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Speaker 1: Apple lets you repair your own iPhone. I try out

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Speaker 1: Amazon's new just Walk Out technology, where to find the

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Speaker 1: best Black Friday shopping deals. Plus your tech questions answered.

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

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

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Well, this is typically where I

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Speaker 1: talk about something that is happening in the week that's

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Speaker 1: interesting or notable, and quite honestly, I don't really have much.

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Speaker 1: What a great show, What a great way to start

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Speaker 1: it out. This is what happens when I don't things.

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Speaker 1: You know. It's funny because I always talk about being organized,

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Speaker 1: and I've really I'll just be totally honest, I've really

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Speaker 1: really struggled with one system of organization and I don't

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Speaker 1: know what it is. I think it's because my TV

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Speaker 1: world and my personal world are so mixed. Like if someone,

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Speaker 1: let's just say, someone I'm out with a friend, right

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Speaker 1: and they tell me about a really cool app, or

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Speaker 1: they tell me about something that I should look into,

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Speaker 1: or they just give me I don't know anything. They

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Speaker 1: just start talking crypto and I, you know, whatever, Where

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Speaker 1: do I put that note? Do I put it in

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Speaker 1: I just I've literally I have so many places, like

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Speaker 1: So I've got a pretty good system for TV, Like

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Speaker 1: Just put them in pocket. Well, it turns out I

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't have my phone on me

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Speaker 1: than it's ever been. So they do cool stuff like

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Speaker 1: that at dealnews dot com. Slick Deals. Obviously, if you

429
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Speaker 1: ever follow me for more than a minute, you've heard

430
00:23:01,880 --> 00:23:03,760
Speaker 1: me talk about this. I check this site every single

431
00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:08,879
Speaker 1: day of my life. Slick Deals crowdsources deals, so people

432
00:23:09,040 --> 00:23:11,200
Speaker 1: just submit a deal, others voted up, and the best

433
00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:14,199
Speaker 1: ones rise to the top, which is really cool. And

434
00:23:14,280 --> 00:23:17,880
Speaker 1: Amazon is doing theirs. At Amazon dot com slash Black Friday,

435
00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,160
Speaker 1: their deals will start on Thanksgiving and run for forty

436
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,760
Speaker 1: eight hours. So you know, you've got Black Friday, you've

437
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,640
Speaker 1: got that weekend, you've got Cyber Monday. In my experience,

438
00:23:28,320 --> 00:23:31,239
Speaker 1: so I usually wait until Cyber Monday to make my

439
00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:33,760
Speaker 1: purchases and I come up with a list of all

440
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Speaker 1: the things that I want. So whether that is a

441
00:23:36,960 --> 00:23:39,480
Speaker 1: you know anything, I'm talking like, I like the Doctor

442
00:23:39,560 --> 00:23:42,320
Speaker 1: Squatch stuff, right the soap and the shampoo and all

443
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,600
Speaker 1: that stuff. Like, I know that on Black Friday or

444
00:23:45,640 --> 00:23:49,480
Speaker 1: probably mostly Cyber Monday, it will be at a slightly

445
00:23:49,560 --> 00:23:51,720
Speaker 1: better deal than I've ever seen before. So let's say

446
00:23:51,760 --> 00:23:55,240
Speaker 1: doctor Squatch typically gives you a fifteen you know, the

447
00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 1: best you can find online is like a fifteen percent discount.

448
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: Usually on Cyber mind, the discount's just a little bit better.

449
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: It might be twenty percent. So again, a website like

450
00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: pair of Thieves, Right, I buy my undershirts. I really like,

451
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:11,400
Speaker 1: they're like the best undershirts I've ever gotten, and they're

452
00:24:11,440 --> 00:24:13,280
Speaker 1: not that expensive. It's like, I mean, they're a little

453
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Speaker 1: bit more expensive than typical undershirts, but it's like twenty

454
00:24:15,760 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 1: bucks twenty two dollars or twenty three dollars for a

455
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,640
Speaker 1: two pack. Right, And so I just bought a whole

456
00:24:20,640 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: bunch of those. I think I got a ten percent

457
00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:26,359
Speaker 1: discount through signing up for their newsletter. I would expect

458
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Speaker 1: that to be a twenty percent discount on Cyber Monday.

459
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:30,639
Speaker 1: So again, I make a list of the stuff that

460
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Speaker 1: I want, and then on Cyber Monday, I will hit

461
00:24:33,119 --> 00:24:36,879
Speaker 1: up those websites and get the best discount. And you know,

462
00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: I'll be able to tell pretty quickly if it's like

463
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,760
Speaker 1: a better discount than it typically is. But again, they

464
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Speaker 1: will do that for almost every website. So something like ever,

465
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Speaker 1: note like if I want to renew my Evernote subscription,

466
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:49,159
Speaker 1: I will go on Black Friday or sorry, Cyber Monday,

467
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,240
Speaker 1: and you know, see if they have a deal on

468
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:54,800
Speaker 1: their on their resubscription or their subscriptions, which they typically do.

469
00:24:55,760 --> 00:24:59,159
Speaker 1: Almost anything, almost anything has a deal. So that's what

470
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Speaker 1: I would do at this point. Just start start writing

471
00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: the things down that you want, and that way you're

472
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Speaker 1: ready to go when it's time to buy. All right,

473
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: let's see kk's Angels says Wi Fi extenders. Hello, Rich,

474
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on those devices that claim to

475
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Speaker 1: boost your Internet? Our router is in our office, but

476
00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:26,440
Speaker 1: we watch TV in the family room. We stritched switched

477
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Speaker 1: to streaming, and the TV seems to lag. Thank you.

478
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:32,760
Speaker 1: Sent from the Samsung Galaxy Note nine and AT and

479
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Speaker 1: T five G Evolution capable smartphone. Kk's angels. I don't

480
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,240
Speaker 1: like Wi Fi extenders anymore. I think that they don't

481
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Speaker 1: really work, and so I don't recommend those anymore. All

482
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,800
Speaker 1: those boosters I get so many emails from people you know,

483
00:25:48,840 --> 00:25:52,119
Speaker 1: they're they're advertising on social media, the boosters. So what

484
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: I would recommend is I did a story on it. Well,

485
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:58,760
Speaker 1: I'd recommend two things. Number one, I would recommend Euro

486
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Speaker 1: E E R O that that's what I have, which

487
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: is an Amazon company at this point. But this is

488
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: the guy who basically invented the Mesh networking system, and

489
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: I'll never forget he emails me about this thing called

490
00:26:13,600 --> 00:26:16,800
Speaker 1: Ero and his name is escaping me right now. But

491
00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: let me see. The first time he emailed me about this.

492
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 1: This was many, many, many years ago. Okay, here we go.

493
00:26:24,760 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: First time twenty sixteen, so this is twenty sixteen. Wow, okay,

494
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:39,800
Speaker 1: that's even that's this is wild, just so long ago.

495
00:26:40,400 --> 00:26:43,439
Speaker 1: This was actually the first time was twenty fifteen, and

496
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:49,840
Speaker 1: this wasn't an Amazon Launchpad device anyway. So we ended

497
00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,720
Speaker 1: up having euro come into KTLA and do a segment

498
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:54,919
Speaker 1: about it, and it was great. But it was like

499
00:26:54,960 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: one of these things that you just never really heard

500
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 1: of before. And so oh yeah, here is okay to

501
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:04,000
Speaker 1: the first time they emailed me was twenty sixteen, and

502
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 1: so I think the guy's name was Nick, Yeah, Nick Weaver.

503
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:09,439
Speaker 1: That was that was the co founder. So anyway, he

504
00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,760
Speaker 1: came to KTLA, I mean young kid at the time,

505
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: seemed very young, and I'm like, wow, you invented this

506
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: and he's like, yeah, you know, we talked about it

507
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:18,959
Speaker 1: and just like you know, I tried it and it

508
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 1: was great. I mean, it just worked. And so I've

509
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,919
Speaker 1: been using it ever since. I've I've since upgraded to

510
00:27:25,000 --> 00:27:27,520
Speaker 1: several different of their you know, they've come out with

511
00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: several different models over the years. Now I have the

512
00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: pro and it works good. I mean, it gets me

513
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: a good signal in every corner of the house, which

514
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: I really like. But it's expensive. If you don't want

515
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,840
Speaker 1: to spend as much as I did on this thing,

516
00:27:38,920 --> 00:27:41,399
Speaker 1: then I would do what's called Villo v I l

517
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: O And this is sixty bucks for a three unit system.

518
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: And it's sixty bucks so it's about it's twenty dollars

519
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 1: a unit plus shipping, so it really comes out to

520
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,640
Speaker 1: about seventy dollars. And so I would go with that one.

521
00:27:54,880 --> 00:27:59,960
Speaker 1: And it's a Vlo living dot com and it doesn't

522
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: give you Wi Fi six so if you need that,

523
00:28:04,359 --> 00:28:06,160
Speaker 1: you got to go with something else. But you got

524
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 1: to go with the euro but I think that for

525
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,159
Speaker 1: most people, you probably don't need that, So that's what

526
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: I would do. So Kk's Angels. Yeah, glad you hopped

527
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:17,560
Speaker 1: on board with the streaming service. I hope you've got

528
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,080
Speaker 1: KTLA Plus on that TV and you can watch all

529
00:28:21,080 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 1: my tech segments there. All right, let's see Amazon Fresh.

530
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,840
Speaker 1: I checked out a new store in Critos, California that

531
00:28:29,960 --> 00:28:34,120
Speaker 1: uses their just Walk out technology. And I've tried this

532
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: before and I probably talked about on the podcast, but

533
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 1: I tried it at the airport in Newark, New Jersey.

534
00:28:39,440 --> 00:28:42,640
Speaker 1: They you know, Amazon is licensing this technology to pretty

535
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:45,080
Speaker 1: much anyone who wants it, but they're also using it

536
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: themselves in their own stores. So in New Jersey, it

537
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:50,440
Speaker 1: was at a Hudson you know, one of those little

538
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:52,560
Speaker 1: like places you go to before you board the plane

539
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,840
Speaker 1: where you buy some waters. I pop my credit card

540
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:58,560
Speaker 1: in the reader and I grabbed I think it was

541
00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: just two waters, and I walked out and it charged

542
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:04,640
Speaker 1: my card for the two waters. So now in Siritos, California,

543
00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: this is the first Amazon Fresh store in California to

544
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,400
Speaker 1: feature this. It's also the biggest store to feature this.

545
00:29:09,440 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: It's like forty thousand square feet and I checked it out.

546
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: Amazon invited me there to check it out, and I said,

547
00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: of course, I want to come in here and try

548
00:29:16,520 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: this because I think this is amazing. You go inside

549
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: and there's just like hundreds of cameras hanging from the ceiling.

550
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 1: I mean, it is wild. I don't know who keeps

551
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 1: track of all of them, who has to repair all those,

552
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: who has to maintain them, what the feed looks like.

553
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:36,240
Speaker 1: They wouldn't show me that, obviously, but it is quite

554
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: the operation. So you go in there. You can scan

555
00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,760
Speaker 1: your palm, you can put a credit card in, or

556
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:44,560
Speaker 1: you can scan your Amazon app and that registers you

557
00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,720
Speaker 1: and you walk into the store and you start picking

558
00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: stuff out and when you pick stuff out, it just

559
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: links it to you. You can put it back on

560
00:29:51,640 --> 00:29:53,480
Speaker 1: the shelf you don't want it, and when you're done,

561
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:58,000
Speaker 1: you just literally walk out and it figures out using algorithms,

562
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 1: using machine learning, using artificial intelligence, yeah all the buzzwords,

563
00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:05,960
Speaker 1: using those cameras, and also using sensors embedded in the shelves,

564
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 1: so it uses a combination of all of those things

565
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,360
Speaker 1: to figure out what you purchased. And you literally just

566
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: walk out of the store with your purchases. Now, I

567
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:16,479
Speaker 1: did this, and I bought a whole bunch of stuff,

568
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 1: fifty seven dollars worth of stuff. To be well, that's

569
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,800
Speaker 1: not the exact amount. Let's see Amazon Fresh. I'm looking

570
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: from my receipt, so I spent fifty seven dollars and

571
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: fourteen cents, and I would say that's pretty accurate. The

572
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: prices are pretty good in this store. And I said

573
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:37,440
Speaker 1: to the pr person, I said, look, you know, this

574
00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:39,959
Speaker 1: is kind of on your honor, like what if something

575
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 1: is wrong, like how do you prove that you did

576
00:30:42,880 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 1: or did not take this item? And Amazon sort of said, like, look,

577
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:49,680
Speaker 1: you know, we're not going to go back to the

578
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:52,200
Speaker 1: tape so to say, we're not going to like look

579
00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 1: at the security cameras and say, like, you know, and

580
00:30:54,520 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: see if you purchase something and you didn't or whatever.

581
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 1: But you know they're going to send you an itemized receipt,

582
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:01,960
Speaker 1: so you're gonna be able to see, you know, did

583
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: I get this thing? Did I not? And I asked Amazon,

584
00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: they said, this thing does not make mistakes. It basically

585
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: I said, what about when it makes you know, you

586
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 1: put something down and said, it doesn't. It really does

587
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 1: not make mistakes, so which was not just one person,

588
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: but like several people in the store told me that,

589
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 1: and I was like, wow, that's very very confident that

590
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 1: that this thing will not make mistakes. But in my case,

591
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,320
Speaker 1: it did not seem to make a mistake, and we

592
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,400
Speaker 1: were really putting stuff up, taking it down, I mean,

593
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: really really messing with this thing. So if this is

594
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:37,320
Speaker 1: the ninth, I believe, let's see it is the it

595
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,680
Speaker 1: is the twenty second. Okay, so this is the twenty

596
00:31:40,720 --> 00:31:43,400
Speaker 1: second Amazon Fresh store in the US. It's the fourth

597
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 1: just walk out Amazon Fresh store, and they're gonna have

598
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,680
Speaker 1: two more in California, Lehabra and more Park. And I

599
00:31:50,720 --> 00:31:54,880
Speaker 1: think they said it was the ninth total Amazon Just

600
00:31:54,920 --> 00:31:57,160
Speaker 1: walk Out store, but they have. I don't quote me

601
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: on that one, but it was pretty amazing. I think

602
00:31:59,280 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: this is is it's super duper cool. It's so weird

603
00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: that it works, and it's very odd that we can

604
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 1: even have this technology in our world. I do think

605
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: there will be people that try to abuse it, but

606
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: then again, people try to abuse everything, so there's not

607
00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:17,320
Speaker 1: really there's not a reason for not doing it, because

608
00:32:17,320 --> 00:32:18,920
Speaker 1: there's going to be some people that try to trick

609
00:32:18,960 --> 00:32:23,000
Speaker 1: the system because ninety nine percent of people are good

610
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 1: and they won't trick the system where they won't try

611
00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: to and I don't know, quite frankly, I'm not sure

612
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:29,800
Speaker 1: you can trick it. I don't know. I mean, it's

613
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: a pretty the system they've got. You have to go

614
00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: through sort of a security door to get in and

615
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: then a security door to go out, so it's very

616
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:44,000
Speaker 1: much I don't know, it's pretty amazing. I really, It's

617
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 1: one of these things that kind of is mind boggling,

618
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: and the fact that Amazon has been able to figure

619
00:32:48,440 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: this out is pretty cool. Now, I don't know, they

620
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 1: clearly have to be saving a lot of money or

621
00:32:54,440 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: potentially have the potential to save a lot of money

622
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: with this, because if you think about it, it does displace

623
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,960
Speaker 1: a lot of people. Now at this store, there are

624
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: there are still traditional cashiers if you choose to check

625
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 1: out that way, so you can do that. But at

626
00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: the end of the day, if you can imagine a

627
00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:14,600
Speaker 1: world where you have these Amazon Fresh stores or even whatever,

628
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: any kind of store, I mean it's seven to eleven

629
00:33:17,480 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: operating twenty four to seven, where you can just walk

630
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: in and walk out with your stuff. I mean, that's

631
00:33:22,920 --> 00:33:25,040
Speaker 1: that's a pretty big money savings. Or maybe it's just

632
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: walk out at the middle of the night, but there's

633
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:30,880
Speaker 1: also some security precautions that you probably want to take.

634
00:33:30,880 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: You probably don't want an unmanned store at all. There's

635
00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,760
Speaker 1: also a liquor aisle in this store, and that is

636
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: interesting because they have to scan your ID at the

637
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,320
Speaker 1: entrance of the liquor store aisle and then it's kind

638
00:33:44,320 --> 00:33:46,960
Speaker 1: of gated off, so there's like another security door at

639
00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:49,360
Speaker 1: the opening end at the end, because you can't just

640
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,520
Speaker 1: have people walking out with liquor without you know, having

641
00:33:52,520 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 1: their IDs checked. In California, it's really weird. They sell

642
00:33:55,920 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: basically liquor, yeah, everything, liquor, beer, and wine in side

643
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: grocery stores, which having visited many many other states, that

644
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,760
Speaker 1: is not the norm. Many states do not allow that,

645
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: or they allowed just one type of thing or that.

646
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: If most states you go to it's a standalone liquor store.

647
00:34:15,520 --> 00:34:18,480
Speaker 1: In California, it's just it's everywhere. It's like in the CVS,

648
00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: the routs. I mean, I couldn't believe the first time

649
00:34:20,719 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: I'm in college, not that I could purchase this store

650
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,360
Speaker 1: in college, but I saw it when I went to

651
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,680
Speaker 1: the store, and you know at the raups they had

652
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,200
Speaker 1: like beer and you know, beer and well whatever, I

653
00:34:33,200 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 1: guess alcohol. I don't know what you call it, because

654
00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:37,960
Speaker 1: back then it's like you didn't even know what it was.

655
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,920
Speaker 1: It's just like the cheapest beer and the cheapest booze

656
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,880
Speaker 1: was basically the only thing that that mattered, you know,

657
00:34:46,160 --> 00:34:48,560
Speaker 1: if if you were into that not I'm not saying

658
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: I was personally, but I'm just saying, like you would

659
00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: just buy like the it was like vodka on the

660
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:55,759
Speaker 1: front of the vodka, you know, it had you had

661
00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:57,879
Speaker 1: no like there was no such thing as like a

662
00:34:57,920 --> 00:35:01,240
Speaker 1: preference for one of the what are the vodka brands,

663
00:35:01,239 --> 00:35:03,440
Speaker 1: Like I would like a Tito's, Like no, no, no,

664
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:08,160
Speaker 1: it was like vodka and beer was like literally just beer.

665
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: It's like cores light, you know whatever. And so now,

666
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny with the with the craft beer situation,

667
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I don't think I've had the same beer twice like

668
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:20,439
Speaker 1: ever at this point in the past like five years,

669
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: because there's so many different beers that it's like everywhere

670
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:27,320
Speaker 1: you go has a craft beer on tap or craft

671
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: beer that they're serving that it's like there's just so

672
00:35:30,080 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: many of them nowadays. Anyway, did I digress on that.

673
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:37,640
Speaker 1: I think it's really cool that they have this Amazon

674
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: just walk out technology. I'm glad I was among the

675
00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: first to try it out here in California, and I

676
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: think people are gonna be pleasantly surprised just how interesting

677
00:35:46,719 --> 00:35:55,759
Speaker 1: it is. All right, let's see. Tiffany says, good morning,

678
00:35:55,840 --> 00:35:58,520
Speaker 1: mister Demiro. I have watched you on KTLA and listen

679
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,080
Speaker 1: to you on KFI for years, so your input would

680
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 1: be gospel. I want to start a podcast from home.

681
00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge risk taker, but I think this

682
00:36:06,040 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: might work and with hard work. My daughter helped my

683
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: daughter with their student loans. Can you please advise me

684
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:13,840
Speaker 1: on what equipment would be best for me to start with.

685
00:36:14,000 --> 00:36:17,480
Speaker 1: Thank you kindly, Tiffany. Well, Tiffany, it's very exciting that

686
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: you want to start a podcast. That's very cool and

687
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: if you have something good to talk about, you'll find

688
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:29,720
Speaker 1: an audience. And the equipment that you need is not much,

689
00:36:30,160 --> 00:36:32,440
Speaker 1: especially when you're starting out and you say you're not

690
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,080
Speaker 1: a huge risk taker, so I would not go out

691
00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: and buy a one thousand dollars worth of equipment. You

692
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: just don't need it to start your show. When I

693
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: started my podcast, I literally started by speaking into my

694
00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:50,000
Speaker 1: iPhone and I used an app called anchor Or. Actually

695
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:51,480
Speaker 1: I didn't even use an app back that, sorry, it

696
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,920
Speaker 1: was just like the Voice Memos app. I would just

697
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: use the Voice Memos app. And then I got a

698
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:00,279
Speaker 1: little Lavalier microphone that plugged into the iPhone, and then

699
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: I graduated from that to the computer and I got

700
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:06,719
Speaker 1: a USB microphone that plugged into the computer and that

701
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: was from Blue Microphones. And then I finally got a

702
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:17,919
Speaker 1: soundboard from road and now I use the Roadcaster Pro,

703
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: which is just phenomenal, and that is sort of the

704
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:26,400
Speaker 1: progression of my podcast. So I think for you, what

705
00:37:26,440 --> 00:37:28,840
Speaker 1: I would start with is just download the Anchor app,

706
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: Anchor FM, anchor dot fm and start with that and

707
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: start speaking into your phone. You can use your phone

708
00:37:35,280 --> 00:37:38,560
Speaker 1: as a microphone, and if you want to upgrade that

709
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: a little bit, you can go on Amazon and just

710
00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:43,800
Speaker 1: get a microphone that plugs into the bottom of your phone.

711
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: Then once you get a little bit more comfortable and

712
00:37:46,080 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 1: you get into the routine, you actually do shows on

713
00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: a regular basis. And that's the number one advice I

714
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: would give to you is do your show regularly every week.

715
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,200
Speaker 1: When I sit down to do this show, it is

716
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,319
Speaker 1: the last thing in my life I feel like doing. No,

717
00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 1: I'm just kidd but it takes a lot of work.

718
00:38:04,280 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: Over the past couple of years, it has taken a

719
00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: lot of work for me to do this show on

720
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 1: a regular regular basis, and I've brought my equipment to

721
00:38:13,120 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: different cities. I have done my show at different times.

722
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 1: I always look at the end of the week and

723
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I say, Okay, what's happening on you know, typically I

724
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: do it on Friday, So what's happening on that Friday.

725
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: Oh I'm not there during that time. Okay, So let

726
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 1: me see what's happening on Thursday. Let me see what's

727
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,800
Speaker 1: happening on Saturday morning. Let me see what's happening. Because

728
00:38:31,840 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I get a show

729
00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:36,400
Speaker 1: out every single week unless I'm on vacation and like,

730
00:38:36,719 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 1: for instance, next week there will not be a show

731
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:41,879
Speaker 1: just because it is a holiday week and it's it's

732
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: an abnormality. But if I'm working and i'm you know, somewhere,

733
00:38:45,880 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: I will do the show. And we've done them in

734
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,840
Speaker 1: different countries. I've done it in China, I've done it

735
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: in different cities. I did it a couple weeks ago

736
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 1: in Chattanooga. I've done it in Back East. I've done

737
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,520
Speaker 1: it in different locations. I mean, if I'm at a

738
00:39:00,560 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: hotel room, I'll do it there. If I'm at my

739
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: in law's house, I'll do it there. I mean, I've

740
00:39:04,600 --> 00:39:07,920
Speaker 1: done it in all kinds of different places. And you know,

741
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: I don't really mention when I Sometimes I will, but

742
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:12,600
Speaker 1: I like to not really make a huge deal out

743
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: of it every time, because you know, I don't want

744
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 1: every I don't want you the listener, to be fixating

745
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 1: on whether the show sounds differently or what you know, whatever.

746
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: But anyway, when when it's fun, I will tell you

747
00:39:23,200 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: when i'm you know, when something's a little bit different.

748
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:27,920
Speaker 1: But anyway, that's what I would do is get that equipment,

749
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,919
Speaker 1: and then eventually I would get a USB microphone from

750
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:35,799
Speaker 1: Blue and Blue Microphones. They have a thing called the

751
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: Snowball or the Yetty. You can use one of those,

752
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,239
Speaker 1: and then you know, later on you can upgrade to

753
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 1: a mixer or whatever you need to really get this

754
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: podcast going in a big way. But that's what I

755
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 1: would recommend. Just just start small and work your way up,

756
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 1: And like I said, the number one thing is that

757
00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 1: you really want to keep the podcast going on a

758
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:02,360
Speaker 1: regular basis. It is the holiday shopping season and Google

759
00:40:02,480 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: has some new tools in Google Maps, and the one

760
00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 1: that I think is the most interesting is the fact

761
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:14,719
Speaker 1: that Google can tell you what's in the directory, the

762
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,160
Speaker 1: mall directory. So this is a feature that you would

763
00:40:18,200 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: just think would be on Google Maps. And for so

764
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 1: many years I've tried looking for like every time I

765
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:26,239
Speaker 1: go to a mall in a new city, which is

766
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: quite often actually, I'm always like, Okay, do they have

767
00:40:30,200 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: this store? Do they have a Casper store there? Do

768
00:40:33,920 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: they have a Amazon four Star store? Do they have

769
00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:41,359
Speaker 1: an Express for men or whatever? Now I think it's

770
00:40:41,360 --> 00:40:47,120
Speaker 1: just Express. But finding that information generally required you going

771
00:40:47,120 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 1: to the mall website, which let's be honest, they're usually

772
00:40:50,400 --> 00:40:54,880
Speaker 1: not very well designed, and searching that site or scrolling

773
00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: through a whole bunch of stores to see if they

774
00:40:56,680 --> 00:40:58,520
Speaker 1: have it, And you would just think that you'd be

775
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:00,840
Speaker 1: able to find it easily. Well, now you've finally can

776
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:05,640
Speaker 1: on Google Maps. If you search the mall and underneath

777
00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:08,520
Speaker 1: the mall there will be a listing that says directory

778
00:41:09,120 --> 00:41:11,400
Speaker 1: and so you just tap that and you can search

779
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 1: not only for a specific place, but you can also

780
00:41:14,320 --> 00:41:18,520
Speaker 1: narrow down by food and drink or you know whatever else.

781
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: Like I'm trying to see what else it says. Here,

782
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: hold on, so it had food and drink. Let's see

783
00:41:25,239 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: what types of stores airport. Let's see. That's kind of weird.

784
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: But okay, let me here we go directory. It's coming

785
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: up again. I'm watching an animation on the web. There

786
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: we go, food and drink, shopping, recreation service. So there's

787
00:41:40,200 --> 00:41:43,240
Speaker 1: all different things. But anyway, search for a mall iOS

788
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: and android. It's supported, and it's just so much easier

789
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: because for me personally, I just always want to know

790
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,840
Speaker 1: if there's a cinnabon there. Not that I get it

791
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,520
Speaker 1: every time, but I just want to know I have

792
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: my option open, you know, for that that Wetzel's pretzel.

793
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,600
Speaker 1: And if you can't, you know, if you don't instantly

794
00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: walk into the mall and it's not you know, wafting

795
00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,239
Speaker 1: towards you, that smell, that the delicious cinnamon smell. Oh,

796
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 1: it's like the siren smell of Wetzels is just like

797
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: it's so inescapable. Or cinnabon and I'll tell you. When

798
00:42:11,680 --> 00:42:15,240
Speaker 1: I was growing up, my dad had a strong affinity

799
00:42:15,239 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: for cinnabon. Probably doesn't eat it as much now, but

800
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 1: we always every time we visited the mall, getting a

801
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 1: Cinnabon was like the gold standard. We treated the Cinnabon

802
00:42:26,960 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 1: like royalty, and we'd always get the Cinnabon with extra frosting.

803
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:34,320
Speaker 1: That was kind of the thing. And now they charge

804
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: for extra frosting, which is funny because back then they

805
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 1: didn't sell. They were hip to the people that would

806
00:42:40,080 --> 00:42:43,760
Speaker 1: ask for extra frosting. Anyway, I did relive the memory

807
00:42:43,800 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 1: a little bit with my son. We went to the

808
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 1: mall a couple of weeks ago and I said, do

809
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:49,759
Speaker 1: you want a Sinnabon? Do you want a Sinnabon? And

810
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,839
Speaker 1: sure enough he said yes. We got the minis, which

811
00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: are the small ones, and it was fantastic, What a

812
00:42:55,200 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: glorious experience to He said, Dad, this is so good.

813
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: And I said, I know, oh, I know, believe me.

814
00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: All right, now, this is a really long email, but

815
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:13,839
Speaker 1: I'm gonna read it and see if we can get

816
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,120
Speaker 1: through some of this. Nas Sean says, just want you

817
00:43:16,200 --> 00:43:17,480
Speaker 1: to reach out and let you know about a new

818
00:43:17,520 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 1: Instagram scam that I fell for. People are hacking into

819
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: people's Instagram accounts and posting a video of how turning

820
00:43:24,239 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars into ten thousand dollars is legit and works.

821
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:30,840
Speaker 1: They call it cryptomning. Someone I know posted an Instagram

822
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: story for himself saying how real it is and he

823
00:43:33,120 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: just did it and got the money. He then posted

824
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: a screenshot of his cash app balance with his username.

825
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:41,800
Speaker 1: Everything seemed legit, so I messaged him and was interested.

826
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,320
Speaker 1: He was very brief and not descriptive about the process,

827
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: but assured me it was legit. So I followed through

828
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,480
Speaker 1: and messaged the person that's in charge of the whole operation.

829
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:51,600
Speaker 1: She wanted me to buy a thousand dollars worth of bitcoin.

830
00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 1: Once it was purchased, transfer it to a wallet ID

831
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:58,160
Speaker 1: she provided. After sending it, she deposited the amount into

832
00:43:58,200 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: a website that lets you create a pile. Once that's

833
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:02,840
Speaker 1: all set up, you see the one thousand dollars she

834
00:44:02,880 --> 00:44:04,840
Speaker 1: sent to her account. She has for another two thousand

835
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: for the mining cost that's not disclosed in the beginning.

836
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: I told her all communications were done through Instagram messenger,

837
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:12,800
Speaker 1: so I purchased another two thousand dollars with a bitcoin

838
00:44:12,800 --> 00:44:14,279
Speaker 1: and sent it to her wallet, and she said she

839
00:44:14,360 --> 00:44:17,200
Speaker 1: never got it. I would message her and my friend,

840
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:20,360
Speaker 1: and at that point I realized their responses were almost identical,

841
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: and at that point it was a scam. I reached

842
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: out to my friend and he said someone had hacked

843
00:44:24,560 --> 00:44:27,239
Speaker 1: his account. I would have never fallen for it if

844
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 1: it wasn't for the video of himself saying how legit

845
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:32,400
Speaker 1: the whole process was. I filed a dispute with coinbase

846
00:44:32,480 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: in my bank. However, because I authorized the transactions, they

847
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 1: can't retrieve my funds. I lost three thousand, fifteen dollars.

848
00:44:39,400 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 1: After that experience, three other friends profiles have been hacked

849
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: on the same promise and videos of themselves talking about

850
00:44:45,320 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 1: how real this is. Just want to let you know,

851
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: maybe you could do a story on this to help

852
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: prevent others from falling for the scam. Thanks Nashan. Okay, Wow,

853
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,520
Speaker 1: this is quite the scam and I see exactly how

854
00:44:55,600 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 1: it works, except for one thing is not very clear

855
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: to me. How well are they making the video of

856
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:04,600
Speaker 1: the person talking about how real it is. That's the

857
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: part that does not make any sense. Because I understand

858
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 1: here's how I see this working. So basically, these scam

859
00:45:11,600 --> 00:45:14,759
Speaker 1: artists take hold of someone's account, right, so they get

860
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: someone's Instagram and then they post a story on there

861
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:19,840
Speaker 1: that says, oh my gosh, I just made all this

862
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 1: money on Instagram. They doctor the photos of their cash account,

863
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: and then they post it on there, and then you,

864
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:28,400
Speaker 1: as their friend, message them. But since this scam artist

865
00:45:28,440 --> 00:45:30,600
Speaker 1: is still in control of the account, they message back saying,

866
00:45:30,600 --> 00:45:32,880
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, yes, this is so amazing. But this

867
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,080
Speaker 1: obviously is a distant friend, because if it was a

868
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: close friend, you would have called them and I would

869
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 1: have discussed it with them in person. So then once

870
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:43,680
Speaker 1: you're in, they know you're in, and now they start

871
00:45:43,680 --> 00:45:46,440
Speaker 1: asking you for money. You send it to a Bitcoin address,

872
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,719
Speaker 1: which clearly is where the scam gets the money, and

873
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: after that point they're just taking your money and all

874
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: the rest is gravy. So I'm just trying to figure

875
00:45:54,640 --> 00:46:00,360
Speaker 1: out how the Let's see someone I know post an

876
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,360
Speaker 1: Instagram story of for himself saying how real it was,

877
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,200
Speaker 1: and he just did it. So I think the Instagram

878
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: story does not include the actual person. It just includes

879
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,360
Speaker 1: like a text story that says, oh my gosh, I

880
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: just bought this bitcoin or I just did this investment

881
00:46:15,600 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 1: and it worked, and here's my cash app and wow,

882
00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 1: wow wow wow wow. So I think that's how it works,

883
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,440
Speaker 1: and it Yeah, you could definitely easily fall for this.

884
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:25,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you're stupid for falling for this, because

885
00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 1: here's the thing. These hackers get so smart. They're I mean,

886
00:46:30,640 --> 00:46:33,359
Speaker 1: these people are just they're so smart in figuring out

887
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: the ways of getting it. I would call this a

888
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,600
Speaker 1: social engineering attack because they're praying upon the fact that

889
00:46:38,640 --> 00:46:41,279
Speaker 1: you think this is your friend posting this and he

890
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:44,839
Speaker 1: didn't realize that their Instagram was actually hacked. I think

891
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 1: it's a pretty good scam. But the fact that you

892
00:46:47,360 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: continued to do this, and the fact that you went

893
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: through instant Facebook Messenger, that you know, there's a lot

894
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,640
Speaker 1: of signs and signals here that something's not right. But

895
00:46:57,719 --> 00:46:59,879
Speaker 1: I get it. You saw your friend saying how great

896
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: it was, and so I think that it's a We

897
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:05,160
Speaker 1: live in a world right now where it's tough to

898
00:47:05,239 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: know if people are promoting things, if people are you know,

899
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: hacked or not, because there's so many the social media

900
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:15,960
Speaker 1: world has led us post stuff like this is my

901
00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,839
Speaker 1: favorite and I have people you know, text me back

902
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,440
Speaker 1: saying Rich is this, like do you really like that product?

903
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:24,080
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, yeah, I posted about it, like of

904
00:47:24,080 --> 00:47:25,840
Speaker 1: course I like it, Like why would I not? You know?

905
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 1: But they're wondering, like did Rich really post that? So

906
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: I think that I feel bad that you fell for

907
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 1: this and you lost the three thousand dollars. That's unfortunate.

908
00:47:39,000 --> 00:47:41,640
Speaker 1: I would still dispute and just keep fighting this for

909
00:47:41,640 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 1: a little bit longer to see if maybe you can

910
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,719
Speaker 1: get something back, but you probably won't. I would go

911
00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,800
Speaker 1: to coinbase as well and say, hey, you know whatever,

912
00:47:50,840 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 1: and just see what they say. I mean, you're probably

913
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: not gonna get your money back. But I do think

914
00:47:55,080 --> 00:47:57,120
Speaker 1: I thank you for sending this to me because by

915
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: me letting people know about this, I do think that

916
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:04,319
Speaker 1: it's important because just knowing that these scams are out

917
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:09,479
Speaker 1: there helps us all. Because it's it's really tricky these days,

918
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,760
Speaker 1: because everything happens online, right, all of your emails, everything's

919
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: a confirmation, everything's a click to confirm. Pop this number

920
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:21,640
Speaker 1: in because it's a confirmation number. Track this package because

921
00:48:21,680 --> 00:48:24,799
Speaker 1: here you go, claim this refund, because here you go,

922
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,399
Speaker 1: here's how you do it. File this and it's it's

923
00:48:28,440 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 1: really tricky. So the more that we do online, the

924
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,760
Speaker 1: more we're going to run into these issues. And phishing

925
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:38,359
Speaker 1: was just a beginning. Now these social engineering attacks are

926
00:48:38,440 --> 00:48:40,759
Speaker 1: really really where these scam artists are getting people. They're

927
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: a little bit more work, but they find out ways

928
00:48:44,000 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: to automate them and they figure it out and they

929
00:48:47,280 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: get it going. So that's not really a question. But

930
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,160
Speaker 1: thanks for sending that, and I guess I'll do another

931
00:48:53,239 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: question just because Ben says, Hey, Rich, big fan of

932
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: your TV work and also your excellent podcast question. I'm

933
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,840
Speaker 1: purchasing a chromebook for my daughter for Christmas, and four

934
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 1: gigabytes of RAM. Are four gigabytes of RAM enough to

935
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: watch YouTube videos in four K Her primary usage will

936
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: be to consume content. Well, I mean, look, when you

937
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,960
Speaker 1: look at chromebooks, ninety nine percent of them have two

938
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: to four gigabytes of RAM on them. I mean, I

939
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 1: don't know if i'd recommend that, but it's the reality

940
00:49:31,960 --> 00:49:35,720
Speaker 1: of how these things are. I think four is fine

941
00:49:36,280 --> 00:49:39,160
Speaker 1: for watching YouTube. I think that eight would be better.

942
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,160
Speaker 1: But the problem is if you're looking at eight, the

943
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: prices are going to go up because almost none of

944
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: these chromebooks are are going to have eight that are

945
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,920
Speaker 1: at a decent price. So I'm just on the I'm

946
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,479
Speaker 1: just on the best buy website. So let's see four

947
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: gigs of memory Lenovo for one hundred and nineteen dollars,

948
00:49:56,200 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: four gigs for three fifty nine. So if I go

949
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:04,239
Speaker 1: to eight gigs, yeah, minimum price is four fifty nine.

950
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:05,800
Speaker 1: So yeah, I would just go with the four. I

951
00:50:05,800 --> 00:50:07,319
Speaker 1: think it'll be fine. I mean, if you think about it,

952
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: all these little streaming sticks and stuff, they don't have

953
00:50:09,600 --> 00:50:11,400
Speaker 1: more than like four gigs of RAM on them, so

954
00:50:11,440 --> 00:50:13,880
Speaker 1: you're you're fine. I think that that will be just fine.

955
00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,640
Speaker 1: But thanks for the kind words, and Chromebooks just just

956
00:50:17,760 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: keep in mind. I think for this situation, just watching

957
00:50:21,000 --> 00:50:24,080
Speaker 1: YouTube videos that will be totally fine. I mean, I mean, look,

958
00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: these are this is Google software. If it can't handle

959
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: YouTube videos and pretty much you can play a YouTube

960
00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:32,000
Speaker 1: video on anything, I think you'd have a problem there.

961
00:50:32,040 --> 00:50:33,760
Speaker 1: So I think that'll that'll be a great little gift

962
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:39,920
Speaker 1: and hopefully she likes it. Okay, let's see. Samsung is

963
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: delivering a new update to their S twenty one lineup

964
00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,319
Speaker 1: S twenty one, S twenty one plus S twenty one

965
00:50:47,400 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 1: Ultra and this is one UI four, which is pretty

966
00:50:51,880 --> 00:50:54,040
Speaker 1: wild because I feel like I just just I feel

967
00:50:54,040 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 1: like one UI, like two or three just came out.

968
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 1: Now we're on four already. So one UI four is

969
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 1: based on Android twelve as far as I can tell,

970
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: can I is it Android twelve. It's funny they don't

971
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: really mention Android twelve in here, but I'm guessing it's

972
00:51:10,000 --> 00:51:14,080
Speaker 1: it's built on that. But the couple of things they do.

973
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: Number one, you get the Android twelve feature that matches

974
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 1: the colors on the phone to your your wallpaper. So

975
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,239
Speaker 1: that's I mean, I don't know why people are going

976
00:51:25,320 --> 00:51:27,440
Speaker 1: nuts over that feature. I don't. I don't really understand

977
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:30,400
Speaker 1: why it's so exciting. I mean, I've tried it on

978
00:51:30,440 --> 00:51:33,520
Speaker 1: the pixel It's like, okay, So I don't know. I mean,

979
00:51:33,560 --> 00:51:34,880
Speaker 1: I guess your phone if you want to all to

980
00:51:34,920 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: have one standard look, I guess that's fine. It's kind

981
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 1: of cool. One UI four Samsung has the latest privacy

982
00:51:40,800 --> 00:51:44,400
Speaker 1: and security feature. So again, this is the privacy dashboard

983
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:47,520
Speaker 1: that was introduced in Android twelve with all the settings

984
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:51,919
Speaker 1: in one place. And also it will tell you when

985
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:56,239
Speaker 1: app is accessing your camera or microphone, and so that

986
00:51:56,280 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: will be on there. So one UI four will be

987
00:51:59,680 --> 00:52:02,959
Speaker 1: on the S twenty one series starting on November fifteenth,

988
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:05,960
Speaker 1: and it's coming soon to the previous S series and

989
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,600
Speaker 1: the Note series, as well as the Galaxy Z series,

990
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: the A series and tablets. So I mean that's a

991
00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:16,840
Speaker 1: lot of this is this is one of the problems.

992
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,640
Speaker 1: I think Samsung has gotten a lot, lot, lot, lot

993
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:23,160
Speaker 1: lot better with their software updates. But this is one

994
00:52:23,280 --> 00:52:26,719
Speaker 1: of the reasons why I do like the Pixel. You know,

995
00:52:26,800 --> 00:52:29,880
Speaker 1: so I guess Samsung's been doing the same thing the Pixel.

996
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,879
Speaker 1: You pretty much know on the first of every month

997
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:34,360
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a software update. And I think Samsung's

998
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: been doing the same thing for a couple of you know,

999
00:52:37,760 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: i'd say in recent memory, for the last couple of phones.

1000
00:52:40,560 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: But just think about how many phones they have to update.

1001
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: I mean, just getting the S twenty one, the S

1002
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,319
Speaker 1: twenty one plus the S twenty one Ultra. Then you've

1003
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:51,360
Speaker 1: got you know, the Z series, You've got the Flip,

1004
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: the Fold, You've got several versions of those. I mean,

1005
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 1: getting all those phones to a software update is pretty

1006
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:00,959
Speaker 1: that's no easy task. And so when you think about

1007
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:03,399
Speaker 1: someone like Apple. Yes, they have to update a whole

1008
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,800
Speaker 1: bunch of old phones, but the software pretty much runs

1009
00:53:05,840 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: the same on most of the devices. There are some

1010
00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: differences with a few key features, but most of the

1011
00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:16,520
Speaker 1: time it's the same. So if you haven't SD twenty

1012
00:53:16,560 --> 00:53:19,759
Speaker 1: one phone, definitely go into these settings and check to

1013
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: see if you have a software update. To me, this

1014
00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:24,200
Speaker 1: is something I do almost every day on my devices.

1015
00:53:24,560 --> 00:53:26,200
Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of a nerd thing. It's kind

1016
00:53:26,239 --> 00:53:27,799
Speaker 1: of a I don't know why I do it, it's

1017
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: just habit. I check my app updates and my system

1018
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: updates pretty much every day. And it's funny because my wife,

1019
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,920
Speaker 1: you know, she something came up on the phone the

1020
00:53:36,960 --> 00:53:38,440
Speaker 1: other day and she's like, I don't have it on

1021
00:53:38,440 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 1: my phone yet, And I'm like, well, do you update

1022
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: Instagram or whatever it was? And she goes into her

1023
00:53:42,760 --> 00:53:45,360
Speaker 1: apps and there's like ninety eight apps that needed updating.

1024
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:47,839
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh man, what are you doing, Like gotta

1025
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:52,239
Speaker 1: update these. My phone is on automatic updates, but it's

1026
00:53:52,280 --> 00:53:57,200
Speaker 1: there's not long enough to go between the updates for

1027
00:53:57,239 --> 00:54:00,440
Speaker 1: them to actually take effect. All right. Final question, Derek says,

1028
00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: log in with Google Rich, do you suggest the log

1029
00:54:03,160 --> 00:54:05,920
Speaker 1: in with Google prompt when registering at new websites, or

1030
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,239
Speaker 1: do you suggest the traditional way of creating your own

1031
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 1: password each time? Is there any risk or drawback from

1032
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,719
Speaker 1: the login with Google registration on new sites? Thanks for

1033
00:54:13,760 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 1: all you do. Typically I steer clear of the log

1034
00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: in with Google, log in with Twitter, log in with Apple,

1035
00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:24,040
Speaker 1: log in with Facebook, log in with whatever. Just don't

1036
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:27,680
Speaker 1: use it when possible. Now, there are times when I

1037
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,040
Speaker 1: need to get into a website very fast. I want

1038
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,920
Speaker 1: to log in really quickly, and I will tap that

1039
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:37,040
Speaker 1: button and I will log in with either Apple using

1040
00:54:37,080 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: an anonymous you know email, or I'll log in with Google,

1041
00:54:41,480 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: or I will log in with That's basically it. Those

1042
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:47,960
Speaker 1: are the two that I'll use. Now. The reason I

1043
00:54:47,960 --> 00:54:50,360
Speaker 1: don't like this is because why do you want to

1044
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: connect your your accounts to another account? So now all

1045
00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 1: these accounts are reliant on Google, and all these websites

1046
00:54:57,320 --> 00:54:59,399
Speaker 1: have gotten really good at kind of like pushing the

1047
00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:01,400
Speaker 1: envelope with like signing you up, Like when you go

1048
00:55:01,440 --> 00:55:03,919
Speaker 1: to Zillow, it'll just like be in the corner like oh,

1049
00:55:04,080 --> 00:55:05,959
Speaker 1: sign in as rich to Miro and I'm like, oh cool,

1050
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: I must have signed in before. But like it's kind

1051
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:09,600
Speaker 1: of like tricking you. It's like a almost like a

1052
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:13,120
Speaker 1: dark pattern where it's you know, it's making you feel

1053
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: like that's the way you just log in because it's

1054
00:55:15,160 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 1: a box that's there and you click it without really thinking.

1055
00:55:19,120 --> 00:55:20,960
Speaker 1: I don't like that, But a lot of websites are

1056
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: doing that now. And the reason why the website's like

1057
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,720
Speaker 1: this is because it's easy. It's simple ease of access.

1058
00:55:26,760 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: You already have a Google account's already logged in on

1059
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 1: your computer. The reason I don't like it is because

1060
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't separate things. I want to keep things separate.

1061
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 1: I want to keep a separate log in for every website,

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Speaker 1: with a separate password for every website. And I think

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Speaker 1: that you should do that as well. So that's what

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Speaker 1: i'd recommend doing, especially when it comes to like Facebook.

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Speaker 1: It just presents too many issues when you want to

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Speaker 1: step away. Let's say you want to deactivate your Facebook

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Speaker 1: account or maybe I don't know, Google probably so less

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Speaker 1: or so, but maybe you don't want to use Google

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Speaker 1: for something for a while, and now you're stuck logging

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Speaker 1: into all these webs sites the other side of it,

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Speaker 1: And I think that this is more of the security

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Speaker 1: side of things is that they can trick you with

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Speaker 1: how much information they get. So when it comes to Google,

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Speaker 1: you probably have your Google Photos, you probably have Google Drive.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of information at stake there, so you

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Speaker 1: have to be real careful when you log in with

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Speaker 1: Google that it's only getting things like maybe your email address,

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Speaker 1: but there's a lot of data that you have on

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Speaker 1: your Google profile that they can request, and so you

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Speaker 1: just have to be very very careful about what you

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Speaker 1: are handing over when you sign up with these websites.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's my recommendation, but I would just say

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Speaker 1: in general, get a password manager and sign up best

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Speaker 1: you can with individual individual passwords. Every time, Oh look

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