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Speaker 1: Samsungs. That's a date on veil, It's newest smartphones. The

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Speaker 1: new scam with a yucky name. Yet another streaming service

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: show where I talked about the tech stuff I think

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

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Speaker 1: answer your questions. Phone lines are open at triple A

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one. That's one eight eight eight rich

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Speaker 1: one oh one. And once again, my name is Rich Dmiro,

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

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Speaker 1: now coming to you live on radio station's Coast to Coast. Now,

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Speaker 1: as many of you know, Leo Deporte has retired from

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Speaker 1: radio and this is the new show, so welcome, very exciting.

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Speaker 1: This is episode number two. Now, many of you wrote

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Speaker 1: to me, tweeted me, DMed me. You let me know

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Speaker 1: that you listened last week, and I am very grateful

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Speaker 1: about that. Thank you. But I did not realize that

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Speaker 1: It was kind of fun to hear from so many

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Speaker 1: of you. Alex said, good job, but yeah, you sounded

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Speaker 1: a little nervous because of that, it seemed like you

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Speaker 1: we go, deep breath. I know you know. When I

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Speaker 1: Whatever? Randy said, great start, good guests, and excellent content.

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Speaker 1: Looking forward to your positive and uplifting attitude during the show. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I like that. I think things are getting better. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Carooda said, good luck on your new radio slash streaming show.

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Speaker 1: I am listening to streaming on my PC at home

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Speaker 1: in Honolulu, Hawaii. Okay, that's cool. Maybe we should do

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Speaker 1: a remote show from Honolulu, Coroda. Would you be good

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Speaker 1: with that? I think so. Mike said, super duper great

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Speaker 1: show was very tech diverse, focused, and very appreciatively moved quickly.

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Speaker 1: Meliki and those were his words. Thanks Mike, and thank

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Speaker 1: you for listening. This show will continue to evolve just

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Speaker 1: like the tech I talk about in it. This is

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Speaker 1: episode number two. I'm still getting the hang of this. Yes,

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Speaker 1: this show is it's really too you know, you're busy,

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Speaker 1: The problem is it's twelve dollars a month, and I

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Speaker 1: This sort of brings everything together.

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Speaker 1: and I'm always surprised that I never get them. But

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Speaker 1: you want to join in the fun there. So bitcoin

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Speaker 1: a little surprise. Woke up this morning and I saw

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Speaker 1: an email that bitcoin was over twenty k. Now, this

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Speaker 1: is not the show where I'm gonna sit here and

455
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Speaker 1: talk about the nuances of the bitcoin price, but I

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Speaker 1: feel like this is a pretty big change in bitcoin

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Speaker 1: because it is above twenty thousand for the first time

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Speaker 1: since early November. And that's when ftx collapsed, you know,

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Speaker 1: that platform that was doing things a little, I don't know,

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Speaker 1: not so right, and everything came crashing down. And so

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Speaker 1: the whole thing about bitcoin is everyone was really into

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Speaker 1: this during the pandemic, and people were investing money and

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Speaker 1: they were excited. And yes, you still have a lot

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Speaker 1: of people that are excited, but then you have a

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Speaker 1: lot of people that have invested a lot of money

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Speaker 1: and now have to be excited because they wanted to

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Speaker 1: go back up so that they recoup some of their

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Speaker 1: losses that they've sustained over the last couple of years.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that's where we're at is there's

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Speaker 1: an excitement again because I looked at the numbers and

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Speaker 1: you know, by the time you listen to this, if

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Speaker 1: you listen, you know later if you're not listening live,

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Speaker 1: you know, the numbers could be down again. But if

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Speaker 1: you look at the past month of bitcoin, it's up

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Speaker 1: like sixteen percent. Like where did that come from? And

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Speaker 1: I kind of I just stopped looking. I stopped looking

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Speaker 1: at the app that I used for this because I

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Speaker 1: just got bored and I was like, all right, you

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Speaker 1: know what, this money is gone. It's never coming back.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a ton of money in it, but

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Speaker 1: I've got some and I just you know, it's gone.

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Speaker 1: I just figured it was written off forever. But who knows,

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's not so. Bitcoin definitely going up, but if

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Speaker 1: you remember the high, it was over sixty five thousand

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Speaker 1: dollars at one point, and this is the price per coin.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a bitcoin expert, but you know it goes

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Speaker 1: by coin. And I remember my friend who is a

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Speaker 1: big sort of crypto person, he was emailing me back

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Speaker 1: when bitcoin was starting, and he's like, hey, you got

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Speaker 1: to cover bitcoin for your you know, tech report or

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Speaker 1: it's this thing is like over I think the coin

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Speaker 1: was over one hundred dollars and I was like, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if I'm getting into all this digital currency stuff,

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Speaker 1: but sure enough, he was right, and I probably should

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Speaker 1: have invested back then, but that didn't really work out anyway.

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Speaker 1: So if you have bitcoin and you want to take

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Speaker 1: a look at it once again and not feel so depressed,

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Speaker 1: now's the time to do it. But I wouldn't sell

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Speaker 1: just yet. I mean, actually, you know what, I'm not

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Speaker 1: giving investment advice. You can do whatever you want. But

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Speaker 1: I think it's one of these things where it's just

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Speaker 1: kind of at this point, you just kind of kind

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Speaker 1: of wait and watch. Speaking of Bitcoin being up, Tesla

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Speaker 1: is down. This week. Tesla cut prices across the board

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Speaker 1: on a lot of its cars. And you know, people

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Speaker 1: have been kind of mixed about Elon Musk lately. I

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Speaker 1: say that nicely because most people have been like, not

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Speaker 1: very nice about Elon Musk. But he's been making a

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Speaker 1: lot of changes both at Twitter and Tesla, and so

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Speaker 1: Tesla some massive price drops. The Model Why is now

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Speaker 1: thirteen thousand dollars less than it was just a few

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Speaker 1: days ago. That's almost twenty percent cheaper than it was.

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Speaker 1: So let's look at some of these prices. The Model

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Speaker 1: three old price about forty seven thousand, now the new

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Speaker 1: price forty four thousand. Model Why was sixty six thousand,

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Speaker 1: and the new price is fifty three thousand. That's thirteen

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars less. The Model Why Performance was seventy thousand,

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Speaker 1: now it's fifty seven thousand. These are still very expensive cars.

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Speaker 1: And you know the thing about the Tesla is there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of competition that's grow. It's just the competition

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Speaker 1: continues to pile up against these cars. Now, I still

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Speaker 1: think that Tesla still has the best charging infrastructure, and

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Speaker 1: I think that makes the biggest difference for this company

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Speaker 1: than any other car you get. And I've heard horror

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Speaker 1: stories people that have other evs. You know, it can

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Speaker 1: be tricky. Now, with that said, if you are commuting

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Speaker 1: with this car, you know, any any EV you are

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Speaker 1: just fine. If you're charging at home or you're charging

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Speaker 1: at work. Most people are commuting, you know, maybe thirty

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Speaker 1: miles each way to work. That I think that's the

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Speaker 1: average in America. Most of these cars can do sixty

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Speaker 1: miles in a day, no problem, you know, many of them.

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Speaker 1: The new ones can do two, three hundred miles in

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Speaker 1: a day. You know. Then you've got the lucids that

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Speaker 1: can do like five hundred miles in a day. But

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Speaker 1: we don't really need that. I mean, I've done road trips.

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Speaker 1: I'm not driving five hundred miles before I stop to

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Speaker 1: get a drink or go to the bathroom or something.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, two hundred miles is just fine.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think it's more of peace of mind

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Speaker 1: because we've gotten so used to the gas cars having

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Speaker 1: a five you know, four to five hundred mile range perhaps,

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Speaker 1: But with electric cars, if you're just getting one to commute,

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Speaker 1: you'll be fine. If you install a charger in your

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Speaker 1: garage or if you have charging at work, you'll be

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Speaker 1: just fine. With any of these electric cars, I think

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Speaker 1: the Tesla the advantage is it's got that that charging

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Speaker 1: infrastructure that allows you to take road trips and be

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Speaker 1: just fine because you can pretty much find a Tesla

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Speaker 1: charger supercharger anywhere. Now there are many electric chargers around,

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Speaker 1: they're just not that fast many times. And what people

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Speaker 1: realize the first time they take their non Tesla EV

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Speaker 1: on a road trip is, oh, wow, I pulled up

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Speaker 1: to this charger and it's a slow charger. So I

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Speaker 1: gotta stay here for an hour to get this thing charged,

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Speaker 1: or I gotta stay for forty five minutes to get

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Speaker 1: any kind of range on this thing, whereas a Tesla

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Speaker 1: it could be, you know, fifteen twenty five minutes to

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Speaker 1: get a charge, and if you want a full charge,

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Speaker 1: you know, you just got to stay there for half

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Speaker 1: an hour or something with some of these really fast chargers.

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Speaker 1: So the other thing about these Tesla is that I

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Speaker 1: think is happening here is that they are now once

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Speaker 1: again eligible for this seventy five hundred dollars US tax credit.

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Speaker 1: And that's a change at the beginning of the year.

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Speaker 1: So it's there's been a lot of changes with all

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Speaker 1: of this stuff. And the Tesla prices have just been

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Speaker 1: all over the place in general over the past couple

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Speaker 1: of years, but this, this price cut is pretty big.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if there's something that I'm quoting

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Speaker 1: Electric by the way, that's a good blog that covers

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Trying to see if Elon Musk said anything.

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Speaker 1: I guess he cited inflation and just kind of the

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Speaker 1: changing nature of this whole thing. But that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: big deal if you had your eye on a Tesla.

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Speaker 1: Now with that said, I think there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: other cars out there that if you just can wait

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Speaker 1: a year for a new EV I think that there's

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Speaker 1: a lot of cars out there to consider, and things

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Speaker 1: just continue to get better with evs. I mean here

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles we're on based. I mean EV's have

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Speaker 1: been a thing for a while. I think in other cities,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's a good option if you just want

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Speaker 1: to be on the cutting edge, or if you like

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Speaker 1: different things, or like I said, if you're just commuting

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Speaker 1: with a car, that's kind of the way to do

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Speaker 1: it all. Right, coming up, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 1: another streaming service that is hiking prices. This just is

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Speaker 1: happening with all of them. Plus we're going to talk

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Speaker 1: TVs later on in the show. I've got some great

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Speaker 1: recommendations for Super Bowl TVs. And of course phone lines

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Speaker 1: are open at Triple eight. Rich one on one. You

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Speaker 1: are listening to me Rich DeMuro here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show, Rich DeMuro here. This is

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, the show where we talk tech stuff

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Speaker 1: and answer your questions. Ron is in Downey, California. Ron,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: Hey, richat great to talk to you. Hey, I've got

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Speaker 4: I've got a Chromebook and I've got a work laptop

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Speaker 4: and they connect to the Internet through Wi Fi no problem.

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Speaker 4: But my HP PC Windows ten I turned it on

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Speaker 4: this week and it won't connect. And I get an

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Speaker 4: error that says Wi Fi doesn't have a valid IP configuration.

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Speaker 4: Reset Wi Fi adapter completed, Investigate router or broadband modem

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Speaker 4: issues failed, and I don't know what to do. I've

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Speaker 4: searched on the internet for some command line codes to

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Speaker 4: reset things, and I'm kind of at a loss.

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Speaker 1: Now have you ever connected to the internet on this But.

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Speaker 4: It's worked, it's worked, it's hummed along, worked just fine until.

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Speaker 1: What what changed? Was it a software update.

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I just turned it on. I turned

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Speaker 4: it on this week and I've wanted to download something,

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Speaker 4: but I could never connect. It would never it would

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Speaker 4: never connect to the internet.

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Speaker 1: What about a different Wi Fi network? Have you tried that, a.

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Speaker 4: Different Wi Fi network? Just from what five? Two four?

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Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, I mean that's well that. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that's the problem, because you've said you've connected before. But

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, have you tried just connecting to a

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Speaker 1: different like you're trying to connect to the Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: network in your home. I'm guessing, what about like a

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Speaker 1: hotspot on your phone? Like will it connect to that?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 4: Is it just haven't? Yeah, I haven't tried that, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I would start there and see if it would

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Speaker 1: connect to a different network. Have you deleted the old

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Speaker 1: network off the computer completely?

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Speaker 6: No?

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Speaker 4: Probably not, okay.

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Speaker 1: So I would go into your Wi Fi settings and

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Speaker 1: look at your saved networks and then I would delete.

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Speaker 4: The Oh yeah I've done that. Oh yeah, I did that. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: I did that.

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Speaker 1: Okay. And so when you do that and you does

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Speaker 1: it find the new does it find the network again?

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Speaker 1: And say connect? And you type in your password and

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Speaker 1: then what it just says, can't do it.

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Speaker 4: It can't do it.

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Speaker 1: Interesting. Okay, Well, and you've tried restarting this obviously, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and that doesn't work. What about how old is this computer?

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Speaker 4: It's probably seven or eight years old.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so it's it's definitely an older computer. Okay. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Uh And you've done all the software updates on.

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Speaker 4: It, yeah, as far as I know, but you know,

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Speaker 4: so it hasn't been turned on in a while, and

646
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Speaker 4: and now I just like, so I just want to

647
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Speaker 4: turn it on and download my tax software and I can't.

648
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Speaker 4: I can't get I can't get connected.

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Speaker 1: Interesting okay, Uh, well, it sounds like either the Wi

650
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Speaker 1: Fi connection has you know, it's kind of fried up.

651
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Speaker 1: But I without knowing if you're able to connect to

652
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Speaker 1: a different network. I think that's the tricky part. Do

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Speaker 1: you have a hotspot on your phone? Like, do you

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Speaker 1: have that ability to turn on your cell phone and

655
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Speaker 1: turn it into a hot spot or now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm sure, I'm sure I do. That's something I

657
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Speaker 4: don't think I've ever done. But I'm if that's a suggestion,

658
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Speaker 4: I can try and figure out how to do that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's what Okay, So what I would do,

660
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Speaker 1: and this is you know how Rich would troubleshoot this personally,

661
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:18,360
Speaker 1: is I would Number one, I'd update all the software

662
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Speaker 1: on this computer, so I would make sure that everything

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Speaker 1: is up to date. Make sure that you know I'm

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Speaker 1: running the latest software. It's all good. I would get

665
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Speaker 1: rid of any programs that I don't need. I mean,

666
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Speaker 1: there could be some malware that that's interfering here, that

667
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:34,040
Speaker 1: might be interfering with your connection. So I would get

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Speaker 1: rid of any programs on this computer I don't need

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Speaker 1: anymore or don't recognize. I would delete those, and then

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Speaker 1: of course restart the computer one more time. I'd go

671
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Speaker 1: into my Wi Fi settings. I would delete any networks

672
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Speaker 1: that I'm no longer using, including the old network, and

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Speaker 1: then again I would restart, and then I would try

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Speaker 1: connecting this to my mobile phone. So turn on the

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Speaker 1: hot spot setting on your mobile phone. You can go

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Speaker 1: into settings, turn that on. It'll it'll generate a little

677
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Speaker 1: mobile hotspot just like your regular WiFi in your home,

678
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Speaker 1: and try connecting to that. If it doesn't connect to

679
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Speaker 1: that network, then you know you have a bigger problem here.

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Speaker 1: And it's not just the fact that your WiFi has

681
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Speaker 1: decided to stop talking to this computer. If you are

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Speaker 1: able to connect to the hot spot, you can use that,

683
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,600
Speaker 1: of course. But then once you've got that connection uh completed,

684
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Speaker 1: now you can go back to the other Wi Fi

685
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Speaker 1: and see if that one works. And if it works,

686
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: you're good. If not, then you're gonna have to investigate

687
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,280
Speaker 1: a little further. And it could you know, if it

688
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:30,960
Speaker 1: connected to the one on your phone, it's probably not

689
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: a big problem because the hardware seems like it's intact,

690
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 1: So then it could be something with how your router

691
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:41,520
Speaker 1: is configured. And that's getting a little bit more technical then,

692
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Speaker 1: you know, than most people want to deal with. But

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the uh the steps I would take

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Speaker 1: ron those are you know, those are the steps that

695
00:32:48,640 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: I would take to troubleshoot that and hopefully you can

696
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Speaker 1: get on there. I would just be careful if you're

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Speaker 1: doing taxes or anything, you know, very secure on a

698
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Speaker 1: computer that's that old. I would make sure that your

699
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: software is up to date and there's no no issues

700
00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:04,440
Speaker 1: with that computer because you know, that's that's some private

701
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:06,400
Speaker 1: stuff there, so you want to make sure that computer

702
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Speaker 1: is secure. Thanks for the call, Uh, We've got is

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Speaker 1: it Gay in Woodland Hills.

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Speaker 5: Yes, by thank you.

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Speaker 7: I want to find out two things, if I may please.

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Speaker 1: Sure, Well, let's start with the first thing. That's the

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00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 1: first thing.

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Speaker 7: First one is how do I play a DVD on

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Speaker 7: my Chromebook? And the second is the transfer from last

710
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 7: test to Bidwarmen. I was told if you do that,

711
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 7: there's a point where your transferred file will lose encryption

712
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Speaker 7: and it has to be deleted right away. That's what

713
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Speaker 7: Leo said. So if you can give me a step

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Speaker 7: by step process how to do that transfer from last

715
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Speaker 7: past to bid warm Those are two questions.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well let's start with the Let's start with the

717
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Speaker 1: DVDs on the Chromebook. So it's possible it's going to

718
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Speaker 1: require an external DVD drive. So if you've got you know,

719
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Speaker 1: you probably have to invest in one of these things,

720
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Speaker 1: and it's going to need a specific DVD drive because

721
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Speaker 1: not all of them are going to work. For instance,

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Speaker 1: I've got the I've got a MacBook and they stop

723
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Speaker 1: doing DVD drive so a while ago on these things,

724
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Speaker 1: and so at home, I've got just a DVD drive

725
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Speaker 1: that I plug in from time to time, and you

726
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: plug it in, the computer recognizes it and it works. Now,

727
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly how far you can go with

728
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Speaker 1: this DVD device, Like you probably don't want to get

729
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: like a DVD burner or anything like that, because it's

730
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Speaker 1: probably not going to be able to burn DVDs or

731
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Speaker 1: do anything very elaborate, but you should be able to

732
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Speaker 1: play them. And from everything I'm seeing, it looks like

733
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Speaker 1: you're going to need some software to do that as well,

734
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Speaker 1: which VLC should should take care of that. VLC is

735
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Speaker 1: a great sort of it's almost like a Swiss Army

736
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: knife of apps. It will play almost anything, and so

737
00:35:00,920 --> 00:35:03,280
Speaker 1: you can you know, you can use that to play

738
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Speaker 1: the DVD. It'll play almost any file. It's a great

739
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Speaker 1: program that a lot of people rely on. When you

740
00:35:08,520 --> 00:35:11,440
Speaker 1: find a file that just doesn't work, try VLC. And

741
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: it's an open source program that should work. So that's that.

742
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna have to invest a little bit.

743
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure how much those drives cost anymore, maybe

744
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Speaker 1: thirty to fifty dollars for one of those drives. When

745
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Speaker 1: it comes to switching over from last Pass to Bitwarden,

746
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,399
Speaker 1: and you know, it's a logical thing to do because

747
00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: last Pass has had so many issues The issue is

748
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,719
Speaker 1: you probably have to have a file that is going

749
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Speaker 1: to be readable by Bitwarden, and I'm guessing that's a

750
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Speaker 1: you know, Comma separated value. Anyway, last pass is going

751
00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: to export your file. Bitwarden's going to take that file.

752
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:51,480
Speaker 1: But for it to read it, you know, you've got

753
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,400
Speaker 1: to have no encryption on there because the file, you know,

754
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,359
Speaker 1: it has to be able to see all your passwords

755
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Speaker 1: and your user names. So once it's in Bitwarden, it's

756
00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: going to be encrypted again. But yes, I think what

757
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:05,880
Speaker 1: you're referring to is you probably want to get rid

758
00:36:05,960 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: of that file almost immediately because it is going to

759
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: be pretty insecure. And that's the concern is you don't

760
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: want to keep that password file on your computer because

761
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:19,720
Speaker 1: someone could just crack open that file and see everything

762
00:36:19,719 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: that's in there because of the way you need to

763
00:36:21,280 --> 00:36:24,319
Speaker 1: export it. But I love Bitwarden. I think it's a

764
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 1: great program. I think that's a smart thing to do.

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Speaker 1: So thanks for calling from Woodland Hills this morning. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to Rich on Tech. Coming up later in the show,

767
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Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the Google Drive shortcut you

768
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: need to know about, plus the streaming service that's hiking

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Speaker 1: prices similar story these days. My name is Rich Damiro.

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Speaker 1: Give me a call Triple eight rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to rich on Tech. This is the show where

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Speaker 1: we talk about tech stuff and answer your questions. My

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Speaker 1: name is Rich Jamiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. During the week, I am covering technology

775
00:36:59,719 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: for ATLA, keeping track of all the trends and things

776
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:04,920
Speaker 1: that you need to know about, and on the weekends

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Speaker 1: right here talking with you about the stuff that happens

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Speaker 1: during the week. And there's a lot of it. A

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00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: lot of things are little, some things are big. Depends

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Speaker 1: on the week, depends on you know, sort of the

781
00:37:15,440 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: new cycle of things. But there's always something. There's always

782
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:21,759
Speaker 1: something changing in the tech world. If you want to

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Speaker 1: keep up with me, I am on social media at

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00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: rich on Tech. My website is rich on tech dot tv.

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00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,520
Speaker 1: That's also where you can watch my TV segments. So

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Speaker 1: it's where I sort of take a deep dive into

787
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Speaker 1: different things, new gadgets, kind of cool. Last night we

788
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Speaker 1: were watching Shark Tank. One of the stories I did

789
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Speaker 1: last week, I met with a startup that was going

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Speaker 1: to be on Shark Tank and they were on last night,

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Speaker 1: and I guess spoiler alert since it's already aired. They

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Speaker 1: got a deal, which is kind of fun. So it

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Speaker 1: was kind of neat to watch them because I just

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Speaker 1: had interviewed them at their place in Hollywood and then

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Speaker 1: seeing them on TV that night. But of course Shark

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Speaker 1: Tank was taped like months ago, but they couldn't tell

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00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:05,480
Speaker 1: me what the outcome was, so I got to watch

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Speaker 1: it live. Kind of cool, kind of fun. They did

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Speaker 1: a well, I guess it's It was called Cabinet, and

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00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,360
Speaker 1: it's basically a new way for your medicine cabinet like

801
00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: reusable pill bottles, cool idea. Hbo Max announces its first

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Speaker 1: price hike, effective immediately. I mean, I don't know if

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00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: you've seen the trend, but pretty much every single streaming

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00:38:29,360 --> 00:38:33,720
Speaker 1: service that I have has gone up in the past

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Speaker 1: I don't know, six months to a year. I mean,

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00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: every single one of them, just like clockwork. So I'm

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Speaker 1: paying more for my YouTube TV paying sorry, not YouTube TV,

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Speaker 1: what's the other one? Just YouTube? I guess YouTube premium

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Speaker 1: went up from like I think it was seventeen ninety

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Speaker 1: nine to twenty two ninety nine, and then my Apple

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Speaker 1: storage went up. Netflix went up. Actually, I think the

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Speaker 1: Netflix was the one that didn't go up because I

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Speaker 1: was subscribed to the highest. I can't you know, I

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00:39:01,040 --> 00:39:02,880
Speaker 1: can't even keep them straight anymore because so many of

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00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: these things came in And the thing is they've got

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Speaker 1: you on that automatic payment. So realistically, what are you

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Speaker 1: gonna do. You're gonna stop subscribing to Netflix because of

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00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:12,319
Speaker 1: a dollar price increase? I don't know. I mean some

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Speaker 1: people consider it, I guess, but in my house, you know,

820
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Speaker 1: people if I mention anything about switching up services, it's like, oh, no,

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Speaker 1: you can't do that. I may watch that one day, okay.

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Speaker 1: But Warner Brothers, which owns HBO Max Warner Brothers Discovery,

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Speaker 1: raising the price for the first time since it launched

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Speaker 1: two years ago. So effective Thursday, January twelfth, the price

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Speaker 1: went up from fourteen ninety nine to fifteen ninety nine

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Speaker 1: a month, So that's about a seven percent increase. According

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Speaker 1: to Variety, existing subscribers who are already paying fourteen ninety

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Speaker 1: nine a month will see their rate increase to fifteen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine a month effective next billing cycle. So Saturday,

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Speaker 1: February eleventh, I guess if you if basically, if your

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Speaker 1: subscription is passed that day, Like if you get billed

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Speaker 1: on the twelfth, the thirteenth, whatever, you're going to see

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Speaker 1: it on the next cycle, not this one, because it

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Speaker 1: didn't have time to catch this cycle. And then they

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Speaker 1: said they told Variety that the price increase of one

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Speaker 1: dollar will allow us to continue to invest in providing

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Speaker 1: even more culture defining programming and improving our customer experience

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Speaker 1: for all users, the company said in a statement. So

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Speaker 1: one dollar makes a big difference. I guess when you

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Speaker 1: have seventy million subscribers, then you know it's seventy million

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Speaker 1: dollars a month. You just printed at a thin air,

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Speaker 1: and maybe a couple of people will drop it. But

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think that once you're on

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Speaker 1: these this cycle, remember Hbo when you had it as

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Speaker 1: part of your cable company. It was really tough to

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Speaker 1: get rid of because you had to call someone and

847
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Speaker 1: you had to say, you know, you know, Sopranos just ended.

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Speaker 1: I'm not really watching anything on there. I don't really

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Speaker 1: I can't justify the twenty dollars a month, And they'd say,

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Speaker 1: no problem, sir, we can give you Hbo for the

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Speaker 1: next six months. For five dollars a month and he said, okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: I'll keep it. Now. You can't really do that. I mean,

853
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Speaker 1: some of these will do that. Like I had Paramount

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Speaker 1: Plus and I went to cancel it and it said, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, keep it for another three months for you know,

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Speaker 1: ninety nine cents or whatever it was. So some of

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Speaker 1: them do have some of these like systems programmed to

858
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Speaker 1: try to keep you even when you get rid of it,

859
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if they're savvy. Most of them,

860
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:26,280
Speaker 1: like Netflix is literally just like you. You you say cancel,

861
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,160
Speaker 1: and it's like canceled before you even breathe, like before

862
00:41:29,200 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: you even click. It's like, oh, shoot, did I really

863
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Speaker 1: just do that? Uh oh h Now I got to

864
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Speaker 1: go back because some of them are just merciless. They'll

865
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Speaker 1: just cancel immediately. Like you don't even get that like

866
00:41:37,480 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 1: confirmation screen that says please stay so HBO Max, don't

867
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Speaker 1: be surprised when your price goes up. Joe is in

868
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles? Did I get that right?

869
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Speaker 2: Joe?

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Speaker 1: Are you in LA or Louisiana? Y? No, Okay, what's

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Speaker 1: going on?

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00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: Joe?

873
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.

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00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:54,720
Speaker 6: Oh and welcome.

875
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Speaker 8: I've seen a lot of times I'm glad that John

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Speaker 8: dis So of course, and there's the other show. But sure,

877
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Speaker 8: we're gonna listen to you from now. I don't know,

878
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Speaker 8: get about catch on a while to listen Lilio every

879
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Speaker 8: now and then as well.

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Speaker 1: Well excellent, thank you the best of both worlds.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely.

882
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Speaker 6: So I'm here.

883
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Speaker 8: I'm just doing some household chores on a rainy day

884
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Speaker 8: and one of the things that bigger. Hey, maybe not

885
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Speaker 8: to get to the rich. You got a question about

886
00:42:21,440 --> 00:42:23,839
Speaker 8: the flat TV. It's an older one, obviously, you got

887
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,120
Speaker 8: some new smart TVs here. I got a Roco box.

888
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:27,640
Speaker 7: Hooped up to it.

889
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 8: I got the dish hooked up to it, DVR.

890
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 2: Hooked up it.

891
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 8: But one of the things it's not and I discovered

892
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Speaker 8: it's not blue tooth capable. I've tried searching like a

893
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 8: Hitten menu at all. So no, there's something external I

894
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 8: could plug into, maybe to a USB port, perhaps get

895
00:42:42,400 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 8: it blue tooth capable, because then I have I was

896
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 8: a Bluetooth speaker, you know, soundbody. They would work with

897
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:48,960
Speaker 8: it if I'm able to do that.

898
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:53,280
Speaker 1: Okay, I don't know if they have one that would

899
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,920
Speaker 1: plug in via USB, because I don't think that that

900
00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: TV would output the audio signal through USB. But does

901
00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,440
Speaker 1: it have some other external connections like an RCA or

902
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:05,440
Speaker 1: like even like a headphone jack on the back? Do

903
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,000
Speaker 1: you do you see those? Does it have any of

904
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:07,520
Speaker 1: those things?

905
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 8: The RCA is is there the audiof but I got

906
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Speaker 8: a tuble check. I'm not in the same room or

907
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:14,239
Speaker 8: the TV.

908
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:15,000
Speaker 3: Is that right now?

909
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 8: But I'm thinking those RCA audio is already being utilized,

910
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:20,680
Speaker 8: and I forget where it might have been the dish

911
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:24,280
Speaker 8: or it might be the vocal box. Is there splitters

912
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:26,720
Speaker 8: a little ball or do I have to decide between

913
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 8: one or the other?

914
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 9: They?

915
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there may be a splitter. I mean,

916
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,279
Speaker 1: obviously you can find anything on Amazon, but I don't

917
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: know if that would be the best quality audio. But

918
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:37,360
Speaker 1: there are devices you can plug in, like a Bluetooth

919
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,600
Speaker 1: transmitter that you can plug into the back of this TV.

920
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: You know, they're not that expensive. I'm looking on Amazon

921
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,200
Speaker 1: right now. I see one for about forty bucks. I

922
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,279
Speaker 1: think the problem is going to be the sync, like

923
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: whether it actually syncs up to what you're seeing on

924
00:43:50,640 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: TV may or may not work. I think that's the

925
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Speaker 1: biggest consideration. Do you want to be able to listen

926
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Speaker 1: to all of the audio through this TV on headphones

927
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: or is it just certain things like you're maybe just

928
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Speaker 1: your streaming. No.

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Speaker 8: Absolutely. What I wanted to do is, uh, there's a

930
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Speaker 8: USB stone bar we have, and I like it to

931
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Speaker 8: be able to listen to the programs through the USB

932
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Speaker 8: songdbar rehab. I tell us a Bluetooth sombar.

933
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,360
Speaker 1: Okay, so it's a Bluetooth soundbar, So you want to

934
00:44:17,360 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: connect the Bluetooth soundbar. Okay, Yeah, So I think you're

935
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Speaker 1: gonna need one of these transmitters and you're just gonna

936
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:23,920
Speaker 1: have to kind of try and see if it works.

937
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:26,440
Speaker 1: So you know, it connects in different ways. If you've

938
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Speaker 1: got an optical out on the back of this TV,

939
00:44:29,160 --> 00:44:31,680
Speaker 1: some of the older TVs do have that, that may work.

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Speaker 1: That's probably your best bet. Actually, that's the way I

941
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Speaker 1: connect connected many things over the years, was the optical out.

942
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 1: But I think that might work, and that will take

943
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Speaker 1: the optical audio output and it will send that to

944
00:44:43,719 --> 00:44:48,960
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth transmitter and then your Bluetooth sound bar will

945
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Speaker 1: pick up that signal, and of course you can hear

946
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Speaker 1: things through there, and that should work with all the

947
00:44:53,520 --> 00:44:56,520
Speaker 1: audio that runs through the TV. So whether it's the dish,

948
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Speaker 1: whether it's the Roku box. The other solution you could

949
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Speaker 1: use or try is you know Roku boxes, the rokup remote.

950
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Speaker 1: A lot of them have like a little headphone jack

951
00:45:07,920 --> 00:45:09,480
Speaker 1: on the side. Does yours have that or no?

952
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,600
Speaker 8: Yeah, and actually it does work. We've done that already

953
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 8: when that's when we're watching, say we're streaming a movie,

954
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,000
Speaker 8: and I'll do exactly what you just said, I'll plug

955
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Speaker 8: the ro cool uh jack and then then when we're

956
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Speaker 8: hearing the sound bar and we're watching the movie through that.

957
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 8: But that's only when we're utilizing the rocup box. If

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Speaker 8: I'm watching you know, something on dish or whatever, then

959
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,640
Speaker 8: again that doesn't work. It's not utilizing a roll cup.

960
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 8: So absolutely, you know that does work. But then our

961
00:45:35,239 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 8: thing is that maybe perhaps making uh you know, utilizing

962
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Speaker 8: the Bluetooth or gaming a game a capable. That's that's

963
00:45:42,200 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 8: what I was asking. But that what you just said,

964
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Speaker 8: it actually does work.

965
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:47,000
Speaker 1: Well, Okay, so that that's one option. But I think

966
00:45:47,040 --> 00:45:49,760
Speaker 1: the Bluetooth transmitter, if you want everything from this TV

967
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,600
Speaker 1: to go through the sound bar, I think that's probably

968
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:53,840
Speaker 1: gonna be your best bet. And it's gonna be a

969
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:56,399
Speaker 1: hit or miss. Like this may work amazing, it may

970
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Speaker 1: not work very well at all. I have not personally

971
00:45:59,200 --> 00:46:01,880
Speaker 1: tried this, but that is kind of the solution.

972
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Speaker 9: Now.

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00:46:02,080 --> 00:46:04,759
Speaker 1: If you have a you know, if you have a

974
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: headphone jack on there, like a you know, standard headphone

975
00:46:07,680 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: jack on the back, that would be your best bet.

976
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: There's also another company that I like called Airfly and

977
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: or sorry, a device called Airfly from a company called

978
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: twelve South, and they make a little device that you

979
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: can plug in. It's very simple and easy that that

980
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 1: may work as a way to just sort of connect

981
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: these two things. I mean, I think the bluetooth transmitter.

982
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 1: Just search Bluetooth transmitter for TV on Amazon and pick

983
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,120
Speaker 1: one that you think is you know, either highly rated,

984
00:46:33,280 --> 00:46:36,120
Speaker 1: lots of reviews and people say it works and try

985
00:46:36,120 --> 00:46:37,719
Speaker 1: it and if it doesn't, you can always return it.

986
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: But that's that's what I do. So thanks for listening.

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00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,200
Speaker 1: Is it's still raining outside in Los Angeles because.

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Speaker 8: It yeah, but you know what, it's raining, but kind

989
00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 8: of like regular. Last week's storm was a little bit

990
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Speaker 8: more hefty.

991
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Speaker 2: This one.

992
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Speaker 8: We'll see how it goes. It looks like it's just

993
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Speaker 8: regular nice going on.

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Speaker 1: Oh, man. Yeah, it's been it's been wild here in

995
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. I'm more rain in the past six months

996
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,839
Speaker 1: than I've seen in a long long time here. But

997
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Speaker 1: it's cozy in here in the studio. You are listening

998
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Speaker 1: to Rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro. Coming up,

999
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk about Seattle Public schools. They are

1000
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:20,520
Speaker 1: suing these big tech companies over the youth of our nation,

1001
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Speaker 1: and I will talk about that. Coming up, Phone number

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Speaker 1: triple eight, Rich one oh one. You are listening to

1003
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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. This

1004
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Speaker 1: is the show where we talk about technology and answer

1005
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: your questions. My name is Richdmuro. I am at Rich

1006
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: on Tech. On social media, oh gosh. Speaking of social media,

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Speaker 1: Seattle Public Schools filed a ninety one page lawsuit against

1008
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Speaker 1: the companies behind TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and YouTube. They

1009
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Speaker 1: say that these apps are ruining kids' lives. Now, I'm

1010
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Speaker 1: a parent and my kids are not on social media,

1011
00:47:59,280 --> 00:48:02,480
Speaker 1: but they are on devices, and I've seen the impact

1012
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,440
Speaker 1: of that, and I think that there's a lot to

1013
00:48:05,560 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: unpack here. Joining me is professor of psychology Gene Twangy.

1014
00:48:11,400 --> 00:48:15,200
Speaker 1: She is author of Eye Jen why today's super connected

1015
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:18,920
Speaker 1: kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy,

1016
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: and completely unprepared for adulthood. Gene, thanks for joining me.

1017
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Speaker 9: Thank you.

1018
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: What do you make of this? What do you make

1019
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:29,880
Speaker 1: of this lawsuit? Like when you heard about it, what

1020
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 1: did you think? What was your reaction?

1021
00:48:33,320 --> 00:48:40,920
Speaker 10: Well, it is actually really just yet another case where

1022
00:48:41,719 --> 00:48:44,880
Speaker 10: people are trying to hold the social media companies to account.

1023
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:48,640
Speaker 10: So at this point, doesn't the families have social media

1024
00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 10: companies for harm to their children? And a group of

1025
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 10: attorneys general are doing the same on the behalf of state.

1026
00:48:57,719 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: Governments, And so far it's been like teflon, you know,

1027
00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:04,879
Speaker 1: it's nothing's really stuck. And they all say, oh, we're

1028
00:49:04,920 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: doing what we can. We've got these you know, safety

1029
00:49:09,480 --> 00:49:12,879
Speaker 1: things in place. We do this with the advertising. They

1030
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,920
Speaker 1: make a small change. But the school system is accusing

1031
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: these social media platforms of increasing students' anxiety and depression.

1032
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,799
Speaker 1: Is that possible through social media?

1033
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 10: Absolutely? And we have lots and lots of studies showing

1034
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 10: that that's the case. The more time a team spends

1035
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:33,960
Speaker 10: on social media, the more likely it is that she's depressed,

1036
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:39,800
Speaker 10: that she's harming herself. The experimental data showing causation as well. Plus,

1037
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:43,680
Speaker 10: the adolescent mental health crisis that we're grappling with right

1038
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,920
Speaker 10: now didn't begin during the pandemic. It began more than

1039
00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:49,360
Speaker 10: ten years ago, right at the time that social media,

1040
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 10: because became very popular among kids.

1041
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 1: What is it about social media that is feeding this?

1042
00:49:56,080 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: Like what makes you know, what ruins these teams life

1043
00:50:00,040 --> 00:50:01,279
Speaker 1: lives because of it?

1044
00:50:01,320 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 7: Like?

1045
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: What is it doing to them?

1046
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 10: There's a lot of factors. There's a lot of factors.

1047
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:13,440
Speaker 10: So for some young people, especially girls, they experience major

1048
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:18,719
Speaker 10: issues with body image and eating disorcer disorders. And Facebook's

1049
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 10: own research delved into that, so they you know, the

1050
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,400
Speaker 10: company's aware that these things are happening, you know, based

1051
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 10: on the Facebook papers that were leaked in fall twenty

1052
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:35,720
Speaker 10: twenty one by Francis Howgen. So that's one of the issues. There's,

1053
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 10: of course, cyber bullying. There's, of course the constant comparison

1054
00:50:39,760 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 10: to other people. There's seeing all the things you're missing

1055
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 10: out on. There's the amount of time that teams are

1056
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Speaker 10: spending on social media, which is not a coincidence because

1057
00:50:50,880 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 10: the algorithms on these apps are designed to keep people

1058
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Speaker 10: on the apps for as long as possible and keep

1059
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Speaker 10: them coming back as many times as possile.

1060
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 1: Now, can't some of this be said for adults? I mean,

1061
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,000
Speaker 1: I see the same thing happening with adults. You know,

1062
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:07,920
Speaker 1: you see someone on vacation and next thing you know,

1063
00:51:07,960 --> 00:51:10,800
Speaker 1: you want to go to that vacation place as an adult.

1064
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: Is it different because our brains are you know, different?

1065
00:51:14,480 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 1: Or is it the same problem?

1066
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 10: The problem is similar, It's just that for adults, you know,

1067
00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,400
Speaker 10: right or wrong. We consider adults as making their own choices,

1068
00:51:28,120 --> 00:51:33,400
Speaker 10: and we as a society tend to protect children and

1069
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,080
Speaker 10: teens from many of these harms. So, for example, alcohol,

1070
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:40,680
Speaker 10: Alcohol can be harmful no matter what age you are

1071
00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 10: when you're using it, But we have made the drinking

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Speaker 10: age twenty one with the idea that children and teens

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Speaker 10: are less able to control those impulses and make good

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Speaker 10: decisions when it comes to alcohol. You could argue the

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Speaker 10: same should possibly be true for social media. Yet there's

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Speaker 10: lots of kids on these platforms and minim they are

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Speaker 10: supposed to be thirteen. It's not enforced, and these platforms

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Speaker 10: were not designed for children, they were designed for adults.

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Speaker 1: I see it every day in my home. I mean

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Speaker 1: I see my kids flipping through not TikTok, but you know,

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Speaker 1: YouTube shorts, maybe to a lesser extent Instagram, but it's

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Speaker 1: it's definitely it takes a hold of them. I mean,

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Speaker 1: they can't stop. And also we haven't even talked about

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Speaker 1: the information that they're getting from there. That could be wrong.

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Speaker 1: I mean, as an adult, you know, you have a

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Speaker 1: sense of what's real, what's fake, what's not, you know

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Speaker 1: what's good, what's bad. As kids, you may not have that,

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Speaker 1: and I think that's another issue that we see here.

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Speaker 1: What's your recommendation to parents about all this? What do

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Speaker 1: you think parents can do to either understand this more

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Speaker 1: or you know, act with their teams? I mean do

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Speaker 1: they The problem is the teenagers are all on it,

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Speaker 1: so you can't stop them from being on there.

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Speaker 10: Of course you can, of course. Why why Well, I

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Speaker 10: mean it is true that the companies are basically conspiring

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Speaker 10: again parents to allow us to do that. They don't

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Speaker 10: require Frital perussion because they don't force their eight limits. However,

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Speaker 10: to take it as as a parent, so one has

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Speaker 10: no device in the bedrooms overnight. That's not just good

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Speaker 10: for kids and teens, it's good for adults too, because

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Speaker 10: that will at the very least prevent them being on

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Speaker 10: it in the middle of the night. But then, you know,

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Speaker 10: don't allow your kids to have social media until they're

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Speaker 10: at least thirteen. That's actually the way it's supposed to

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Speaker 10: be under the law. And consider having that age be

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Speaker 10: sixteen or even eighteen.

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Speaker 1: What do you do all their friends are on it?

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Speaker 1: How do you deal with that?

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Speaker 9: You say no.

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Speaker 10: If all their friends were drinking alcohol or jumping off cliffs,

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Speaker 10: you could also say no.

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Speaker 1: It's not easy as a parent to do that.

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Speaker 10: And I'm not going to suggest it's easy. I don't

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Speaker 10: mean to be overly good. I have three kids myself, sixteen, thirteen,

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Speaker 10: and ten. So there are other ways to communicate.

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Speaker 5: Is the thing.

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Speaker 10: You can text, you can face time. There is so

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Speaker 10: many other ways that kids can connect online. It doesn't

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Speaker 10: have to be social media.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, I'm gonna have to leave it there

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Speaker 1: for time. Thank you, doctor Gene Twangy for talking to me,

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Speaker 1: author of I jen Why today's super connected kids are

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Speaker 1: growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy, and completely

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Speaker 1: unprepared for adulthood. It's a problem even in my house.

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Speaker 1: My kid wants, you know, he wants to sign up

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Speaker 1: for a discord. He wants he wants me to change

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Speaker 1: his Google account to be thirteen and up so that

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Speaker 1: he can access certain things that he can't get with

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Speaker 1: his account that he's with his real age. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know what to say as a parent. It's really

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Speaker 1: really tricky. And I understand if you're listening and you're saying, Rich,

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Speaker 1: these are really really tough things to stand firm on,

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Speaker 1: But I get it. My name is Rich Dmiro. You're

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Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Taking your calls at triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one one. That's one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media at rich on Tech. You can

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Speaker 1: even email me rich on Tech. Dot tv is the website.

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Speaker 1: Got a dm on Instagram and this is Alejandra says.

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Speaker 1: Do you know how do you know if some apps

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Speaker 1: are listening to your conversations? How do you disconnect them?

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Speaker 1: It's a good question. Now, I know this gets into

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Speaker 1: some sort of conspiracy theory kind of things, but it's

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Speaker 1: a valid argument. It's a valid question of you know, well,

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Speaker 1: number one, what qualifies as an app spying on you?

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Speaker 1: Are you just thinking about audio and video or are

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Speaker 1: you thinking about location as well? So I would consider

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Speaker 1: all three of these things. Also, your camera, could it

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Speaker 1: be monitoring that? Your microphone could it be monitoring that.

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Speaker 1: Now this all comes to sort of the forefront when

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Speaker 1: remember how a lot of people and I guess people

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Speaker 1: still say this, but they say that Facebook is listening

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Speaker 1: to them because the ads on there. You see an

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Speaker 1: ad on Instagram, and it's uncanny. It's like something that

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Speaker 1: you just talked about with your friend and you said,

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Speaker 1: they must be listening to me because I'm seeing an

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Speaker 1: ad for the dog food that my friend was telling

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Speaker 1: me about, or the mattress or the sneakers or anything.

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Speaker 1: And everyone's had it happen to them, myself included. And

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Speaker 1: I come from the background of there's just no way

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Speaker 1: that Facebook is listening to our microphones, to millions and

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Speaker 1: millions of people, billions of people and scanning for keywords

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Speaker 1: and then matching up those keywords. But it is uncanny,

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Speaker 1: and it is quite remarkable how many times this happens,

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Speaker 1: and I'm talking even if you go to a friend's

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Speaker 1: house for dinner or something and something that you mentioned

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Speaker 1: in your conversation with them shows up on your Instagram feed,

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Speaker 1: and it just happens. It's happened to everyone now. The

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Speaker 1: way Facebook and Instagram explain it is that their systems

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Speaker 1: are so smart and so high tech that they understand

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Speaker 1: that if someone recently bought something on one website and

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Speaker 1: now your phone is in the vicinity of that person,

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Speaker 1: they figure, well, they might have talked about it, and

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Speaker 1: they serve up that. I don't know, it sounds like

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Speaker 1: that would be pretty complicated in its own right, but

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Speaker 1: that's sort of their explanation. Don't forget they're tracking you

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Speaker 1: on pretty much every website you go to, whether it's

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Speaker 1: on your phone, whether it's on the web. And here's

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Speaker 1: what I would say. I would recommend checking your permissions.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think that these apps are spying on

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Speaker 1: you in the way that you may think traditional spying happens,

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Speaker 1: but they are collecting a fair amount of information. So

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Speaker 1: if you go on the iPhone into your settings and

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Speaker 1: this is just something you want to look at, let's

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Speaker 1: just choose an app so you can go to your

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Speaker 1: settings and just on your main page, scroll all the

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Speaker 1: way down and you can look at something like Instagram.

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Speaker 1: So let's just do this right now, here is Instagram

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Speaker 1: on my phone. Okay, I got to get my abcdefgh am.

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Speaker 1: I the only person that has to spell out the

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Speaker 1: alphabet every time I want to see where a letter falls. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So now I tap Instagram and it says allow Instagram

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Speaker 1: to access. You've got location, you've got contacts, you've got photos,

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Speaker 1: you've got microphone, you've got camera, Syrian search, background, cellular data,

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Speaker 1: and notifications. So location is a big one, and there

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Speaker 1: is a reason why it wants access to all of

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Speaker 1: this information. Location is so that if you want to

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Speaker 1: tag the restaurant you're at, when you go to tag it,

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Speaker 1: it shows the closest things to you, the closest restaurants,

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Speaker 1: the closest points of interest, and you can easily select

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Speaker 1: one and tag your photo with that. So there's a

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Speaker 1: reason why they want that. Now, there are some settings

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Speaker 1: here where if you dive into that, you can allow

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Speaker 1: location access. Never ask me next time while using the

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Speaker 1: app or precise Location. Now, I would turn off precise

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Speaker 1: Location because I don't think Instagram needs to know your

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Speaker 1: precise location. Now they can understand your general location. If

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Speaker 1: you want to tag stuff, that's fine. Next up contacts.

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Speaker 1: Contacts helps you helps them figure out who they should

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Speaker 1: suggest to you. So if they look at your contacts

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Speaker 1: and they sync them up on the back end, they

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Speaker 1: can suggest someone in your feed that you're friends with

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Speaker 1: that's in your address book, or someone you work with,

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Speaker 1: or someone that you've exchanged contact info with. And next

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Speaker 1: thing know now their network grows photos. Pretty self explanatory.

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Speaker 1: They want to scan your photos to help you upload stuff.

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Speaker 1: Microphone and camera. Now, if you're not taking pictures inside Instagram,

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Speaker 1: you may not need access to camera. And if you're

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Speaker 1: not doing Instagram stories with audio and video, you may

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Speaker 1: not need the microphone. And so you can turn those

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Speaker 1: off safely until you need them again. Now, when you

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Speaker 1: swipe over for stories, it may ask you, hey, we

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Speaker 1: need access to this, and you can't do anything until

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Speaker 1: you give that access again. So the other thing is

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Speaker 1: that when you're on the iPhone or on Android, in

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Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner of the iPhone, it will

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Speaker 1: have a little light when when something's accessing your camera. Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's actually moved to the center Now, when something's accessing

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Speaker 1: your camera, you'll see a little dot towards the center

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Speaker 1: middle top part of your phone. And so that little

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Speaker 1: microphone or that little light means that a camera is

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Speaker 1: accessing or some app is accessing your camera. If you see,

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Speaker 1: I believe it's an orange light. That is when something's

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Speaker 1: accessing your microphone and similar on the Android devices they

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Speaker 1: do that as well. So if you open up your

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Speaker 1: camera in the upper right hand corner there it is

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Speaker 1: in the upper right hand corner, it'll have a little

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Speaker 1: green dot that means that an app is actively using

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Speaker 1: your camera. And you can just test this out, just

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Speaker 1: open up your camera app. So the concern and the

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Speaker 1: reason why they did this, I think is because people

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Speaker 1: were saying, you know, Instagram's accessing my camera and my

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Speaker 1: microphone without me knowing. Well, theoretically, if they were, you

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Speaker 1: would see that light light up. So if you ever

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Speaker 1: see that light light up when you're not using the app,

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Speaker 1: that you think, then you have a problem. But that's

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Speaker 1: kind of my general you know, quick lesson in are

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Speaker 1: your apps spying on you? I don't think they are,

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Speaker 1: but they are collecting a lot of data and they

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Speaker 1: do know a lot and they mix it, by the way,

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Speaker 1: with other forms of data. So just keep that in mind.

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Speaker 1: The less permission is the better. That's my advice. Billy

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Speaker 1: is in fuller tin. Billy, you're on with rich what's happening?

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Speaker 6: Why?

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Speaker 1: Hi?

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Speaker 6: I have a Lenovo laptop and I just got a

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Speaker 6: T Mobile five G Internet while I was Internet for home.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, how's that working?

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Speaker 6: Well? My phone and my wife's Lenovo laptop is connecting

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Speaker 6: to it. But my personal laptop, Lenovo also is not connecting.

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Speaker 6: It's not even on the list of the Wi Fi.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 6: And I worked with a T Mobile technician. We did everything.

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Speaker 6: He changed the frequency to a lower frequency and all that.

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Speaker 6: My computer is up to date. But there's a seven

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Speaker 6: year old Lenovo with Windows and ten.

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Speaker 1: Okay. So you worked this out with a T Mobile

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Speaker 1: tech and you think I'm able to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like no.

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Speaker 6: He suggested I call Lenoby Oh okay.

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Speaker 1: So okay, So you're calling Rich on tech. So your

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Speaker 1: wife's laptop is newer. I'm guessing.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it is newer. She got it from work late

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Speaker 6: after I got mine from you know, Costco. Mine is

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Speaker 6: seven years old.

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Speaker 1: HER's is seven years old. So I think this is

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Speaker 1: a problem of the spectrum that it's using. That whether

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Speaker 1: it's two, there's a term there's either five gigahertz wi

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Speaker 1: Fi or two point four gigaherts, and I think what's

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Speaker 1: happening is that this hot spot is putting out the

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Speaker 1: five gigaherts, not to be confused with five g. Five

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Speaker 1: G is how it's getting its cellular signal. But it's

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Speaker 1: putting out this five gigaherts signal by default, where you

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Speaker 1: ab to change the signal from the router to be

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Speaker 1: also two point four because that's usually in the setting.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, tam Obile Tech did that. He changes to two

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Speaker 6: point four. We assigned a new name, and it still

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Speaker 6: doesn't appear on the list on my laptop. So I'm

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Speaker 6: guessing it's gonna be my old laptop time to get one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, because here's the thing. There's another

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Speaker 1: there's another part of this two point four which is

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Speaker 1: the band that it works on, and it's usually like

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Speaker 1: B or G or something like that. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that this new hotspot is just not putting out

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Speaker 1: the signal that would be compatible with your laptop anymore.

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Speaker 1: And that's you know, if you try to switch it

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Speaker 1: to the two point four and it's just not working,

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Speaker 1: it's not picking it up, it's it's probably not gonna work.

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Speaker 1: You could get an adapter. Have you thought about it.

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Speaker 6: It thing is, I've been using a Spectrum wireless router

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Speaker 6: and I have two options. I have five G and

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Speaker 6: two point four and either one works on my laptop.

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Speaker 1: Oh, well, that's interesting.

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Speaker 6: Really interesting. I've been using that. That's what I'm using

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Speaker 6: right now. For some reason, it doesn't like T Mobiles.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's definitely frustrating. And I know a lot of

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Speaker 1: people are getting these new five G kind of home

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Speaker 1: wireless internet connections from either Verizon or T Mobile. Typically

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Speaker 1: it works, but it is a mystery though, the fact

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Speaker 1: that it's not working on your laptop. It just sounds

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Speaker 1: like I mean, I would think that the five gigahertz,

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Speaker 1: if it's working from Spectrum, your laptop has that capability.

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Speaker 1: It seems like that would work. But since it's not,

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Speaker 1: that is a mystery. I don't know. It could be

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Speaker 1: time for an upgrade for the laptop. I hate to

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Speaker 1: recommend an upgrade, but you know, if you figured it

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Speaker 1: out with the tech from T Mobile, and you also

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Speaker 1: you know, called me, but I would, I would try

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. Maybe just give the Lenovo folks

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Speaker 1: a call with tech support, see what they say. They

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Speaker 1: may know something that I don't, but that is definitely frustrating.

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Speaker 1: And of course if you have this as your home Internet,

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Speaker 1: you want it to work, that's for sure. So good question.

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Speaker 1: We're getting a lot of Wi Fi questions. Apparently a

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Speaker 1: lot of people have trouble with their WiFi. It's one

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Speaker 1: of those things where I was testing a gadget one time,

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Speaker 1: like this plug, and it just I could not get

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Speaker 1: it to connect to my Wi Fi. For anything I did,

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Speaker 1: it just would not work. And I tried so many

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Speaker 1: different things, but sometimes it just happens, all right. Coming

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Speaker 1: up in the show, I'm going to talk about the

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Speaker 1: Google Drive shortcut you need to know about. I learned

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Speaker 1: about this this week. It's fantastic. I'll tell you why

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Speaker 1: people are mad about Twitter all over again. And plus

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Speaker 1: we'll talk TVs later in the show, specific recommendations on

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Speaker 1: what to get. You're listening to Rich on Tech, give

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Speaker 1: me a call at Triple eight rich one oh one.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. My name is rich DeMuro,

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Speaker 1: taking your calls, answering your questions and also talking about

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01:05:45,360 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: the tech stuff that happened throughout the week, things that

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Speaker 1: are interesting, things of notes and stuff you can use

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Speaker 1: like this. So I basically use Google Drive every day

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Speaker 1: of my life. It's just a necessity. And it's one

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Speaker 1: of these things where when I want to do a

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Speaker 1: new document, it takes me a bit to figure it out.

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Speaker 1: You know, you got to go to the bookmark of

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Speaker 1: Google Drive. You gotta say, I mean, it's like a

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Speaker 1: ten step process, right. You gotta click new, and you

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Speaker 1: gotta click Google Docs and you gotta decide do you

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01:06:17,120 --> 01:06:18,920
Speaker 1: want a document, do you want to template? It just

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01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:22,400
Speaker 1: takes a couple of seconds. So I knew about this,

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Speaker 1: but I had forgotten about it because this is nothing new.

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Speaker 1: But once you commit it to memory, it'll be a

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Speaker 1: whole lot easier. So if you go to a web

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Speaker 1: browser and use Google Docs, if you just type doc

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Speaker 1: dot new, it will give you a brand new Google Doc.

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Speaker 1: It is like magic. And so when I figured this

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Speaker 1: out the other day, I was in the newsroom, I

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Speaker 1: went around and screamed to everyone, do you use Google Drive,

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Speaker 1: Do use Google Docs? You need to know about this.

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Speaker 1: Do you know about it, and I heard the oohs

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Speaker 1: and ohs coming from the various folks in my newsroom

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Speaker 1: because it's just one of those things that saves you

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Speaker 1: time and time. You know, saving time is fun. Other

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Speaker 1: things you can do. By the way, you have to

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Speaker 1: be signed into your Google Drive for this to work.

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Speaker 1: If you're not, it will attempt to open up the

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Speaker 1: new file, but it will have to ask you to

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Speaker 1: sign in first. So if you get the sign in

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Speaker 1: page that means that you're not signed into Google. I

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Speaker 1: don't know how you'd be signed out. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I ever signed out unless I have to.

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Speaker 1: But you can also create a new Google slides presentation

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Speaker 1: if you type slide dot new, slide dot new. You

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01:07:28,520 --> 01:07:32,480
Speaker 1: can do a new spreadsheet if you type sheet dot new,

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Speaker 1: S H E E T dot new, a new Google

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Speaker 1: form if you type form dot new, f O, R

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Speaker 1: M dot new, a new Google site site dot new.

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Speaker 1: And one of the other ones I might use is

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Speaker 1: a new calendar event cal dot new, and so if

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Speaker 1: you type that in you can get a new calendar event.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if that one's that handy, because if

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Speaker 1: you're in Google Calendar, you can tap create. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's only two cli to get an event, so it's

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Speaker 1: not that big deal, a big of a deal, or

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Speaker 1: you can just tap somewhere in your calendar and start

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Speaker 1: a new event. But to me, the doc dot new

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Speaker 1: is pretty big. There's a whole list of shortcuts. Google

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Speaker 1: actually bought I guess that new dot new domain, and

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Speaker 1: that's how they're doing this. So let's go to Google

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Speaker 1: slash shortcuts and there's a whole list of shortcuts that

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Speaker 1: they've got. But you know, those are the those are

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Speaker 1: the important ones. I think that the doc dot new

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Speaker 1: is just so handy. Write that down because you never

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Speaker 1: know when you need it, and thank me for it. Now,

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Speaker 1: I guess, don't thank me. I didn't do it. People

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Speaker 1: are up in arms about Twitter once again, all over again.

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Speaker 1: So when Elon Musk bought Twitter, people went nuts over it,

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01:08:49,880 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: and you know, there's a lot of discussions about people

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01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:55,719
Speaker 1: whether they're going to stay on Twitter, whether they ditch Twitter.

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01:08:56,400 --> 01:08:59,160
Speaker 1: You know, there's there's a couple of changes, things settled down,

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01:08:59,680 --> 01:09:03,120
Speaker 1: and now people are back up in arms because they

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Speaker 1: have changed the feed on Twitter. So when you open

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Speaker 1: up the Twitter app now it defaults to what's called

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Speaker 1: a for you feed. Twitter did not invent the for

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Speaker 1: you feed. They are just doing what every other social

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Speaker 1: media company at this point is doing, which is the

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Speaker 1: for you. Let me explain. TikTok sort of started this.

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Speaker 1: You know, you had Okay, you had Facebook back in

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Speaker 1: the day. Then you had Instagram and Twitter, and all

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Speaker 1: of these websites operated pretty much the same way. You

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Speaker 1: followed people, and if someone posted something, you would see

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Speaker 1: what they post in your timeline in the order that

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Speaker 1: people posted it, mostly your friends. Well, then all of

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01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:47,519
Speaker 1: a sudden, they weren't getting the engagement they wanted, because

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Speaker 1: who's to say that when someone posts something it's interesting.

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Speaker 1: So now they started to reorder your feed and prioritize

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Speaker 1: things based on what they think you might like to

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Speaker 1: see first. So if it's one of your friends, you

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Speaker 1: know that just had a new kid, you would see

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Speaker 1: that at the top of your feed because that's probably

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Speaker 1: the most important thing in your feed. This is called

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Speaker 1: an algorithmically you know, an algorithmically ordered feed. And they

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Speaker 1: started doing that, but it was still your friends. Then

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Speaker 1: you had TikTok come along, and TikTok said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: we don't really care who you're following, We're just gonna

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Speaker 1: show you a whole bunch of stuff that you might like.

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Speaker 1: And they called it your for you page, and it

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Speaker 1: worked really well. It still works really well. You watch

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Speaker 1: one video on TikTok about a certain topic, and next

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Speaker 1: thing you know, you're gonna see a whole lot of

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Speaker 1: videos about that topic. It's just how their algorithm works.

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Speaker 1: And they're gonna start it sprinkling in other things and

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Speaker 1: see what you react to, what you like, what you

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01:10:46,240 --> 01:10:48,720
Speaker 1: linger on, what you click, what you interact with, who

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Speaker 1: you follow and so TikTok and why people can go

1440
01:10:53,320 --> 01:10:56,480
Speaker 1: viral on TikTok and why people find it so addicting

1441
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,880
Speaker 1: is that TikTok doesn't care who you follow. I mean, yes,

1442
01:11:00,200 --> 01:11:03,920
Speaker 1: use that as one signal, but TikTok really just wants

1443
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Speaker 1: to show you stuff that it thinks you will interact with.

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Speaker 1: And now the other websites have seen this Instagram, Facebook

1445
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:13,680
Speaker 1: and they're saying, Okay, we're going to kind of do

1446
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Speaker 1: the same thing because it seems to be working for TikTok,

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Speaker 1: and people engage with this stuff because if you like

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01:11:19,520 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 1: pictures of you know, cats, and you know, cute cats

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Speaker 1: in funny poses, you know, like you know, like those

1450
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Speaker 1: what of those Angetti's like pictures, you know, like the

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Speaker 1: kids that were like in like different you know, flowers

1452
01:11:33,680 --> 01:11:36,799
Speaker 1: and stuff. Remember those? You know, maybe you like cats

1453
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,880
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't know, just in silly kind

1454
01:11:39,880 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 1: of situations. And so next thing, you know, it's like, well,

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01:11:43,840 --> 01:11:45,639
Speaker 1: we're going to show you this cat picture that's really

1456
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Speaker 1: silly because so many people across the world have loved it,

1457
01:11:48,880 --> 01:11:50,720
Speaker 1: So if you like this, you're gonna love it too.

1458
01:11:51,160 --> 01:11:53,240
Speaker 1: And then they get that interaction and things go viral

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01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: and the creators like it and everyone is happy except

1460
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Speaker 1: for the folks on Twitter right now, because Twitter has

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Speaker 1: always been this world of you follow people for a

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,599
Speaker 1: reason and you want to see what they post. Well,

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01:12:04,600 --> 01:12:06,960
Speaker 1: now you see a whole bunch of stuff in your

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01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:11,200
Speaker 1: for you feed and that's the default. And so some

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01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:13,880
Speaker 1: people may argue that it's better in a way because

1466
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Speaker 1: now you're exposed to different thoughts, ideas, people, things, accounts

1467
01:12:18,600 --> 01:12:22,320
Speaker 1: you may want to follow. You can always go back

1468
01:12:22,320 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 1: to the regular following by swiping. But the problem is

1469
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Speaker 1: it always goes back to the for you when you

1470
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 1: reopen the app, so it doesn't stick to the following

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Speaker 1: and there's no way to set a default where hey,

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Speaker 1: I only want to see stuff from people that I follow,

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01:12:37,240 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: And so sure you can manually swipe every time you

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Speaker 1: get into Twitter, but who wants to do that. It's

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Speaker 1: a lot of work. So that's why people are up

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01:12:44,600 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 1: in arms. People are saying, once again, I'm leaving Twitter.

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Speaker 1: I noticed that all the people that say they're going

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01:12:49,439 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 1: to leave Twitter, they're back. I mean, I haven't really

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Speaker 1: noticed a substantial change in my feed, Like I haven't

1480
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,599
Speaker 1: noticed oh yeah, that person I used to love is gone.

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Speaker 1: I've noticed that the followers seem to be up, and

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Speaker 1: the interaction seems to be up, and I seem to

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01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: be having more fun on Twitter. I don't know. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know if all the changes have been as

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01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:12,240
Speaker 1: horrible as people have made them out to be, but

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01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: it seems to be an evolving place. But anyway, so

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Speaker 1: if you use Twitter or any of these services, that's

1488
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Speaker 1: what's going on all right. Coming up in the show,

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Speaker 1: I've got a couple of things to talk about this

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Speaker 1: new social engineering trend. It's a scam. It's got kind

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Speaker 1: of a yucky name, but you definitely need to know

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Speaker 1: about that. You need to know why you should not

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Speaker 1: be paying to use chat GPT, at least not right now.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to talk TVs later in the show.

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Speaker 1: My name is Rich Dmiro. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. We'll be back after this. Welcome to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. My name is Rich DeMuro. This is the

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Speaker 1: show where we talk about technology and answer your questions.

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Speaker 1: A lot of stuff this week about scams. I'm always

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Speaker 1: interested in the latest scams and I'm always posting about

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Speaker 1: them on my social media at rich on Tech if

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Speaker 1: you want to follow me. By the way, I'm the

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

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Speaker 1: this is a new show. This is a tech show

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Speaker 1: that has been reinvented, reborn, kind of changed up. A

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Speaker 1: lot of things have stayed the same, but you know,

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Speaker 1: we're switching things up a little bit. So if you

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Speaker 1: feel like it's a little different, that's for a reason.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, it's a new show. So I'm going

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Speaker 1: to try to pack it with information and news you

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Speaker 1: can use. Obviously, i'll take your calls, but the main

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Speaker 1: thing here is to just when you're listening, you feel

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Speaker 1: like you are smart about technology. That's the takeaway that's

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Speaker 1: what I want the goal to be. Every single week,

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Speaker 1: I want you to feel like I've listened to Rich

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Speaker 1: And yeah, Rich doesn't have all the answers. I don't

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Speaker 1: know everything there is to know about technology, but I'm learning,

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Speaker 1: You're learning, and hopefully we all learned so that we can,

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Speaker 1: you know, we can be in charge of our gadgets.

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Speaker 1: We can you know, not get scammed. We can you know,

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Speaker 1: spend our money in places that make sense. So that's

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Speaker 1: kind of the goal of the show, and I will

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Speaker 1: continue to evolve the show to make that happen. It's

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Speaker 1: a work in progress and it's it's new. This is

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Speaker 1: only episode number two, so it will get it will

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Speaker 1: change and evolve and breathe and live just like you

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Speaker 1: know it should. This is an interesting new social engineering scam.

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Speaker 1: It's got this weird name. It's called pig butchering. I mean,

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Speaker 1: that does not sound fun. Definitely don't want that to

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Speaker 1: happen to you. But the analogy is apparently with fattening

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Speaker 1: up a pig than butchering it for all it's worth.

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Speaker 1: And yeah, that's not very appealing, I guess. But here's

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Speaker 1: the thing, and you know, anyone can be scammed. This

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Speaker 1: is not you know, scamming is not like an old

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Speaker 1: person thing. It's not like a dumb person thing. It

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Speaker 1: can happen to anyone. And because we have so many

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Speaker 1: tools in our world now that make it easier than

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Speaker 1: ever to hand over your heart acquired hash and it

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Speaker 1: can go to anyone, anywhere quickly. That makes scams even

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Speaker 1: more interesting to scam artists because it's not just like oh,

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Speaker 1: stealing twenty bucks from someone that you see in person,

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Speaker 1: or getting a check from someone or their credit card.

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Speaker 1: Now it is like Venmo, gift cards, PayPal. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many ways that people can scam people, and

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Speaker 1: it's a worldwide thing, not just local. And so that's

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Speaker 1: why you hear so much about scams because it just

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Speaker 1: you know, if you get one percent or even a

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Speaker 1: half a percent of people to fall form, it could

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Speaker 1: be a lot on a big level. So here's how

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Speaker 1: this new pig butchering works. It begins with sort of

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Speaker 1: a cold call or a text. Right, So you may

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Speaker 1: get a text that just says, hey, it was good

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Speaker 1: to catch up last week, and you say, what what

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Speaker 1: do you mean good to get I don't know this person,

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Speaker 1: what are you talking about? And so in an act

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Speaker 1: of common courtesy, you tell either the caller or the

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Speaker 1: texter that you know, sorry, I think you got the

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Speaker 1: wrong number, and next thing you know, they strike up

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Speaker 1: a conversation with you and it sounds, you know, oh

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Oh gosh, I you know, I must have

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Speaker 1: the wrong number, and they start talking with you. And

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Speaker 1: what they're really doing is they're trying to establish a

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Speaker 1: relationship with you. And the closer and deeper they can

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Speaker 1: get this relationship, the more they might be able to

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Speaker 1: scam you. Now you may be thinking, oh, come on, rich,

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Speaker 1: who's going to fall for this? People do, and not

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Speaker 1: everyone is as savvy as you may think. And a

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Speaker 1: lot of people, especially people that come from kind of

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Speaker 1: an older school mentality of courtesy, and you know, let

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Speaker 1: me write this person back to say, you know, sorry,

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Speaker 1: of the wrong number whatever, They could be targeted by this.

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Speaker 1: And so once the scammer gets the person in a

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Speaker 1: place where they think they are fattened up, you know,

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Speaker 1: that relationship is established, that's what they go in for

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Speaker 1: the kill. And that's when they try to get, you know,

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Speaker 1: them to sign up for some sort of app, maybe

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Speaker 1: some sort of financial platform that may try to scam

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Speaker 1: this person out of their money. And so once they

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Speaker 1: get this going on, next thing, you know it's over.

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Speaker 1: You know, they get this person hook line and sinker,

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Speaker 1: they get them to fall for this, and you know

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Speaker 1: they trusted this person because they built this relationship with them. Now,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I think it'd be tough for me

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Speaker 1: to fall for something like this, but I will tell

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Speaker 1: you that I have texted folks and said, hey, it's

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Speaker 1: rich with KTLA, everything good, blah blah blah, and I

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Speaker 1: sit there and I think about it. Oh wait a second.

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Speaker 1: I just gave this person my name. I just gave

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Speaker 1: them where I work. And if I had the wrong number,

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Speaker 1: if I was off by a digit, if this person,

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Speaker 1: in any way, shape or form, wanted to take advantage

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Speaker 1: of me, they probably could because they can say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're up for lunch next week, where do you want

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Speaker 1: to meet? And you know it's not even the right

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Speaker 1: person because they now know your name and who you are.

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Speaker 1: So you just have to think about this stuff. Just

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Speaker 1: be very careful because there are people out there that

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Speaker 1: are actively looking to take advantage. I got an email

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Speaker 1: from Chase this week, and they sent a whole email

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Speaker 1: about learn how to spot a scam, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of this stuff might be commonplace, but they went through.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was actually a pretty good email coming

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Speaker 1: from a big bank saying, you know, look, scammers pretend

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Speaker 1: to be someone they're not. They trick you into providing

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Speaker 1: information again, access to your account. Here are some of

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Speaker 1: the scams that are going around, and you want to

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Speaker 1: keep your account safe from these. So number one online shopping.

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Speaker 1: They set up a fake online store and they ask

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Speaker 1: you to pay in ways other than a debitter credit card.

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Speaker 1: So obviously the whole point of that is, you know

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Speaker 1: they don't want you to pay with debitter credit because

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Speaker 1: you get some some you know you're safe from some

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Speaker 1: of the scams out there. If you use a debit

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Speaker 1: or credit card, it puts a little buffer between you

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Speaker 1: and this bad person. But if you pay by a

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Speaker 1: check or cashier's check or transfer the money instantly, then

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Speaker 1: you know they've got that and you're not getting it

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Speaker 1: back or Venmo or any of these other ways. Pay yourself.

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Speaker 1: A person pretending to be an employee ask you to

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Speaker 1: transfer money to yourself to resolve a fraudulent activity. I mean,

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Speaker 1: come on, don't fall for that. One grandparent someone impersonating

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Speaker 1: a loved one and a crisis, claims their car broke

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Speaker 1: down or they lost their wallet. They need money right away.

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Speaker 1: Tech support. Oh my gosh, I've seen this one so

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Speaker 1: many times. I can't believe it. But yeah, people get

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Speaker 1: these messages on their computer screen. It says, hey, it's

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Speaker 1: a tech support here. We noticed there's a problem with

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Speaker 1: your computer. Call this number and we'll fix it. And

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Speaker 1: people fall for this every single day. I've talked to

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Speaker 1: very smart people, I've interviewed them, and they fall for it,

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Speaker 1: because again, it's social engineering, appealing to, you know, our

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Speaker 1: good side. It's appealing to our good nature. It's appealing

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Speaker 1: to just like, oh, I got to solve this problem.

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Speaker 1: I got all my stuff on my computer. I can't

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Speaker 1: stand to lose it. Here. Let me call this number

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Speaker 1: to Windows Support and figure it out. Utility shut off

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Speaker 1: A person may pose as a utility employee saying your

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Speaker 1: service is going to be stopped unless you pay them immediately.

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Speaker 1: You might think who's going to fall for this? But

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Speaker 1: I was at dinner a couple of weeks ago and

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Speaker 1: my friend told me that his family members fell for this,

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Speaker 1: and uh, in fact, it involved some of his money

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Speaker 1: as well. So this happens and not everyone you know,

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Speaker 1: for me, you know, in sitting around this table, we

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Speaker 1: were all talking about how we would figure this out,

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Speaker 1: be like, well, wouldn't you log into your account, wouldn't

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Speaker 1: you see if you owe any money? Wouldn't you get

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Speaker 1: a big red letter in the mail like five or

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Speaker 1: ten times saying like you owe this money before you

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Speaker 1: resolve this. But the way these scam artists got this

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Speaker 1: person is that they they really preyed upon the immediacy

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Speaker 1: of this and this person had something going on they

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Speaker 1: didn't want to you know, story in the holidays, they

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Speaker 1: had people over, they didn't want their power to go out,

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Speaker 1: and so they paid, and of course it was a

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Speaker 1: big scam. Following tips, Oh, romance, that's another one. Scammer

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Speaker 1: creates a fake profile. I mean, I'm sure I'm not

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Speaker 1: on the dating apps, but I'm sure this is must

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01:22:22,760 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 1: be a huge concern on these dating apps when you

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Speaker 1: try to text people back and forth, and of course

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Speaker 1: there's just a lot of scammers on there. You got

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Speaker 1: to be careful there because you know, once you get

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Speaker 1: love involved, that's a whole other level of scamminess. All right,

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Speaker 1: How to protect yourself, guard your personal information. Don't give

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Speaker 1: it out. I don't give information out to anyone. You

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01:22:41,280 --> 01:22:43,760
Speaker 1: gotta be very careful about who you give your information out.

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Speaker 1: Don't act immediately. These scammers often they're preying upon our

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Speaker 1: time and sort of the immediacy of the solution. Don't

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01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:55,679
Speaker 1: act immediately. Use a lot of caution when you're sending money.

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Speaker 1: I talked about this earlier in the show. But you

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01:22:57,360 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: can send money so fast using things like zell, Venmo

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01:23:01,720 --> 01:23:04,360
Speaker 1: or PayPal. Just be very very careful and make sure

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Speaker 1: you know who the recipient is. Once that money goes,

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Speaker 1: it's not coming back, I'll be honest. It's just it's

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Speaker 1: a one way street with these apps. You're never getting

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Speaker 1: your money back if you paid out to someone that

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Speaker 1: you shouldn't, and also if you have to credit or

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Speaker 1: debit cards. They do give you a little bit of

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Speaker 1: protection in these circumstances, and I guess that's why Chase

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Speaker 1: is sending it out. Similarly, Chat GPT, you've probably heard

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Speaker 1: about this. Everyone's talking about this amazing new website. Do

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01:23:32,680 --> 01:23:36,000
Speaker 1: not pay to use Chat GPT right now. There is

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01:23:36,040 --> 01:23:38,560
Speaker 1: no paid chat GPT as of right now. There's a

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Speaker 1: bunch of apps. If you search in the app store.

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Speaker 1: Chat GPT. This is this new search engine that's supposed

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01:23:44,200 --> 01:23:47,719
Speaker 1: to take on Google. It's amazing artificial intelligence. It's free.

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Speaker 1: If you want to use it, just go to the

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Speaker 1: website chat dot OpenAI dot com and that is the

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Speaker 1: way you can use it for free. Again chat dot

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Speaker 1: OpenAI dot com. Yes, in the future they may have

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Speaker 1: a paid service, they may have a paid app, but

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01:24:02,479 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 1: that's not happening right now. So if you're looking for

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01:24:05,200 --> 01:24:08,280
Speaker 1: an app on the App Store or Google Play for

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01:24:08,439 --> 01:24:11,800
Speaker 1: chat GPT, do not pay for them, do not download them.

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01:24:12,240 --> 01:24:14,200
Speaker 1: Just go to the website on your web browser chat

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Speaker 1: dot OpenAI dot com. And by the way, if you

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Speaker 1: have not used chat GPT, you got to try it out.

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Speaker 1: It is quite phenomenal. It's in beta, it's a test,

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Speaker 1: but this is going to give Google a run for

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01:24:25,800 --> 01:24:29,839
Speaker 1: its money. In fact, Google's entire business in every business.

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01:24:29,920 --> 01:24:32,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it's really quite phenomenal. What you can ask

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01:24:32,280 --> 01:24:35,639
Speaker 1: this thing. One app was charging eight bucks a week

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01:24:35,680 --> 01:24:37,680
Speaker 1: to use it. And by the way, these apps are

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01:24:37,720 --> 01:24:40,240
Speaker 1: totally free. You don't need to use you don't need

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01:24:40,240 --> 01:24:42,000
Speaker 1: to pay for an app. There's not even an official app.

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01:24:42,040 --> 01:24:44,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I guess there is right now, but again

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01:24:44,439 --> 01:24:48,519
Speaker 1: it's it's free to use. So chat GPT is free.

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01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:50,360
Speaker 1: How many times I have to say that? I don't know.

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01:24:51,840 --> 01:24:54,519
Speaker 1: Coming up, we're gonna talk TV. I'm very excited for

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01:24:54,600 --> 01:24:58,160
Speaker 1: my guests. He is the senior editor at Digital Trends.

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01:24:58,200 --> 01:25:00,880
Speaker 1: He's going to talk about the best team for Super

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01:25:00,920 --> 01:25:04,040
Speaker 1: Bowl Sunday, which is coming up. We're also going to

1713
01:25:04,080 --> 01:25:06,759
Speaker 1: talk about the tracker that I've been using in my wallet.

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01:25:06,800 --> 01:25:09,439
Speaker 1: It's really really cool. You can give me a call

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01:25:09,479 --> 01:25:12,519
Speaker 1: triple eight Rich one oh one one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two, four to one zero one. You're

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01:25:15,160 --> 01:25:19,800
Speaker 1: listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome back to Rich on Tech,

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01:25:19,880 --> 01:25:21,640
Speaker 1: the show where I talk about the tech stuff I

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01:25:21,640 --> 01:25:24,760
Speaker 1: think you should know about and answer your questions. My

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01:25:24,880 --> 01:25:28,200
Speaker 1: name is Rich DeMuro. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA

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01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:31,479
Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles, hanging out with you today,

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01:25:32,080 --> 01:25:34,720
Speaker 1: taking your calls, and just talking about the stuff that

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01:25:34,840 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: has happened throughout the week. This show is all about,

1724
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:41,040
Speaker 1: you know, useful tech information, and that's really my goal

1725
01:25:41,240 --> 01:25:44,559
Speaker 1: is to make this super super useful, So not just

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01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:46,720
Speaker 1: the stuff I talk about, but also the calls that

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01:25:46,760 --> 01:25:47,200
Speaker 1: we take.

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01:25:47,600 --> 01:25:47,760
Speaker 2: You know.

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01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:50,200
Speaker 1: I want you to learn. I want you to have

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01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,880
Speaker 1: a takeaway from each and every one of these. Will

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01:25:53,040 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: is in New York, New York. Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Will Hey, thank you for taking the call, and I'm

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01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:02,840
Speaker 5: enjoying the show today. So, but I want to ask

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01:26:03,080 --> 01:26:06,479
Speaker 5: I have I've had a Gmail account for almost twenty

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01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 5: years now, and this past year, maybe six months ago,

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01:26:11,200 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 5: they told me I was at my like my limit

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01:26:15,640 --> 01:26:18,639
Speaker 5: of the amount of volume I'd used. I don't even

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01:26:18,680 --> 01:26:22,719
Speaker 5: know the my gigabytes. I guess yeah, and but both

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01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:26,240
Speaker 5: with the Gmail and also I guess Google Photos. So

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01:26:26,520 --> 01:26:29,240
Speaker 5: it wants me to start paying two dollars a month

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01:26:29,600 --> 01:26:32,479
Speaker 5: or twenty dollars and two dollars a month. And I've had,

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01:26:32,560 --> 01:26:36,280
Speaker 5: you know, my my credit debit card on file with them,

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01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 5: and then my my card number change, so interrupted it

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01:26:41,280 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 5: just the convenience of this doesn't feel great. And also

1745
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,920
Speaker 5: I'm wondering if that's the best value for me to do,

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01:26:48,080 --> 01:26:50,639
Speaker 5: and also if I want to stay married to Google,

1747
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:54,320
Speaker 5: you know, going forward. I mean, it's really handy and

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01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:58,240
Speaker 5: I don't want to lose this Gmail account, But I

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01:26:58,280 --> 01:27:01,519
Speaker 5: guess I'm putting it all out there for advice. You

1750
01:27:01,600 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 5: know what, what do you think is the best way

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01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:09,200
Speaker 5: to go both there's a fight, you pay or to

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01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:10,639
Speaker 5: another service? What do you think?

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01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:13,759
Speaker 1: Okay, so I I number one. When when Gmail first

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01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:17,120
Speaker 1: came out, they had this little kind of number one.

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01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:18,840
Speaker 1: It gave you, like I think it was a gigabyte

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01:27:18,880 --> 01:27:21,880
Speaker 1: of storage, and it was just like, whoa what a gigabyte?

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01:27:21,880 --> 01:27:24,520
Speaker 1: Because back in the day, hotmail was like ten megabytes

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01:27:24,640 --> 01:27:27,000
Speaker 1: or one. It was a tiny amount, right, And so

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01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,160
Speaker 1: Gmail came along and blew everyone out of the water.

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01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 1: Everyone signed up. It was amazing, It worked really well,

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01:27:32,760 --> 01:27:36,080
Speaker 1: and it was also supposed to increase as it went along,

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01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,240
Speaker 1: like they had this little ticker on the homepage that

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01:27:38,280 --> 01:27:41,200
Speaker 1: showed that your storage was always increasing, like every second

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01:27:41,200 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 1: of every day. And then, of course Google became a

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01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:48,959
Speaker 1: wildly successful company. So many people signed up and they realized,

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01:27:49,040 --> 01:27:51,360
Speaker 1: oh wait, we actually have to pay for the storage

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01:27:51,400 --> 01:27:54,120
Speaker 1: that we're giving to people for free. And so now

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01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 1: things have changed a lot. Google Photos, like you said,

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01:27:57,600 --> 01:28:00,679
Speaker 1: is also linked and it's the same thing. Google Photos

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01:28:00,680 --> 01:28:05,120
Speaker 1: started out completely free, and then they started to kind of,

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01:28:05,920 --> 01:28:08,200
Speaker 1: you know, turn the ratchet a little bit on people

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01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,240
Speaker 1: and say, uh, you know, you got to pay so

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01:28:10,680 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm in the same boat I am. I've got Gmail,

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01:28:13,400 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 1: I've got Google Photos. I'm up to paying I think,

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01:28:15,840 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 1: like I think it's twenty five bucks a month because

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01:28:18,120 --> 01:28:20,000
Speaker 1: I've got such a lot of storage in there and

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01:28:20,040 --> 01:28:22,719
Speaker 1: I'm trying to pair down. So here's what I recommend.

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01:28:22,760 --> 01:28:25,200
Speaker 1: Number one. I think I think you stick with it.

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01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:27,639
Speaker 1: You can continue to pay the two dollars a month.

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01:28:27,640 --> 01:28:30,280
Speaker 1: I would obviously, I would probably pay the twenty dollars

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01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:33,000
Speaker 1: a year just to save the you know, the twenty

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01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,600
Speaker 1: percent or whatever they give you discount. But what I

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01:28:35,600 --> 01:28:37,559
Speaker 1: think you should do is see if you can get under.

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01:28:37,640 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 1: What they do is they give you a fifteen gigabyte

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01:28:40,160 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 1: limit for free, so you can see if maybe you

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01:28:43,360 --> 01:28:46,479
Speaker 1: can get over that, get under that fifteen gigabyte limit.

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01:28:46,520 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 1: And there's a couple ways of doing that. Number one

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01:28:48,960 --> 01:28:52,839
Speaker 1: go to a website called one dot Google dot com.

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01:28:52,880 --> 01:28:57,760
Speaker 1: And inside this website they have an area called clean

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01:28:57,880 --> 01:29:00,760
Speaker 1: up Storage. And so not only is that website let

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01:29:00,840 --> 01:29:03,040
Speaker 1: you see what's taking up your storage, but you can

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01:29:03,040 --> 01:29:05,200
Speaker 1: also use it to sort of clean up your storage.

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01:29:05,240 --> 01:29:07,720
Speaker 1: And so if you look at that website, it will

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01:29:07,760 --> 01:29:10,400
Speaker 1: show you the items that you have in trash or spam,

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01:29:10,960 --> 01:29:12,679
Speaker 1: and so I'm looking, I've got two hundred and thirty

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01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:16,080
Speaker 1: nine megabytes of emails and trash. I've got forty megabytes

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01:29:16,120 --> 01:29:19,920
Speaker 1: and spam. I've got nine hundred megabytes almost a gigabyte

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01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:23,360
Speaker 1: of files and trash in my Google Drive. Then it

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01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:26,240
Speaker 1: shows me my large items, so it says I can

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01:29:26,280 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: gain up to two hundred and eighty gigabytes by freeing

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01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:32,400
Speaker 1: up all this stuff. So I've got emails with large attachments,

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01:29:32,880 --> 01:29:36,880
Speaker 1: I've got large files, large videos and files or sorry,

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01:29:36,920 --> 01:29:40,280
Speaker 1: large photos and videos, and I can review those. And

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01:29:40,320 --> 01:29:43,280
Speaker 1: then you also have this thing called unsupported items, So

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01:29:43,439 --> 01:29:46,320
Speaker 1: inside your Google Photos you may have unsupported items that

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01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:49,840
Speaker 1: you can review and clean up. So that's the place

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01:29:49,880 --> 01:29:51,559
Speaker 1: to start. Have you looked at any of that stuff?

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01:29:52,520 --> 01:29:53,160
Speaker 7: I haven't.

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01:29:53,439 --> 01:29:57,720
Speaker 5: I haven't been. It seemed to daunting because I just

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01:29:57,840 --> 01:30:00,519
Speaker 5: feel like I don't want to have to going to

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01:30:00,640 --> 01:30:04,920
Speaker 5: all these documents and decide, and I'd rather My thought

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01:30:05,000 --> 01:30:07,680
Speaker 5: was always just it would be there if I needed it,

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01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:09,280
Speaker 5: right right, you and.

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Speaker 1: I agree with that, But here's the thing. There are

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01:30:11,080 --> 01:30:13,160
Speaker 1: some like I went through the other day on my

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01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,080
Speaker 1: just on a Saturday morning, and this is just the

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01:30:16,120 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 1: fun for me is I'll just sit there on my

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01:30:18,040 --> 01:30:20,439
Speaker 1: couch and I'll go through. And I looked at the

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01:30:20,479 --> 01:30:23,519
Speaker 1: files that were over one gigabyte in my Google Drive,

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01:30:23,640 --> 01:30:24,840
Speaker 1: and I just went through and I was like, do

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01:30:24,880 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 1: I need this? Okay, I can get rid of that.

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01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:28,680
Speaker 1: And so just by going you know, if you if

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01:30:28,720 --> 01:30:31,200
Speaker 1: you clean up, you know, five of those, that's five gigabytes.

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01:30:31,240 --> 01:30:33,400
Speaker 1: And for me, I'm taking a lot of video, so

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01:30:33,640 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot of those kind of

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01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:37,200
Speaker 1: files in there. The other thing you can do is

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01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:40,040
Speaker 1: that if you go to Google Photos on your phone,

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01:30:40,560 --> 01:30:42,400
Speaker 1: and Google is, by the way, added all of these

1829
01:30:42,439 --> 01:30:44,800
Speaker 1: tools in the last like year, because or year or two,

1830
01:30:44,880 --> 01:30:48,320
Speaker 1: because you know, people are getting much more savvy about this,

1831
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 1: because they're when when you're forced into paying or when

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01:30:50,840 --> 01:30:53,360
Speaker 1: you have to start paying, you're a little bit more critical.

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01:30:53,400 --> 01:30:54,960
Speaker 1: You're like, oh wait a second, let me see do

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01:30:55,000 --> 01:30:56,680
Speaker 1: I really have all this stuff in there? Do I

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01:30:56,720 --> 01:30:59,160
Speaker 1: need it? So if you go into your Google Photos

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01:30:59,200 --> 01:31:01,240
Speaker 1: and then you tap your profile picture in the upper

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01:31:01,320 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 1: right hand corner, then you tap managed storage, it'll give

1838
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,599
Speaker 1: you a whole bunch of tools you can use where

1839
01:31:06,600 --> 01:31:10,240
Speaker 1: you can review and delete large photos and videos, videos

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01:31:10,240 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: from other apps, screenshots, which right now I've got two

1841
01:31:13,200 --> 01:31:16,439
Speaker 1: gigabytes of those, and then blurry photos. And the other

1842
01:31:16,479 --> 01:31:19,120
Speaker 1: thing that I do is I'm pretty brutal about going

1843
01:31:19,240 --> 01:31:23,280
Speaker 1: in my Gmail and I will search using the search

1844
01:31:23,320 --> 01:31:27,280
Speaker 1: bar in Gmail for anything that has a large attachment.

1845
01:31:27,760 --> 01:31:30,680
Speaker 1: And so you can just tap in there, say has attachment,

1846
01:31:30,800 --> 01:31:33,479
Speaker 1: and then put a size limit on there of like

1847
01:31:33,520 --> 01:31:39,120
Speaker 1: you know, over ten megabytes and go through and see

1848
01:31:39,200 --> 01:31:41,200
Speaker 1: or just over twenty five megabytes and see what you

1849
01:31:41,240 --> 01:31:43,519
Speaker 1: can get rid of that way. So there are many

1850
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:46,040
Speaker 1: options for clearing this stuff out. But I agree we're

1851
01:31:46,080 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 1: all in this area of you know, once you're on

1852
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 1: that payment train, it's tough to get off, all right.

1853
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:54,080
Speaker 1: Coming up next, we're going to talk TVs with a

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01:31:54,080 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: special guest, the best TVs for Super Bowl coming up.

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01:31:58,400 --> 01:32:00,720
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech, the show where we

1856
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:03,640
Speaker 1: talk about tech stuff and answer your questions and have

1857
01:32:03,760 --> 01:32:09,280
Speaker 1: on fantastic guests like this guy. Caleb Dennison is the

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01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:14,280
Speaker 1: editor at large for Digital Trends and he is a

1859
01:32:14,360 --> 01:32:17,080
Speaker 1: TV expert, and we're going to talk about TVs for

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01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:20,160
Speaker 1: Super Bowl because it's coming up. Caleb, Welcome to the show.

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01:32:21,120 --> 01:32:21,880
Speaker 3: Thanks for having me.

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01:32:21,920 --> 01:32:22,599
Speaker 2: Great to be here.

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01:32:22,760 --> 01:32:25,080
Speaker 1: Hey, good to see us ces. Did you have a

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01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:25,760
Speaker 1: good time there?

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01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:29,720
Speaker 3: I did have a good time. It was much busier

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01:32:29,760 --> 01:32:32,680
Speaker 3: than the year prior, so a lot more activity. Good

1867
01:32:32,720 --> 01:32:35,040
Speaker 3: to see some folks that I haven't seen a long time.

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01:32:35,760 --> 01:32:39,599
Speaker 3: But the TV exhibitions were especially good this year.

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01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:43,040
Speaker 1: I felt okay. Super Bowls coming up February twelveth, this

1870
01:32:43,080 --> 01:32:45,400
Speaker 1: is kind of the time when people I don't know

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01:32:45,439 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 1: they do people still upgrade for the Super Bowl. I

1872
01:32:47,439 --> 01:32:49,080
Speaker 1: think they do because I get a lot of questions

1873
01:32:49,080 --> 01:32:49,760
Speaker 1: around this time.

1874
01:32:51,960 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 3: I get a lot of questions around this time as well.

1875
01:32:54,200 --> 01:32:57,400
Speaker 3: I think the Super Bowl is an occasion to get

1876
01:32:57,439 --> 01:33:00,360
Speaker 3: geared up and a lot of folks want to get

1877
01:33:00,600 --> 01:33:03,080
Speaker 3: a fancy new TV so they can see this huge

1878
01:33:03,160 --> 01:33:05,160
Speaker 3: game in the best possible way.

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01:33:05,200 --> 01:33:08,800
Speaker 1: Which is still not broadcast in four K? Is it?

1880
01:33:08,800 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 2: It is not?

1881
01:33:10,000 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 3: Unfortunately four K broadcasts are getting a little bit more common,

1882
01:33:16,280 --> 01:33:20,599
Speaker 3: but the getting the Super Bowl broadcast in four K

1883
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 3: is a pretty monumental challenge and they're still working up

1884
01:33:24,320 --> 01:33:24,559
Speaker 3: to that.

1885
01:33:24,800 --> 01:33:28,000
Speaker 1: Okay. I mean, it's it's kind of odd how long

1886
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:29,760
Speaker 1: it's taken. You think that that would be kind of

1887
01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:33,519
Speaker 1: a event that they'd want to get on four K

1888
01:33:33,680 --> 01:33:36,719
Speaker 1: like immediately. But anyway, Okay, so I'm scrolling through on

1889
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:39,040
Speaker 1: you know, best buy dot com and I'm looking at

1890
01:33:39,040 --> 01:33:43,040
Speaker 1: all these different terminologies. Okay, l ED, Mini l A,

1891
01:33:43,160 --> 01:33:47,960
Speaker 1: D O LEAD, Q LEAD or q l ED. What

1892
01:33:48,000 --> 01:33:49,360
Speaker 1: do you make of these? Like? What what do we

1893
01:33:49,400 --> 01:33:51,200
Speaker 1: need to know about these terms?

1894
01:33:52,240 --> 01:33:58,120
Speaker 3: Sure? Well, there's really only two prominent display technology types

1895
01:33:58,200 --> 01:34:01,479
Speaker 3: out there. You've got the OLED, which we call in

1896
01:34:01,520 --> 01:34:05,040
Speaker 3: emissive display. This is an organic compound that makes its

1897
01:34:05,080 --> 01:34:08,679
Speaker 3: own light at the pixel level. And then you've got

1898
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:13,640
Speaker 3: basically LED LCD TV. You know, we've seen changes to

1899
01:34:13,920 --> 01:34:15,720
Speaker 3: how the back light works, but at the end of

1900
01:34:15,720 --> 01:34:18,800
Speaker 3: the day, you still have an LCD panel with lights

1901
01:34:18,840 --> 01:34:22,000
Speaker 3: shining behind it, and that's how you get the picture

1902
01:34:22,680 --> 01:34:26,439
Speaker 3: from that. The thing is the evolution of that back light.

1903
01:34:26,880 --> 01:34:29,519
Speaker 3: The stuff that makes the light has gotten better and

1904
01:34:29,640 --> 01:34:32,479
Speaker 3: better over the years. So when we start hearing terms

1905
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 3: like mini LED, they're just using much tinier little LED

1906
01:34:37,280 --> 01:34:40,479
Speaker 3: light and more of them, which gives you a brighter

1907
01:34:40,520 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 3: picture and a little bit more control over which part

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Speaker 3: of the picture is bright and which part is dart

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Speaker 3: so you get better contrast out of the mini LED

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Speaker 3: TV with the o ED TVs. Again, each pixel is

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Speaker 3: making its own light, so when you turn it off,

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Speaker 3: it's completely off, which means you get perfect black levels.

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Speaker 3: Very good colors come out of that as well.

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Speaker 1: Now, what about the reflection, because that was a consideration

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Speaker 1: in the past, like if you got a certain TV

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Speaker 1: and you had a bright room. Do all TVs look

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Speaker 1: okay in different rooms nowadays? Or we still have that

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Speaker 1: issue with the reflection.

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Speaker 3: Well, the O LED TVs that we were talking about

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Speaker 3: tend to prefer having glossy screens, right, because they look

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Speaker 3: best when they have a glossy screen, and so sometimes

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Speaker 3: you get more reflection off of those. If you've got

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Speaker 3: a lot of bright lights in the room, or if

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Speaker 3: you've got sun coming in the windows, you're going to

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Speaker 3: see a little bit more reflection when there are darker

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Speaker 3: moments on the screen. Then you would a higher end

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Speaker 3: LED TV because they tend to put anti reflective or

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Speaker 3: anti glare coatings on those TVs so you get a

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Speaker 3: little bit less of that glare. That tends to be

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Speaker 3: a problem mostly when you got a lot of lights

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Speaker 3: in the room and you're trying to watch something dark.

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Speaker 3: When you're watching something like the super Bowl, there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of bright colors and brightness happening on the screen,

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Speaker 3: and you're less likely to run into a reflection problem

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Speaker 3: with something like that. It's mostly when you're watching movies

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Speaker 3: and there's lots of dark scenes, and that I think

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Speaker 3: brings us to an important point. When people buy TVs

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Speaker 3: for the Super Bowl, they're thinking about the Super Bowl, right,

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Speaker 3: and how good it's going to look for the sports,

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Speaker 3: But think about the other things you use your TV for.

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Speaker 3: You like to watch a lot of movies. You know,

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Speaker 3: in the time when the super Bowl is not on,

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Speaker 3: you might want to get a TV that's going to

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Speaker 3: look great for movies as well, and anti glared coating

1945
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Speaker 3: can really help when you're watching during the day.

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Caleb Dennison. He is the editor at

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Speaker 1: large for Digital Trends on social media at Caleb Underscore. Dennison, so,

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Speaker 1: what about this idea of four K versus eight K?

1949
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Speaker 1: Do we need to get the eight K TV just yet?

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Speaker 3: I am telling most folks know you do not. Eight

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01:36:57,120 --> 01:37:01,520
Speaker 3: K is something that seemed like a nat full progression

1952
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Speaker 3: from four K, and now that there's a lot of

1953
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Speaker 3: four K content that we can watch, we can kind

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Speaker 3: of get rid of this conversation about how, oh, there's

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Speaker 3: no content to watch in four K, why would I

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Speaker 3: want a four K TV? Well, these days almost all

1957
01:37:15,640 --> 01:37:18,200
Speaker 3: TVs are are four K, and everything's.

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Speaker 1: In four K. I mean Netflix is in four K.

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Speaker 1: I mean all the movies, everything that's streaming is pretty

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Speaker 1: much in four K at this point if you're paying

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Speaker 1: for it.

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Speaker 3: By the way, yeah, exactly. If you play pay for

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Speaker 3: the premium tier of many different streaming services and even

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Speaker 3: cable channels, some of them are available in four K

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Speaker 3: from time to time. So there's lots of four K content.

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Speaker 2: If you're getting.

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Speaker 3: Anything over, say at thirty seven inch TV, it's probably

1968
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Speaker 3: going to be four K anyway, you don't really need

1969
01:37:42,400 --> 01:37:44,040
Speaker 3: to think about it. But if you're looking at a

1970
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Speaker 3: very premium TV, a lot of those TVs are our

1971
01:37:48,880 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 3: eight K resolution. For a while there, manufacturers put their

1972
01:37:52,720 --> 01:37:56,200
Speaker 3: best stuff into eight K TVs, and so it's less

1973
01:37:56,240 --> 01:37:59,120
Speaker 3: of a question about whether you really needed that eight

1974
01:37:59,240 --> 01:38:01,720
Speaker 3: K resolution in that AK panel and more a question

1975
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Speaker 3: of did you want to get the best you could

1976
01:38:04,320 --> 01:38:08,479
Speaker 3: possibly buy. We're seeing manufacturers back down from that now.

1977
01:38:09,040 --> 01:38:12,599
Speaker 3: There were not that many aktvs at the big Cees

1978
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:14,840
Speaker 3: Electronics show that you and I were just at and

1979
01:38:14,960 --> 01:38:18,240
Speaker 3: I think that is that's basically saying the brands have

1980
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Speaker 3: got it. They're like message receives you guys aren't interested

1981
01:38:21,280 --> 01:38:23,599
Speaker 3: in AK, so we're going to quit trying to shove

1982
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Speaker 3: it down your throat so much. I would not worry

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Speaker 3: about getting an AKTV right now.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's that's fair, So let's talk about I mean,

1985
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Speaker 1: I think the most popular is going to be your

1986
01:38:33,760 --> 01:38:36,200
Speaker 1: budget pick. What's your budget TV pick?

1987
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Speaker 3: There's a couple. They're both made by TCL. TCL has

1988
01:38:43,080 --> 01:38:47,799
Speaker 3: really done an outstanding job providing really great picture quality

1989
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Speaker 3: for a very attainable price. So whether you're looking at

1990
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Speaker 3: the TCL five series or you want to spend a

1991
01:38:54,720 --> 01:38:58,280
Speaker 3: little bit more and get the TCL six series, both

1992
01:38:58,360 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 3: of those are outstanding options that are very affordable no

1993
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:03,680
Speaker 3: matter which screen size you get.

1994
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Speaker 1: And what if you wanted a little step up, like

1995
01:39:06,200 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 1: what do you have like a middle ground pick? Like

1996
01:39:08,360 --> 01:39:10,800
Speaker 1: if I don't necessarily want budget but I don't want

1997
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:12,439
Speaker 1: to spend the most, you have something in the middle.

1998
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd like the Samsung Q seventy. The Q seventy

1999
01:39:19,600 --> 01:39:22,200
Speaker 3: is kind of this sweet spot for Samsung where it's

2000
01:39:22,240 --> 01:39:25,280
Speaker 3: not outrageously expensive, but boy does it pack a punch.

2001
01:39:25,960 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 3: It's got great HDR performance and good color. That's a

2002
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:34,799
Speaker 3: really solid pick. And you know, I mentioned the TCL

2003
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:37,439
Speaker 3: six series earlier, that one kind of treads into the

2004
01:39:38,200 --> 01:39:41,240
Speaker 3: mid tier territory. So if you're buying a larger screen size,

2005
01:39:41,320 --> 01:39:44,400
Speaker 3: it's definitely in the mid tier. But it has a

2006
01:39:44,520 --> 01:39:47,040
Speaker 3: really great performance as well. So those are both good

2007
01:39:47,280 --> 01:39:48,400
Speaker 3: good options to look at.

2008
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Speaker 1: What about a premium set, Like, I want the best

2009
01:39:51,160 --> 01:39:53,320
Speaker 1: of the best, What am I getting if I want

2010
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Speaker 1: the absolute top of the line.

2011
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Speaker 3: I mean, for me, the best TV of two was

2012
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Speaker 3: the Sony A ninety five K. That's a quantum dot

2013
01:40:05,240 --> 01:40:08,479
Speaker 3: o lip so they took Olt technology, they threw quantum

2014
01:40:08,560 --> 01:40:12,360
Speaker 3: dots on it for even brighter, more well saturated colors,

2015
01:40:12,880 --> 01:40:16,840
Speaker 3: and that TV is just spectacular. The only bummer about

2016
01:40:16,880 --> 01:40:19,840
Speaker 3: the Sony A ninety five K is that only goes

2017
01:40:19,960 --> 01:40:22,560
Speaker 3: up to sixty five inches right now. So if you

2018
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 3: want the best sixty five inch TV, you can get

2019
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:28,320
Speaker 3: the Sony A ninety five K is the one. If

2020
01:40:28,360 --> 01:40:31,840
Speaker 3: you want a larger screen size but equally premium performance,

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01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 3: I'd be looking at the lg C two that guy

2022
01:40:35,600 --> 01:40:38,519
Speaker 3: goes all the way up to eighty three inches. I

2023
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:41,480
Speaker 3: believe it is, and that is just an outstanding television

2024
01:40:41,680 --> 01:40:42,920
Speaker 3: all the way around.

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Speaker 1: And do you get the smarts built in? I mean

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Speaker 1: most of these TVs have their own sort of operating

2027
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Speaker 1: system built in. I like to attach, you know, an

2028
01:40:52,400 --> 01:40:55,519
Speaker 1: external like Apple TV or whatever, but it seems like

2029
01:40:55,560 --> 01:40:57,360
Speaker 1: people just want something built in. Huh.

2030
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: These days, just about every TV has some kind of

2032
01:41:01,760 --> 01:41:06,080
Speaker 3: smarts built in, whether that's Roku or Google TV. LG

2033
01:41:06,280 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 3: has its own brand, and Samsung's got it so a

2034
01:41:09,000 --> 01:41:11,320
Speaker 3: brand as well. But like all the apps that you

2035
01:41:11,680 --> 01:41:16,040
Speaker 3: need to watch any number of different streaming services, it's

2036
01:41:16,080 --> 01:41:18,160
Speaker 3: all built in right now. So you don't have to

2037
01:41:18,280 --> 01:41:21,840
Speaker 3: get something like an Apple TV. But if you just

2038
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:25,320
Speaker 3: love that Apple TV experience, absolutely go ahead and get it.

2039
01:41:25,479 --> 01:41:27,280
Speaker 3: Throw it in one of the HDMI ports and you're

2040
01:41:27,320 --> 01:41:27,680
Speaker 3: good to go.

2041
01:41:27,880 --> 01:41:29,840
Speaker 1: All right, Caleb, thanks so much for joining me today

2042
01:41:29,840 --> 01:41:33,519
Speaker 1: on the show. I appreciate it. Episode number two My pleasure.

2043
01:41:33,560 --> 01:41:35,080
Speaker 3: Thanks so much, Rich, I've been an.

2044
01:41:35,000 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 1: Honor Caleb Dennison. Go follow him at Digital Trends. You

2045
01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:43,120
Speaker 1: can follow him online. He is the TV expert. So

2046
01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:45,200
Speaker 1: if you're looking for a new TV. Just look at

2047
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:47,320
Speaker 1: some of his reviews. He just gave us some great,

2048
01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 1: great options for Super Bowl. I know I'm looking to

2049
01:41:50,960 --> 01:41:54,320
Speaker 1: upgrade myself. Maybe I was just being a little selfish

2050
01:41:54,360 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 1: in that interview because I'm just curious for myself. You're

2051
01:41:57,280 --> 01:41:59,080
Speaker 1: listening to rich on Tech. Coming up, I'll tell you

2052
01:41:59,120 --> 01:42:01,760
Speaker 1: about the new wall tracker I've been using and it

2053
01:42:01,880 --> 01:42:06,479
Speaker 1: works pretty well. You're listening to rich on Tech. Welcome

2054
01:42:06,560 --> 01:42:10,080
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Bruce is in the San

2055
01:42:10,160 --> 01:42:13,360
Speaker 1: Gabriel Valley. Bruce, you're on with rich what's up?

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Speaker 9: First off, I wanted to congratulate you on your new show,

2057
01:42:17,200 --> 01:42:21,640
Speaker 9: Rich Well, thank you. I'm a longtime listener of your podcast.

2058
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:22,400
Speaker 1: Oh thanks.

2059
01:42:23,160 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 9: Between you and Dave Ramsey, I walked off about fifty

2060
01:42:25,640 --> 01:42:26,880
Speaker 9: two pounds over the last year.

2061
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Speaker 1: I love it. Very nice. One of my favorites too.

2062
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:33,439
Speaker 9: Give you my situation here. I'm a senior citizen and

2063
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:37,680
Speaker 9: I'm in a retiredment club for my former company. I

2064
01:42:37,880 --> 01:42:40,080
Speaker 9: have been for the last couple of years the Zoom

2065
01:42:40,240 --> 01:42:44,600
Speaker 9: administrator for our monthly meetings. Now that we're able to

2066
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 9: go back in person, I've been tasked with setting up

2067
01:42:49,880 --> 01:42:54,719
Speaker 9: and equipping hybrid meetings. So I need to know where

2068
01:42:54,880 --> 01:43:00,720
Speaker 9: to learn basically production technology and what you recommend for

2069
01:43:01,240 --> 01:43:06,000
Speaker 9: either equipment or where to check out equipment. I'm local

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01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:07,600
Speaker 9: southern California, same as you.

2071
01:43:07,880 --> 01:43:09,439
Speaker 1: And are you trying to set up like sort of

2072
01:43:09,479 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 1: a little studio where people can pop in and do

2073
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:12,280
Speaker 1: zooms or what.

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Speaker 9: No, it's going to be a large meeting hall. We've

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01:43:16,560 --> 01:43:20,759
Speaker 9: got the hall already with no equipment available. It's seating

2076
01:43:20,840 --> 01:43:25,679
Speaker 9: for about two hundred and then plus our online zoom

2077
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:27,960
Speaker 9: people who want to come back in who are either

2078
01:43:28,040 --> 01:43:30,519
Speaker 9: too far away or not able to come on any

2079
01:43:30,560 --> 01:43:31,400
Speaker 9: particular day.

2080
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Speaker 1: Oh got it. So you need like almost like you're

2081
01:43:34,640 --> 01:43:36,280
Speaker 1: live streaming and event kind of thing.

2082
01:43:37,600 --> 01:43:40,200
Speaker 9: Exactly. The closest thing that I've I've been looking a

2083
01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 9: lot online. The closest I can see is a church meeting.

2084
01:43:43,439 --> 01:43:44,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

2085
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:47,679
Speaker 9: Both, yeah, live stream and in person.

2086
01:43:48,000 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 1: Oh wow, So you need like microphones for the speakers

2087
01:43:50,400 --> 01:43:51,400
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. Huh.

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01:43:51,680 --> 01:43:54,560
Speaker 9: Absolutely, I need to be fifty years younger and go

2089
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:57,120
Speaker 9: back and take broadcast technology.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, you're gonna there's there's a couple

2091
01:44:00,720 --> 01:44:02,240
Speaker 1: of ways you can do this. I mean there's there's

2092
01:44:02,360 --> 01:44:06,000
Speaker 1: like full software where you can just use only software

2093
01:44:06,080 --> 01:44:08,519
Speaker 1: to accomplish this, and there's a lot of stuff that

2094
01:44:08,960 --> 01:44:11,080
Speaker 1: you know, sort of off the shelf software that will

2095
01:44:11,120 --> 01:44:14,720
Speaker 1: help you accomplish this with web cameras and you know,

2096
01:44:14,840 --> 01:44:18,840
Speaker 1: wireless microphones. But I think the best way to do

2097
01:44:19,000 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 1: this is realistically with a couple of cameras and I

2098
01:44:23,479 --> 01:44:26,880
Speaker 1: think a mixer as well, because you're going to want

2099
01:44:26,920 --> 01:44:30,479
Speaker 1: to feed all of this audio and video into one

2100
01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,080
Speaker 1: place that you can then send out to Zoom. So

2101
01:44:33,240 --> 01:44:34,760
Speaker 1: there's a couple of ways to accomplish this if you

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Speaker 1: want to do it with maybe just you know, software

2103
01:44:39,439 --> 01:44:42,479
Speaker 1: based experience. There's something from Logitech that I really like

2104
01:44:42,560 --> 01:44:46,400
Speaker 1: called Mevo M e v O and M e v

2105
01:44:46,640 --> 01:44:49,800
Speaker 1: o dot com. That's Mevo M e v o dot com.

2106
01:44:50,280 --> 01:44:52,479
Speaker 1: And this started out as one camera. Now they have

2107
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Speaker 1: multiple cameras that you can kind of link up together

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01:44:57,000 --> 01:44:59,479
Speaker 1: and you know, you can place some in different areas

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Speaker 1: of the room, so you got like three different cameras,

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01:45:01,439 --> 01:45:05,200
Speaker 1: maybe one wide, one close up, one side whatever. And

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Speaker 1: then the beauty is the app they have, So the

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01:45:07,880 --> 01:45:10,960
Speaker 1: app kind of brings it all together and you can

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Speaker 1: live stream to different things, so you can live stream

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01:45:13,160 --> 01:45:17,360
Speaker 1: to like you know, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Twitter. But the

2115
01:45:17,439 --> 01:45:19,280
Speaker 1: other thing you want to do is you can use

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Speaker 1: this as a webcam, and Zoom is one of these

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Speaker 1: supported platforms. So that is sort of a more of

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Speaker 1: a software based solution that you can use, which I

2119
01:45:27,760 --> 01:45:30,360
Speaker 1: think would work really well. But if you want to

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Speaker 1: get into more of a hardware solution, which I think

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01:45:33,360 --> 01:45:36,479
Speaker 1: might be better in this situation, you know, you might

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Speaker 1: have to look at just some cameras and a computer

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Speaker 1: and then also a mixer with microphones, because if you're

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Speaker 1: talking about a big room for two hundred people that

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Speaker 1: are sitting there, you probably want some microphones because these

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Speaker 1: cameras are not going to be super close up to

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Speaker 1: the person. They're not going to be right in front

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Speaker 1: of them like it would on a computer. So in

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Speaker 1: that case, I would just get a mixer. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Road makes some of the best mixer out there, especially

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Speaker 1: for these, you know, these kind of solutions. So you

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Speaker 1: get that, you get a couple of microphones, maybe lav

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Speaker 1: mics that people can put on. You connect those to

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Speaker 1: the mixture, and then you put that out and they

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Speaker 1: have a USB out on that mixture to your computer

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Speaker 1: that you're going to be bringing all this stuff in

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Speaker 1: on so you've got the cameras coming in and you've

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Speaker 1: got the mixed audio coming in as well, and then

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Speaker 1: it goes on to Zoom. So it's it's going to

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Speaker 1: take some work, it's going to take some set up,

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Speaker 1: it's going to take some you know, trial and error.

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Speaker 1: But you know, and also you'll evolve this as you

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Speaker 1: go along. So the stuff that you use day one,

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Speaker 1: you know, you may not use that day thirty. And

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Speaker 1: you know, there's some there's some more dedicated hardware solutions

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Speaker 1: out there too, Like if you go to Zoom's website

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Speaker 1: or just type in Zoom hardware. You know, Zoom has

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Speaker 1: like a whole area of recommended cameras and so they've

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Speaker 1: got different appliances for zooming. And this is really expand

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Speaker 1: did over the last couple of years because of the

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Speaker 1: whole work from home kind of stuff. But if you

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Speaker 1: go to Zoom, their website is actually zoom dot us,

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Speaker 1: Zoom dot us slash hardware, you've got all kinds of stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's probably your best place to start

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Speaker 1: is just look there for some of the different things

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Speaker 1: that they recommend, and they even have it for room

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Speaker 1: types they've got a huddle room which is two to

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Speaker 1: seven people, a conference room which is seven to nineteen people,

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Speaker 1: and a hybrid classroom which is fifteen to twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So because you're even larger than that fifteen to twenty five,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna want to look into into a more kind

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Speaker 1: of studio solution where you're kind of rolling your own solution,

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Speaker 1: like I mentioned, with a combination of software and hardware.

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Speaker 1: But the good news is you're in Los Angeles. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of production people here, and there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of stores you can go into, like physical stores like

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Speaker 1: Sammy's Camera. You know that's a local place that has

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Speaker 1: a lot of kind of this stuff there and just

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Speaker 1: talk to people and see what they recommend, what of

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Speaker 1: a people used, what have other people done, and you

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Speaker 1: know that would be my start. So great question Zoom.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. I had to do a zoom yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I used to have a good zoom setup in my

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Speaker 1: home when I was doing remotes for TV during the pandemic,

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Speaker 1: and it was nicely set up. It was never perfectly

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Speaker 1: set up, Like the lighting was never as good as

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Speaker 1: I wanted, camera was never as good as I wanted.

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Speaker 1: But it worked, And yesterday I had to do a

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Speaker 1: zoom with someone and it's just my camera looked horrible.

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Speaker 1: My lighting was bad. I mean, unless you have a

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Speaker 1: good setup, sometimes these zoom calls you just it's like

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Speaker 1: I'd rather just be in person sometimes because they're just

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Speaker 1: you know, you gotta have a good setup. You gotta

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Speaker 1: have one of those ring lights and all that good stuff. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: great question. Thanks for that. All right, let me quickly

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Speaker 1: tell you about this card finder. I've been using Chipolo

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Speaker 1: card Spot. This is an air tag, but for your wallet.

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Speaker 1: It's made by a company called Chipolo c h I

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Speaker 1: p O l O. It's called the card Spot and

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Speaker 1: it looks like a credit card, but it uses the

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Speaker 1: Apple find My network to locate your wallet. So this

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Speaker 1: slips into your wallet like a credit card. It costs

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Speaker 1: about thirty five dollars and you can use the find

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Speaker 1: My app on your iPhone to find where this is.

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Speaker 1: So it's using all the other Apple devices in the

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Speaker 1: world to locate your wallet, just like an air tag.

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Speaker 1: But an air tag is too thick to put in

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Speaker 1: your wallet. Now, how did they get this to fit

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Speaker 1: in your wallet? Well, the battery is not user replaceable,

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Speaker 1: so you pay thirty five dollars for this. It lasts

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Speaker 1: about two years. It will help you see where your

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Speaker 1: wallet is on a map. You can play a sound

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Speaker 1: so you can hear where your wallet is. You can

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Speaker 1: see the last known location. I'll send you alert if

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Speaker 1: you leave your wallet behind. But when the two years

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Speaker 1: is up, you can then just send this back in.

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Speaker 1: They will recycle it, replace the battery, and they'll send

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Speaker 1: you a new one for seventeen bucks. So Topolo card

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Speaker 1: Spot highly recommend checking it out. If you want the

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Speaker 1: power of an air tag in your wallet, that's going

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Speaker 1: to do it for this episode of the show. If

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Speaker 1: you want to submit a question for me to answer,

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Speaker 1: you can go to my website Richontech dot tv and

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Speaker 1: hit the email icon. You can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech. If you want to

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Speaker 1: see my TV segments, you can find me on YouTube

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Speaker 1: KTLA channel or you can download the ktla plus app.

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Speaker 1: Next week, I'm going to share my favorite apps for journaling. Yes,

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Speaker 1: my goal is to journal in the new year. I

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Speaker 1: think there's so many benefits to journaling, so I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what I found there. Once again, my name is

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Speaker 1: rich Dmiro. Thanks so much for listening, especially to episode

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Speaker 1: number two. We're building this thing up. There are so

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Speaker 1: many ways you can spend your time. I really do

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Speaker 1: appreciate you spending it right here with me. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon