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Speaker 1: Ring has a new camera for your front door. There

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Speaker 1: Plus we're playing the new Harry Potter game. What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich on Tech, the podcast

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

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Speaker 2: Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I am doing fantastic.

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Speaker 1: I do want to start with an apology though, because

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Speaker 1: we had last week's show that we did from China,

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Speaker 1: which was great. I mean, I thought it was really

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Speaker 1: Podcasting is still emerging, right, and you know, even though

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Speaker 1: it's I was doing podcasting at Sina about fifteen years ago, but.

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Speaker 3: It's still new, right. It's new to a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: But I think our mistake last week was trying a

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Speaker 3: Would find that would be fine. But we're not.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and so we were talking into the wrong end

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Speaker 1: so long story short. If you listen to the podcast,

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Speaker 1: But let's start with the story. Maybe this is the

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Speaker 1: think it could have potential impact. So we've heard a

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Speaker 2: So you would use like some of your twenty five dollars.

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Speaker 2: I love this next question. It's from Lily Alala and

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Speaker 2: she wrote on your Facebook page, Hey, Rich, thank you

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Speaker 2: segment on Katley News. I have a question. Do you

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Speaker 3: But they all do this.

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Speaker 1: That call, it's like boom, that's gone. So if you

442
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Speaker 1: want a record of anything, you have to pay.

443
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Speaker 3: And so I pay. I think it's thirty dollars a year.

444
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Speaker 1: Maybe I think they've raised that price because if she's

445
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Speaker 1: saying three dollars a month, that's thirty six dollars a year.

446
00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:55,080
Speaker 1: So and the reason why she really doesn't like that

447
00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,280
Speaker 1: payment is because Apple announced that their last event that

448
00:18:58,560 --> 00:19:02,080
Speaker 1: if video cameras like security cameras, enable home Kit, which

449
00:19:02,119 --> 00:19:05,400
Speaker 1: is their smart home platform, you'll get ten.

450
00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,520
Speaker 3: Days of free clip storage. So that's in ten days.

451
00:19:08,560 --> 00:19:10,640
Speaker 1: Is all you really need is like two or three days,

452
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Speaker 1: right right, Because it's like if someone came to your

453
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Speaker 1: house and robbed it, you're not going to find out

454
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Speaker 1: two weeks later, you know what I mean.

455
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Speaker 2: Unless you're on vacation, yes, but.

456
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Speaker 1: When you still know though, you still know you because

457
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Speaker 1: you get an alert to your phone, unless you're on

458
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Speaker 1: a remote vacation where you don't check your email or

459
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Speaker 1: text messages or anything.

460
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Speaker 2: You don't have neighbors, Yeah, pay attention.

461
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Speaker 3: Which is probably true, like neighbors probably don't yea true

462
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Speaker 3: true neighbors these days. I mean they're just like like

463
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Speaker 3: they look away, right.

464
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Speaker 2: I did. By the way, google what is the standard

465
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Speaker 2: peep hole size? Okay, and the only thing I can

466
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Speaker 2: find is just like the height. Okay, So it says

467
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Speaker 2: the average height is between four and five and a

468
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Speaker 2: half feet from the ground.

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Speaker 3: Oh oh, that's weird.

470
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Speaker 1: That's okay, I see four and five feet.

471
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Speaker 3: No, that's standard, that's standard.

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you don't want it like super high.

473
00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:05,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, forty three inches above the floor. That's the standard,

474
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Speaker 3: I guess.

475
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Speaker 1: But there must be a standard like drill size that like,

476
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Speaker 1: you know, because if you're making peep holes, he it

477
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Speaker 1: must be a standard piece of hardware that you know.

478
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Speaker 3: Anyway, that makes the people, yes, that makes it stay

479
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Speaker 3: to your sounds like people.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, okay, So next question comes from Devin.

481
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Speaker 2: It's about Venmo sharing. So he says, I enjoy watching

482
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Speaker 2: your segments on KTLA, and I just saw a piece

483
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Speaker 2: on this morning show about Venmo transaction sharing. Isn't the

484
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Speaker 2: sharing a primary component of the app. My friends and

485
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Speaker 2: I have ours set to public because it's always been

486
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Speaker 2: that way, and I just assumed that was part of

487
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Speaker 2: the social aspect for the app. Typically there aren't very

488
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Speaker 2: many details. The amount or banking info is never included.

489
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Speaker 2: It's typically just an emoji of food or tickets and

490
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Speaker 2: then to the person who you paid to. Are there

491
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Speaker 2: additional details that are shared that we may not know about?

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Speaker 3: All right? So you know I'm a big Venmo hater.

493
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Speaker 3: I refuse to use Venmo. So here's the thing.

494
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Speaker 4: I lease it all the time, I know, and everyone does.

495
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Speaker 1: We talked about this on TV and the reason the

496
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Speaker 1: reason the story came up that this researcher because Venmo

497
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Speaker 1: most a majority of Venmo payments are public because by default,

498
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Speaker 1: when you make a payment, it's public. They don't by default,

499
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Speaker 1: when you make a payment on Venmo, it's it's the

500
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Speaker 1: details republic.

501
00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,520
Speaker 2: Right. Well, I always actually do I do private.

502
00:21:37,320 --> 00:21:40,040
Speaker 3: Right, but you change it? But the default is public, right?

503
00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: But right there's when you think about a default, a

504
00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,200
Speaker 1: lot of people don't change the default. So this researcher said, hey,

505
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:48,440
Speaker 1: look we scraped like seven thousand transactions. We found that

506
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Speaker 1: people are paying for drugs. We found all people put

507
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Speaker 1: things in the memo line.

508
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Speaker 2: That they don't even pay drugs.

509
00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, or maybe a drug emoji. I mean there's

510
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Speaker 3: a lot of people.

511
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Speaker 4: Out there right an they're drug Yeah.

512
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Speaker 1: Well, I mean, Megan, maybe you're not paying for drugs

513
00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:03,280
Speaker 1: through Venmo, but some people are.

514
00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:05,800
Speaker 2: Yes. I guess yeah, you obviously aren't because you don't

515
00:22:05,840 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 2: use venmo so or drugs.

516
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Speaker 3: So I guess that's a good thing for me. I don't.

517
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Speaker 3: I don't have it all. Yeah, just cross it. I

518
00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:12,080
Speaker 3: don't have a use for either.

519
00:22:12,320 --> 00:22:15,560
Speaker 1: But but I have seen people put like little wine glasses,

520
00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:17,120
Speaker 1: you know, like I because a lot of people will

521
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:19,600
Speaker 1: get drinks at a bar and they'll split the payment.

522
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Speaker 1: You know, I'll venmo you the ten dollars for that

523
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Speaker 1: drink or whatever. So you'd you know, a little cocktail

524
00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: glass or whatever, little shamps so anyway, so I little

525
00:22:32,720 --> 00:22:37,200
Speaker 1: finger foods. Yeah, so pooh poop latter. So my point

526
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Speaker 1: is I said I didn't like Venmo for a couple

527
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Speaker 1: of reasons, and I have not used Venmo in many years,

528
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:44,480
Speaker 1: even though everyone every it always comes up whenever my

529
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Speaker 1: wife is like, oh we got to pay this person

530
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Speaker 1: for this at school or whatever, and I'm like, I'm

531
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Speaker 1: not doing it. I'm not signing up for Venmo because

532
00:22:50,280 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: I did sign up when when I first had my

533
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Speaker 1: kids in school. I, of course, you know, got on

534
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Speaker 1: the Venmo train and I noticed three things. Number one,

535
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Speaker 1: the public aspect. I made a couple of payments and

536
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:01,119
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, more commenting on the payment. So

537
00:23:01,119 --> 00:23:03,640
Speaker 1: I'm like, wait, what these are public?

538
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:05,600
Speaker 3: People can see these? Why why does anyone need to

539
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:06,160
Speaker 3: know my business?

540
00:23:06,240 --> 00:23:08,000
Speaker 2: Still comments on the payment?

541
00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 3: Isn't that a thing? Mean like like them? Right?

542
00:23:12,520 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like if you send it to someone, they might

543
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 2: the person you send it to you might like it.

544
00:23:16,560 --> 00:23:19,720
Speaker 3: Yeah what I'm saying, No, you can like and comment on.

545
00:23:20,280 --> 00:23:21,600
Speaker 2: I never write on people I know.

546
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:25,520
Speaker 1: We're clearly you're abnormal. You're an abnormal Venmo user. So

547
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Speaker 1: that was the number one thing I noticed. The second

548
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Speaker 1: thing I noticed is that back in the day, and

549
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Speaker 1: I think this has changed, you had to link your

550
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:35,600
Speaker 1: bank account and not necessarily a debit card. Right, So

551
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Speaker 1: I'm fine with linking my debit card, although I don't

552
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Speaker 1: necessarily I'd rather link a credit card. So it's kind

553
00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,520
Speaker 1: of like that buffer between the payment and my bank account.

554
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:45,800
Speaker 3: Right, but a debit card is a little step closer.

555
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Speaker 1: And my bank account number is like, no, thank you,

556
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Speaker 1: I'm not giving that to anyone.

557
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 2: Yeah.

558
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Speaker 1: So that's the second thing I didn't like is that

559
00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:53,399
Speaker 1: it had to interface with my bank and I didn't

560
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Speaker 1: like that.

561
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Speaker 3: I wanted to use my credit card. That was the

562
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Speaker 3: second thing.

563
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Speaker 1: Third thing was when I had a balance of Let's

564
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Speaker 1: say I had a balance of fifty dollars and I

565
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: make a payment to you of twenty five dollars for

566
00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:08,560
Speaker 1: some apps. It took the payment out of my checking

567
00:24:08,600 --> 00:24:12,400
Speaker 1: account once again, instead of out of my Venmo balance.

568
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: I think that might be a default thing.

569
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:18,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I always thought that it would. I mean that

570
00:24:18,840 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: obviously happens. Still, I just don't get that, Like, why

571
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:23,920
Speaker 2: doesn't it get taken out of the current balance.

572
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Speaker 3: I'll tell you why.

573
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Speaker 1: Because Venmo is collecting interest on millions of users balances

574
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Speaker 1: without them realizing that every time they make a new payment,

575
00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:35,000
Speaker 1: they're collecting a new payment from your bank account. And

576
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Speaker 1: that's the third thing I did not like about this.

577
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Speaker 1: And so again, these are the reasons why I don't

578
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Speaker 1: like Venmo, and these are also the reasons why I

579
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: really like Square Cash, which is kind of the competitor

580
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 1: that has never taken off, you know, Square Square Cash.

581
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Speaker 3: I've been talking about it for years.

582
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 2: It just cares.

583
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 3: No one cares. They're not using it.

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Speaker 2: So if I venmo someone twenty dollars from my debit card,

585
00:24:57,440 --> 00:24:59,080
Speaker 2: because if I did it for my credit card, I

586
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 2: would get charged in.

587
00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 3: You get charged a percentage, right like Venmo will.

588
00:25:03,800 --> 00:25:06,159
Speaker 2: Be like twenty two or twenty one or whatever. So

589
00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 2: if I've them with someone twenty dollars, like, where my

590
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,600
Speaker 2: being charged interest from.

591
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 3: My joh, They're they're getting interest. Venmo is basically like

592
00:25:15,200 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 3: by them from.

593
00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:18,320
Speaker 2: Wells Fargo or well from America.

594
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,160
Speaker 1: Whoever they have their account with. They're like, let's say

595
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,879
Speaker 1: Venmo has a million dollars in their little bank account.

596
00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,480
Speaker 1: They're collecting interest on that money as people use their service. Now,

597
00:25:27,800 --> 00:25:30,240
Speaker 1: to be fair, Venmo is losing a ton of money.

598
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:32,960
Speaker 1: There's a crazy article about how venmo is, Like it

599
00:25:33,000 --> 00:25:35,640
Speaker 1: was in the Wall Street Journal. If I can find

600
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,560
Speaker 1: it would be so great.

601
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:38,560
Speaker 2: Wall Street Journal Venmo.

602
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:39,719
Speaker 3: Maybe I'll just google that.

603
00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:46,120
Speaker 1: So Venmo has forty million users and literally they cannot

604
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:49,680
Speaker 1: turn a profit. So uh, this story, let's see Oh

605
00:25:49,720 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was just an insane story ads on that.

606
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:53,960
Speaker 3: Ads on venmo.

607
00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: Interesting Anyway, long story short, you know they I just

608
00:25:59,320 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: don't like venmo, so that's it. I don't use it.

609
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:03,640
Speaker 1: I will use anything else. The thing that I do use,

610
00:26:03,680 --> 00:26:05,719
Speaker 1: and I ask everyone to set it up when I

611
00:26:05,880 --> 00:26:08,320
Speaker 1: need to do a payment, it's called Zell and Zell

612
00:26:08,480 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: is built into your bank so there's no sign up.

613
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,880
Speaker 4: Use that sometimes it's like in your bank account app.

614
00:26:13,880 --> 00:26:16,480
Speaker 1: It's amazing and the money goes in instantly. It Yeah,

615
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 1: there's no like middleman.

616
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,960
Speaker 3: There's not. It's just done, straight up done.

617
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 2: But so are additional details shared, like.

618
00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 1: Well, the details that are shared are no. The details

619
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Speaker 1: that are shared.

620
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,440
Speaker 2: Are just what's there is that I can see is your.

621
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: Name, how much you paid someone, and also what it

622
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:37,520
Speaker 1: was for Pai. No, you don't see how much you paid.

623
00:26:37,560 --> 00:26:41,000
Speaker 1: You just see that you paid someone. So anyway, Uh,

624
00:26:41,119 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: that's my that's my rant on venmo. So I'm not

625
00:26:43,760 --> 00:26:45,440
Speaker 1: judging you. If you use it, it's fine. It's a

626
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,760
Speaker 1: personal preference for me. And also security thing with the

627
00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:52,680
Speaker 1: whole debit card thing. Okay, speaking of security, since I

628
00:26:52,720 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: always say speaking of now whenever I transition to a

629
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: new story, So I'll just have to stop doing that.

630
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,440
Speaker 1: But this is this is fascinating and something that I

631
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:02,080
Speaker 1: think is very important and something that I've kind of

632
00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: known for a while, but I've never seen an actual

633
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:08,119
Speaker 1: report on it. Cyberscoop dot Com says that when you

634
00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,480
Speaker 1: stop using an app, or you kind of let an

635
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,480
Speaker 1: app like dormant, you're more likely to have that app

636
00:27:14,560 --> 00:27:15,400
Speaker 1: broken into.

637
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 3: By a hacker.

638
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,120
Speaker 1: And this makes a ton of sense because think about it,

639
00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:20,720
Speaker 1: you haven't used an app in a while. All of

640
00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:22,120
Speaker 1: a sudden you get an email and it's like, oh,

641
00:27:22,160 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: your account was you know, logged into. You're like, wait,

642
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:27,560
Speaker 1: what haven't used that in forever? Well, here's the reason

643
00:27:27,640 --> 00:27:30,440
Speaker 1: why it's okay, let me give you the details. Number

644
00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:33,440
Speaker 1: one sixty five percent accounts that experience an account take

645
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,600
Speaker 1: over an attack. Basically, when someone logs in with your

646
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 1: username and password, like your legit stuff, they just figured

647
00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,440
Speaker 1: it out they have not been Those accounts have usually

648
00:27:41,520 --> 00:27:43,399
Speaker 1: not been accessed by their true owner in more than

649
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:46,919
Speaker 1: ninety days. So basically, when an account is dormant for

650
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:49,800
Speaker 1: a while, it's easier for a crook to get in,

651
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: and they also steal stuff from you. So a lot

652
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: of times they'll do this with like loyalty points like

653
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: your you know, United points, your Southwest points, because a

654
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: lot of times people don't check those all the time. Yeah,

655
00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:01,760
Speaker 1: so by the time you notice that your points are gone,

656
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: it's like too late. It's like, oh my gosh, what happened.

657
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:05,800
Speaker 1: It might steal money from like a.

658
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,640
Speaker 4: Bank account that you don't log into a lot.

659
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 3: Stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: So here's why this is a problem. So when you

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Speaker 1: log into your accounts, like you log into your bank account,

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming like, you know, a couple times a week, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well every time you do that ten times a day, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: ten times a day you're waiting for those Venmo payments

665
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Speaker 1: to clear your bank account.

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Speaker 2: Takes time.

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Speaker 1: So every time you log in, your bank gets a

668
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Speaker 1: little record of which device you used to log in,

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Speaker 1: where you logged in from, how you logged in, time

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Speaker 1: of day.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: It builds a little kind of log of who Megan

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Speaker 1: is and when she logs in and how she logs in.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: That's why when someone from Russia logs in, they go

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Speaker 1: hold on, Megan's never logged in from Russia, Like, what's

677
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,400
Speaker 1: going on here? We know that the last thirty five

678
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Speaker 1: times she logged in from the Hollywood area. We're gonna

679
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Speaker 1: block that Russia log in. Well, if you don't log

680
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Speaker 1: in for a long time, guess what happens the system exactly,

681
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Speaker 1: it doesn't have much to go on. So if you

682
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Speaker 1: log in from Tampa, Florida, or New Jersey or Colorado,

683
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Speaker 1: it's like, well, we don't really know, so they just

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Speaker 1: let it proceed. So, you know, obviously depending on the

685
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Speaker 1: level of sophistication with their pro you know, with their security.

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Speaker 1: So that's why you should log into your apps, you know,

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Speaker 1: every you know, month or so.

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Speaker 2: You're talking about banks, right or anything?

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Speaker 1: Oh, I mean anything anything that could be taken over

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00:29:18,120 --> 00:29:22,719
Speaker 1: your email address, your bank, your loyalty points, any account

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Speaker 1: that you have that is you you know, if you

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Speaker 1: have an old Instagram account, let's say, you know, if

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Speaker 1: you don't log in, these computers, these fraud detection systems

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Speaker 1: don't really have much to go on. So again that's

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Speaker 1: I thought that was really fascinating because it makes sense.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah. Also, let me just I.

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Speaker 1: Thought this was also interesting in this article. So you

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Speaker 1: always wonder how do these people break into your account? Right, Like,

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Speaker 1: where do they get my password. So two common techniques

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Speaker 1: for getting into people's accounts. Number one is credential stuffing.

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Speaker 1: This is when scammers take the credentials that they've found online,

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Speaker 1: like when services get hacked, it's like twenty five million

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Speaker 1: user name and passwords were leaked online. They'll take those

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Speaker 1: and they will just literally try them in as many

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Speaker 1: services as possible, Like they have a a an app

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Speaker 1: that will literally a program that will just automate that,

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Speaker 1: and they'll try every combination in Yahoo and Google and whatever, whatever, whatep.

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Speaker 1: The next one is called password spraying. This is a

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Speaker 1: little bit more imprecise, and they just use scripted bots

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Speaker 1: to basically test commonly used passwords against random user names.

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Speaker 1: So that's not gonna work. So basically they can go

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Speaker 1: through like John John Doe, John Doe one two three,

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Speaker 1: and then they'll try like password one, password two, password

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Speaker 1: one two three.

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Speaker 3: And that's why they say them.

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Speaker 1: See, this is the thing about all this security stuff.

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Speaker 1: Many times it does, yeah, but not all the time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And so a lot of times what these hackers are

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Speaker 1: doing is they're praying on systems that are a little

720
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Speaker 1: bit unsophisticated. Yeah, and so that's why I always say,

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Speaker 1: you don't want to use the same password across a

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Speaker 1: bunch of sites because you might use your password for Gmail,

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Speaker 1: which has very sophisticated log in, you know, hacker detection,

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Speaker 1: but you might use that same password at your random

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Speaker 1: you know whatever account. Yeah, and next thing, you know,

726
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Speaker 1: it's like that account is hacked, and now they just

727
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Speaker 1: take that password and they use it at Gmail.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: That's why you don't want to use the same bad

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Speaker 1: password at two different places. Because I'm not worried about

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Speaker 1: Gmail getting hacked necessarily, I'm worried about the random account

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Speaker 1: that you set up with, you know, Michael's flowershop dot com,

733
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Speaker 1: and now using that same password on Gmail, and Michael's

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Speaker 1: flower Shop gets hacked, and now the hackers try that

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Speaker 1: password and use her name across a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: other bigger websites, and.

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Speaker 3: In that case, they just have your stuff.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 1: So Google is going to let that go through because

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Speaker 1: unless they figure out it seems suspicious.

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Speaker 2: Right. That's why I love the fingerprint thing.

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Speaker 3: Fingerprint's great. I mean, that's that's also good.

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Speaker 1: But a lot of times she has to be backed

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Speaker 1: up by your password, you know. So Instagram along these

745
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Speaker 1: lines is testing a new way. You ever hear about

746
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Speaker 1: people that get locked out of their Instagram accounts, like

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Speaker 1: this happened to my cousin the other day. She basically

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Speaker 1: sent me a text or my brother did, saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: she's locked out of her account because someone just stole

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Speaker 1: her stuff and now she can't get back in because

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Speaker 1: they changed her email and phone number, and so now

752
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Speaker 1: she can't get any of her recovery stuff. You know,

753
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Speaker 1: you go on you say I need my recovery. Instagram

754
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Speaker 1: is finally kind of getting hip to this and saying,

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Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna make it a little bit

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Speaker 1: easier for you to regain access to your hacked account.

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Speaker 3: So here's how they're doing it.

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Speaker 1: If you put your password in a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: times and it doesn't work, and they recognize that because

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Speaker 1: they notice that you're logging in from like the same

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Speaker 1: phone that you normally log in from, but it's not working,

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Speaker 1: they will now give you a link to basically enter

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Speaker 1: the email address and phone number that you use to

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Speaker 1: sign up when you are used to sign up to Instagram,

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Speaker 1: so their system remembers this stuff, of course, right right,

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Speaker 1: And so once you verify that, they will send a

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Speaker 1: six digit code.

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Speaker 3: To your phone.

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Speaker 2: Okay, good like Twitter.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and lets you log in basically, that's good.

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Speaker 1: So again they're using sophisticated algorithms to figure out like

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Speaker 1: Megan logged in twenty five times from this iPhone from

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Speaker 1: this area from these IP addresses KTLA her house. All

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Speaker 1: of a sudden, we at this random log in from Russia.

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Speaker 2: I use Russia again, Yes, because obviously China they can't

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Speaker 2: even get on.

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Speaker 1: Yes, China they're not trying to. Yeah, we don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about them and know what it is. They

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Speaker 1: can't even get to those IP addresses.

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Speaker 3: So again Russia.

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Speaker 1: They go wait a second, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: this IP, this random IP account from Russia changed her

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Speaker 1: password and her phone number.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of weird.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, now we see little old Megan trying to log

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Speaker 1: in from Hollywood again from Okay, young Meghan, it's.

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Speaker 2: Okay, little old Megan, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: So logging in from her iPhone again from the same

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Speaker 1: place she's normally logged into one hundred times and she

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Speaker 1: can't get in. Now we're gonna throw herr bone. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna give her this one time code and we're gonna say, look,

792
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Speaker 1: go ahead, get into your account, and then they also

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Speaker 1: freeze the username so that you you know, it's like

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Speaker 1: because a lot of times these hackers will take you

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Speaker 1: and then they'll take your username and they'll sell it

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Speaker 1: them the black mark or whatever they're they're going to

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Speaker 1: freeze that.

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Speaker 3: I know, there's a lot that goes on, Megan, It's

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Speaker 3: lot to keep up with.

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Speaker 4: It's such a scary world, especially if you're on Instagram.

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Speaker 2: Geez okay, So our next question comes from Vincent Reyes

802
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Speaker 2: Apple Watch or Fitbit. I know, I feel like we

803
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Speaker 2: talk about the Apple Watch in every podcast, but he

804
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Speaker 2: wants to know. Basically, his wife's birthday is coming up

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Speaker 2: and he's been debating if he wants to get his

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00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:29,799
Speaker 2: wife an Apple Watch or the fitbit versa. He has

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Speaker 2: an Apple Watch and the battery life is what makes

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Speaker 2: him dislike the purchase, and unless they made significant strides

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Speaker 2: in longer battery life, he doesn't want to purchase another

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Speaker 2: Apple Watch for his wife. And then he says he

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Speaker 2: likes the fipbit because of the battery life, but not

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Speaker 2: sure if his wife would prefer the Apple Watch. I

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Speaker 2: would like your thoughts as to why lean one way

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Speaker 2: or the other.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you probably know my answer. Yes, right, So

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna recommend the Apple Watch. Here's why I've I've

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Speaker 1: had the Fitbit Versa. I bought that and I used

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Speaker 1: it for like a year, I think maybe six months

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Speaker 1: a year, and I loved it because I'm a big runner.

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Speaker 1: I love having that data of running. And I thought,

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Speaker 1: I think when it comes to smart devices, I think

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Speaker 1: the Fitbit Versa and the Apple Watch, and probably the

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Speaker 1: Galaxy the new one, the Galaxy you Watch Active or

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Speaker 1: whatever it's called, are probably the three best at this point.

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Speaker 1: But here's why I like the Apple Watch the best.

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Speaker 1: You say, your wife has an iPhone, it's going to

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Speaker 1: work the best with iPhone. I am sitting here when

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Speaker 1: I look at my Apple Watch, like there are little

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Speaker 1: things that pop up on the screen that just amaze me.

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Speaker 1: It's like, literally it kind of has learned when I

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Speaker 1: work out during the day, so all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: I'll just get like a little button that says start

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Speaker 1: a workout, and it's like, oh, I don't have to

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Speaker 1: like go through the settings any of that stuff. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: and the verse I believe does this as well. But

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Speaker 1: when you start a workout, and I know that the

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Speaker 1: Samsung devices do this. It automatically recognizes that. So when

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Speaker 1: I start running with you know for and normally I

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Speaker 1: do start the workout before I start running. But a

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Speaker 1: lot of time, if you're just doing something physically active,

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Speaker 1: like if you're hiking or whatever, or you're taking a

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Speaker 1: long walk, all of a sudden, it will say, hey,

843
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Speaker 1: we notice that you're doing something active.

844
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Speaker 3: Do you want to record that workout?

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Speaker 1: And it will back time so it remembers like if

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Speaker 1: you hop on your bike and start taking a long

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Speaker 1: bike ride, it will go back to the first minute

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Speaker 1: that it noticed that you started biking.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's kind of fun. I know you want

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Speaker 3: one of these now, So I like that aspect.

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Speaker 1: Now, the battery life is definitely the biggest downside of

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Speaker 1: the Apple Watch. But what I've just gotten a customer

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Speaker 1: doing is at night, before you go to sleep, you

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Speaker 1: take off your Apple Watch, you put it on the charger.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 2: So what is the battery life to me?

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Speaker 3: I don't even know, Like it's just it's a day.

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Speaker 4: I mean, it's it as it ever died only when you.

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Speaker 1: Do crazy exercise. So like yesterday, I didn't really do

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Speaker 1: that much exercise. My battery was at ten percent right

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Speaker 1: when I was going to sleep. Okay, it's just kind

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Speaker 1: of weird because that doesn't normally happen. Some nights it's

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Speaker 1: at like you know, I don't even look. I don't

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Speaker 1: look because it doesn't matter. I use it for the day.

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Speaker 1: It gets through the day. Now some people may say

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Speaker 1: it gets through a day and a half, maybe two days.

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Speaker 1: But what I notice if you do any sort of

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Speaker 1: physical activity for like a half an hour or longer,

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Speaker 1: especially an hour, that's going to drain your battery significantly

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Speaker 1: because it's using the GPS and all the sensors in

871
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Speaker 1: your watch. So it's taking your heart rate more, it's

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Speaker 1: doing more GPS.

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Speaker 3: That's why the battery goes.

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00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 2: That's what about playing music and like Bluetooth, that doesn't really.

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Speaker 3: Not as much.

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Speaker 1: I mean it will, it will affect it, but not

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Speaker 1: as much as the workouts. When your workout is on,

878
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,400
Speaker 1: it's firing every sensor in that phone to get the

879
00:37:27,400 --> 00:37:29,240
Speaker 1: most accurate data about your workout.

880
00:37:29,600 --> 00:37:31,759
Speaker 3: So that's why it's taking up the battery more.

881
00:37:31,880 --> 00:37:36,520
Speaker 1: Right, So the fipbit versa, the biggest benefit is basically

882
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: I think you need to ask your wife in a

883
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: sly way because you don't want her to know because

884
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,760
Speaker 1: it's a birthday present. Just be like, is sleep tracking

885
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: important to you? So that's the main advantage of the

886
00:37:45,760 --> 00:37:49,480
Speaker 1: fitbit versa is two things. Number one sleep tracking. You

887
00:37:49,520 --> 00:37:51,680
Speaker 1: can track your sleep and I love that data. But

888
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:53,040
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that you sort of have

889
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: to give up if you're on an Apple Watch.

890
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 3: It's kind of fun.

891
00:37:55,600 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: The fitbit will tell you exactly how long you slept,

892
00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:00,279
Speaker 1: when you tossed and turned, when you had deep sleep,

893
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 1: when you woke up, when you went to bed.

894
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,000
Speaker 4: It's really cool. You also get about four days of

895
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 4: battery life.

896
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:05,879
Speaker 3: With that one.

897
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:07,359
Speaker 2: I was going to say, how do you charge it?

898
00:38:07,800 --> 00:38:09,600
Speaker 1: So you basically with that one, you just kind of

899
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: charge it like whenever you feel like it. So yeah,

900
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:13,440
Speaker 1: I mean, I think for a lot of people, the

901
00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:15,279
Speaker 1: routine is before you get into the shower, just put

902
00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: it on the charger.

903
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:17,080
Speaker 2: Oh, so got it.

904
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:20,080
Speaker 1: That's you know, twenty minutes here or there. Oh for space,

905
00:38:20,520 --> 00:38:23,879
Speaker 1: I mean it depends how lot you're spending an hour,

906
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 1: an hour or two here, yeah, whatever, your bath, yeah yeah,

907
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: take a bath, put it on the thing. So oh

908
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:33,919
Speaker 1: my gosh, we have so many more things to get through.

909
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:37,920
Speaker 1: So we played the uh wizarding with the new Harry

910
00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: Potter game. This is called Harry Potter Wizards Unit. I

911
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: went to an event at Universal Studios in Hollywood on

912
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:46,000
Speaker 1: Tuesday night.

913
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 3: It was a lot of fun. It was. It was

914
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:50,120
Speaker 3: a lot of like YouTube.

915
00:38:49,719 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: Influencers, a lot of people I didn't recognize, you know,

916
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: like sometimes it's like tech journalists sometimes you know, it

917
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: depends on the event, right, this one was a lot

918
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: of like it was like a mixed crowd of like YouTubers,

919
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:04,480
Speaker 1: print people, game video game people. But you know what

920
00:39:04,520 --> 00:39:07,200
Speaker 1: I mean. It wasn't like I was anyway. So long

921
00:39:07,239 --> 00:39:09,719
Speaker 1: story short, we got to play the new game. And

922
00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:13,239
Speaker 1: this is a game that is very similar to what

923
00:39:13,280 --> 00:39:16,880
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go is, except with Harry Potter. It's made by

924
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: the same company Niantic. It's also made by a company

925
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 1: called WB Games, which I guess is part of Warner Brothers.

926
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:29,200
Speaker 1: I'm assuming, but you are a new recruit in working

927
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: within the Statue of Secrecy Task Force. Does that make

928
00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,720
Speaker 1: any sense any that? No, you're helping solve the mystery

929
00:39:36,719 --> 00:39:38,240
Speaker 1: of the calamity. Does that make any sense?

930
00:39:39,200 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 2: No, Okay, Well, I'm not a Harry Potter.

931
00:39:41,560 --> 00:39:43,600
Speaker 3: You're not. I thought you were a Harry Potter.

932
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,759
Speaker 2: Has No I watched I watched all the.

933
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,359
Speaker 3: Moviesay, and you don't know what the calamity is? Did

934
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:49,680
Speaker 3: you watch them with your eyes closed?

935
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 2: I didn't take notes.

936
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,040
Speaker 3: Let's just okay.

937
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:54,759
Speaker 1: So players will be able to explore their real world

938
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:58,040
Speaker 1: neighborhoods and cities to discover mysterious artifacts, cast spells and

939
00:39:58,120 --> 00:40:00,560
Speaker 1: counter fantastic beast and iconic characters. So I am not

940
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: a Harry Potter person. I read the first the first

941
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 1: half of the first book, and I found it very interesting.

942
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,399
Speaker 3: I actually really liked it. I just never really got

943
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:08,799
Speaker 3: into it.

944
00:40:08,880 --> 00:40:12,640
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, so again there this is like there's like muggles,

945
00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:15,800
Speaker 1: like people throw around all these A muggle is like

946
00:40:15,840 --> 00:40:17,439
Speaker 1: a regular person today.

947
00:40:17,480 --> 00:40:19,759
Speaker 3: No, I knew that, Yes I did. I knew that

948
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 3: there's muggles.

949
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,280
Speaker 1: So your job the beauty of this game, and I

950
00:40:25,320 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: here's my thoughts on the game. If you are just

951
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:31,000
Speaker 1: kind of an average gamer that finds things really interesting

952
00:40:31,000 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: and technology really interesting, I think you'll find this interesting

953
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:37,400
Speaker 1: because it uses augmented reality, so it puts the game

954
00:40:37,560 --> 00:40:40,839
Speaker 1: in the world around you. So when you're in your neighborhood,

955
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,759
Speaker 1: you see the streets on a map of your neighborhood,

956
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:45,880
Speaker 1: and you walk around and find stuff and find these

957
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:48,640
Speaker 1: little challenges. And what I understand the challenges to be

958
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,840
Speaker 1: is I saw like some kid that was like entrapped

959
00:40:51,880 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 1: in thorns, and I had to wave my magic wand

960
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: to like free him, and then I collect that kid,

961
00:40:57,719 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: and that's like kind of like I won like that

962
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 1: little part of the game, right. And then I saw

963
00:41:01,080 --> 00:41:03,640
Speaker 1: like a slug that was in like this big massive

964
00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 1: like moving like you know, yucky bowlb or whatever, right,

965
00:41:07,760 --> 00:41:09,960
Speaker 1: and I had to like wave my wand and like, yeah,

966
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:10,879
Speaker 1: cast a spell on.

967
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:12,920
Speaker 4: That slug to like the wand your phone.

968
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: Your wand is your finger on the phone screen, Okay,

969
00:41:15,680 --> 00:41:18,439
Speaker 1: And every spell you have to trace like a little

970
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:20,760
Speaker 1: spell on the screen. Maybe that's just for the beginner

971
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: part of the game. Maybe towards the end you have

972
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:23,120
Speaker 1: to like figure.

973
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 3: Out the spell. I don't know. Interesting, Yeah, I mean I.

974
00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: Only did like four or five of these little things.

975
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: But I will say a couple things. Number One, all

976
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:31,920
Speaker 1: the people in the little Harry Potter world that we

977
00:41:31,920 --> 00:41:34,000
Speaker 1: were in, like we're obsessed with the game. Watching me

978
00:41:34,040 --> 00:41:35,239
Speaker 1: play it, they're like, what is that?

979
00:41:35,520 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 3: Now?

980
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,479
Speaker 1: They're Harry Potter fans, So maybe that's not telling right.

981
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,719
Speaker 1: But I think that this will be an interesting game

982
00:41:41,760 --> 00:41:46,480
Speaker 1: because it's available Friday, June twenty first on iOS and Android.

983
00:41:46,520 --> 00:41:48,239
Speaker 1: It's free to download. Of course there will be in

984
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 1: app purchases, But I think this will be interesting because

985
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 1: here's the thing. When Pokemon Go came out, it had

986
00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,080
Speaker 1: a built in audience of video game nerds, right. People

987
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: were very familiar with the Pokemon video games that played

988
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:04,959
Speaker 1: Pokemon Go and it became this huge sensation. It brought

989
00:42:04,960 --> 00:42:07,160
Speaker 1: in other people as well, people that like mobile games

990
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: with Harry Potter. The Harry Potter fan base might be

991
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: bigger than Pokemon, but a lot of those people just

992
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:15,359
Speaker 1: know it from the books and the movies. They're not

993
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:18,440
Speaker 1: necessarily video game players, right. And I think that's the

994
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 1: challenge this game might have is it could be super popular,

995
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: it could eclipse Pokemon Go, or it might not be

996
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: as popular because the muggles that play, is that what

997
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:28,239
Speaker 1: they're called?

998
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:29,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, the regular people that play.

999
00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:31,600
Speaker 2: But I feel like the people that are into it

1000
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 2: don't want to be called No, they.

1001
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:34,879
Speaker 3: Don't want to be a Muggle. They think they're enough.

1002
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:36,800
Speaker 4: Ye see all these weird bletherin.

1003
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 3: Oh what does that mean?

1004
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 2: Oh Lytherin, You're going to hurt people's feeling.

1005
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 3: I do like the butter beer. I tried that. Yeah,

1006
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:44,400
Speaker 3: I did go on two rides.

1007
00:42:45,000 --> 00:42:47,719
Speaker 2: I have a question about game. So if you have it,

1008
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,600
Speaker 2: So if I get the game and I'm like walking around, well,

1009
00:42:50,640 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 2: I get notifications when like there's.

1010
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 4: Something I think, so I don't.

1011
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:57,759
Speaker 2: That was the Pokemon Go. That's how Pokemon Go like

1012
00:42:57,840 --> 00:43:01,480
Speaker 2: became so popular, is like people would literally walk to

1013
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 2: like parts of La or whatever just to like get

1014
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,280
Speaker 2: that special dinosaur or whatever they were called.

1015
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I think that's all part of it.

1016
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: That is part of Niantics set on stage that a

1017
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: big part of the game is helping you explore your

1018
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,120
Speaker 1: world around you, gotcha, So you know, it gets you

1019
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:19,800
Speaker 1: out and about and like you might go to a

1020
00:43:19,840 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: park in La that like everyone says this Muggle dwarf

1021
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,920
Speaker 1: is at that park with the bench and you're like, oh,

1022
00:43:23,920 --> 00:43:26,759
Speaker 1: I gotta go Buggle pick up there. And so I

1023
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: think that's a big part of the game. Or yeah,

1024
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,560
Speaker 1: so that's it. That's going to do it for the show.

1025
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:34,920
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1026
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Speaker 4: Producer, Megan, did you enjoy the show?

1047
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1048
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:26,520
Speaker 2: Today, it was fun. What by fast?

1049
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Speaker 1: Do you think the audio is going to be better

1050
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Speaker 1: than the show from China?

1051
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1052
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Speaker 1: And have you recovered from your jet lag. I don't

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Speaker 1: think so, no, I know it took a while.

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Speaker 3: This time.

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Speaker 2: It's hard to like go to sleep because I'm so

1057
00:44:37,280 --> 00:44:39,800
Speaker 2: used to staying up all night because that was China

1058
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Speaker 2: for us, because it was like at five pm in China.

1059
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Speaker 2: It's a big time yeah, big time change.

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