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Speaker 1: and analysts who attended Galaxy Unpacked in Paris for their

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Speaker 1: Trey Bodge. She's gonna share smart tips to maximize this

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Speaker 1: founder of the Oco app. He's gonna explain how his

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Speaker 1: app helps the visually impaired safely cross streets. Well, this

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Speaker 1: week I was in Paris, France, my first time ever.

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Speaker 1: Samsung brought me there for Galaxy Unpacked. This is their

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Speaker 1: event that they held in the basement of the Louver

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Speaker 1: and are also sponsoring the Olympics, so I think it

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Speaker 1: all seemed fitting for Samsung to have their event in Paris.

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Speaker 1: This is where they showed off foldaboles, a new watch,

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Speaker 1: a new ring, new earbuds, all kinds of great stuff.

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Speaker 1: This was my first time in Paris. I'll share some

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Speaker 1: observations with you. Great historic city. The food was just

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Speaker 1: People love to sit outside at bistro tables and just

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Speaker 1: an international trip, technology continues to make international travel easier.

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Speaker 1: So this trip was I think the first or the

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Speaker 1: phone worked every single time except once. Translation apps make

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Speaker 1: I will say New York City's implementation is the best

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Speaker 1: They made it so that if you have a credit

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Speaker 1: I did not need an eSIM this time around. I

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Speaker 1: It worked perfectly, but I will tell you one hundred

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Speaker 1: One of the cool things I did was board the

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Speaker 1: Also, don't disregard the feature that lets you reserve an

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Speaker 1: that was great. The event itself well organized, but Samsung

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Speaker 1: They unveiled multiple products, two foldable phones, two smart watches,

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Speaker 1: didn't really improve the cameras on this. They said they

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Speaker 1: Maybe not the cameras because the S twenty four camera

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Speaker 1: nineteen hundred dollars. You're talking the price of a laptop

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Speaker 1: their AI features. Samsung really pushing AI, and they're pushing

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Speaker 1: it in a different way than Apple because they're bringing

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Speaker 1: So I was talking about Samsung and some of the

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: he appreciates the refinements in Samsung's latest foldables, but something

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Speaker 1: has to give.

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Speaker 3: For people to really want one.

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Speaker 7: And at this event, I'm really excited for the refinements

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Speaker 7: with the Z flip and.

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Speaker 3: The Z fold.

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Speaker 7: I love the flattened up edges and the matt rails

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Speaker 7: and the map backs, heels a lot more premium than before.

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Speaker 7: Also love the ring and how it's like now connecting

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Speaker 7: with the watch, so you don't need a separate app

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Speaker 7: for your ring and a separate app for your watch.

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Speaker 7: They all connect together, which is great. And the earbuds

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Speaker 7: a little bit interesting. It looks like some other earbut

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Speaker 7: that we know. But I guess I'll try them out

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Speaker 7: and see if they're good. I think once they introduce

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Speaker 7: a lot more features that could be more compelling, Like

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Speaker 7: I mean, they've showed us features like taking hands free selfies,

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Speaker 7: which that can be compelling. But I think for people

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Speaker 7: who aren't already fold or flip users, there's got to

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Speaker 7: be something big that people are like, oh yeah, now

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Speaker 7: I want it, which I don't know if we're there

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Speaker 7: yet for some people. For some people, yes, for sure

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Speaker 7: they love their folds and flips, but for others, I

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Speaker 7: don't know what's gonna make them switch.

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Speaker 3: But in the future we could get something come.

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Speaker 7: I mean, there's probably people who want a folding phone,

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Speaker 7: but just because of the price, they just like can't

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Speaker 7: get it, and so if somehow the price goes down,

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Speaker 7: then there's people that'll probably just snatch at it immediately.

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Speaker 1: Next up at abung Ata also known as thunder E

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Speaker 1: from Board at Work.

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Speaker 8: And this impact was quite interesting because we saw some

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Speaker 8: really new stuff, some upgrades, and honestly, I've got a

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Speaker 8: little mixed feelings on it. I love the ring, I

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Speaker 8: love the idea of the ring. I like when it's

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Speaker 8: smart rings, the buds. I like the improvements I'm seeing there.

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Speaker 8: The new Watch Ultra looks kind of similar, but I

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Speaker 8: still love the fact there's a ton of features.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 8: When it comes to the Galaxy Z Flip six Z

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Speaker 8: Fold six as well, I kind of I'm leaning towards

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Speaker 8: the Flip six. I think there's more upgrades on that device.

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Speaker 8: The fifty megapixel, new sensor, the new ultra, why you know,

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Speaker 8: just a little accents on the design look really nice.

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Speaker 8: The fold is thinner and lighter, but I'm gonna lean

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Speaker 8: to the Flip six overall. I think this is pretty

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Speaker 8: good on the health department from Samsong. When it comes

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Speaker 8: to the phones, we just have to wait and see.

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Speaker 8: As an Android used, I like the flexibility that Android brings,

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Speaker 8: and Samsung, as the market leader, does bring a lot

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Speaker 8: of features in a more polished fashion. Plus they have

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Speaker 8: honestly the best camera on an Android device. And I've

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Speaker 8: been using the Galaxy Notes since the very first note,

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Speaker 8: So for me, the S twenty four Ultra makes sense.

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Speaker 8: I write a lot of notes. I still try and

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Speaker 8: write something or else, you know, I'll forget how to

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Speaker 8: write anything at all, So I love it for that feature.

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Speaker 1: Finally, lance Yulenov, Editor at large at tech Radar, He's

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Speaker 1: particularly impressed with Samsung's progress in creating a cohesive ecosystem

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Speaker 1: of devices.

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Speaker 9: So I think, you know, the ring is really the

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Speaker 9: hot thing to me because it follows the trend of

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Speaker 9: you know, lower impact or you don't have to have

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Speaker 9: a screen where you can go to bed with the

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Speaker 9: tracking device because we really don't want to sleep with

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Speaker 9: our watches, you know, because if we look at that

501
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Speaker 9: Samsung Galaxy Watch Aultra, that thing is a beef thing.

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Speaker 9: I'm not going to sleep with that. But the ring

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Speaker 9: I'll sleep with. Then seven days of battery life. That's

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Speaker 9: kind of exciting.

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Speaker 2: I like the new.

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Speaker 9: Help you know technology, They've got the AI stuff that's

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Speaker 9: built into it. I also like that Samsung is starting

508
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Speaker 9: to really deliver on the ecosystem idea either getting closer

509
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Speaker 9: to doing that thing that's going to excite people about

510
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Speaker 9: owning a whole bunch of Samsung devices. ICE is going

511
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Speaker 9: to be a big leason. Guess what, the Samsung Galaxy

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Speaker 9: D fault six just got one hundred dollars more expensive.

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Speaker 2: I'm honestly really.

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Speaker 9: Success, you know, surprised about that.

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Speaker 10: I do like the device.

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Speaker 9: I think the design is really good.

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Speaker 2: I like that then, or I like that it's lighter.

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Speaker 9: They did not really upgrade the cameras to what I wanted,

519
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Speaker 9: So I'm not really sure why I'm going to spend

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Speaker 9: one hundred dollars more.

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Speaker 2: If they want to expand the.

522
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Speaker 9: Market, they've got to make these things cheaper.

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Speaker 3: Well, it's good.

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Speaker 9: That's a race of AI, right, So we have, you know,

525
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Speaker 9: the Galaxy AI versus Apple Intelligence, and Samsung seems like

526
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Speaker 9: maybe they're going to deliver some of these features sooner

527
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Speaker 9: than what Apple's capable of. Some of our Apple Intelligence

528
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Speaker 9: features again puts to twenty twenty five, so maybe Samsung

529
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Speaker 9: gets a lead there. But it's really about how many

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Speaker 9: people are using these things. Will they use them on

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Speaker 9: the Samsung Galaxy devices? And that depends on how easy

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Speaker 9: they are to find and how effective they are every

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Speaker 9: time they use them.

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Speaker 1: Samsung has always been on the cutting edge with new features,

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Speaker 1: new products, and just overall putting a lot out there.

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Speaker 1: Apple might be considered the more premium ecosystem, but Samsung

537
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Speaker 1: continues to push the envelope and deliver new ideas, sometimes

538
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Speaker 1: years before the competition. Keep in mind, these foldables have

539
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Speaker 1: been around now for five years and they just seem

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Speaker 1: to be getting started. I'm rich Demiro more rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech right after this, 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 1: Triple A Rich one oh one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. I know you're

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Speaker 1: anxious for me to get to the phone lines. I

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Speaker 1: had a lot to get through with the Samsung stuff.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully that explained a lot of it, and you have

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Speaker 1: a better understanding of all the products that they have

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Speaker 1: put out and the website for the show rich on

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. I've got everything that I mentioned written

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Speaker 1: up in today's newsletter, So just go to the website

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech dot tv UH. You can find the

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Speaker 1: newsletter there and if you want to read more about

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Speaker 1: the Samsung stuff, it is all there. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Sally in Los Angeles. Sally, you're on.

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Speaker 3: With Rich.

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Speaker 11: Hi.

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Speaker 10: Hi. So my question is I'm traveling to China in

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Speaker 10: a few weeks and I know there's a lot of

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Speaker 10: apps or website or band in China that we can

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Speaker 10: use here in the US. So I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 10: out what is the best Do I purchase at ethan,

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Speaker 10: do I get a VPN? What is the best way

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Speaker 10: so that I can still use all the apps that

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Speaker 10: I can use here?

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Speaker 3: There good question.

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Speaker 1: So if you are using your cellular service that you

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Speaker 1: have here, pretty much everything is going to work as normal.

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Speaker 1: So that it's weird because when I was last over there,

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Speaker 1: there were things that if I was on my cellular

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Speaker 1: everything would work just fine. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: that's because it's an American cellular company or what, but

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Speaker 1: in general things worked pretty well. So I was able

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Speaker 1: to access a lot of the stuff that you typically

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Speaker 1: you can't there. Now if you're not if you're not

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Speaker 1: using your own cellular, like if you are going to

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Speaker 1: get like an eSIM, that's for China, then yes, you'll

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Speaker 1: probably need to use like a VPN to access things

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Speaker 1: like Twitter, to access Google, to access Facebook. I mean

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Speaker 1: pretty much everything over there is banned. So what are

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Speaker 1: you going for? Is it work or fun?

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Speaker 10: Or what for fun?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm going for a couple.

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Speaker 1: Of weeks, Okay, So yeah, so it might be just

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Speaker 1: mostly social media that you're going to be impacted, obviously, Google,

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Speaker 1: Google Maps, things like that. It's been a while since

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Speaker 1: I was at in China, so it's I'm trying to remember.

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Speaker 1: Like the last time I was there, I felt I

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Speaker 1: felt like everything pretty much worked as long as I

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Speaker 1: was on my cellular. But if I wasn't on cellular,

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Speaker 1: like if I was on the work or the hotel

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Speaker 1: Wi Fi, that's when things stopped working. So I personally,

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Speaker 1: just to prepare, would get the VPN, and that way,

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Speaker 1: when you're over there in China, you would log onto

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Speaker 1: the VPN and you would choose a US server as

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Speaker 1: your host on that VPN. So if you want to

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Speaker 1: look at, you know, some of the recommended VPNs, I've

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Speaker 1: got I've got an article that you can you can

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Speaker 1: google just Ktla DeMuro VPN and uh.

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Speaker 3: The article is.

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Speaker 1: It says, do you do you need a VPN, here's

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Speaker 1: what the experts recommend, and there's some recommendations for what

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Speaker 1: you should look for in a VPN, So you know,

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Speaker 1: that's that's probably what I would do, just to be

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Speaker 1: sure and make sure that your VPN is working before

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Speaker 1: you go over there. And then for e SIM I

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Speaker 1: like arlow A I R A l O. You've probably

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Speaker 1: heard me talk about them on the show. Let me

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Speaker 1: check if they have one for China. Let's see if

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Speaker 1: they have a VPN for China or sorry, a.

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Speaker 10: SIM China for a low because I'm going to China

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Speaker 10: and after China, I'm going to Japan. Uh, what they

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Speaker 10: have when an ethan that will work in both countries

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Speaker 10: or in China is a very.

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Speaker 1: Specific sometimes they do. So there are regions, so if

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Speaker 1: you type in China, it will give you all of

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Speaker 1: the all of the SIMS that will work there. So

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Speaker 1: I think China is kind of its own thing. So

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Speaker 1: I'm looking on the website and it doesn't look like

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Speaker 1: they have a regional one. So and Japan, by the way,

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Speaker 1: is a little tricky with eSIMs. So when I was there,

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Speaker 1: do you have an iPhone or an Android, Okay, you

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Speaker 1: should be fine because on Android specifically, pixels in Japan

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Speaker 1: with the eSIMs do not like to work. And it

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Speaker 1: was driving me nuts the last time I was there

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Speaker 1: because I all, you know, typically I travel with an

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Speaker 1: Android in an iPhone and my iPhone I fired up

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Speaker 1: the eSIM, no problem. Then all of a sudden, I

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Speaker 1: get to the pixel and it's like it's just not working,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what is the problem here? And then

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Speaker 1: I finally cross reference talked to a couple of friends

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Speaker 1: and they said, yeah, for some reason, the pixel specifically

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Speaker 1: just has it or did have an issue with this

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Speaker 1: with this Aralow sim. If you look on the sim,

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Speaker 1: if you and read the terms on the sim card,

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Speaker 1: it will tell you that certain devices do not work

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Speaker 1: with that sim. So for my purposes, the pixel was

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Speaker 1: one of those devices. It just did not work on there. So,

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00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: but it's gotten a lot easier. You can buy all

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Speaker 1: these things before you go, so that you're ready to go.

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Speaker 1: You're all set up. What service do you have on

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Speaker 1: your cellular? Is it AT and T, Verizon, T Mobile,

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Speaker 1: AT and T Okay, so with AT and T, depending

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Speaker 1: on the plan you're on, I would call them and

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Speaker 1: see if you have any like what your data passes,

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Speaker 1: because sometimes you know, if you're only there for a

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Speaker 1: week or so, it might you might get a couple

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Speaker 1: of free days on their on their roaming.

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Speaker 3: So call AT and T. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So on my last trip to Paris on my account,

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Speaker 1: I had twelve days of free roaming.

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Speaker 3: So it depends on your play.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so call The first thing to do is call

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Speaker 1: AT and T say hey, do I have any international

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Speaker 1: days included in my plan? And they will look that

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Speaker 1: up and say, oh, yeah, you've got five days free,

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Speaker 1: so you know, you know that you've got Yeah, So

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Speaker 1: that's that's good to know.

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Speaker 10: So as long as I let's let's just say I

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Speaker 10: I call AT and T let them know I'm traveling,

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Speaker 10: and I stay on my cellular plan while I'm in China,

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Speaker 10: everything should work.

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Speaker 3: It should.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just you know, I'm telling you from

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Speaker 1: my memory of when I was on my US you

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Speaker 1: know SIM, when I was just roaming. It seemed to

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Speaker 1: work because I don't know if they have like you know,

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Speaker 1: because you're on an American SIM card. It's like, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: well you're an American, you have access to these things.

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Speaker 1: But I you know, okay, but I'd be prepared just

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Speaker 1: for the you know, for the for the reality of

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Speaker 1: the VPN, but in general, you know, and things have

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Speaker 1: it might have changed over there. I'm not really sure,

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Speaker 1: but you know, in general, be prepared with the VPNs

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Speaker 1: that you have connections no matter what, and that you

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Speaker 1: can access to things that are important to you once

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Speaker 1: you're over there.

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Speaker 3: It's a it's a little bit of a.

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Speaker 10: It's a vp in like a pretty easy like do

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Speaker 10: I just turn it on while I'm there and then instead?

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Speaker 10: Do I need to do any settings on my iPhone

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Speaker 10: in order for the VPN to work.

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Speaker 1: No, but you you know, you have to set it up,

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Speaker 1: set up everything here so that when you get there

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Speaker 1: you just have to toggle it on. And so it's

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Speaker 1: very Most of the VPNs are very very simple to use.

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Speaker 1: Once you install it on your phone, it will say hey,

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Speaker 1: can we install a VPN profile? You install that VPN profile,

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Speaker 1: and then some apps will say, hey, do you want

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Speaker 1: us to be on all the time. I don't recommend that,

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Speaker 1: but you know, there's a way to toggle on inside

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Speaker 1: the app. Usually I have like a big power button

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Speaker 1: looking thing you press that you'll see VPN in the

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Speaker 1: upper right hand corner of your phone.

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Speaker 3: You know you're.

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Speaker 1: Connected to the VPN, and then you know you can

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Speaker 1: you can go on as normal. But again I would

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Speaker 1: set this all up here so that you kind of

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Speaker 1: have an idea you could try the VPN out here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So so try all this stuff here and get familiar

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Speaker 1: with it before you get there. And again the first

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Speaker 1: stop is to call your cellular company and just see

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Speaker 1: what they say about roaming in China, to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: do I have any days included? Don't make the mistake

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Speaker 1: I did of leaving my dry box on because I

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Speaker 1: racked up an eight hundred dollars bill because it tried

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Speaker 1: to upload all of my photos in the background.

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Speaker 3: So that's another thing. When you're traveling internationally.

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Speaker 1: If you have any sort of backup running on your phone,

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Speaker 1: like a photos program like Amazon Photos or Google Photos

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Speaker 1: or iCloud, make sure that cellular is turned off for

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Speaker 1: that sinking, because you do not want it sinking over cellular.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you have it turned on where it's just

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Speaker 1: backing up over Wi Fi. Very important, or you're gonna

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Speaker 1: run through all your data or get a huge bill.

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Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one on one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two poor one zero one. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: I'll talk about the AT and T data breach how

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Speaker 1: it might affect you. Welcome back to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: It includes a lot of great information, just like I

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Speaker 1: share on this show Richontech dot TV. This week, AT

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Speaker 1: and T revealed another massive data breach affecting millions of customers.

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Speaker 1: AT and T is in the process of notifying about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and ten million customers about this new data breach.

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Speaker 1: The stolen data includes phone numbers and call and text

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Speaker 1: records from May one, twenty twenty two, to October thirty first,

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Some data from January twenty twenty three

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Speaker 1: was also compromised. This affects both cellular and landline customers,

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Speaker 1: including those who used another carrier on AT and t's network.

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Speaker 1: Like a cricket so what did they get metadata such

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Speaker 1: as who you called, who you texted, and how long

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Speaker 1: you talk to them for. Some of the records also

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Speaker 1: include cell site identification numbers, which might be able to

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Speaker 1: be used to reveal your approximate locations of where you

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Speaker 1: made those calls.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 1: AT and T says they learned of the data breach

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Speaker 1: on April nineteenth, twenty twenty four. They say that the

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Speaker 1: stolen data does not contain the contents of calls or

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Speaker 1: the contents of the texts. This is the second security

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Speaker 1: incident for AT and T in twenty twenty four. They

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Speaker 1: had that passcode reset earlier in the year. So AT

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Speaker 1: and T says the stolen data is not currently publicly available,

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Speaker 1: which means you can't search through it. Lots of thoughts

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Speaker 1: on this number one. You just have to assume that

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Speaker 1: your data is going to be out there at some point,

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Speaker 1: because we are entering a world where it's not a

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Speaker 1: matter of who might get breached, it's a matter of when. Also,

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Speaker 1: you got to be careful about the information that you share.

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Speaker 1: I've been watching the documentary on Netflix, the Ashley Madison

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Speaker 1: data breach. That was just devastating to people. Not defending

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Speaker 1: what Ashley Madison was doing. But at the same time,

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Speaker 1: thirty seven million people that kind of data out there.

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Speaker 1: It was a big deal, and this is just going

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Speaker 1: to continue to happen. It's just going to continue to happen.

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Speaker 1: Now you can check to see if your data was

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Speaker 1: included in this. AT and T set up a special website.

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Speaker 1: You can go to AT and T dot com slash event,

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Speaker 1: slash lander, l A n d Er and I checked

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Speaker 1: my account. I got a big green check. Marcus as

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Speaker 1: accounts not affected. Bobo checked his account and it says

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Speaker 1: sure enough, account affected. So you can go to this

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Speaker 1: website ATT dot com slash event slash lander to see

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Speaker 1: if your data was involved in this breach.

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Speaker 3: It's the good news is here.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like they got names, addresses, social Security numbers,

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Speaker 1: credit card information. Doesn't sound like they got that. But

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Speaker 1: they did get a lot of call data. So theoretically,

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Speaker 1: I'm just you know, looking to the most nefarious purpose

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Speaker 1: of this. Someone could theoretically set up a database if

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Speaker 1: this data gets out where you'd be able to search

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Speaker 1: and see if someone you know called a phone number

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Speaker 1: that you also know. So that's just one way and

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Speaker 1: just on this same note. While we're here surf Shark,

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Speaker 1: this is a VPN company. They introduced a new feature

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Speaker 1: called alternative Number. So this is a new tool to

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Speaker 1: protect your real phone number from online threats and spam.

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Speaker 1: They basically will give you a virtual US based phone

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Speaker 1: number that you can access through the app. You can

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Speaker 1: receive phone calls, you can receive messages, and you can

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Speaker 1: reply to messages with this alternative phone number. And the

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Speaker 1: whole purpose here is to help you safeguard your real

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Speaker 1: phone number from strangers, spam, and untrusted websites. You cannot

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Speaker 1: use this phone number to make outgoing calls or to

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Speaker 1: initiate messages. It's just for incoming and to reply. So

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Speaker 1: why would you want this, Well, you can use it

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Speaker 1: in place of your real phone number anywhere where you

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Speaker 1: don't think your real phone number is necessary. So maybe

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Speaker 1: you're signing up for a club card at a grocery store,

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Speaker 1: or you're just signing up for you know, online sweepsteakes, whatever,

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Speaker 1: you can use this phone number. So right now, it

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Speaker 1: only works with US phone numbers. It's anywhere from three

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Speaker 1: to five dollars a month. And I'm telling you this

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Speaker 1: idea of using a secondary phone number.

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Speaker 3: I do it.

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Speaker 1: I use my Google Voice number when I sign up

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Speaker 1: for almost anything as sort of a buffer between me

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Speaker 1: and all of these data breaches. Because your real phone

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Speaker 1: number is valuable, It's linked to a lot of things,

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Speaker 1: and I think people are just understanding that if they

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Speaker 1: want to protect their privacy, they have to start giving

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Speaker 1: out information that is much much less linked to their

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Speaker 1: real identity. Let's go to Dory in Westlake Village, California. Dory,

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Speaker 1: what's your question?

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Speaker 10: Yes, I thank you for taking my call. My question

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Speaker 10: may be a little funny.

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Speaker 12: That Samsung ring you were talking about? Can you wear

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Speaker 12: it on your toe?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Like a toe ring? Interesting question that those rings

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Speaker 3: really down match with the rings I always wear in

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Speaker 3: my hand.

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Speaker 12: But I love the idea of that ring.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great question, and I totally get it

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Speaker 1: because you know, not everyone would match with these things.

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Speaker 3: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: So I don't have the information from Samsung specifically, but Aura,

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Speaker 1: who makes a smart ring. They replied in a tweet

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Speaker 1: to someone that asked about this exact same question, and

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Speaker 1: they said, we do not recommend wearing the ring on

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Speaker 1: a toe because the toe differs from the fingers in

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Speaker 1: the pulse signal it gives, so the readings are going

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Speaker 1: to differ and they're not going to be as accurate

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Speaker 1: as fingers. So bottom line, you probably could wear it

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Speaker 1: as a toe ring. You're not going to get the

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Speaker 1: right readings. But you know, I just don't think the

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Speaker 1: blood flow to the toe is as pronounced as it

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Speaker 1: is to your fingers, because that's an extremity. And Bobo's

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Speaker 1: just walking out. He's done, This show is over for him.

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Speaker 1: Like that question, I thought it was as a it's

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Speaker 1: a look, toe rings are a thing. In fact, we

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Speaker 1: were joking at the Samsung event that they might come

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Speaker 1: out with the nose ring.

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Speaker 3: That's a smart nose ring. Why not smart ring?

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Speaker 13: But the reason is because it doesn't match the jury

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Speaker 13: that she already wears.

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Speaker 1: Well, look, people are particular. When we were looking at

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Speaker 1: the rings, they have him in three colors. They've got black, silver,

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Speaker 1: and gold, And because my wedding ring is silver, I

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Speaker 1: was I like the black the most. It looks the best.

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Speaker 1: It's like a nice matte black. But to me it's like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I'd have to go silver because it matches my ring. Look,

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Speaker 1: people want to match. You gotta Bobo, your your hat

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Speaker 1: is matching your shirt? I noticed, are your sneakers matching

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Speaker 1: everything too? What you don't know about Bobo? Yes, he's

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Speaker 1: a sneaker head and he comes in here every week

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Speaker 1: with fully matching clothes. His shirt matches, his hat matches

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Speaker 1: his sneakers. And yeah, if I wear my crocs here,

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Speaker 1: they only match, you know, my cross.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Mark and Woodland Hills. Mark,

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Speaker 3: you're on with Writch.

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Speaker 6: Yes, good afternoon. My problem is is that a lot

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Speaker 6: of the subsidies were dropped for telephone, and I only

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Speaker 6: had bundled already landline and internet service. Now the landline

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Speaker 6: prices are just going out of the roof costs wise.

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Speaker 6: But I also recall when I used to have consumer cellular,

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Speaker 6: they had a base unit that was that ran on wife.

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Speaker 6: I believe it was or a cellular service. But there's

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Speaker 6: something similar I'm interested in. It's called Umama, and what

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Speaker 6: apparently what it does is it uses your internet and

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Speaker 6: I can have all my cordless phones all over the house,

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Speaker 6: so I don't have to run around to get to

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Speaker 6: one of them. And I was wondering if you had

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Speaker 6: that or any other alternatives. I've seen all the videos

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00:42:58,040 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 6: on YouTube, but you never know what hucksterism is and

872
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 6: what's right, So I thought i'd run it by you.

873
00:43:03,280 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 6: You're the expert.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. UMA is fantastic. It's been around forever. It works,

875
00:43:08,239 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: it does what it says. You buy the unit. The

876
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: way it works, you plug the unit into your Internet

877
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 1: and they also actually have a Wi Fi unit at

878
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: this point, so you don't even need to plug it

879
00:43:17,600 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: into a physical ethernet jack, although I probably would recommend

880
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: that just for the best signal. But you plug that in.

881
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 1: It's a little box and that box takes that Internet

882
00:43:26,760 --> 00:43:30,359
Speaker 1: signal and gives you a phone line. So it's using

883
00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: voiceover IP, which you know, most of the cellular services

884
00:43:35,480 --> 00:43:37,480
Speaker 1: and all of the voice services, almost all of them

885
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:40,320
Speaker 1: now are using voiceover IP. You know, the landlines, you know,

886
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: the physical copper cables may not be, but everything else.

887
00:43:42,960 --> 00:43:45,439
Speaker 1: If you're getting a line from Spectrum, if you're getting

888
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,080
Speaker 1: a line from your cable company, it's all using voiceover IP.

889
00:43:48,680 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 3: So UMA.

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Speaker 1: The interesting thing about the way they work is that

891
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 1: you basically buy the device for anywhere from seventy to

892
00:43:56,239 --> 00:43:59,160
Speaker 1: one hundred dollars and then the phone service is free.

893
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,880
Speaker 1: You just have to pay the monthly taxes and fees

894
00:44:01,920 --> 00:44:04,279
Speaker 1: and you can put your phone number or your zip

895
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 1: code in online and it will tell you how much

896
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: the taxes and fees are. For where I live, It's

897
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,360
Speaker 1: under ten dollars a month, so highly recommend it. It

898
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Speaker 1: will work with your phones. The other thing to look

899
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: at is called magic Jack.

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Speaker 12: This.

901
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:19,640
Speaker 1: When I first covered this, I was working at c

902
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: Net decade probably over a decade ago, and I couldn't

903
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:26,239
Speaker 1: believe it, Like it's just like I couldn't believe that

904
00:44:26,280 --> 00:44:29,919
Speaker 1: you can get something that turned Internet into a phone line.

905
00:44:29,960 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 1: And of course now it's very common, but this would

906
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:36,960
Speaker 1: solve your problems if you want a home phone service

907
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: that does not cost as much as getting something from

908
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:44,839
Speaker 1: the cable company. So again, UMA isom A. Like I said,

909
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: they've been around forever. I personally tested them. I had

910
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: it in my house for a very long time, and

911
00:44:49,800 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: it does exactly what it says it does. It's a

912
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:55,320
Speaker 1: it's a virtual phone number that basically lets you plug

913
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: in a real phone, so you can go to Walmart,

914
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:00,800
Speaker 1: you can buy a cordless phone like the old school phones.

915
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: And that little jack, I forget what it's called, like

916
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: the RJ oh gosh, what's a phone jack RJ something

917
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: r J eleven is that it You plug that in

918
00:45:11,760 --> 00:45:14,520
Speaker 1: to the back of this Uma and now you have

919
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 1: a real phone line that is all going through the Internet.

920
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: So the other one, like I said, magic Jack Vonage

921
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,520
Speaker 1: used to be the third. It does not look like

922
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 1: they do a consumer product anymore. So those are the

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Speaker 1: two I go with Mark, markn Widlin Hills, Thanks for

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Speaker 1: the call. Definitely to go for it all right. Eighty

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one oh one more tip wait

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Speaker 1: until Amazon Prime Day because the Uma is sold on

927
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Speaker 1: Amazon and it might be on sale on Amazon Prime Day.

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Speaker 3: You've got a couple of days to wait.

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Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: talking technology. The phone line for the show eight eight

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Speaker 1: burning question about technology, something on your mind. Give me

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Speaker 1: a call. The phone line is free, the call is

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Speaker 1: toll free. The answer is uh, you know who knows.

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Speaker 1: It may not be worth as much may be worth

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Speaker 1: the price of the phone call. Who knows you never know?

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Speaker 1: for the show rich on tech dot TV. The more

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Speaker 1: you call, the more you keep our lovely call screener

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Speaker 1: Kim Company. Uh, dark patterns? Are you familiar with what

946
00:46:40,680 --> 00:46:44,080
Speaker 1: a dark pattern is? This is pretty much a manipulative,

947
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:49,520
Speaker 1: manipulative design. And we see this all the time. I

948
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: see this all the time.

949
00:46:51,239 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 3: Every day.

950
00:46:52,280 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 1: I download a lot of apps, I sign up for

951
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:57,400
Speaker 1: a lot of websites, and I notice these dark patterns

952
00:46:57,440 --> 00:47:01,640
Speaker 1: almost every single time. And they're just and the FTC

953
00:47:02,400 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: they support my thoughts that this is happening a lot.

954
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:07,920
Speaker 1: So Actually, the FTC teamed up with a whole bunch

955
00:47:07,920 --> 00:47:12,080
Speaker 1: of international partners to study six hundred and forty two

956
00:47:12,120 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: websites and mobile apps offering subscription services and guess what.

957
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:20,319
Speaker 1: Nearly seventy six percent of them employed at least one

958
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: possible dark pattern. Sixty seven percent used multiple dark patterns. Now,

959
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: what's a dark pattern? It's something that makes you do

960
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: something that you wouldn't normally do if you had all

961
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:34,600
Speaker 1: the information at your disposal. Let me explain the most

962
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:37,920
Speaker 1: common dark pattern. You are signing up for, or you

963
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: download a new app and it says that screen where

964
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 1: it says, hey, would you like to sign up for

965
00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: a free trial or a subscription, and you don't really

966
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: want to, You just want to try out the app,

967
00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,520
Speaker 1: but you can't seem to get past that page. But

968
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:53,880
Speaker 1: if you look very closely, there's a very faint X

969
00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: in the corner that you don't see when you first

970
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: look at that window, and so you think that you

971
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 1: have to either sign up up for a free trial

972
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 1: or sign up for a subscription to actually even just

973
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,760
Speaker 1: try out the use of that app.

974
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,360
Speaker 3: But in reality, you can.

975
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 1: Click that little X and deal with that later and

976
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:12,160
Speaker 1: try the app and see what happens before you sign

977
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: up for anything. That is one dark pattern, and that's

978
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: the most common I see. So if you're ever signing

979
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: up for an app, and believe me, the reason I

980
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: know this is because I try a lot of apps

981
00:48:23,080 --> 00:48:25,200
Speaker 1: and I feature them on TV and of course here

982
00:48:25,239 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: on the radio, and people will email me invariably and

983
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:30,160
Speaker 1: be like, Rich, I can't believe you're promoting an app

984
00:48:30,160 --> 00:48:31,879
Speaker 1: that you can only you know you have to sign

985
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 1: up for it and I said, oh, no, you missed

986
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: the dark pattern. They had a little X that you

987
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:40,000
Speaker 1: missed during that sign up flow. This happens a lot,

988
00:48:40,200 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: so the two patterns, and I didn't know they had

989
00:48:42,680 --> 00:48:46,440
Speaker 1: a term for this. The most that they encountered was

990
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:51,480
Speaker 1: called sneaking practices. This involves hiding or delaying the disclosure

991
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 1: of information that might affect your purchase decision. That's the

992
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,440
Speaker 1: one I just talked about. And then interface interference. This

993
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,799
Speaker 1: is obscuring important information or pre selecting options in a

994
00:49:02,880 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: frame that steers you towards making a decision that's more

995
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: favorable for the business. So if you're just clicking through

996
00:49:09,280 --> 00:49:11,759
Speaker 1: all the next, next, next, next, next, next, next, all

997
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 1: the stuff that's pre selected benefits the company. And I

998
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:17,040
Speaker 1: see this a lot when I'm setting up new phones.

999
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 1: Every single new phone and almost every single tech device

1000
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: that I set up has an option that says, do

1001
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: you want us to send diagnostic data back to the

1002
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: company about how you use this product?

1003
00:49:27,960 --> 00:49:29,279
Speaker 3: Now, you don't need to do that.

1004
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,400
Speaker 1: You don't need to be their little, you know, feedback

1005
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 1: response person for this stuff. Like you paid for this product,

1006
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: you you know, should get to use it without having

1007
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: to send back exactly how you're using this product. iPhone

1008
00:49:42,320 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: does it, Android does it, Samsung does it?

1009
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 3: They all do that.

1010
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: You I always unclick that box because why should I

1011
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,879
Speaker 1: send you all this rich data about how I'm using

1012
00:49:51,880 --> 00:49:56,360
Speaker 1: this phone? Now, By the way, what are they collecting everything? Everything,

1013
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 1: how you swipe, the time you turn your phone on,

1014
00:49:59,000 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 1: the time you turn your phone off, when you use

1015
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: your phone, when you're not using your phone, how many

1016
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: apps you download. Everything's being collected if you're sending back

1017
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: that diagnostic data. And of course that box is checked

1018
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: by default. In fact, here's another dark pattern. When you're

1019
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 1: setting up a product, it will say accept all. And

1020
00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,680
Speaker 1: when you press accept all, you think that you have

1021
00:50:18,760 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: to tap yes to all these different things.

1022
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Speaker 3: You do not.

1023
00:50:21,840 --> 00:50:24,799
Speaker 1: If you tap them individually, you'd notice only the first

1024
00:50:24,800 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: two are required. The rest are optional. So be very

1025
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: careful when you download stuff and sign up for stuff,

1026
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:34,680
Speaker 1: because you are bombarded with these dark patterns and they.

1027
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:37,919
Speaker 3: Trip people up. Seventy six percent of sites have them.

1028
00:50:38,000 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 3: That's wild.

1029
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: Xbox raising Xbox game Pass prices. So if your kid

1030
00:50:45,280 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: uses this like mine does, Yeah, typically this was seventeen

1031
00:50:50,080 --> 00:50:52,000
Speaker 1: bucks a month. Now it's going up to twenty dollars

1032
00:50:52,080 --> 00:50:56,319
Speaker 1: a month for the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Now the

1033
00:50:56,680 --> 00:51:00,480
Speaker 1: PC Game Pass they're raising that from that's going up

1034
00:51:00,480 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 1: to twelve dollars a month previously ten. Now the nice

1035
00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:08,440
Speaker 1: thing they're doing is introducing a new tier that's cheaper

1036
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,880
Speaker 1: than all of these tiers at fifteen dollars a month.

1037
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:14,680
Speaker 1: And this is called Xbox Game Pass Standard. But what

1038
00:51:14,719 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: are they doing. They're taking away your access to day

1039
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: one first party games. What does that mean. The news

1040
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: here is that everyone was so excited that the brand

1041
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: new Call of Duty was going to be available on

1042
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 1: Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, and everyone was chatting when they

1043
00:51:32,480 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: heard about this. They were tweeting saying, oh, Microsoft is

1044
00:51:35,040 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 1: so great because they're giving us access to this game

1045
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,880
Speaker 1: on this service without raising prices. Well, they did a

1046
00:51:41,960 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: dark pattern. They announced the exciting news a couple of

1047
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: weeks ago that Call of Duty would be available, but

1048
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 1: they held back the price increase until a couple of

1049
00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:53,239
Speaker 1: weeks later. And so now you get I mean, it's

1050
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,840
Speaker 1: just these companies are wild and look, this is just

1051
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,160
Speaker 1: the way of the world, folks. We are just paying

1052
00:52:00,239 --> 00:52:02,840
Speaker 1: and paying and paying and paying more. Like I say,

1053
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: the free ride is over. Those price increases start on

1054
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Speaker 1: September twelfth. Eight of 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 3: It's not all bad.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you the free service that Google is making

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Speaker 1: available to everyone.

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Speaker 3: Coming up.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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Speaker 1: technology at eight eight eight rich one oh one. That's

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

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Speaker 1: I see a holding on the lines. We'll get back

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Speaker 1: to those in just a moment. But first, let's talk

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime Day tenth and well, i'd say annual, but

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00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: they now do it a couple times a year. But

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Speaker 1: this is their tenth Prime Day event. It's happening July

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Speaker 1: sixteenth and seventeenth. Of course, they're promising millions of deals,

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00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,719
Speaker 1: over five million deals available for Prime members. Remember you

1070
00:52:53,840 --> 00:52:56,759
Speaker 1: have to be a Prime member to take advantage UH

1071
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Speaker 1: savings on all kinds of stuff. To talk about this,

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Speaker 1: I spoke with Deal's expert Trey Bodge. She had some

1073
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 1: great tips on how to maximize your savings. Prime Day obviously,

1074
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:14,719
Speaker 1: it seems to be happening every year, sometimes twice a year.

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Speaker 1: Why does Amazon do Prime Day?

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00:53:17,880 --> 00:53:20,960
Speaker 14: Well, Amazon does Prime Day in an effort to create

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Speaker 14: their own shopping holiday.

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Speaker 2: July.

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Speaker 14: Up until ten years ago, in the first Prime Day,

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Speaker 14: July was kind of a sleepy time except for the

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Speaker 14: July fourth weekend sales. But now, as you see, there's

1082
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 14: so much going on with Amazon Prime Day, and then

1083
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 14: we have Target Circle Week and Walmart Deals Week, and

1084
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,280
Speaker 14: the list goes on and on. So Amazon has essentially

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Speaker 14: created their own shopping season, and then they do it

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Speaker 14: again in October, kicking off the holiday shopping season very early,

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Speaker 14: so they're controlling the game here.

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Speaker 1: So what do you think are some of the best

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Speaker 1: strategies for finding deals during Prime Day?

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Speaker 14: So because we're seeing so many competitive deals around Prime Day,

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Speaker 14: I would make sure to look around. You want to

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Speaker 14: use tools like Yahoo Shopping or Google Shopping to search

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Speaker 14: for the items that you're looking for. Get a sense

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Speaker 14: of the landscape of where those items are sold in

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Speaker 14: for how much the best deal may be on Amazon

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Speaker 14: or it may be elsewhere, so it's always worth taking

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Speaker 14: a moment to do that. You also want to pair

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Speaker 14: that with using a deal site because often deal sites

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Speaker 14: have cash back offers that can be combined with retailer sales.

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Speaker 14: So one of my favorites is couponcabin dot com. They

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Speaker 14: have cash back offers in the four to eight percent

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Speaker 14: can be kind of layered on top of the coupons

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Speaker 14: that retailers are offering. So I think that's a really

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Speaker 14: good thing to do as well. And then during this

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Speaker 14: busy time, you just want to make sure to keep

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Speaker 14: an eye on your shopping list and avoid impulse shopping

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Speaker 14: because there's so much activity.

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Speaker 2: You certainly don't want to be kind.

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Speaker 14: Of going willy nilly and buying all sorts of things

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Speaker 14: that you might rec Brett later.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the other retailers, So this this event sort

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Speaker 1: of has like a halo effect where like Target gets

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Speaker 1: in on it and Walmart gets in on it. Can

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Speaker 1: you talk about that a little bit? Like you know,

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Speaker 1: if the price is a good price at Amazon, will

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Speaker 1: be the same price at Target.

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Speaker 14: Per se it may be or it may be better,

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Speaker 14: or it may not be as good. So it's really

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Speaker 14: important to look around now. If you are planning to

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Speaker 14: shop on Amazon Prime Day, you will find millions of

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Speaker 14: deals across thirty five categories and Amazon specifically. A good

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Speaker 14: tool to use is Camel Camel camel or their app

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Speaker 14: is called the Camelizer. I believe that's a good place

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Speaker 14: to get a sense of what the prices are. What

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Speaker 14: the prices were, you can set price alerts there and

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Speaker 14: then pair that with the other efforts that you're making

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Speaker 14: on Amazon to look for sales like they have. You know,

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Speaker 14: you can set up wish lists and look for discounts

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Speaker 14: on their app. And so there are lots of ways

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Speaker 14: to save around Amazon Prime Day.

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Speaker 1: What do you think some of the biggest categories are

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Speaker 1: that people should be looking at shopping for.

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Speaker 14: So on Amazon Prime Day, we've become accustomed to deals

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Speaker 14: from Amazon's proprietary brands, and so your kindle, your fire,

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Speaker 14: your ring, all of those items will be deeply discounted.

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Speaker 2: You'll see lots of bundling.

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Speaker 14: So maybe you can get a couple of echoes, for example,

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Speaker 14: or you can get a fireTV and a fireTV stick

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Speaker 14: or things like that. So I would look for those

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Speaker 14: bundles to take advantage of. You do have to be

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Speaker 14: an Amazon Prime member in order to enjoy these deals,

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Speaker 14: So as you're shopping, look for those Amazon branded items,

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Speaker 14: but then also look at other brands. We will see

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Speaker 14: lots of deals on especially on small home appliances like

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Speaker 14: your robotic vacuum or your air fryer. Things like that

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Speaker 14: will be discounted from multiple brands. So while you're within

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Speaker 14: the Amazon ecosystem, make sure to shop around and look

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Speaker 14: at different brands, read the reviews, and then you're making

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Speaker 14: a smart decision.

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Speaker 2: You're ready to click buy.

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Speaker 1: How does Prime Day compare to something like a Cyber

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Speaker 1: Monday or a Black Friday.

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Speaker 14: It depends, and so you know, it depends on how

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Speaker 14: competitive the landscape is. Amazon tends to discount aggressively in

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Speaker 14: both places. You know, I think around Black Friday Cyber Monday,

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Speaker 14: you can sometimes expect deeper discounts because retailers are kind

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Speaker 14: of entering the finish line for their annual sales, and

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Speaker 14: so if they're having a great year, they may pull

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Speaker 14: back on the discounts. If they're not having a great year,

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Speaker 14: those discounts will be deeper. So it really depends on

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Speaker 14: what's going on in the in the climate at the moment.

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Speaker 14: Make a list of the things that you need, and

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Speaker 14: make a list of the things that you use regularly.

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Speaker 2: Because that's an interesting point.

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Speaker 14: On Amazon Prime Day, sometimes they get kind of a

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Speaker 14: bad rap because you can find discounts on paper towels,

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Speaker 14: but frankly, we all use paper towels, and so there's

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Speaker 14: nothing wrong with saving on those paper towels on Amazon

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Speaker 14: Prime Day. So I do like to have a list

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Speaker 14: of sort of those aspirational itea that I'm looking for

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Speaker 14: deals on, and then my regular go to grooming products

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Speaker 14: and paper products, because if I can save on Amazon

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Speaker 14: Prime Day, why wouldn't.

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Speaker 1: I any other tools or tips or tricks that you

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Speaker 1: want to share that I haven't asked about.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so Amazon has a bunch of different ways that

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Speaker 14: you can save, and so I do think utilizing the

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Speaker 14: Amazon app on Amazon Prime Day is a good idea

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Speaker 14: because there are a few more features on the app

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Speaker 14: that you can use to be alerted to available sales

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Speaker 14: on the items that you've added to your lists. For example,

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Speaker 14: you can use Alexa to let you know if something

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Speaker 14: that you want is on sale. And then I would

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Speaker 14: also say, you know, utilize all the tools that Amazon

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Speaker 14: is telling you about. They may not be telling people

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Speaker 14: like me about these things just yet, but as Amazon

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Speaker 14: Prime Day of rives, there might be maybe extra features

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Speaker 14: that you should know about. It is a way to

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Speaker 14: save on those items I know there is a new one,

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Speaker 14: the Invite only that I mentioned. That's something that you

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Speaker 14: can click on and close to the shopping car and

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Speaker 14: then be randomly selected to be notified of a very

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Speaker 14: deep discount of an item. And then of course we

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Speaker 14: have the Lightning deals as well, so we'll see some

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Speaker 14: of that stuff happening on Amazon Prime Day as well.

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Speaker 1: Finally, Amazon Prime Day is really to sell Prime memberships.

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Speaker 1: I know you can get a thirty eight free trial,

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Speaker 1: but what do you think of the value of an

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Speaker 1: Amazon Prime membership? Is it still sort of like the

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Speaker 1: golden standard of memberships.

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Speaker 14: It's an interesting time right now because Amazon Prime is

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Speaker 14: not the only membership out there. So we have Target

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Speaker 14: Circle three sixty, we have Walmart Plus, and so as

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Speaker 14: a shopper, it's really important for you to take a

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Speaker 14: look at which platform or retailer you use the most

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Speaker 14: and then consider getting that membership, and the membership on

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Speaker 14: Amazon in particular.

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Speaker 2: I'm a member.

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Speaker 14: I find it to be worthwhile because I shop on

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Speaker 14: Amazon very frequently. I get cash back at Whole Foods,

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Speaker 14: and then there's the free streaming music, the movies, the

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Speaker 14: free Kindle book every month, and so if you are

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Speaker 14: a user of some or all of those benefits that

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Speaker 14: that membership can really pay off.

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Speaker 2: But in my opinion, you shouldn't have more than one

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Speaker 2: of those retail memberships.

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Speaker 14: You know, pick the one that serves you the best,

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Speaker 14: and stick with that and shop with that retailer regularly

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Speaker 14: to get the best bang for your bock out of

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Speaker 14: that annual membership fee.

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Speaker 1: All right, Once again, that was Trey Bodge shopping expert

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Speaker 1: sharing tips to maximize this year's Amazon Prime Day. I'll

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Speaker 1: put a link to her website on mine. Just go

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Speaker 1: to Rich on tech dot TV hit the light bulb.

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Speaker 1: So my advice for Prime Day is the same every

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Speaker 1: single year. Start looking for the things you want now,

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Speaker 1: add them to your shopping car, and then when Prime

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Speaker 1: Day happens on July sixteenth and seventeenth, check your shopping

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Speaker 1: car or your saved items to see if any of

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Speaker 1: them dropped in price, and then you can purchase them.

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Speaker 1: So instead of just looking on the website, like she said,

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Speaker 1: just searching for stuff to spend money on, this is

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Speaker 1: kind of like the re the reverse way of doing it. Also,

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Speaker 1: you'll notice that things on Amazon when they are on

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Speaker 1: Prime Day, they will have a little banner. Next to

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Speaker 1: the price, it might say something like limited time deal

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Speaker 1: or with Prime or lightning deal. So that's how you

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Speaker 1: can tell when something's on sale. I already made my

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Speaker 1: first purchase. I bought the new Amazon Echo spot it's

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Speaker 1: typically eighty bucks. It was on sale for forty five

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Speaker 1: through Prime Day, and I put a list. I actually

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Speaker 1: went through because Amazon has not said what all the

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Speaker 1: deals are going to be, but they put out like

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Speaker 1: a release that says all the brands and stuff that

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Speaker 1: will be on sale. So what I did was I

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Speaker 1: made it easy for you. I went through and I

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Speaker 1: linked up every single brand on my website. So I

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Speaker 1: made this page that says Amazon Prime Day twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: four top brands to watch for deals. And if you

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Speaker 1: scroll down, you'll see all my tips that I just mentioned,

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Speaker 1: but you can see the different things that will be

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Speaker 1: on sale already announced that you can just click and

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Speaker 1: find that device or product or whatever, including the Ring,

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Speaker 1: Spotlight Cams, Eero, Blank, fireTV, Echo, what else, Rumbas, Sony headphones,

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Speaker 1: all Birds, and even.

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Speaker 3: Cosmetics and things.

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Speaker 1: So I put all those links on my website rich

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Speaker 1: on tech dot tv. So check it out if you

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Speaker 1: want to get a headstart on Prime Day coming up.

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Speaker 1: The problem is it's five hundred and twenty nine dollars,

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Speaker 1: so I get it. That's expensive, but it is going

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Speaker 1: to solve the problem. I think your dat is worth it,

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Speaker 1: and I think that this would be a great way

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Speaker 1: to make him feel like he can use this phone

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Speaker 1: to its maximum and not have any issues. The other

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Speaker 1: thing you could do is just get a flip phone

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Speaker 1: something simple. Did you say you wanted voice, Yeah, operate

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Speaker 1: by voice. So I mean the flip phones is they're

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Speaker 1: not really going to have the voice operation. The other

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Speaker 1: thing you might be able to do is get a

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Speaker 1: Samsung device and they've got something called easy Mode. That's

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Speaker 1: that's gonna make the phone easier. It's got a built

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Speaker 1: in magnifier. The iPhone also has a lot of accessibility features,

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Speaker 1: but it's not I mean that that might be too

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Speaker 1: much horsepower for what you're looking at. I really do

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Speaker 1: think the blind Shehell is going to be the way

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Speaker 1: to go. Sadly, this company does have a cheaper phone

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Speaker 1: that they just introduced, like a lesser version of the Classic.

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01:05:33,360 --> 01:05:35,920
Speaker 1: It's called the Classic LTE that does not look like

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Speaker 1: it's available in the United States, sadly, So that's the

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Speaker 1: way to do it. The other thing you could do

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Speaker 1: is you could go on Amazon and just look for

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01:05:45,800 --> 01:05:50,640
Speaker 1: a simple, you know, smartphone that might be good for

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Speaker 1: your father. There they do have a couple of smartphones

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Speaker 1: that are specifically for senior citizens. So just be aware

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Speaker 1: that you need to make sure that whatever service you

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Speaker 1: get is going to work with that. So for instance,

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Speaker 1: like Lively, that's a big company that sells a lot

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Speaker 1: of phones under the Jitterbug name. That is a senior

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Speaker 1: phone and you have to use their plan with that.

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Speaker 1: Some of the phones are unlocked. You can put in

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Speaker 1: any plan. So those are my recommendations. Check them out.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that blind show would be great.

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Speaker 1: Maybe wait for a sale or discount on it to

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Speaker 1: get it past that high price tag there. Google is

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Speaker 1: expanding this dark web feature. In fact, as I mentioned this,

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Speaker 1: I just got an email alert from Google about my

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Speaker 1: information being on the dark web. You have new information,

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01:06:40,760 --> 01:06:44,000
Speaker 1: new personal information on the dark web, and sure enough,

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Speaker 1: my phone number was involved in a data breach and

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Speaker 1: my cell phone number is now available online for anyone

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Speaker 1: to find. Thank you for the app that I actually

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Speaker 1: love that it's involved in. So what is Google doing.

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Speaker 1: This is from a service called dark Web Report, and

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01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,919
Speaker 1: this is excellent. It will tell you if your social

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01:07:04,880 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 1: Security number, if your date of birth, if your address

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01:07:07,880 --> 01:07:10,880
Speaker 1: is found online somewhere, and there's not much you can

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01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,160
Speaker 1: do about it, because the problem is when your information

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01:07:13,240 --> 01:07:15,040
Speaker 1: is out there on the dark web, there's no way

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Speaker 1: of taking it back. But at least, if you know

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01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 1: what's out there, you can be ready for what might happen,

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01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 1: which is someone opening up an account in your name,

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01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,240
Speaker 1: someone spamming you, someone using your phone number, someone using

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Speaker 1: your address. So this was something that was previously only

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01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:34,400
Speaker 1: available to paying subscribers of Google One. Now they are

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01:07:34,400 --> 01:07:38,520
Speaker 1: making it available to everyone for free. This is going

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Speaker 1: to happen later this month. Highly highly recommend that you

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01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,480
Speaker 1: sign up for it. So this is going to be

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Speaker 1: part of their results about you. So it's a little

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01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,240
Speaker 1: bit confusing, but they're pretty much the same thing. So

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Speaker 1: Google results about you, well, I guess they're a little

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01:07:56,280 --> 01:07:59,800
Speaker 1: bit different. Results about you. Google, if you sign up

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01:07:59,840 --> 01:08:03,960
Speaker 1: for it, will find your personal contact information in Google

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Speaker 1: search results. So if your phone number shows up on

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Speaker 1: one of those like spoke Yo or people find heer websites,

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Speaker 1: Google will say, hey, we found your phone number on

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Speaker 1: this website. Do you want us to take that off

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01:08:15,040 --> 01:08:17,760
Speaker 1: of search results? So when someone's searching for you, it

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01:08:17,800 --> 01:08:19,920
Speaker 1: will not show hey, we can find rich Damiro's phone

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Speaker 1: number on this website. And you click through that website

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01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: and you know it's a whole thing to try to

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Speaker 1: get the phone number. But Google will take down that

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01:08:27,240 --> 01:08:29,920
Speaker 1: search result for you. And so this is something that's

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01:08:29,960 --> 01:08:32,479
Speaker 1: been free. I've been recommending it for years. It's a

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01:08:32,560 --> 01:08:34,719
Speaker 1: really useful thing if you want to kind of tame

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01:08:35,240 --> 01:08:38,759
Speaker 1: the information that's out there about you on the open web.

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01:08:38,960 --> 01:08:41,479
Speaker 1: It does not take down the original website, It does

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01:08:41,520 --> 01:08:44,879
Speaker 1: not take down your information from Spokyo or people Finder,

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01:08:45,360 --> 01:08:48,200
Speaker 1: all these other you know, data brokers out there, but

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01:08:48,240 --> 01:08:50,479
Speaker 1: it does take down that search result. And what do

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01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:52,960
Speaker 1: most people do. They're just looking at search results trying

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01:08:52,960 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 1: to find information. Now, with this Dark Web report, you'll

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01:08:56,200 --> 01:09:00,800
Speaker 1: also get that information about your your per details on

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01:09:00,880 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 1: the dark web. It's not going to remove them, it can't,

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01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:06,360
Speaker 1: but at least you'll know that it's out there, and

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01:09:06,400 --> 01:09:09,439
Speaker 1: again you can be ready for the ramifications of that.

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01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:12,280
Speaker 1: So if you want to sign up for this stuff,

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01:09:12,520 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: I'll put the link on the website rich on tech

1389
01:09:14,439 --> 01:09:17,679
Speaker 1: dot tv and you can go to the light Bulb

1390
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 1: to get the information about it. At least start with

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01:09:19,960 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 1: the results about you on Google. You sign up for that,

1392
01:09:23,120 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 1: and then later this month you'll get the dark web

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01:09:25,439 --> 01:09:28,599
Speaker 1: information as well. Really really handy. I am so happy

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01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,719
Speaker 1: that Google is making that available to everyone for free.

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01:09:32,560 --> 01:09:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't know if we have time for this, but

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01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 1: let's go to PAM and venture of PAM, can you

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01:09:35,680 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: say your question about thirty seconds?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I just have an iPhone six.

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01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,400
Speaker 2: I want to know if it's outa day.

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Speaker 10: It has an episode of software on it of seventeen

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Speaker 10: point five.

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Speaker 1: Seventeen point five, so you're still up to date at

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Speaker 1: this point. The problem is, I don't think that that's

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01:09:52,960 --> 01:09:58,439
Speaker 1: going to be supported with iOS eighteen. So iOS eighteen

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01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:02,479
Speaker 1: starts with the iPhone ten are and up? Uh wait,

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01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:04,640
Speaker 1: you said you're you have the which.

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Speaker 3: Software do you have on there? It's an iPhone and

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Speaker 3: you said you have iOS.

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Speaker 10: What seventeen point five point one.

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Speaker 1: On the on the iPhone six s Yeah, huh okay,

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01:10:20,320 --> 01:10:22,559
Speaker 1: I was not aware that that was up to date

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01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:23,280
Speaker 1: at this point.

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Speaker 3: Let me see. So iOS seventeen.

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01:10:26,960 --> 01:10:29,639
Speaker 1: Uh, if it's supported and you're getting those updates, that's fine,

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01:10:29,640 --> 01:10:31,400
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's going to be supported with

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01:10:31,439 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: the next one. I would plan for a new phone,

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01:10:35,240 --> 01:10:37,280
Speaker 1: That's what I would do, because you're not going to

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Speaker 1: get iOS eighteen.

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01:10:38,680 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 3: You're not going to get this.

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01:10:39,680 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 1: The uh the security updates, and that's the important part.

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01:10:43,040 --> 01:10:47,840
Speaker 1: So I would any recommendation, I would just get the iPhone,

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01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:49,240
Speaker 1: you know, a newer model.

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Speaker 3: When they uh. Sorry.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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01:10:57,120 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology. I love that you're doing

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01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:04,519
Speaker 1: something smart for yourself and listening to this show because

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01:11:05,280 --> 01:11:07,840
Speaker 1: this is the information you need to know about how

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01:11:07,880 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 1: to protect yourself online, how to make sure you're not

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01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 1: being scammed, how not to overspend on Amazon Prime Day,

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01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:19,680
Speaker 1: Like I noticed some of us will my wife. I

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01:11:19,800 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 1: was out in Paris and my wife's like, did you

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01:11:21,880 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 1: order a an echo spot from Amazon? I said, yes,

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01:11:25,400 --> 01:11:29,320
Speaker 1: I already I ordered that sight. On scene they announced it.

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Speaker 3: It's this new Uh.

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Speaker 1: It's basically a new like alarm clock and I thought

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01:11:35,560 --> 01:11:37,680
Speaker 1: was kind of cool because it's a speaker, but it

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01:11:37,720 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 1: also is Alexa enabled, uh, and it's got a little

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01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:44,920
Speaker 1: display on it so it's colorful. It's got like a

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01:11:45,080 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 1: you know, customized clock faces. You can choose from six

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01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:54,800
Speaker 1: different colors orange, violet, magenta, lime, teal, and blue. You

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01:11:54,840 --> 01:11:57,240
Speaker 1: can see the weather, the song that's playing, or the

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Speaker 1: whatever's playing. You can set alarm play music. They've got

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01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: four new custom alarm sounds, Aurora, Daybreak, Endeavor and flutter

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01:12:08,760 --> 01:12:10,760
Speaker 1: and you can tap this thing to turn it off

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01:12:10,800 --> 01:12:15,559
Speaker 1: for a snooze. It it's usually eighty bucks. It's forty

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01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:19,080
Speaker 1: five dollars for Prime members right now. And I just

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01:12:19,120 --> 01:12:21,160
Speaker 1: thought it was cool. I just thought it was kind

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01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 1: of nice to have. So that's the Echo Spot. I

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01:12:25,080 --> 01:12:27,719
Speaker 1: have not opened it yet, so I'm curious if they're

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01:12:27,720 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 1: What I think Amazon should have done is put a

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01:12:31,040 --> 01:12:33,360
Speaker 1: USB in the back so you can plug in your phone,

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01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: but I don't know if they did that. So uh, anyway,

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Speaker 1: thanks for listening. Eighty to eight Rich one oh one

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

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Speaker 1: The website rich on tech dot TV. I know a

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Speaker 1: lot of you are going for the Google Dark Web information.

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01:12:52,560 --> 01:12:54,960
Speaker 1: So the way to find that on the website go

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01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:59,160
Speaker 1: to the website. Up at the top. There is a

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01:12:59,280 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 1: light bulb. If you tap that light bulb, it brings

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Speaker 1: you to what's called the show wiki, so you know Wikipedia.

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01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:11,600
Speaker 1: I keep basically a show wiki for every episode that

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Speaker 1: we've ever done. So this is show number eighty. You

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Speaker 1: tap that, it should bring you right to the Let

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Speaker 1: me tap and just see where it brings you. Actually,

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01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: so I'm not saying the wrong thing here. If you

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Speaker 1: tap that little light bulb, it will bring you to

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it'll bring you right to the list of

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Speaker 1: every single show. So if you tap show number eighty,

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Speaker 1: you'll see all the show notes. Everything I've mentioned is

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Speaker 1: linked up there, and you can see at the bottom

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Speaker 1: it says Google is making its Dark Web monitoring available

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Speaker 1: to all. And so you can click that and get

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01:13:43,320 --> 01:13:47,080
Speaker 1: more information about that, read about it, sign up for it.

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01:13:47,360 --> 01:13:49,479
Speaker 1: And right now you can't sign up for the Dark

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01:13:49,520 --> 01:13:53,320
Speaker 1: Web unless you are paying member, but you can start

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01:13:53,400 --> 01:13:55,680
Speaker 1: with the feature I talked about, the results about you,

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:14:00,760
Speaker 1: and then dark Web will come later this month. All right,

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Speaker 1: I think we got all that. Oh I want to

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01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:05,080
Speaker 1: tell a funny story. So today I'm texting with my

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Speaker 1: friend this morning, as we typically do on Saturday mornings,

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01:14:08,920 --> 01:14:13,120
Speaker 1: Jefferson Graham, friend of the show. He writes a great newsletter.

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01:14:13,200 --> 01:14:15,120
Speaker 1: He does all kind of you know, you worked for

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01:14:15,280 --> 01:14:19,040
Speaker 1: USA Today forever writing a column there, and now he

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01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:22,160
Speaker 1: is on his own doing photo walks TV. And so

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01:14:22,240 --> 01:14:25,559
Speaker 1: we both have newsletters on our substacks, and so Saturday

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01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: morning we usually send them out and we always compare notes,

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Speaker 1: and so we're texting this morning and I'm like, wait,

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Speaker 1: a second, are you on an iPhone right now? Because

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Speaker 1: we are texting the way you would text on I

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Speaker 1: message where I can see when he's typing. I can

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Speaker 1: see when my messages are delivered. And he said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm running iOS eighteen. I said, you've got to be

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Speaker 1: kidding me. This is my first RCS text messaging ever

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Speaker 1: in my life with an iPhone person.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean?

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Speaker 1: It means that finally, after many many years of this

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Speaker 1: whole divide of iPhone versus Android when it comes to messaging,

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01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:11,920
Speaker 1: come September when everyone finally gets the iOS update. Right now,

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Speaker 1: he is probably running a beta update. Then there's gonna

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Speaker 1: be a public beta coming out any day now, probably

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Speaker 1: you know soon, because they said it's gonna be sometime

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Speaker 1: in July. I don't recommend you install that on your

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Speaker 1: primary phone though, unless you are a tinkerer or you

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01:15:26,960 --> 01:15:29,920
Speaker 1: know what you're doing with technology, because you really can't

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01:15:29,960 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 1: go back. So once you get that, it's very tough

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01:15:32,840 --> 01:15:36,799
Speaker 1: to roll back to a standard, you know, final software release.

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Speaker 1: So wait until September. But come September, you will finally

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Speaker 1: be able to text message between iPhone and Android in

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Speaker 1: a way that everyone can enjoy.

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Speaker 3: The same thing.

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Speaker 1: You can see when they're typing, you can see when

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Speaker 1: your messages are delivered, and most importantly, you can send

1513
01:15:56,000 --> 01:16:01,679
Speaker 1: photos and videos that actually look high quality between an

1514
01:16:01,720 --> 01:16:06,560
Speaker 1: Android and an iPhone. It's called RCS Rich Communications Services.

1515
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:11,880
Speaker 1: It's a standard that Apple has not adopted until now.

1516
01:16:12,600 --> 01:16:15,519
Speaker 1: And so if you're Android to Android, you're already enjoying this.

1517
01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:19,080
Speaker 1: If your iPhone to iPhone, you're already enjoying this. But finally,

1518
01:16:19,160 --> 01:16:24,080
Speaker 1: come September, iPhone to Android, Android to iPhone, text messaging

1519
01:16:24,120 --> 01:16:27,880
Speaker 1: will finally finally get better. And I'm telling you it

1520
01:16:27,920 --> 01:16:30,760
Speaker 1: was like a weight was lifted this morning as I

1521
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:35,680
Speaker 1: just smiled knowing that text messaging is finally better. Let's

1522
01:16:35,720 --> 01:16:39,200
Speaker 1: go to Clark in Lancaster, California. Clark, you're on with Rich.

1523
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:43,000
Speaker 12: Hey, Rich, thanks for listening to this call.

1524
01:16:43,479 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 10: Yeah, I've got a question about.

1525
01:16:45,600 --> 01:16:49,519
Speaker 12: My home Wi Fi system. I wonder if there is

1526
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:54,960
Speaker 12: an easy way for a non technical person to troubleshoot.

1527
01:16:54,320 --> 01:16:56,240
Speaker 1: And see if.

1528
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 12: An intermittent problem with Wi Fi is a problem with

1529
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 12: my router.

1530
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:02,320
Speaker 10: My WiFi router.

1531
01:17:02,560 --> 01:17:06,360
Speaker 1: Well, your your your signal to us is pretty bad,

1532
01:17:06,479 --> 01:17:08,920
Speaker 1: so I may have to put you on hold. Here

1533
01:17:08,960 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 1: but what is specifically going wrong, like is it not

1534
01:17:11,560 --> 01:17:12,759
Speaker 1: working in certain places?

1535
01:17:12,880 --> 01:17:14,200
Speaker 3: Is it not fast?

1536
01:17:14,880 --> 01:17:19,519
Speaker 12: It seems to be up and down. It's intermittent. Sometimes

1537
01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,599
Speaker 12: I get the full mighte of what I'm paying for

1538
01:17:22,680 --> 01:17:27,800
Speaker 12: on my uh my uh internet from spectrum and other

1539
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:30,720
Speaker 12: kinds of drops down to half that, and sometimes it's

1540
01:17:30,760 --> 01:17:34,000
Speaker 12: almost non existent. And like I said, it's intermitt and

1541
01:17:34,000 --> 01:17:36,519
Speaker 12: I can go days or weeks with no problem in them.

1542
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:40,080
Speaker 12: Like today it seems to be up and down. And

1543
01:17:40,240 --> 01:17:42,919
Speaker 12: as you're saying, we've got a bad.

1544
01:17:42,800 --> 01:17:44,639
Speaker 3: Call, yeah, with my.

1545
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 12: Wife earlier and she complained that actually had to hang out.

1546
01:17:48,040 --> 01:17:49,200
Speaker 3: Oh wow wow.

1547
01:17:49,280 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 1: Okay, So so a couple of things. So first off,

1548
01:17:52,520 --> 01:17:54,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to put you on hold just because the

1549
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:59,960
Speaker 1: interference there, So it sounds like there's something that's interfere

1550
01:18:00,360 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 1: with your Wi Fi. Now, I don't know if you

1551
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:04,439
Speaker 1: were on a Wi Fi call with me, but it's

1552
01:18:04,479 --> 01:18:07,080
Speaker 1: been a long time since I actually heard interference on

1553
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,599
Speaker 1: a cell call because everything's digital these days, so there's

1554
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: really no more static. I don't know if you remember

1555
01:18:12,000 --> 01:18:13,840
Speaker 1: back in the day, when you make a call on

1556
01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:17,200
Speaker 1: an analog cell phone. Back in the day everything was analog,

1557
01:18:17,640 --> 01:18:20,559
Speaker 1: there would actually be static. You would somehow you know,

1558
01:18:20,840 --> 01:18:23,840
Speaker 1: hear the person through static, and nowadays you either hear

1559
01:18:23,840 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 1: the person or you don't, or it drops out because

1560
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:30,200
Speaker 1: it's all digital. So number one, it sounds like something

1561
01:18:30,280 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 1: is interfering with your Wi Fi. And there's a lot

1562
01:18:32,880 --> 01:18:36,240
Speaker 1: of devices in the home that can do that, anything

1563
01:18:36,240 --> 01:18:41,080
Speaker 1: that's putting out a frequency, like a microwave or a TV.

1564
01:18:41,760 --> 01:18:45,959
Speaker 1: So if your router is not in a central location,

1565
01:18:46,560 --> 01:18:48,640
Speaker 1: that's the first thing I would do. So if you

1566
01:18:48,720 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 1: have it in a cabinet, or if you have it

1567
01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:54,760
Speaker 1: behind your TV, get that bad boy out into the

1568
01:18:54,800 --> 01:18:57,120
Speaker 1: open so that it can spread its wings and fly.

1569
01:18:57,720 --> 01:19:00,360
Speaker 1: That signal needs to make its way around your house.

1570
01:19:00,400 --> 01:19:03,599
Speaker 1: And if it's constricted in some way by a piece

1571
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,880
Speaker 1: of furniture or a wall, or it's in a corner,

1572
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:08,640
Speaker 1: nobody puts baby in a corner. Uh, you gotta you

1573
01:19:08,640 --> 01:19:11,599
Speaker 1: gotta put this thing out in the open, right And

1574
01:19:11,680 --> 01:19:16,360
Speaker 1: so uh, I love when I get Bobo on a

1575
01:19:16,400 --> 01:19:19,160
Speaker 1: reference when he's just sitting there, you know, doing his thing,

1576
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,360
Speaker 1: and you know he liked that one. I guess you

1577
01:19:22,400 --> 01:19:24,960
Speaker 1: grew up with the dirty dancing household as I did.

1578
01:19:25,120 --> 01:19:27,360
Speaker 3: Yes, I did. Yeah, that was that was big back

1579
01:19:27,360 --> 01:19:27,800
Speaker 3: in the day.

1580
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:33,559
Speaker 1: So anyway, so central location number one, get it off

1581
01:19:33,600 --> 01:19:36,360
Speaker 1: the floor, don't you know the the the signal for

1582
01:19:36,439 --> 01:19:39,599
Speaker 1: Wi Fi emanates out of your router in a doughnut shape,

1583
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 1: So think about that as those waves are sort of

1584
01:19:42,800 --> 01:19:44,880
Speaker 1: making their way throughout your house, So you want to

1585
01:19:44,880 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 1: have the least number of obstructions from that signal, and

1586
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:51,439
Speaker 1: again keep it away from electronics. So if you have

1587
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,160
Speaker 1: a microwave going on, or a TV or any sort

1588
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 1: of like other device near your router, that can definitely

1589
01:19:58,000 --> 01:20:01,439
Speaker 1: impede it the way to try shoot And you mentioned

1590
01:20:01,479 --> 01:20:05,480
Speaker 1: that your speed is sometimes not as good, so typically

1591
01:20:05,840 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 1: the speed that you're going to get over Wi Fi

1592
01:20:07,960 --> 01:20:09,960
Speaker 1: is going to be about half of what you are

1593
01:20:10,000 --> 01:20:13,760
Speaker 1: getting wired. So if your connection is three hundred through

1594
01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:17,360
Speaker 1: Spectrum or whoever your provider is that is coming into

1595
01:20:17,520 --> 01:20:20,600
Speaker 1: your router, your WiFi is probably only going to be

1596
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,759
Speaker 1: one fifty when it's actually making its way to your device.

1597
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:27,200
Speaker 1: And the reason is just it's not a perfect system.

1598
01:20:27,520 --> 01:20:29,760
Speaker 1: But what I would do is I would plug in

1599
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:34,320
Speaker 1: your computer into your actual router, your modem, your router,

1600
01:20:34,439 --> 01:20:38,160
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and I would test the speed wired

1601
01:20:38,320 --> 01:20:41,000
Speaker 1: on your computer. Go to a website like fast dot

1602
01:20:41,040 --> 01:20:45,120
Speaker 1: com or speed test dot net and see what your

1603
01:20:45,160 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 1: speed is and also check out the latency. And there's

1604
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:51,680
Speaker 1: also some diagnostics on there that can give you an

1605
01:20:51,720 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: idea of if your signal is okay, because you know,

1606
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:57,080
Speaker 1: you may have a wire or something that's freight or

1607
01:20:57,080 --> 01:20:59,200
Speaker 1: you might you know, chipmunk or something might have We

1608
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:01,439
Speaker 1: have chipmunks California laying caster.

1609
01:21:02,040 --> 01:21:04,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, we do, Okay, we have chipmunks, maybe more like one.

1610
01:21:04,920 --> 01:21:07,160
Speaker 1: Are those things called a possum, you know, the things

1611
01:21:07,200 --> 01:21:10,080
Speaker 1: with like the really sharp teeth. Maybe they ate through

1612
01:21:10,120 --> 01:21:14,800
Speaker 1: the wires, you know. My point is all the yeah,

1613
01:21:14,880 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: some sort of rodent rap, you know whatever. You check

1614
01:21:18,560 --> 01:21:21,439
Speaker 1: for those things because that can all be affecting your

1615
01:21:21,439 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 1: signal and if none of that is working. You can

1616
01:21:23,920 --> 01:21:26,760
Speaker 1: also get an app, a Wi Fi analyzer app, so

1617
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:28,760
Speaker 1: if you're on Android, I don't think they have these

1618
01:21:28,800 --> 01:21:32,240
Speaker 1: for iPhone, but a Wi Fi Analyzer app you can

1619
01:21:32,280 --> 01:21:35,000
Speaker 1: download to an Android device and you can kind of

1620
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:37,280
Speaker 1: walk around the house and see what's going on with

1621
01:21:37,320 --> 01:21:40,719
Speaker 1: your signal that way. So those are just a few

1622
01:21:40,760 --> 01:21:44,080
Speaker 1: of the ways that you can troubleshoot. If you want.

1623
01:21:44,120 --> 01:21:46,240
Speaker 1: You can call your cable company or whatever. They may

1624
01:21:46,320 --> 01:21:48,559
Speaker 1: charge you, but you can say, hey, look my signal's

1625
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:50,880
Speaker 1: just not working as well as it should be, and

1626
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: they may come out and help you troubleshoot, but they

1627
01:21:53,400 --> 01:21:55,439
Speaker 1: probably will charge you for that because they're going to

1628
01:21:55,439 --> 01:21:57,679
Speaker 1: do a test from their end saying nope, we're giving

1629
01:21:57,680 --> 01:22:00,320
Speaker 1: you the speed that you're paying for and it's on

1630
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:02,720
Speaker 1: your end. So that's another way to look at it.

1631
01:22:03,240 --> 01:22:06,240
Speaker 1: But Clark, those are some of the suggestions. Thanks for

1632
01:22:06,240 --> 01:22:08,840
Speaker 1: the call today, appreciate it. Eighty eight rich one O

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01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 1: one eight eight eight seven four two four one zero one.

1634
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,759
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk to the founder

1635
01:22:15,880 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: of the Oco app. This is to help the visually

1636
01:22:19,160 --> 01:22:22,880
Speaker 1: impaired safely cross streets. Plus, I'm gonna tell you Spectrum

1637
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:24,839
Speaker 1: is raising their cable and TV prices.

1638
01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:25,920
Speaker 3: I'll tell you by how much.

1639
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,240
Speaker 1: And Google Maps gets a feature that can help you

1640
01:22:28,360 --> 01:22:32,599
Speaker 1: avoid a ticket for speeding. This is rich on Tech.

1641
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:36,360
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. One of my all

1642
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:41,080
Speaker 1: time favorite wedding songs. Nothing says a good wedding like

1643
01:22:41,160 --> 01:22:52,000
Speaker 1: this song. Hey oh, if you're listening on the podcast,

1644
01:22:52,080 --> 01:22:55,040
Speaker 1: it's September by Earth Wind and Fire. Okay, so I

1645
01:22:55,040 --> 01:22:58,000
Speaker 1: have a funny story about this song. So we had

1646
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:00,719
Speaker 1: Earth Wind and Fire come to KTLA for a segment,

1647
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:03,640
Speaker 1: and I love this song, and so I you know,

1648
01:23:04,160 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: when in my life did I ever think I would

1649
01:23:06,080 --> 01:23:08,360
Speaker 1: be face to face with the guys from earth Wind

1650
01:23:08,400 --> 01:23:08,760
Speaker 1: and Fire?

1651
01:23:08,840 --> 01:23:09,479
Speaker 3: Right, like never?

1652
01:23:09,920 --> 01:23:12,960
Speaker 1: But we have this restaurant in Los Angeles called earth

1653
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:16,400
Speaker 1: Wind and Flower in West Los Angeles. It's a it's

1654
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:19,120
Speaker 1: an Italian restaurant, and it's just a play on words, right,

1655
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:21,960
Speaker 1: And so I'm like, you know what I got to

1656
01:23:22,000 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 1: ask these guys. So I go up to the guy

1657
01:23:25,880 --> 01:23:28,840
Speaker 1: from earth Wind and Fire. I'm like, Hey, are you

1658
01:23:28,880 --> 01:23:32,160
Speaker 1: aware of the restaurant called earth Wind and Flower? And

1659
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 1: he's like, yeah, I've heard of it. I just thought

1660
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:37,479
Speaker 1: that was so funny because like, I don't know, like,

1661
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 1: you have a restaurant that plays on your name of

1662
01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,439
Speaker 1: your band. Isn't that a lawsuit? Kinder n you could

1663
01:23:43,640 --> 01:23:45,639
Speaker 1: you could have that? I mean I don't. I don't

1664
01:23:45,680 --> 01:23:48,799
Speaker 1: think it's a lawsuit. And also it's been around forever.

1665
01:23:49,160 --> 01:23:54,800
Speaker 1: Changed my name to Demiro Rich DeMuro. This restaurant has

1666
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: been around forever. Like I'm talking, it's got to be

1667
01:23:59,400 --> 01:24:03,120
Speaker 1: thirty oh thirty five years there it is anyway, I

1668
01:24:03,160 --> 01:24:04,840
Speaker 1: just thought that was funny. Like the guy kind of

1669
01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:08,719
Speaker 1: looked at me, like, really, you're asking me this, but yeah,

1670
01:24:08,840 --> 01:24:11,360
Speaker 1: you know, why not. It's so funny. Like working at

1671
01:24:11,400 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 1: kat La, you know, where we do a news you know,

1672
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 1: a morning news program, and there's always celebrities coming through,

1673
01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: and most of them are pretty guarded, but you know,

1674
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: there's always moments when you can just kind of talk

1675
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,920
Speaker 1: to them whatever. And I've had more cool like oh

1676
01:24:25,960 --> 01:24:28,400
Speaker 1: my gosh, I can't believe I am coming face to

1677
01:24:28,439 --> 01:24:31,160
Speaker 1: face with this person who I watched their show when

1678
01:24:31,200 --> 01:24:33,280
Speaker 1: I was a kid, or they sing a song that

1679
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,799
Speaker 1: I like, or it's just amazing that you meet these people.

1680
01:24:37,120 --> 01:24:39,639
Speaker 1: And most of them, I will tell you most people

1681
01:24:39,680 --> 01:24:41,280
Speaker 1: are a lot more shy than you think.

1682
01:24:41,320 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 3: Not shy, but more like introverted.

1683
01:24:43,640 --> 01:24:45,479
Speaker 1: Like you think just because you're a celebrity, they're like

1684
01:24:45,640 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: sitting there telling jokes and stuff.

1685
01:24:47,160 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 3: They're not bubba.

1686
01:24:48,200 --> 01:24:48,360
Speaker 11: I know.

1687
01:24:48,400 --> 01:24:50,679
Speaker 3: You want to say something that was kind of same thing.

1688
01:24:50,800 --> 01:24:54,040
Speaker 13: It's still weird to me being friends with Stevie Wonder

1689
01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:55,240
Speaker 13: and I have to.

1690
01:24:55,200 --> 01:24:58,360
Speaker 1: Text him that's amazing. Now, that is the weirdest thing

1691
01:24:58,360 --> 01:24:58,880
Speaker 1: in the world.

1692
01:24:58,960 --> 01:25:00,679
Speaker 3: And when he told me. I thought he was joking.

1693
01:25:01,000 --> 01:25:04,120
Speaker 3: What a text? Yeah, he always shows you like text

1694
01:25:04,160 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 3: me before you call.

1695
01:25:04,960 --> 01:25:10,880
Speaker 1: He gave you his burner number. He's like, hold on,

1696
01:25:10,960 --> 01:25:12,880
Speaker 1: I can't remember this number off the top of my head.

1697
01:25:12,960 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 10: Let me look at it.

1698
01:25:14,240 --> 01:25:16,320
Speaker 13: But no, it's weird because you text him and he'll

1699
01:25:16,320 --> 01:25:18,800
Speaker 13: literally you get a text backer he'll just call you.

1700
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 3: That's amazing.

1701
01:25:20,680 --> 01:25:24,880
Speaker 1: My most LA story about that is I was in

1702
01:25:24,920 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 1: the movie uh Zoolander two, but I wasn't in it.

1703
01:25:29,240 --> 01:25:30,840
Speaker 3: I didn't make the cut, but I was.

1704
01:25:31,200 --> 01:25:33,439
Speaker 1: I had a small like news person role that I

1705
01:25:33,479 --> 01:25:37,080
Speaker 1: shot for the movie, and I didn't. I didn't make

1706
01:25:37,120 --> 01:25:38,960
Speaker 1: the final cut. They ended up using someone else. But

1707
01:25:39,000 --> 01:25:42,040
Speaker 1: I still recorded it all and everything check still got

1708
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:44,479
Speaker 1: a check. And the best part was I got a

1709
01:25:44,520 --> 01:25:48,000
Speaker 1: text message from and this only in LA. I got

1710
01:25:48,000 --> 01:25:50,000
Speaker 1: a text message on my phone that says, HI, this

1711
01:25:50,080 --> 01:25:53,080
Speaker 1: is Blah Blah Blah's name, Ben Stiller's assistant.

1712
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 3: Ben would like to go over the lines with you.

1713
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:55,880
Speaker 3: Do you have a moment?

1714
01:25:56,120 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 1: I said, only in Los Angeles, you get a text

1715
01:25:59,000 --> 01:26:02,280
Speaker 1: message like this, I screenshot it. I saved it forever

1716
01:26:02,360 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 1: and I will never forget. On the phone call with

1717
01:26:04,960 --> 01:26:08,679
Speaker 1: Ben Stiller, like I've who am I Rich Demiro speaking

1718
01:26:08,720 --> 01:26:11,240
Speaker 1: with Ben Stiller and he's just sitting there telling me

1719
01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,719
Speaker 1: how he, you know, his thought for like the person

1720
01:26:13,800 --> 01:26:16,320
Speaker 1: and all this stuff. And clearly it didn't work because

1721
01:26:16,400 --> 01:26:19,680
Speaker 1: I didn't I wasn't good enough. But anyway, I just

1722
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 1: thought that was so funny. It's just these la things.

1723
01:26:23,960 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 1: I had another point that I was gonna make and

1724
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:28,639
Speaker 1: now I forgot. But that's okay, you know what, It's

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Speaker 1: all good. Let's see a spectrum I was gonna tell

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01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:36,599
Speaker 1: you about. This Spectrum is raising prices for cable TV

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01:26:36,680 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: and Internet. This of course depends on where you are

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01:26:39,200 --> 01:26:41,960
Speaker 1: on you know how much it's going up. But this

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01:26:42,040 --> 01:26:46,160
Speaker 1: is this is cord Cutter's News reporting that TV prices

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01:26:46,200 --> 01:26:49,960
Speaker 1: are raising by three dollars in certain states. Internet based

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01:26:49,960 --> 01:26:52,479
Speaker 1: prices will increase by three to four dollars depending on

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01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:55,320
Speaker 1: the plan. Cost of renting your cable box will go

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01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 1: up by a dollar a month, and Spectrum says rising

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Speaker 1: programming call that's why they're passing along these increases. So

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Speaker 1: number one, I would check to see if your prices

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01:27:06,760 --> 01:27:09,439
Speaker 1: are going up for ninety nine point nine percent of you,

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01:27:09,439 --> 01:27:11,920
Speaker 1: you're gonna say what can you do. You know, it's

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01:27:11,960 --> 01:27:14,200
Speaker 1: just another price increase, just add it to the list

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01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:16,800
Speaker 1: of all the other things that have gone up. But

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01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:19,760
Speaker 1: if you want to get a little bit more you know,

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01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,280
Speaker 1: angry about this and do something about it, there are

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01:27:24,360 --> 01:27:27,479
Speaker 1: things you can switch to. You can switch to a

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01:27:27,520 --> 01:27:33,040
Speaker 1: streaming service like a DirecTV stream, Fubo, Hulu, Live TV, Filo,

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01:27:33,240 --> 01:27:36,040
Speaker 1: Sling TV, and YouTube TV. Those are all options. The

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01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:40,479
Speaker 1: problem is if you are watching cable TV and you

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01:27:40,640 --> 01:27:43,960
Speaker 1: like cable TV, it's all pretty expensive now. Some of

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01:27:44,000 --> 01:27:47,240
Speaker 1: these smaller services, like a Sling TV or a Filo

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01:27:47,840 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 1: or a Friendly TV, they ditch the sports, they ditch

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01:27:51,240 --> 01:27:53,439
Speaker 1: the news, and you can pay a little bit less.

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01:27:53,479 --> 01:27:55,839
Speaker 1: But if you want stuff like your sports and your news,

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01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:58,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna be paying for it. Like direct TV stream

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01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,200
Speaker 1: is just the same price as having cable YouTube TV

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01:28:01,439 --> 01:28:04,360
Speaker 1: is just the same price. The only slight difference is

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01:28:04,360 --> 01:28:06,680
Speaker 1: that you can kind of pause it and restart your

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01:28:06,720 --> 01:28:10,680
Speaker 1: membership at will versus spectrum. You know, you can't just

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Speaker 1: call them up and say, hey, I want to pause.

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01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,360
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe you can, but I don't think you can.

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01:28:15,400 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: So it's a lot easier to kind of pause and

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01:28:17,560 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: decide when you want to pay for these things versus

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Speaker 1: having a traditional cable company. When it comes to internet,

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01:28:23,320 --> 01:28:26,799
Speaker 1: you can check out five G Home Internet. Verizon, t Mobile,

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01:28:26,840 --> 01:28:30,040
Speaker 1: AT and t All offer five G wireless home Internet.

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01:28:30,360 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 1: That might be a way to save on your internet costs.

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Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the founder of the o

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Speaker 1: co app, which helps the visually impaired safely cross streets.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking

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Speaker 1: tech with you. Recently, I was in Cooper Tino for

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Speaker 1: Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference. While I was there, I spoke

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01:28:56,920 --> 01:29:01,000
Speaker 1: with a developer who's making waves inaccessible technology. Willem van

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01:29:01,040 --> 01:29:04,439
Speaker 1: Demrop is based in Belgium and is co founder of Eyes.

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Speaker 1: They make an app called Oco. This won an Apple

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Speaker 1: Design Award for Inclusivity.

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Speaker 3: OCO. That's Oko uses.

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Speaker 1: AI and the iPhone's camera to help visually impaired people

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Speaker 1: navigate streets and crosswalks safely. In our conversation, Wilhelm shared

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01:29:21,080 --> 01:29:25,560
Speaker 1: insights about this groundbreaking technology and his journey as a developer.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 11: So, basically, the Oco application uses artificial intelligence and a

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Speaker 11: back camera of the phone to recognize the walk and

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01:29:32,439 --> 01:29:34,759
Speaker 11: the don't walk signal for blind and vision impaired people,

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01:29:35,040 --> 01:29:37,240
Speaker 11: and then bring that information back to you with vibrations

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01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:40,280
Speaker 11: and sounds. And then now, especially for dubbed up, we're

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01:29:40,280 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 11: actually launching a completely new version where we're also building

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Speaker 11: up Apple Maps basically and adding more information on that

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Speaker 11: combined with that artificial intelligence, so basically helping blind and

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01:29:51,640 --> 01:29:53,920
Speaker 11: vision impaired people to safely ride from A to B

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Speaker 11: with that pedestrian navigation and also that pedestrian signal detection

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Speaker 11: that we have originally. So it's a whole new, brand

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Speaker 11: new version.

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Speaker 3: Of the app. Oh wow, And what spent What was

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Speaker 3: kind of like the inspiration behind the app?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, So myself and my two co founders were AI

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01:30:09,280 --> 01:30:13,559
Speaker 11: engineers by trade. I used to work on medical computer vision,

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Speaker 11: my co founder autuonnel driving trains, and a third co

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01:30:16,720 --> 01:30:19,479
Speaker 11: founder as well on computer vision AI. And we were

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Speaker 11: talking with a mutual friend of us who is officially impaired,

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Speaker 11: and he told us about the biggest challenges that he

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Speaker 11: had outdoors, and we just figured, well, hey, if a

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Speaker 11: tes i can do it on the highway, why we

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Speaker 11: do it for people on the sidewalk, and then we

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Speaker 11: started building a hecky wearable device with lots of wires

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01:30:35,880 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 11: sticking out of it a camera. But we quickly realized

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Speaker 11: if we want to make it affordable and scalable so

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Speaker 11: that it works for everyone, we need to be able

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Speaker 11: to optimize the AI so that it runs locally on

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Speaker 11: the phone that they already own. And so the moment

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Speaker 11: that we were able to do that, we could our

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Speaker 11: jobs and started full time.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 1: And the beauty of the app is the simplicity of

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Speaker 1: it that it just uses the software and sensors on

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Speaker 1: the iPhone, and so with that simplicity, it's pretty incredible

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Speaker 1: what it's been able to do.

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Speaker 3: What has been the reaction to this app, It's.

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Speaker 11: Been pretty pretty amazing so far.

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Speaker 3: It's really cool.

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Speaker 11: For example, I have this one user who told me,

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Speaker 11: like beforehand, I used to not be able to reach

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01:31:16,600 --> 01:31:19,040
Speaker 11: this farmer's market in this part of town. It was

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01:31:19,080 --> 01:31:21,960
Speaker 11: really like a lucked out zone, almost like in a

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Speaker 11: video game. And now because of your app, I just

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Speaker 11: am able to unlock this part of town, go to

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Speaker 11: the farmer's market, and are able to reach all of

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Speaker 11: those destinations. Other people just say without the app, I

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Speaker 11: can't cross anymore. So it's really amazing to see that

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Speaker 11: we want to provide you with so much more information

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Speaker 11: and we want to help you create that independence sometimes.

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Speaker 11: Of course, it's so crucial to find that it can

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01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:49,840
Speaker 11: help at these super difficult intersections and just make it

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Speaker 11: so much easier for some people.

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Speaker 1: So what goes into programming an app like this to

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Speaker 1: work across you know, different languages, different places, you know,

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Speaker 1: different types of walk signals?

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Speaker 3: How do you do all that? Yeah, so quite a lot.

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Speaker 11: Although it's quite simple, it's a very difficult application to build.

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Speaker 11: It's building on computer vision, and it needs to be

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Speaker 11: super stable and needs to make sure, of course that

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Speaker 11: it's safe to use. So we start out by capturing

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01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:21,000
Speaker 11: a lot of data ourselves. So that's the rain, the sun, snow,

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01:32:21,160 --> 01:32:24,479
Speaker 11: all icy conditions, every scenario that you can imagine, and

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01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:26,680
Speaker 11: we build an AI model based on that, and then

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01:32:26,720 --> 01:32:28,839
Speaker 11: we optimize it so that it runs on the devices

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01:32:28,840 --> 01:32:32,760
Speaker 11: that they already own. Of course, the entire world has

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Speaker 11: pretty similar production signals except for the US and ken

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Speaker 11: really yeah, so that's when when we started expanding here.

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Speaker 11: We needed to travel a bit here to capture a

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Speaker 11: lot of data here. To make sure that the algorithm

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Speaker 11: is very powerful here as well. And then now, of

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Speaker 11: course as people are using it, we're constantly gathering imaging

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Speaker 11: information to maintain that algorithm to make sure that it

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Speaker 11: stays performing.

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Speaker 1: What's different about the US with respect to our signals.

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Speaker 11: Here in the US it's a red hand which is

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Speaker 11: the don't walk signal, and then a white walking man

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Speaker 11: which is a walk signal. In Europe, Japan or similar places,

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Speaker 11: it's just like a red guy which is don't walk,

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Speaker 11: and then a green walking man which is the walk signal,

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Speaker 11: and they're on top of each other. Is instead of

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Speaker 11: one square pedession signal, So it's just like a whole

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Speaker 11: different few and different colors, which the AI needs to.

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Speaker 3: Learn of course, and how accurate is the app.

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Speaker 11: We've helped cross more than three million streets now we

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01:33:29,520 --> 01:33:32,599
Speaker 11: haven't had any complaints, so we know that there's of course,

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Speaker 11: there's so many safety buffers in place to make sure

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Speaker 11: that it's not saying that wrong pedession signal. But very

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Speaker 11: important is that it's another tool in the toolbox for

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Speaker 11: so many binea visually impaired people. They are very independent,

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Speaker 11: then they have so many tools at their disposal.

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Speaker 3: We're just trying to bring back more information to the user.

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Speaker 3: So this is WWDC.

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Speaker 1: This is where developers come to kind of learn about

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Speaker 1: the tools available to them. So what developer tools are

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Speaker 1: you taking advantage of on the iPhone that enables this app?

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Speaker 11: So of course the COREML is a big aspect of

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Speaker 11: it is that the possibility to run complex AI locally

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01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:10,040
Speaker 11: on the device that they already own. But now of

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Speaker 11: course we're building on met Kit, but also voiceover and

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Speaker 11: dynamic typing. Blindness is a spectrum, so that means that

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Speaker 11: some people want to see the phone and have it

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01:34:19,000 --> 01:34:23,439
Speaker 11: super and large information, but we are able to make

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Speaker 11: sure that the app really supports all that kind of information,

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Speaker 11: all that sooming and I've been and stuff.

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Speaker 3: How long has this journey been?

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Speaker 11: Right now, we're three years old, so we're really quite

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Speaker 11: a young underdog, still a small team, but we're growing

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Speaker 11: fast and where we get so many demands to expand

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Speaker 11: to so many countries as soon as possible.

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Speaker 3: So it's going going great.

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Speaker 1: And what's been kind of the biggest challenge for you

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Speaker 1: along the way, is it just figuring out all these

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Speaker 1: different signals and all the different variables that go into

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Speaker 1: this I would.

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Speaker 11: Say for us, the biggest challenge is expanding as soon

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Speaker 11: as possible because there's so much demand for the app

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Speaker 11: and we need to be able to to keep up

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Speaker 11: with our resources to expand into those different areas.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, just.

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Speaker 11: Going as fast as possible is I think one of

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Speaker 11: the biggest challenges.

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Speaker 1: So this app is it do you monetize this app?

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01:35:12,640 --> 01:35:13,679
Speaker 1: How is that going to work?

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Speaker 11: It's started out by wanting to help out our visually

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Speaker 11: impaired friend, and we want to keep it for free

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01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:22,439
Speaker 11: for the end user. It's similar to kind of like

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01:35:22,479 --> 01:35:27,080
Speaker 11: a ways model, where you get a very interesting anonymized

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Speaker 11: data that you can license to third parties to make

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Speaker 11: sure that the stays for free for the end user.

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Speaker 11: But there is for example, like bigger companies, they can

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Speaker 11: have very very useful information extracted out of the images

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Speaker 11: that we capture, and that way you can maintain for example,

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Speaker 11: your Google Maps, Apple Maps, and that way you can.

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Speaker 3: Keep the application for free for the end user. And

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Speaker 3: what advice do you have to someone that has an

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01:35:51,600 --> 01:35:53,320
Speaker 3: idea for an app? Build it?

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Speaker 11: There's there's so many great ideas out there. There's always

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01:35:56,360 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 11: someone being hesitant, like should I build it? Should I

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01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:03,280
Speaker 11: try it. As long as you one percent miss every

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01:36:03,360 --> 01:36:05,200
Speaker 11: chance that you don't take, so just try it, go

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Speaker 11: for it. I would have never imagined that after three

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01:36:07,960 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 11: years I would be get dubbed up, which is a

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01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:13,799
Speaker 11: livelong dream, and now I'm here, so it's super amazing.

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Speaker 3: How do you find the app?

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01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:16,800
Speaker 11: Just search for Oco in the app Store and then

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01:36:16,840 --> 01:36:19,719
Speaker 11: you'll find Oco Accessible maps, accessible navigation.

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01:36:20,000 --> 01:36:21,320
Speaker 3: And who do you think should download it?

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01:36:21,520 --> 01:36:25,360
Speaker 11: I think everyone that knows someone who's bindo vision impaired

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01:36:25,360 --> 01:36:27,320
Speaker 11: can download it, try it out so that they can

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Speaker 11: recommend it. Of course, if someone is blind and vision

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Speaker 11: impaired themselves, they can try it out and have fun

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Speaker 11: with it. Down the line, we're actually expanding to people

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Speaker 11: with a mobility disability as well, because we find that

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Speaker 11: there's so much information missing on accessible intersection and accessible

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Speaker 11: routing that we want to help answer some of those

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Speaker 11: questions as well. So down the line will be expanding

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Speaker 11: to helping the one in six Americans with a mobility

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Speaker 11: disability as well.

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Speaker 1: That was my conversation with Willem van Demurop, co founder

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Speaker 1: of Oco, an app that's revolutionizing street navigation for the

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Speaker 1: visually impaired. It's truly inspiring to see how developers like

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Speaker 1: this are using AI and smartphone technology to create more

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Speaker 1: inclusive experiences.

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Speaker 3: Right now, the app is only available for the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: You can find it by searching Oko on the app store.

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Speaker 3: I'll put a link on my website.

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Speaker 1: Just go to rich on Tech dot tv and hit

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Speaker 1: the light bulb at the top of the page to

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Speaker 1: find it.

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Speaker 3: More rich on Tech coming your way right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show

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Speaker 1: richon Tech dot tv. Can follow me online at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. A couple more items before we get to

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Speaker 1: the feedback. First off, Apple Launches worked with Google to

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Speaker 1: launch a tool where you can now transfer your Google

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Speaker 1: Photos directly to iCloud Photos. This is part of their

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Speaker 1: data transfer project. This is an open source initiative. A

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Speaker 1: lot of the big tech companies are very slowly doing this,

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Speaker 1: but you know they're trying to make it so that

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Speaker 1: you have data portability between these companies.

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Speaker 3: It is a very slow process. It's very limited, but

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Speaker 3: you know we're seeing some progress. But if you have

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Speaker 3: Google Photos, you can now transfer your collection directly to

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Speaker 3: iCloud photos.

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Speaker 1: Without downloading it first. It will do it on the

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Speaker 1: back end for you. Process may take several hours to

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Speaker 1: a few days. Your photos and videos are not deleted

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Speaker 1: from Google Photos after the transfer. So the nice thing

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Speaker 1: is if you wanted to sort of back up your

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Speaker 1: Google Photos to iCloud, maybe you have some extra storage

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Speaker 1: and you just want your photos in two places, which

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Speaker 1: you should have, this is one way of doing it.

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Speaker 1: So again, apples are the new tool to transfer Google

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Speaker 1: Photos to iCloud photos and also Google Maps introducing a

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Speaker 1: speedometer and speed limits on the iPhone app. So this

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Speaker 1: has been available and Android for a long time. If

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Speaker 1: you're driving with Google Maps, you'll see in the lower

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Speaker 1: left hand corner, it shows the speed limit for the road,

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Speaker 1: but right next to it now on iPhone is going

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Speaker 1: to show the speed that you're going. Yes, it's a

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Speaker 1: little scary because now someone else is tracking your speed.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the privacy policy is with that information.

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Speaker 1: Google says it's informational only. You should actually mostly rely

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Speaker 1: on your car's actual spinometer, and if you want to

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Speaker 1: turn it off, you can go into Google Map settings

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Speaker 1: under navigation driving options. The update is to help iPhone

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Speaker 1: users avoid speeding tickets. The ironic part is that Uber

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Speaker 1: has a very similar feature for the Uber drivers, and

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Speaker 1: I always get a kick out of watching them go

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Speaker 1: faster than the speed limit signed and it's like in

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Speaker 1: red and it's flashing and they're just they don't care.

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Speaker 1: Kind of a funny story.

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Speaker 3: My mother in law.

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Speaker 1: We were out in Oregon last weekend for a wedding

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Speaker 1: and my mother in law says, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: my Apple Watch, I'm not getting notifications on it anymore. Said, huh,

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Speaker 1: let me check it out. Let me just see if

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Speaker 1: it's connected to your phone. So she gives me a

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Speaker 1: watch and I say, this is not connected to your

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Speaker 1: phone at all. When was the last time you got

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Speaker 1: a notification on your Apple Watch. I don't know, a

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Speaker 1: year ago. Was that when you got your new phone. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: well you never connected the Apple Watch to your new phone.

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Speaker 1: So it is a whole I I just got to

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Speaker 1: kick out of that, and it's it's the reason why

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Speaker 1: I do this show, because to me, it's a no

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Speaker 1: brainer that you know, if I'm not getting a notification

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Speaker 1: on my watch, I'm troubleshooting. For the average person, it's

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Speaker 1: taking them a year to figure this stuff out. And

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Speaker 1: they didn't even realize. So my mother in law is

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Speaker 1: a very smart person. It just goes to show that

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Speaker 1: technology is tricky. And I just got a good laugh

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Speaker 1: out of that because I said, have you gotten any notifications?

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Speaker 1: She said she wasn't getting her text. I said, have

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Speaker 1: you gotten any notifications? No, Well that's because your phone

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Speaker 1: is literally not connected to this watch. So I told

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Speaker 1: her she had to format the watch and reconnect it

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Speaker 1: to the new phone. Time for the feedback segment. This

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Speaker 1: is your feedback plus the mail bag. These are the emails,

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Speaker 1: the comments, and the questions I get from you. If

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01:40:54,360 --> 01:40:56,160
Speaker 1: you want to submit yours, go to Rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv hit contact. I was talking about the TikTok

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Speaker 1: ban last week at the VidCon conference, Frank writes in

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Speaker 1: I think people should understand the reason for the TikTok ban.

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Speaker 1: One could argue that content is the reason. But if

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Speaker 1: that were the case, Apple and Google could have banned

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Speaker 1: the app from their stores or set guidelines, which didn't happen.

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Speaker 1: The real issue what are the laws governing TikTok to

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Speaker 1: protect privacy and who can access it? The preservation of

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01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:23,519
Speaker 1: privacy should be dealt with, but where's the law for

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Speaker 1: that banning TikTok is just cough medicine for a cough

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Speaker 1: caused by severe Capitol Hill pneumonia. That's not dealing with

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Speaker 1: the underlying issue.

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Speaker 3: Wow. I like the analogy.

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Speaker 1: I talked to a friend who explained how the laws

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Speaker 1: in China work, and I thought it to be true

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Speaker 1: from the US media. What I thought to be true

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Speaker 1: from the US media is not accurate. At one time

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Speaker 1: I agreed with the ban. Now I disagree. The government

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Speaker 1: should pass legislation that deals with the true issues. But

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Speaker 1: the real issue here is that it's more political at

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Speaker 1: this point and part of the posturing on both sides

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Speaker 1: for the election. That is very true, because let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: TikTok is not collecting any more data than any other

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Speaker 1: app on your phone. Somehow TikTok is a risk and

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Speaker 1: all the other apps are not.

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Speaker 3: Hmm. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Tony from Syracuse, New York writes in Rich, I love

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Speaker 1: your show. I was listening and heard the call about

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Speaker 1: a spectrum router that would not connect devices properly. Many ISPs,

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Speaker 1: including Verizon, use a feature called SUN self Organizing Network

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Speaker 1: that decides which network two point four or five to

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Speaker 1: connect devices too While it works okay for some, it's

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Speaker 1: often a problem for printers, doorbells, cameras, and thermostats. The

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Speaker 1: best solution I've found is to turn this feature off

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Speaker 1: all together. You usually need to rename the five G

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Speaker 1: network to distinguish it, then manually disconnect problematic device. Oh,

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Speaker 1: manually connect problematic devices to the two point four network.

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Speaker 1: You can typically do this to the router's login page.

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Speaker 1: I hope that helps. It's great to listen to common

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Speaker 1: tech problems and keep up to date. Plus US tech

2063
01:42:49,040 --> 01:42:52,800
Speaker 1: nerds can't help but absorb as much information as we can.

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Speaker 1: Another email about the two point four versus five Dylan

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Speaker 1: from MESA, Arizona rights in regarding the person who had

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Speaker 1: Cox or some other ISP with a router on those

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Speaker 1: two point four and five gigahertz bands and their printer

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Speaker 1: no longer worked. I found that some two point four

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01:43:08,560 --> 01:43:13,200
Speaker 1: gigahertz devices get confused, and if there's the networks have

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Speaker 1: the same SSID. The workaround is to give each band

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Speaker 1: a different name. For instance, my two point four is

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Speaker 1: named mcwireless and my five G is named Mcwireless Fast.

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Speaker 1: All the devices still see each other. I segment my

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01:43:27,320 --> 01:43:30,400
Speaker 1: WiFi putting white bandwidth hogs like smart TVs on the

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Speaker 1: fast network while smart appliances, bulbs and switches are on

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Speaker 1: the two point four.

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Speaker 3: The setup works fine for me.

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Speaker 1: Ken writes in feedback on the gig Sky phone service

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Speaker 1: unlimited Europlan fifty dollars. I went to Paris and Montpellier

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Speaker 1: in France, London and the UK. I probably butchered that

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01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:55,960
Speaker 1: name and Venice in Italy. Like I said, Mercy in

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Speaker 1: France to the guy making my omelet in the morning,

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01:43:58,479 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 1: I was like Mercy, he goes, you mean Merselle and

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01:44:01,200 --> 01:44:03,160
Speaker 1: I was like, ah, is that how you say? I'm

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01:44:03,240 --> 01:44:07,120
Speaker 1: so mad at that stuff. I was like, Mercy, No,

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Speaker 1: it's not Mercy bonjoor. It worked for the most part

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Speaker 1: using iPhone eleven with good tech support via phone, call

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Speaker 1: and email. There was an outage in Venice, but now

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Speaker 1: it's working. Thanks for talking about it on the radio show. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I tried gig sky while I was over there and

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Speaker 1: it did work just fine.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I will add that to my recommendations.

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Speaker 1: Michael from Florida writes in on your June show, you

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01:44:30,600 --> 01:44:33,559
Speaker 1: talked about getting data while traveling internationally. I bought a

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01:44:33,640 --> 01:44:36,200
Speaker 1: Soulless hot Spot about six months ago on sale for

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01:44:36,200 --> 01:44:39,280
Speaker 1: one hundred bucks. It comes with a lifetime one gigabyte

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Speaker 1: a month international service at no cost. I've used it

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01:44:42,000 --> 01:44:44,759
Speaker 1: here in the US, Canada, and Jamaica. You can purchase

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01:44:44,800 --> 01:44:47,519
Speaker 1: additional data, which never expires. For me, it was the

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01:44:47,600 --> 01:44:50,439
Speaker 1: obvious choice for travel. I use WhatsApp to communicate, so

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01:44:50,520 --> 01:44:53,800
Speaker 1: all I need is the data. Yes, I did talk

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Speaker 1: about the Solace. I used that when I was in Berlin.

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Speaker 1: I tested it and it worked great. I had the

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Speaker 1: five G model, which I think is more expensive than

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01:45:00,960 --> 01:45:03,000
Speaker 1: the one you got. But yes, soulis. If you want

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01:45:03,000 --> 01:45:05,519
Speaker 1: your own hot spot, it's a great way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Dan from Berkeley writes in Hey Rich, a few weeks ago,

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Speaker 1: I heard you referenced Yakima, Washington. I did a double

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Speaker 1: take when you said that. I was the principal at

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Speaker 1: a high school and used to watch you on k NDO.

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Speaker 1: You even covered our high school while you were up here.

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Speaker 1: Two thousand was a big year as we moved to

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Speaker 1: our new home in September. It's always fun to recognize

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Speaker 1: the names of people who are on TV. During my

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Speaker 1: two stints in Yakima, keep up the great work on.

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Speaker 3: The radio show.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, bringing back memories can doo my first

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Speaker 1: job on TV in the middle of Washington State, Yakima, Washington.

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Speaker 1: Let's see one more here. Brian from Watsonville writes in Rich,

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Speaker 1: love the show. You're doing a terrific job. My two

2121
01:45:45,240 --> 01:45:47,800
Speaker 1: cents regarding Linux, no need to discuss it. It's great

2122
01:45:47,840 --> 01:45:49,720
Speaker 1: for those who use it, But I've been the tech

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01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:52,160
Speaker 1: guy for my family and workplace for years and I've

2124
01:45:52,200 --> 01:45:54,040
Speaker 1: never used it. None of the tech wizards I know

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01:45:54,520 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 1: use it either. I appreciate that Leo loves it and

2126
01:45:57,280 --> 01:45:59,680
Speaker 1: talked about it every week, but you only have so

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01:45:59,760 --> 01:46:02,240
Speaker 1: much time with us. Every minute is precious and it's

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01:46:02,280 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 1: best spent talking about iOS, Android, Mac and PC. As

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Speaker 1: my dad would say, Linux is the future of computing

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01:46:09,160 --> 01:46:10,360
Speaker 1: and it always will be.

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Speaker 3: Again, I'm not a hater. Linux works great for everybody.

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Speaker 1: Great, it's just not what I need help with Your

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01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:19,080
Speaker 1: tips on iOS and Mac have really helped me. Thank you, Brian.

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Speaker 1: That's sort of exactly what I think. That's gonna do

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Speaker 1: it for this episode of the show. You can find

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Speaker 1: links to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go

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01:46:26,240 --> 01:46:28,720
Speaker 1: to Rich on tech dot TV. Once you're there, just

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01:46:28,800 --> 01:46:31,839
Speaker 1: hit the light bulb or after the show is posted

2139
01:46:31,840 --> 01:46:34,000
Speaker 1: with the podcast, you can listen to it again and

2140
01:46:34,120 --> 01:46:36,599
Speaker 1: also get the links there. You can find me on

2141
01:46:36,680 --> 01:46:38,920
Speaker 1: social media. I am at Rich on Tech. Thanks so

2142
01:46:39,000 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 1: much for listening. There are so many ways you can

2143
01:46:40,760 --> 01:46:43,840
Speaker 1: spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right

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01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:48,960
Speaker 1: here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible, Bobo, Kim.

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01:46:48,880 --> 01:46:50,280
Speaker 3: The rest of the crew. Do we have more of

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01:46:50,320 --> 01:46:52,479
Speaker 3: a crew? I don't think so. My name is Rich Demiro.

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Speaker 3: I'll talk to you real soon.