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Speaker 1: Sony reinvents the earbuds for an always on world. Google's

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Speaker 1: new software turns any computer into a Chromebook, an app

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Speaker 1: that lets you do an I test right from your smartphone,

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Channel five in Los Angeles. Welcome to the show man.

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Speaker 1: It feels good to be doing a show that's proper

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Speaker 1: this week, because last week was just you have no idea.

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Speaker 1: So I so I had a problem with my board

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Speaker 1: and so I spent like two hours trying different MIC setups,

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Speaker 1: saw me on Instagram or Facebook at rich on Tech,

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Speaker 1: you already know this. But this is my This week

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Speaker 1: marks my eleventh year at KTLA Los Angeles. I cannot

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Speaker 1: first story of the week, Sony earbuds. These link buds

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Speaker 1: and I will explain why I think that this is

430
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Speaker 1: really important for someone like me. So I post a story,

431
00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,200
Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of followers on Instagram, and people

432
00:21:57,320 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 1: immediately start replying. Now, the only two ways to reply

433
00:22:00,640 --> 00:22:03,920
Speaker 1: to a story historically on Instagram is to either use

434
00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,119
Speaker 1: one of their pre programmed emojis that pops up when

435
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:10,360
Speaker 1: you tap into the little response field, or you can

436
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,280
Speaker 1: type a message in that same field. And so you

437
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,640
Speaker 1: can imagine with someone like me, with you know, over

438
00:22:15,640 --> 00:22:18,479
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand people on Instagram, even if you know

439
00:22:18,880 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 1: one percent of people respond, that's one hundred responses, right,

440
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:25,679
Speaker 1: And so that is all messages. And if people are

441
00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:29,000
Speaker 1: just responding with a clapping hand emoji or a love

442
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,720
Speaker 1: or a you know whatever these little emojis they give you,

443
00:22:32,800 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 1: or like a quick note that says like cool, awesome,

444
00:22:35,720 --> 00:22:39,080
Speaker 1: thank you great, that's a lot for me to go

445
00:22:39,200 --> 00:22:41,240
Speaker 1: through when it comes to looking at my dms, and

446
00:22:41,320 --> 00:22:43,520
Speaker 1: so it really does kind of clutter up my dms,

447
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:44,920
Speaker 1: and I try to go through all of them to

448
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,840
Speaker 1: reply to everyone. And so sometimes they just like things

449
00:22:47,840 --> 00:22:51,000
Speaker 1: back this or that. So now I think Instagram really

450
00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:55,520
Speaker 1: has a user the user experience in mind, and kind

451
00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:58,080
Speaker 1: of streamlining it with this feature. Because now if people

452
00:22:58,320 --> 00:23:00,600
Speaker 1: like my story, which is kind of like a common

453
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,280
Speaker 1: thing to do, you just like it just like you

454
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 1: would a picture. It will just go on your story

455
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,160
Speaker 1: page that only you can see, so you can see

456
00:23:08,160 --> 00:23:10,080
Speaker 1: sort of the insights to your story, like how many

457
00:23:10,080 --> 00:23:12,439
Speaker 1: people looked at it, how many people clicked your links,

458
00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. This will just reside on there.

459
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,960
Speaker 1: So it's a very easy way to kind of just

460
00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: build some more analytics into your stories, but also let

461
00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 1: people respond to them in a way that's much more

462
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:27,080
Speaker 1: fluid if they don't really have anything to say. It's

463
00:23:27,119 --> 00:23:30,520
Speaker 1: just easier and so a lot less clutter there. Now,

464
00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:32,159
Speaker 1: the way you do it is you're gonna see a

465
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: little heart icon right in between the text box under

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00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:38,120
Speaker 1: a story and the little airplane that lets you share

467
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,160
Speaker 1: that story to someone else. But or I guess send

468
00:23:41,240 --> 00:23:43,160
Speaker 1: that story. I don't know what the little share thing does.

469
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,359
Speaker 1: I gotta look, but I guess I can check right now.

470
00:23:46,480 --> 00:23:49,280
Speaker 1: I've got Instagram right here on my phone, so let's

471
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: see if I go to someone's story. Okay, yeah, it

472
00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,600
Speaker 1: lets you send it to someone else. So the point

473
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: is this is just so much easier. I have not

474
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:59,880
Speaker 1: seen this yet up here on my Instagram, but usually

475
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: Instagram is one of these I don't know why. Instagram

476
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:06,160
Speaker 1: is one of these services that announces things and then

477
00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:09,359
Speaker 1: does it so much later, like it takes. It could

478
00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:11,040
Speaker 1: take a month for this feature to show up on

479
00:24:11,040 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: my Instagram. But at least now you know you've got

480
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 1: the heads up. You'll soon be able to like stories

481
00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: on Instagram. And absolutely if you want to continue responding

482
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:21,399
Speaker 1: to my stories with emojis or a couple of words

483
00:24:21,440 --> 00:24:23,159
Speaker 1: here and there, I will take it. But if you

484
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,520
Speaker 1: want to just like them and say, Rich, hey, I

485
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: like this, thank you, don't even need whatever implied thank you,

486
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:37,880
Speaker 1: then I'm totally cool with that too, all right, Mark says, hey,

487
00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: Rich your recent review of the s twenty two, when

488
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,159
Speaker 1: you moved your iPhone simcard to the Samsung device, it

489
00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:47,520
Speaker 1: got me thinking. Do service providers normally charge for an

490
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: extra device when you do that, or do they only

491
00:24:49,680 --> 00:24:52,120
Speaker 1: look at the simcard as the device, no matter what

492
00:24:52,200 --> 00:24:55,120
Speaker 1: hardware it's plugged into. If the latter, I can see

493
00:24:55,200 --> 00:24:58,360
Speaker 1: using whatever hardware suits the setting you're currently in, for instance,

494
00:24:58,680 --> 00:25:01,840
Speaker 1: plugging your SIM into a tablet if you're taking class notes,

495
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:04,200
Speaker 1: then switching to a smartphone when you're on the run

496
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:06,879
Speaker 1: and want to use a smaller device. Thanks Mark, Mark.

497
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:10,840
Speaker 1: This opens up a fascinating discussion because I'll be quite honest,

498
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,280
Speaker 1: I have switched SIM cards into so many different devices

499
00:25:14,320 --> 00:25:17,879
Speaker 1: over the years, but when I switched my iPhone SIM

500
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: into the Galaxy S twenty two Ultra, it was the

501
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:25,280
Speaker 1: first time in years that I had switched a SIM

502
00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: card into not a non upgrade phone, And so the

503
00:25:30,000 --> 00:25:32,280
Speaker 1: last time when I upgraded my phone to the new iPhone,

504
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: I actually had to go into the Verizon store to

505
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:39,040
Speaker 1: complete the process because something about my SIM card with

506
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:40,600
Speaker 1: the old phone. I guess it was like a four

507
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,280
Speaker 1: G SIM card. They wanted to give me a five

508
00:25:42,359 --> 00:25:46,320
Speaker 1: G SIM card my phone was not working properly. I

509
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:50,200
Speaker 1: don't think they charged me for that, but I do you.

510
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,440
Speaker 1: It's interesting because as soon as I put that simcard

511
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 1: in the new phone, I got a text message from

512
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,880
Speaker 1: Verizon saying, hey, we noticed that you switched your SIM.

513
00:25:59,800 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: Please go to the website to confirm that this was

514
00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 1: a change. I was like, Ah, they're gonna charge me

515
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,280
Speaker 1: thirty bucks, aren't they for switching the SIM. Now, I

516
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:12,959
Speaker 1: don't think they did that, but they could, and I

517
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,680
Speaker 1: think in the past with other providers, I have definitely

518
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:19,080
Speaker 1: swapped out simcards to different devices, and I've had no

519
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,000
Speaker 1: problems with that because usually the device registers itself on

520
00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:25,359
Speaker 1: the network. But with all of that said, I don't

521
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: recommend that you do this regularly because there's a couple things.

522
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: Number One, they may flag your account for fraud and

523
00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,560
Speaker 1: then you have a whole headache. Number Two, it's not

524
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: very feasible to switch your SIM card from a tablet

525
00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:39,840
Speaker 1: to a smaller device every time you need to do that.

526
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: That's just going to be a total pain, and I

527
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: would not recommend doing that. I would recommend getting a

528
00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: data only line or just linking up your tablet to

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00:26:49,240 --> 00:26:53,919
Speaker 1: your phone with a hotspot situation. But Mark, it's so

530
00:26:53,960 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: funny that you wrote me this because I literally thought

531
00:26:57,200 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: of this same exact possibility when I switch that simcard,

532
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: because I got that message on my phone. But typically,

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00:27:04,080 --> 00:27:06,520
Speaker 1: I will say, in my experience, I've never had a

534
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: problem moving a SIM into a different device. The only

535
00:27:09,720 --> 00:27:13,280
Speaker 1: time I've run into issues is with unreleased devices. So

536
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:16,040
Speaker 1: let's say someone like A OnePlus sends me a device

537
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:19,159
Speaker 1: that is before it's released, and it's you know, a

538
00:27:19,200 --> 00:27:22,680
Speaker 1: couple weeks before the public has it. Sometimes I've seen

539
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:26,240
Speaker 1: that if a device is not approved on a you know,

540
00:27:26,280 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: a carrier's network, And this really only happens with Verizon

541
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: that and sometimes AT and T. But sometimes that device

542
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: will not get all of the features. So it may

543
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: not pick up a five G signal, it may not

544
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: work with voicemail, it may not do Wi Fi calling.

545
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:43,760
Speaker 1: But those those things are pretty rare and they're pretty

546
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: limited in scope, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.

547
00:27:47,800 --> 00:27:50,480
Speaker 1: But in general, what I would do is if you

548
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:52,760
Speaker 1: move your SIM card, I would if you're just a

549
00:27:52,840 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: regular person that's doing this, I would go on your account,

550
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,560
Speaker 1: make sure everything's on the up and up, and make

551
00:27:57,600 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: sure your provider knows about it, just because you do

552
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,520
Speaker 1: your The thing is, you never want your phone to

553
00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,480
Speaker 1: go out or stop working in a situation when you

554
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:08,879
Speaker 1: really need it. Now, all phones will dial nine one one,

555
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 1: whether they have a simcard in them or not, at

556
00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 1: least that's my understanding, So you should be okay there,

557
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,560
Speaker 1: But in general I would say that nine one one

558
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: is one level of sort of like Lifeline. You need that,

559
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:22,160
Speaker 1: but just being able to use your phone with data

560
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: and calling someone else is a whole other thing, and

561
00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,719
Speaker 1: you don't want to lose that access either. So good question,

562
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:30,240
Speaker 1: thanks for asking, and uh really really got me to

563
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: think on that one. All right, let's talk Uber. So

564
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:39,640
Speaker 1: Uber is a service that I have used since day

565
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,280
Speaker 1: one when it launched in Los Angeles. I've probably told

566
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:45,479
Speaker 1: you the story before, but I will never forget. So

567
00:28:45,520 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: I lived in New York before Los Angeles, and we

568
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: had these things called car services, right, and so where

569
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,040
Speaker 1: I worked at snet, once in a while, they would

570
00:28:54,080 --> 00:28:56,280
Speaker 1: give you this voucher that was like one of those

571
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: old credit card vouchers, like the carbon copy papers, and

572
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: they would say, here you go, Rich, we know you're

573
00:29:01,360 --> 00:29:04,080
Speaker 1: working late tonight, go ahead, take a car service home.

574
00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: Or hey, Rich, we're having a holiday party. Don't drive home,

575
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 1: or you know, take a don't take a cab home, here,

576
00:29:09,960 --> 00:29:13,680
Speaker 1: take a car service. And so you get these little

577
00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: slips once in a while. It was extremely expensive. You know,

578
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,000
Speaker 1: you didn't even know what it costs because the car

579
00:29:19,040 --> 00:29:21,520
Speaker 1: service would just charge your company. They had a deal

580
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: in the back end to make it a little bit

581
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,920
Speaker 1: more reasonable, but it's very expensive. Then Uber comes along

582
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 1: and Uber is like, oh, we're doing this for everyone.

583
00:29:28,040 --> 00:29:31,280
Speaker 1: Wait what on demand? Wait what? And so I'll never

584
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,640
Speaker 1: forget getting picked up to go to this party in

585
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: Santa Monica and the Uber picked me up and it

586
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: was like a twenty five dollars ride and I was like, wait, what,

587
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: how in the world is this possible? Now, maybe it

588
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: was more than twenty five dollars. I can't really remember,

589
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:48,680
Speaker 1: but I know that. All I know is that I

590
00:29:48,680 --> 00:29:51,000
Speaker 1: took Uber so much. And back in the day, it

591
00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:53,520
Speaker 1: was just town cars, so it was this really like

592
00:29:53,760 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: fancy service with a driver that would get out and

593
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: open your door for you. And then they came out

594
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,280
Speaker 1: with Uber X, and you know, obviously it's just kind

595
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: of expanded, and now they have different levels of service,

596
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:06,360
Speaker 1: so you can choose everything from the fanciest to a

597
00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:10,280
Speaker 1: car pool. But I tell you all this because Uber.

598
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: The idea of Uber has always been, well when it

599
00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: first started, was that you would rate the driver and

600
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: the driver would rate you. And so they almost came

601
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:22,959
Speaker 1: up with this eBay esque perfect store system, whereas the

602
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,200
Speaker 1: best drivers would get the best passenger, So everyone was

603
00:30:26,240 --> 00:30:28,680
Speaker 1: always striving to be better, right, and that would make

604
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 1: the service kind of almost like at checks and balance, right,

605
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:36,520
Speaker 1: And so you saw this little rating. At one point,

606
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: you never knew your rating. But then Uber finally showed

607
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: you your rating, and that was a step and it

608
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 1: was out of five. And then now today, starting now

609
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:48,080
Speaker 1: this week, you can actually see a breakdown of your ratings.

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00:30:48,120 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: So you can see out of your last five hundred drives,

611
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:54,560
Speaker 1: how drivers rated you. Now I have like a four

612
00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,160
Speaker 1: point eighty five, you want to hover around a four

613
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,479
Speaker 1: point nine, four point eight five, anything higher than they think.

614
00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: You're a new writer, so they may not want to

615
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: take you anything lower. And you know, you're kind of

616
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: like you know, who knows. So you can see these

617
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 1: ratings if you go into this what's called Privacy center.

618
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:14,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure why Uber did not just make

619
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 1: it so that you tap on your rating on your

620
00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,840
Speaker 1: profile and it brings you to see your breakdown. That

621
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 1: would make the most sense, but they didn't do that.

622
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 1: They made this like seventeen taps. So I'm not gonna

623
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:25,880
Speaker 1: I'll explain it here, but you have to go to

624
00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich on Tech to see the step

625
00:31:27,960 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: by step instructions. But what you want to do is

626
00:31:31,960 --> 00:31:35,680
Speaker 1: go to the settings menu, so you tap U. Oh gosh,

627
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: you know, I actually wrote this down on my Instagram.

628
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: It's much easier to understand than what let me just

629
00:31:41,320 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: get to that, much easier to understand than what Uber

630
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:46,800
Speaker 1: themselves actually wrote down. So okay, so here's what you do.

631
00:31:47,440 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 1: You go, you open the Uber app, you tap your

632
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,560
Speaker 1: profile picture, you tap Settings, you tap Privacy, then you

633
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,479
Speaker 1: tap Privacy Center, then you tap c summary, then you

634
00:31:55,520 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: tap view my ratings. That's one, two, three, four, five, six,

635
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: seven steps when they could have made this two steps.

636
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: Open the app, tap your rating, Boom, you see your breakdown.

637
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 1: But and what does this all mean? Not much? I mean,

638
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:10,719
Speaker 1: I do have some one stars in there. I have

639
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: no idea how I got those, but it's just one

640
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:15,240
Speaker 1: of those things where you can see. I guess it's

641
00:32:15,280 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 1: just giving us more transparency into this whole system, and

642
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:20,480
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the deal is. So if you

643
00:32:20,520 --> 00:32:23,360
Speaker 1: want to see it, go to my Instagram and see

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Speaker 1: the step by step instructions. I made a little video

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Speaker 1: about it. But oh, I wanted to mention. The best

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Speaker 1: way to avoid a bad rating ready, don't slam the door.

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Speaker 1: Uber says it's easy to accidentally slam a door if

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Speaker 1: you're not thinking about it, and drivers have consistently sighted

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Speaker 1: door slams as a reason why they deduct stars. And

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Speaker 1: I will tell you I often travel with my kids

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Speaker 1: in the Uber and airports and things like that, and yes,

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Speaker 1: they do slam the door a lot, and so or

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Speaker 1: maybe my wife slams the door. I don't know if

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00:32:54,480 --> 00:33:01,320
Speaker 1: someone slam the door, that's for sure. All right, let's

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Speaker 1: get to the next question on the podcast. Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I wonder if you can recommend a safe method to

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Speaker 1: scan my iPhone twelve for any viruses and something to

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00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:13,560
Speaker 1: safely remove them if any are found. I've checked the internet,

659
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,560
Speaker 1: which I have difficulty trusting, and found these names recommended

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00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:23,720
Speaker 1: Total av Norton, McAfee, McAfee, sorry, Bitdefender, Panda. Obviously, I

661
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:26,000
Speaker 1: would prefer a free app, at least initially to see

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Speaker 1: if there's anything there i'd recommend. I'd appreciate any guidance

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Speaker 1: you can provide. Thank you very much, Jim. Jim, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you the big old You absolutely do not

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Speaker 1: need to scan your iPhone for viruses. You just don't.

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Speaker 1: Why is that, may I ask? Number one, if you

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Speaker 1: look at any of these apps, if you search total

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Speaker 1: av and I iPhone, you will never see the word virus. Okay,

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00:33:57,960 --> 00:34:01,520
Speaker 1: because guess what. There is not a known virus for

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Speaker 1: the iPhone. There never has been, there probably won't be.

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00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:09,600
Speaker 1: There probably won't be. Now there are risks on the iPhone,

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00:34:09,680 --> 00:34:12,040
Speaker 1: and there are malware on the iPhone, which maybe you

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00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 1: might think that's a virus, but the reality is the

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00:34:14,600 --> 00:34:17,800
Speaker 1: classic virus you don't even see. It doesn't even say.

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Speaker 1: If I search virus on this website, does not bring

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Speaker 1: up anything. And the reason why is because total av

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00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,439
Speaker 1: knows that they would be kicked out of the app

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Speaker 1: store if they said the word virus, and so they don't.

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00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,919
Speaker 1: Now I will tell you, I get probably the most

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Speaker 1: emails out of my entire life about total AV. So

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00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: they are doing one heck of a job advertising all

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Speaker 1: of the scary things that can happen to your iPhone.

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00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: But let me tell you, there is almost nothing that

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Speaker 1: can happen. The worst thing that can happen on the

685
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:56,719
Speaker 1: iPhone at this point are two major things. Number One,

686
00:34:58,040 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 1: there is malicious software that is made by certain organizations

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Speaker 1: that can infiltrate your phone without you knowing and can

688
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 1: can log everything. Can you know, it can really kind

689
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,920
Speaker 1: of hack your phone in a way that is just

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00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: you wouldn't even think of, but it can be done now.

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00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:20,279
Speaker 1: It is very rare and often it is targeted to

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Speaker 1: highly specific individuals. Those individuals are heads of state, people

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Speaker 1: with high net worths, people that are you know, high

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Speaker 1: journalists that have you know that are that are you know,

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00:35:33,640 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: someone that's like a state department doesn't like them and

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00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: they want to keep track of them. So those are

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Speaker 1: kind of the threats that are out there for the

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Speaker 1: average person. The biggest threat on your iPhone is you

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00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:48,080
Speaker 1: and and clicking things that are not meant to be clicked.

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Speaker 1: So if you get a link on your phone from

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00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: a spam text and you click it, that's going to

702
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:56,839
Speaker 1: be the biggest problem. And really the biggest problem there

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00:35:56,880 --> 00:35:59,560
Speaker 1: is probably going to be phishing because they say, oh, hey,

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00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:03,239
Speaker 1: jam you need to log into your Amazon account and

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00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,799
Speaker 1: just confirm this charge, and you click that and you

706
00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: log in without thinking. The next thing, you know, your

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00:36:08,040 --> 00:36:13,439
Speaker 1: phone your account is compromised. Now am I saying there's

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Speaker 1: no such thing as a virus for the iPhone, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: There's always a possibility, there's always a potential. Just in

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00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,960
Speaker 1: my ten years of covering the iPhone, I have yet

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00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:29,520
Speaker 1: to see a wide, a mass market virus for the

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Speaker 1: iPhone that a lot of people are getting infected with. Now.

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Speaker 1: The other thing about the iPhone is that it is sandboxed,

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Speaker 1: so every app sort of runs only in itself and

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00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,759
Speaker 1: it does not really interact with the other apps or

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00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,359
Speaker 1: even the operating system at large in a big way.

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00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:49,960
Speaker 1: So it's just almost impossible for someone to write a

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00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:53,840
Speaker 1: program that worms its way in. Now, there's always exploits,

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00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: and there's always people that are trying to figure this

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00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: stuff out, and yes, it could happen. But do you

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Speaker 1: need one of these apps on your phone to scan

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00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: for viruses? Absolutely not. What I would do is number one,

723
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,400
Speaker 1: if you want a VPN, that's fine. That's something totally

724
00:37:08,440 --> 00:37:11,680
Speaker 1: different that that kind of protects your privacy and your browsing.

725
00:37:11,880 --> 00:37:14,239
Speaker 1: If you want to protect your browsing, that's another thing.

726
00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:16,600
Speaker 1: Use a use a web browser like Duck Duck Go

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00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: or Firefox Focus that covers all your tracks. That's a

728
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:22,280
Speaker 1: that's a whole nother thing. But if you want something

729
00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: that's gonna scan your phone the way it scans a

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00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 1: Windows PC for viruses, you just don't need it. Now.

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Speaker 1: Don't take this just for me. I've gotten this question

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00:37:32,719 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: so many times that I did a segment and I

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00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,959
Speaker 1: called up a security person that knows iOS and knows

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00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: security and they told me the same exact thing. They said, Yep, Rich,

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00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: pretty much nobody needs it now. An Android, they did say,

736
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:50,959
Speaker 1: it's probably beneficial. Android operating system is totally different than

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00:37:51,320 --> 00:37:55,319
Speaker 1: the iOS operating system. They're getting similar, but they're not

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00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: the same. iOS does not allow apps access to a

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00:37:58,560 --> 00:38:01,839
Speaker 1: lot of things, whereas Android it's much more integrated. So yes,

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00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,239
Speaker 1: apps do have a bit more freedom, and so there

741
00:38:04,239 --> 00:38:06,359
Speaker 1: are more things that can go wrong, and we do

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00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: see a lot more malware on the Android side of things.

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00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 1: Most of the time it's stuff that's taking advantage of

744
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: permissions or it's doing stuff in the background that it shouldn't.

745
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 1: So the way against that is to again, just use

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00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:22,640
Speaker 1: your common sense when you download an app. And I'll

747
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 1: be honest, I'm a tech a very savvy tech person,

748
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:29,840
Speaker 1: and I fell for this the other day. I downloaded

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00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:31,480
Speaker 1: an app. I was setting up the S twenty two

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Speaker 1: Ultra and I wanted to download Google Calendar, and I

751
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 1: guess I typed in Google Calendar and I clicked the

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00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,439
Speaker 1: first link that was you know, it looked like a link,

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00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: but it was for Google Calendar. It was just an

754
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: AD that was masquerading. I must have missed it. Maybe

755
00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:46,880
Speaker 1: I was tired, whatever, just didn't notice a little ad symbol.

756
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:49,239
Speaker 1: I start installing this app and it's like, first thing

757
00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:50,759
Speaker 1: I get is like a big AD and I'm like,

758
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:54,840
Speaker 1: wait what Google has ads? Wait what? And then it's like, okay,

759
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: log into your calendar. I'm like, wait what. I've never

760
00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,439
Speaker 1: had to log into Google Calendar. So I back out.

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00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:03,440
Speaker 1: The ic is so similar to Google Calendar icon and

762
00:39:03,600 --> 00:39:05,359
Speaker 1: I look at the name of the app again and

763
00:39:05,440 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: sure enough it was like, very similar to Google Calendar,

764
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,200
Speaker 1: but it wasn't. And I was like, look at this.

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00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,799
Speaker 1: If this can happen to me, yeah, this is how

766
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:17,040
Speaker 1: these people get preyed upon, All these people that download stuff. Again,

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00:39:18,120 --> 00:39:22,759
Speaker 1: Google billion billion, billion billions dollar business, right and their

768
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:26,080
Speaker 1: business all comes from ads. What do people do when

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00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: they search on Google? They just look at the first

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00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:33,000
Speaker 1: link and Google knows it. They just click that link,

771
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,240
Speaker 1: and nine times out of ten it is an AD.

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00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:39,720
Speaker 1: It is not the organic search link are search result,

773
00:39:39,760 --> 00:39:42,960
Speaker 1: I should say, And that is very important. And this

774
00:39:43,000 --> 00:39:46,680
Speaker 1: is why, honestly I would recommend some sort of ad

775
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:50,040
Speaker 1: blocker on your system because these are just misleading people

776
00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: half the time. And so you know, it's just one

777
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: of these things where I do think people are being

778
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 1: very misled. And a lot of times it happens with travel.

779
00:39:59,440 --> 00:40:01,560
Speaker 1: So when you star search for a hotel, you think

780
00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,600
Speaker 1: you're making the reservation with the actual hotel. Now you

781
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: just got a link from some random a travel site

782
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: that's advertising top of the list, and now you're booking

783
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: through them. You book your hotel room, it's non refundable,

784
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:17,000
Speaker 1: there's no there's no questions asked, there's no refunds, you

785
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:18,880
Speaker 1: can't get a hold of someone, and now you know

786
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:20,920
Speaker 1: you're you're out the two hundred bucks if you need

787
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: to change your hotel room or switch things. So again,

788
00:40:23,600 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: it takes a level of savviness that I'm not I'm

789
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,920
Speaker 1: not going to fault people for, but you know, some

790
00:40:29,000 --> 00:40:32,759
Speaker 1: of these systems are built to help people fail, and

791
00:40:33,080 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: you really really need to be on your guard and

792
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,359
Speaker 1: so yes, with iPhone twelve, you're not going to need

793
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:40,560
Speaker 1: a virus software. But does that mean nothing can happen

794
00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: to your phone? No, I think there's I think many

795
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: worse things can happen than a virus. And ninety nine

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00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:48,759
Speaker 1: point nine percent of those things are you clicking a

797
00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:51,600
Speaker 1: link that you shouldn't be clicking, or typing in information

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00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:54,799
Speaker 1: into a password that you shouldn't be clicking, or putting in,

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00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,719
Speaker 1: or getting fooled in some way. And so that's what

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00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: I think is more important to focus on than installing

801
00:41:02,120 --> 00:41:03,520
Speaker 1: some sort of app that you think is going to

802
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: save you. Just you know, you just need to be

803
00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,759
Speaker 1: you just need to realize this stuff. And so, Jim,

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00:41:09,800 --> 00:41:11,760
Speaker 1: I'm not picking on you. I'm just saying you raised

805
00:41:11,760 --> 00:41:15,760
Speaker 1: a very good question, and these companies clearly advertise based

806
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: on fear and saying, hey, you need something to protect

807
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:21,680
Speaker 1: your iPhone, when the reality is we need to learn

808
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:25,880
Speaker 1: more as humans about social engineering and how that is

809
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,760
Speaker 1: truly how I would say most people get hacked these days.

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00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on to the next story. This

811
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:38,920
Speaker 1: is this is pretty wild. This. You know, we see

812
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:43,080
Speaker 1: lots of industries being impacted by the smartphone and things

813
00:41:43,080 --> 00:41:44,520
Speaker 1: that you can do on your smartphone that you were

814
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,160
Speaker 1: never able to do before, and now you can take

815
00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 1: it an at home vision test through your smartphone. And

816
00:41:50,560 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: so this is a first of its kind vision test

817
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:56,279
Speaker 1: for something call let's see if I can get this right?

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00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:06,279
Speaker 1: Press press be Oh did I get that right? Press bopia.

819
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:08,920
Speaker 1: That's we'll just call it that. So press biopia is

820
00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: an age related vision condition affecting eighty five percent of

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00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: people over forty. And so what it does is if

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00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: you know someone like this, you know what's happened. All

823
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: of a sudden, They're holding their menu just a little bit.

824
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,520
Speaker 1: It's either let's see is it closer or further? Let's see?

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00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: Uh it is, let's see it is. It causes people

826
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,080
Speaker 1: to have difficulties seeing up close, and they find themselves

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00:42:37,160 --> 00:42:39,359
Speaker 1: having to hold a menu, phone or book at arm's

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00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,960
Speaker 1: length distance to see properly. You probably know someone that

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00:42:43,040 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: you see that you've seen holding something a little far

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00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: away and kind of adjusting their vision. So I tried

831
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: out this app. It's actually really cool. It's called the

832
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:53,799
Speaker 1: my Reader Number app. It's three dollars by the way.

833
00:42:54,200 --> 00:42:57,400
Speaker 1: It's from a company called iq e y e que.

834
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: I'll put the link in the show notes. But you

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00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:02,719
Speaker 1: hold your phone up to your nose and then you

836
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 1: and there's some text on the screen, and you just

837
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:10,200
Speaker 1: slowly bring your phone back until the item comes into focus.

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00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: And it uses some sort of sensor on the iPhone.

839
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: At least I think this is IOWA. Is it iOS only? Um?

840
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:18,919
Speaker 1: It doesn't save it. Yeah, it's only iOS for now,

841
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: But it uses some sort of sensor. I'm guessing the

842
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,400
Speaker 1: depth sensor to see how far away your phone is

843
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 1: and when your eyes come into focus. And so clearly

844
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:30,439
Speaker 1: there's a measurement of if you're you know, eighteen inches away,

845
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,439
Speaker 1: then clearly you might need some help. If you're five

846
00:43:32,480 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: inches away, you probably don't. But I came up okay,

847
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:40,240
Speaker 1: So that's good news. But it's a really neat little

848
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:41,920
Speaker 1: test that you can take it home. It's three dollars,

849
00:43:42,000 --> 00:43:44,960
Speaker 1: it's one time, and it's you can use it as

850
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,800
Speaker 1: many times as you want. It's a one time fee. Now,

851
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:53,280
Speaker 1: this this situation is very easy to fix. I guess

852
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:56,880
Speaker 1: just magnifying glasses can can fix it, like you know, lenses,

853
00:43:56,960 --> 00:44:00,160
Speaker 1: magnifying lenses, I should say. And so I guess the

854
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:03,600
Speaker 1: bottom line for this app is to not only educate consumers,

855
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: but also maybe there's a sales portion where they sell

856
00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:10,319
Speaker 1: you glasses. They give you the information you need to

857
00:44:10,360 --> 00:44:13,560
Speaker 1: figure out what reading glasses you should get, what strength

858
00:44:13,560 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: you should get. So I guess they're saying that a

859
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: lot of people. Yeah, it just looks like a lot

860
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:24,319
Speaker 1: of people just kind of guess at the store, like

861
00:44:24,440 --> 00:44:28,520
Speaker 1: what prescription. I don't know if it's a prescription per se,

862
00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:32,600
Speaker 1: but it's just you know, you just kind of pick

863
00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 1: out what might work for you, whereas this app can

864
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 1: give you actual specifics on sort of what you need,

865
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:41,959
Speaker 1: like how much magnification you need. So anyway, I thought

866
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: this was really cool. This is called the my iq

867
00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,440
Speaker 1: My Reader Number app, and it's a personalized results for

868
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: reading and computer glasses. So check it out. It's just

869
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:54,759
Speaker 1: something cool to try and see how it works for you.

870
00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,000
Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, so I can't vouch for the

871
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: fact that it's a replacement obviously for any sort of

872
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,680
Speaker 1: professional opinion. But if it's something that you were just

873
00:45:05,680 --> 00:45:08,200
Speaker 1: doing on your own and you want to supplement that,

874
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: then kind of seems cool, all right, Bob writes in

875
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: Google Chromebook Software. Hey, Rich I write this note from

876
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: a very low end Dell inspa on fourteen that used

877
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,360
Speaker 1: to be too aggravating to use. It was very slow

878
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: on the network and constantly telling me the disk space

879
00:45:24,360 --> 00:45:27,680
Speaker 1: was too low. It had only three gigabytes available from

880
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: the included Windows ten that came with it. I had

881
00:45:30,719 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: to use an SD card to store files. After using

882
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: the free Chromebook Google software, it is now a fantastic

883
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: little laptop. Performance is very good and available disk space

884
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:44,360
Speaker 1: is around nineteen gigabytes. Google hit a home run with

885
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: this one regards Bob desktop support person that is fantastic

886
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:52,960
Speaker 1: to hear. Bob, of course, is talking about the Chrome

887
00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: OS Flex, so it sounds like he was faster than

888
00:45:56,560 --> 00:46:00,480
Speaker 1: me and installing this on his Dell in Sprawn the

889
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:03,480
Speaker 1: old computer. So I'll be quite honest, I may be

890
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,719
Speaker 1: installing this on my mom's computer because she does not

891
00:46:06,760 --> 00:46:10,120
Speaker 1: do anything on her computer that requires the Windows software.

892
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: It's been slow since day one when I bought her

893
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,600
Speaker 1: this computer, and this will make it much more secure,

894
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: and pretty much all she does is use Chrome, so

895
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: I think that this is a perfect use case to

896
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:24,280
Speaker 1: do that. In fact, I've been itching for a flight

897
00:46:24,320 --> 00:46:27,160
Speaker 1: home to New Jersey. So maybe this is what I do.

898
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll go home, I'll do a story on installing

899
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: the software on her computer. Sounds like a win when

900
00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,520
Speaker 1: love when things work out like that. Anyway, Bob, thanks

901
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 1: for the feedback. I cannot wait to try this again.

902
00:46:39,000 --> 00:46:42,239
Speaker 1: It sounds exactly like what I was saying that It's

903
00:46:42,280 --> 00:46:45,000
Speaker 1: just really one of these things that Google did a

904
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: nice job for helping breathe new life into these old systems.

905
00:46:49,239 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 1: All right, very quick story with Facebook. Facebook is renaming

906
00:46:53,280 --> 00:46:56,279
Speaker 1: the news feed. It is now called ready for this,

907
00:46:56,480 --> 00:47:03,960
Speaker 1: drum roll, please feed the feed. Not nothing, it's just feed.

908
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,919
Speaker 1: So they announced this on Twitter. They said, starting today,

909
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,560
Speaker 1: our newsfeed will now be known as feed happy Scrolling,

910
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: and it has been known as the news feed since

911
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 1: the feature was introduced more than fifteen years ago, according

912
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,239
Speaker 1: to The Verge, which is just wild that we've been

913
00:47:17,320 --> 00:47:20,799
Speaker 1: using Facebook for that long. But here's the thing. I

914
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 1: think that Facebook wants to get away from news in

915
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,960
Speaker 1: their in their language, because it delineates if there is

916
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: a news product on Facebook, which I'm not sure there is.

917
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: Is there a newsproductnews dot Facebook dot com? Let me say, uh,

918
00:47:37,760 --> 00:47:40,719
Speaker 1: there is oh Facebook News? Interesting? Yeah, there totally is

919
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:42,520
Speaker 1: a news I didn't even know that. Wow, it's like

920
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 1: a whole news thing. I guess it's interesting. It's from

921
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: some of your so oh, that's really into It's like

922
00:47:47,719 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 1: a news page. I keep saying that that Facebook is

923
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: basically the AOL of twenty twenty two. It's the same thing.

924
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: You've got your video chat, you've got your video messaging,

925
00:47:56,840 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: you've got everything except email. You know, you're surfing different things,

926
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,799
Speaker 1: You're looking at people's posts, you're surfing the web in there.

927
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: I mean not really, but you know, but it's basically

928
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: if you installed it would not be too wild to

929
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:11,880
Speaker 1: have a Facebook operating system, right that just like the

930
00:48:11,920 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 1: Chrome operating system that it just installs on a laptop

931
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 1: and everything you do is through Facebook. If they had email,

932
00:48:18,160 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: it would be possible. I meany, I've got videos on there,

933
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:23,320
Speaker 1: they've got news, they've got your feed, they've got messaging.

934
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:25,360
Speaker 1: I mean, there's so many things you can do on Facebook.

935
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:29,240
Speaker 1: It's just basically the AOL of twenty twenty two. But anyway,

936
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: what was I saying, So the news feed? Yeah, so

937
00:48:31,480 --> 00:48:33,600
Speaker 1: there is a news product. So I think that feed

938
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:37,080
Speaker 1: just represents something that is more you know, we had

939
00:48:37,080 --> 00:48:40,040
Speaker 1: this whole thing with misinformation and fake news and the

940
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 1: election and politics and Cambridge Analytica, and so I think

941
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:47,600
Speaker 1: they just want to get away from the fact that, hey, look,

942
00:48:47,719 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: whatever's in this feed, like, we're not really the arbiters

943
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 1: of all things fair and just in this feed, we're

944
00:48:55,080 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: just sort of letting your friends have a free for all.

945
00:48:57,160 --> 00:48:59,080
Speaker 1: And so that's why it's called the feed. It's not

946
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:03,120
Speaker 1: the news feed any more. So that's my take on it. Now,

947
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: say what you will about Facebook, It's still a very

948
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,480
Speaker 1: popular place where people go. And I would venture to

949
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 1: say that the number one place people get news these

950
00:49:13,280 --> 00:49:17,839
Speaker 1: days is probably the Facebook feed, probably YouTube, probably Instagram.

951
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 1: I mean it's kind of scary, quite honestly. And this

952
00:49:22,239 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: is why it goes back to what I do as

953
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 1: a reporter, is I try to, you know, put things

954
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: out there that are that are good and factual. I mean,

955
00:49:31,120 --> 00:49:34,280
Speaker 1: that's like the number one goal obviously, but not everyone

956
00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: does that. I mean I see stuff on TikTok that's

957
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:39,040
Speaker 1: just like it's is it true? And I'm not. I

958
00:49:39,040 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: don't want to knock the younger generation, but I mean

959
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 1: a lot of their information is coming from TikTok, and

960
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,720
Speaker 1: that is just scary because you see these things on TikTok,

961
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 1: these new challenges, and my kids will you know, my

962
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:56,240
Speaker 1: kids will give me theories. My kid now says, hey, Dad,

963
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 1: you know I saw on YouTube that this and this.

964
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, that's not true. Oh that is not true

965
00:50:01,120 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 1: at all. Well it's just a theory. Well stop watching theories.

966
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:07,799
Speaker 1: But the problem is the YouTube algorithm will just keep

967
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:11,040
Speaker 1: serving up all the same garbage that you start watching,

968
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: and it will just continue to feed on itself. It's

969
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:16,759
Speaker 1: like a it's just like a circular hamster wheel of

970
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:19,320
Speaker 1: like trash that it will just continue to feed to

971
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:22,400
Speaker 1: you if you go down that path. And you know,

972
00:50:22,480 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: people do go down these paths. And it's like my

973
00:50:25,080 --> 00:50:29,000
Speaker 1: feed is like ninety nine percent smartphone videos, you know,

974
00:50:29,040 --> 00:50:31,640
Speaker 1: people reviewing phones and camera tests and all stuff, because

975
00:50:31,640 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 1: that's what I primarily watch on YouTube. And so it's

976
00:50:35,239 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 1: just one of these things where I don't know what

977
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 1: the answer is. I don't have an answer. I mean,

978
00:50:38,600 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: I think editors are the answer, obviously, and I think

979
00:50:41,160 --> 00:50:44,480
Speaker 1: that that reputable news sources are the answer. But I

980
00:50:44,520 --> 00:50:46,600
Speaker 1: will tell you that when I post stuff on Facebook

981
00:50:46,680 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: in the news feed. People are always saying rich, that's

982
00:50:50,680 --> 00:50:54,560
Speaker 1: not true. Like they're literally fighting me a newsperson, a

983
00:50:54,640 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: journalist who is paid by a news organization to research

984
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,719
Speaker 1: and to post stuff that's factual, and they're saying rich,

985
00:50:59,760 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 1: fake news, that's not real, or that's not new, there's

986
00:51:02,560 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 1: nothing new to this, And I'm like, I don't even

987
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:07,719
Speaker 1: want to fight back because I'm like, I'm sorry, but

988
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,280
Speaker 1: this is real and it is new, and it is news,

989
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: and whether you like to believe it or not, that's

990
00:51:12,640 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: just the way it is. So all right, they go

991
00:51:15,680 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: off enough there, all right, Hey, my name is Kitty.

992
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: Hopefully you can help with a simple question about my

993
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 1: Instagram account. Since I'm new to Instagram today, I noticed

994
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:29,040
Speaker 1: my clear search history was missing from the security section

995
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 1: of my Instagram settings, and now I don't know where

996
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,680
Speaker 1: to find it. Is this a new upgrade for Instagram

997
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: or did they do away with that? I don't know

998
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:38,000
Speaker 1: how to clear out my Instagram search history now. Thank you.

999
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: Any info can help, Thank you, sincerely, Kitty g Ktla

1000
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: Rich Demiro viewer, So, Kitty, great question. In fact, you know,

1001
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: it could be quite embarrassing because you might search for

1002
00:51:51,120 --> 00:51:53,760
Speaker 1: something that maybe you don't want other people to see.

1003
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:56,480
Speaker 1: Or maybe you just search for something quickly and now

1004
00:51:56,480 --> 00:51:58,400
Speaker 1: all of a sudden it's on your search history and

1005
00:51:58,440 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 1: if someone picks up your phone they see it, and

1006
00:52:01,120 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: you're just like, I don't you know you need to

1007
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:05,600
Speaker 1: explain something. Why should you have to explain yourself. You're

1008
00:52:05,600 --> 00:52:08,200
Speaker 1: an adult. You can search whatever you want, okay, But

1009
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: the reality is that, uh, you know, if you want

1010
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: to clear this search history out, here's what you need

1011
00:52:15,239 --> 00:52:19,600
Speaker 1: to do. So, uh, go into your Instagram, tap in

1012
00:52:19,680 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: the search field and it says see all. So you

1013
00:52:24,160 --> 00:52:27,319
Speaker 1: tap there and then it will say recent searches clear all.

1014
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 1: You hit clear all and there you go and your

1015
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,000
Speaker 1: searches will be cleared out. Good. Good question, kitty, And

1016
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 1: you know, hey, clear out that stuff. Do what you want.

1017
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:38,640
Speaker 1: It's your life, and uh you know I'm not gonna

1018
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:46,440
Speaker 1: fault you for it. All Right, time for one more question. Uh, Hey, Rich,

1019
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,439
Speaker 1: my wife and I watch you regularly for many years

1020
00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,839
Speaker 1: on KTLA and always enjoy your tech updates. We need

1021
00:52:50,880 --> 00:52:54,040
Speaker 1: a recommendation for an inexpensive but clear video security camps.

1022
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Speaker 1: Anything you suggest is greatly appreciated. Thanks for your continuing excellence,

1023
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,960
Speaker 1: Best regards Dwayne and Jackie in his spy Yeah, California,

1024
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1025
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1026
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1032
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1034
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1037
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1038
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1039
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1040
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1041
00:53:55,440 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: And the cameras are very very good. I've been using

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1043
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1045
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1046
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1047
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Speaker 1: is rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 1: so many ways you can spend an hour of your time.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate you spending it with me. I will

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Speaker 1: talk to you real soon.