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Speaker 1: I appreciate it. This week, it is the last week

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Speaker 1: of summer in the DeMuro household, which I cannot believe.

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Speaker 1: Summer went very fast. Kids are going back to school,

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Speaker 1: something interesting this week. I ordered some kites on Amazon. Yes, kites,

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Speaker 1: If you choose to share your location, it updates every

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Speaker 7: I'm sorry, rich, I don't know what.

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Speaker 1: sitting there refreshing my screen on my computer all day

436
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Speaker 1: yesterday waiting for my app to get GBT five.

437
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Speaker 2: I mean, what a dork. I mean, it's such a nerd, but.

438
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Speaker 1: It's cool, and you know, you see it and you're like, oh,

439
00:20:34,560 --> 00:20:37,560
Speaker 1: what can this do differently? I mean, I don't know,

440
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,560
Speaker 1: but it just seems better and so it's faster, it's smarter.

441
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Speaker 2: So the big news about.

442
00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:47,920
Speaker 1: GBT five is that it's now a unified model, so

443
00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:51,080
Speaker 1: it now kind of understands what your question is and

444
00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:54,840
Speaker 1: decides the best way to respond. Now you might be thinking, rich,

445
00:20:54,960 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 1: didn't it always do that? Yes, but now it's thinking, Okay,

446
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:01,040
Speaker 1: are you asking a coding question, are you asking a

447
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: deep reasoning question? Are you adding a quick are you

448
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Speaker 1: asking a quick question like you know which cities have

449
00:21:06,800 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 1: the most people in the US. You know that's an

450
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,359
Speaker 1: easy question. But it can also understand if you're asking

451
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Speaker 1: something deeper, and it will go into its different modes

452
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,080
Speaker 1: automatically in the background to figure out the answer. So

453
00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:20,919
Speaker 1: that's really cool. So it's just basically one one window

454
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Speaker 1: for everything. Now you don't have to check a lot

455
00:21:23,119 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 1: of boxes and things like that. Coding, it's gotten much

456
00:21:26,960 --> 00:21:30,000
Speaker 1: better at coding. It's gotten much much better at writing.

457
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Speaker 1: I use my chat gbt to polish up my newsletter

458
00:21:33,400 --> 00:21:35,480
Speaker 1: every week. If you're not subscribed to the free newsletter,

459
00:21:35,560 --> 00:21:39,119
Speaker 1: definitely get on the list. And I noticed yesterday when

460
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Speaker 1: I was polishing, it just seemed a lot smarter. And

461
00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,280
Speaker 1: it seemed to kind of stick to my writing a

462
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Speaker 1: lot better, which I like because I don't want it

463
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Speaker 1: to change everything. I want it to keep how I write,

464
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Speaker 1: but just kind of, you know, keep the grammar perfect,

465
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Speaker 1: you know, make sure that everything's spelled right. So it's

466
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Speaker 1: just better at doing that. Yesterday I noticed better health responses.

467
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Speaker 1: So a lot of people are asking questions about mental

468
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Speaker 1: health and just in general medical questions and things, so

469
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Speaker 1: it's better at that. It's more accurate if flags concerns,

470
00:22:08,119 --> 00:22:11,919
Speaker 1: better adapts to a user's knowledge level. Still not a

471
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Speaker 1: replacement for a doctor. Do not use chatchybt's your doctor.

472
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Speaker 1: I mean just even in my house, like my kid

473
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Speaker 1: came to me, he's like, Dad, what's this thing on

474
00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:22,280
Speaker 1: my face? I'm like, it's a scratch. He's like, I

475
00:22:22,320 --> 00:22:24,520
Speaker 1: asked chatgybt and it said it could be this, this, this,

476
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:29,160
Speaker 1: I'm like Tanner, come on, like, dude, relax, it's a scratch.

477
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Speaker 1: You scratched your face. Less hallucinations, that's the big thing.

478
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Speaker 1: You have to be concerned. Like these ais will just

479
00:22:37,119 --> 00:22:39,920
Speaker 1: spit out answers like nobody's business, and you'll think they're

480
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Speaker 1: right and it's like completely wrong sometimes, so you got

481
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Speaker 1: to be careful about that. But it says that it's

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Speaker 1: much better at that at this point. Also, it's less agreeable.

483
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Speaker 1: So like a lot of times these GPTs will just

484
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Speaker 1: agree with you, like no matter what you say, it's

485
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Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, that's a great idea, it's like, no,

486
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Speaker 1: it's not. And now it's less agreeable, so that's smart.

487
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Speaker 1: And they also have different personalities. Now, so when I

488
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Speaker 1: asked it the question for the first time, it said,

489
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Speaker 1: do you like this personality? I said, I didn't realize

490
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Speaker 1: you had different personalities to choose from, But now you

491
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Speaker 1: can ask for different personalities. You've got a cynic, a robot,

492
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Speaker 1: the listener, and the nerd, so I haven't switched to

493
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Speaker 1: one of these different personalities, but you can do that

494
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Speaker 1: as well. So again, GPT five, if you're opening up

495
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 1: CHATCHIBT and it says, hey, we have a new version.

496
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Speaker 1: It's available to everyone, even if you're on the free model.

497
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Speaker 1: And you might be wondering, well, why do I have

498
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Speaker 1: to pay for CHATCHYBT if I get the free model

499
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: for free? Well, the difference is how much you use it.

500
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Speaker 1: So if you start using this a lot, it will

501
00:23:38,960 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: at some point say, okay, you're out of your free answers.

502
00:23:42,320 --> 00:23:45,880
Speaker 1: If you want to continue with this model that's advanced,

503
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: you have to pay or we're going to drop you

504
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,840
Speaker 1: down to the lesser model until you're I guess the

505
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Speaker 1: usage resets after a certain amount of time twenty four

506
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Speaker 1: hours or something like that. The other big news this week,

507
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Speaker 1: Disney Plus is going to integrate Hulu into the Disney

508
00:24:04,040 --> 00:24:08,480
Speaker 1: Plus app, so the Hulu standalone app is going to

509
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Speaker 1: go away. So this is gonna happen where Disney is

510
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Speaker 1: going to fully merge Hulu into Disney Plus in the

511
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Speaker 1: next year, so no more separate Hulu app, which already

512
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Speaker 1: they've integrated the Hulu content, which I think is kind

513
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Speaker 1: of annoying because it's like, oh, let me watch that show.

514
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Speaker 2: Sorry, you got to pay for Hulu. I'm like, oh,

515
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Speaker 2: why'd you show me that?

516
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Speaker 1: So now I guess that's going to get even worse

517
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Speaker 1: because Hulu is just going to be completely gone as

518
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Speaker 1: a standalone app, and it's just going to be inside

519
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Speaker 1: Disney Plus. So the integration, I get it. It makes

520
00:24:38,359 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: sense because now it's just one place for everything. And

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Speaker 1: then ESPN, I guess they did a big thing where

522
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Speaker 1: they are going to launch their first direct to consumer

523
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Speaker 1: streaming service on August twenty first. This is going to

524
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Speaker 1: be twenty nine to ninety nine a month, and it's

525
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Speaker 1: going to include all of the ESPN networks, ESPN Plus

526
00:24:57,400 --> 00:25:01,080
Speaker 1: and forty seven thousand live events per year. For the

527
00:25:01,119 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: one thing you want to watch, you're gonna go to

528
00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:05,160
Speaker 1: that app be like, oh let me watch the game.

529
00:25:05,359 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: Not gonna be there. It's gonna be on the one

530
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Speaker 1: service you don't subscribe to. So the bundle deal at

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Speaker 1: launch this is pretty good. Actually, ESPN Unlimited Plus, Disney

532
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Speaker 1: Plus and Hulu for twenty nine to ninety nine a

533
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: month for your first twelve months. That sounds pretty good.

534
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing that that is the ad the version that

535
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Speaker 1: includes ads. There's no way they're giving you all that

536
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,639
Speaker 1: stuff for thirty bucks a month without ads. Maybe I

537
00:25:30,640 --> 00:25:33,359
Speaker 1: don't know, because I feel like I paid twenty dollars

538
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Speaker 1: a month for Disney Plus just by itself.

539
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Speaker 2: I remember when Disney Plus launched, it was so cheap.

540
00:25:38,320 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 2: It was like six ninety nine a month.

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Speaker 1: You're like, wait a second, I can get everything that

542
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Speaker 1: Disney has ever made in its entire lifetime for seven

543
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Speaker 1: bucks a month? Why would I not subscribe? And all

544
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:50,439
Speaker 1: of a sudden, over the years, what's happening. Oh, it's

545
00:25:50,560 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: just click click click click click.

546
00:25:52,880 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 2: More and more and more and more and more.

547
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Speaker 1: And by the way, the new stuff to watch was

548
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Speaker 1: like less less less, less less. And that's the other thing,

549
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Speaker 1: the old school movies, like you try to go back

550
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,800
Speaker 1: to these movies that you watched as a kid, which

551
00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:05,720
Speaker 1: was you know, ratings as a kid, like basically you

552
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:07,439
Speaker 1: just didn't watch a rated AR movie, you know, like

553
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: if you're a kid. I snuck into one rated AR

554
00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: movie once, and I tell my kids this story. I

555
00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: was so scared. It was the scariest experience.

556
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Speaker 2: Of my life.

557
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Speaker 1: My best friend and I went to a movie theater.

558
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Speaker 1: We snuck into a RATEDAR movie. I remember the movie.

559
00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: It was called Jacob's Ladder. That's dating me long time ago.

560
00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:28,040
Speaker 1: We got into this movie and we were not prepared

561
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Speaker 1: for what we saw. And I don't even know what

562
00:26:30,400 --> 00:26:33,000
Speaker 1: we saw. All I know is I was so scared.

563
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: We ran out of that movie theater. I was like,

564
00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,160
Speaker 1: this is what adults do, Like, we just ran out.

565
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Speaker 1: And to this day I tell my kids that because

566
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Speaker 1: they want to watch rated R this and that. I'm like, look,

567
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: you don't need to watch that right now, like, just

568
00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:48,199
Speaker 1: there's a time and a place for it. And then

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Speaker 1: my kid the other day in the car is like, Dad,

570
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 1: have you watched any NC seventeen movies? I'm like, what, Like,

571
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Speaker 1: what are you talking about? I don't even know if

572
00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:57,000
Speaker 1: they make those anymore? Say, oh, yeah they do. I

573
00:26:57,000 --> 00:26:58,480
Speaker 1: looked it up on Google. They gave me a whole

574
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Speaker 1: list of them. I'm like, what this. Oh my gosh,

575
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,639
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, these kids today are so far advanced.

576
00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,000
Speaker 1: They really really are. And you know, if you don't

577
00:27:09,000 --> 00:27:11,120
Speaker 1: have those parental controls. By the way, on your internet,

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, We've got more of your calls.

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Speaker 1: Plus Google is giving college students free access to AI.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you about that.

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at eight

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Speaker 1: every show. Frank from port Chester, New York writes in

598
00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: Hey Rich, I love your idea about saving a note

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00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,640
Speaker 1: in Google Keep about a person and then adding relevant

600
00:28:21,640 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: info about them. I'm a sales guy and this is

601
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,480
Speaker 1: a great way for me to track what's been said

602
00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,240
Speaker 1: at meetings, like noting a client has two kids, hates

603
00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:32,879
Speaker 1: Italian food but loves German. I'm trying to adopt this system,

604
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: but I'm struggling with using Gemini to enter notes. It

605
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,360
Speaker 1: doesn't always do what I want, it'll start researching a

606
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Speaker 1: topic instead of entering my notes. For example, I'll say

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Speaker 1: something like client is interested in AI, and instead of

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Speaker 1: recording that, it starts reading facts about how AI will

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Speaker 1: change the world. It also sometimes cuts me off mid

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Speaker 1: sentence and only saves part of what I said. I

611
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 1: know I can type or dictate notes directly into Keep,

612
00:28:56,280 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: but I loved your idea of integrating Gemini.

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Speaker 2: Help. What am I doing wrong? Well, thanks for listening in.

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Speaker 1: New York City there or at port Chester, I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: that's New York area, right, You're right. I think that

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00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,960
Speaker 1: Gemini is finicky and the system that I described is

617
00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:16,719
Speaker 1: not perfect, but it is really good when it works.

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Speaker 1: And so the trick that I found is you have

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00:29:19,720 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: to use specific starter phrases like create a note or

620
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,280
Speaker 1: take a note. So if you say something vague like remember,

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Speaker 1: it might trigger a different AI mode. So that is

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Speaker 1: the main advice that I have if you're trying to

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Speaker 1: use Gemini with any of Google's apps. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to Gemini dot Google dot com, go into the

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Speaker 1: settings on the left hand side and then tap apps,

626
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Speaker 1: and it gives you the hints for all of the

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Speaker 1: different apps. So for instance, for Gmail, it says prompt

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Speaker 1: to try find emails by topic. So for instance, I

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Speaker 1: would say to Gemini search my emails for and that

630
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Speaker 1: will trigger it to look in my emails, versus saying

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Speaker 1: something like I want to email.

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00:30:01,560 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.

633
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 1: Like you have to use these phrases, and yes, this

634
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 1: is going to get better, but right now it is

635
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Speaker 1: a little bit sort of mechanical. It's kind of like

636
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Speaker 1: the old days of you had to know what the

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Speaker 1: syntax was to kind of use the voice systems. That's

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Speaker 1: the way I feel it is because think about it,

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Speaker 1: these AI systems are doing two different things. One is saying, oh,

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Speaker 1: let me look into your personal stuff. The second is, oh,

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00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,920
Speaker 1: let me just kind of go at AI knowledge in general.

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Speaker 1: So that's my main answer is try to use the

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Speaker 1: keywords at the beginning of your question. So for instance,

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Speaker 1: when I want to do a calendar invite, I'll say

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Speaker 1: create a calendar invite that says take a note that

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Speaker 1: says remind me to do this, and that's when it

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Speaker 1: really triggers those Google apps.

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Speaker 2: So good question.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the email, Frank, appreciate you listening there on

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Speaker 1: wr in New York City. Doreen from Irvine writes, in

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Speaker 1: you reported on how to use a flash drive to

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Speaker 1: back up photos from a phone. Is it possible to

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Speaker 1: use a flash drive to back up contacts or text messages?

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Speaker 2: I have a Samsung phone.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it is so for text messages, and you're thankfully

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Speaker 1: you said Samsung, because if you said iPhone, there's no

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Speaker 1: there's no easy way to do this. There is an

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Speaker 1: app called I Amazing, which we'll do it, but I

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Speaker 1: believe you have to pay for that. Apple doesn't really

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Speaker 1: give you an easy way to get your texts as

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Speaker 1: far as I know. But on Samsung, very very easy.

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Speaker 1: You can download an app called SMS Backup and Restore.

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Speaker 1: SMS Backup and Restore. I've used it for many years.

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Speaker 1: You just download it and next thing you know, you

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Speaker 1: can say export my messages and it will go right

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Speaker 1: into your phone storage, or you can send it to yourself,

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Speaker 1: upload it to the cloud, whatever you want to do. Now,

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Speaker 1: for contacts, it's actually quite easy as well. So if

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Speaker 1: you go into the Contacts app on your Samsung phone,

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Speaker 1: go into Contacts, look in settings, tap settings, and right

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00:32:00,560 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 1: there you see export Contacts. You can just export your

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Speaker 1: contacts wherever you want. You can put them into storage,

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Speaker 1: you can put them on a flask drive, whatever you

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Speaker 1: want to do. Now, I also discovered lo and behold.

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Speaker 1: The iPhone actually lets you do this as well. So

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Speaker 1: if you open up the Contacts app on the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: go into your list. So in the upper left hand

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Speaker 1: corner it says lists. It's of course a hidden feature.

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Speaker 1: But if you tap on one of your lists, press

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Speaker 1: and hold, lo and behold, it says export. You tap

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Speaker 1: export and you can export that entire contact list like

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Speaker 1: of it, nine hundred and eighty contacts. It'll send it

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Speaker 1: wherever you want. You can email yourself that file, you

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Speaker 1: can upload it to the cloud, whatever you want. So

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Speaker 1: again on the iPhone contacts lists, tap a list, press

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Speaker 1: and hold on it, it says export. It's like a

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Speaker 1: secret menu that you would never find if you were

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Speaker 1: just looking. I didn't even know it existed until I

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Speaker 1: looked for it, and now it's there. So great question, Doreen.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate that. Jay from Los Angeles writes in I use

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Speaker 1: Wirecutter and Consumer Reports for reviews of products I want

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Speaker 1: to buy. Please recommend a few more reliable review sites.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Jay, Those are great great sites. I often

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Speaker 1: look at Wirecutter, you know, I love Wirecutter. I feel

695
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 1: like sometimes their stuff can be hit or miss. So

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Speaker 1: I like to kind of do my own research as well.

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Speaker 1: So obviously I'm always recommending stuff that I like, but

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Speaker 1: I find that Wirecutter is pretty good.

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Speaker 2: They do a wide span of stuff.

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Speaker 1: Consumer reports, you know, I think they're really good as well.

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Speaker 1: I think I use them for my washer dryer the

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Speaker 1: other day that I bought, and I will be honest,

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Speaker 1: they're fine. It's not like amazing, but it's fine. The

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Speaker 1: site that I think is really interesting is called Vetted

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Speaker 1: v E T T D vetted dot AI, and so

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Speaker 1: what their idea is is they use AI to help

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Speaker 1: you find stuff. And what they do is they go

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Speaker 1: through all the different websites that have reviews that are

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Speaker 1: sort of vetted, I mean hence the name, and they

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Speaker 1: will look at all those reviews and aggregate them and

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Speaker 1: put them together and then come up with their recommendation. So,

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Speaker 1: for instance, I just did best espresso machines and Vetted

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Speaker 1: Analysis comes up with the leel It Bianca V three.

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Speaker 1: This machine is best overall for ideal for serious home

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Speaker 1: buristas three thousand dollars Bobo. You know I'm not spending

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Speaker 1: three grand on a home buriste. Okay, so that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I am not spending that. I love my coffee, no.

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Speaker 2: Way, I'm not a coffee drinker. But you spend it.

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Speaker 2: I would not spend it. I barely.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to buy a sixty dollars cake cup machine

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Speaker 1: at Target the other day.

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Speaker 2: I wouldn't buy that because I'm too cheap.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I'll try to see if the one

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Speaker 1: I have at work still works.

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Speaker 2: And it didn't. By the way, you know about of

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Speaker 2: shoes that I sent you either, and that was one

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Speaker 2: hundred and twenty.

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Speaker 1: No, I'm a cheap skate when I love buying stuff,

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Speaker 1: but I don't buy stuff that I don't need. It

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Speaker 1: takes me a while to buy stuff, like it really

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Speaker 1: really does. Like I'm not I like buying. But it's

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Speaker 1: not like I'm just sitting there, like you sent me

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Speaker 1: those shoes that I've wanted, I'm like, oh, these are cool.

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Speaker 1: I'm not just like that person that just presses By

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Speaker 1: no way, believe me. I've got a brand new peril

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Speaker 1: on right now.

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Speaker 2: I'm still wearing my crocks.

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Speaker 1: I need a new pair of crocs I've been wearing

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Speaker 1: for three years on this show, and I won't buy

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Speaker 1: those and I wear them every weekend. Anyway, vetted dot

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Speaker 1: ai is great and chat gybt and Google are really

742
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Speaker 1: doing a lot of things with reviews on ai, so

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Speaker 1: check those out as well. Eighty eight rich one oh

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Speaker 1: one eighty eight seven four to two four one zero

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Speaker 1: and more rich on Tech after this, welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you

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Speaker 1: talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Bar brights in on email. Hey Rich love all your

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Speaker 1: tips and ideas. I watch you on KTLA two. I

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Speaker 1: wonder if you've had this question before. I have an

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Speaker 1: iPhone sixteen Pro. I don't use iCloud. It bugs me

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Speaker 1: when they keep asking for money just to back up

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Speaker 1: my data. I use Google Photos and Google Drive, and

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Speaker 1: I just learned that iTunes is only used for podcasts.

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Speaker 1: I used to use iTunes to back up my phone.

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Speaker 1: Do you have any suggestions? Thanks for your time. Yes,

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Speaker 1: you actually still can use iTunes on Windows to back

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Speaker 1: up your phone to your computer. It's not as straightforward

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Speaker 1: or as apparent as it.

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Speaker 4: Used to be.

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Speaker 1: But I just downloaded it to my Windows computer sitting here,

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Speaker 1: and sure enough it's you plug it. So download iTunes

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Speaker 1: to your computer.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, iTunes is not just for podcasts,

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Speaker 1: it's for everything still. It's got music and shows and

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just everything is through the cloud now.

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Speaker 2: So Apple wants to push the cloud.

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Speaker 1: They don't think people are plugging their phones into computers

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Speaker 1: anymore because that doesn't get them any money, and so

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Speaker 1: they don't want to promote that.

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Speaker 2: But you can still do this.

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Speaker 1: So if you plug in your phone to your computer

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Speaker 1: and unlock your phone, it'll say do you want to

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Speaker 1: trust this device? And you do that, and you will

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Speaker 1: see up at the top where it says music and

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00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: things like that, underneath the little menu bar there would

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00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:11,239
Speaker 1: be a little tiny icon of a smartphone. Tap that

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Speaker 1: icon and you'll now see all the settings for your phone,

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Speaker 1: just like the old days. And then you'll see somebody

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00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:21,760
Speaker 1: that says backups, and so it says automatically backup iCloud,

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Speaker 1: backup the most important data on your phone to iCloud

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Speaker 1: or this computer. You can tap that and it will

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Speaker 1: automatically back up your iPhone a full backup of your

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Speaker 1: iPhone will be stored in this computer. Now, the only

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Speaker 1: thing that gets a little tricky there is if you

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Speaker 1: have a ton of photos on your phone's it might

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Speaker 1: run out of space because you're trying to put all

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Speaker 1: those photos on your computer. So you said you use

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Speaker 1: Google Photos. What you can do is you can go

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Speaker 1: into Google Photos and there's an option to delete the

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Speaker 1: pictures off your phone. So if you tap press and

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Speaker 1: hold on the Google Photos icon on your smartphone, it'll

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Speaker 1: say free up space. You tap that, it will delete

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Speaker 1: all the pictures off your phone, but keep them in

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Speaker 1: Google Cloud for safekeeping. Of course, you always want to

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Speaker 1: have a secondary backup somewhere else, just in case something

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Speaker 1: happened to Google Cloud. I don't expect that to happen,

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Speaker 1: but you never know it could. So again, Barb, to

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Speaker 1: answer your question, you can absolutely use iTunes to back

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Speaker 1: up your iPhone to your computer on Windows eleven. Just

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Speaker 1: know that they don't make the icon as visible as

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Speaker 1: it used to be, So when you plug in your phone,

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Speaker 1: just look underneath the little menu bar for that tiny

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Speaker 1: little phone icon and it will.

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Speaker 2: Bring you up that backup option. Let's go to Mark

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Speaker 2: and Woodland Hills Mark.

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Speaker 5: You're on with Rich, Well, Rich.

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Speaker 3: I know you travel quite a bit and you're the

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Speaker 3: tech guy, so I'm gonna see what you can advise

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Speaker 3: us with. I have to get a whole new travel kit.

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Speaker 3: I'm looking at carry on luggage, Hardshell check the luggage.

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Speaker 3: I'm getting contradictory information online and from TSA about smart

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Speaker 3: suitcases because I guess some of them have lycium batteries

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Speaker 3: embedded into them. And I'm just kind of confused at

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Speaker 3: this point. And I was hoping that you could help

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Speaker 3: me get a fresh start. And I don't plan to

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Speaker 3: do more than you know, three days a three weeks

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Speaker 3: travel day, for instance. And is there anything locally, like

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Speaker 3: a nice outlet that has reasonably priced equipment, you know,

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Speaker 3: for travel?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, good question. I've actually been looking at new

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Speaker 1: luggage myself. I'm currently using Amazon Basics luggage, which I

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Speaker 1: think I purchased for about I should look because this

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Speaker 1: is talk about being cheap. I travel around the world.

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Speaker 1: My suitcase has been to like twenty countries. I don't

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Speaker 1: know so many countries and it's literally Amazon Basics, And

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at my Amazon to see how much I

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Speaker 1: spent on this and.

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Speaker 2: I'm telling you it's held up. Let's see my luggage.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I order this in twenty twenty one Amazon Basics

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Speaker 1: Urban Soft Side Spinner, a three piece set.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's see how much this cost me? Three pieces?

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Speaker 1: Okay, of course it's not it's no longer available, but

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Speaker 1: let's see if I can see my order details. So

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Speaker 1: I bought three pieces of luggage I still use, okay,

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Speaker 1: more than I thought. Two hundred and nine dollars for

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Speaker 1: three pieces. That's actually pretty good. I mean, yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: pretty that's pretty cheap.

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Speaker 6: I think I have a suggestion, Yes this is weird

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Speaker 6: for me, if you literally go to Believe it or

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Speaker 6: not home Depot and look up suitcases like luggage on

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Speaker 6: home Depot. I bought my son a three piece set

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Speaker 6: for ninety bucks.

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Speaker 2: Oh that he's still using. And it's see this is the.

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Speaker 1: Thing about luggage, and I'm looking at Amazon Basics now

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Speaker 1: it's actually way cheaper. So the same or similar three

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Speaker 1: piece which looks way better than what I got, is

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Speaker 1: only one hundred and twenty three dollars now, so the

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Speaker 1: price is actually dropped. It drop yeah, And I'll put

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Speaker 1: this link on the thing because I've brought the luggage

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Speaker 1: around the world. It has been perfectly fine. It is great,

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Speaker 1: and there's I mean, it's got the little wheels that spin,

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Speaker 1: it's got the telescoping arm. I mean, it's it's perfect.

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Speaker 1: And my wife keeps bugging me to get a new luggage.

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Speaker 1: She's like, Ranch, you travel so much, you have to

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Speaker 1: have a nice luggage. I said, why, this luggage works

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Speaker 1: just fine. I even when I landed in Mexico City

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, it was pouring rain. My

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Speaker 1: luggage was out in the rain for like thirty minutes.

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Speaker 1: It took about an hour to get my luggage. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding. I opened it up.

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Speaker 5: It was fine.

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00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:34,680
Speaker 1: It was even repelled the rain. So again, why do

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00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,879
Speaker 1: I need something that's more expensive? So she's been trying

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Speaker 1: to convince me to get something like, you know, this

868
00:41:39,120 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: priceier luggage American Tourist or the Away Luggage and Mark.

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Speaker 1: To quickly answer your question about the place that's local,

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00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 1: I mean, if you want to go super pricey, obviously

871
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: to me is fantastic.

872
00:41:51,040 --> 00:41:52,640
Speaker 2: You're gonna spend an arm and a leg in there.

873
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:53,759
Speaker 2: But if you.

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00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 1: Want there actually is an away luggage store in the

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Speaker 1: Los Angeles area, and Away makes you know. They're kind

876
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: of this like company that's super hip and cool, and

877
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,879
Speaker 1: they make really nice luggage that people like. And they've

878
00:42:07,880 --> 00:42:09,879
Speaker 1: got a store in West Hollywood, so if you want

879
00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:12,959
Speaker 1: to see that stuff in person, it's on Melrose. That's

880
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:14,880
Speaker 1: the stuff that I really like, Like I think Away

881
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:19,279
Speaker 1: makes really nice stuff. There's also another luggage that's called

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00:42:19,400 --> 00:42:23,759
Speaker 1: Props Props Props luggage, and this is really cool because

883
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,000
Speaker 1: it's got the legs built in.

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00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 9: So.

885
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I do not unpack

886
00:42:28,400 --> 00:42:30,680
Speaker 1: when I get to a hotel room. I just use

887
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,520
Speaker 1: my luggage to live out of. And so I just

888
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:35,760
Speaker 1: take that thing out of the closet, that like little

889
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: luggage stand, that luggage rack, and I put it in

890
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: the room and then I just put my luggage on top,

891
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:43,400
Speaker 1: and I just live out of my suitcase.

892
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:46,080
Speaker 2: As they say. But I know some people like to unpack.

893
00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: But Props has that little luggage stand built into the

894
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:53,520
Speaker 1: suitcase itself. Propsluggage dot Com. I have not tested this,

895
00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:55,560
Speaker 1: but they pitched me on it a couple of years ago.

896
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 2: I thought it was a cool idea.

897
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,920
Speaker 1: I've got some friends that use it. It's let's see,

898
00:43:00,920 --> 00:43:05,839
Speaker 1: it's probably I'm guessing it's quite expensive. Let's see graphite. Yeah,

899
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: three hundred and ninety nine dollars for one suitcase, so

900
00:43:08,200 --> 00:43:12,359
Speaker 1: it's not cheap. The other thing is you mentioned the

901
00:43:12,440 --> 00:43:15,960
Speaker 1: lithium battery in the suitcase. Why that is my question?

902
00:43:16,160 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: Why do you need smart luggage? Why do you need

903
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,160
Speaker 1: a battery pack in your suitcase? You do not need that.

904
00:43:22,719 --> 00:43:26,319
Speaker 1: Battery packs are cheap, they're inexpensive, they're thirty dollars. You

905
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,320
Speaker 1: want it in your backpack when you're on a plane

906
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:29,960
Speaker 1: because you want to be able to charge your stuff.

907
00:43:30,000 --> 00:43:34,839
Speaker 1: I do not understand this fascination with USB ports and

908
00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 1: power packs inside the luggage.

909
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:37,839
Speaker 2: We don't need that.

910
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 1: And the thing about the lithium batteries, I am not

911
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: an expert in this, but i do travel with a

912
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: lot of gadgets and I've often you know, they always

913
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 1: ask you when you check in your luggage do you

914
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: have any lithium ion batteries in your luggage? And I'm like, oh,

915
00:43:52,520 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: I have like a portable bluetooth speaker, I have a

916
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: phone in there, I've got a tablet in there. Sometimes

917
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:00,719
Speaker 1: I'll travel with stuff in my actual check loveuggage, and

918
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:04,280
Speaker 1: from what I've understood, and don't you know, don't quote

919
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:05,959
Speaker 1: me on this, like don't pack stuff in your bags

920
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 1: without telling the airport. But what I've understood is that

921
00:44:09,880 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: those lithium ion batteries are specific to like medical devices.

922
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 1: It seems like they are very specific. It's not like

923
00:44:17,640 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 1: if you bring a Bluetooth speaker in your luggage. I

924
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:24,239
Speaker 1: don't think that's what they're talking about, or an air

925
00:44:24,320 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: tag or something like that. Like, I don't think they're

926
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: worried about that. I think they're worried about really big,

927
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:34,040
Speaker 1: like very energy dense batteries in your luggage, and so

928
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:37,160
Speaker 1: I think that's what they're talking about. But Mark, the

929
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:40,759
Speaker 1: short answer is, when you are talking about luggage, I

930
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Speaker 1: think that there are so many options out there. I'm

931
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:46,840
Speaker 1: not the best person asked because I again, I have

932
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Speaker 1: Amazon Basics, so I'm not really interested in the top

933
00:44:50,840 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: quality luggage, even though I think it'd be nice to

934
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Speaker 1: have that. I just don't think you need the luggage

935
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Speaker 1: with all of the tech built into it. So thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call today, I appreciate and hopefully you're going

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Speaker 1: alone is a fantastic deal. That's like a two hundred

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Speaker 1: and forty dollars value for the year. So if your

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Speaker 1: kid's going to college, there is no reason why they

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Speaker 1: shouldn't sign up for this. So go to Gemini dot

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Speaker 1: Google slash students. That's a weird website, Gemini. Let me

947
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Speaker 1: just go to it. Got Google slash students. It's weird

948
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Speaker 1: that it's dot Google. I'm just confirming and absolutely that

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you're a student, I get it. Everyone

953
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Speaker 1: likes chat GBT. They also have i think sort of

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Speaker 1: I mean, get this free pro plan just for the

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Speaker 1: two terabytes of storage plus the notebook LM, which is

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Speaker 1: really cool.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's.

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Speaker 1: An amazing deal right there, Gemini dot Google slash students.

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

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

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Speaker 4: Two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Bonnie in Ohio. Bonnie, you're on with

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Speaker 1: Rich Hi.

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00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:58,239
Speaker 9: Rich.

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00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:02,879
Speaker 10: We have a text three several weeks in Ohio on

978
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:07,440
Speaker 10: items like laptop things for kids to go back to school.

979
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Speaker 10: I'm wondering if you have a laptop under five hundred

980
00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 10: dollars you would recommend just for basic internet searching email? Uh?

981
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:20,480
Speaker 1: Are you interested in a Chrome book or do you

982
00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: want like a Windows based or a Mac based Windows

983
00:47:24,520 --> 00:47:27,839
Speaker 1: based Okay, Windows based okay, because the Chromebooks are very

984
00:47:27,840 --> 00:47:30,080
Speaker 1: inexpensive and so you can get that for a deal.

985
00:47:30,760 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: I think when it comes to the Windows based laptops,

986
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:37,800
Speaker 1: my favorite is really the Asus the Vvo Book it's called,

987
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: and I love this because it's such a great laptop

988
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,239
Speaker 1: for not a very expensive price. So those are the

989
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: that's the one that I really like. The problem is

990
00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: you got to find it when it's on sale and

991
00:47:50,280 --> 00:47:52,520
Speaker 1: you said you have like a you've got like a

992
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:54,440
Speaker 1: tax free holiday coming.

993
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:58,080
Speaker 10: Up, Yes, through the fourteenth, I believe.

994
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: Okay, So I wonder when they uh do that, you know,

995
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,480
Speaker 1: do the sale or the sales as good? Because this

996
00:48:04,560 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: laptop was on sale for even though what I'm testing,

997
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: which is the Asus zen Book, which I really like,

998
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:12,319
Speaker 1: that one was on sale I think for six ninety nine,

999
00:48:12,360 --> 00:48:15,320
Speaker 1: which is incredible, Like this thing is brand new, beautiful,

1000
00:48:16,640 --> 00:48:19,880
Speaker 1: So that that brand I like, if you see a

1001
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 1: sus at the you know, if you're going to Best

1002
00:48:22,000 --> 00:48:24,399
Speaker 1: Buy or wherever you're going to buy it. The other

1003
00:48:24,480 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: thing is really I think that what it comes down

1004
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,840
Speaker 1: to is the specs of the computer. So you know,

1005
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,400
Speaker 1: I can give you the top brands that I like.

1006
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: I think Lenovo is great. I think a SUS is great.

1007
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 1: But I think really what it comes down to is

1008
00:48:37,280 --> 00:48:40,839
Speaker 1: the specs. And so if you're looking for specs, I

1009
00:48:40,880 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: think you want to make sure that you're getting something

1010
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: that's either it's interesting because they've got these new processors

1011
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: called Snapdragon, which the battery the battery life is really

1012
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: good with those.

1013
00:48:53,400 --> 00:48:54,280
Speaker 2: So if you're.

1014
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,759
Speaker 1: Looking for a Snapdragon, I think it's called like the

1015
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:58,879
Speaker 1: x E Leade or something like that. The battery life

1016
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:01,479
Speaker 1: is really good on those, but it's not so good

1017
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:04,319
Speaker 1: for things like super high end processing, like if you're

1018
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:07,080
Speaker 1: video editing or something like that, it'll work, but it's

1019
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:09,200
Speaker 1: maybe not as good as like an Intel or an

1020
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 1: AMD processor. But in general, in general, i'll give you

1021
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:17,280
Speaker 1: my thoughts for these things. So for the Intel chips

1022
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,240
Speaker 1: or the AMD, you want at least an Intel five

1023
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:23,160
Speaker 1: or an AMD five. They've got different levels, but if

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00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,240
Speaker 1: you go with five or higher, you're gonna be good there.

1025
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:29,040
Speaker 1: Hard drive, you want a one terabyte hard drive, So

1026
00:49:29,160 --> 00:49:31,080
Speaker 1: one terabyte hard drive is going to give you plenty

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00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: of room when it comes to RAM. This is the

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00:49:35,800 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: gigabyte number, like four gigs, sixteen gigs, eighteen gigs or sorry, eighteen.

1029
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:45,839
Speaker 1: It's usually in numbers like four, eight, sixteen, thirty two.

1030
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: I would look for at least sixteen gigs of RAM.

1031
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 1: I told you about the hard drive for a terabyte.

1032
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,839
Speaker 1: Now the graphics card, that's the other thing under five

1033
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:59,040
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. You're probably not gonna find a separate graphics

1034
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:02,680
Speaker 1: card instead these computers, but you might, and so you'll

1035
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:06,480
Speaker 1: notice it'll either say integrated graphics or it'll specifically give

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00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: you the graphics card number. Ideally, you would want a

1037
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,480
Speaker 1: computer that gives you a graphics card number separate, because

1038
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,879
Speaker 1: that means that it's got better graphics processing than one

1039
00:50:16,880 --> 00:50:20,200
Speaker 1: that's built into the processor. And then with the screen size,

1040
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,359
Speaker 1: you always want to get the biggest screen size you can.

1041
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: Fourteen sixteen inches would be ideal. I had a thirteen

1042
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:29,760
Speaker 1: inch laptop and it just it was way too tiny.

1043
00:50:30,920 --> 00:50:33,000
Speaker 1: But again, yeah, I'm looking at this. Oh wow, look

1044
00:50:33,040 --> 00:50:36,200
Speaker 1: at this. So they've got best Buy has a list

1045
00:50:36,280 --> 00:50:39,600
Speaker 1: of laptops under five hundred dollars, so you can actually

1046
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: go through. Let me see, I'm going to type in

1047
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,440
Speaker 1: some of the things I just put in there. I

1048
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:48,279
Speaker 1: said sixteen gigs of RAM, and the storage and let's

1049
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:51,680
Speaker 1: see what comes up. So they're coming up with two hps.

1050
00:50:51,760 --> 00:50:54,239
Speaker 1: Those are refurbished. Oh wow, so it might be a

1051
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,359
Speaker 1: little tough. Let me see, you might have to go. Yeah,

1052
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:02,959
Speaker 1: the sixteen gigs of RAM is really tricky. Interesting, Maybe

1053
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:04,919
Speaker 1: it's thirty two. Let me try one more thing here,

1054
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:06,920
Speaker 1: maybe you can get even more O there you go.

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00:51:07,440 --> 00:51:09,560
Speaker 1: So it looks like you can get those specs for

1056
00:51:09,680 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 1: under five hundred. A lot of it is the Dell

1057
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:16,320
Speaker 1: and the HP models, so you know you can find it.

1058
00:51:16,320 --> 00:51:18,879
Speaker 1: It's just a little trickier to get that under five

1059
00:51:18,920 --> 00:51:20,759
Speaker 1: hundred dollars price point. You're gonna watch something that's on

1060
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,600
Speaker 1: sale for sure. But great question, Thanks Bonnie. I know

1061
00:51:24,080 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 1: back to school is coming up and it's one of

1062
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 1: these things. My kid went back to school and they

1063
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,799
Speaker 1: gave him like a Chromebook and it's just like this

1064
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:33,240
Speaker 1: thing must be like one hundred dollars.

1065
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:35,560
Speaker 2: Like it's just it's so bad. It's just like, oh

1066
00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: my gosh.

1067
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 1: So get the best specs you can with the money

1068
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:41,520
Speaker 1: that you have to spend, and that is the best

1069
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:46,760
Speaker 1: advice because it will last you longer. Roku has launched

1070
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: a new streaming service called Howdy. This is a only

1071
00:51:51,719 --> 00:51:54,799
Speaker 1: three dollars a month, ad free It's gonna be on

1072
00:51:55,000 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: Roku devices at start. That's not a trial price, no ads,

1073
00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 1: no contracts. Got ten thousand hours of entertainment from all

1074
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:06,360
Speaker 1: the different companies Lionsgate, Warner Brothers, Discovery.

1075
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 2: Plus Roku originals.

1076
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:12,680
Speaker 1: Designed to complement premium streaming services, not replace them. So

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be available now on Roku devices and rolling

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Speaker 1: out to other devices and platforms soon. Roku, as you know,

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Speaker 1: has a whole bunch of stuff. Now they've got the

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Speaker 1: Roku Channel, which is free and ad supported. Then they

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Speaker 1: got Friendly Tv which they just purchased, which is like

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Speaker 1: a live TV kind of cable TV kind of thing.

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Speaker 1: And now they've got Howdy which I think is a

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Speaker 1: great name the website Howdy dot tv. So streaming for

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Speaker 1: three dollars a month. I think this is going to

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Speaker 1: have a back catalog of older stuff. But again, it's like,

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Speaker 1: if you like what they're doing with Roku Channel where

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Speaker 1: it's all free, but you kind of want some stuff

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Speaker 1: that's ad free. You just want to watch stuff, this

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Speaker 1: is probably a good option Howdy dot tv. I'll put

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Speaker 1: the links to everything I just mentioned on the website

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, Adam Daud.

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Speaker 1: He's going to talk about robotic lawnmowers and some other

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Speaker 1: things he's been testing on rich on Tech. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with

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Speaker 1: you talking technology. Triple eight rich one O one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: The website for the show is rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: There you can get the show notes to anything we

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Speaker 1: talk about. This is episode one thirty three. Everything is

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Speaker 1: right there.

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Speaker 9: All right.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now is Adam Dawd, freelance technology writer. He

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Speaker 1: is always testing something. We're always running into each other

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Speaker 1: at all the events around the world.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: This guy travels, I think more than anyone I know. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and is always trying something. Adam, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Thank you for having me. It's good to be here.

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Speaker 2: Are you on the road a lot throughout the year

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Speaker 2: or what?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 11: So, I'm I'm usually on the plane at least once

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Speaker 11: per month going somewhere or doing something, So yes, I

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Speaker 11: might travel a lot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And you've got you've got a quite the freelance proliferation

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Speaker 1: of sites that you write for. What's your primary do

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Speaker 1: you have like a primary place you write.

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Speaker 11: Probably slash Gear is where I do get a lot

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Speaker 11: of my bread and butter. I do a lot of

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Speaker 11: editing behind the scenes at slash Gear, though, so but

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Speaker 11: I write there too, so you'll see my work there.

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Speaker 5: But most of the work that.

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Speaker 11: I do there you'll never see, because you know, the

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Speaker 11: good editors, they never know.

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Speaker 5: What you do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I love that.

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Speaker 1: So you've been testing a bunch of stuff, robotic lawnmowers.

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Speaker 1: I've been fascinated by because the idea of a spinning,

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Speaker 1: cutting sharp blade on a robot making its way around

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Speaker 1: my lawn with kids and pets and things just sounds

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Speaker 1: curiously interesting.

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Speaker 2: So what do you make of these things? Which ones

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Speaker 2: did you test?

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Speaker 11: Okay, so I tested so far, I've tested six of them.

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Speaker 11: The most notable comes from Napimo, which is a sub

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Speaker 11: brand of Segue, which are you know, the little Paul

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Speaker 11: Blart scooters that around. Yes, also did one from Sunseeker.

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Speaker 11: Also did one from Yarbo, which is is a trip

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Speaker 11: by itself. Yeah, Yarbo is is a bit of a trip.

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Speaker 11: So just to uh.

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Speaker 5: To put aside, one of the one.

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Speaker 11: Of the the the the popular culture things that you mentioned,

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Speaker 11: is this maning blades. Unlike a traditional lawnmower, a robot

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Speaker 11: lawnmark is basically just a plastic disc with like little

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Speaker 11: razor blades about an inch long that sticks out the

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Speaker 11: end of it. So like it's not the metal bar

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Speaker 11: that traditional so, and it's because it reduces the weight

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Speaker 11: that the motor has to run because these are usually

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Speaker 11: battery powered. So that's you know, that's one of the

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Speaker 11: things like even if it did run over your foot,

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Speaker 11: which by the way, one of mine has it, it

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Speaker 11: probably won't do a whole ton of damage.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So it's it's they've they've thought about that that

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Speaker 1: so it's more like almost like one of those weed whackers.

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Speaker 1: Remember it has like that little kind of blade that

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Speaker 1: comes out. I mean, I get that. So it's all

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Speaker 1: it's just plastic. Okay, So it's not as dangerous as

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Speaker 1: you might think.

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Speaker 11: I mean, it is a metal blade at the end

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Speaker 11: of that plastic disc, right, Yeah, it's like it's like

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Speaker 11: the little blade that you'd find in like a like

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Speaker 11: a like a thing you shave with.

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Speaker 1: Okay, got it. Okay, So so you charge this thing up,

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Speaker 1: you set up the app. Do you have to tell

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Speaker 1: it where to go or does this find its way

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Speaker 1: around your lawn or what?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, so some of them will find their way around

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Speaker 11: their lawn by yourself. Other times you have to like

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Speaker 11: draw a boundary and then it'll go in. Like it'll

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Speaker 11: go in and just like figure out the best route

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Speaker 11: to go. Like with all the obstacles and stuff like that,

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Speaker 11: most of them you just you just draw the out

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Speaker 11: external boundary and it just goes. And the nice thing

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Speaker 11: about these things is you set it and forget it,

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Speaker 11: like once you go through all the initial setup, which

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Speaker 11: by the way, is a lot, But once you go

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Speaker 11: through the initial setup, you just let it go and

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Speaker 11: you say, I want you to mow my lawn, you know,

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Speaker 11: three times a week Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and you

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Speaker 11: have a perpetually short lawn. It doesn't go through the

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Speaker 11: long and then short and then long in the short phases.

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Speaker 11: It's just perpetually all that one, which is really nice

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Speaker 11: and uh it's it's also a great conversation starter. I

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Speaker 11: have had cars stop back up.

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Speaker 5: And say, excuse me, what is that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now on that note, what's to keep someone from

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Speaker 1: just stealing this thing?

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Speaker 2: Is it the same?

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Speaker 11: You know, like it's there's a few things. First of all,

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Speaker 11: most robot lawnmowers have built in security, like if they

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Speaker 11: get picked up, they'll like go into like a lockdown mode.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 11: Second of all, if you can't charge it, you can't

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Speaker 11: use it. So if you're gonna steal the mower, you

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Speaker 11: better steal the base station as well. And also most

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Speaker 11: robot lawnmowers have a third element, which is called an

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Speaker 11: RTK beacon, which.

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Speaker 2: Is you're getting fancy on me here, I am, I.

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Speaker 11: Really am, so this RTK beacon. The probably the most

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Speaker 11: robot lawn mower is the stay use GPS there boundary

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Speaker 11: wires are very rarely a thing anymore. But the problem

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Speaker 11: with GPS is the GPS you're using to drive down

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Speaker 11: your street has an accuracy of roughly three to nine

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Speaker 11: feet find when you're driving down Hollywood Boulevard. Not so

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Speaker 11: great when you're trying to stay stay off your neighbor's lawn.

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Speaker 11: So these robot lawnmowers use an RTK beacon, which is

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Speaker 11: a fixed point on the planet Earth where the GPS

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Speaker 11: satellites will talk to this beacon and say, I say

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Speaker 11: you're here, and the beacons like nope, I am actually

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Speaker 11: here five feet to the north, and then the satellites

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Speaker 11: will be like, oh, I must be a little bit off,

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Speaker 11: So I'm going to tell your lawnmower that everywhere I

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Speaker 11: think it is is actually five feet to the north,

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Speaker 11: and with that you can get down to like centimeter

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Speaker 11: level accuracy.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 11: That's used in robot lawnmowers. It's also used in like

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Speaker 11: large construction vehicles like John Deere. Construction vehicles have these

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Speaker 11: RTK beacons that can like their graters will like actually

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Speaker 11: use this beacon to figure out where they are so

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Speaker 11: they can they can push away dirt where they're supposed

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Speaker 11: to and not push away dirt where they're not supposed to.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's really wild. It's got the beacon. Which of

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Speaker 1: these three did you like the best? I guess the

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Speaker 1: takeaway is like, which features should we look for in

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Speaker 1: a good robotic lawnmower?

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Speaker 2: And what's the price point? I feel like these things

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Speaker 2: are expensive too.

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Speaker 11: They are very expensive, not appropriately enough. The most expensive

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Speaker 11: one that I tested was also my favorite.

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Speaker 5: But the mowers start at about.

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Speaker 11: Above a thousand dollars, so roughly one thousand to twelve hundred.

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Speaker 11: Maybe that's for the for the lower end ones. The

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Speaker 11: one I the one I like the most, was like

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Speaker 11: closer to five thousands.

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Speaker 5: But they have smaller versions.

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Speaker 2: I can one guy live with me for that price.

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Speaker 11: The one I have is designed for like golf courses,

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Speaker 11: so like they have smaller ones that are closer to like,

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Speaker 11: you know, fifteen hundred to two hundred to two thousand rathers.

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Speaker 5: So they are pricey.

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Speaker 11: However, you know, think about the man hours that you

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Speaker 11: spend pushing this thing back and forth across your lawn.

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Speaker 5: You know you're in la so you do this year round.

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Speaker 2: Why don't do anything?

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Speaker 1: Let's be clear, Oh Kia, I've never mowed a lot

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Speaker 1: in my life. I actually have once when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid and I had the blade so close to

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Speaker 1: the grass. My neighbor had to call my dad and say,

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Speaker 1: never again, because your kid ruined all of my grass.

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Speaker 1: And so that was the one and only time I

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Speaker 1: ever mowed the lawn. Now, my dad, by the way,

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Speaker 1: loves mowing the lawn like he is a lawnmower OFFICIANTO.

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Speaker 1: So he would not want this technology in any way,

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Speaker 1: shape or form, because he likes to be out there.

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Speaker 1: I think it was his way of being away from

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Speaker 1: the family, you know, like, oh, gotta go mow that

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Speaker 1: lawn again.

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Speaker 11: See he goes and mows the lawn. I go to

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Speaker 11: London and we just have our different methods.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 5: But but yeah, so it's it's really cool.

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Speaker 11: And they are expensive, no doubt about that, but they

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Speaker 11: are coming down in price.

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Speaker 5: They're actually a lot more popular in Europe than they

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Speaker 5: are here.

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Speaker 11: Another mowere that I tested up was from Huskvarna and

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Speaker 11: they actually developed the first autonomous lawnmower back in the

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Speaker 11: nineties and this thing used you know, boundary wires and

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Speaker 11: stuff like that. It kind of went across your lawn,

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Speaker 11: kind of like a robot vacuum cleaner inside your house.

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Speaker 11: But but yeah, Husbarn has been this in this for

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Speaker 11: a long time. Navamo, this is actually one of their

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Speaker 11: first that they that they launched, so I was kind of.

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Speaker 5: Surprised that they did it as well as they did.

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Speaker 1: So, wait, which one is your favorite, the Navamo the

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Speaker 1: Sunseeker or the Yarbo the.

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Speaker 11: The Navamo is is my favorite because it was the

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Speaker 11: easiest to set up and it it does the best job.

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Speaker 5: The Yarbo.

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Speaker 11: Man that is a study in over engineering because this

1286
01:01:55,600 --> 01:01:58,480
Speaker 11: thing has like tank treads, and it's designed for like

1287
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Speaker 11: real like solid.

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Speaker 5: And dust use.

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Speaker 11: But the nice thing about the Arbow is you can

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Speaker 11: put a snowblower attachment on it.

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 11: And you can put a leaf blower on it. They

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Speaker 11: have a couple of other modules that you can do.

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Speaker 11: But but yeah, so the Arbow is is.

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Speaker 1: Oh I'd love to see an autonomous snowblower going down

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Speaker 1: the street, like on your sidewalk. Like people would just

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Speaker 1: be like, what the heck is going on at the

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Speaker 1: DeMuro house, although it doesn't really snow where I live. So, okay,

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Speaker 1: we got we got about a minute left. I want

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Speaker 1: to quickly talk about your take on Samsung's foldables. My

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Speaker 1: thesis was that they've gotten to a place where I

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Speaker 1: can actually recommend them this year, but you have to

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Speaker 1: have a reason for wanting it.

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Speaker 2: What's your thought?

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Speaker 11: Very similar to this is a remarkable leap forward. I'm

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Speaker 11: using the fold seven as we speak. It's a great

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Speaker 11: leap forward and very much needed. Samsung was doing a

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Speaker 11: little bit of laurel resting up until this year, so

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Speaker 11: now it's caught up with a lot of the competition

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Speaker 11: and actually surpassed a lot of the competition, which is

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Speaker 11: great to see, and uh, it's still a little bit

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Speaker 11: too expensive.

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Speaker 5: The flip is less impressive.

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Speaker 11: But they increase the UH screen on it, which is great,

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Speaker 11: the cover screen on it, which is great. And I

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Speaker 11: think the funny part about my opinion foldables is I

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Speaker 11: judge foldables based on how much I can use them

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Speaker 11: when they're folded, not when they're open. And both phones

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Speaker 11: do a really great job in that in that respect.

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Speaker 5: So yeah, if.

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Speaker 11: You're in the market for a foldable, if you work

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Speaker 11: with a lot of spreadsheets, spreadsheets are great on this

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Speaker 11: thing then and I'm a data nerd, so I use

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Speaker 11: spreadsheets all the time. But anyway, yeah, if you're if

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Speaker 11: you're into that, then yeah, these are great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think this year is like if you have a

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Speaker 1: use case, like you're like, oh, yeah, I wanted a

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Speaker 1: bigger screen to watch movies or use spreadsheets or you know,

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Speaker 1: edit photos, whatever, or if you just want to be

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Speaker 1: like on the cutting edge and have something cool that's

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Speaker 1: different than Sure, I couldn't say that in previous years,

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Speaker 1: Like this is the first year. I'm like, yes, this

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Speaker 1: is You'll be completely happy with these, all right, Adam Daud.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna leave it there, dead Technology. That is your

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Speaker 1: user name on threads, Adam Dowd Dead Technology. There is

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Speaker 1: a story there, but you're gonna have to ask Adam

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Speaker 1: if you want that. He can explain.

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Speaker 2: This is nothing. It's just it's silly, it's funny. It's

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Speaker 2: silly anyway. Thanks for joining me today.

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Speaker 5: Adam, Thanks for having me forward to doing it again.

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Speaker 1: I will see you at the next event. I'm guessing

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Speaker 1: the Pixel event in New York City. Uh eighty to eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 2: Right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on tech rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology the website rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. The phone number is eight eight eight rich

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Speaker 1: Real quick, I had a quick, just a hot tip

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Speaker 1: when you're trying to or organize your email.

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Speaker 2: I was just, you know, I get an email.

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Speaker 1: I just got an email from like Domino's Pizza, Okay,

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Speaker 1: And what I do when I get an email like

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Speaker 1: that and it's something that I just don't need, I

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Speaker 1: go through and on Gmail, and this may be different

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Speaker 1: depending on the email program you're using, but you tap

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Speaker 1: the more icon and then it says filter messages like this,

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Speaker 1: and so I can tap that and it will find

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Speaker 1: the email address and just search for all the emails

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Speaker 1: in my account that are from Dominoes, and then I

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Speaker 1: can just take them and just delete them all because

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Speaker 1: I don't need any emails from Dominoes in my inbox

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Speaker 1: or you know, my archive. So it's just kind of

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Speaker 1: an easy way to clean up your inbox as you

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Speaker 1: go along. So if you get some of these emails

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Speaker 1: and these promotional things, you know, you can just just

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Speaker 1: clear them out as you go along. Let's see here,

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Speaker 1: Sarah says, wonderful show. I always learned something new. Keep

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Speaker 1: your old luggage. A new suitcase always looks expensive whether

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Speaker 1: it is or not, and thieves will steal it for

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Speaker 1: the anticipated valuable content. Sarah in Las Vegas. That's I

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Speaker 1: never thought about that aspect. So my old dumpy luggage

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Speaker 1: is actually a good thing. Sunday ticket NFL Sunday ticket

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Speaker 1: is here. It's an NFL season and I was wondering

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Speaker 1: can I pay less than the four hundred and eighty

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Speaker 1: dollars they want me to pay for Sunday Ticket, and

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Speaker 1: the answer is yes, you can get it for cheaper.

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Speaker 1: So if you buy this as a recurring customer returning customer,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pay four hundred and eighty dollars. You can

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Speaker 1: get it either through YouTube TV or YouTube. So this

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Speaker 1: is the other thing. By the way, you do not

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Speaker 1: need to subscribe to YouTube TV to get Sunday Ticket.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if they make that clear, but you

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Speaker 1: can subscribe by itself on YouTube and when you do that,

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Speaker 1: all you do is go to YouTube to watch the

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Speaker 1: Sunday Ticket games. So just to be very clear, you

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Speaker 1: do not need the base cable service to get YouTube

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Speaker 1: or to get NFL Sunday Ticket. But there are some

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Speaker 1: caveats to that because basically you're not going to get

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Speaker 1: all the games because the ones that are local or

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Speaker 1: are on a different channel or something or yeah, like

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Speaker 1: Prime TV ins or Prime Amazon, Prime Peacock, you're not

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Speaker 1: going to get those necessarily, So just be aware of that.

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Speaker 1: But here are the deals that I found online. Number one, Verizon,

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Speaker 1: you can get NFL Sunday Ticket for free if you

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Speaker 1: get a.

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Speaker 2: New line with them, if you add a line.

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Speaker 1: Existing customers pay two hundred and seventy six dollars, so

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Speaker 1: that's you know, decent savings. There Best Buy two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty eight dollars if you do the my best

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Speaker 1: Buy Plus membership, So if you already have that, you

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Speaker 1: can get it or you have to buy that membership

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Speaker 1: which is fifty dollars a year. Students, this is the

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Speaker 1: best deal one hundred and nineteen dollars via YouTube Student plan.

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Speaker 1: So if you're a student, I think you have to

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Speaker 1: be a college student because I couldn't figure out how

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Speaker 1: to do it for my kid who's in you know,

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Speaker 1: elementary school and high school, so that we couldn't take

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Speaker 1: advantage of military first responders, nurses, teachers, and medical providers.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of people. One hundred and ninety eight dollars.

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Speaker 1: But you have to get verified through id dot me.

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Speaker 1: If you're not familiar with it. This is like a

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Speaker 1: platform that has a bunch of discounts on things, but

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Speaker 1: you have to verify your eligibility and usually you only

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Speaker 1: have to do that one time. So if you're already verified,

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Speaker 1: this should be pretty easy. But in the case of

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Speaker 1: my wife, who is a teacher, she basically had to

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Speaker 1: submit like her social Security number, and I was like, uh,

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Speaker 1: not doing that. So I ended up going with the

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Speaker 1: Verizon deal two hundred and seventy six dollars.

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Speaker 2: That's what I did.

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Speaker 1: You can also get it if you're a new customer

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Speaker 1: for two eighty through the YouTube you know, the standard

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Speaker 1: YouTube YouTube TV thing. So anyway, yeah, watching football, it

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Speaker 1: turns out is very expensive, something that I did not

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Speaker 1: realize till my kid got into it. Uh, Comcast is

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Speaker 1: moving their email service to Yahoo. So a Comcast is

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Speaker 1: shutting down it's Infinity email platform and it's going to

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Speaker 1: migrate all Comcast dot Net accounts to Yahoo Mail over

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Speaker 1: the next few months. So yes, Hiler, Hiler, Hiler, things

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Speaker 1: are changing.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think this is probably gonna be better because

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Speaker 1: you know, if you're using some random third party email service,

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Speaker 1: it's probably not that good. So Yahoo has a decent,

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Speaker 1: you know, email platform, which I think is going to

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Speaker 1: be better in general. But I get it, it's going

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Speaker 1: to be a major shift for a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: But everything's going to transfer over all. Your messages, your folders,

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Speaker 1: your contacts, your email addresses are going to stay the same.

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Speaker 1: So basically the only thing that's going to change is

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Speaker 1: everything where you go to log in and of course

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Speaker 1: the way everything looks. So I guess they started sending

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Speaker 1: out messages on August second to customers, so if you

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Speaker 1: got that, it is legitimate. About thirty days after that,

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Speaker 1: so we're talking September second, you're going to get an

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Speaker 1: email that's going to tell you to log in at

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Speaker 1: connect dot exfinity dot com to accept the new Yahoo terms,

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Speaker 1: and then you have one hundred and twenty days from

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Speaker 1: that day to complete the migration. If you don't, you

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Speaker 1: might lose your entire account. So again, you've got one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty days to do this, but you know

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Speaker 1: you should probably do it earlier than later. Now, if

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Speaker 1: you don't want to switch to Yahoo Mail, you can

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Speaker 1: just export all of your stuff and close your account.

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Speaker 1: You can do that at export dot exfinity dot com.

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Speaker 1: So that is happening. It's going to be a big change.

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Speaker 1: And finally, before we go to break here, Amazon Autos

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Speaker 1: is now selling used and certified pre owned vehicles just

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Speaker 1: in the LA area. So Amazon Autos basically if you

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Speaker 1: want to look for a used car, you can do

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Speaker 1: that there three year, three day, three hundred mile return policy,

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Speaker 1: thirty day, one thousand mile limited warranty, no hidden fees,

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Speaker 1: transparent pricing. So basically you can buy the car on

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Speaker 1: the website and then you go to your dealer to

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Speaker 1: pick it up. So they're working with local dealers that

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Speaker 1: list these cars. I guess, so one more option. I

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Speaker 1: think they're going up against the car Maxes of the

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Speaker 1: world and also the Carvanas of the world. Now you

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Coming up this hour, We've got us CEO, Ahmed Kattak.

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Speaker 1: here he's building over there. Let's go to Sabrina in Eugene, Oregon.

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Speaker 9: What's up, Hey, I traveled last weekend and I used

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Speaker 9: the hotspot on my phone to connect to the internet

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Speaker 9: the first evening and the next morning, and then I

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Speaker 9: I could not connect to the internet. Figured I just

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Speaker 9: didn't have a good enough signal from a hotspot to work.

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01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:54,680
Speaker 9: I got home and it still will not connect. I

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01:12:54,760 --> 01:12:59,759
Speaker 9: can see an IP address, it will not connect to Google.

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01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 7: You know.

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01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:04,920
Speaker 9: I can't use the Chrome browser, I can't use the Fi,

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01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:09,120
Speaker 9: I can't use Firefox. I pinged a couple things and

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01:13:09,200 --> 01:13:12,439
Speaker 9: the ping does not work. Can you think of any

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01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:15,959
Speaker 9: settings I might have done to make it not work anymore.

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01:13:16,360 --> 01:13:19,719
Speaker 2: Okay, So where where is this hotspot coming from? Your phone?

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01:13:20,400 --> 01:13:20,960
Speaker 9: My phone?

1513
01:13:21,040 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 2: Okay? Do you have an Android or iPhone?

1514
01:13:23,760 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 9: iPhone fourteen on AT and T okay, iPhone fourteen on

1515
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 9: AT and T.

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01:13:29,240 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 2: So here's my question.

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01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: Does if you go to you know, the web on

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01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:36,000
Speaker 1: your phone itself, does that work?

1519
01:13:36,560 --> 01:13:36,960
Speaker 3: It does?

1520
01:13:37,200 --> 01:13:37,599
Speaker 2: Okay?

1521
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,120
Speaker 9: So and then but then I got home and my

1522
01:13:41,320 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 9: internet provider is Comcast, and it still doesn't work. I

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01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 9: have full bars, I can see the Internet, and I

1524
01:13:50,280 --> 01:13:53,760
Speaker 9: can see IP, but none of my browsers and none

1525
01:13:53,840 --> 01:13:56,919
Speaker 9: of my cloud kind of apps nothing works.

1526
01:13:57,200 --> 01:13:58,800
Speaker 1: Well, what do you mean when you're connected to the

1527
01:13:58,840 --> 01:14:01,720
Speaker 1: hotspot or in general, because the Comcast wouldn't be that

1528
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:04,280
Speaker 1: doesn't really have anything to do with your hot spot?

1529
01:14:04,600 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 9: No, right, once I got home, I quit using my

1530
01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:12,160
Speaker 9: hotspot and connected like I normally would at home. Yeah,

1531
01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:13,840
Speaker 9: and it still doesn't work.

1532
01:14:14,000 --> 01:14:16,479
Speaker 1: Oh okay, So it sounds like the device that you're

1533
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:17,719
Speaker 1: using is not working.

1534
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:25,000
Speaker 9: How How I don't I don't. I'm just kind of wondering. No, okay, So,

1535
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 9: and I guess it could be hardware.

1536
01:14:27,040 --> 01:14:28,679
Speaker 2: But yeah, well that's.

1537
01:14:28,680 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 9: Because I'm really hyper sensitive on how I take care

1538
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,760
Speaker 9: of my computer because it's my livelihood.

1539
01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: Well, so it sounds like the computer's not working, not

1540
01:14:36,439 --> 01:14:39,280
Speaker 1: the hot spot, because if you're saying you're connecting your computer,

1541
01:14:39,360 --> 01:14:42,599
Speaker 1: it's your home Wi Fi and it's still not working. Right,

1542
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:44,559
Speaker 1: That has nothing to do with your hotspot. Now now

1543
01:14:44,600 --> 01:14:46,719
Speaker 1: we're talking, it's just a computer that's not working.

1544
01:14:46,920 --> 01:14:49,080
Speaker 9: Oh no, I agree with that, and so I just

1545
01:14:49,320 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 9: can you think of any setting or something I may

1546
01:14:51,800 --> 01:14:54,919
Speaker 9: have done on the computer so that it wouldn't connect.

1547
01:14:55,640 --> 01:14:57,600
Speaker 1: The only thing I can think of is, well, a

1548
01:14:57,600 --> 01:14:59,840
Speaker 1: couple of things. I mean, obviously you've tried restarting the

1549
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:00,960
Speaker 1: computer and all that good.

1550
01:15:00,840 --> 01:15:02,080
Speaker 9: Stuff multiple times.

1551
01:15:02,160 --> 01:15:04,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, So the only thing I can think

1552
01:15:04,200 --> 01:15:06,240
Speaker 1: of is that it's trying to connect to the hotspot

1553
01:15:06,479 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 1: and it's not getting a good signal from there, and

1554
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:10,320
Speaker 1: that's causing the issues.

1555
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 2: Does does anything work on this computer?

1556
01:15:13,280 --> 01:15:16,160
Speaker 9: To see all my options? And I can clearly click

1557
01:15:16,240 --> 01:15:20,639
Speaker 9: on you know, my two point four, my five from

1558
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 9: my home Wi Fi and it still doesn't work.

1559
01:15:23,160 --> 01:15:24,000
Speaker 2: And it still doesn't work.

1560
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: Okay, So so it sounds like this computer there's something

1561
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:29,680
Speaker 1: going on with it. Have you tried hardwiring it to

1562
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:32,080
Speaker 1: your modem to see if it works.

1563
01:15:31,840 --> 01:15:35,400
Speaker 9: That way, I have hardwired in it does not work.

1564
01:15:35,720 --> 01:15:39,000
Speaker 1: Doesn't work that way either, Nope. Okay, Well what kind

1565
01:15:39,000 --> 01:15:39,640
Speaker 1: of computer is.

1566
01:15:39,640 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 9: This Mac fourteen pro?

1567
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:44,240
Speaker 2: Okay? So it's a Mac. Okay.

1568
01:15:45,400 --> 01:15:47,519
Speaker 1: So what I would do is if you go into

1569
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:51,679
Speaker 1: your network settings on your Mac, you can you can

1570
01:15:51,720 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 1: go in and delete the different services like the Ethernet service.

1571
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,599
Speaker 1: I don't think you could delete the WiFi Fi service,

1572
01:16:00,720 --> 01:16:04,040
Speaker 1: let me say, and that could help you know and

1573
01:16:04,080 --> 01:16:05,599
Speaker 1: when you when you reconnect it.

1574
01:16:05,800 --> 01:16:05,960
Speaker 2: Oh.

1575
01:16:05,960 --> 01:16:07,960
Speaker 1: The only other thing is you can look inside and

1576
01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 1: this gets a little bit kind of techy, but you

1577
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 1: can look inside the Wi Fi kind of settings and

1578
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:16,320
Speaker 1: proxies do you have. Are you running any sort of

1579
01:16:16,400 --> 01:16:17,280
Speaker 1: VPN or anything?

1580
01:16:18,640 --> 01:16:23,519
Speaker 9: I do have Decender VPN, but I've since to say

1581
01:16:23,720 --> 01:16:27,640
Speaker 9: that I deleted it. I'm installed it to see if

1582
01:16:27,640 --> 01:16:29,360
Speaker 9: that made any difference, and it didn't.

1583
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:31,000
Speaker 2: Interesting okay.

1584
01:16:31,400 --> 01:16:35,400
Speaker 1: And if you tried a different web browser on this computer, yeah, I.

1585
01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:38,040
Speaker 9: Did, Firefox, Chrome and Safari.

1586
01:16:38,120 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 1: All right, Sabrina, I think it sounds like it's time

1587
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:43,559
Speaker 1: to take this computer into the Apple Store and get

1588
01:16:43,560 --> 01:16:45,880
Speaker 1: them to do a diagnostic on it and see what's

1589
01:16:45,920 --> 01:16:49,160
Speaker 1: going on. Sounds like you're pretty tech savvy, so it

1590
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,120
Speaker 1: sounds like you've done all of your due diligence on

1591
01:16:52,160 --> 01:16:55,960
Speaker 1: this thing. You've checked the different networks. And it's interesting

1592
01:16:56,000 --> 01:16:58,320
Speaker 1: though that you came to me thinking that it was

1593
01:16:58,360 --> 01:17:01,200
Speaker 1: the hot spot on your phone, because I was going

1594
01:17:01,240 --> 01:17:03,960
Speaker 1: to say, if if the computer is working on your

1595
01:17:04,000 --> 01:17:06,479
Speaker 1: home Internet, I was going to say, you probably just

1596
01:17:06,560 --> 01:17:09,160
Speaker 1: ran out of your hot spot data allotment on your

1597
01:17:09,200 --> 01:17:11,200
Speaker 1: phone because you were using it so much on the

1598
01:17:11,240 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 1: vacation or on the trip. So that doesn't sound like

1599
01:17:14,840 --> 01:17:17,680
Speaker 1: it's the case, because nothing's working on this computer. So

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01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,960
Speaker 1: I would take it into the uh the Apple store

1601
01:17:21,080 --> 01:17:23,320
Speaker 1: and have them run a diagnostic. It could be that

1602
01:17:23,400 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 1: your it sounds like to me like there's some sort

1603
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,679
Speaker 1: of DNS issue with your like if you were using

1604
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:33,840
Speaker 1: like a different DNS setting or something like that. That's

1605
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:35,639
Speaker 1: what it sounds like to me, like it's not getting

1606
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:38,320
Speaker 1: Let's see, I'm trying to look in here and see

1607
01:17:38,360 --> 01:17:42,080
Speaker 1: what i've got, Like your your your IP address, I

1608
01:17:42,080 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 1: mean you said your IP address was fine. I mean

1609
01:17:43,760 --> 01:17:46,640
Speaker 1: it's just everything you said sounds like you've checked it

1610
01:17:46,640 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 1: out and it's just that, Yeah, something something's weird there,

1611
01:17:51,120 --> 01:17:53,559
Speaker 1: So uh, bring it in and see what they say

1612
01:17:53,640 --> 01:17:56,720
Speaker 1: and hopefully they fix it, because that is not good

1613
01:17:56,760 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 1: to not be with.

1614
01:17:57,400 --> 01:18:00,160
Speaker 2: Your computer for sure. Thanks for the call.

1615
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:02,720
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four

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01:18:02,720 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. If you use Microsoft Lens,

1617
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:12,000
Speaker 1: it is shutting down. Microsoft is retiring its popular Lens

1618
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:16,479
Speaker 1: PDF scanner app for iOS and Android. This according to

1619
01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: Bleeping Computer. I guess they found a help note on

1620
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:23,400
Speaker 1: this on the Microsoft website. So this used to be

1621
01:18:23,439 --> 01:18:26,560
Speaker 1: called Office Lens. Now it's called Microsoft Lens. But it

1622
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:29,320
Speaker 1: doesn't matter because it's all going away. So this was

1623
01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 1: actually one of the better free PDF scanners out there, and'

1624
01:18:33,640 --> 01:18:37,080
Speaker 1: I mean clearly it had fifty million downloads on Google Play.

1625
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 2: That's a lot. Wow.

1626
01:18:39,439 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: Retirement is starting mid September, so if you're using this

1627
01:18:43,240 --> 01:18:45,320
Speaker 1: mid September, you got to think about a new program

1628
01:18:45,320 --> 01:18:48,360
Speaker 1: that you can use to replace this mid September rather

1629
01:18:48,439 --> 01:18:50,639
Speaker 1: mid November. It's going to be removed from the app

1630
01:18:50,640 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: stores December fifteenth, twenty twenty five. No new scans are

1631
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:59,960
Speaker 1: possible inside the app, so existing scans will remain viewable

1632
01:19:00,080 --> 01:19:02,360
Speaker 1: in your my scans folder, but you can't do any

1633
01:19:02,439 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 1: new ones. And there's no more support. So what do

1634
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:08,080
Speaker 1: you do. You can download, Oh my gosh, you're gonna

1635
01:19:08,080 --> 01:19:13,880
Speaker 1: love this, the Microsoft three sixty five Copilot app, and

1636
01:19:13,960 --> 01:19:17,040
Speaker 1: so yeah, they're trying to get you to do more

1637
01:19:17,160 --> 01:19:20,439
Speaker 1: with their with their AI. So I did check this

1638
01:19:20,479 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 1: Microsoft Copilot app. I did download it, and if you

1639
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 1: press a hold on the icon, sure enough, the scan

1640
01:19:26,240 --> 01:19:27,599
Speaker 1: functionality is in there.

1641
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:31,559
Speaker 2: It's just as good as it was before. And it's

1642
01:19:31,680 --> 01:19:34,759
Speaker 2: I think that the Microsoft one has pretty good scanning.

1643
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:38,679
Speaker 1: So let's see what this does. Yeah, I mean it does.

1644
01:19:38,760 --> 01:19:40,880
Speaker 1: It does everything you need. It copies the text, it

1645
01:19:40,920 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 1: cleans things up, you can write on it, you can. Yeah,

1646
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: it's it's really good. So again, if you're using Microsoft

1647
01:19:46,720 --> 01:19:51,280
Speaker 1: Lens formerly Office Lens, you need to transition to a

1648
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 1: new program called Microsoft three sixty five Copilot App. You

1649
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 1: can also use the built in scanning functionality that's on

1650
01:19:58,040 --> 01:20:02,439
Speaker 1: the iPhone or the Adobe Scan app which is also

1651
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,080
Speaker 1: cross platform and that's really good. Or you can use

1652
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:07,760
Speaker 1: Google Drive. They also let you scan documents as well,

1653
01:20:07,840 --> 01:20:10,320
Speaker 1: so there's a lot of ways to scan documents.

1654
01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:10,639
Speaker 4: Now.

1655
01:20:11,280 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 1: It's pretty easy at this point, but the Microsoft one

1656
01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:15,080
Speaker 1: was a good one.

1657
01:20:17,000 --> 01:20:17,639
Speaker 2: Let's see here.

1658
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:21,240
Speaker 1: Nick from Alpine writes in Hey, Rich, I listened to

1659
01:20:21,320 --> 01:20:23,439
Speaker 1: your show and you mentioned that Google Photos has a

1660
01:20:23,520 --> 01:20:27,960
Speaker 1: storage saver setting that compresses your photos. Does Gmail have

1661
01:20:28,080 --> 01:20:31,800
Speaker 1: a similar setting. I'm nearing my limit. There's no compression

1662
01:20:31,800 --> 01:20:34,880
Speaker 1: option that I know of in Gmail. But they do

1663
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:39,000
Speaker 1: have a feature called Google Storage Manager. And if you

1664
01:20:39,040 --> 01:20:43,800
Speaker 1: go to one dot Google dot com, you go there,

1665
01:20:44,000 --> 01:20:48,840
Speaker 1: you tap storage okay, and then you go scroll down.

1666
01:20:49,120 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 2: Let's see where is this.

1667
01:20:52,280 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: Get more storage? Cleanup space. Tap cleanup space and you

1668
01:20:56,160 --> 01:20:58,519
Speaker 1: will see it'll tell you how full your storage is.

1669
01:20:59,040 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: And I'll give you all all of these suggestions for

1670
01:21:01,560 --> 01:21:04,000
Speaker 1: cleaning up your storage. So I can get rid of

1671
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:06,200
Speaker 1: large photos and videos. I can save nine hundred and

1672
01:21:06,240 --> 01:21:09,360
Speaker 1: forty five gigabytes. I can get rid of large drive files,

1673
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:12,559
Speaker 1: save one hundred and eighty two gigabytes. I can Okay,

1674
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: here's the wild one. I can delete emails with large attachments.

1675
01:21:17,080 --> 01:21:19,479
Speaker 1: I can get rid of seven gigabytes in my Gmail

1676
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 1: right now, and then you can tap it says clean

1677
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:24,120
Speaker 1: up by service. You can go in and get even

1678
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:28,040
Speaker 1: more specific with all the giant attachments and things, so

1679
01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:31,559
Speaker 1: you can go emails with large attachments, emails and trash

1680
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:34,920
Speaker 1: spam emails, so you can offer to it'll offer to

1681
01:21:35,080 --> 01:21:37,719
Speaker 1: clean up all of that stuff for you. So emails

1682
01:21:37,760 --> 01:21:41,439
Speaker 1: with large attachments, Gosh, I only have thirty two of those.

1683
01:21:41,479 --> 01:21:44,760
Speaker 1: I've cleaned them all out over the years, so but yeah,

1684
01:21:44,800 --> 01:21:46,840
Speaker 1: pictures will take that up. But anyway, that's where you.

1685
01:21:46,840 --> 01:21:47,160
Speaker 4: Want to go.

1686
01:21:47,280 --> 01:21:49,639
Speaker 2: Nick one dot Google dot com.

1687
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:52,479
Speaker 1: Check out those clean up your storage options and you

1688
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:55,360
Speaker 1: can get rid of all of that stuff. Good question

1689
01:21:55,920 --> 01:21:58,400
Speaker 1: eighty eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven four

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01:21:58,400 --> 01:22:01,360
Speaker 1: to two, four to one zero one. On the website

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01:22:01,479 --> 01:22:04,719
Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot TV. Follow me on social media

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Speaker 1: new issue today, more.

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Speaker 2: Of your emails and calls.

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Speaker 1: Plus I'll tell you why AT and T is paying

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Speaker 1: out one hundred and seventy seven million dollars in a

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Speaker 1: data breach settlement. Coming up next, Welcome back to rich

1699
01:22:24,560 --> 01:22:28,080
Speaker 1: on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology.

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01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:31,880
Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one oh one eighty eight seven

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01:22:32,000 --> 01:22:34,000
Speaker 1: four to two, four one zero one.

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01:22:35,160 --> 01:22:36,240
Speaker 2: My mom is doing.

1703
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:39,560
Speaker 1: The playlist today, Paulette wrote, wrote in on my Instagram

1704
01:22:39,560 --> 01:22:42,160
Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, your Mom's playlist is killing it again.

1705
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:46,719
Speaker 1: I think you need to make her your permanent music person, Paulette.

1706
01:22:46,760 --> 01:22:51,840
Speaker 1: That really hurts me and Bobo. We sit here every

1707
01:22:51,920 --> 01:22:53,720
Speaker 1: week and pick out the music for this show and

1708
01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:56,920
Speaker 1: we think we do a nice job, and we never

1709
01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:01,040
Speaker 1: get compliments on our playlist. Never, no one ever comes in, Oh.

1710
01:23:00,920 --> 01:23:02,840
Speaker 9: My godness, the great I know.

1711
01:23:02,920 --> 01:23:05,519
Speaker 2: It's like, well, what I mean, what was that song

1712
01:23:05,560 --> 01:23:07,519
Speaker 2: you just played? Good film Florida.

1713
01:23:07,600 --> 01:23:12,439
Speaker 1: Okay, that's not all that unique. Come on, we would

1714
01:23:12,439 --> 01:23:16,160
Speaker 1: have played that j just because Mom wanted it and

1715
01:23:16,280 --> 01:23:17,040
Speaker 1: we get some love too.

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01:23:17,200 --> 01:23:18,520
Speaker 2: Was that on her list?

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01:23:19,160 --> 01:23:19,439
Speaker 3: That was?

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01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:19,720
Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so she's I mean no, it's not like

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01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:27,200
Speaker 1: she pulled something like some deep sided B track or something.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, I get you when you go home, hopefully they're

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01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:31,600
Speaker 2: not listening.

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01:23:32,880 --> 01:23:35,679
Speaker 1: At and T is paying one hundred and seventy seven

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01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:38,360
Speaker 1: million dollars in a data breach settlement.

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Speaker 2: So you might remember this. This was back in twenty

1726
01:23:41,840 --> 01:23:42,360
Speaker 2: twenty four.

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01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:46,839
Speaker 1: They had two data breaches impacted seventy three million customers

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Speaker 1: in April and one hundred million in July. And there

1729
01:23:50,280 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: was a lot like one of these was worse than

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01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,439
Speaker 1: the other, but they had all. This was like the

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01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:58,920
Speaker 1: mega mega data breach. I mean we're talking names, addresses,

1732
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:02,799
Speaker 1: social security numbers, pass codes for the account.

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Speaker 2: I mean this was bad.

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Speaker 1: So settlement is twenty eight million for the April breach,

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01:24:09,000 --> 01:24:12,720
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty nine million for the July breach. Now,

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01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,960
Speaker 1: if you were like really affected and you've got like

1737
01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:20,800
Speaker 1: traceable I guess quote fairly traceable losses to the April breach,

1738
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:23,639
Speaker 1: you can get up to five thousand dollars. The July

1739
01:24:23,800 --> 01:24:26,040
Speaker 1: breach victims can get up to twenty five hundreds. So

1740
01:24:26,080 --> 01:24:28,120
Speaker 1: I think the April must have been the worst one

1741
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:31,679
Speaker 1: with the socials. If you do not have direct damages,

1742
01:24:31,720 --> 01:24:34,640
Speaker 1: like someone like myself where my data was breached, it

1743
01:24:34,680 --> 01:24:37,840
Speaker 1: was out there, but there was no traceable, you know,

1744
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:40,800
Speaker 1: damage to it, you'll get a smaller payment. They haven't

1745
01:24:40,840 --> 01:24:43,600
Speaker 1: said what that payment is, but the claim window is

1746
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:47,599
Speaker 1: now open until November eighteenth. The court will finally approve

1747
01:24:47,600 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 1: this on the December third. Payouts expected early next year.

1748
01:24:52,600 --> 01:24:55,439
Speaker 1: If you didn't get an email about this, you probably will.

1749
01:24:55,520 --> 01:24:57,559
Speaker 1: They do them in like rolling waves, so you might

1750
01:24:57,600 --> 01:25:00,640
Speaker 1: not have gotten it immediately, but you eventually will. Or

1751
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:02,679
Speaker 1: you can just go on the website and file yourself

1752
01:25:02,720 --> 01:25:07,840
Speaker 1: preemptive preemptively uh telecom data settlement dot com.

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01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:10,640
Speaker 2: Telecom data settlement dot com.

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01:25:10,760 --> 01:25:12,920
Speaker 1: That's for the AT and T breach to get your

1755
01:25:13,000 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 1: uh get your name in there. Yeah, I'll put that

1756
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:18,519
Speaker 1: link up on the website. Rich on tech dot tv,

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01:25:20,200 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 1: uh Bob from Los Angeles writes in Hey, Rich, I

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01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:26,000
Speaker 1: always shoot video on my Samsung phone in horizontal mode

1759
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:28,600
Speaker 1: because it feels like I get a fuller frame. But

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01:25:28,640 --> 01:25:31,160
Speaker 1: when I go to edit that footage, especially with the

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01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:35,320
Speaker 1: Instagram edits app you recommended, I sometimes get weird black

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01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 1: bars on the sides. The video looks fine on my phone,

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01:25:39,080 --> 01:25:41,000
Speaker 1: but not so much after importing. Is there a right

1764
01:25:41,080 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 1: or wrong way to record video? If I know I'll

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01:25:43,040 --> 01:25:48,640
Speaker 1: be editing it later. This is the biggest problem of

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01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:53,760
Speaker 1: our time. I mean not really, but it's one of them.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: There was a time, there was a time when I

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01:25:59,520 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 1: would pooh pooh vertical video, like I would say, you

1770
01:26:02,160 --> 01:26:06,400
Speaker 1: cannot shoot vertical video ever. But here's the problem. We

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01:26:06,479 --> 01:26:09,800
Speaker 1: are in a world with two different videotypes. When you're

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01:26:09,840 --> 01:26:13,880
Speaker 1: looking at your computer screen, it's horizontal. When you're looking

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01:26:13,920 --> 01:26:17,360
Speaker 1: at your TV or a movie, it's horizontal. When you're

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01:26:17,400 --> 01:26:21,479
Speaker 1: looking at your phone, it's vertical. And what are people doing.

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01:26:21,520 --> 01:26:23,720
Speaker 1: They're flipping through these videos on their phone and it's

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01:26:23,760 --> 01:26:27,240
Speaker 1: all vertical. So this is the bane of all creators'

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01:26:27,240 --> 01:26:31,240
Speaker 1: existence because when I'm out on a shoot, my photographer

1778
01:26:31,280 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 1: is shooting a horizontal and I'm shooting at vertical because

1779
01:26:34,160 --> 01:26:35,920
Speaker 1: I know I'm going to post my stuff to social

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01:26:35,960 --> 01:26:39,320
Speaker 1: He's going to create the other piece for TV. So

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01:26:39,840 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: what I would recommend, Bob, if you want the best

1782
01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:45,240
Speaker 1: of both worlds, go into your camera app and turn

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01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:48,400
Speaker 1: on the grid. In your settings, there's an option for

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01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:51,760
Speaker 1: a grid, and when you're shooting, keep your subject in

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01:26:51,840 --> 01:26:55,760
Speaker 1: the middle of that grid between the two lines, and

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01:26:55,800 --> 01:26:58,680
Speaker 1: that way you've got horizontal covered and you've got the

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01:26:58,760 --> 01:27:03,960
Speaker 1: vertical covered. If you ever edit it, that's the reality

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01:27:04,000 --> 01:27:05,840
Speaker 1: of it is that you either shoot it one way

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01:27:06,240 --> 01:27:08,320
Speaker 1: that works for both, or you shoot it one way

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01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:11,040
Speaker 1: or the other way. Now, with respect to edits, there

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01:27:11,160 --> 01:27:13,880
Speaker 1: is a way to get rid of things and get

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01:27:13,920 --> 01:27:16,400
Speaker 1: rid of those black bars on the sides or the

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01:27:16,439 --> 01:27:18,960
Speaker 1: top or the bottom. So when you're in your video,

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01:27:19,600 --> 01:27:22,000
Speaker 1: you have to tap the video and you'll see something

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01:27:22,040 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 1: where it says crop and you can crop your video,

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01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 1: expand it. You can usually pinch it, just use your

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01:27:28,320 --> 01:27:30,920
Speaker 1: fingers to pinch it, or you can snap it to

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01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:33,599
Speaker 1: like nine by sixteen is the standard kind of up

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01:27:33,600 --> 01:27:39,240
Speaker 1: and down video. Half video, half half square video, sixteen

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01:27:39,280 --> 01:27:41,040
Speaker 1: by nine and you could do all these different things.

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01:27:41,080 --> 01:27:44,280
Speaker 1: But that's called the aspect ratio. But you're not alone, Bob.

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01:27:44,400 --> 01:27:46,040
Speaker 1: This is this is a major issue.

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01:27:46,040 --> 01:27:46,519
Speaker 2: They used to have.

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01:27:47,760 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: They used to have apps that you can use on

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01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,120
Speaker 1: the iPhone that even if you were shooting horizontal, it

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01:27:52,160 --> 01:27:53,880
Speaker 1: was still shoot vertical. I mean, it's a whole thing

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01:27:53,960 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 1: or vertical whatever. So confusing now, but yeah, basically, know

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01:27:58,160 --> 01:27:59,720
Speaker 1: where you're putting the video. If you're gonna watch it

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01:27:59,760 --> 01:28:02,800
Speaker 1: on your TV, shoot it horizontal. If you're gonna edit

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01:28:02,840 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 1: it for Instagram reels, shoot it vertically. That's the bottom line.

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Speaker 1: Eight A eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one rich on

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Speaker 1: tech dot TV. If you're not watching my TV segments,

1814
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Speaker 1: you can do it there.

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Speaker 9: You know.

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01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:19,200
Speaker 1: I've got a whole bunch of TV segments I do

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01:28:19,280 --> 01:28:22,839
Speaker 1: every week for KTLA in Los Angeles and our partner

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Speaker 1: stations across the US. This week I talked about the

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Speaker 1: Samsung Z Fold seven and the z Flip seven. I've

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Speaker 1: got my review there. I visited the Tesla Diner in Hollywood.

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01:28:32,800 --> 01:28:34,880
Speaker 1: I've got my video of that, and I've got my

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Speaker 1: preview of iOS twenty six Liquid Glass.

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Speaker 2: It's all on the website. Rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we're gonna talk to the CEO

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Speaker 1: of US Mobile right here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology the

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01:28:53,080 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot tv. If you need a

1829
01:28:56,160 --> 01:29:01,400
Speaker 1: link to anything I mentioned. HBO is going to crack

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01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:06,360
Speaker 1: down on password sharing. HBO Max says it's about to

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01:29:06,360 --> 01:29:11,240
Speaker 1: get aggressive with users who share their accounts. So here's

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01:29:11,320 --> 01:29:14,800
Speaker 1: what we can expect. According to droid Life, they will

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01:29:14,960 --> 01:29:18,720
Speaker 1: Warner Brothers Discovery will roll out tougher messaging to suspected

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01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:21,639
Speaker 1: account sharers in September, so if you're sharing your account,

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01:29:21,680 --> 01:29:23,760
Speaker 1: you might see like, hey, you should really get your

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01:29:23,760 --> 01:29:27,920
Speaker 1: own account. Some messaging will require action to keep watching

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01:29:27,960 --> 01:29:32,720
Speaker 1: instead of the easily disablable warnings from before. But by

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01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:36,160
Speaker 1: the end of the year Titan enforcement, so it's going

1839
01:29:36,200 --> 01:29:39,360
Speaker 1: to be even worse. The goal the company has spent

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01:29:39,479 --> 01:29:44,240
Speaker 1: months analyzing data to identify legitimate versus unauthorized users, which

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01:29:44,280 --> 01:29:47,840
Speaker 1: basically means they want to convert shared accounts into paying subscribers.

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01:29:48,280 --> 01:29:51,080
Speaker 1: So if you are freeloading on someone's HBO Max, you

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01:29:51,120 --> 01:29:52,720
Speaker 1: better start saving your money now because you're going to

1844
01:29:52,760 --> 01:29:54,560
Speaker 1: need your needs your own account by the end of

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01:29:54,600 --> 01:29:54,920
Speaker 1: the year.

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01:29:56,360 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 2: Let's bring on.

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01:29:58,320 --> 01:30:02,240
Speaker 1: We've got the CEO of of US Mobile, Ahmed Kattek,

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01:30:02,600 --> 01:30:03,960
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me today.

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01:30:05,240 --> 01:30:06,679
Speaker 5: Great to be on your show, Rich.

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01:30:07,479 --> 01:30:09,040
Speaker 2: I'm a fanboy for a little bit.

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01:30:09,160 --> 01:30:11,880
Speaker 1: I just got to say I absolutely love what you're

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01:30:11,880 --> 01:30:16,599
Speaker 1: doing at US Mobile. I really am impressed, genuinely. I've

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01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 1: got two lines with you guys, and it's unbelievable.

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01:30:21,000 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 2: Just it's okay. So US Mobile is it's a carrier.

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01:30:25,920 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: You may not even have heard of, by the way,

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01:30:28,200 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 1: But what's cool is that you've built the carrier that

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01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:33,559
Speaker 1: I want because you've done it in a tech forward

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01:30:33,600 --> 01:30:36,320
Speaker 1: way that lets me control everything I need to control

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01:30:36,800 --> 01:30:39,839
Speaker 1: from a dashboard without going into a store, without talking

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01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:43,120
Speaker 1: to someone, without really doing anything except just doing what

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01:30:43,200 --> 01:30:43,599
Speaker 1: I want.

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01:30:43,680 --> 01:30:44,960
Speaker 2: So good job on that.

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Speaker 8: Thank you, Rich, And for those of you who haven't

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01:30:48,920 --> 01:30:51,920
Speaker 8: heard of US Mobile. I promise you you'll all hear

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01:30:52,200 --> 01:30:55,360
Speaker 8: us about us you know, in the next year or so.

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01:30:55,360 --> 01:30:57,320
Speaker 2: So what explain what US Mobile is.

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Speaker 8: So US Mobile is what you call a virtual network operator.

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01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:07,799
Speaker 8: But what that means is that we offer cell phone service,

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01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:10,560
Speaker 8: but we don't really operate any of our net networks.

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01:31:10,600 --> 01:31:15,800
Speaker 8: And we are basically built on top of existing networks,

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01:31:16,400 --> 01:31:19,080
Speaker 8: which in the US means all three.

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Speaker 5: Major networks.

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Speaker 8: We are the only virtual network operator that's built on

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01:31:24,320 --> 01:31:29,759
Speaker 8: top of all three major networks. And and and just

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01:31:29,760 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 8: just an f I I if you know, if you know,

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01:31:33,000 --> 01:31:35,200
Speaker 8: you know when you're using any of you know, whether

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01:31:35,200 --> 01:31:39,960
Speaker 8: whether you're using Venmo or any of these tools, remember

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01:31:40,040 --> 01:31:43,400
Speaker 8: that they're also not banks. They're also virtual banks. So

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01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:47,000
Speaker 8: this technology, this business model has existed for a very

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01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 8: long time in insurance and banking, and now more and

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01:31:50,680 --> 01:31:53,400
Speaker 8: more people are obviously learning about it on the on

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01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:54,799
Speaker 8: the wireless and telco side.

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Speaker 1: And the neat thing is that you can choose from

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01:31:57,680 --> 01:32:00,240
Speaker 1: whatever network you want to run on you. You've got

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01:32:00,240 --> 01:32:03,559
Speaker 1: funny names for them like dark Star and like, uh warp,

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01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:04,679
Speaker 1: what are they dark star?

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01:32:04,960 --> 01:32:07,320
Speaker 2: Warp and something else light speed.

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01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,720
Speaker 8: The part of it is I grew up watching Star

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01:32:10,720 --> 01:32:13,800
Speaker 8: Wars and start directly, and I dreamed of being in

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01:32:13,840 --> 01:32:16,680
Speaker 8: a spaceship when I was a young kid. So I

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01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:18,800
Speaker 8: think there was a bit of uh, you know that

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01:32:18,840 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 8: geekness playing into this. But also US Mobile is probably

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01:32:24,479 --> 01:32:28,519
Speaker 8: the most public wireless network in a way that we

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01:32:28,880 --> 01:32:31,439
Speaker 8: are subredded. Sees tens of millions of views, and I'm

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01:32:31,439 --> 01:32:34,719
Speaker 8: there responding to people directly. A lot of these names

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01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:38,639
Speaker 8: are just crowdsourced. We asked our customers what we should

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01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:44,160
Speaker 8: name these networks, because contractually we're not allowed to, you know,

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01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:47,519
Speaker 8: call these networks with the parent carrier's name, like Team

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01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:49,880
Speaker 8: Olverizen or AT and T so, so we had to

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Speaker 8: come up with our own names, and we thought it'd

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01:32:51,720 --> 01:32:54,200
Speaker 8: be fun to ask our users what they wanted.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you actually have a feature that lets you

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01:32:58,720 --> 01:33:01,320
Speaker 1: this is so I was earlier in a ts that

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01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 1: like you kind of did what Google five was trying

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01:33:03,920 --> 01:33:05,880
Speaker 1: to do many years ago, which was like unify the

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01:33:05,920 --> 01:33:08,439
Speaker 1: networks into like their idea is, you'd have one mega

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01:33:08,479 --> 01:33:10,479
Speaker 1: netlik you didn't have to think about what network your

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01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:11,280
Speaker 1: phone was using.

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01:33:11,640 --> 01:33:13,280
Speaker 2: It would just choose the best network.

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01:33:13,320 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 1: And you've sort of done that now with your plan,

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01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:20,040
Speaker 1: you can add a secondary carrier that it'll it'll default

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01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 1: to if the first carrier doesn't have as good of

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01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:23,799
Speaker 1: a signal. Can you explain that feature?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely?

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Speaker 8: Rich, So, you know, we call the US Mobile a

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01:33:28,080 --> 01:33:30,120
Speaker 8: super carrier, and the reason we call it is because

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Speaker 8: we're the only network in America that has access to

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Speaker 8: all three networks. And the timing was right.

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Speaker 5: So the way the Google Fi did it was they.

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01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,599
Speaker 8: Had their own you know, they they on a network

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01:33:42,680 --> 01:33:45,840
Speaker 8: level try to steer traffic to different networks based on

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01:33:46,360 --> 01:33:50,559
Speaker 8: different parameters. And one of the biggest sallegies with that is,

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01:33:50,600 --> 01:33:52,599
Speaker 8: you know, the Google file said, we're on t mobile land,

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01:33:52,600 --> 01:33:54,559
Speaker 8: we ere on Sprint like tmobile is spind to any

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01:33:54,600 --> 01:33:56,000
Speaker 8: of these and they're not going to tell you if

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01:33:56,000 --> 01:33:58,920
Speaker 8: they're bad in a specific area. And also, the way

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01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,840
Speaker 8: latency works in network, because you're bad for that one

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01:34:01,920 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 8: second might not mean that you're bad for the next

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01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:06,360
Speaker 8: second or the second after that. Having said that, all

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Speaker 8: networks have their strong suits in different cities and areas

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Speaker 8: urban suburban, So we took a different approach towards it.

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Speaker 8: We combined all three networks, but we gave the users

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Speaker 8: the power to switch to any network instantly.

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Speaker 2: And there's two ways you can do it.

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Speaker 8: Pretty much every single recent flagship phone in America has

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Speaker 8: two SIM cards in it. But having said that, iPhones

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01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 8: started going double SIM cards back in twenty seventeen, so

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Speaker 8: you know, you've almost had seven or eight years, You've

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Speaker 8: had hundreds of millions of phones. iPhones and Samson phones

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Speaker 8: actually have the ability to have two networks on them.

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Speaker 5: And so that technology is.

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Speaker 8: Called DSDs which is dual same dual standby, and we

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Speaker 8: are going to get into DSDA later that I can

1944
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Speaker 8: talk about which is dual same dual aggregation, and I'll

1945
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Speaker 8: explain both of them, so it be dual same dual

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Speaker 8: span by. What happens is you can have two networks

1947
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Speaker 8: at the same time. And there's you can either with

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Speaker 8: a flip of a button switch networks immediately. So with

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Speaker 8: for example, on my iPhone with the US Mobile, I've

1950
01:35:09,560 --> 01:35:11,479
Speaker 8: set my iPhone up here, I double tapped the back

1951
01:35:11,560 --> 01:35:13,360
Speaker 8: of the phone, or I use the action button and

1952
01:35:13,360 --> 01:35:16,160
Speaker 8: the switches it, or you can go into the settings

1953
01:35:16,600 --> 01:35:19,479
Speaker 8: off your phone. You know, this is goes for pretty

1954
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:23,519
Speaker 8: much all these dual save phones, and you can have

1955
01:35:23,640 --> 01:35:26,160
Speaker 8: the phone decide. You know, there's a all of you

1956
01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:27,639
Speaker 8: if you you know, you can go into your settings

1957
01:35:27,640 --> 01:35:30,800
Speaker 8: and you'll say allow automatic data switching, right, and then

1958
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Speaker 8: the phone decides based on congestion ratios and vice versa,

1959
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Speaker 8: and and and so so that you know, and so

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Speaker 8: US Mobile kind of was born a few years before

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Speaker 8: that technology became mainstream. What's special about US Mobile is

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Speaker 8: that we've built the whole carrier around. We built the

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Speaker 8: whole experience around the fact that you should be able

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Speaker 8: to switch. So when you when you get a plan

1965
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,000
Speaker 8: with US Mobile twenty five dollars limited plan or a

1966
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Speaker 8: forty four dollars and limited plan, depending on whether you

1967
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Speaker 8: travel abroad or because both them are limited and uncapped.

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Speaker 8: The forty four dollars aimed plant comes with one multi

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Speaker 8: network lin so you can add a second network. The

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Speaker 8: twenty five dollars one you can spare anywhere between five

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Speaker 8: to ten dollars. But what that basically means is you

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Speaker 8: will never end up anywhere in America without having cell

1973
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Speaker 8: phone bars unless you're I was in in a moab

1974
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:27,840
Speaker 8: Utah like last year's and other house November. But even

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Speaker 8: that we are solving, right, I mean, that's where satellite

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Speaker 8: comes in.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was going to ask about that, because that's

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Speaker 1: you know, and I've been you know, people wonder like

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Speaker 1: why should I go to an MV and O versus

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Speaker 1: an AT and T, a T mobile or a Verizon

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Speaker 1: you know, in the satellite I think is going to

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Speaker 1: be a differentiator. But are you guys going to add

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Speaker 1: that to your to your plans?

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Speaker 2: Like how where are you with that?

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Speaker 8: With some With some companies we're talking directly like startlink

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01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,920
Speaker 8: with others, you know, uh, with others, we're going to

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01:36:58,960 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 8: get that as a detrit from our carrier having that partnership.

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Speaker 8: So like one of our carriers is parknering with ASD

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Speaker 8: Space Mobile.

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Speaker 5: So the point is it's going to be part of

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Speaker 5: our It's going to be part of our plans.

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Speaker 1: Okay, because that's I mean, because people in the future.

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01:37:13,479 --> 01:37:15,559
Speaker 1: That's to me, it's like I want a phone that

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Speaker 1: not only supports satellite, but also a plan that does

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01:37:18,360 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: it as well, and I think that's important. And then

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Speaker 1: the other thing is the cellular watches. I know you

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01:37:23,680 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 1: recently added that feature. Do people even care about that?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know, like for me, like I run

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Speaker 1: a lot without my phone, so I always like the

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Speaker 1: cellular But when I talk to people. Most of them

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Speaker 1: are a majority don't have a use case for that

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Speaker 1: because they're not without their phone most of the time.

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Speaker 8: I think it's a there's a two prong issue. Should

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01:37:41,000 --> 01:37:43,719
Speaker 8: you have a cellular watch one hundred percent? Just imagine

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01:37:43,720 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 8: the peace of mind it gives you, I mean rich,

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01:37:45,520 --> 01:37:48,400
Speaker 8: forget the fact that you run without your phone, what

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01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,400
Speaker 8: if your phone's battery dies. It's been an absolute game changer.

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01:37:52,479 --> 01:37:55,439
Speaker 8: So everyone should have cellular connectivity. US Mobile gives it

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01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:57,240
Speaker 8: for free with the forty four dollars plan, and then

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01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:01,000
Speaker 8: so you can add it as lewis five dollars. Then

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01:38:01,120 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 8: why doesn't everyone have it? Because carriers make it really

2012
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Speaker 8: hard to activate it. You had Apple that built a

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01:38:08,200 --> 01:38:11,200
Speaker 8: really great technology. I think it's a mixture of Apple

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01:38:11,240 --> 01:38:14,080
Speaker 8: and carriers who really couldn't figure out that really great experience.

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Speaker 8: With US Mobile, we really redefine that experience. We're adding

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01:38:18,200 --> 01:38:20,880
Speaker 8: a cellular watch is basically two or three clicks. I

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01:38:20,880 --> 01:38:24,240
Speaker 8: would say that's the bigger issue. And by the way,

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01:38:24,280 --> 01:38:26,880
Speaker 8: Sellar watch has been a huge driver for US Mobile,

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01:38:27,160 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 8: not in terms of subscribers. Sure, we're adding more subscribers

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01:38:30,000 --> 01:38:32,519
Speaker 8: on Apple Watch, and probably most carriers out there. But

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01:38:32,760 --> 01:38:35,080
Speaker 8: that is how now people are learning about us if

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01:38:35,160 --> 01:38:38,439
Speaker 8: you look at even our Twitter and how I mean

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01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:41,920
Speaker 8: starting with Jack Dorsey who you know, basically found US

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Speaker 8: mobile because he was looking at for a cellular watch

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Speaker 8: than a lot of other people. If you actually go

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Speaker 8: to any GPT in America, CHAGPT, clode Rock, if you

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Speaker 8: ask what the best Apple cellular watch plan is, the

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Speaker 8: number one response will be US Mobile on it. So

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Speaker 8: I would say it's everyone should have it. It's a

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Speaker 8: great security. And now with all these schools banning phones, Apple, like,

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Speaker 8: I mean, watches are the way to go, but the

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Speaker 8: reality is it's hard to activate it, and that's where

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Speaker 8: you lose most of the customers.

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Speaker 1: Well, I like US Mobile because you know, I test

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01:39:19,080 --> 01:39:21,719
Speaker 1: a lot of phones, and I'm not kidding. I switch

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Speaker 1: my sim my e sim to a different phone pretty

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01:39:24,360 --> 01:39:28,559
Speaker 1: much like every week, and that is nearly impossible to do.

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Speaker 1: I've been locked out on like the main carriers. I

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01:39:31,439 --> 01:39:33,479
Speaker 1: get where it goes into I call it never never Land,

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01:39:33,479 --> 01:39:35,800
Speaker 1: where it leaves my phone and never makes it to

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01:39:35,840 --> 01:39:37,320
Speaker 1: the new phone with yours.

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Speaker 2: It is so easy.

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Speaker 1: I literally say I need to activate this on a

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Speaker 1: new plan. It sends me a QR code to my email,

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01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:46,040
Speaker 1: I scan it and within seconds that line is on

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Speaker 1: a new phone. I know that's only my use case,

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01:39:48,120 --> 01:39:50,080
Speaker 1: like not a lot of people need that, but for

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Speaker 1: me that the ease of activation and switching and changing

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01:39:53,520 --> 01:39:56,400
Speaker 1: the plan like features is so nice.

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Speaker 8: Listen, you're not wrong, and I'll tell you why. It's

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01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:03,200
Speaker 8: hard because most of these carriers don't own the hardware

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Speaker 8: and the software together. There's a third party company that's

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01:40:05,600 --> 01:40:08,559
Speaker 8: built the software for them, and that's what made Tesla great.

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Speaker 8: That's what made some of these other companies great, which

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01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:12,960
Speaker 8: is whether you agree with Elon or not, the Tesla

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01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:16,360
Speaker 8: is a product works really well because they own that

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Speaker 8: software layer.

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Speaker 5: And that is what happened with.

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01:40:18,800 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 1: You Apple too, same thing. I mean that the phone

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01:40:21,760 --> 01:40:26,280
Speaker 1: software in the hardware, we got a run. But in

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Speaker 1: US Mobile dot com is the website. You can go

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01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 1: there check it out. What's number one reason why someone

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01:40:32,160 --> 01:40:33,799
Speaker 1: should switch from their standard carrier.

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Speaker 8: I believe you to have service anywhere in America, no

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Speaker 8: one offers that. And then the second reason is we

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Speaker 8: were ranked and we're one on the consumer reports to

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Speaker 8: have the best customer service. And you can reach out

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01:40:44,479 --> 01:40:48,160
Speaker 8: to me anytime on reddit on our subreddit. So I

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01:40:48,160 --> 01:40:49,920
Speaker 8: would say, you ask for one reason, I gave you

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Speaker 8: three reasons.

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Speaker 2: You know, in ten seconds, three reasons, three carriers. There

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Speaker 2: you have it.

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Speaker 1: US Mobile CEO Ahmed Katak, thanks so much for joining

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Speaker 1: me today.

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Speaker 2: I really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 8: Streach.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, we are going to open up

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Speaker 1: the feedbag and read some of the emails, the comments,

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01:41:07,400 --> 01:41:09,680
Speaker 1: and the questions that you sent me this week as

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Speaker 1: coming up right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 1: talking technology. We're going to get to the feedbag in

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Speaker 1: just a moment. Good article this week from Consumer Reports

2084
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: which details how to get better sound from your TV

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01:41:29,680 --> 01:41:32,920
Speaker 1: if you can't really hear what's happening on the screen.

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01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:35,799
Speaker 1: Not just if you're you know you have hearing loss,

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01:41:35,800 --> 01:41:38,679
Speaker 1: but just in general. You know, sometimes you just can't

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01:41:38,680 --> 01:41:42,360
Speaker 1: really hear what's happening. So even if the volumes up,

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01:41:42,400 --> 01:41:44,439
Speaker 1: dialogue can be tough to follow. This is like a

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01:41:44,479 --> 01:41:47,360
Speaker 1: thing on TV. I don't know, as someone's explaining to

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01:41:47,439 --> 01:41:49,519
Speaker 1: me why this is nowadays, but there's just so much

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01:41:49,560 --> 01:41:52,320
Speaker 1: going on anyway. They say to start with the TV

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01:41:52,400 --> 01:41:56,040
Speaker 1: audio settings. Look for dialogue speech, boost voice clarity or

2094
01:41:56,040 --> 01:41:59,960
Speaker 1: clear voice modes. Turn off night mode if if flat

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01:42:00,160 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 1: is the dialogue, switch from surround sound to stereo sound,

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01:42:04,960 --> 01:42:08,920
Speaker 1: or boost the center channel sound, or use the EQ

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01:42:09,160 --> 01:42:12,559
Speaker 1: to lower the base and boost mid high frequencies where

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01:42:12,640 --> 01:42:16,400
Speaker 1: voices typically are. They've got sound bars with voice enhancement,

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01:42:16,439 --> 01:42:19,840
Speaker 1: which include the Sons Ray and the ARC Samsung Voice

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01:42:19,920 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 1: Enhancement LG Clear Voice, and then z Vox and then

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01:42:25,280 --> 01:42:30,160
Speaker 1: wireless listening. You can connect Bluetooth earphones or earbuds. TV

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Speaker 1: listeners they've got those. I've seen them at Costco, like

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Speaker 1: those STETHOSAP style headsets like TV ears or Sendheiser, they've

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01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:39,240
Speaker 1: got them. And then of course you might be able

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01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:42,120
Speaker 1: to connect your hearing aids directly to the TV. So

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Speaker 1: the main bottom line is that if you just want

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01:42:45,600 --> 01:42:48,599
Speaker 1: the easiest and most effective way to listen to audio

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01:42:48,680 --> 01:42:51,439
Speaker 1: or hear our see audio, just turn on the close captions,

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01:42:51,439 --> 01:42:53,360
Speaker 1: which is what we do in our house. And it's

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Speaker 1: not because we can't hear the TV. It's mostly just

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Speaker 1: because our kids are so loud in the background. We're like,

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01:42:57,280 --> 01:43:00,920
Speaker 1: what are they saying? All right, I'll link that up

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01:43:00,920 --> 01:43:03,600
Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech dot Tv. Time for

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Speaker 1: the feedbag segment. That is your feedback plus the mail bag.

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01:43:07,600 --> 01:43:09,640
Speaker 1: These are the emails, the comments, and the questions I

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01:43:09,680 --> 01:43:12,160
Speaker 1: get from you. If you'd like to submit yours, go

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01:43:12,240 --> 01:43:15,920
Speaker 1: to rich on tech dot tv hit contact. Mike writes

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01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 1: in from Bakersfield, I just watched your review on the

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01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:21,320
Speaker 1: Samsung Galaxy Fold seven. You gave a good review, but

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01:43:21,360 --> 01:43:23,400
Speaker 1: there's one thing I learned from my Fold five. I've

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01:43:23,400 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 1: had to change the screen twice in two years. It

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01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:28,720
Speaker 1: starts out as a black dot along the crease, then

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01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:32,280
Speaker 1: it spreads the AT and T repair shop says it's common. Luckily,

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01:43:32,320 --> 01:43:35,000
Speaker 1: my phone protection plan has covered the repairs. I do

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01:43:35,120 --> 01:43:37,679
Speaker 1: like the phone and its features, but get cell phone

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01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:40,800
Speaker 1: protection because you will need it. Mike, I do believe

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Speaker 1: that Samsung said the screen was more durable this time around,

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Speaker 1: so but good warning. Thanks for the comment on that.

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Speaker 1: Julia from Los Angeles writes in, Hey, rich rose Bud,

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01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:52,759
Speaker 1: you mentioned it before. It's an awesome app for journaling,

2131
01:43:53,040 --> 01:43:55,800
Speaker 1: dream analysis and even thrown out problems that it will

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01:43:55,840 --> 01:43:58,599
Speaker 1: solve like a therapist. I still use it every day.

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01:43:58,680 --> 01:44:01,759
Speaker 1: I'm never stuck with anything. I've never stuck with anything

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01:44:01,800 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 1: this consistently when it comes to journaling. It's great at

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Speaker 1: remembering details and learning about you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:44:08,360 --> 01:44:11,559
Speaker 1: Rosebud just celebrated it's one year anniversary. They said they

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Speaker 1: have over one hundred thousand users. We profiled them when

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Speaker 1: they first started, and I'm glad to hear it is

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01:44:16,600 --> 01:44:20,519
Speaker 1: working out for you. Karen in Tarzana says I had

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01:44:20,520 --> 01:44:24,839
Speaker 1: trouble controlling my Sled smart bulbs with my Alexa recently,

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01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:27,680
Speaker 1: something I imagine many of your listeners have experienced. I

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01:44:27,720 --> 01:44:30,880
Speaker 1: got an email from Amazon saying the Sengled skill no

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01:44:30,920 --> 01:44:33,840
Speaker 1: longer works in Alexa, but I found a workaround that

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Speaker 1: saved me from buying new bulbs.

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01:44:35,360 --> 01:44:36,479
Speaker 2: I have an Echo Show eight.

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Speaker 1: I put the Show eight into this device discovery mode

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Speaker 1: using a voice command. Then, one by one, I reset

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Speaker 1: each bulb by switching the lamp off and on ten

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Speaker 1: times until the bulb blinked. About a minute later, Alexa

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Speaker 1: discovered the bulb, I renamed it, put it back in

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Speaker 1: its usual spot, and now I can control all my

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Speaker 1: bulbs by voice again, even in Alexa routines. This Sengled

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Speaker 1: app no longer sees the bulbs when I'm okay with that,

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Speaker 1: Thanks for keeping us up to date and all this

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Speaker 1: tech stuff. I'm a loyal podcast listener and a KTLA viewer. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you're not the only one that had issues with Single.

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Speaker 1: I look this up. Apparently they were so off and

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Speaker 1: on with their support that Amazon said we're no longer

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Speaker 1: allowing you to be on this Alexa Skills platform. So

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Speaker 1: the company's still in business, but they just weren't living

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Speaker 1: up to their side of things, I guess. So I'm

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Speaker 1: glad you hear that things are working for you. Incidentally,

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Speaker 1: in the future with thread, which is local control of

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Speaker 1: your smart home stuff, a lot of those issues will

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Speaker 1: in the future. Melody from Carlsbad says, I listened to

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Speaker 1: most of your radio shows on KFI or co Go.

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Speaker 1: I wanted to give you a scam alert. I got

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Speaker 1: an email claiming to be from Triple A saying I

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Speaker 1: had a thousand points to redeem for roadside equipment. I've

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Speaker 1: I called them to verify, and sure enough, it was

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Speaker 1: a scam. I deleted the email before hitting the redeem button.

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Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, so watch out for that. Hey, rich,

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Speaker 1: I really like your show, Warren says from corpus Christy.

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Speaker 1: You provide so much good information. One recommendation on the

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Speaker 1: MacBook answer is to consider Apple refurbished devices combined with

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Speaker 1: a student discount. Thank you, Warren for looking out for us.

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Speaker 1: That is going to do it for this episode of

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Speaker 1: the show. You can find links to everything I mentioned

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Speaker 1: on the website richon Tech dot TV. You can find

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Speaker 1: me on social media. I am at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: I've been hanging out a lot on threads lately. I'm

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Speaker 1: testing that out. But my bread and butter still is Instagram.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to follow me in one place,

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Speaker 1: Instagram is the place to do it. Thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for listening. There are so many ways you can

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Speaker 1: spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right

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Speaker 1: here with me. One reminder before I go, please do

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Speaker 1: not text and drive. Whatever it is it can wait.

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Speaker 1: It's not just your safety, it's for the safety of

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Speaker 1: everyone around you as well. Thanks to everyone makes this

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Speaker 1: show possible. Bobo on the board, Kim on Phones, my

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Speaker 1: mom on music. My name is rich Damiro.

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Speaker 2: I will talk to you real soon