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Speaker 1: I know, the holidays are coming up and everyone's busy.

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Speaker 4: LG?

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Speaker 2: A brand new one, just a couple of months old,

438
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Speaker 2: and the one before then was a dumb TV. Okay,

439
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Speaker 2: it just didn't have any kind of Is there any

440
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Speaker 2: type of cake ability like that at all?

441
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think if there is a way. Have

442
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Speaker 1: you looked in all the settings?

443
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Speaker 2: Yes? And I went through it and I couldn't find

444
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Speaker 2: where it said play both of them. And the sound

445
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Speaker 2: quality coming out of the bluetooth wasn't that great going

446
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Speaker 2: to my shocks, you know, my earbuds right right. And

447
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Speaker 2: I was wondering if they sold something like a little

448
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Speaker 2: box that would you know, make it transmit both ways

449
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Speaker 2: or something like that, or a sound bar that would

450
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Speaker 2: play the music through the sound bar and through the bluetooth.

451
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Speaker 1: Yeah, That's That's what I'm thinking, is you might need

452
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Speaker 1: some third party hardware here that basically takes the audio

453
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Speaker 1: from the TV, like maybe use like the optical output

454
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Speaker 1: or some sort of output, and then it brings it

455
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Speaker 1: into another device and then that device will do both

456
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Speaker 1: a speaker. I mean, look, at the end of the day,

457
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Speaker 1: there are ways of doing this. It's just how much

458
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Speaker 1: effort do you want to put into it and how

459
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Speaker 1: much you want to spend to do it. Like you

460
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Speaker 1: can obviously route audio in a million different ways. You know,

461
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Speaker 1: you can get an audio mixing board and do this

462
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Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. But it's like, you know, how much

463
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Speaker 1: effort do you want to put in how tough do

464
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Speaker 1: you want it to be when you try on your

465
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Speaker 1: TV to get this sound in two different places? And

466
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Speaker 1: is it going to two different places every time? Is

467
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Speaker 1: it just sometimes? But I'd have to look at the

468
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Speaker 1: equipment that you'd need. I'm looking online to see if

469
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Speaker 1: there's any you know, if there's anything that like would

470
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Speaker 1: work here. It's there's an article I'm looking at that

471
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Speaker 1: is using some sort of like a transmitter with a

472
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Speaker 1: pass through functionality, and so that transmitter would transmit to

473
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Speaker 1: both the headphones and then the sound system and you

474
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Speaker 1: would basically set up with a splitter to get that

475
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Speaker 1: audio to both places. But then you know, there's a

476
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Speaker 1: lot of things. It's it's kind of involved. So I

477
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Speaker 1: have to look at this and see I would I

478
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Speaker 1: would take another look. I'm also looking at lgtvs, and

479
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Speaker 1: there the simultaneous use of the sound out, and some

480
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Speaker 1: articles do say that you're able to do both at

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Speaker 1: the same time. There's it says some of them say

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Speaker 1: there's an option for TV speaker plus headphones. But I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, I don't have an LGTV in front

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Speaker 1: of me, so I can't verify that. So I'm looking

485
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Speaker 1: I'm looking under Okay. So it's saying that's it could

486
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Speaker 1: be under the accessibility settings.

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Speaker 3: So have you looked under those?

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Speaker 2: I went through most of the stuff when I first

489
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Speaker 2: set up the television, trying to figure out how to

490
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Speaker 2: do it, and yeah, the only thing I could do

491
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Speaker 2: is get it to play you or I figured it

492
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Speaker 2: would be in a and another piece of equipment that

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Speaker 2: would do the job. They used to advertise something like

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Speaker 2: that on TV a hundred years ago.

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Speaker 3: Or the TV years.

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Speaker 4: The guy.

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Speaker 1: Could be yeah, yeah, I mean that's that. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at this.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So here's uh, okay, so you've got TV ears, I'm

501
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Speaker 1: looking at those to see what their system does. So

502
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Speaker 1: digital connectivity in room technology, so that means only works

503
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Speaker 1: in the room, and let's see doctors recommend TV ears

504
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Speaker 1: digital comes with both.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it works with digital.

506
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Speaker 1: So here's the question, can you set great volume control

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Speaker 1: from TV? So it looks so it looks like they

508
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Speaker 1: have one person wearing these and the other person listening

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Speaker 1: to the TV. So this might be something you can

510
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Speaker 1: look into because it looks like it comes a little transmitter,

511
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Speaker 1: let's see. But I'm trying to see if you can

512
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Speaker 1: both listen at the same time. That's the thing, Okay, Now,

513
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Speaker 1: see tv ars allows you to move around, mute the

514
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Speaker 1: television and delivers a sound directly to your ears without interruption.

515
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Speaker 1: But you want both at the same time. So yeah,

516
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Speaker 1: So anyway, I'd have to look into this more, but

517
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Speaker 1: it sounds like something that can be done. It's just

518
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Speaker 1: a matter of the equipment you need, and I'd have

519
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Speaker 1: to look at the equipment to recommend.

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Speaker 3: But it's a good question. Mark.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to address it on the

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Speaker 1: next show. But keep, you know, keep looking at those

523
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Speaker 1: settings and see if they're on there and see if

524
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Speaker 1: it's something that you might be able to set up

525
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Speaker 1: on this TV without any extra equipment. But it is

526
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Speaker 1: one of those things that I get it you know,

527
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Speaker 1: someone wants to listen to the speakers and you want

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Speaker 1: to listen to the headphones. It makes sense, right, and

529
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Speaker 1: it's it's doable. It's just a little bit trickier than

530
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Speaker 1: you know than at first glance. Thanks for the call today, Mark.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thank you for your help.

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Speaker 8: All right.

534
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Speaker 1: Yes, one of those things where you know, not everything

535
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Speaker 1: is going to be as straightforward as just setting it

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Speaker 1: up and going into the settings and finding that. But

537
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Speaker 1: it's it's you know, there's different people that need different

538
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,919
Speaker 1: setups and it can be done. Believe me, it can

539
00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:28,400
Speaker 1: always be done. It's just like I said, how tricky

540
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Speaker 1: do you want it? Do you want this situation to be?

541
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Speaker 1: You know, Mark, he's still there?

542
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Speaker 9: You are?

543
00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:37,160
Speaker 6: Okay?

544
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Speaker 3: All right?

545
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Speaker 1: So this happened a couple of weeks ago. Clearly the

546
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Speaker 1: mute button on my phone is not working. How ironic

547
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Speaker 1: in this, you know, as a question like this, But

548
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Speaker 1: there's a button. Okay, let's see now if I do that.

549
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Speaker 1: Are you still there?

550
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Speaker 2: Mark?

551
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Speaker 1: Okay, he's still there? This is hilarious. Okay, So this

552
00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: was happening a couple of weeks ago. Are you still

553
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:55,880
Speaker 1: there now?

554
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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh? Okay, let's try this out. Okay, now

555
00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:08,560
Speaker 3: how about now? Oh now he's gone? How mean? Okay?

556
00:26:08,840 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 3: So anyway, now things change?

557
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Speaker 10: Is that what you wanted to do or you wanted

558
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Speaker 10: to put him more hold?

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Speaker 1: I usually like to put people on hold, so it's

560
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Speaker 1: not just an abrupt like dial tone because then they

561
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Speaker 1: can hear me. All right, that's the one above it. Okay,

562
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,479
Speaker 1: well it's just they're not working right now. But anyway,

563
00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 1: maybe it's Yeah. Anyway, Bobo, since you're on the mic,

564
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Speaker 1: do we have a minute to talk?

565
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Speaker 5: Sure?

566
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Speaker 1: Okay, So first off, welcome back, congratulations.

567
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Speaker 10: Thank you.

568
00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: You have a new baby boy. Tell us about tell

569
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Speaker 1: us his name? Can you want?

570
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Speaker 11: His name is Casein. I will tell you his name.

571
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Speaker 11: His name is Casein. He is a month and a half.

572
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Speaker 3: And how's it going?

573
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Speaker 5: It is?

574
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Speaker 11: It is an adjustment after twenty one years of a

575
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Speaker 11: break from baby life.

576
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Speaker 10: It's an adjustment. But I'm incredibly happy.

577
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Speaker 11: He's a handsome little kid doing all the things that

578
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Speaker 11: he needs to do, you know, cry for us to

579
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 11: serve him when he needs So it's an amazing experience.

580
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Speaker 10: Man, I'm happy.

581
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Speaker 3: And how's your wife doing.

582
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Speaker 11: She's great, she's amazing, she's still recovering. But she's at

583
00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:13,360
Speaker 11: the house, you know, with him.

584
00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:14,400
Speaker 10: Well, I'm here.

585
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,879
Speaker 1: With you, so you're in the thick of it, changing diapers,

586
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: making bottles, making up in the middle of the night,

587
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:21,119
Speaker 1: all that good stuff.

588
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 10: Not sleeping a solid four hours without him fussing.

589
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Speaker 3: Yeah, are you using any technology TV?

590
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 11: Because he likes the lights, so when the TV's on,

591
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,119
Speaker 11: especially anime for some reason, heating it, maybe because it's me.

592
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:37,160
Speaker 11: If he sees cartoons on TV, he just locks in

593
00:27:37,240 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 11: and he's just like.

594
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: Oh, look, colors and stuff. Yeah, Oh my gosh, I

595
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:45,199
Speaker 1: remember those days. Bubble guppies and Mickey Mouse play Clubhouse.

596
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Speaker 3: That was it.

597
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Speaker 11: Now, I will say the phone that you gave him,

598
00:27:48,520 --> 00:27:50,800
Speaker 11: he saw it and won't stop looking at it.

599
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 10: But he doesn't grasp of holding yet.

600
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Speaker 11: So I'm waiting for him to understand how to hold

601
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Speaker 11: something so I can give it to him and see

602
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Speaker 11: what he does with it.

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Speaker 1: I gave Bobo Baby's first cell phone. Yeah, so it's

604
00:28:02,760 --> 00:28:05,280
Speaker 1: not a real cell phone. No, I'm not that crazy,

605
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,119
Speaker 1: but here was fun. All right, Well, congratulations, I know

606
00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: you're thankful this holiday season. Maybe first Christmas is going

607
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Speaker 1: to be very fun. Eighty to eight rich one oh

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. That's the phone line to call if you

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Speaker 1: want to get in. Let's do a question from We

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Speaker 1: got a very quick Okay, let's do a question from.

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Speaker 1: Patricia wrote in from whole Massachusetts. I donated to a

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Speaker 1: political organization during the last election cycle. It's ever since

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Speaker 1: it's been a total nightmare. I'm getting at least fifty

615
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Speaker 1: texts a day from them. I even tried paying a

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Speaker 1: service to help scrub my information that turned out to

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Speaker 1: be a fraud. It's reached the point of harassment. I

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Speaker 1: only contributed once in twenty twenty four. Now I can't

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Speaker 1: get off their list. Is there a way to make

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Speaker 1: these stop? Patricia? The number one way is to reply

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Speaker 1: stop to the messages. If it is a legitimate organization,

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Speaker 1: this is a law where they have to honor that

623
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Speaker 1: opt out request. So try responding stop and if you

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Speaker 1: get an automated message back, that is a good sign.

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Speaker 1: If you're not getting automated messages back immediately, that means

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Speaker 1: that this is much scammier and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a lot tougher to stop these. So you might need

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one more rich on Tech after

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Speaker 1: this welcome back to rich on Tech. Nick is thankful

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Speaker 1: for his family, close friends, his cat Zoe, and his health.

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Speaker 1: Connie wrote in to say she's thankful for her son,

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Speaker 1: her job and waking up each day. That's a good one.

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Speaker 1: And Noel is thankful for her family and for another day.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to submit what you are thankful for,

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Speaker 1: just go to my Instagram at rich on Tech Larry

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Speaker 1: and San Clement. He says he might have a solution

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Speaker 1: for the headset issue.

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Speaker 3: What is it?

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Speaker 12: Hi, rich Hey, I have the exact same problem, and

643
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Speaker 12: I saw with a product called a vent tree Oprah

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Speaker 12: a Vaudree.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's the website I was on. Okay, that's the

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Speaker 1: one that they were They were explaining how to do this. Okay,

647
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Speaker 1: So it's how much is this product?

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Speaker 12: It's not cheap, it's in the one hundred and fifty

649
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Speaker 12: to two hundred bucks, but it works perfectly. Because I'm

650
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Speaker 12: my hearing's not great and my wife hates it when

651
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Speaker 12: this thing gets turned up. So the audio input goes

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Speaker 12: into this device. It's then then to the to the

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Speaker 12: headset that that volume is controllable. Then there's a pass

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Speaker 12: through that goes from the device into the sound bar,

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Speaker 12: and Marcia can control hers independently of my headset. It

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Speaker 12: works beautifully, Okay.

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Speaker 1: And what's the what's the name of the PRODUCTY And

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Speaker 1: I see the I see the website.

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Speaker 12: I the last time I bought it was called Opera

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Speaker 12: Opera Music Opera.

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Speaker 3: Hmm, okay, I'm looking.

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Speaker 12: At they have five or six different kinds.

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Speaker 9: Uh.

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Speaker 12: Some of them are just devices, some are devices plus headsets.

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Speaker 12: But they it worked like arm.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so, but the website is a vantry dot com.

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Speaker 1: I'll link it up on our website. And yes, they

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Speaker 1: seem to have almost all of the products for this

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Speaker 1: very solution. Like they they just have a million different ways.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, it's not just for consumers. They've

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Speaker 1: got like professional they're just basically like an audio solutions company.

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Speaker 3: And so they've got a whole bunch of stuff.

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Speaker 12: And and I went through exactly what you were talking about.

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Speaker 12: I tried, oh, multiple tuners, I tried different uh, you know,

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Speaker 12: all kinds of things and one of the issues is

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Speaker 12: you need something that is low latency, so that it's

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Speaker 12: the lip sync is.

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, and that's the thing.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, Aventre uses this technology called something like low latency,

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Speaker 12: so you know, the lip sinc Is exact for both

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Speaker 12: me and my wife. It's it's and it's it also

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Speaker 12: has long range, right, you know, most Bluetooth is like

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Speaker 12: thirty three feet. This thing can go two hundred two, okay.

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Speaker 1: And right on their website it says frequently asked questions,

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Speaker 1: can my TV speakers work at the same time?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Over Oh interesting, Over seventy percent of TVs allow simultaneous

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Speaker 1: headphone and speaker output.

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Speaker 3: That's interesting. But yeah, you're right, you need the latency.

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Speaker 1: But this is like, like you said, this is a

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Speaker 1: company that is focused fully on these kind of solutions

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Speaker 1: for what Mark was talking about.

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Speaker 3: So I'm going to link this up on the website.

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Speaker 12: Right, And and I did look at the the TV ears,

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Speaker 12: but that's very low quality. That's not even SD quality.

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Speaker 12: This stuff is sort of HD quality. I mean you

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Speaker 12: really get a very very nice found the note and

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Speaker 12: the they're over the here, so it cuts out you know,

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Speaker 12: ambient noise in the in the literal. I mean it's

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Speaker 12: the first solution.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: Well, I love to hear from someone that actually is

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Speaker 1: using it. So thanks for that, Larry, appreciate it. How

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Speaker 1: is uh San Clementy today?

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Speaker 3: Was it foggy in the morning a little bit?

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Speaker 12: But it's beautiful. We're living the beautiful life. So I

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Speaker 12: called you once before from Macula and we moved here

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Speaker 12: and we're just couldn't be more than life.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it is a It is a beautiful area.

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Speaker 1: I went to a wedding there once and uh, actually

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Speaker 1: there's a restaurant there south of Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Have you heard of it?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 12: Yeah, we go to there to go there and his

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Speaker 12: original restaurant Nick all the time.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so he's got Nixon south of Knicks. And I

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Speaker 1: like the butter cake there. That that stuff is. Oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, that is some good good stuff.

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Speaker 12: Great well, Chris, thank you so much. I listen every weekend.

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Speaker 12: Love all of your advice. Go through the newsletter. I mean,

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Speaker 12: I'm all in.

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Speaker 3: All right, Well, I love to hear it. Larry, thank you.

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Speaker 3: Have a happy holiday.

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Speaker 12: Okay, you do the thing, take care, thank you?

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Speaker 1: All right, there you have it, all right, I'll put

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Speaker 1: that on the website of Van Tree A V A

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Speaker 1: N T R EE. And yeah, they've they have all

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Speaker 1: kinds of I mean there's even like a that they

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Speaker 1: got an airplane adapter. I mean they've got everything so

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Speaker 1: long range adapter, they've they've got so many accessorieson it

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Speaker 1: looks like this is a company that sort of engineered

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Speaker 1: all of this stuff to solve the problems that people

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Speaker 1: have with this. With the audio, let's go to Joe

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Speaker 3: Joe, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: Yes can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm a Samsung A sixteen phone and what Verizon

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Speaker 4: I swear on five G? This thing only has a

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Speaker 4: range of about forty eight hundred feet, aren't they self

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Speaker 4: on tower's supposed to go at least three or four

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Speaker 4: or five miles?

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Speaker 3: Good question? Now, what do you mean you only have

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Speaker 3: a range?

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Speaker 1: Like you mean it flips into four G when you

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Speaker 1: get far from the tower or what.

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Speaker 4: Well it tries to it's just dead after less than

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Speaker 4: a mile and you can say the tower too.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: So five G is the is the new And I'm

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Speaker 1: not an expert in four G five G, but from

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Speaker 1: what I understand. And five G obviously is a new protocol,

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00:35:03,719 --> 00:35:06,720
Speaker 1: and it's it's better because it can be way faster

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Speaker 1: than four G. And there's different bands of five G.

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Speaker 1: So five G is actually divided up into three different types,

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Speaker 1: which is like a low band, a mid band, and

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Speaker 1: a high band. So my favorite is actually what Verizon offers,

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Speaker 1: which they call it millimeter wave. And so when you

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Speaker 1: get that five G high band in a place like

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Speaker 1: a sports stadium or if you're in the main area,

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Speaker 1: it is so fast you cannot believe it, like you're

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Speaker 1: talking speeds of like a gig or faster. But the

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Speaker 1: problem is you really need line of sight for these

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Speaker 1: for these for these signals to work the super high

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Speaker 1: end five G. So the companies use a combination of things.

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Speaker 1: So in general, four G the signal travels way longer

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Speaker 1: and it goes through buildings a lot easier. Five G

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Speaker 1: your signal is going to be a lot faster, but

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Speaker 1: there are many more considerations on that signal and how

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Speaker 1: it's set up. So if you're talking the super fast

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Speaker 1: speeds of five G, those don't travel very far at all,

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Speaker 1: like we're talking, you know, could be one thousand feet

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Speaker 1: if you're talking the midband on five G, you might

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Speaker 1: just have a couple miles and that's kind of the

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Speaker 1: sweet spot.

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Speaker 3: But then if you're talking.

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Speaker 1: The low band, that is a lot slower, much slower speeds,

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Speaker 1: but those signals travel way further. So you can imagine

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Speaker 1: if you're a cell company, you are trying to figure

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Speaker 1: out which one of these bands to put in different

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Speaker 1: places so that you can tap, you know, help your

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Speaker 1: customers out in the best way. So if you're in

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Speaker 1: a rural area, you probably want that low band because

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Speaker 1: it's going to cover a wider range in that five G.

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Speaker 1: But yes, I would say in general, five g's not

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Speaker 1: typically going to reach as far as a four G

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Speaker 1: signal in many places, but you know, five g's pretty

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Speaker 1: much everywhere. Now, thanks for the call today, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight Rich one O one eight eight eight

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

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Speaker 3: 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 O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Welcome to another

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Speaker 1: hour of the show. We are talking about what people

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Speaker 1: are thankful for. I ask people on my social media

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Speaker 1: at rich on Tech, on Instagram, and Facebook what they're

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Speaker 1: thankful for. Karen wrote in and said she's thankful for family,

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Speaker 1: good health, a home, and her fur baby. Carol is

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Speaker 1: thankful for her new husband. Joanne is thankful for waking

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Speaker 1: up every day, and Debbie is thankful she'll be celebrating

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00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: Christmas Christmas with family next month? So is that January?

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Speaker 3: I guess? So let's see what else?

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Speaker 1: Oh, this week, you got to check out my Is

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Speaker 1: it on Instagram?

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00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:43,239
Speaker 8: Yet?

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Speaker 1: It's on Instagram? At rich On Tech. I went through

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Speaker 1: the drive through and my order number. You would not

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Speaker 1: believe what it was. My kids were in the car

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Speaker 1: with me, and you know this whole six seven trend,

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Speaker 1: Well that was part of my order number. But the

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Speaker 1: first two letters were really surprising. Did you see this?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Can I use the phonetic like the the military to

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Speaker 1: say like fox trot?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 3: What's the other one? Umbrella?

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Speaker 7: Maybe?

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Speaker 5: Yeah? It is?

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Speaker 3: So is fox trot.

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Speaker 1: Umbrella six seven? And I had to say that except

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Speaker 1: just the initials.

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Speaker 11: You looked so happy to do it though, like a

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Speaker 11: little giddy ol boy.

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Speaker 1: But I didn't know, Like I was like, Okay, this

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Speaker 1: person is just gonna erupt at me the order taker,

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Speaker 1: like they're just gonna like and no reaction whatsoever from them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, none at all. That was what was funny about it.

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Speaker 1: You were so like giddy, well because I couldn't believe

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Speaker 1: I just say that out loud, and this part, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what is the reaction going to be from this person?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So, and then my kids, you know, they're like, you

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Speaker 1: gotta post this, you gotta post this, you gotta post this.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't know if I can post it,

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Speaker 1: Like it's kind.

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Speaker 3: Of mean what I'm saying.

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Speaker 10: No, it's not. Actually, you can't control the order number

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Speaker 10: you got.

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Speaker 11: Nobody told them to pick two uh alphabets and then

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Speaker 11: two numerical numbers or.

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Speaker 1: So that were just like I and so I actually

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Speaker 1: I never played the lottery. I've only played it like

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Speaker 1: maybe once in my life. And I went out and

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Speaker 1: I bought a lottery ticket that night because but you

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Speaker 1: didn't win. I didn't win, obviously, but I didn't even

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Speaker 1: know how to play the lottery. I go to the

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Speaker 1: I went to like a little like liquor store and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, five bucks for the lottery. The guys like,

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Speaker 1: you can't do five dollars. I'm like, what do you

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Speaker 1: mean two bucks each? See you know, because I play,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know. So he's like, you could do two

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Speaker 1: four six. I'm like, what do you mean by that?

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Speaker 10: That's the power ball. The mega is five bucks a ticket.

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Speaker 1: Five dollars for one ticket one number, yeah, for one number,

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Speaker 1: like one number one?

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Speaker 10: Okay for one yeah?

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Speaker 3: Now do you pick your numbers or do you you

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Speaker 3: let them go?

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Speaker 10: It depends on how much I'm spending.

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Speaker 11: If I do twenty, I'll spend ten dollars on my

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Speaker 11: own picks and then five one quick picks.

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Speaker 1: Okay, quick picks. There you see we're learning stuff. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to a sound so boogie. Let's go to Tristan

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Speaker 1: in Silmar. Tristan, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 8: Hey, Rich, this is Tristan. I'm just the obvious video editor.

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Speaker 3: Tristan.

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Speaker 1: We're really having some trouble with your connection. I'm hearing

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Speaker 1: a lot of crackling, So.

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Speaker 8: How about now?

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Speaker 3: Nope, still there, but keep going.

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Speaker 10: Okay.

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Speaker 8: I'm just the hobbyist video editor and I work on

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Speaker 8: a PC. And I chose the PC because I know

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Speaker 8: there's a lot of programs that go well with PC

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Speaker 8: and Max not so much, just that they want to

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Speaker 8: do more.

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Speaker 1: I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, you gotta try call

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Speaker 1: them back because this is this connection is just going

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Speaker 1: to drive people nuts in their car. So well, let's

881
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: come back to you. Tristan calls back and.

882
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,080
Speaker 3: Uh, we'll see. Let me see if I can do this.

883
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 3: Let's see.

884
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,440
Speaker 1: Okay, So calls back and let's see if we can

885
00:40:38,480 --> 00:40:40,239
Speaker 1: get a better connection there. Let's go to Joe in

886
00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Joe, You're on with rich.

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00:40:44,000 --> 00:40:46,400
Speaker 2: Ry Rich Hi, one time, first time.

888
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:47,760
Speaker 3: Caller, Nice, Welcome.

889
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 2: I have a question.

890
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,040
Speaker 13: I have a damn sung S twenty four Ultra, and

891
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 13: I drive a truck for my job as a living nice,

892
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:02,840
Speaker 13: and I have a Bluetooth head set, and so I

893
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:06,120
Speaker 13: have I have my my phone connected to the car

894
00:41:06,680 --> 00:41:12,479
Speaker 13: Bluetooth as audio only, okay, and my headset as calls only.

895
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 13: My understanding is I could do audio with my phone

896
00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:21,279
Speaker 13: to multiple speakers at the same time to play the

897
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 13: same audio correct. But I'm wondering.

898
00:41:23,920 --> 00:41:27,920
Speaker 7: If I'm able to do a phone call on my

899
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:32,799
Speaker 7: phone and added stream iHeartRadio to the car at the

900
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,800
Speaker 7: same time if I'm out of the AM range.

901
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: Yes, because you're on the magical device, which is the Samsung.

902
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 1: So this this has a great feature that you've probably

903
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:48,720
Speaker 1: never ever noticed, and it's called separate app sound.

904
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:49,400
Speaker 3: Have you heard of that?

905
00:41:50,360 --> 00:41:54,279
Speaker 13: I might have actually my research, but I don't think

906
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:56,120
Speaker 13: I was able to figure out how to functioned it.

907
00:41:56,280 --> 00:41:59,120
Speaker 1: Okay, So what you're talking about. The first thing is

908
00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 1: the multi speakers. That's something called Aura Cast, which I

909
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,480
Speaker 1: believe is also built into the Samsung. But that's if

910
00:42:05,520 --> 00:42:08,319
Speaker 1: you want to let's say you want three you have

911
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 1: three different Bluetooth speakers, and you want them all be

912
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: connected to your phone at the same time and like

913
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: broadcast the same signal. You can do that with a

914
00:42:15,320 --> 00:42:17,960
Speaker 1: feature called our Cast, and I believe that's supported by

915
00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: Samsung as well.

916
00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 7: I know.

917
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:21,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but that's not what you're talking about. You

918
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: want to actually separate the audio. And I actually do

919
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: this on a regular basis in my car because I'll

920
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:30,399
Speaker 1: tell you what's happening. So if I'm in my car

921
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: and I'm stopped and I'm listening to music, then I

922
00:42:33,320 --> 00:42:36,200
Speaker 1: want to watch something on my phone. What happens is

923
00:42:36,280 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: it wants to send that audio from whatever I'm watching

924
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:42,200
Speaker 1: to the Bluetooth on my car, but I'm not in

925
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:45,000
Speaker 1: Bluetooth on my car. I'm listening to music, so I

926
00:42:45,080 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: want that audio to play on my phone itself. So

927
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 1: what I do is I call it's called Separate App Sound.

928
00:42:51,480 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: And so if you go into your settings under Sounds

929
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: and Vibration, you'll see Separate App Sound listed and you

930
00:42:59,040 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: can turn it on and then it tells you which

931
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 1: app and which audio device you want to use. So

932
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:09,279
Speaker 1: you go through your apps and let's see here. So

933
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: if we go through our apps, you can send certain

934
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:16,160
Speaker 1: audio from your app to the speakers or to the

935
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 1: you know, just however you want it to go.

936
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,240
Speaker 3: You could your base. It's like basically an audio router.

937
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,360
Speaker 1: So that's the that's the setting I would look in

938
00:43:23,480 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 1: to see if you can if you can do that.

939
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:29,879
Speaker 1: Now here's the trick, because you're talking about audio, Bluetooth

940
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 1: audio right like from your phone, uh and also to

941
00:43:33,239 --> 00:43:35,960
Speaker 1: the well you're talking about two things. You're talking audio

942
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: from an app, which I know you can do. But

943
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,840
Speaker 1: then you're talking about you want the Bluetooth headset to

944
00:43:40,880 --> 00:43:43,720
Speaker 1: always connect, you know, to your headset and not the car,

945
00:43:44,160 --> 00:43:47,160
Speaker 1: So that you're gonna have to just take a look

946
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 1: and see if it allows you to do that, because

947
00:43:49,160 --> 00:43:51,399
Speaker 1: I know you can separate out app sounds. Like let's

948
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: say you want anytime you play music from uh TikTok

949
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,200
Speaker 1: to go to your Bluetooth speaker, you can set it

950
00:43:57,239 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: to always do that. And then let's say every time

951
00:43:59,719 --> 00:44:03,759
Speaker 1: you have app music from your iHeartRadio app to go

952
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: to your car's bluetooth, you.

953
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:05,839
Speaker 3: Can do that.

954
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: So it's really like it's kind of like a little router.

955
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 1: But you have to see if it'll allow you to

956
00:44:09,800 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: do that with your phone audio because that's kind of

957
00:44:12,320 --> 00:44:14,600
Speaker 1: a separate thing. I have not done it for that,

958
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:16,480
Speaker 1: so you have to check to see if it's available

959
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: for that. But it may or may not allow you

960
00:44:19,120 --> 00:44:21,359
Speaker 1: to do that. So that's the place to look. Though

961
00:44:21,360 --> 00:44:25,320
Speaker 1: it's called separate app sound. It is in your settings

962
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: under sounds and vibration. And let me just tell you,

963
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:29,920
Speaker 1: I mean, this is one of the things. This is

964
00:44:29,920 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: one of the reasons why people love the Samsungs over

965
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: some of the other devices out there, like the one

966
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: that rhymes with iPhone, is because they give you so

967
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,400
Speaker 1: many options. Now, I will tell you I think Apple

968
00:44:41,440 --> 00:44:44,319
Speaker 1: in the past year or two has gotten a whole

969
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:46,640
Speaker 1: lot better with their options on things like it used

970
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 1: to be just Apple stuff. You can do Apple stuff with.

971
00:44:49,280 --> 00:44:51,680
Speaker 1: I think they've gotten a lot better by adding things

972
00:44:51,680 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 1: like the camera control button and the live activities and

973
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 1: the action button on the side, but they still limit

974
00:44:57,760 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: you in a lot of ways and on some of

975
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: that security reasons, but a lot of it is just

976
00:45:01,640 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: like Apple takes a little bit longer to add some

977
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,560
Speaker 1: of these things, whereas Samsung they just give it you

978
00:45:06,600 --> 00:45:08,640
Speaker 1: all like right away, like they're just like, hey, we're

979
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: giving you like a thousand features.

980
00:45:10,280 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 3: You're gonna buy this phone.

981
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:13,239
Speaker 1: You may not even figure out these features in the

982
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,440
Speaker 1: time you have this phone, but when you need them.

983
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:15,799
Speaker 3: They're there.

984
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 1: And so that's what a lot of people love about

985
00:45:18,280 --> 00:45:21,120
Speaker 1: the Samsung and Android side of things is that for

986
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 1: many years it has been way more customizable and it

987
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: works the way you want to work versus the way

988
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: people in Cooper Tino say, we would like your phone

989
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:33,440
Speaker 1: to work this way. Samsung, you can change almost any

990
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: aspect of your device with a software download, with a

991
00:45:37,000 --> 00:45:40,440
Speaker 1: tweak with stuff like that. So that's why this week's

992
00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,840
Speaker 1: gadget of the Week is the Meta ray Ban glasses.

993
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,560
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call them the gadget of the year because

994
00:45:47,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: they are just so amazing.

995
00:45:49,080 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 3: I love them.

996
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: Not only can you take pictures on them, but you

997
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:54,840
Speaker 1: can also listen to your audio, you can take calls.

998
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 3: Let's see what else can you do.

999
00:45:56,719 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: They're adding a new feature this week called Conversation Focus,

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00:46:00,320 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: So it almost turns these metaglasses into makeshift hearing assistance

1001
00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:08,800
Speaker 1: in noisy places. So they're using the microphone to listen

1002
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,400
Speaker 1: to the person that you're talking to, and then it

1003
00:46:11,480 --> 00:46:14,839
Speaker 1: basically pipes that audio into your ears. Now, these are

1004
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: open ear speakers, so you can still hear everything around you,

1005
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:20,399
Speaker 1: but it kind of amplifies the person's voice that you're

1006
00:46:20,440 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 1: talking to. That is just amazing and the fact that

1007
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: they just added that overnight to these glasses. So I'm

1008
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:29,319
Speaker 1: gonna call the Meta ray bands the gadget of the

1009
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:31,840
Speaker 1: year because they just do so much stuff.

1010
00:46:32,120 --> 00:46:34,320
Speaker 3: I love them. I've relied on them now.

1011
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:37,120
Speaker 1: For months, and I just think they keep getting better

1012
00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 1: and better, and this is rolling out to early access

1013
00:46:40,280 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: users and I just think it keeps making these gadgets better.

1014
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:46,560
Speaker 1: It's almost like the iPhone back in the day, where

1015
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: they just kept adding new features, like software features that

1016
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:50,319
Speaker 1: transforms it.

1017
00:46:50,640 --> 00:46:52,960
Speaker 3: Now the metaglasses are getting that, so I really like that.

1018
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 3: And they also have so many.

1019
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,520
Speaker 1: Great accessibility features. So if you're thinking of a gift,

1020
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: I really really think these things are crowd pleaser. It's

1021
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,280
Speaker 1: a little weird because it gets into some gray areas

1022
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: when you like, you know, you're at a stadium, you

1023
00:47:06,400 --> 00:47:08,200
Speaker 1: go into the men's room, You're wearing these Glasses' like

1024
00:47:08,239 --> 00:47:09,439
Speaker 1: you got a camera on your face.

1025
00:47:09,520 --> 00:47:10,959
Speaker 3: Kind of weird. You know, you got to think about

1026
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:11,680
Speaker 3: that sometimes.

1027
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:17,440
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Speaker 3: Show right after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we're reading what people are thankful for Marie is

1062
00:48:57,880 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: thankful for another day of life in time with family.

1063
00:49:00,840 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: Louise is thankful for her parents, family and health, while

1064
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 1: but Bet is thankful for her grandchildren. All right, sounds

1065
00:49:07,680 --> 00:49:10,640
Speaker 1: like Tristan's got a better connection Tristan and Silmar.

1066
00:49:10,719 --> 00:49:11,160
Speaker 3: What's up?

1067
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:12,439
Speaker 4: Hey?

1068
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,000
Speaker 3: Is my reception so much better? What'd you do?

1069
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:17,080
Speaker 8: Okay? All I did was call back?

1070
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you know. Sometimes it happens.

1071
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 1: My wife will call me in the car and she beg,

1072
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: you sound like a crazy robot, and I'm like, all right,

1073
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:25,239
Speaker 1: hang up, let's try again.

1074
00:49:25,280 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 3: It's just I don't know why it happens, but it does.

1075
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,840
Speaker 8: I think I might have picked up a better signal

1076
00:49:29,880 --> 00:49:32,200
Speaker 8: on a different tower or something. I'm not sure.

1077
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 3: Okay, cool, Well, what's up?

1078
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,040
Speaker 8: So I do video editing, but just as a hobby,

1079
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:40,160
Speaker 8: And so I didn't get like the biggest Mac in

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00:49:40,200 --> 00:49:42,799
Speaker 8: the world, you know, and I use a laptop. So

1081
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 8: what I did was I bought an HP that at

1082
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:47,279
Speaker 8: the time, it was about a year and a half ago.

1083
00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,000
Speaker 8: It has a rise in five with its own graphics card,

1084
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,080
Speaker 8: and it has sixty four megs of memory, so it's

1085
00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:53,920
Speaker 8: got a lot of memory.

1086
00:49:53,920 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 3: Wow.

1087
00:49:54,280 --> 00:49:57,560
Speaker 8: Yeah, But my video editing is slew and even in

1088
00:49:57,640 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 8: proxy mode, which you know, I don't down to seven

1089
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 8: twenty T. It's just it's just slower than I think

1090
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:07,640
Speaker 8: it should be. So I ran across this video on

1091
00:50:07,719 --> 00:50:11,360
Speaker 8: YouTube where a guy was explaining that Mac the reason,

1092
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:14,240
Speaker 8: one of the reasons they do so well is their codec,

1093
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 8: the two sixty four and two sixty five codec. Their

1094
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:25,000
Speaker 8: their motherboards can decode those those instantly. As he has

1095
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 8: an issue sometimes with one or the other that it

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Speaker 8: doesn't do it very well. Just wondering if that's my issue.

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Speaker 1: It could be what type of video are you putting

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Speaker 1: into this computer? And what You're just doing this for fun?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's just for fun, but it is four K

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Speaker 8: and I use different cameras Gopro's phone, my Apple phone,

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Speaker 8: or my Sony. So I'm not sure what algorithms these

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Speaker 8: guys are using differently.

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Speaker 5: If that's part of it, well.

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Speaker 3: I will tell you this. So I I edit on

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Speaker 3: a Mac.

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Speaker 1: I've been editing on a Mac for forever, and I

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Speaker 1: will tell you that I have even a low powered

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Speaker 1: Mac right now, like I've got a MacBook Air, which

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Speaker 1: is you know, it's got the M three chip.

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Speaker 3: It's not even the latest chip. I think they're up

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Speaker 3: to M five.

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Speaker 1: It's got twenty four gigs of memory and I can

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Speaker 1: cut through four K video no problem, and I cut it.

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Speaker 1: I edit all my stuff on here for TV.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I wish I just would have.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't even hiccup.

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Speaker 1: Now, I will tell you, because this is a MacBook Air,

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Speaker 1: it's definitely slower than my MacBook Pro. Like when I'm

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Speaker 1: exuporting it's it's definitely slower and importing. But I mean

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Speaker 1: I have even like the most basic Mac can edit

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Speaker 1: really well.

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Speaker 3: And same goes for the iPhone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you look at editing on the iPhone

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Speaker 1: versus sort of an Android, I mean it's much faster

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Speaker 1: on the on the iPhone. Now that could have to

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Speaker 1: do with Codex and things like that, but you know,

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Speaker 1: I think with the PCs. Now here's the flip side.

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Speaker 1: You know, at my TV station I work for, we

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Speaker 1: use PCs for editing. My editor uses a PC for editing.

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Speaker 1: But I will tell you he complains a lot. He

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Speaker 1: does complain that there there's a lot of compatibility issues.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of things are slower, things that I

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Speaker 1: could drag and drop into my final cut, he has

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Speaker 1: to first render into a different format so that it

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Speaker 1: works smoothly. So I don't I think it can be done,

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Speaker 1: and I think plenty of people edit on PCs. But

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Speaker 1: if you're looking for like the least amount of headaches,

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Speaker 1: and you are coming you know, from video from popular

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Speaker 1: gadgets like you mentioned the iPhone and the GoPro, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's probably going to be an easier experience. But with

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Speaker 1: that said, I think that what's happening on yours with

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Speaker 1: that four K video that probably is a little bit

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Speaker 1: tough for that processor you're talking about.

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Speaker 3: You said a rise in five maybe.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you know that's on that's a mid grade,

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Speaker 1: that's a mid level processor, right, Like you want realistically

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Speaker 1: like something like a you know, I don't know, rise

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Speaker 1: in seven or nine right to get.

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Speaker 8: Like a gaming computer almost right.

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Speaker 1: Right, So I guess it comes down to you is

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Speaker 1: really finding what program using to edit.

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Speaker 8: I'm even using cap cut because it's faster than you know,

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Speaker 8: some of the more power hungry Premiere pros and stuff.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm confused as to why it's so bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it shouldn't be that bad, especially with all

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Speaker 1: that memory. I mean it really shouldn't be. So are

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Speaker 1: you trying to do like simple things or is this

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Speaker 1: really complex edits?

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Speaker 8: It could it could be that I'm getting more down

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Speaker 8: to detail stuff, and it could be that there's just

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Speaker 8: more it needs more performance.

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Speaker 1: And is it during the edit or is it when

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Speaker 1: you're actually exporting.

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Speaker 8: It's not exporting because I don't really I'm not in

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Speaker 8: a rush, so exporting can take forever. I don't care.

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Speaker 8: But it's during the edit.

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Speaker 3: Interesting. I mean, I'm looking at the system.

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Speaker 1: Let's see the system requirements for cap cut Windows ten,

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Speaker 1: Intel Core three or above.

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Speaker 3: That's nothing.

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Speaker 1: Four gigs of RAM, Intel graphics like built in storage

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Speaker 1: two gigs. I mean, I'm surprised. I feel like, maybe

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Speaker 1: is there something else going on in this can couters

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Speaker 1: or some sort of like, uh, I don't know, anti

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Speaker 1: virus program or something that's running in the background. Have

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Speaker 1: you looked at the startup and saw what starts up

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Speaker 1: on this computer?

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Speaker 8: I can. I can look into that for sure. I know,

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Speaker 8: like this last one it was my daughter's wedding. Yeah,

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Speaker 8: and it's it's almost a terabyte in data that it's

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Speaker 8: trying to process.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, that is a lot that is a lot,

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Speaker 1: for sure, That is a lot. All right, I gotta run, Tristan.

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Speaker 1: They're playing me off here. But I think you should

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Speaker 1: be able to edit on this computer. I think you

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Speaker 1: might want to look into some settings and and just

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Speaker 1: see if you can hit that sweet spot where you

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Speaker 1: can actually smoothly edit on cap cut, because I think

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Speaker 1: that it's it's equipped enough to be able to handle that.

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Speaker 1: Coming up, we're going to talk how to protect your

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Speaker 1: Let's see here we are saying what people are thankful for.

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Speaker 1: It is the holiday season. I am amped up. We

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Speaker 1: had dinner with some friends last night, little holiday dinner,

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Speaker 1: so fun. It's just there's something about this season that

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Speaker 1: you know you've got to spend it with people that

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Speaker 1: you love, or at least people you like.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: If you can't love just like you know, just do something.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just it's cozy. Vicky is thankful for family, friends,

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Speaker 1: and her four grand babies. Elsa is thankful for her

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Speaker 1: family and her granddaughter and all the snow outside. I'm

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Speaker 1: just kidding, get it, Elsa.

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Speaker 3: Bobo is not listening. Susan is Oh you are.

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Speaker 1: Susan is a thankful for good health after recent surgery.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Susan. That is you.

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Speaker 1: You should be thankful for that. That is that is

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Speaker 1: great to hear. If you want to comment at richon

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Speaker 1: Tech on Instagram, if you've bought an app or a

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Speaker 1: power up on your Android phone in the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, Google might owe you some cash. Google has

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Speaker 1: agreed to pay six hundred and thirty million dollars to

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Speaker 1: settle a massive antitrust lawsuit brought on by all fifty states.

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Speaker 1: The claim was that Google allegedly monopolized the Playstore and

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Speaker 1: forced people to pay too much for apps and and

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Speaker 1: app purchases. So, if you had an Android phone between

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Speaker 1: August sixteenth, twenty sixteen and September thirtieth, twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: and you made some sort of purchase on Google Play

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Speaker 1: or through an app you're in, and that's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to fill out a claim form.

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Speaker 1: If you're eligible, you're going to get a payment via

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Speaker 1: email associated with your Playstore profile. Everyone is guaranteed at

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Speaker 1: least two dollars, but your payout could be hired depending

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Speaker 1: on how much you spent on apps and micro transactions.

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Speaker 1: So if you were spending a lot on all those

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Speaker 1: candy Crush in app purchases, yeah you can definitely you'll

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Speaker 1: probably be getting some more money here.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: Final court hearing is set for April thirtieth, twenty twenty six,

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Speaker 1: so it's going to be a bit before you get

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Speaker 1: any of that. And one quick question I see our

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Speaker 1: guest is here. We'll get to our guests from a

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Speaker 1: meta in just a moment, but one quick question here

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Speaker 1: from Yvonne in Santa Monica. She says, I've heard you

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Speaker 1: talk about scanning old photos with a phone, but I'd

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Speaker 1: rather do this on my computer. I've got a scanner, printer,

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Speaker 1: copy or combo. I use I don't want a bunch

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Speaker 1: of pictures living on my phone. What's a reliable program

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Speaker 1: I should use for scanning photos on a computer, very simple.

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Speaker 1: Your your printer or your your printer combo comes with

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Speaker 1: a program. So if you have epsin, HP, Canon Brother,

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Speaker 1: they all have a companion app that you can download

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Speaker 1: for your computer. So for APSIN, it's called epsin Scan,

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Speaker 1: HP Scan, Canon Scan Utility Brother iPrint In Scan. So

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Speaker 1: go to the website of your all in one and

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Speaker 1: download that software and then it will find your printer

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Speaker 1: on your network and you'll be able to scan right

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Speaker 1: to your computer. Now, if you want something a little

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Speaker 1: bit different, or you maybe have an old scanner or

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Speaker 1: you can't find your software, there is a piece of

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Speaker 1: software called view Scan v U E s c A

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Speaker 1: N and they say they reverse engineered over seventy four

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Speaker 1: hundred different scanners and included the built in drivers so

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Speaker 1: you can keep using the scanner you already have. Now

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Speaker 1: it is a free trial so you can see if

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Speaker 1: your scanner works. You can try it out and then

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Speaker 1: it's let's see if you purchase it. It's about thirty

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Speaker 1: four bucks a year. That's again view Scan v U

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Speaker 1: E s C A N. And I'll put that all

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Speaker 1: on the website. Rich on tech Dot TV.

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Speaker 5: All right.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now is Kate Ross with Meta to talk

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Speaker 1: about their new centralized support hub so you can recover

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Speaker 1: your hacked account and keep all of your stuff secure.

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Speaker 3: Kate, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 14: Hey, thanks so much, Rich, good to see.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, let's se why am I getting this?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 1: I got mute myself here? Well you think it's my

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Speaker 1: first day doing this? Feels I guess sometimes. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: let's talk about this Meta centralized support hub. So the

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Speaker 1: common questions I get people say their accounts have been hacked,

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Speaker 1: or they lose access because they've broken some terms of

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Speaker 1: service or something. Can you speak to those two things

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Speaker 1: or those what you see on your end?

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Speaker 14: Yeah, So I think we definitely hear a lot of

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Speaker 14: frustration from folks whose accounts are hacked and they're not

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Speaker 14: able to get access. But to your point, also folks

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Speaker 14: that might have their accounts, you know, incorrectly removed. And

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Speaker 14: so we are working really hard to make sure that

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Speaker 14: we are getting this right. We're using AI to help

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Speaker 14: make these systems better and more efficient, and so I

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Speaker 14: do think that the centralized support hub is going to

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Speaker 14: be a huge support for people that are experiencing tons

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Speaker 14: of issues. So basically what we've done is we've responded

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Speaker 14: to feedback from folks that are just frustrated with how

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Speaker 14: hard it is to figure this out. There's so many

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Speaker 14: different tabs and tools, and I personally understand because I

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Speaker 14: feel the same way when I'm trying to make updates

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Speaker 14: to my accounts or help my family and friends.

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Speaker 3: Through this process as well.

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Speaker 14: So what we are rolling out is a centralized hub

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Speaker 14: that will make it really easy to find everything that

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Speaker 14: you need to secure your account or update your settings.

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Speaker 14: It's all going to be in one place across Facebook

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Speaker 14: and Instagram so that you can access more quickly. It's

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Speaker 14: also going to include a search function that's powered by

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Speaker 14: AI to make sure that you're able to find what

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Speaker 14: you need faster. And I think what's really exciting too,

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Speaker 14: just to show that how we're expanding AI to support

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Speaker 14: some of this work, we're also testing a personalized messaging

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Speaker 14: system within Facebook that you can actually work with this

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Speaker 14: AI tool to understand directly what's going on with your account,

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Speaker 14: how to get quick personalized advice. So I think that's

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Speaker 14: the type of tool, rules personalized quick that you're going

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Speaker 14: to start seeing us rollout as its technology just gets

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Speaker 14: more efficient.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm looking at the website.

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Speaker 1: It's Meta dot com, and you can tell me if

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Speaker 1: there's a shorter way to get here. But it's Meta

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Speaker 1: dot com, Slash Account, Dash Recovery, dash support, So I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure if there's like a short link, but that's

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Speaker 1: that's where you can access it. Meta dot Com, Slash Account,

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Speaker 1: Dash Recovery, Slash or Dash support. And you go there

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Speaker 1: and it's got all the main things people always ask me,

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Speaker 1: like my Facebook account was hacked, my Messenger account, I

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Speaker 1: can't access the email or mobile number on my Messenger account,

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Speaker 1: my Instagram was hacked, I can't access my email. And

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Speaker 1: then at the bottom, oh, here it is I was

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Speaker 1: banned from one or more platforms. So all of these

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Speaker 1: common questions are front and center, and so you can

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Speaker 1: go there and click and see what's happening and understand

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Speaker 1: how to get regain access or you fix your account

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Speaker 1: whatever it is.

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Speaker 3: So it's pretty smart.

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Speaker 1: And you've said that this has helped reduce issues by

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Speaker 1: like thirty percent already.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, so that specifically, the thirty percent number is related

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Speaker 14: to accounts that are kind of incorrectly removed, and so

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Speaker 14: that's just an example of how as our systems get better,

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Speaker 14: we're going to be making less mistakes. But on the

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Speaker 14: other side, we do also want to improve the time

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Speaker 14: to remedy these mistakes. So that's why you're seeing kind

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Speaker 14: of quicker resolution rates as well. So if you do

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Speaker 14: file one of these appeal processes, we're working to make

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Speaker 14: sure that those issues are resolved even more quickly.

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Speaker 1: And I mean when people get their account blocked, right

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Speaker 1: Like let's say, let's say you're just a regular Instagram user,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you wake up and this happened

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Speaker 1: to me, by the way, where you just wake up

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Speaker 1: and it's like, sorry, you you know you did something

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Speaker 1: wrong in your account, you broke some rule, and now

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Speaker 1: we're banning you within like ninety days unless you appeal.

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Speaker 1: What can you tell people when they see that message, Like,

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Speaker 1: I know they freak out instantly because you know this

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Speaker 1: is their lives. Can you get the help and recover

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Speaker 1: you need in that situation if you really didn't do

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Speaker 1: something wrong.

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Speaker 14: Absolutely, yeah, I would say definitely go through that appeals process.

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Speaker 14: We are using AI tools to help kind of get

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Speaker 14: those solutions resolved way more quickly, and I think those

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Speaker 14: times will improve over time as well as the technology improves.

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Speaker 14: And then also I would say, you know, one of

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Speaker 14: the big reasons too that we do see some people

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Speaker 14: have their accounts incorrectly flagged is because it's been hacked.

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Speaker 14: So you might have someone that's incorrectly accessed your account

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Speaker 14: and is maybe doing things that really do violate our policies,

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Speaker 14: but that isn't you as the user. So I would

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Speaker 14: say on the front end, another way that you can

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Speaker 14: kind of prevent this moving forward is making sure that

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Speaker 14: you're doing what you can to protect your accounts. So

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Speaker 14: I would say, definitely go through our security check process,

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Speaker 14: turn on things like two factor authentication. Just make sure

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Speaker 14: that you're really doing what you can to make sure

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Speaker 14: that bad actors can't access your account, because that is

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Speaker 14: one of the main reasons that folks might get these

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Speaker 14: messages and be used why their accounts have come down.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I am in the past keys are are

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Speaker 1: coming up, and it's interesting because past keys make the

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Speaker 1: logins a lot easier and it obviously very secure, but

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Speaker 1: I think people have been hesitant to set them up

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Speaker 1: because not everyone understands exactly what that's all about. But

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Speaker 1: they are easy to set up once you have a

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Speaker 1: password manager. It's quite easy actually, so definitely don't be

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Speaker 1: scared of the past key. Like, even if you set

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Speaker 1: it up, you can still log in your other ways.

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Speaker 1: It's just one more option. But the two factor for sure.

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Speaker 1: You know, I've been preaching about that forever. You've got

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Speaker 1: to set that up on your accounts. You have to.

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Speaker 1: It's like a it's just a non starter, especially for

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Speaker 1: these Facebook and Instagram accounts because we do so much here.

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Speaker 1: The other thing is how do people get hacked? I mean,

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Speaker 1: like what is happening there? Because like people say, oh,

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Speaker 1: I was hacked? Is there someone that's literally I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there aren't some instances someone trying to get

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Speaker 1: into someone's account, But isn't most of the time you're

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Speaker 1: like kind of tricked into giving up your account.

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 14: Absolutely, I mean I think you can think you can

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Speaker 14: imagine things like maybe you're using a really simple password,

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Speaker 14: or you know the same password for all of your things, right,

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01:05:06,720 --> 01:05:10,840
Speaker 14: or you know, you're someone might send you a phishing

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Speaker 14: request and you might think that you're logging into a

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Speaker 14: correct website, but you put in your credentials and it's

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Speaker 14: actually a bad actor that's harvesting that information. So it's

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Speaker 14: really important that you're super vigilant when you're sharing information online.

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Speaker 14: Definitely always check like ur L links, make sure that

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Speaker 14: they're legitimate, make sure it's a place maybe that you've

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Speaker 14: typed in directly sometimes as opposed to clicking links and emails,

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Speaker 14: and just be really thoughtful if you if you are

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Speaker 14: at all hesitant, were concerned, maybe call someone, log out,

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Speaker 14: log back in, just double check. Because these bad actors

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Speaker 14: are getting really really sophisticated. And while AI is helping

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Speaker 14: you know, us to catch bad actors more quickly, it's

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Speaker 14: also you know, it's tools that that these bad actors

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Speaker 14: are using to make their stuff seem more legitimate.

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Speaker 10: So it's just important to be vigilant.

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Speaker 1: All right, There you have it from Kate Ross, Meta spokesperson.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming on the show today.

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Speaker 5: Awesome, thanks so much for having me.

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Speaker 3: All right again. The website, you gotta check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's the account Metta's account Recovery hub. So if you

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Speaker 1: have some problems with Instagram, threads, Meta, Facebook, any of

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01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,880
Speaker 1: those accounts, you can go here and get help for

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Speaker 1: a variety of issues.

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Speaker 3: I'll put the link on my website.

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Speaker 1: You didn't think I could play all Christmas songs without

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Speaker 1: at least one Honkah song. I mean, maybe this isn't

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Speaker 1: I mean, this song has just done you know, bananas

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Speaker 1: to eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two for one zero one. The website for

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Speaker 1: the show is rich on tech dot TV. This week,

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01:07:01,480 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: Texas said they are suing the world's biggest TV brands,

1440
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:10,760
Speaker 1: saying that their smart TVs are a mass surveillance system

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01:07:11,320 --> 01:07:15,919
Speaker 1: disguised as a flat screen. So they're suing Samsung, LG,

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Speaker 1: Sony High Sense in TCL saying they're spying on users

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01:07:20,000 --> 01:07:23,760
Speaker 1: through their smart TVs without any real consent. The lawsuit

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01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 1: is all about this ACR technology, which we've talked about.

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01:07:28,000 --> 01:07:30,960
Speaker 1: It basically scans your screen and they say it takes

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Speaker 1: a snapshot of your TV every five hundred milliseconds to

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Speaker 1: monitor what you're watching in real time. And by the way,

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01:07:38,040 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 1: it monitors everything that goes on the screen, so it's

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01:07:41,800 --> 01:07:44,640
Speaker 1: not just like cable TV. It's not just like ratings

1450
01:07:44,680 --> 01:07:49,200
Speaker 1: on TV. It is Netflix, gaming consoles, Blu ray players,

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Speaker 1: anything that comes across that screen can be scanned and

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01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 1: then sent back for advertising and they kind of figure

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01:07:57,280 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 1: out what's happening on your TV. And apparently they sell

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01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:04,640
Speaker 1: all this stuff for big profits, which we know now.

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01:08:04,680 --> 01:08:07,400
Speaker 1: If you remember, back in I think it was twenty seventeen,

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01:08:08,080 --> 01:08:11,840
Speaker 1: Visio settled a big you know, they had a big

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Speaker 1: settlement with the FTC over this, saying that they spied

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Speaker 1: on people, and that was kind of a turning point

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Speaker 1: for Visio in general because a lot of people didn't

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Speaker 1: know that this was happening. Now I think people are

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Speaker 1: a little bit more aware of it. And the companies

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Speaker 1: claim that this is all opt in, but the problem is,

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Speaker 1: like most things, they don't make it easy to opt out,

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Speaker 1: and they don't make it easy to find the setting,

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01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 1: and most people don't even think about this setting. So

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Speaker 1: if you have a new TV, don't just agree to

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Speaker 1: everything that you see on the menu as you're setting

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Speaker 1: up that TV.

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Speaker 3: So if you want to change this.

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Speaker 1: Look for something called automatic content recognition in the settings

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Speaker 1: Viewing information services, interest based ads. Let's see what else

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Speaker 1: do they call it here? Let's see viewing. I mean,

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Speaker 1: every TV has a different way of doing this, So

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Speaker 1: smart TV experience that's what high Sense calls it. So

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01:09:10,840 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 1: no matter what TV you have, go through your settings,

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01:09:15,520 --> 01:09:18,320
Speaker 1: go through the privacy settings and look for anything that

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01:09:18,400 --> 01:09:23,720
Speaker 1: is related to advertising or smart TV settings that have

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01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,880
Speaker 1: to do with a personalized experience, because all that means

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01:09:28,000 --> 01:09:29,880
Speaker 1: is that they are scanning the stuff that's happening on

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Speaker 1: your screen so that they can aggregate that data and

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Speaker 1: sell it and make a lot of money.

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Speaker 3: Now you've already paid for your TV.

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01:09:36,320 --> 01:09:40,639
Speaker 1: Why should you be supporting these companies with your viewing habits?

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01:09:40,680 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 1: Why there's no reason to do that. Let's see here

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Speaker 1: what else we got. We got so many emails from people.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to see if we got through. Let's get

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Speaker 1: through some of the other stories this week before we

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Speaker 1: get to more calls.

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Speaker 3: Here.

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Speaker 1: Instagram in your living room This week, I was testing

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Speaker 1: Instagram on TV. They have a new app for the

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Speaker 1: Fire TV, and I'll be honest, I downloaded it and

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Speaker 1: I sat there and I watched Instagram reels for like

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes, and I noticed the difference is when you're

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: watching video on your TV, you kind of sit back

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01:10:16,640 --> 01:10:18,880
Speaker 1: and relax and watch more of the video.

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Speaker 3: And that's probably exactly why they're doing this now.

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Speaker 1: If you remember, back in the day, a vertical video

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Speaker 1: on a TV, nobody would stand for that because the

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Speaker 1: TV is horizontal. You've got this giant, big screen in

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Speaker 1: your living room and you're watching a tiny sliver of

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Speaker 1: video down the middle. Well, now people don't care because

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Speaker 1: that's how we consume a lot of our videos, and

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Speaker 1: so no problem. You can have Instagram on your TV

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Speaker 1: and sit there and enjoy it, just like you might

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Speaker 1: enjoy a TV show that costs millions of dollars to

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Speaker 1: make in her horizontal format. But I noticed that I

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Speaker 1: was spending more time watching the reels, I was engaging

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01:10:54,360 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 1: with them more, and I just overall thought it was

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Speaker 1: pretty cool because on my phone, my finger is little

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Speaker 1: early sitting there ready to flip to the next reel,

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01:11:03,040 --> 01:11:05,920
Speaker 1: But when you're watching on TV, that's not the case

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Speaker 1: because you're on your couch.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, check it out.

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Speaker 1: Instagram for TV is available now on Fire TV sticks.

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Speaker 1: I do want to take a moment for something a

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01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 1: little bit more personal and important. We did lose someone

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Speaker 1: in the tech community this week, Lamar Wilson. Lamar was

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Speaker 1: a creator, a YouTuber, and someone many people knew for

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01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:32,400
Speaker 1: his joy If you watched his videos speaking of reels

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Speaker 1: and Instagram, he was on there. He was always smiling,

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Speaker 1: opening up gadgets, talking about gaming, talking about all the

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Speaker 1: latest tech stuff, and of course trying the latest flavors

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01:11:42,720 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 1: of oreos. All that energy was real and it came

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01:11:45,800 --> 01:11:48,599
Speaker 1: through in everything he did. He was such a pro.

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01:11:49,200 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, Lamar and I had lunch.

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01:11:51,760 --> 01:11:54,960
Speaker 1: We talked about the business, the creator economy, our early

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01:11:55,040 --> 01:11:58,480
Speaker 1: days in tech. We both sold electronics back in the day,

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01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,160
Speaker 1: and he made he was making this shift from long

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01:12:02,240 --> 01:12:04,320
Speaker 1: form YouTube videos and he said, I'm gonna try this thing.

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01:12:04,320 --> 01:12:07,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do short form content like reels like all

1532
01:12:07,760 --> 01:12:10,840
Speaker 1: in before it was popular like it is now everyone

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01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:12,600
Speaker 1: does reels, But back then it was like it was

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01:12:12,640 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: a chance he was taking. Now, we didn't see each

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01:12:15,320 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 1: other in person, but we did text a lot, especially

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01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 1: after my car accident.

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01:12:18,240 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 3: He was checking in on me.

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01:12:19,200 --> 01:12:21,519
Speaker 1: This was just a couple of months ago making sure

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01:12:21,560 --> 01:12:24,519
Speaker 1: I was okay, and as it turns out, he was

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01:12:24,560 --> 01:12:27,599
Speaker 1: the one who needed checking in on. So remember, no

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01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:30,479
Speaker 1: matter how someone looks on the outside, you don't always

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01:12:30,520 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 1: know what is happening on the inside. Especially when it

1543
01:12:33,120 --> 01:12:35,960
Speaker 1: comes to social media, it is so one sided. You

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01:12:35,960 --> 01:12:39,080
Speaker 1: can see people's joy, you can see their highlights, their successes,

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01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,639
Speaker 1: but they can still be struggling off camera. So please,

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01:12:42,880 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 1: my word to you today, check in on your friends.

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01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,920
Speaker 1: Don't just give him the likes, the comments and text messages,

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01:12:49,200 --> 01:12:52,760
Speaker 1: but spend real time together, in real life when you can.

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01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:55,240
Speaker 1: Lamar and I were always saying, oh, we should got together,

1550
01:12:55,240 --> 01:12:57,920
Speaker 1: We should get together. You got to get together. Ask

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01:12:57,960 --> 01:13:00,880
Speaker 1: how they're doing, Really understand how your friend doing. Let

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01:13:00,920 --> 01:13:03,160
Speaker 1: them know how important they are to you. Everyone in

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01:13:03,200 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 1: this world has value. Rest in peace, Lamar Wilson. Welcome

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01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:21,519
Speaker 1: with you talking technology at Triple A rich one oh

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. What a fun holiday show we've had so far.

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Speaker 1: And this is one of my all time favorite songs

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01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:35,400
Speaker 1: from one of my all time favorite movies, Christmas Vacation.

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01:13:35,680 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: I have not watched it yet this year, but I

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01:13:38,160 --> 01:13:40,960
Speaker 1: definitely it's been a tradition in my life and my

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01:13:41,080 --> 01:13:45,639
Speaker 1: family forever. I mean, I've been watching this movie since

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01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:47,920
Speaker 1: I was a kid. Practically. What year did it come out?

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01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:55,800
Speaker 1: Christmas Vacation nineteen eighty nine. Oh my gosh. My wife

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,760
Speaker 1: actually visited the set. She grew up in Los Angeles

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01:13:58,880 --> 01:14:03,200
Speaker 1: and visited the set of Christmas Vacation, and I think

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01:14:03,240 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: they were they were filming the scene with like Ruby

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01:14:05,320 --> 01:14:07,680
Speaker 1: Sue and a little kid, and my wife was like,

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01:14:07,720 --> 01:14:09,519
Speaker 1: I was so jealous of her. You know, this little

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01:14:09,600 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 1: actress gets to be in this movie. They were like

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01:14:12,040 --> 01:14:14,479
Speaker 1: the same age. I guess, I don't know, never seen it?

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01:14:14,600 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 1: What where's that buzzer sound? Never seen Christmas Vacation?

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01:14:22,000 --> 01:14:22,400
Speaker 3: All right?

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01:14:22,800 --> 01:14:24,080
Speaker 1: So what you have to do when you get home,

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01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 1: sit down with your little little guy, make it the

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:28,160
Speaker 1: new tradition.

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01:14:28,520 --> 01:14:30,360
Speaker 3: How old does he know? He's what? A month and

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01:14:30,400 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 3: a half A perfect time to start.

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01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:38,360
Speaker 1: Really got to start those those traditions early, Bobo. But

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01:14:38,439 --> 01:14:40,519
Speaker 1: it's it's funny. I mean, I don't know, see, for me,

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01:14:40,560 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily about the movie. It's about what we

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01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:44,160
Speaker 1: did with my family.

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:44,680
Speaker 3: So it's like you know.

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01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have something like a tradition that you've done,

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01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,680
Speaker 1: whether it's like making like cookies.

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01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:50,360
Speaker 3: Or you know, whatever it is.

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01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:54,400
Speaker 11: There's a movie, uh now, I can't even think of

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01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 11: the name of it, and it escaped my mind.

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01:14:56,760 --> 01:14:59,360
Speaker 10: Originally was in black and white. They remade it in color.

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01:14:59,840 --> 01:15:00,519
Speaker 10: Was the movie.

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01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:01,760
Speaker 3: It's a Wonderful life, wonderful life.

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01:15:01,760 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 11: Okay, yeah, you watch that every scene now, ye see.

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01:15:05,960 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 3: I'll be honest.

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01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:08,960
Speaker 1: Carrey Grinch though, Okay, I don't. I don't even know

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,679
Speaker 1: if I've seen the Jim Carrey. Maybe I'll watch what.

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01:15:11,200 --> 01:15:12,560
Speaker 1: I don't think i've seen that.

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01:15:12,520 --> 01:15:14,960
Speaker 3: That's the best one. Okay, I'll watch that tonight. So

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01:15:15,000 --> 01:15:18,320
Speaker 3: we both got okay, Jim Carrey Grinch, Okay, got it.

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01:15:19,040 --> 01:15:20,599
Speaker 3: But I will tell you it's a wonderful life.

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Speaker 1: See for me, is a much bigger lift than National

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01:15:23,960 --> 01:15:27,519
Speaker 1: Like that's a that's a big, heavy, long movie, whereas

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01:15:27,600 --> 01:15:29,880
Speaker 1: Christmas Vacation is like a quick hour and a half.

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01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:32,000
Speaker 3: You're you're in, you're out, you're done, and it's silly.

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01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:34,360
Speaker 1: It's a wonderful life, like I've watched it as my

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01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:36,800
Speaker 1: dad loves that movie. My wife does, and so he

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01:15:36,800 --> 01:15:38,800
Speaker 1: puts it on every year, loves it, you know. But

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01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:40,559
Speaker 1: for me, it's like a little bit more like I

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01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:41,840
Speaker 1: sat through it a couple of years ago. It's like

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01:15:42,040 --> 01:15:43,360
Speaker 1: I don't need to do that again for a while.

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01:15:43,439 --> 01:15:46,960
Speaker 1: No offense to anyone who loves that movie. By the way,

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01:15:46,960 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 1: we've been talking about things people are thankful for on

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01:15:49,400 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 1: my Instagram at rich on Tech. The comments are coming

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01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: in on my Facebook as well. Daniel says he's thankful

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01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:58,200
Speaker 1: for his wife, kids and extended family. Gigi in Los

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01:15:58,240 --> 01:16:00,679
Speaker 1: Angeles is thankful for friends and fai family who helps

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01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 1: celebrate her dad's life. Sorry for your loss, Gigi, and

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01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:09,000
Speaker 1: Mark is thankful for his grandkids. Eighty eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. Let's see, Mike writes in. Mike Ky says

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01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:18,479
Speaker 1: Rich I've been a realtor for over forty years, so

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01:16:18,520 --> 01:16:21,000
Speaker 1: you can imagine how many files I've accumulated. What's the

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01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:24,439
Speaker 1: best software you recommend for finding and removing duplicate photos

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01:16:24,520 --> 01:16:25,559
Speaker 1: on Windows ten?

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01:16:25,920 --> 01:16:28,800
Speaker 3: I need to clean up my drive. Thanks. Yes, this

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01:16:28,920 --> 01:16:30,000
Speaker 3: is a huge problem.

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01:16:30,280 --> 01:16:31,680
Speaker 1: Many of us don't want to do this because we

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01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: don't want to mess something up, and we don't want

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01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:36,040
Speaker 1: to delete something that we need later, So I would

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01:16:36,360 --> 01:16:42,920
Speaker 1: suggest there's an app that I've tested, Duplicate Duplicate Photos

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01:16:43,520 --> 01:16:47,280
Speaker 1: Fixer Pro. And you know, keep in mind, people give

1631
01:16:47,280 --> 01:16:49,040
Speaker 1: me a hard time, so I recommend stuff and you

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01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:51,679
Speaker 1: find out you got to pay for it. Anything that's

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01:16:51,720 --> 01:16:54,680
Speaker 1: going to be worth what it does, nine times out

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01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:56,760
Speaker 1: of ten you got to pay for it. So you know,

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01:16:57,240 --> 01:17:00,400
Speaker 1: you can try this program for free. But you know

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01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 1: this one actually it's for four ninety nine. So you

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01:17:03,240 --> 01:17:05,559
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have to pay for stuff if you

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01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: want it to do the things that you want to do,

1639
01:17:07,840 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 1: So this one will do it. They've got a version

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01:17:10,400 --> 01:17:14,559
Speaker 1: for Mac, for Windows, for Android, for iOS, and it

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01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 1: does it does a good job. So let's see. Can

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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:20,080
Speaker 1: you download the Windows version before paying? Looks like the

1643
01:17:20,120 --> 01:17:21,800
Speaker 1: Mac one you have to pay first. Anyway, it's called

1644
01:17:22,080 --> 01:17:26,240
Speaker 1: Duplicate photos Fixer dot Com. The other one I like,

1645
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:31,720
Speaker 1: I think it's called Remo Duplicate, Remo Duplicate.

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01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:37,600
Speaker 3: Let's see here. Sorry, I gotta find the actual Remo Duplicate.

1647
01:17:37,920 --> 01:17:40,000
Speaker 3: It is really tough to type and talk at the

1648
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:41,840
Speaker 3: same time. I've learned that one thing.

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01:17:42,400 --> 01:17:45,080
Speaker 1: But there's another one I like it's called Remo Duplicate

1650
01:17:45,200 --> 01:17:48,920
Speaker 1: Photos Remover, and that one I've tested as well, and

1651
01:17:48,960 --> 01:17:54,439
Speaker 1: they've got a version for everything Windows, Mac, Android, and iPhone,

1652
01:17:54,840 --> 01:17:56,640
Speaker 1: and so you can download that one as well. And

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01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:58,080
Speaker 1: I think these are all kind of the same thing,

1654
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:00,120
Speaker 1: like free trials and then you can, you know, I

1655
01:18:00,280 --> 01:18:02,360
Speaker 1: see if it works, and then you can use it

1656
01:18:02,439 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 1: later on Wow, look at that, get your free access

1657
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:07,439
Speaker 1: code for full version.

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01:18:07,600 --> 01:18:07,960
Speaker 3: Oh wow.

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01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:10,960
Speaker 1: For Android you can get it completely free. So again

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01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: that's remosoftware dot com. So those two places, Mike, and

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01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:17,880
Speaker 1: do a backup first before you end up starting to

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01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:22,240
Speaker 1: make changes there. Karen writes in from stocked in, Hey, Rich,

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01:18:22,280 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: I have a Samsung S twenty one. I need to

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01:18:24,000 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 1: print out some text messages. What's the easiest way to

1665
01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: do that? Well, the easiest way is to take a

1666
01:18:29,479 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: screenshot and print it out, but that's not very efficient.

1667
01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: So if you want something clean and organized, I would

1668
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:39,240
Speaker 1: check out the app called SMS Backup and Restore. SMS

1669
01:18:39,360 --> 01:18:42,759
Speaker 1: Backup and Restore. I've been using it forever. It's easy,

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01:18:42,840 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 1: it's free, it's on Android now.

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01:18:45,640 --> 01:18:45,800
Speaker 5: Now.

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01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:47,240
Speaker 1: The next question I'm going to get is, Rich, how

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01:18:47,280 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 1: do I do this on the iPhone. I know you

1674
01:18:48,760 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: would think that Apple would give you a way to

1675
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:55,280
Speaker 1: print out your text messages or at least tap into them. No,

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01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,599
Speaker 1: they don't, so you have to use a third party program.

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01:18:58,680 --> 01:19:03,040
Speaker 1: There's two that I like, Imazing Imazing dot com, and

1678
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:06,200
Speaker 1: then the other one is alt Tunes. So this is

1679
01:19:06,240 --> 01:19:09,880
Speaker 1: kind of like the the iTunes that Apple did not build,

1680
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:13,559
Speaker 1: and it's available on Windows only. I Amazing is available

1681
01:19:13,560 --> 01:19:17,720
Speaker 1: on MACANPC, but alt Tunes is available just on Windows,

1682
01:19:18,280 --> 01:19:21,920
Speaker 1: and it's it's got everything that you wish Apple would

1683
01:19:21,960 --> 01:19:24,720
Speaker 1: give you the ability to drag and drop music onto

1684
01:19:24,800 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: your phone, ability to drag and drop photos, download your messages,

1685
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:31,280
Speaker 1: your call history, back it up, it gives you. It's

1686
01:19:31,320 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: basically this stuff that Apple does not give you, and

1687
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:36,439
Speaker 1: I'm not sure why, but you can get it all

1688
01:19:36,479 --> 01:19:38,639
Speaker 1: there and I'll put this all on the website. Rich

1689
01:19:38,800 --> 01:19:41,400
Speaker 1: on tech dot tv, so anything I mentioned will be

1690
01:19:41,439 --> 01:19:41,960
Speaker 1: on the website.

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01:19:42,040 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 3: Rich on tech dot TV.

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01:19:43,880 --> 01:19:46,160
Speaker 1: William says, Hey, Rich, I love the show. I still

1693
01:19:46,160 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: rely on a landline mainly to send and receive facts

1694
01:19:49,120 --> 01:19:51,000
Speaker 1: is I'd love to port that number to a cell

1695
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,639
Speaker 1: phone or something mobile that could work with my fact scanner.

1696
01:19:54,400 --> 01:19:57,519
Speaker 1: Sometimes I can fax to my computer and email it,

1697
01:19:57,560 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: but other times I need to send a fax directly

1698
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 1: back to another fax number. Any tricks to make this

1699
01:20:02,040 --> 01:20:07,200
Speaker 1: easier without keeping a traditional landline, Well, if you want

1700
01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:10,360
Speaker 1: to keep your number, you've got to port it to

1701
01:20:10,400 --> 01:20:13,439
Speaker 1: a service. You can poort it to something like Umaoma

1702
01:20:14,360 --> 01:20:16,879
Speaker 1: and they will work with traditional facts.

1703
01:20:16,960 --> 01:20:19,519
Speaker 3: Hardware costs a lot less than your landline.

1704
01:20:19,560 --> 01:20:21,799
Speaker 1: Every month, it'll be a one time fee for the hardware,

1705
01:20:21,800 --> 01:20:24,240
Speaker 1: and then I think you have to pay taxes and

1706
01:20:24,240 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 1: fees every month faxes and fees. If you're open at

1707
01:20:27,400 --> 01:20:30,960
Speaker 1: ditching the fax machine completely, you can use a service

1708
01:20:31,040 --> 01:20:35,760
Speaker 1: like efacts or fax Plus or dropbox facts. And you

1709
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 1: know you're saying this, sometimes you got to send directly

1710
01:20:37,880 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 1: to another facts. Anything you need to send, you'd be

1711
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 1: able to just take a picture of with your phone

1712
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: and send it to a fax machine that way. So

1713
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,800
Speaker 1: if you just want the absolute cheapest way to do this,

1714
01:20:46,840 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 1: you don't even need to keep that number anymore. You

1715
01:20:50,200 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 1: would just sign up for one of these services. They'll

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01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:54,920
Speaker 1: give you a couple of faxes for free. If you're

1717
01:20:54,960 --> 01:20:56,599
Speaker 1: doing a ton you'll have to pay a little bit.

1718
01:20:57,040 --> 01:20:59,240
Speaker 1: But both of these options will let you send and

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01:20:59,360 --> 01:21:02,800
Speaker 1: receive standard faxes. So it really comes down to like

1720
01:21:03,040 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 1: do you want to keep hardware or do you want

1721
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 1: to go fully digital?

1722
01:21:05,520 --> 01:21:08,200
Speaker 3: I think I think William, you can go fully digital.

1723
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 3: You're not. I don't.

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01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:11,640
Speaker 1: Unless you're like a doctor, You're probably not sending and

1725
01:21:11,680 --> 01:21:14,600
Speaker 1: receiving that many factes. This is just something that you know,

1726
01:21:14,640 --> 01:21:16,559
Speaker 1: a lot of people don't need to do anymore. So

1727
01:21:16,680 --> 01:21:19,000
Speaker 1: maybe for doing it occasionally, just use one of these

1728
01:21:19,040 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: services along with your phone. The other thing, people have

1729
01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 1: told me that they have luck with magic Jack for faxing,

1730
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:29,639
Speaker 1: and magic Jack, I believe, is just like a one

1731
01:21:29,680 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 1: time fee of like fifty dollars and it's a it's

1732
01:21:34,439 --> 01:21:36,679
Speaker 1: the same thing. It's like a voipe phone service app.

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Speaker 1: But here's the deal. If you look on magic Jack's website,

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01:21:40,240 --> 01:21:43,840
Speaker 1: they say that fax machines are not officially supported, so

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Speaker 1: you can't. You know, it just depends on I haven't

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01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:49,200
Speaker 1: tested the magic app in a while, but people are

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01:21:49,240 --> 01:21:52,320
Speaker 1: telling me, like they're emailing me as of this week saying, yeah, Rich,

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01:21:52,360 --> 01:21:54,719
Speaker 1: I've used the magic Jack for facts as it works fine.

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01:21:55,120 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: So just keep in mind you may get that it

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01:21:56,840 --> 01:22:00,680
Speaker 1: may not work. Uma I know works flair did their

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01:22:00,920 --> 01:22:04,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Year in review. They said global Internet

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01:22:04,200 --> 01:22:08,200
Speaker 1: traffic surged by nineteen percent this year, and for the

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01:22:08,240 --> 01:22:13,160
Speaker 1: first time, ai bot traffic is rival rank rival ling

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01:22:13,880 --> 01:22:18,280
Speaker 1: human traffic. How wild is that there are more ai

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01:22:18,400 --> 01:22:21,799
Speaker 1: bots on the Internet than there are humans? What Google

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01:22:21,840 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 1: bot is the king, responsible for nearly five percent of

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Speaker 1: all web requests, and of course they are scraping the Internet.

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Speaker 1: This is why I really like Google AI mode, because

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01:22:32,160 --> 01:22:35,880
Speaker 1: they have such up to date information. Anything you talk about,

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01:22:35,960 --> 01:22:39,120
Speaker 1: it's in there instantly. And I'll be honest, I hate

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01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,120
Speaker 1: to I'm not gonna say what I do anymore because

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01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 1: I don't want to give people ideas. Twenty twenty five

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01:22:45,400 --> 01:22:49,240
Speaker 1: was the year of hyper volumetric attacks. Cloud Flair blocked

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01:22:49,360 --> 01:22:53,760
Speaker 1: massive denial of service attacks, which were the largest ever recorded.

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01:22:54,320 --> 01:22:57,559
Speaker 1: The most popular sites Google and Facebook still number one

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01:22:57,560 --> 01:23:02,559
Speaker 1: and number two globally. However, TikTok saw a surprising drop,

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01:23:03,040 --> 01:23:05,800
Speaker 1: falling four spots in the overall rankings, probably because of

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01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,599
Speaker 1: the uncertainty of that platform, but I think it's here

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01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:12,680
Speaker 1: to stay. In the US, Starlink, massive growth traffic from

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Speaker 1: SpaceX's Starlink satellite Internet more than doubled this year as

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01:23:17,120 --> 01:23:20,799
Speaker 1: it expanded into twenty new countries. It's becoming a lifeline,

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01:23:20,840 --> 01:23:24,840
Speaker 1: and not just underserved areas, but pretty much anywhere out

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01:23:24,880 --> 01:23:29,560
Speaker 1: in the sea, places that don't have internet RVs boats.

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Speaker 1: People love starlink because you can get it anywhere. It's

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01:23:33,080 --> 01:23:37,240
Speaker 1: pretty amazing. Now watch your email inbox. Over five percent

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01:23:37,240 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 1: of all emails sent this year were malicious. Malicious emails.

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01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:46,679
Speaker 1: You gotta be careful and privacy milestone. More than fifty

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Speaker 1: two percent of human web traffic is now protected by

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01:23:49,600 --> 01:23:53,639
Speaker 1: post quantum encryption. That's new tech designed to keep data

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01:23:53,640 --> 01:23:57,160
Speaker 1: safe from even future supercomputers. That means that a lot

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01:23:57,200 --> 01:23:59,759
Speaker 1: of the traffic we're seeing on the web is encrypted

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01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:02,920
Speaker 1: so well that even computers in the future that will

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Speaker 1: be able to break our standard encryption won't be able

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Speaker 1: to break that encryption. That's a good thing for human privacy,

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Speaker 1: all right. Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: this stuff I talk about is linked up on the

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Speaker 1: website rich on Tech dot tv. Don't forget to follow

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01:24:20,120 --> 01:24:22,719
Speaker 1: the podcast, follow me on social media.

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Speaker 3: And don't forget to sign up for my newsletter.

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Speaker 1: It's all at Richontech dot TV more rich on Tech coming.

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Speaker 3: Your way right after this.

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

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01:24:35,439 --> 01:24:38,640
Speaker 1: out with you talking technology triple eight rich one O

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. But asking folks what they are thankful for.

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Speaker 1: Just going through some of the latest comments here on

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Speaker 1: my Facebook page at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 3: Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Cindy says, I'm thankful so much for so much my health,

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Speaker 1: my family, good neighbors, joy my grandson brings me. I'm

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01:25:01,600 --> 01:25:03,200
Speaker 1: thankful for the knowledge you share with us.

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Speaker 3: It helps. Thank you.

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01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:08,160
Speaker 1: Peter says for you keeping us up on all the tech.

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01:25:08,240 --> 01:25:10,120
Speaker 1: Thanks rich and he shared a picture of him and

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Speaker 1: his family. They're all in there. They're Santa hats. That's great.

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Speaker 1: Let's see who else do we have here, Robin says,

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Speaker 1: being alive, So that's nice. Yolanda, I'm thankful for my family, Barbara.

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Speaker 1: I'm thankful for good health for me and my family.

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Speaker 1: I have a wonderful son and daughter in law. I

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Speaker 1: also have the best ever granddaughter and grandson. I am

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01:25:32,280 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: very blessed. Absolutely, you know, good family. I was telling

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Speaker 1: my wife, you know about you know this family. Over

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01:25:40,760 --> 01:25:43,479
Speaker 1: the holidays. I'm like, look, you have to seed a

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01:25:43,520 --> 01:25:47,880
Speaker 1: little bit of yourself to the family structure, and that

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01:25:48,040 --> 01:25:51,160
Speaker 1: means not everything that's going to happen over the holidays

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01:25:51,360 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: is going to be completely pleasant for you. Right the

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Speaker 1: way people act, you get a lot of people together

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01:25:57,240 --> 01:26:00,160
Speaker 1: in one place, everyone has kind of different things that

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01:26:00,160 --> 01:26:03,040
Speaker 1: they're working with and different things that they want, different

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01:26:03,040 --> 01:26:05,720
Speaker 1: ways that they act, So it's not always going to

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01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,000
Speaker 1: be perfect. And you just have to realize that going

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01:26:08,040 --> 01:26:11,200
Speaker 1: in and if you do, you'll be fine. If you

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01:26:11,280 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 1: fight that, you will not be fine. You will not

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Speaker 1: have a good time. This is new this week Alexa

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01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:21,320
Speaker 1: plus can now answer your doorbell. Amazon is launching something

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01:26:21,320 --> 01:26:25,519
Speaker 1: called Alexa Plus Greetings. Let's your ring doorbell talk to

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Speaker 1: people at your door like an assistant, not just play

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Speaker 1: canned recordings. So what happens is it uses AI to

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Speaker 1: recognize what's happening outside when someone rings your bell, so

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01:26:37,200 --> 01:26:39,640
Speaker 1: it can understand if it's a delivery person in a

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Speaker 1: uniform with a box or just a neighbor stopping by.

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01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:45,960
Speaker 1: And then you can tell Alexa instructions on how to

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Speaker 1: deal with this stuff, so you can say, you know,

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Speaker 1: if my delivery gets here, today, tell them to put

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Speaker 1: it behind the planner, or if a salesperson comes by,

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Speaker 1: tell them we're not interested. So you can actually teach

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Speaker 1: Alexa how to respond to people, which is interesting, and

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Speaker 1: then of course you'll get a recording about all this

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01:27:02,280 --> 01:27:03,920
Speaker 1: stuff and Alexic can go back and forth of them.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little weird. I haven't tested this.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how it works. So here's the

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Speaker 1: catch though, it's not going to work on a majority

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Speaker 1: of the Ring doorbells out there, at least not yet.

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Speaker 1: So Number one, you do need a Ring home premium plans.

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Speaker 1: You have to be paying for Ring a subscription plan,

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01:27:20,920 --> 01:27:23,000
Speaker 1: and then you need one of their probably one of

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Speaker 1: their best doorbells out there, the wired Doorbell Pro or

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01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:29,719
Speaker 1: the Plus, which you know that's not a lot of people,

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01:27:29,720 --> 01:27:32,800
Speaker 1: like a lot of people have these Ring doorbells with batteries.

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Speaker 1: So it's not just I don't as far as I

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Speaker 1: can tell, I don't think it's going to work on

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01:27:36,680 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 1: a non wired ring doorbell, which cuts out a lot

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Speaker 1: of people. Now I talked about I've always talked about

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01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: how good Gemini is at images ever since they came

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01:27:47,080 --> 01:27:50,519
Speaker 1: up with this Nano Banana upgrade. Well, guess what chat

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01:27:50,600 --> 01:27:55,479
Speaker 1: GPT decided to do this week. They decided to upgrade

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Speaker 1: their image processing. Now they have GPT Image one point

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01:27:59,600 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 1: five and their main standout feature is the ability to

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01:28:03,160 --> 01:28:06,639
Speaker 1: make precise edits just like nano banana. If you want

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01:28:06,680 --> 01:28:09,360
Speaker 1: to just change one thing in a picture while keeping

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01:28:09,360 --> 01:28:12,439
Speaker 1: the rest of the image the same, now chat gbt

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01:28:12,640 --> 01:28:15,840
Speaker 1: can do that. It also generates images four times faster,

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01:28:16,040 --> 01:28:20,160
Speaker 1: meaning less waiting. It also does better text rendering. So

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01:28:20,800 --> 01:28:24,200
Speaker 1: you'll also notice in chatch ebt in the sidebar there

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01:28:24,240 --> 01:28:28,440
Speaker 1: is a new images section where you can find preset

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01:28:28,439 --> 01:28:31,759
Speaker 1: filters and trending prompts. So if you go to chat gibt,

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01:28:32,240 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 1: I found this on my phone. So if you go

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01:28:34,840 --> 01:28:38,240
Speaker 1: to the images on chatchybt, now they're really trying to

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01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:39,759
Speaker 1: push you to do stuff.

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Speaker 3: So it says star in your own holiday short.

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01:28:41,800 --> 01:28:44,160
Speaker 1: It's got all these styles that you can do for

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Speaker 1: your images.

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01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:47,040
Speaker 3: It gives you all these suggested stuff.

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01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:49,000
Speaker 1: And I made if you look at my Instagram stories,

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01:28:49,439 --> 01:28:52,879
Speaker 1: I made an album cover of me as Bing Crosby,

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01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:56,600
Speaker 1: the one of those famous like you know albums that

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01:28:56,680 --> 01:28:58,240
Speaker 1: he you know. I always see this pop up in

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01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:01,360
Speaker 1: my music player, and anyway.

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Speaker 3: It's it is good.

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01:29:02,600 --> 01:29:04,679
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm gonna switch back to chatch

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01:29:04,680 --> 01:29:07,080
Speaker 1: ebt for images because my default is just to use

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01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,200
Speaker 1: Gemini for images and chattybt for everything else. But now

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01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:14,280
Speaker 1: I may use it for images more. Let's see here

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01:29:14,479 --> 01:29:19,599
Speaker 1: we've got h Gail. Gail is in Covena. Gail, You're

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01:29:19,640 --> 01:29:20,160
Speaker 1: on with Rich.

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Speaker 15: Hi. Hey, I watched you on Channel five every day

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01:29:27,640 --> 01:29:30,760
Speaker 15: and I follow you on Instagram, and I think I

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01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:34,600
Speaker 15: get your news, pucker. But I have a question that

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01:29:34,680 --> 01:29:36,960
Speaker 15: I have. I don't know if I'm sure to mention

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01:29:37,080 --> 01:29:42,040
Speaker 15: this or not, but I have seen your promotion for LifeLock.

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01:29:42,240 --> 01:29:49,200
Speaker 15: Is it LifeLock LifeLock okay anyway? Or your support of

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01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:56,320
Speaker 15: it anyway. I just discovered I was just surfing and

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01:29:56,400 --> 01:30:03,200
Speaker 15: avoiding other Christmas things, and I saw that somebody has

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01:30:03,240 --> 01:30:08,559
Speaker 15: put in information on math quests about our address being

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01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:13,760
Speaker 15: like a little stop and go kind of place by

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01:30:13,800 --> 01:30:18,760
Speaker 15: the freeway for coffee, you know, little.

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01:30:18,720 --> 01:30:21,560
Speaker 1: They turned your house into a into a seven to eleven.

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01:30:22,439 --> 01:30:25,960
Speaker 15: Well sort of that kind of thing. But on math quest.

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01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:28,280
Speaker 1: Like they marked your house is like a place you

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01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:30,759
Speaker 1: can stop and get like little snacks and coffee.

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Speaker 5: Is that true?

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01:30:33,680 --> 01:30:34,560
Speaker 15: Is it true?

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01:30:35,920 --> 01:30:39,080
Speaker 3: Are you like selling hot chocolate outside in the front yard?

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01:30:40,800 --> 01:30:44,760
Speaker 15: No, you know, in fact, most people would never find us.

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01:30:44,760 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 15: We're in Cavena in Kavena Hills, which has all been

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01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:54,120
Speaker 15: you know, was originally like all host property area. And

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01:30:54,280 --> 01:31:03,320
Speaker 15: so anyway, how if I you know, I've been thinking

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01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:08,600
Speaker 15: about it, if I sign up the subscribe to.

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Speaker 2: Whatever.

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01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 15: I can't remember the one that you're.

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01:31:13,040 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 1: You're trying to You're trying to take this down.

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01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:17,639
Speaker 15: I'm trying to take it. Yeah, but you know, when

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01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:18,959
Speaker 15: I went to the map.

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01:31:18,800 --> 01:31:21,320
Speaker 3: Quest site, Okay, hang on there, they're playing.

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01:31:22,320 --> 01:31:22,880
Speaker 6: I do that.

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01:31:23,080 --> 01:31:23,960
Speaker 15: It's crazy.

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01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:26,760
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Well that's the thing. Okay, you gotta you

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01:31:26,760 --> 01:31:28,840
Speaker 1: gotta submit. I'm looking at the site. It says there's

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01:31:28,840 --> 01:31:31,040
Speaker 1: a way to report and error. I think you need

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01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:34,040
Speaker 1: to do that. I'll link it up on the website, Gail.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain more after the break. You're listening to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

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01:31:41,960 --> 01:31:45,439
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you, talking technology the website for

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Speaker 1: the show rich on Tech dot TV. Bobo's telling me,

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01:31:50,360 --> 01:31:53,120
Speaker 1: I gotta watch Doctor Seuss is how the Grinch Stole Christmas,

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01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:55,680
Speaker 1: the live action one, not the not the cartoon. This

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01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:58,240
Speaker 1: is the one with Jim Carrey. Yes, looks like it

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01:31:58,280 --> 01:32:01,519
Speaker 1: came out in two thousand. I can't believe I never

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01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:03,840
Speaker 1: saw this. So I'm gonna I'm gonna download this and

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01:32:03,880 --> 01:32:07,120
Speaker 1: watch it Jim Carrey. And it's free, by the way,

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01:32:07,200 --> 01:32:10,400
Speaker 1: Well I say free, it's included if you have Prime,

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01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:13,960
Speaker 1: so Amazon Prime. And it's actually leaving Prime in twelve days,

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01:32:14,479 --> 01:32:16,760
Speaker 1: so which I guess corresponds at the end of the year.

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01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:19,360
Speaker 1: But are you really gonna watch that come January first?

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01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:22,600
Speaker 1: Well maybe January first, you might January.

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Speaker 3: Second, I would. Yeah. Well, you say you watch it

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01:32:24,800 --> 01:32:26,320
Speaker 3: every year, so it's a great movie.

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Speaker 10: I will.

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Speaker 1: I will tell you next time I see you what

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01:32:29,720 --> 01:32:30,200
Speaker 1: I think.

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Speaker 10: Out one of the text When you've done watch.

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Speaker 3: It, okay, I will text you.

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Speaker 1: We've got Matt Bazenco on from Nomo Robo. This is

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Speaker 1: a service that can help you take control of your

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Speaker 1: spam calls.

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Speaker 3: Matt, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 5: Thanks for having me.

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01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:47,400
Speaker 3: So explain Nomo Robo.

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01:32:47,520 --> 01:32:51,120
Speaker 1: I believe started as like a landline filtering service, right,

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01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:52,960
Speaker 1: is that true? Can you explain a little bit about

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01:32:53,000 --> 01:32:53,479
Speaker 1: the company.

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01:32:54,080 --> 01:32:56,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, sure, and in fact, that's exactly right.

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Speaker 9: So back in twenty fifteen, I think it was, the

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Speaker 9: FTC was running a series of contests for kind of

1946
01:33:05,280 --> 01:33:08,920
Speaker 9: startup companies to try and win a prize basically by

1947
01:33:09,000 --> 01:33:13,519
Speaker 9: demonstrating effective call blocking technology. And so the technology that

1948
01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,799
Speaker 9: was invented at the time by our founder Aaron Foss

1949
01:33:17,280 --> 01:33:22,320
Speaker 9: used something that's called sim ring simultaneously simultaneous ring, which

1950
01:33:22,360 --> 01:33:26,040
Speaker 9: which basically is ringing two phone lines at the same time.

1951
01:33:26,160 --> 01:33:28,720
Speaker 9: And so what he did was he put together a

1952
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:32,400
Speaker 9: system where if you called a given phone number at

1953
01:33:32,439 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 9: the same time, it would ring a number that he owned,

1954
01:33:35,800 --> 01:33:38,920
Speaker 9: and when it rang that number, that number would look

1955
01:33:38,960 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 9: at who is calling it, it would compare it against

1956
01:33:41,479 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 9: the database of calls that we knew to be bad,

1957
01:33:44,760 --> 01:33:47,160
Speaker 9: and then if it was a bad call, if it

1958
01:33:47,240 --> 01:33:49,760
Speaker 9: showed up in that you know, block list, basically it

1959
01:33:49,760 --> 01:33:52,439
Speaker 9: would just put the call off all together. And so

1960
01:33:53,160 --> 01:33:55,559
Speaker 9: the takeaway of that for the customer was that if

1961
01:33:55,600 --> 01:33:59,439
Speaker 9: their phone rang just once, it meant somebody was calling them,

1962
01:33:59,520 --> 01:34:01,600
Speaker 9: probably from a bad number, and if it rang a

1963
01:34:01,640 --> 01:34:03,519
Speaker 9: second time, that it was a call that was okay

1964
01:34:03,520 --> 01:34:05,599
Speaker 9: to pick up. And that was kind of the genesis

1965
01:34:05,680 --> 01:34:07,880
Speaker 9: of the company, and you know, we've been in business

1966
01:34:07,880 --> 01:34:10,680
Speaker 9: now for ten going into eleven years and come a

1967
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:11,320
Speaker 9: long way since.

1968
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Speaker 3: Wow, So now what are you offering.

1969
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Speaker 1: I mean, you've got I'm looking at this this app

1970
01:34:15,760 --> 01:34:20,360
Speaker 1: called Nomo Robo Max. I'm guessing that's one of your offerings. Yeah,

1971
01:34:20,479 --> 01:34:22,559
Speaker 1: I mean spam calls and all of these things. I

1972
01:34:22,560 --> 01:34:24,120
Speaker 1: mean it's not just the spam calls. I mean I

1973
01:34:24,160 --> 01:34:27,759
Speaker 1: get a ton of them. I also get the text messages,

1974
01:34:27,760 --> 01:34:29,760
Speaker 1: which I know people get as well. How bad of

1975
01:34:29,800 --> 01:34:32,240
Speaker 1: a problem is this for people with their cell phones?

1976
01:34:32,360 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 1: And why is it so bad? Why can't the carriers

1977
01:34:34,400 --> 01:34:37,160
Speaker 1: figure this stuff out? Yeah, it's a great question.

1978
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 5: So you know the problem, the problem ebbs and flows.

1979
01:34:40,960 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 9: We've been seeing an uptick, you know, recently over the

1980
01:34:43,320 --> 01:34:46,600
Speaker 9: past couple of months in terms of the problem increasing again. Unfortunately,

1981
01:34:47,160 --> 01:34:49,400
Speaker 9: one thing that was seeing going into next year is

1982
01:34:49,439 --> 01:34:53,840
Speaker 9: we're seeing texts are starting to overtake calls in terms

1983
01:34:53,880 --> 01:34:57,400
Speaker 9: of the preferred kind of attack vector, if you will.

1984
01:34:57,720 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 9: So for a very long time, it was predominantly and

1985
01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 9: text was kind of, you know, maybe ten fifteen percent

1986
01:35:03,040 --> 01:35:05,040
Speaker 9: of the problem, but it's getting close to fifty to

1987
01:35:05,080 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 9: fifty and I think at some point next year it's

1988
01:35:07,720 --> 01:35:11,200
Speaker 9: actually gonna swap to where texts are a bigger problem

1989
01:35:11,240 --> 01:35:14,040
Speaker 9: than the phone calls, you know, in terms of in

1990
01:35:14,120 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 9: terms of the carriers and really everybody that's trying to

1991
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:20,120
Speaker 9: solve this problem. The reality is that the bad guys,

1992
01:35:20,360 --> 01:35:23,640
Speaker 9: you know, they're running businesses, right, They're not legitimate businesses,

1993
01:35:23,720 --> 01:35:28,559
Speaker 9: but they are businesses nonetheless, and they find efficient, new,

1994
01:35:29,800 --> 01:35:34,120
Speaker 9: you know, effective, inexpensive ways to try new technologies, new

1995
01:35:34,120 --> 01:35:39,200
Speaker 9: ways of attacking people, and you know, ultimately are still

1996
01:35:39,240 --> 01:35:41,960
Speaker 9: able to get through in a lot of cases. One

1997
01:35:42,000 --> 01:35:45,160
Speaker 9: thing that I think has been very efficient for the

1998
01:35:45,200 --> 01:35:49,439
Speaker 9: bad guys, unfortunately, is the implementation of AI. So in

1999
01:35:49,479 --> 01:35:52,040
Speaker 9: the old days, say three or four years ago, they

2000
01:35:52,040 --> 01:35:54,439
Speaker 9: were still relying largely on just you know.

2001
01:35:54,439 --> 01:35:56,280
Speaker 5: Basically carpet bombing a bunch.

2002
01:35:56,080 --> 01:35:58,880
Speaker 9: Of numbers, right like looking at your area code, calling

2003
01:35:58,920 --> 01:36:01,080
Speaker 9: from a number in the same code, and then just

2004
01:36:01,600 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 9: going through all of the seven digit combinations they could

2005
01:36:04,320 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 9: find in that area code, which is not super effective

2006
01:36:07,160 --> 01:36:08,920
Speaker 9: because a lot of those numbers don't exist.

2007
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:10,479
Speaker 5: People aren't going to pick up.

2008
01:36:11,160 --> 01:36:13,360
Speaker 9: People sort of got wise to those tactics, and so

2009
01:36:13,520 --> 01:36:16,519
Speaker 9: what they've done instead is they've gone the AI route.

2010
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:18,280
Speaker 5: They've said, Okay, we're going to use AI.

2011
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:20,920
Speaker 9: We're going to create a profile of kind of our

2012
01:36:21,040 --> 01:36:23,960
Speaker 9: target target for lack of a better term.

2013
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 5: And we're going to go mine the dark web and

2014
01:36:26,360 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 5: the regular web.

2015
01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:29,280
Speaker 1: And I'm wondering if this was going to happen. I

2016
01:36:30,200 --> 01:36:33,599
Speaker 1: thought that this would be a possibility. So interesting. So yeah,

2017
01:36:33,640 --> 01:36:36,280
Speaker 1: they so they are a little bit more targeted than

2018
01:36:36,560 --> 01:36:37,599
Speaker 1: in years past.

2019
01:36:38,439 --> 01:36:39,840
Speaker 5: That's that's absolutely right.

2020
01:36:39,880 --> 01:36:41,439
Speaker 9: And you know, when you think about it, all of

2021
01:36:41,479 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 9: these scams, all scams in general, really they're a confidence game, right.

2022
01:36:45,080 --> 01:36:47,320
Speaker 9: They're looking to make you think that you're they're your

2023
01:36:47,400 --> 01:36:49,839
Speaker 9: friend and they're going to help you out and they've

2024
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:53,240
Speaker 9: got something for you. And the more information about you

2025
01:36:53,600 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 9: that they can show up to that confidence game with,

2026
01:36:56,360 --> 01:36:59,240
Speaker 9: the more credible they appear, and the more credible they appear,

2027
01:36:59,520 --> 01:37:01,760
Speaker 9: the more like you are to start run in your

2028
01:37:01,800 --> 01:37:03,840
Speaker 9: mouth and giving them a bunch of information you probably

2029
01:37:03,880 --> 01:37:04,760
Speaker 9: shouldn't be given them.

2030
01:37:05,120 --> 01:37:05,519
Speaker 3: I had.

2031
01:37:05,800 --> 01:37:07,960
Speaker 1: Okay, so this is kind of what you're talking about.

2032
01:37:07,960 --> 01:37:10,000
Speaker 1: But I you know, I get people email me pr

2033
01:37:10,040 --> 01:37:12,120
Speaker 1: people email me all the time and they say like, hey,

2034
01:37:12,360 --> 01:37:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, we want to bring you out to this event.

2035
01:37:14,000 --> 01:37:15,599
Speaker 1: We want to, you know, take you here, we want

2036
01:37:15,600 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 1: to do this whatever. And so for one of them,

2037
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:20,200
Speaker 1: I actually had to write back to the person and say,

2038
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 1: you know, I need you to confirm that you're real,

2039
01:37:22,360 --> 01:37:24,280
Speaker 1: like that this is like you have to They had

2040
01:37:24,320 --> 01:37:26,640
Speaker 1: to give me some piece of information that that you know,

2041
01:37:26,960 --> 01:37:29,320
Speaker 1: wasn't a scam so that I can confirm that they

2042
01:37:29,320 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 1: were like actually a legitimate organization. And it took me

2043
01:37:32,600 --> 01:37:34,160
Speaker 1: a bit to figure that out. And I said to them,

2044
01:37:34,120 --> 01:37:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm sorry I have to do this, but like I

2045
01:37:36,240 --> 01:37:38,880
Speaker 1: don't know you, and you're asking for this information and

2046
01:37:38,920 --> 01:37:41,080
Speaker 1: this that so I need we need to kind of

2047
01:37:41,160 --> 01:37:44,320
Speaker 1: verify this. And it's such a weird world that we

2048
01:37:44,400 --> 01:37:46,240
Speaker 1: live in now that we even have to think that way.

2049
01:37:46,320 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 1: But it's probably just going to get worse that we

2050
01:37:47,920 --> 01:37:48,439
Speaker 1: have to do that.

2051
01:37:49,080 --> 01:37:51,040
Speaker 5: Yeah, it really is. And I think you're right.

2052
01:37:51,120 --> 01:37:53,519
Speaker 9: I think the more information that gets out there about us,

2053
01:37:53,640 --> 01:37:55,880
Speaker 9: you know, the more and more defensive we have to be,

2054
01:37:55,960 --> 01:37:58,280
Speaker 9: and we have to be really careful about what we

2055
01:37:58,360 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 9: tell to someone on the other side of the phone,

2056
01:38:00,040 --> 01:38:01,200
Speaker 9: especially if they called us.

2057
01:38:01,600 --> 01:38:04,200
Speaker 1: Are people really answering these texts that I'm getting on

2058
01:38:04,200 --> 01:38:06,479
Speaker 1: a daily basis saying like Hey, how are you? Are

2059
01:38:06,520 --> 01:38:08,720
Speaker 1: you available for a moment? Like I just there's a

2060
01:38:08,800 --> 01:38:11,320
Speaker 1: laundry list of things these people say to you. What

2061
01:38:11,840 --> 01:38:14,439
Speaker 1: is the end game there? If I respond to this person,

2062
01:38:15,240 --> 01:38:16,680
Speaker 1: what is the end game? What are they trying to

2063
01:38:16,680 --> 01:38:17,160
Speaker 1: get out of me?

2064
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:18,040
Speaker 12: Yeah?

2065
01:38:18,160 --> 01:38:20,599
Speaker 9: You know again, it's a confidence game, right, And they

2066
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:24,920
Speaker 9: use all those very different opening phrases because that helps

2067
01:38:24,960 --> 01:38:26,439
Speaker 9: them slip by the filters.

2068
01:38:26,520 --> 01:38:26,680
Speaker 7: Right.

2069
01:38:26,760 --> 01:38:28,520
Speaker 5: If it's always.

2070
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:30,839
Speaker 9: Something different, it makes it very different or very difficult

2071
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 9: rather for those filters to catch that. But what they're

2072
01:38:33,320 --> 01:38:34,840
Speaker 9: trying to do is they're trying to get you to

2073
01:38:34,880 --> 01:38:38,560
Speaker 9: think there's somebody interesting, there's somebody cool, there's somebody you

2074
01:38:38,640 --> 01:38:41,320
Speaker 9: might want to hang out with. And once they get

2075
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:43,519
Speaker 9: you kind of on the hook, the next thing that

2076
01:38:43,560 --> 01:38:45,599
Speaker 9: they do is they try to get you off of

2077
01:38:45,880 --> 01:38:49,040
Speaker 9: whatever phone app you're using, whether it's you know, Android

2078
01:38:49,080 --> 01:38:52,439
Speaker 9: messages or Apple messages or whatever, and into one of

2079
01:38:52,439 --> 01:38:57,639
Speaker 9: these much looser environments like WhatsApp or like Telegram, where

2080
01:38:57,680 --> 01:39:02,200
Speaker 9: it's much easier and for them to manipulate kind of

2081
01:39:02,760 --> 01:39:05,519
Speaker 9: the conversation to do things like get you to click

2082
01:39:05,520 --> 01:39:09,000
Speaker 9: on links that will actually run applications inside of Telegram,

2083
01:39:09,439 --> 01:39:13,000
Speaker 9: and then basically they start being able to tap into,

2084
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:15,240
Speaker 9: you know, your phone, tap into your data.

2085
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:15,920
Speaker 5: Those types of things.

2086
01:39:15,960 --> 01:39:19,760
Speaker 9: There are a whole bunch of off the shelf toolkits

2087
01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 9: that are kind of out there again that lets you

2088
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:26,320
Speaker 9: spin up, you know, fake websites, stake anything pretty much

2089
01:39:26,400 --> 01:39:29,519
Speaker 9: inside of say Telegram, and get people to click on

2090
01:39:29,560 --> 01:39:33,120
Speaker 9: links and start giving you information. And because going back

2091
01:39:33,120 --> 01:39:36,080
Speaker 9: to your question about the carriers Telegram, what's happened, you know,

2092
01:39:36,439 --> 01:39:39,400
Speaker 9: pretty much unless you are that ecosystem, you can't see

2093
01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:40,360
Speaker 9: what's going on there.

2094
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:41,439
Speaker 5: We can't even see that.

2095
01:39:41,479 --> 01:39:43,680
Speaker 9: So it becomes very difficult to protect people in those

2096
01:39:43,720 --> 01:39:46,200
Speaker 9: environments because there's there's really no rules.

2097
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:48,439
Speaker 1: We had a woman a couple of weeks ago that

2098
01:39:48,479 --> 01:39:50,519
Speaker 1: call this set of celebrity had reached out to her

2099
01:39:50,520 --> 01:39:52,599
Speaker 1: and wanted to be friends, and they wanted to take

2100
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:56,360
Speaker 1: the conversation offline to I think it was email or something,

2101
01:39:56,400 --> 01:39:58,639
Speaker 1: and I said, why do you think this celebrity wants

2102
01:39:58,680 --> 01:39:59,280
Speaker 1: to be your friend?

2103
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:00,600
Speaker 3: Like, come on, you got to in.

2104
01:40:01,120 --> 01:40:04,599
Speaker 1: But issue is convinced, and it's it's really scary because

2105
01:40:04,960 --> 01:40:07,679
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many people out there and everyone

2106
01:40:07,760 --> 01:40:09,640
Speaker 1: is kind of dealing with their own stuff and kind

2107
01:40:09,680 --> 01:40:11,360
Speaker 1: of You know, some people are dealing with things very

2108
01:40:11,439 --> 01:40:14,240
Speaker 1: quickly and they're not thinking fast or they're not thinking

2109
01:40:14,280 --> 01:40:16,639
Speaker 1: slow enough. So what is your advice for people as

2110
01:40:16,640 --> 01:40:18,680
Speaker 1: we go into the holidays, as we go into the

2111
01:40:18,720 --> 01:40:23,240
Speaker 1: new year, how do we protect ourselves? Yeah, so you

2112
01:40:23,240 --> 01:40:24,680
Speaker 1: know you've got to take seconds to tell me. No,

2113
01:40:24,680 --> 01:40:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding.

2114
01:40:26,520 --> 01:40:29,479
Speaker 5: You know, the bad guys pray on three things.

2115
01:40:29,479 --> 01:40:32,880
Speaker 9: They pray on urgency, they pray on threat of financial

2116
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:36,120
Speaker 9: loss or gain, and they pray on sense of authority,

2117
01:40:36,400 --> 01:40:39,040
Speaker 9: and so they're always trying to use those levers against you.

2118
01:40:39,080 --> 01:40:40,960
Speaker 5: An urgency is the most dangerous one.

2119
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:43,439
Speaker 9: If someone's putting in a position where they're making it

2120
01:40:43,439 --> 01:40:45,200
Speaker 9: sound like if you don't answer right now, you're going

2121
01:40:45,240 --> 01:40:46,200
Speaker 9: to have big problems.

2122
01:40:46,640 --> 01:40:47,400
Speaker 5: The reality is.

2123
01:40:47,320 --> 01:40:49,160
Speaker 9: If you do answer right now, you're probably going to

2124
01:40:49,240 --> 01:40:51,080
Speaker 9: have big problems because you're going to do something you're

2125
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 9: not going to be able to unwind. So anytime somebody

2126
01:40:53,479 --> 01:40:56,120
Speaker 9: is trying to really press you like that, that's the

2127
01:40:56,160 --> 01:40:58,280
Speaker 9: time to step back and say, wait a second, like

2128
01:40:58,320 --> 01:40:59,960
Speaker 9: this seems too good to be true, or it seems

2129
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 9: it's weird to be true, or what have you. I'm

2130
01:41:02,560 --> 01:41:04,360
Speaker 9: going to take my time I'm not going to answer

2131
01:41:04,360 --> 01:41:07,000
Speaker 9: this question. I'll figure out another way to verify this,

2132
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:08,920
Speaker 9: whether it's calling them back or going to their.

2133
01:41:08,840 --> 01:41:09,840
Speaker 5: Website or what have you.

2134
01:41:10,360 --> 01:41:13,479
Speaker 9: But you know, really just not letting yourself get put

2135
01:41:13,520 --> 01:41:15,960
Speaker 9: into that position where you're, you know, you're feeling like

2136
01:41:16,000 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 9: you're being pressured to do something immediately.

2137
01:41:19,200 --> 01:41:21,639
Speaker 1: And how good is this normal robo app? I mean

2138
01:41:21,640 --> 01:41:23,280
Speaker 1: people are going to be looking this up to see

2139
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:25,080
Speaker 1: if they should get it. I mean, will it help

2140
01:41:25,240 --> 01:41:27,880
Speaker 1: with spam calls and spam texts and all that good stuff?

2141
01:41:28,280 --> 01:41:31,760
Speaker 9: You know, absolutely it will. We boast round a ninety

2142
01:41:31,840 --> 01:41:34,040
Speaker 9: nine percent rate of accuracy. We kind of have two

2143
01:41:34,120 --> 01:41:36,639
Speaker 9: levels of protection we provide. The first is we have

2144
01:41:36,720 --> 01:41:40,240
Speaker 9: a large database of phone numbers that we have seen

2145
01:41:40,320 --> 01:41:42,720
Speaker 9: before or that we have just seen that we know

2146
01:41:42,840 --> 01:41:43,760
Speaker 9: to be bad.

2147
01:41:43,920 --> 01:41:45,360
Speaker 5: And we block those immediately.

2148
01:41:45,720 --> 01:41:47,880
Speaker 9: And then the second level is if for some reason

2149
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:50,760
Speaker 9: a phone number passes that test, the next thing that

2150
01:41:50,840 --> 01:41:52,880
Speaker 9: happens is when that call connects to you. If you

2151
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,560
Speaker 9: have not seen that call before, it's not in your contacts,

2152
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:58,120
Speaker 9: if we don't know who that might be, we basically

2153
01:41:58,200 --> 01:41:59,840
Speaker 9: run it through a screen or where we say, hey,

2154
01:42:00,439 --> 01:42:03,120
Speaker 9: the person that you're calling is using Nomo robo. You

2155
01:42:03,160 --> 01:42:04,600
Speaker 9: need to tell us who you are, you need to

2156
01:42:04,600 --> 01:42:06,760
Speaker 9: tell us why you're calling, and then we analyze that

2157
01:42:06,840 --> 01:42:08,800
Speaker 9: audio and we make a decision whether or not to

2158
01:42:08,840 --> 01:42:11,080
Speaker 9: hand it over to the user, and then the user,

2159
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:12,920
Speaker 9: if we do hand it over, the user can also

2160
01:42:12,960 --> 01:42:15,200
Speaker 9: make thro own decision as to you know, Okay, so

2161
01:42:15,240 --> 01:42:16,960
Speaker 9: it says it's my kid's school, it looks like my

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Speaker 9: kid's schoolcumber cool, And they'll go ahead and answer that,

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Speaker 9: and if not, they can just let it go to

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Speaker 9: voicemail and listen to it later. And what we find

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Speaker 9: is through that screening process, almost never is a robo

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Speaker 9: caller going to work their way through that process. It's

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Speaker 9: just too hard, it takes too much time. They know

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Speaker 9: you're a savvy consumer and you're thinking about what you're doing,

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Speaker 9: and you're probably not a good target, and they'll just

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Speaker 9: hang up and move on to the next person.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 1: The website is Nomo robo dot com. Great insights. Matt

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Speaker 1: really appreciate it. I mean, it's just so frustrating when

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Speaker 1: you when you know, we don't get many phone calls

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Speaker 1: anymore these days, and when you look at your phone

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Speaker 1: and it's just it happens to me in the middle

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Speaker 1: of everything, like every meeting I'm in every it's like

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Speaker 1: it's so embarrassing. I'm like looking down at my phone

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Speaker 1: and of course my watch and it's like, oh, that's spam.

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Speaker 1: It's just so like frustrating. So thanks for the information.

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Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. Have a great holiday, Great thanks for

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Speaker 1: having me.

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Speaker 5: Same to you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Matt Zenko from Nomo Robo. All right, coming up,

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Speaker 1: we are going to open up the feedback. There's no

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Speaker 1: way I can get through it all, but I will

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Speaker 1: try to get through as much of what you emailed

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Speaker 1: me this week as possible. Right here on rich on Tech.

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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, rich on Tech

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Speaker 1: dot TV. Everything I mentioned is there. We're saying what

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Speaker 1: we're thankful for. I will chime in with what I'm

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Speaker 1: thankful for, my friends, my family, my kids, my wife,

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Speaker 1: let's see my jobs. Being able to do this every

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Speaker 1: week with you, I am thankful for so many things.

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Speaker 1: I had the car accident this year, which really kind

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Speaker 1: of shifted my paradigm in life. Like I said, I've

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Speaker 1: always enjoyed being here and doing what I do. But

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Speaker 1: now I have a new appreciation that this can all

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Speaker 1: be taken away at any moment and you are not

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Speaker 1: in control of that. That is a really something I

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Speaker 1: never thought of in my life. Like I was just

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01:44:13,960 --> 01:44:18,720
Speaker 1: cruising through life literally and figuratively until that happened and

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Speaker 1: it was like boom, out of nowhere. It's like, wait, what,

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Speaker 1: I'm not in control? Well, hold on what this can

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Speaker 1: all just be taken away? So please enjoy what you

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Speaker 1: have gratitude. It is tough sometimes to think about that

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Speaker 1: in our hectic, everyday lives, but just stop the scrolling

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Speaker 1: for a moment and just think about how amazing it

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Speaker 1: is that we are all here and how amazing our

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Speaker 1: world is.

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Speaker 3: I'm not kidding.

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Speaker 1: When it's sunny outside, just go outside and like just

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Speaker 1: touch the grass with your feet and just put your eyes,

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Speaker 1: like close your eyes and look at the sun. I'm

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01:44:54,439 --> 01:44:57,280
Speaker 1: not getting all woo woo here, but it's like there

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01:44:57,360 --> 01:45:00,000
Speaker 1: is something to it, and it really is a mirror

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Speaker 1: that we're all here. So that that's my spot, all right.

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Speaker 1: So when I tell you, I get a lot of feedback.

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Speaker 1: This is what we didn't get to in this year's shows.

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Speaker 1: So every week, I print out all the emails that

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Speaker 1: I get and I save them for the next week.

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Speaker 1: This is about half of twenty twenty five. This is

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Speaker 1: what we didn't get to this show.

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Speaker 10: It's a book.

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Speaker 1: It's a book. I mean, it's wild anyway. I mean

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Speaker 1: you could hear you to hear it. You probably can't

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Speaker 1: because these mics are so you probably can't hear that.

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Speaker 10: Oh no, you can hear it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you can hear it anyway.

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Speaker 1: So I do appreciate you sending these messages to me,

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01:45:34,080 --> 01:45:36,040
Speaker 1: and I do try to answer a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: I can't get to all of them on the air.

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Speaker 1: But okay, here we go. Let's see here. Nancy writes

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Speaker 1: in Hey, Rich, I love your segments on KTLA and

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Speaker 1: your newsletters. I'm sending a huge thank you because my

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01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:49,240
Speaker 1: computer recently hit me with that Microsoft locked screen and

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01:45:49,280 --> 01:45:52,080
Speaker 1: started talking to me. I freaked out, but I immediately

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01:45:52,120 --> 01:45:54,439
Speaker 1: turned the computer off and went to your website. I

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Speaker 1: was able to confirm it was just a scam. That

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Speaker 1: little bit of confirmation did so much for my peace

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Speaker 1: of mind. Truly priceless.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: Yes, remember all to plus f four. If that ever happens,

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01:46:04,920 --> 01:46:08,519
Speaker 1: you can turn that off can stop it. Richard in Hilton,

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01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:12,760
Speaker 1: New York, listening at Wham says, I wanted to share

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01:46:12,760 --> 01:46:14,800
Speaker 1: a budget cell service that's worked great for me and

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01:46:14,800 --> 01:46:16,800
Speaker 1: my wife. We've been using Tello for about a year.

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Speaker 1: I pay five dollars a month for unlimited text and

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Speaker 1: one hundred voice minutes. My wife pays six dollars for

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Speaker 1: a plan with more data. You can easily customize with

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01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:27,280
Speaker 1: more minutes or data. They run on T Mobile. The

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Speaker 1: big surprise has been the customer service. It's twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven and you get a real person in the US.

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Speaker 1: We've had zero problems. We love it. Yes, Tello doesn't

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Speaker 1: always get mentioned. I don't think they have any advertising budget,

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Speaker 1: but they are good. They are very customizable. Muriel says,

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, rich to you and your family. I appreciate

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Speaker 1: everything you do helping us make the sense of the

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Speaker 1: latest tech and pointing us in the right directions. I'm

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Speaker 1: seventy six years young and not very tech savvy, but

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Speaker 1: I've learned a few things and tried some of the

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Speaker 1: tips you've shared. I enjoy watching you. Merry Christmas and

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Speaker 1: a happy New Year, Muriel, Merry Christmas and a Happy

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01:46:59,320 --> 01:47:02,760
Speaker 1: New Year to you as well. Nick writes in I

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Speaker 1: agree with you on the dummies books. I use them

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Speaker 1: as introductions and for immediate learning, non advanced topics. That's

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Speaker 1: what I tell people good title, bad title, good book.

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Speaker 1: Otherwise they might think I'm insulting them. Thanks for a

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01:47:14,160 --> 01:47:19,720
Speaker 1: great show. Thank you, Nick, Charles and Diamond Bar. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to share a workground for anyone who still wants

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Speaker 1: to keep a land line but occasionally needs to facts.

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Speaker 3: Oh, here it is.

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Speaker 1: I use magic Jack. It costs thirty five dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: When I need to send a fact, I unplug my

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Speaker 1: desk phone from the landline, connect the magic Jack directly

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Speaker 1: to my hp printer, scan the send the pages disconnected

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Speaker 1: and switch everything back. I only send a few facts

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Speaker 1: as a year, and it works fine. I haven't need

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Speaker 1: to receive a facts in years, so this setup covers everything.

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Speaker 1: I love watching you on KTLA. Thank you, Charles. Yes,

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01:47:46,520 --> 01:47:49,280
Speaker 1: I said magic Jack is not officially supported, but hey,

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Speaker 1: if it works, it works.

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Speaker 3: Pam, thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: As a senior citizen who used to be pretty sech

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Speaker 1: tech savy, you have a real gift. You make me

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Speaker 1: feel better about what I know Instead of being overwhelmed

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Speaker 1: by what I I do not. My husband and I

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Speaker 1: watch KTLA every morning and every night. You are the best.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Pam.

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Speaker 1: You get the gold Star today for that. Charles says.

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Speaker 1: One tip for anyone needing Comcast service when you set

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Speaker 1: up a service call, always have the request marked with

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Speaker 1: company employee only only. That way you don't have to

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01:48:18,000 --> 01:48:20,360
Speaker 1: worry about getting a third party contractor who may or

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Speaker 1: may not have limited training.

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Speaker 3: Huh, that's interesting, Okay.

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Speaker 1: Sometimes customer service is based solely on who you get.

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Speaker 1: Donna in Tennessee says, I love your emails and newsletters.

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Speaker 1: We move from Mission Viejo to Mount Juliet, Tennessee, and

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Speaker 1: we saw you on the local news here in Nashville.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad you're not only in California. More people need

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Speaker 1: to know how great you are. Thank you, Donna. You

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Speaker 1: get the gold Star too. Remember I do pick these emails,

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Speaker 1: so they may be a little biased. Mm says hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I was listening when a caller said they were having

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Speaker 1: trouble connecting an older iPad to a new router. When

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Speaker 1: I upgraded my spectrum, it combined two point four five

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Speaker 1: gigaherts into one network. Anytime I need to connect an

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Speaker 1: older device that only works on two point four, I

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Speaker 1: have to log into the Spectrum website, temporarily switched a

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Speaker 1: router to two point four and the device will connect.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Alona in Edmunds Washington says, thank you. Okay, very very simple,

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Speaker 1: very easy. Diane says your show is wonderful, A must

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Speaker 1: do Saturday activity for me. Jennaro says rich Over my

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Speaker 1: ninety years, I've seen a lot. I've never seen things

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Speaker 1: change this fast. Staying current is stressful and expensive, and

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Speaker 1: that's most frightening, how much fakery there is. I'm not

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Speaker 1: a techie, but I stay tuned to you because you

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Speaker 1: make me feel safer and better able to protect my privacy.

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Speaker 1: You do a great job helping people understand what's real

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01:49:42,120 --> 01:49:46,080
Speaker 1: and what isn't. Thank you, Thank you, o MG, that's

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Speaker 1: going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: I cannot believe three years of this show just like that.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned on my website.

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Speaker 1: Rich on Tech dot TV can find me on social media.

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Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech. As we head into

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Speaker 1: the holiday, I hope you get to slow down a bit,

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Speaker 1: spend some time with your friends and family. Take a

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Speaker 1: moment to reflect on all the things we're grateful for.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. There are so many

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01:50:09,479 --> 01:50:11,880
Speaker 1: ways you can spend your time. I really appreciate you

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Speaker 1: spending it right here with me. Please do not drive distracted.

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Speaker 1: Those texts can wait. Thanks to everyone who makes this

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Speaker 1: show possible. Bobo on the board, Kim on phones, engineer,

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Speaker 1: Matt adam On fill in, Bill, Julie, and most of

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Speaker 1: all you, thank you for listening. My name is rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 1: Have a wonderful holiday. I will talk to you real soon.