon owns this company. Why is this so much cheaper

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01:13:27,600 --> 01:13:29,920
Speaker 1: than Verizon. It's because there's no stores. You cannot go

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01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:31,680
Speaker 1: into a store to get help with this. You have

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01:13:31,720 --> 01:13:35,320
Speaker 1: to do everything online or through chat or whatever, and

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01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:38,040
Speaker 1: so that may turn off certain people who like to

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01:13:38,080 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 1: actually go to a store to do things. But if

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01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,960
Speaker 1: you don't mind doing it, diy, I mean, believe me,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty good. Coming up this hour, We've got former

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Speaker 1: Yahoo CEO Mersa Meyer. She is going to talk about

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01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:54,000
Speaker 1: her tech career, her new startup called Sunshine. She's going

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01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,880
Speaker 1: to talk ai and you know her from Yahoo, she

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01:13:57,040 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 1: was the CEO there. But also you know she was

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01:13:59,080 --> 01:14:04,040
Speaker 1: Google employee number twenty number twenty, joined in nineteen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: So she has had a very long and very fruitful

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Speaker 1: tech career. So we're looking forward to talking to her.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Gary in Laguna Neguel. Gary, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich.

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Speaker 3: Yes, Rich, got a couple of questions.

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Speaker 1: A couple questions we charge after the first.

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Speaker 3: I was just in Arizona. One of my favorite places

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Speaker 3: to go to is Portal, Arizona, Okay, poking up on

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Speaker 3: a map. It's far in the southeastern corner of Arizona.

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Speaker 3: They used to have Horizon cell service there and they've

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Speaker 3: now switched to AT and T. So how do you

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Speaker 3: get your Verizon phone to work with AT and T?

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Speaker 3: And I'm here on the phone right now. You know,

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking to you on the phone, but I'm

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Speaker 3: looking at the settings on the phone. So if I

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Speaker 3: switch over to like either Global or LTE GSM UMTS,

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Speaker 3: would that do any good?

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Speaker 1: Not if you're are you you're a subscriber of Verizon, right, yes,

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Speaker 1: well it's not going to latch onto the eight and

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Speaker 1: T network unless you're unless you're a subscriber to eight

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Speaker 1: and T. So do you mean the whole city changed

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Speaker 1: over to EIGHTE and T. What do you mean by

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Speaker 1: they switched to AT and T? Who switched?

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Speaker 3: Well, see, it's well if you look at Portal, Arizona

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Speaker 3: that it's a very very small community. It's in the

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Speaker 3: Cherokeella Mountains. But they've had Horizon for the last twenty

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Speaker 3: years and then they just switched over AT and T

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Speaker 3: two years ago. When I was there, I couldn't get

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Speaker 3: my phone to work anywhere, got it?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So they kind of they switched their their tower.

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Speaker 1: I guess they must. Maybe the city itself runs the towers,

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Speaker 1: and they switched the agreement.

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Speaker 3: Community not really a city, it's part of the state

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Speaker 3: of Arizona, got it?

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Speaker 1: But you know that you know that AT and T

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Speaker 1: works there?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, matter of fact, I talked to the owner

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Speaker 3: of the Portal Peak Lodge, which is the place one

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Speaker 3: of the places I go to stay on and a

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Speaker 3: lot of other birdwatchers see this is.

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Speaker 1: A birdwatching are ah, okay.

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Speaker 3: And it's it's out of the middle of nowhere, you know.

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Speaker 3: But it's so nice because so many birds in the area.

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Speaker 3: It's such a beautiful environment out there. It's really really

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Speaker 3: a great place to go. And the last ten times

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Speaker 3: I've gone there, my Verizon phone has work great. But

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Speaker 3: now they switch over to AT and T. And I

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Speaker 3: can tell you rich, when when I'm traveling, I'm doing

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Speaker 3: my job. It's just photographing birds. There's so many places

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Speaker 3: that AT and T does not work yet Verizon does.

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Speaker 3: I mean the mountains on the town.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you probably know where Anso Barrigo is, right,

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Speaker 1: I've heard of it. Yep.

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Speaker 3: AT and T doesn't work out there, but yet Verizon

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Speaker 3: works fantastic, right, And it's just an example.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And here's the thing. So I do think Verizon

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Speaker 1: for rural areas works very well. The way I see

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Speaker 1: the three carriers, I think T mobile urban areas like

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Speaker 1: they have that covered and they're getting better at other

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Speaker 1: places with the acquisition of Sprint and all that. Verizon,

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Speaker 1: I feel like just overall everywhere, it's like right in

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Speaker 1: the middle, it just works really well everywhere. And then

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Speaker 1: AT and T is kind of like they're a mix.

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Speaker 1: They're like they have some of those traditional areas that

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Speaker 1: they work really well in and the rural, but they

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Speaker 1: also have a lot of those urban areas. So it's

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Speaker 1: kind of mix of Verizon and T Mobile with the coverage.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I typically recommend people to go with

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Speaker 1: the carrier that works where they work and where they live,

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Speaker 1: because those are the two places you are the most. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you what kind of phone do you have?

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Speaker 3: Well, that's the other thing I want to ask you

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Speaker 3: about is my telephone I have. I love my phone,

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Speaker 3: but it just seems to be pretty outdated. It's a

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Speaker 3: Samsung Galaxy Stene m okay, and when I look at

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Speaker 3: all the modern phones out there, Rich, I mean, put

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Speaker 3: yourself in my position. You're wearing a photo best. You

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Speaker 3: need a fairly small phone because I carry teleconverters, I

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Speaker 3: carry a bottle of water on me carry my phone.

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Speaker 3: And you know these phones that are made nowadays, I

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Speaker 3: mean these things are gargant. One well, then begin to

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Speaker 3: fit in.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you, I think the phone for you

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Speaker 1: is the Pixel nine, not the Pro. I mean, if

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Speaker 1: you want the Pro for the Zoom, but I think

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Speaker 1: the Pixel nine is incredible. It's a great value, it's small,

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Speaker 1: it's pocketable. I've been carrying around the Pixel nine Pro,

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Speaker 1: which they also made in a small version this year,

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Speaker 1: so I know that we have that trend of the bigger,

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Speaker 1: giant phone screens, which is great if you want to

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Speaker 1: watch movies and stuff. But I think that the Pixel

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Speaker 1: nine would be a great upgrade from this phone. With

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Speaker 1: that said.

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Speaker 3: Pixel nine, yeah that take a small micros media or

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Speaker 3: because I use that all the time. Yeah, no phones

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Speaker 3: med cards whenever I have different photo students.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, no phones are going to do that. None of

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Speaker 1: the new modern phones have the SD card slot at all.

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Speaker 1: But you could use an SD card reader on the

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Speaker 1: bottom of the phone, so you can just grab a

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Speaker 1: on Amazon an SD card reader like a micro SD

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Speaker 1: card USBC reader. It's like, you know, under ten bucks plug.

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Speaker 3: But see that that stuff and I have to have

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Speaker 3: it externally. Look to the phone. I want to have

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Speaker 3: an internal into the phone.

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Speaker 1: Well yeah, you're that's yeah, that's going to be tricky

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Speaker 1: these days because the phones just do not have But look,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna stick with your phone and you want

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Speaker 1: to switch to AT and T, the thing you have

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Speaker 1: to do is go to the website on AT and

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Speaker 1: T this phone. Maybe so nowadays, nowadays, every pretty much

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Speaker 1: every phone is compatible with all the networks. I would

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Speaker 1: say a majority of the phones just work with everything.

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Speaker 1: But back in the day, and especially with this phone

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Speaker 1: that you have is a little bit older, it may

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Speaker 1: be specifically just Verizon bands. So if you want it to

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Speaker 1: consider switching to AT and T, go to their website,

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Speaker 1: search a compatibility checker. So search what I search here

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Speaker 1: AT and T compatibility checker and then you click that

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Speaker 1: and it will say check compatibility. And basically you have

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Speaker 1: to type in your phone's IMEI number and it will

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Speaker 1: tell you how to do that. And so once you

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Speaker 1: type that in, it will tell you if your phone

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Speaker 1: is you know, compatible or not, and it just needs

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Speaker 1: to have those certain bands. But they will be able

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Speaker 1: to tell you that pretty simply if you go to

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Speaker 1: their website and you can do that. So if you

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Speaker 1: want to check to see and switch to AT and

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Speaker 1: T and keep your phone that you have, that'd be

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Speaker 1: the easiest way to do this. But you know, that's

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Speaker 1: kind of the main thing. It's interesting they've got a

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Speaker 1: thing on their website that says the phones that are

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Speaker 1: approved for their network. Samsung, let's see, you've got the

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Speaker 1: S ten e and I'm looking on here Samsung S

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Speaker 1: ten e. Yeah, I see the S ten on there

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Speaker 1: S ten plus S ten e. So they've got a

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Speaker 1: couple of them on there that look like they are compatible.

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Speaker 1: But again, go to the website do that compatibility checker

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Speaker 1: with the IEMEI and that's the way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the call, Gary, And it sounds like you've

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Speaker 1: got quite the fun there in portal checking out those birds.

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Speaker 1: My brother is a burder what do you call it,

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Speaker 1: a birdwatcher, but I think the pixel off also if

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Speaker 1: you're taking pictures of birds, the pixel I just saw

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Speaker 1: they just added it to my phone, the new super zoom,

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Speaker 1: like the old rez zoom thing that you can now

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Speaker 1: zoom in on your picture. Remember like on the TV

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Speaker 1: shows where they show like the police like zooming in

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Speaker 1: on the or the CSI like zooming in on something

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Speaker 1: and it's like pixelated, but then all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: it like gets clear, like a license plate. Well now

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Speaker 1: they've added that feature to Google Photos and I can't

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Speaker 1: wait to try it out. I just saw it pop

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Speaker 1: up my phone. I'm like, oh, that's cool. Before we

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Speaker 1: go to break, Samsung bring in AI to more devices.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an older Samsung S twenty three series,

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Speaker 1: the z Fold five, z Flip five, you are getting

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Speaker 1: an update that includes these new AI features, the composer,

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Speaker 1: the sketch to image, auto zoom, all kinds of features.

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Speaker 1: So if you have one of these phones, the S

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Speaker 1: twenty three or the Folds from last year, go ahead

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Speaker 1: and check that software update. This is one UI six

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Speaker 1: point one point one. So Samsung just on a roll

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Speaker 1: with bringing these AI features to like all of their

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Speaker 1: back catalog of phones. I love that you don't need

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Speaker 1: to spend money and your phone feels like it's got

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Speaker 1: cool new fe eighty to eight rich one oh one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you why earthquake alerts are going national if

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Speaker 1: you have an Android phone, coming out. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: talking technology.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Android earthquake alerts. We have them here in the LA area,

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Speaker 1: also in California, Oregon, and Washington, but now they're going national.

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Speaker 1: So if you have an Android phone, Google is expanding

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Speaker 1: these life potentially life saving alerts. Across all fifty states.

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Speaker 1: So they're using the accelerometers in Android phones to detect earthquakes.

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Speaker 1: So all of the Android phones in the US are

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Speaker 1: now little earthquake detectors. Uses crowdsource data to determine if

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Speaker 1: an earthquake is happening, and if it is, it will

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Speaker 1: alert other users in that area. So there's two types

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Speaker 1: of notifications. One is light shaking, which gives you a

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Speaker 1: small pop up on this and if it's moderate to

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Speaker 1: extreme shaking, you'll get a full screen take action alert

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Speaker 1: with safety instructions. And they say even a few seconds

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Speaker 1: of warning can help people move to safer areas. They've

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Speaker 1: been working with experts. Google has to improve the accuracy.

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Speaker 1: But this is really great because in California, Oregon, and

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Speaker 1: Washington they actually have like little censors in the ground

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Speaker 1: and that system even took a while to get up

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Speaker 1: and running on people's phones, and that works on iPhone Android.

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Speaker 1: But this is really neat because now we have earthquake

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Speaker 1: alerts everywhere because earthquakes, I don't know if you've noticed,

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Speaker 1: but not just California, Like there's been earthquakes in various

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Speaker 1: states across the nation, and so I love that they

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Speaker 1: did this, and so if you go in your Android phone,

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Speaker 1: just make sure this is turned on. It's under the

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Speaker 1: Google settings and like usually under emergency there. So kind

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Speaker 1: of cool. Let's go to Maria in Los Angeles. Maria,

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Speaker 1: you're on with rich Hi.

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Speaker 11: Can you hear me?

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Speaker 1: I hear you?

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Speaker 11: Uh yeah, thank you so much for picking my call.

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Speaker 11: I'm calling because I would like to ask you if

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Speaker 11: you can suggest me a wait to control my thirteen

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Speaker 11: year old I iPhone. He I have an Android. I

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Speaker 11: have an iPhone. I'm sorry, I have an Android ten

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Speaker 11: and he he used to have a NiFe an Android,

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Speaker 11: but when he when I and I have the risk

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Speaker 11: to an I iPhone and now the Google apps friends,

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Speaker 11: that control doesn't work anymore.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's not gonna work.

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Speaker 11: I mean I tried the Tea mobile app. It doesn't

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Speaker 11: work either. I do have an iPod because I know

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01:24:44,360 --> 01:24:46,800
Speaker 11: sometimes Apple communicate with.

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Speaker 1: Apple, right, yeah, but not the iPod.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:24:50,720 --> 01:24:55,120
Speaker 1: So to manage to manage screen time, that's what you

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01:24:55,160 --> 01:24:57,160
Speaker 1: need to do. So you have to manage the screen

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01:24:57,200 --> 01:24:59,720
Speaker 1: time on there. Uh. And what you can do is

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01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 1: you have actually have to you would have to get

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01:25:03,000 --> 01:25:06,479
Speaker 1: his phone obviously with his approval and set this up

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01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:10,719
Speaker 1: from his phone. So you can go into his phone

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01:25:10,880 --> 01:25:15,160
Speaker 1: into settings and you would set a pin code number one,

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01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,320
Speaker 1: and then you would and then you would go in

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01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:19,920
Speaker 1: there and kind of change all the settings. So how

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01:25:19,960 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 1: long he could spend on certain websites, restricting certain websites,

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01:25:24,240 --> 01:25:26,920
Speaker 1: you know, whatever it is. But basically it's all kind

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01:25:26,960 --> 01:25:30,599
Speaker 1: of controlled from screen time and your your pin code

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01:25:31,320 --> 01:25:33,880
Speaker 1: that you set is the key to unlock it. So,

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01:25:33,960 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 1: but you'd have to use his device to do it

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01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:40,080
Speaker 1: if you don't have another device. I don't know if

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01:25:40,120 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 1: you can do it from the website, like if you

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01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: went to iCloud dot com. I don't think so. I

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01:25:46,800 --> 01:25:49,639
Speaker 1: think you have to do it from his device. So

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01:25:50,000 --> 01:25:52,320
Speaker 1: or if you had an iPhone or an iPad and

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01:25:52,360 --> 01:25:54,680
Speaker 1: he was part of your family on there like the

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01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:57,759
Speaker 1: iCloud family, you could do it from there. But really,

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01:25:57,800 --> 01:25:59,720
Speaker 1: realistically you have to use his phone to do this.

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Speaker 10: I have a knife, I have a night bus.

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01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:06,759
Speaker 11: I try to do it through the family sharing, I think, yeah.

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01:26:07,439 --> 01:26:09,920
Speaker 1: Are you saying iPad? I'm sorry, did you say iPad?

1739
01:26:10,360 --> 01:26:11,160
Speaker 11: I have a night bud?

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01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:11,439
Speaker 2: Yes?

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01:26:11,520 --> 01:26:13,479
Speaker 1: Oh iPad? Okay, yes, you should be able to do

1742
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 1: it through there.

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01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,519
Speaker 11: Yeah, but the part is that every time I do it,

1744
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:20,880
Speaker 11: for some reason, he gets the notification or input the

1745
01:26:20,920 --> 01:26:23,880
Speaker 11: code and everything, but all of a sudden it disappeared.

1746
01:26:24,200 --> 01:26:27,400
Speaker 11: It said, uh, you know, his name was removed from

1747
01:26:27,439 --> 01:26:32,640
Speaker 11: the family Sharing, but he did not do anything. So h.

1748
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:36,799
Speaker 1: That's tricky. Well, he has to be on the family

1749
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:38,880
Speaker 1: Sharing for it to work, for these things to take

1750
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,599
Speaker 1: to take effect. Now I'm not sure why it's saying

1751
01:26:42,680 --> 01:26:46,040
Speaker 1: he's being removed from there. That's something that you got

1752
01:26:46,040 --> 01:26:47,760
Speaker 1: to figure out. Maybe go to the Apple store and

1753
01:26:47,760 --> 01:26:49,880
Speaker 1: see what they say. But you he shouldn't. Once you

1754
01:26:49,920 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 1: add him, he has to accept that. Then he's part

1755
01:26:52,760 --> 01:26:55,120
Speaker 1: of your family and then you can add those those

1756
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:58,000
Speaker 1: screen time controls to his device. If you want to

1757
01:26:58,000 --> 01:26:59,599
Speaker 1: just do it manually, you can just go to his

1758
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:01,280
Speaker 1: device and say, hey, look, we're going to set this

1759
01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 1: up on your device, and you just set it up

1760
01:27:03,520 --> 01:27:05,400
Speaker 1: directly there and then he doesn't have to be part

1761
01:27:05,400 --> 01:27:08,479
Speaker 1: of the family Sharing. So that's a little bit of

1762
01:27:08,520 --> 01:27:10,920
Speaker 1: an easier way if you want to skip the family Share.

1763
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:12,880
Speaker 1: But the only issue with that is then you can

1764
01:27:13,160 --> 01:27:15,680
Speaker 1: check things on your iPad and you know, give you

1765
01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:19,960
Speaker 1: all that that control. There are third party programs that

1766
01:27:20,000 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 1: you can use if you want it, something like Barkbark

1767
01:27:23,520 --> 01:27:27,200
Speaker 1: dot us. That's another family control program that you can use.

1768
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:30,640
Speaker 1: But I will tell you, with my kids, you know,

1769
01:27:30,680 --> 01:27:33,240
Speaker 1: this stuff is tricky. It's not easy, it's not straightforward,

1770
01:27:33,280 --> 01:27:35,960
Speaker 1: it's not simple, and a lot of times the kids

1771
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:37,720
Speaker 1: are a little bit smarter than us when it comes

1772
01:27:37,720 --> 01:27:39,720
Speaker 1: to this stuff. So you got to be aware when

1773
01:27:39,760 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 1: you're typing in your pass code that they those little

1774
01:27:42,360 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: eyes are sometimes watching it and they will change settings

1775
01:27:45,000 --> 01:27:47,519
Speaker 1: without you knowing. So just keep in mind all of

1776
01:27:47,560 --> 01:27:49,680
Speaker 1: those things. But if it's if it's the problem of

1777
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:51,840
Speaker 1: you understand how to set it up, but it's just

1778
01:27:51,840 --> 01:27:55,080
Speaker 1: not letting you add him as the family member, then

1779
01:27:55,160 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 1: I would go ahead and take it to the Apple

1780
01:27:56,960 --> 01:27:58,599
Speaker 1: Store and say, hey, look, I'm trying to add my kid.

1781
01:27:58,680 --> 01:28:01,080
Speaker 1: We're trying to do the right thing. It's just not working.

1782
01:28:01,200 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 1: And see if there's some kind of block on your

1783
01:28:02,800 --> 01:28:05,519
Speaker 1: account or something that you have to enable on there

1784
01:28:05,560 --> 01:28:08,160
Speaker 1: to make that work. But otherwise, if you want to

1785
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 1: skip all that, you can just go directly to his

1786
01:28:10,040 --> 01:28:12,479
Speaker 1: device and say, hey, look we're gonna set this up,

1787
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:15,679
Speaker 1: make that pin code, and there there you go. Thanks

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01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:18,759
Speaker 1: for the call, Maria, give me an update on the website.

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01:28:18,840 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot TV. Hit contact and let me

1790
01:28:20,920 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 1: know if you get that sorted out. Coming up, we're

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01:28:23,360 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 1: gonna talk to former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer. She is

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01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:30,639
Speaker 1: discussing her tech career, her new startup, and AI. It's

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01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:33,439
Speaker 1: all right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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01:28:33,520 --> 01:28:36,040
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:40,360
Speaker 1: talking technology the website for the show rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. Yeah, it's been a heatwave here in Los Angeles,

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01:28:45,000 --> 01:28:51,160
Speaker 1: so we're playing all songs inspired by the heat. Joining

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Speaker 1: me now, former Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer, also one of

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01:28:54,720 --> 01:28:59,000
Speaker 1: Google's earliest employees, now with her own startup called Sunshine.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show, Marissa, thank you very much for

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01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:06,840
Speaker 1: having me. Very exciting. Let's talk about first off, the

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01:29:06,880 --> 01:29:09,720
Speaker 1: early days I want to hear about Google. So I

1803
01:29:09,760 --> 01:29:12,880
Speaker 1: mean back, I mean you joined in like nineteen ninety

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01:29:12,960 --> 01:29:15,760
Speaker 1: nine or somewhere around there, so I mean people were

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01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:18,160
Speaker 1: just learning that word for the first time. What were

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01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 1: your thoughts about joining that company?

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01:29:21,640 --> 01:29:23,559
Speaker 8: Well, when I first started, there were just seven people,

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01:29:24,120 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 8: and instead of a conference table, they had a pool,

1809
01:29:26,680 --> 01:29:31,160
Speaker 8: a ping pong table, and so the office was you know,

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01:29:31,640 --> 01:29:34,439
Speaker 8: pretty messy. They were also working on building computers that

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01:29:34,439 --> 01:29:37,600
Speaker 8: would eventually become prototypes for what they put in the

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01:29:37,680 --> 01:29:41,519
Speaker 8: data centers. But they had a real vision for how

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01:29:41,600 --> 01:29:44,559
Speaker 8: search could change the Internet and could change how all

1814
01:29:44,600 --> 01:29:46,920
Speaker 8: this live our everyday lives. And so it was really

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01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:48,519
Speaker 8: an exciting and interesting time.

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01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,559
Speaker 1: Wow, that's incredible, And it was it fun there? I mean,

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01:29:52,560 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: did you have a good time? And you started some

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01:29:54,120 --> 01:29:58,000
Speaker 1: pretty good projects there and did some pretty great things.

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01:29:58,240 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 8: I had an amazing time at Google. Wonderful place to work.

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01:30:02,360 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 8: You know, for so many of my colleagues, you know,

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01:30:05,600 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 8: they are lifelong friends because we just had such a

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01:30:08,520 --> 01:30:12,000
Speaker 8: set of formative experiences and I'm really proud of what

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01:30:12,040 --> 01:30:15,920
Speaker 8: we've built and how it's helped shape everyday lives and technology.

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01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:21,240
Speaker 1: And then talk about the transition to Yahoo. What made

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01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:23,519
Speaker 1: you go to Yahoo and kind of what was your

1826
01:30:23,880 --> 01:30:24,599
Speaker 1: mission there?

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01:30:26,160 --> 01:30:30,599
Speaker 8: Well, there, I got a call from a recruiter who

1828
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:33,040
Speaker 8: was helping the board try and identify the next CEO.

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01:30:33,960 --> 01:30:37,360
Speaker 8: And I wasn't looking to leave. I was just at

1830
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:41,559
Speaker 8: the end of my first trimester with my son, and

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01:30:41,600 --> 01:30:43,439
Speaker 8: I had, you know, my plan for what I wanted

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01:30:43,439 --> 01:30:46,320
Speaker 8: to accomplish before my maternity leave and my plan for

1833
01:30:46,400 --> 01:30:49,600
Speaker 8: a long maternity leave, and I got this call, but

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01:30:49,720 --> 01:30:52,120
Speaker 8: I have to say, Yeah, who's a company I always admired,

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01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:56,280
Speaker 8: And it was one that was really a company that

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01:30:56,320 --> 01:30:58,280
Speaker 8: we all looked up to at Google. You know, they

1837
01:30:58,320 --> 01:31:00,719
Speaker 8: were a really important partner for us for our early days,

1838
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:04,720
Speaker 8: a very spat after partner, and you know, the role

1839
01:31:04,800 --> 01:31:07,760
Speaker 8: from a product perspective really embodied a lot of the

1840
01:31:07,760 --> 01:31:15,280
Speaker 8: products I had already worked on, search, mail, news, maps,

1841
01:31:15,320 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 8: you know, social, mobile, and so I was really excited

1842
01:31:18,680 --> 01:31:21,080
Speaker 8: to take my learnings for my time at Google and

1843
01:31:21,200 --> 01:31:24,120
Speaker 8: apply them in a new way at a new company,

1844
01:31:24,200 --> 01:31:26,400
Speaker 8: especially one that I admired, and so I knew it

1845
01:31:26,400 --> 01:31:29,000
Speaker 8: would be a hard job. At the same time, it

1846
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:32,719
Speaker 8: was one I was really drawn to. I really value learning,

1847
01:31:33,680 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 8: and I love working with smart and nice people. And

1848
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:37,160
Speaker 8: I think there are also a lot of smart and

1849
01:31:37,240 --> 01:31:40,640
Speaker 8: nice people at Yahoo as well as at Google. And

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01:31:40,720 --> 01:31:43,280
Speaker 8: so it was a challenge that I ultimately, you know,

1851
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 8: took us some rearranging in terms of plans on my side,

1852
01:31:46,160 --> 01:31:49,080
Speaker 8: but it was a challenge I was excited to take on.

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01:31:49,840 --> 01:31:51,960
Speaker 1: So a little bit of trivia for myself, I actually

1854
01:31:51,960 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 1: got a job offer at Yahoo many many years ago,

1855
01:31:55,000 --> 01:31:57,920
Speaker 1: and I remember getting the welcome kit in the mail

1856
01:31:58,080 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 1: and they would you would open it up and it

1857
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:03,040
Speaker 1: would go Yahoo when you opened like the little box.

1858
01:32:03,120 --> 01:32:04,639
Speaker 1: It was like one of those greeting cards you get,

1859
01:32:04,640 --> 01:32:07,160
Speaker 1: you know that has like the music inside. That's what

1860
01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:08,840
Speaker 1: they did, and I was like so impressed with that.

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01:32:09,439 --> 01:32:10,280
Speaker 1: I have one of those.

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01:32:10,320 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 8: I also there's a button, a yodel button where you

1863
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:15,360
Speaker 8: can press it and actually has like six different modes

1864
01:32:15,400 --> 01:32:17,839
Speaker 8: so you can hear the Yahoo yodel like six different ways.

1865
01:32:18,160 --> 01:32:19,800
Speaker 1: And I still have my T shirt. They also sent

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01:32:19,840 --> 01:32:21,439
Speaker 1: a T shirt in that packet. I mean, it was

1867
01:32:21,439 --> 01:32:24,000
Speaker 1: like a very thorough packet of like welcome to Yahoo,

1868
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:26,120
Speaker 1: even though I hadn't really accepted the job yet. I

1869
01:32:26,160 --> 01:32:27,960
Speaker 1: don't know if they whatever. Anyway, it was kind of

1870
01:32:27,960 --> 01:32:32,240
Speaker 1: the offer situation. Yeah, didn't end up working there, but

1871
01:32:32,680 --> 01:32:34,599
Speaker 1: it was great and it was fun to tour the campus.

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01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:35,080
Speaker 8: You know.

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01:32:35,120 --> 01:32:36,600
Speaker 1: It was back in the day when like, you know,

1874
01:32:36,640 --> 01:32:38,760
Speaker 1: you go to these campuses and they're just like, you know,

1875
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:42,320
Speaker 1: the volleyball courts, and it was just so cool. So

1876
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:46,000
Speaker 1: now you've got something new. You're you're doing a startup

1877
01:32:46,080 --> 01:32:49,320
Speaker 1: called Sunshine Tell me what this is all about now.

1878
01:32:50,439 --> 01:32:52,720
Speaker 8: Well, at someshine, we're really focused on how to we

1879
01:32:52,800 --> 01:32:56,560
Speaker 8: take cutting it edge technology, especially AI, and apply it

1880
01:32:56,600 --> 01:32:59,880
Speaker 8: to everyday tasks. So I've always worked in the consumer space.

1881
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:02,719
Speaker 8: I like to take everyday tests and make them easier

1882
01:33:02,760 --> 01:33:07,000
Speaker 8: and make them better. And so we've been focused, and

1883
01:33:07,120 --> 01:33:09,200
Speaker 8: we started off the company we were really focused on

1884
01:33:09,840 --> 01:33:14,760
Speaker 8: contacts and management of birthdays and important events, and most

1885
01:33:14,800 --> 01:33:18,880
Speaker 8: recently we have started working in the photo space with

1886
01:33:18,960 --> 01:33:22,519
Speaker 8: photos and events. Basically, how do you share with a

1887
01:33:22,560 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 8: group of ten twenty fifty people, Because we think one

1888
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:28,960
Speaker 8: to one sharing works really well, and we think one

1889
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:33,040
Speaker 8: to many broadcasting photos works really well. All at Instagram

1890
01:33:33,360 --> 01:33:36,080
Speaker 8: we find that intermediate case doesn't work that well, and

1891
01:33:36,479 --> 01:33:39,200
Speaker 8: there's places where we think that a lot of what

1892
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:42,479
Speaker 8: AI can do in terms of curating photos, suggesting photos

1893
01:33:42,479 --> 01:33:45,240
Speaker 8: that you may want to share based on your patterns

1894
01:33:45,720 --> 01:33:48,400
Speaker 8: is something that really needs a lot of improvement.

1895
01:33:48,800 --> 01:33:51,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, Like it's always a challenge when like, let's say

1896
01:33:51,640 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 1: it's like a group birthday party or something you're like, oh, everyone,

1897
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:56,280
Speaker 1: let's pull these photos together. Like if you took some

1898
01:33:56,320 --> 01:33:59,400
Speaker 1: great photos and people are just they argue on are

1899
01:33:59,439 --> 01:34:02,360
Speaker 1: they disagree on how to do that, whether it's you know,

1900
01:34:02,479 --> 01:34:04,880
Speaker 1: a shared album or you know, some people want to

1901
01:34:04,920 --> 01:34:08,120
Speaker 1: use air drops, some people are Android, some people want

1902
01:34:08,160 --> 01:34:10,400
Speaker 1: to text the photos. It's just a mess every time.

1903
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:12,719
Speaker 1: So how does Shine make that easier?

1904
01:34:13,680 --> 01:34:13,840
Speaker 5: Right?

1905
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 8: So we have an app as Our app is available

1906
01:34:16,120 --> 01:34:19,040
Speaker 8: on iOS and on Android, which is one of the

1907
01:34:19,040 --> 01:34:20,920
Speaker 8: big friction points in a group that size. As soon

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01:34:20,960 --> 01:34:22,760
Speaker 8: as you get to ten people, you definitely have users

1909
01:34:22,800 --> 01:34:27,720
Speaker 8: of both platforms. And from there we you set up

1910
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:31,840
Speaker 8: an album and you can declare an event and a place,

1911
01:34:32,520 --> 01:34:34,439
Speaker 8: and you can decide do you want to explicitly share

1912
01:34:34,479 --> 01:34:35,960
Speaker 8: photos or do you want to share them through what

1913
01:34:36,000 --> 01:34:38,360
Speaker 8: we call magic mode. And what magic mode does is

1914
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:40,599
Speaker 8: it looks at a photo, it tries to understand if

1915
01:34:40,600 --> 01:34:42,479
Speaker 8: it's the type of photo someone would want to share,

1916
01:34:42,920 --> 01:34:44,800
Speaker 8: and asks us of people in it it seems really

1917
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:50,000
Speaker 8: visually interesting, and you'd either suggest that you share it

1918
01:34:50,120 --> 01:34:52,360
Speaker 8: or if you're in magic mode, it automatically shares it.

1919
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:55,879
Speaker 8: So it works really well for events and gets togethers.

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01:34:55,880 --> 01:34:58,200
Speaker 8: And also I found his work worked really well on

1921
01:34:58,320 --> 01:35:01,720
Speaker 8: trips and travel. So those are some of the use

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Speaker 8: cases working on now. But we're also working on expanding

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Speaker 8: the types of use cases that we cover.

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Speaker 1: And I do, like, I know the Sunshine Contacts has

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Speaker 1: been around for a while, but I really I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you remember this company back in the day,

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Speaker 1: it used to be called Trello. I think it was

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Speaker 1: that they would like, Yeah, so it kind of reminds

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Speaker 1: me of like the magic of that, where like it

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Speaker 1: just kind of finds the information from your contacts in

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Speaker 1: your emails and things like that and like kind of

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Speaker 1: puts in that missing information. So how's that going. Are

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Speaker 1: people finding that pretty handy or what?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 8: I think we have the highest rated Contacts app in

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Speaker 8: the app Store that's also available on iOS and Android.

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Speaker 8: And what we do is we take your contacts from

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Speaker 8: your phone, We ask for permission to your email, We

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Speaker 8: interface with Gmail and Outlook and a few other carriers,

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Speaker 8: and then we do as we look through there, figure

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Speaker 8: out who have you emailed back and forth with, what

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Speaker 8: to signature information is there, and then we cross correlated

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Speaker 8: with publicly available information from the white Pages and other

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Speaker 8: sources LinkedIn, and we actually give you a much more

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Speaker 8: comprehensive contact card, so you end up with really nice

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Speaker 8: complete contexts that stitch together phone number, email address, your job,

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Speaker 8: your role, all those different pieces, and we even show

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Speaker 8: you the last email you exchanged with that person to

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Speaker 8: give you more context.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so much easier than trying to search in

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Speaker 1: your email for like a cell phone number, like whenever

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Speaker 1: I need contact info for someone, And I like how

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Speaker 1: it also tells you, like which email address is like

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Speaker 1: the most recent or the most up to date versus

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Speaker 1: like an old one that you might have for them,

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Speaker 1: But it still shows you. And by the way, I

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Speaker 1: meant to say Placo, I don't know if that was

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Speaker 1: the company Plaxo.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, Plaxo Paso. You know, I become kind of a

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Speaker 8: historian on contact apps in Silicon Valley, and Paxo and

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Speaker 8: Keen really reigned supreme from two thousand to two thousand

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Speaker 8: and three. And then it will say they kind of

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Speaker 8: We kind of went through the Winter of Contacts where

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Speaker 8: not many people worked on them for a lot on time,

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Speaker 8: and then Microsoft and Apple standardized the format for contacts

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Speaker 8: around twenty ten twenty twelve, and that made it much

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Speaker 8: easier to standardize contacts, But nobody really did a lot

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Speaker 8: of work, and we thought was interesting is we did

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Speaker 8: more than a three thousand user surveys, and every single

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Speaker 8: person reported that their contacts were in terrible shape. And

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Speaker 8: the other thing we found, which is one of the

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Speaker 8: reasons why we found it would be so important to say,

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Speaker 8: tell you what you've used most recently, is about one

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Speaker 8: in five contacts on your phone. About nineteen percent of

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Speaker 8: contacts on people's phones are obsolete. Yeah, and so our scale.

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Speaker 8: So if you tried to go and use that phone

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Speaker 8: number or that email address right now, you actually wouldn't

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Speaker 8: reach the person you hoped to reach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's always a problem. Then you're trying to scramble

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Speaker 1: and figure out, you know, where this stuff is. And

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Speaker 1: that's why I like this. It's I'm trying to see

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Speaker 1: how many Usually it doesn't it tell you, like how

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Speaker 1: many contacts? Oh yeah, here we go. So I have

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Speaker 1: seven three hundred and eighty six total contacts. Sunshine improved

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Speaker 1: six thousand in three hundred and sixty two. That's a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. One of these days I'll go through

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Speaker 1: those and organize well.

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Speaker 8: And one of the core of thoughts for Sunshine is

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Speaker 8: that we really want to be help people be thoughtful.

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Speaker 8: And so the old adage of you know, if a

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Speaker 8: tree falls in the forest. It doesn't make a sound

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Speaker 8: if you email or call someone and you're thinking about them.

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Speaker 8: They don't know that you're thinking about them if you

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Speaker 8: don't reach them. So making sure that contacts really work

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Speaker 8: well as something that's foundational, because we also knew that

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Speaker 8: we wanted to build Sunshine into a portfolio company where

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Speaker 8: we have a set of apps so will be more

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Speaker 8: popular than others. But ultimately we really wanted to get

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Speaker 8: to the space that we're starting to work in now

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Speaker 8: around photos, events, groups, those kinds of tasks that we

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Speaker 8: think have been you know, less less of focus in

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Speaker 8: recent years and really trying to ease the friction there.

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Speaker 8: But to actually do events and groups and even photos

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Speaker 8: arguably well, you actually need to have your contacts in

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Speaker 8: resonably good shape.

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Speaker 1: I want to get sure thoughts on AI real quick.

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Speaker 1: We only have about a minute. But I'm curious, Like

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is something I'm sure you've thought about

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Speaker 1: for many, many years, but now of course the public

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Speaker 1: is getting their taste of it with you know, all

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Speaker 1: these new AI tools. Is it going to change everything

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Speaker 1: in the next couple of years or what.

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Speaker 8: For certain, I've been fascinated by AI since my cologyears.

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Speaker 8: Both of my degrees are actually in artificial intelligence, and

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Speaker 8: I think that it's wonderful to see you having this moment,

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Speaker 8: and it won't be without some challenges, but overall, I'm

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Speaker 8: incredibly optimistic in terms of the type of power and

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Speaker 8: creativity is going to unleash for people.

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Speaker 1: And your advice to not just young women but anyone

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Speaker 1: interested in tech, still a good time to do that

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Speaker 1: or what?

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Speaker 6: For sure?

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Speaker 8: I really think that technology is just such a wonderful field.

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Speaker 8: There's just so many If you like ideas and you

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Speaker 8: like learning and always having the challenge of learning something new,

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Speaker 8: it's wonderful to have a career in tech.

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Speaker 1: All right, we're going to leave it there. Mersa Meyer,

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Speaker 1: early employee at Google, former Yahoo CEO, and now doing

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Speaker 1: her own thing at Sunshine dot com. Check it out.

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Speaker 1: They've got a couple apps for photo sharing, contact management,

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Speaker 1: and also birthdays. Thanks so much for joining me today, Marsa.

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Speaker 8: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: Rich.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we've got your favorite segment. It

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Speaker 1: is the feedback. We're going to get to your emails

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Speaker 1: that you've sent me throughout the week about the show.

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Speaker 1: The website if you want to link to sunshine. By

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Speaker 1: the way, rich on Tech dot TV, we'll be right back.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. What a great interview.

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Speaker 1: Just reflecting on Marissa Mersa Meyer. Oh my gosh, what

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Speaker 1: a career Google, Yahoo, doing your own thing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just incredible. Okay, before we get to the feedback,

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Speaker 1: just want to tell you about this new crime deterrent

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Speaker 1: solution from Deep Sentinel. This is a company that has

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Speaker 1: security cameras that have virtual security guards. So basically, these

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Speaker 1: virtual security guards can view a live fee of the camera,

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Speaker 1: see what's going on, scare people off, whatever. But now

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Speaker 1: they have a new product called flash Bang and this

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Speaker 1: can deploy smoke bombs, pepper spray, and ear piercing sirens.

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Speaker 1: And these are mostly for businesses for business theft, and

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Speaker 1: so of course the guards watch the camera or get

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Speaker 1: flagged when there's an issue, you know, with something going on,

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Speaker 1: and then of course they get fair warning and then

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Speaker 1: they can deploy this flash Bang technology remotely. They say

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Speaker 1: that they're getting interest from various businesses and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's just wild. We did a story with this Deep

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Speaker 1: Sentinel a while back and they showed us the cameras,

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Speaker 1: which are interesting. You know the fact that someone like

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Speaker 1: kind of watches them live if they need to. But

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Speaker 1: this is a whole other thing. So smoke bomb and

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Speaker 1: pepper spray from a camera. Lots of comments on my

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Speaker 1: Instagram and Facebook about that one and the YouTube video.

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Speaker 1: It's a little different time for feedback. Let's so open

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Speaker 1: up the feedbag here with Bruce from San Diego. He said,

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Speaker 1: I recently upgraded my older ACER desktop to Windows eleven.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I love catching your show every Saturday

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Speaker 1: after work. Thanks for keeping us informed and have a

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Speaker 1: great weekend. Thanks Bruce. Appreciate that Michael from Philadelphia rights in.

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Speaker 1: As someone who is hard of hearing and legally blind,

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Speaker 1: I understand the challenges of navigating technology. I've been adapting

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Speaker 1: to text based system since the DOS days. For the

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Speaker 1: blind caller you had recently, I suggest they look into

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Speaker 1: local resources. Here in Philadelphia, we have the Free Library

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Speaker 1: for the Blind, and I imagine most major cities have

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Speaker 1: similar services. The caller could benefit from basic knowledge about

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Speaker 1: how technology can assist them. My advice would be to

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Speaker 1: with services for the visually impaired. They can provide valuable

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Speaker 1: guidance on accessible tech options. Great advice, Michael, thanks for

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Speaker 1: listening there in Philadelphia, I talked about my Sonos issues

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Speaker 1: and the echo situation. Barry from Orange County, New York

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Speaker 1: rights in Thanks for keeping us informed. Rich I heard

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Speaker 1: your comments about discovering Amazon Echo devices for music and

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Speaker 1: wanted to share my experience. We use a mix of

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Speaker 1: to an Echo via Bluetooth. Regarding stereo sound, you can

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Speaker 1: Alexa app. It's a great way to enhance the audio experience.

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Speaker 1: Hope this information is helpful. Yeah, I should try pairing

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Speaker 1: two of them. By the way, you can just ask

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Speaker 1: my past. About fifty years ago, I worked with a

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Speaker 1: computer console that had built in recessed cup holders about

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Speaker 1: twelve inches to the side of the main interface. It's

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Speaker 1: some forward thinking designer had already considered the importance of

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Speaker 1: keeping drinks away from the equipment. Looks like they were

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Speaker 1: ahead of time in preventing coffee spills on Important Tech.

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Speaker 1: Would you believe it? After I mentioned the coffee spill,

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Speaker 1: I spilled water on my computer, my brand new MacBook.

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Speaker 1: Over the weekend. I put down a water bottle. This

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Speaker 1: is my new fear, and the water, it was so high,

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Speaker 1: splashed out of the top onto my keyboard. So I

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Speaker 1: immediately was using the compressed air and I was drying

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Speaker 1: it out. Seems to be okay, but please keep that

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Speaker 1: water away from your computer. You don't want to have

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Speaker 1: to get that keyboard relate replaced, or that logic board

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Speaker 1: or whatever might short circuit. All right, that's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it for this episode of the show. You can find

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Speaker 1: everything I mentioned on my website. Go to richontech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: Find me on social media at rich on Tech. Next

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Speaker 1: week we've got the Apple event. I'll be there. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna have I Justine on the show to talk about

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Speaker 1: all things Apple. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend your time. I really

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everyone who makes this show possible. My name is rich Demiro.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon.