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Speaker 2: I'm Rich Demiro and this is rich on Tech broadcasting

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Speaker 2: live from Los Angeles, coast to coast. This is the

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Speaker 2: show where I talk about the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 2: lot of good information in this week's show. You're gonna

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Speaker 2: today in real time. We've got some great guests this week.

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Speaker 2: Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with deal news dot com, is

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Speaker 2: going to talk Black Friday strategies for shopping. Then we've

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Speaker 2: got Edgar Dwarski, founder of Consumer World. He's gonna share

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Speaker 2: top tips to get a deal on Black Friday. And

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Speaker 2: Vitally Pacharski of Slick Deals is gonna highlight some of

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Speaker 2: the top deals out there for the holiday shopping season.

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Speaker 1: You see the theme in this week show.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is holiday shopping season in full swing, and

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that you get the best

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Speaker 2: deals and don't.

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Speaker 1: Get ripped off.

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Speaker 2: So this week, like many folks that are a little

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Speaker 2: bit early, I set up my holiday lights and I

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Speaker 2: So I set up my holiday lights and I just

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Speaker 2: the inside. You know, you lug all the boxes in

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Speaker 2: from the garage, you go through what you have number one.

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Speaker 2: You think you're going to remember the changes that you

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Speaker 2: Did I get this? How did I put that away?

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Speaker 2: You forget everything. As soon as you put that stuff

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Speaker 2: You're like, oh, next year, I'll remember that I bought

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Speaker 2: these new lights, or I put these lights on the tree,

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Speaker 2: or I put these lights outside. Now you forget everything.

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Speaker 2: So from now on, number one, I'm keeping a holiday

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Speaker 2: like here's the stuff I bought this year, Here's what

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Speaker 2: I go around to all of the holiday lights and

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Speaker 2: actually my anger went to just laughing out loud because

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Speaker 2: reality of tech in our world. Yes, thank you Bobo.

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Speaker 2: Oh so, anyway, I got a good laugh out of that.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty funny. Anyway, just know the

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Speaker 2: This week, I got an email from AMC. I'm part

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Speaker 2: for being a member, and here's how many movies you've

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Speaker 2: list and it's like, you've been a member since February

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Speaker 1: And so I realized something.

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Speaker 2: This same exact thing happened to me a couple of

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Speaker 2: years ago when I got this same exact email for

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Speaker 2: my gym membership and it was like, hey, Rich, thanks

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Speaker 2: And it was like, I did the math, and I

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, and I canceled that day.

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Speaker 2: Now the stubs I haven't canceled yet because I'm still like,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, Okay, we're getting into the holiday season.

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Speaker 1: I'll have some time off, maybe I'll see like two

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Speaker 2: But it made me realize that if you run any

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Speaker 2: sort of service where people are paying a subscription to you,

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Speaker 2: do not send them an email with how many times

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Speaker 2: they've gotten a use out of that subscription, because no

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Speaker 2: Like can you imagine if NETFLI send you an email

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Speaker 2: how much hours you've watched, and you do that math,

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Speaker 2: You're like, wait, I'm paying like twenty dollars an hour.

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Speaker 2: want to know them. Yesterday at work, we had this

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Speaker 2: So you know, we were literally at a brightly lit

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Speaker 1: Curtis Stone is a big celebrity chef. He hosted us.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, the reason I tell you this is because

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Speaker 2: was taking pictures on their iPhone and they're like, oh, let

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Speaker 2: me just air drop you those. And I will talk

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Speaker 2: So again, number one, don't assume people have it, especially

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Speaker 1: What do you have? Do you have an Android? Do

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Speaker 2: So on iPhone, obviously it's air drop and you'd be

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Speaker 2: surprised how many people don't know how to activate this.

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Speaker 2: You swipe from the upper right hand corner that will

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Speaker 2: bring up control panel. Then you tap, just tap like

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Speaker 2: will bring up a menu that says air drop. You

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Speaker 2: press and hold on that and it says everyone for

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Speaker 2: ten minutes, and that will enable you to share stuff

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Speaker 2: all Android phones called Nearby Share, and this is really handy.

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Speaker 2: So if you go into Settings Google Nearby Share, you

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Speaker 4: I have a situation here. I have a one target drive.

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Speaker 2: So I guess that's my number one question. I've already

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we've definitely made a lot of strides in the

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Speaker 6: last five years or so to make the site even

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Speaker 6: more user friendly so that you can get as broad

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Speaker 6: or as granular with your searches and your deal alerts

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Speaker 6: that you want and spend as much time with us

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Speaker 6: as you'd like to.

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Speaker 2: It's so interesting to me that Black Friday used to

446
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Speaker 2: only mean waiting in line at the store in store,

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Speaker 2: and now it is kind of both. It's online and

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Speaker 2: in store. Have we seen that shift in recent years?

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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 6: It's definitely shifted more online in recent years because of

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Speaker 6: the pandemic. I think we were already sort of seeing

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Speaker 6: things like in store doorbusters disappear.

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Speaker 2: I think those videos from uh Walmart, We're not going

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Speaker 2: to see those this year because those are always so fun.

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Speaker 6: We definitely have not seen any stories about tramplings in

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Speaker 6: the last few years, at least.

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Speaker 7: That I can recall.

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Speaker 6: But it's true like retailers have kind of already moved

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Speaker 6: away from that to some degree, and the pandemic really

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Speaker 6: just accelerated that whole situation.

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Speaker 7: So you basically can.

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Speaker 6: Find doorbusters online now, and you have a bunch of

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Speaker 6: major retailers that are closing for Thanksgiving Day, so the

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Speaker 6: pressure to do at least your initial shopping in store

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Speaker 6: has kind of disappeared.

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Speaker 2: So you deal with this stuff on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: What do we need to know in year twenty twenty

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Speaker 2: three for Black Friday?

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Speaker 6: So first of all, I would say check now, because

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Speaker 6: some major retailers have already started their sales. Amazon started

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Speaker 6: theirs yesterday, Best Buys started theirs yesterday.

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Speaker 7: Targets is due.

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Speaker 6: To start tomorrow, Walmart's will start on the twenty second,

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Speaker 6: So if you haven't started looking at the big eaes yet,

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Speaker 6: it's a good time to do so, just to get

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Speaker 6: an idea of what's coming. But also know that most

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Speaker 6: stores are probably gonna be closed on Thanksgiving Day, and

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Speaker 6: so that doesn't mean you have to wait until Black

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Speaker 6: Friday to do your shopping. The sales will start online

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Speaker 6: if they haven't started already, so be sure to carve

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Speaker 6: out some time in between carving the Turkey to take

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Speaker 6: a look at what's online and take advantage of any

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Speaker 6: early deals online that you can so that you can

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Speaker 6: kind of avoid the chaos that can.

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Speaker 7: Come with Black Friday shopping.

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Speaker 2: Where are we seeing the biggest discounts? Is it across

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Speaker 2: the board? Is it on electronics? Is it on TVs?

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Speaker 1: I heard laptops are going to be pretty hot this

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Speaker 1: year with the discounts.

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Speaker 6: Laptops are definitely seeing good deals. I will say one

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Speaker 6: thing that really stood out to me about TVs this

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Speaker 6: year is it's become apparent how much more affordable they are.

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Speaker 6: So a few years ago, I know that we were

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Speaker 6: all really excited to see like a seventy five inch

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Speaker 6: name brand TV for six hundred dollars or so, and

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Speaker 6: that's kind of become a mainstay thing for Black Friday

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Speaker 6: since then. But it's not six hundred dollars anymore. It's,

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Speaker 6: you know, five hundred eighty dollars, five hundred and fifty dollars,

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Speaker 6: depending on where you're shopping and what brand you're looking at.

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Speaker 6: So in general, TVs have gotten so affordable that you

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Speaker 6: should be able to find something on Black Friday that

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Speaker 6: fits any budget. But if you don't, you can also

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Speaker 6: shop at other times of year. So check back again

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Speaker 6: in January if you don't see a TV that fits

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Speaker 6: all of the boxes that you want. But the truth

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Speaker 6: is that there's so many on sale, and it's so

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Speaker 6: many different price points. I would be surprised if you

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Speaker 6: can't find something to fit your budget.

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Speaker 2: What about getting taken because this is an easy time

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Speaker 2: to see a deal that's too good to be true.

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Speaker 2: You do a search on Google, it comes up with

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Speaker 2: the price, it's some retailer you've never heard of. You

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Speaker 2: end up pressing by and next thing you know, it's

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Speaker 2: not what you expected or I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Does that happen these days? And how do you avoid

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Speaker 1: that it does?

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Speaker 6: And I generally say that it's best to kind of

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Speaker 6: make a list of stores that you know you want

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Speaker 6: a shop for Black Friday, or the ones that you're

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Speaker 6: comfortable with visiting if you need to. So maybe you

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Speaker 6: want to do all of your shopping at Target, but

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Speaker 6: they sell out of an iPad or something. Rather than

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Speaker 6: rely on this potentially shady business online that you've never

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Speaker 6: heard of, be ready to go to Walmart and best

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Speaker 6: Buy and even check warehouse clubs if you're a member

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Speaker 6: of like Costco or Sam's Club or BJ's Wholesale. Just

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Speaker 6: because they may not officially price match, but a lot

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Speaker 6: of retailers essentially will charge the same prices for the

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Speaker 6: really popular items this time of year.

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Speaker 7: So if it does sell out at one.

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Speaker 6: Place, you absolutely should be able to find it at

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Speaker 6: another reputable retailer without having to go online and do

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Speaker 6: some heavy hunting.

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Speaker 2: I've heard that a lot of these retailers, if it

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Speaker 2: says Black Friday deal, they won't price match. So can

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Speaker 2: you touch upon the return, exchange and price match policies

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Speaker 2: we should know about.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, So in general, I say that if you're shopping

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Speaker 6: for Black Friday, it's a safe bet to just assume

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Speaker 6: that there will be no official price matching. Like I

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Speaker 6: said before, that doesn't mean you won't be able to

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Speaker 6: find the same prices elsewhere. But if you see something

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Speaker 6: at Target and Walmart is closer, and you try to

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Speaker 6: get Walmart to price match for Black Friday.

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Speaker 7: That's not going to happen.

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Speaker 6: So instead of taking that step, what I encourage people

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Speaker 6: to do is look at what holiday price guarantees some

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Speaker 6: retailers are putting into place. So, for instance, Target has

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Speaker 6: its holiday price guarantee that started on October twenty second,

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Speaker 6: and essentially anything you buy at Target.

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Speaker 7: Okay, I shouldn't say anything.

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Speaker 6: Most things you buy at Target from October twenty second

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Speaker 6: through December twenty fourth will fall under this guarantee. So

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Speaker 6: if you bought them at Target and then they drop

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Speaker 6: in price before December twenty fourth, you should be able

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Speaker 6: to get a price adjustment. There's going to be some exclusions,

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Speaker 6: of course, but for the most part, you should be

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Speaker 6: able to safely pick up these items now, even if

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Speaker 6: they have Black Friday Deal on them or whatever, and

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Speaker 6: know that you're getting a good price, especially because I

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Speaker 6: don't think Target wants its associates to be doing a

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Speaker 6: lot of price adjustments later on.

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Speaker 7: So the author kind of good that if you see.

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Speaker 6: Something labeled a Black Friday Deal at Target, that's probably

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Speaker 6: the lowest price on that item you're going to see

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Speaker 6: this season.

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Speaker 2: All right, I've got about thirty seconds left. Should this

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Speaker 2: be fun? Is this a fun time of year or

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Speaker 2: is it super stressful for the shopping I think it.

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Speaker 7: Should be fun.

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Speaker 6: I say to you, all your shopping online, and if

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Speaker 6: you want your item sooner, opt for in store pickup,

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Speaker 6: and then that makes the whole thing significantly less stressful

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Speaker 6: in my book.

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Speaker 2: All Right, Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with dealnews dot com.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for joining me today. I really like

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Speaker 2: the website. Any any feature on the website people should

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Speaker 2: look for first, just click that big banner that says

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Speaker 2: Black Friday.

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Speaker 1: Huh, I would.

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Speaker 7: Say, click that big banner and check out all the

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Speaker 7: Black Friday deals.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: Thanks for having me, all right.

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Speaker 2: More of your calls at triple eight rich one O

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Speaker 2: one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 2: zero one. My name is Rich d'miro and you are

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Speaker 2: listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

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Speaker 2: triple eight rich one on one.

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Speaker 1: That's eight eight eight.

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Speaker 2: Seven four to two four one zero one website rich

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Speaker 2: on Tech dot TV. I got a message from Jen

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Speaker 2: She said, what the heck? Whose side are you on, Rich,

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Speaker 2: The wealthy companies, not the people who are forced to

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Speaker 2: pay subscriptions. Of course, we should know how much per

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Speaker 2: item view we're paying, and then we can make an

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Speaker 2: informed choice or continue or not.

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Speaker 1: Very strange. Yeah, I was kind of joking.

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Speaker 2: I mean, Louck companies could do whatever they want, but

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Speaker 2: I just thought it's funny. I think it's funny when

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Speaker 2: they send something that I think the reality is they're

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Speaker 2: trying to show you the value you're getting out of

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Speaker 2: your subscription, and in some cases like mine, you realize

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Speaker 2: just how bad of a value it is. So it's

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Speaker 2: kind of tongue in cheek. Jen, thank you for listening,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the feedback.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: But you know, sometimes I kind of you know, you

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Speaker 2: have to have a lighthearted sense of humor. Here, Bob

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Speaker 2: from Oral Valley, Arizona, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 3: Hi.

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Speaker 8: Rich, I have a question the Higher App. I've got

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Speaker 8: everything enabled, everything blocking. Every few weeks, I get one

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Speaker 8: call after the other, maybe twenty or thirty calls within

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Speaker 8: a minute from a Chevrolet dealer in California. So I

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Speaker 8: don't want to mention them because they might legitimate. Well

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Speaker 8: they can't leave a message, but it's annoying. It's just

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Speaker 8: I can see all the numbers of the calls on

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Speaker 8: the Higher App. So is there any way to even

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Speaker 8: block those or just let them come through? And what's

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Speaker 8: the reason for that same number coming through every few

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Speaker 8: weeks twenty or thirty calls at a time.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you have a car that they're trying to repossess.

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Speaker 8: Well, it's funny, you know. It's funny because the day

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Speaker 8: after I get those messages, I get a message saying, hey,

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Speaker 8: it's not my name. They say, hey, Johnny, are you

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Speaker 8: ready for a car alone? So I just send that

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Speaker 8: to I think it's seven seven two six When that's

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Speaker 8: reported as a spam.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think that. I think that it

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Speaker 2: could be. So it's the same number every time that's

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Speaker 2: calling you, same.

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Speaker 8: Number as the Chevrolet dealer in California, and I checked it.

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Speaker 8: Although that number for this Chevrolet DIY it'll looks different

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Speaker 8: than this one. It has their name. So I don't

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Speaker 8: know how they got my number and why they just

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Speaker 8: send twenty sometimes it's you know, thirty calls at a time,

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Speaker 8: just an a loop.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's that's weird. I mean, I don't think the

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Speaker 2: dealership would be calling like that unless.

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Speaker 1: It is I think so, unless it is a case.

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Speaker 2: Of mistake and identity and they are trying to reclaim

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Speaker 2: a car or something, and that could be you know,

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Speaker 2: they could just have your number popped in for someone

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Speaker 2: that they're trying to reach.

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Speaker 1: I have gotten those calls in the past. Are you

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Speaker 1: on an iPhone or Android iPhone?

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I think even though you're using this high app,

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Speaker 2: if it's coming from the same number every time, I

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Speaker 2: would just recommend using iPhones built in ability to block

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Speaker 2: a number. And so what I would do is go

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Speaker 2: into your recence, tap the little I that is next

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Speaker 2: to the phone number, and then scroll all the way

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Speaker 2: down and it says block this caller. And once you

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Speaker 2: block that caller, they will not be able to I

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Speaker 2: believe they It won't even ring your phone once it's blocked.

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Speaker 2: It's just not going to come through. So again, go

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Speaker 2: into your dialer app, tap the recens find this phone number,

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Speaker 2: tap the I next to it, and then tap block

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Speaker 2: this caller, and that should do it. There are similar

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Speaker 2: ways of doing that on both the Samsung devices and

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Speaker 2: the Pixel devices. So again it's the difference between using Hya,

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Speaker 2: which you're using a third party call screening app, and

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00:31:47,480 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 2: using the built in kind of dialer on the phone

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00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:52,200
Speaker 2: to just take care of that call before it even

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00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 2: reaches anything. So that's what I would do, and I

668
00:31:55,000 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 2: think that should take care of it. Otherwise on the

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Speaker 2: High app when and just in general with these spam calls.

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Speaker 2: My recommendation is number one, generally, don't pick them up.

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00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 2: So you don't want to pick them up, because when

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00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:12,840
Speaker 2: you pick them up sometimes it will register your number

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00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: as a live number, so they just dial a whole

674
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 2: bunch of numbers and if they see that someone picks

675
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 2: up that number, they're like, oh, we got a good one,

676
00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: and they may try to call that number again. So

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00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 2: that's generally what I would try to do is avoid

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00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,200
Speaker 2: picking up these spam calls at any rate. But for you,

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00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:31,760
Speaker 2: I think getting this number over and over and over,

680
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 2: just go ahead and use your phone dialer to block

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00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 2: that message. Let's go to Jim in Hysperia, California. Jim,

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00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:39,800
Speaker 2: you're on with Rich.

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00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:41,720
Speaker 9: I ain't Rich.

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00:32:41,760 --> 00:32:42,440
Speaker 10: How are you doing?

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00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: I am doing great, good good.

686
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 11: I have a question.

687
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 10: I ask some speakers from Nests Well that's actually Google.

688
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,800
Speaker 10: You know, they're called the Nest Audio Speakers.

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00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:56,120
Speaker 12: You know.

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00:32:56,200 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 10: I bought them from the Google Store.

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00:32:57,800 --> 00:32:58,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

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00:32:58,040 --> 00:33:00,760
Speaker 2: It's like a it's like two speakers basically, they're like

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Speaker 2: different colors.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Yeah. So I have a Wi Fi Spectrum and I

696
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,120
Speaker 10: have a six E. It's one of the updated routers,

697
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 10: and it's a it's called the six E router.

698
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:20,320
Speaker 1: That's the slatest.

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00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 10: Yeah, so every time that I connect the speaker, it

700
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 10: goes all the way through it and it catches it

701
00:33:29,360 --> 00:33:30,320
Speaker 10: and it connects.

702
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 11: But then.

703
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:37,520
Speaker 10: That it does something about an ap isolation where it

704
00:33:37,560 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 10: has to be enabled or disabled called and I've called

705
00:33:43,120 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 10: the spectrum and they've they've said, you know.

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00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, they can't help.

707
00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 10: You can't do that or something.

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Speaker 1: So on your router.

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00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: So ap isolation is basically a way to ensure that

710
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:04,280
Speaker 2: the items on your network are sort of isolated, almost

711
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,680
Speaker 2: like sandbox from other items, so that way they can't

712
00:34:07,760 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 2: ruin things on your network. They can only access certain resources.

713
00:34:11,480 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 2: So I think what's happening is it sounds like if

714
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,719
Speaker 2: it's giving you that message, either a you're connecting to

715
00:34:16,800 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 2: a guest network on your router, which I don't think

716
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,439
Speaker 2: you would be doing, but if you are, that could

717
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,680
Speaker 2: be the number one thing is switched to the standard network,

718
00:34:25,719 --> 00:34:28,560
Speaker 2: not the guest network. But if you're on the regular

719
00:34:28,560 --> 00:34:30,880
Speaker 2: network and you're still getting this error message, I would

720
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Speaker 2: go into your router settings and see if you can

721
00:34:33,239 --> 00:34:37,400
Speaker 2: turn off the AP isolation. And there could be different

722
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:41,360
Speaker 2: names for this. It could be wireless isolation, client isolation,

723
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 2: any of those settings. Just look for that and toggle

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00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:47,480
Speaker 2: that off. So the way to find your settings for

725
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: any router, they're typically printed on the bottom, and so

726
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 2: you flip your router over and that's the box that

727
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:56,080
Speaker 2: the cable company gives you. Printed on the bottom of

728
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,880
Speaker 2: that is usually an address. It usually starts with like

729
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 2: so it's like one nine eight one six eight something

730
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 2: like that. You type that into your web browser. That

731
00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 2: will bring you to the settings on your router. And

732
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,440
Speaker 2: usually there is a log in username and a password

733
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 2: that is from the factory printed on the bottom of

734
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 2: your router. So once you log in there, you can

735
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 2: look for your settings and look for that AP isolation.

736
00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 2: It may take a little bit for you to find it.

737
00:35:24,640 --> 00:35:26,240
Speaker 2: You have to go through all the Wi Fi settings

738
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:28,440
Speaker 2: and be careful because you don't want to change a

739
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: lot of stuff because these things come from the factory.

740
00:35:30,680 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 2: If you don't know what you're doing, it could be

741
00:35:32,800 --> 00:35:35,600
Speaker 2: detrimental to your wireless setup. Now, if you mess something

742
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 2: up and it's totally not working, there's usually a little

743
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,000
Speaker 2: push button on the bottom of your router that you

744
00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:43,440
Speaker 2: can press and hold for like twenty or thirty seconds

745
00:35:43,440 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 2: and it will put everything back to normal factory settings.

746
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 2: So if worst comes to worse you mess something up,

747
00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:50,759
Speaker 2: you can do that. But I would look into your

748
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 2: settings and see if you can do that, and once

749
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:58,000
Speaker 2: you turn off this ap isolation, then hopefully these speakers

750
00:35:58,040 --> 00:36:00,759
Speaker 2: can be able to get onto your network properly and

751
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:03,080
Speaker 2: talk to each other. The other thing I would do

752
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 2: is just make sure the software on these speakers is

753
00:36:06,200 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 2: up to date because these have been around for a while.

754
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:10,560
Speaker 2: But the problem is you may not be able to

755
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:13,000
Speaker 2: update them unless you get them on the network, so

756
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 2: it could be a game of chicken and egg here.

757
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 2: So good question, Jim, Thanks for the call today. Triple

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Speaker 2: A rich one O one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 2: zero one big, big, big surprise change at open ai.

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Speaker 2: This is wild. Now we know that ai is changing

783
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: things day by day, but little do we know behind

784
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 2: the scenes of open ai there were some issues. Sam Altman,

785
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,839
Speaker 2: CEO of open Ai, is gone. They booted him out

786
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 2: the board of directors. Why they said, based on a

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00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 2: review process they found he was not consistently candid in

788
00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: his communit locations with the board, which hindered their ability

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00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 2: to fulfill their responsibilities. What does that mean? What's that crypticness?

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00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: We don't know.

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00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: All we know is that the board did not like

792
00:38:12,440 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: what this guy was doing.

793
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,719
Speaker 2: This is the guy who invented chat GPT, the thing

794
00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:20,280
Speaker 2: that has single handedly changed the world in the last year,

795
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: and now he has moved on. Now he did tweet

796
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:26,359
Speaker 2: x whatever you want to talk about and he said, look,

797
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:27,240
Speaker 2: something's next.

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00:38:27,920 --> 00:38:29,800
Speaker 1: But this was not of his own doing.

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Speaker 2: And it's very odd for a company that is yeah,

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00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 2: they've been around for a bit, but just with their

801
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:39,479
Speaker 2: public product of chat GBT, that's only been around for

802
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,680
Speaker 2: about eleven months now or I guess almost a year.

803
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,439
Speaker 2: And by the way, they just did their developer day

804
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 2: last week, which means this guy was on stage talking

805
00:38:50,040 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 2: about how great this company is and all the great

806
00:38:52,520 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 2: things that are coming.

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00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,160
Speaker 1: So he did not see this coming.

808
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 2: He should have asked chat GBT, what's my future because

809
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 2: he would have found out. Maybe maybe chat GBT knew

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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 2: before he did.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

812
00:39:03,360 --> 00:39:05,520
Speaker 1: So we don't know what's gonna happen.

813
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 2: We don't know what this means for the quality or

814
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 2: future of chat GBT, or if they had something like

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00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 2: you know this, Uh, maybe they had like some humanoid

816
00:39:13,800 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 2: that they were building that he was secretly hiding in

817
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 2: like a you know, like one of those like alien tanks,

818
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 2: Like maybe he had one of those in the office

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00:39:20,880 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: and they found it and they're just like, Okay, you

820
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 2: gotta go, dude, this is getting weird. Chat GBT is

821
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:31,120
Speaker 2: getting too human. Anyway, I joke that is a joke, Jen,

822
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 2: don't email me.

823
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:33,959
Speaker 1: Just kidding.

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00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,560
Speaker 2: Anyway, So we'll see what happens with chat GBT. But

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00:39:38,600 --> 00:39:40,719
Speaker 2: this was a big, big surprise. And I usually don't

826
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 2: talk about, you know, employee changes on this show because

827
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:47,080
Speaker 2: that's not really consumer focused. But it's just very odd

828
00:39:47,120 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 2: and it is definitely the story that is getting the

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00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 2: most discussion I think I've ever seen on a tech

830
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 2: story in recent years, because it is just wild for

831
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 2: this guy to start such a transformative product and be

832
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 2: booted from his own company.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jack in Anaheim. Jack, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 12: Hi.

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Speaker 11: Rich, I have a primary question, but then when you

836
00:40:11,239 --> 00:40:13,560
Speaker 11: talked about chat g TP, I have a second follow up question.

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Speaker 11: My first question is very simple. I was looking at

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Speaker 11: some property on Zillo and the picture comes up in

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Speaker 11: it's it's blurred or digitally sneered out, and I noticed

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Speaker 11: when I went to Google the same thing. Is there

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Speaker 11: that the house, the front of the house or the

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Speaker 11: front of the property is is.

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00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's blurred. Yep.

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Speaker 11: How would I do that for my property? That properties

845
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Speaker 11: that I own?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can do this pretty easily. I actually did

847
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Speaker 2: this for Zillo a couple of weeks ago, and I

848
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:47,400
Speaker 2: couldn't believe how fast they did it. So when I

849
00:40:47,480 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 2: bought my house, all the pictures were on there, and

850
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 2: even though I edited. I claimed my house and I

851
00:40:53,719 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 2: edited and I said take these pictures off, they still

852
00:40:56,160 --> 00:40:58,359
Speaker 2: just remain there like they just every time I said

853
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,520
Speaker 2: edit and remove photos, they still were there. And I'm

854
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 2: not talking about the exterior. I'm talking about the interior.

855
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 2: I was like, you know, you could just see in

856
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,759
Speaker 2: detail every single room of my home. And so I

857
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,319
Speaker 2: was like, eh, I don't really need that, Like why

858
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: do I want people to take a tour of my house?

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00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:10,359
Speaker 3: Right?

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00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,000
Speaker 2: And so I emailed Zillo and I just sent them

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00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 2: my link to you know, the house, and they literally,

862
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 2: within I think it was like an hour, they said,

863
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:19,600
Speaker 2: all right, your pictures are gone.

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00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:19,880
Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 2: I didn't blur the outside. I didn't go that far.

866
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 2: But you can do that. So on Zillo, you have

867
00:41:25,320 --> 00:41:27,800
Speaker 2: to claim your house. If you've done that, you go

868
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: through that process of just going to the website sign

869
00:41:30,800 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: in claim your house and I don't know what it's

870
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,080
Speaker 2: been a long time since I claimed it, but basically

871
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 2: you put in your address and somehow you get to

872
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:41,120
Speaker 2: be the owner. I think they check like the property,

873
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,399
Speaker 2: like some little bit of info, and you confirm it

874
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,600
Speaker 2: with like a couple of questions, then it becomes yours.

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00:41:46,920 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: So that's the first thing you have to do.

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00:41:48,200 --> 00:41:50,480
Speaker 2: If you haven't done that, you do that, and then

877
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,880
Speaker 2: you can edit the facts from the owner's view. And

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00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:56,799
Speaker 2: there's a box that says hide photos displayed on your

879
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,439
Speaker 2: home's Zillo page and you can save those changes and

880
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 2: those photos will be blurred out and your your photo

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00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 2: of your exterior of your house will be blurred out.

882
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: So that's the number one way to do it.

883
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 11: But I don't want to delete the other photos of

884
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:11,920
Speaker 11: the injurior because I've done so much so I want

885
00:42:11,920 --> 00:42:15,080
Speaker 11: to be able to compare that when if I sell. Well,

886
00:42:15,760 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 11: I like those photos, but I just want to blur

887
00:42:17,320 --> 00:42:17,839
Speaker 11: out the front.

888
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: Well, there are different there's you can there's options for

889
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 2: the different photos, so you would just blur the photos

890
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 2: from the outside, so you're doing the opsode what I did.

891
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,839
Speaker 2: Now on Google you can do the same thing on

892
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:34,160
Speaker 2: Google Maps. And on Google Maps you can. I'm looking

893
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,040
Speaker 2: at the directions here, let's see, so you've got to go.

894
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:39,839
Speaker 2: I don't have the actual directions on how to do it,

895
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 2: but there is a way to do it.

896
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 11: Yeah, you did great. That's all I need is I

897
00:42:44,080 --> 00:42:47,640
Speaker 11: need a a sign pointing me the right direction. You've

898
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:49,120
Speaker 11: done that answer quick question.

899
00:42:49,120 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: But hold on.

900
00:42:49,640 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 2: Here's here's here's the main thing I want other people

901
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 2: to know about. About the whole Google Maps and blurring

902
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,560
Speaker 2: out your house. You can never get it back once

903
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:00,960
Speaker 2: it's blow or it does.

904
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:03,880
Speaker 1: Not come back. So okay, you just need to know that.

905
00:43:03,960 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 2: And the way you do it is actually you go

906
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:07,680
Speaker 2: to street View, you go to your house and there's

907
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 2: report a problem, and then you can, you know, go

908
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 2: through the steps and you can say my house request blurring.

909
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 2: I didn't go that far because you know, I just

910
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 2: I once I got to think about that, because once

911
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 2: you do it, it's it's gone. And I have been

912
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:22,880
Speaker 2: on street View and I've seen some of that stuff.

913
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 2: So I'll put those links on the show notes. But

914
00:43:25,719 --> 00:43:26,680
Speaker 2: what's the second question.

915
00:43:27,600 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 11: You just were talking about artificial intelligence, and I went

916
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,360
Speaker 11: on about two weeks ago to chat GPT or whatever

917
00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 11: it is, and I needed to ask you. They want

918
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 11: so much information for me to upload it or access it,

919
00:43:43,640 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 11: and I there was also actually like pictures of you know,

920
00:43:50,320 --> 00:43:55,240
Speaker 11: black background with white letters, okay, like copy and paste

921
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 11: to get it to work, okay, And it just seemed

922
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 11: like to INVASI to me, is that How is that

923
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:02,920
Speaker 11: how I would sign up to use it?

924
00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,800
Speaker 2: I don't think so, because I signed up in one click.

925
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 2: So I think you're on either a third party site

926
00:44:08,600 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 2: that is trying to hijack the chat GBT name.

927
00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: But the only.

928
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:17,560
Speaker 2: Website to access chat GBT, and it's free, by the way,

929
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:24,200
Speaker 2: is chat dot OpenAI dot com. So Jack, if you

930
00:44:24,239 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 2: weren't going to that website, I would go to that website.

931
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,680
Speaker 2: I signed up. I rarely do this, but I did

932
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:32,120
Speaker 2: sign up. I signed in using my Google account, so

933
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 2: I just signed in with Google. It gives you the

934
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 2: option of signing in with a couple of different ways,

935
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:40,040
Speaker 2: but I just did that. Now, I did say, let

936
00:44:40,080 --> 00:44:42,239
Speaker 2: me see if I see sign up. Okay, Yeah, it's

937
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,359
Speaker 2: just you know, ask you for email address. I do

938
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 2: think you have to confirm your phone number though, for sure,

939
00:44:47,440 --> 00:44:49,800
Speaker 2: because you know, they want to keep this from being abused,

940
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 2: so you know. But you can also use Google, Microsoft

941
00:44:53,440 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 2: or Apple to log in as well. I don't typically

942
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 2: recommend that, but for trusted websites like an open ai,

943
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,160
Speaker 2: I think that's fine. But I would check out chat

944
00:45:01,200 --> 00:45:05,759
Speaker 2: dot OpenAI dot com. That is the official website. They

945
00:45:05,760 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 2: also have an app for the iPhone and for Android.

946
00:45:08,640 --> 00:45:10,880
Speaker 2: But keep in mind there are a lot of what

947
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,840
Speaker 2: I call kling on apps. These are third party apps

948
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 2: that are using the Chat GBT name, and you just

949
00:45:16,680 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 2: have to be careful. And it gets a little confusing

950
00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:24,400
Speaker 2: because here's the thing. Many products use GPT for or

951
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,880
Speaker 2: GPT that is a product from CHATGBT, and companies have

952
00:45:28,960 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 2: the option of using chatgpt's technology to build their own

953
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,600
Speaker 2: AI products, and so it gets very confusing because yes,

954
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:41,600
Speaker 2: a product like Notion or a product like Everno or

955
00:45:41,760 --> 00:45:44,120
Speaker 2: any app that you download nowadays, it says, hey we

956
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 2: have AI and it's usually a GPT and usually on

957
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:52,520
Speaker 2: the back end it is being powered by OpenAI's GPT technology.

958
00:45:52,800 --> 00:45:57,360
Speaker 2: But the official CHATGPT lives at chat dot OpenAI dot com.

959
00:45:57,440 --> 00:45:59,600
Speaker 2: That is the website you want to go to and

960
00:45:59,840 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 2: I actually have been using chat GBT more. I was

961
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: using Claude by Anthropic, but with this latest I pay

962
00:46:06,840 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 2: for the twenty dollars a month for chat gbt the premium,

963
00:46:09,600 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 2: and it is just quite incredible what it can do.

964
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,280
Speaker 2: If you want to see an example, I actually posted

965
00:46:14,280 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 2: a picture today on my Instagram uh and my stories

966
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 2: at rich on Tech, and I ask people if they're

967
00:46:20,160 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 2: watching the USC or UCLA game, and the picture I

968
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 2: have on there is actually AI generated. It is just

969
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:32,239
Speaker 2: wild what this thing can do. All right, great questions, Jack,

970
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:34,520
Speaker 2: Thanks so much for the call today at Triple eight

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Speaker 2: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 2: two four one zero one. This hour, we've got Edgar Dwarski,

973
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Speaker 2: founder of Consumer World, coming up, plus more of your

974
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 2: questions right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

975
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Speaker 2: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

976
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 2: talking technology at Triple eight rich one on one eight

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Speaker 2: eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: Coming up this hour, we're going to talk to the

979
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Speaker 2: founder of Consumer World, one of the websites that I

980
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Speaker 2: visit every day, Edgar Dwarski. He's going to share top

981
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 2: tips on how to get a deal on Black Friday. Plus,

982
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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you how to set up emergency

983
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 2: services on your smartphone. Very very important. Let's go to

984
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Speaker 2: Ken in Aurora, Colorado. Ken, you're on with rich All.

985
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Speaker 13: Hi, thanks for taking my call. Well, I'm just calling

986
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 13: on behalf of a friend of mine. Her relative is

987
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:38,879
Speaker 13: planning to buy her a brand new phone smartphone and

988
00:47:39,040 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 13: then put that phone on the relative phone service company,

989
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:45,839
Speaker 13: and then the relative would then be paying that.

990
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: Phone bill for her nice relative?

991
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 13: Yeah, what's that?

992
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:52,040
Speaker 1: Nice relative?

993
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 13: Yeah really, I've been I was a petted about that myself. However,

994
00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 13: my friend has a fairly new Moto Gen Android smartphone,

995
00:48:04,120 --> 00:48:06,600
Speaker 13: and that of course has her photos and her phone

996
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 13: list and all the apps that she enjoys. And so

997
00:48:09,400 --> 00:48:13,799
Speaker 13: here's my question of instead of that relative buying a

998
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 13: brand new phone and shipping it to it, would it

999
00:48:16,120 --> 00:48:20,840
Speaker 13: be doable for my friends to ask her relative to

1000
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:24,080
Speaker 13: use the I M E I numbers from the Moto

1001
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 13: g at the phone store to switch my my friend's

1002
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 13: phone service over to the relative's phone service by computer

1003
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,320
Speaker 13: at the phone store without having without having the relative

1004
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 13: buy a brand new phone. Is that doable?

1005
00:48:40,680 --> 00:48:42,800
Speaker 1: Oh? You lost me? I'm confused.

1006
00:48:42,920 --> 00:48:46,359
Speaker 2: Okay, So so the okay, you've got you've got the

1007
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 2: Moto G phone.

1008
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: Is that already? Is that the old phone or the

1009
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:49,600
Speaker 1: new phone?

1010
00:48:50,120 --> 00:48:51,000
Speaker 12: That's the old.

1011
00:48:50,800 --> 00:48:53,440
Speaker 13: Phone okay, once she had that at this moment.

1012
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: Okay, she's got that phone, and then she's she's going

1013
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 2: to get a new phone.

1014
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,759
Speaker 13: Yeah, her, her, her, the relative wants to buy her

1015
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:02,279
Speaker 13: a new phone.

1016
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: Okay. And the relative lives somewhere.

1017
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 13: Else correct, yeah, her relative of Oh.

1018
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 2: And the relative is going to pay for the phone,

1019
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:11,800
Speaker 2: and she's going to pay for the service.

1020
00:49:12,680 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 4: Correct.

1021
00:49:13,160 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, So the relative should buy the phone where she lives,

1022
00:49:17,120 --> 00:49:20,000
Speaker 2: buy the phone, go into her carrier, activate the phone,

1023
00:49:20,000 --> 00:49:21,800
Speaker 2: and then ship it to the person that's going to

1024
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 2: use it.

1025
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 13: Okay, Yes, that's correct. That that that is the plan

1026
00:49:26,360 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 13: at the moment. Okay, but what but what I'm asking

1027
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 13: And to save this relative some money? Yeah, and to

1028
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:37,080
Speaker 13: make it more straightforward for my friend to hang on

1029
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:41,200
Speaker 13: to her her photos and her apps and the phone

1030
00:49:41,200 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 13: that that are on the old phone. Uh can uh?

1031
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:49,399
Speaker 13: And my friend's relative takes the I N E I

1032
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 13: numbers from the Moto G to the phone store where

1033
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 13: she was planning on buying the new phone, and then

1034
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:03,840
Speaker 13: just the employee there using those I am I numbers

1035
00:50:04,320 --> 00:50:08,840
Speaker 13: just uh kind of by remote controls with the phone

1036
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:10,560
Speaker 13: service from the old phone.

1037
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:14,800
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, it's possible. It's possible.

1038
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,480
Speaker 2: I'm a little confused, but it's one hundred percent possible

1039
00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 2: that you can you can activate a phone using just

1040
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,640
Speaker 2: the Imei numbers. That's that's pretty much how all of

1041
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 2: the carriers do it nowadays. But what's confusing is your

1042
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:28,520
Speaker 2: friend has to procure the new phone. How's she getting

1043
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 2: the new phone?

1044
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:32,919
Speaker 13: Okay, Well, the plan was, like you said a few

1045
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 13: months ago, the rug is going to go and buy

1046
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 13: the phone and put that phone on the relatives phone

1047
00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 13: service and then then ship it to my friend. Yeah,

1048
00:50:41,640 --> 00:50:47,240
Speaker 13: well and but uh uh but that but there's nothing

1049
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 13: in that plan about saving my friend's photos.

1050
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 1: Well it's a friend, okay. So when that's on on

1051
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 1: the Moto G, when.

1052
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 2: The friend gets the phone, she transfers the stuff from

1053
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 2: the Moto G to the new phone. She's going to

1054
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 2: have both phones, so it'll be easy to transfer the

1055
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,520
Speaker 2: stuff over. So it's whether the phone is activated or

1056
00:51:06,520 --> 00:51:08,200
Speaker 2: not doesn't really matter. I mean, it's going to be

1057
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:10,719
Speaker 2: activated when she gets it. Now, if you're asking me

1058
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:13,960
Speaker 2: if the if the relative, if the person that's getting

1059
00:51:13,960 --> 00:51:16,440
Speaker 2: this phone can go out and buy it themselves and

1060
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 2: then activate it like remotely on the other person's account,

1061
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 2: that could also be an option. And it's not that nothing.

1062
00:51:25,719 --> 00:51:28,759
Speaker 2: The carriers don't require a physical phone in their hand

1063
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:31,959
Speaker 2: to activate it. If it's if it's being activated without

1064
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 2: a SIM card, usually it's it's being activated nowadays with

1065
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:38,360
Speaker 2: an eSIM So you can do that online.

1066
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:39,840
Speaker 1: You can do that on the phone.

1067
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 2: In fact, they don't want you to come into the

1068
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,919
Speaker 2: store anymore because guess what that costs them money because

1069
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:46,120
Speaker 2: they got to use one of their employees, so they

1070
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 2: would they would rather do this online. And yes, it

1071
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,400
Speaker 2: can all be done online. But the question is, because

1072
00:51:52,520 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: this phone is being used by a third party that

1073
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 2: is not the person. Your your friend is not going

1074
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 2: to be able to active this phone on their own

1075
00:52:01,239 --> 00:52:03,839
Speaker 2: because she's not the account owner. So it may come

1076
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 2: into play where you have to put your the person

1077
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: who's getting this phone has to put the other person

1078
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:11,719
Speaker 2: on the phone third party, and they have to get

1079
00:52:11,719 --> 00:52:14,959
Speaker 2: permission and be on the line to activate this phone

1080
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 2: because otherwise, you know, and I could just say, oh,

1081
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:18,800
Speaker 2: I know your account number, and I can activate a

1082
00:52:18,880 --> 00:52:19,560
Speaker 2: bunch of lines.

1083
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 1: But that's that's how I would do it.

1084
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 2: I mean, it sounds a little complicated, but the bottom

1085
00:52:25,320 --> 00:52:28,480
Speaker 2: line is that your friend has this Moto G phone

1086
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 2: unless they're trading it in, which you didn't say that.

1087
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:33,880
Speaker 2: Unless they're trading it in, she's still going to have

1088
00:52:33,920 --> 00:52:36,359
Speaker 2: that phone when the new phone arrives to her, whether

1089
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 2: your friend is sending her that phone, whether she's going

1090
00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:41,440
Speaker 2: out to Best Buy and purchasing that phone. But usually

1091
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,239
Speaker 2: if you purchase a store like that, they want to

1092
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: activate it in the store. So your friend who is

1093
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 2: getting the phone or giving them the phone needs to

1094
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 2: buy this phone online from like an Amazon or an

1095
00:52:52,880 --> 00:52:55,920
Speaker 2: Apple dot com and just ship it directly to this person.

1096
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,919
Speaker 2: And that's what I would do. When the person gets

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00:52:58,000 --> 00:53:01,759
Speaker 2: the phone, they can call their friend and you know,

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00:53:01,880 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: activate it with them on the line, call the you know,

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00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,919
Speaker 2: do a three way call whatever, and activate it through

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00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:09,839
Speaker 2: the cell phone company on that. But no, the phone

1101
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:12,360
Speaker 2: does not necessarily need to be in the physical presence

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00:53:12,400 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 2: of the store to activate. Many of these activations could

1103
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 2: be done online unless the phone doesn't support an eSIM

1104
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 2: and then it would be a little bit of a problem.

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00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,440
Speaker 2: So Ken, thanks so much for the call. Hope they

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00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 2: get that sorted out. But it sounds pretty straightforward. I mean,

1107
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:29,399
Speaker 2: it's obviously it's easier to be in person, but these

1108
00:53:29,400 --> 00:53:31,040
Speaker 2: things can be done. Kids are at college all the

1109
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:33,480
Speaker 2: time they get phones activated by their parents that are

1110
00:53:33,480 --> 00:53:36,200
Speaker 2: in different states that are still footing the bill. Because

1111
00:53:36,200 --> 00:53:38,040
Speaker 2: that's the best part about being in college. Your parents

1112
00:53:38,120 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: probably still pay for your stuff. Edgar Dwarski, founder of

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00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:46,200
Speaker 2: Consumer World, joining me next right here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 2: technology with you at Triple eight rich one on one

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Speaker 2: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one one.

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Speaker 2: Another website I check on a daily basis, Consumer World. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I check a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of websites on a daily basis.

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Speaker 2: This is run by Edgar Dwarski, and Edgar is on

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Speaker 2: the line.

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Speaker 1: Edgar, thanks for joining.

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Speaker 12: Me, Hi, Rich, thanks for having me on the program.

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00:54:16,920 --> 00:54:18,120
Speaker 1: Thanks for doing this.

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00:54:18,920 --> 00:54:23,440
Speaker 2: You posted about let's see ten tips to bag a

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00:54:23,600 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 2: Black Friday bargain. Now you've been covering this stuff for

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00:54:26,680 --> 00:54:28,520
Speaker 2: a long time. First off, just tell me about the

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00:54:28,560 --> 00:54:30,279
Speaker 2: website consumerworld dot org.

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00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 12: Well, I started Consumer World probably back in nineteen ninety five,

1130
00:54:36,400 --> 00:54:39,480
Speaker 12: you know, three months after Amazon and eBay who were born.

1131
00:54:39,800 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 13: I should only.

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00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:44,440
Speaker 12: Make half their money, oh Man, or a tiny percentage

1133
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:49,160
Speaker 12: of their money. It's basically consumer education website. I'm a

1134
00:54:49,320 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 12: consumer lawyer. I've worked at the AG's office in Massachusetts,

1135
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:57,320
Speaker 12: and I try to teach people how to be smart

1136
00:54:57,480 --> 00:55:01,080
Speaker 12: with their money, don't get taken by scam. And since

1137
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 12: I'm a bargain hunter at heart, I always look for

1138
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 12: a bargain of the week and once a year I

1139
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 12: do my top tips to find Black Friday bargains. And

1140
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 12: let me tell you, it's getting harder and harder every

1141
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,840
Speaker 12: year because of the way retailers have kind of jumped

1142
00:55:16,840 --> 00:55:17,240
Speaker 12: the gun.

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00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that?

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00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:25,960
Speaker 12: Retailers used to have Black Friday novel idea on Black

1145
00:55:26,000 --> 00:55:31,040
Speaker 12: Friday itself, and then they started offering deals on Thanksgiving,

1146
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,360
Speaker 12: and then they started on Wednesday before Black Friday, and

1147
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 12: then Sunday before Black Friday. Now as soon as November

1148
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:41,160
Speaker 12: rolls around, they do multiple things. I mean, for example,

1149
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:45,920
Speaker 12: Walmart did part one of their Black Friday sale and

1150
00:55:45,960 --> 00:55:48,319
Speaker 12: it began I think on the eighth or ninth of

1151
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 12: the month, and it's already over, and those deals are

1152
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:56,200
Speaker 12: not necessarily being repeated, so you don't know when to strike.

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00:55:57,320 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 2: Like the old days, you knew that you were getting

1154
00:55:59,600 --> 00:56:01,960
Speaker 2: the best on you know, Black Friday, if it was

1155
00:56:02,000 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 2: a doorbuster or whatever. Now it's just getting tougher because

1156
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:07,439
Speaker 2: the time is getting longer, and so you're like, wait,

1157
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 2: do I get it?

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00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 3: Now?

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00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:10,240
Speaker 1: Do you think it's gonna be better closer to the holiday?

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00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,800
Speaker 1: So I understand that exactly.

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Speaker 12: So it's very difficult to know. And this year the ads.

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00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,680
Speaker 12: You know, there are several websites that get the ads

1163
00:56:19,760 --> 00:56:23,560
Speaker 12: leaked to them so you can do your comparison, but

1164
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,240
Speaker 12: even those were late this year. I mean, for example,

1165
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:30,160
Speaker 12: home Depot and Low's still haven't put their ads out

1166
00:56:30,239 --> 00:56:32,920
Speaker 12: for Black Friday itself, so who knows what kind of

1167
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:34,759
Speaker 12: great deals they're going to have then.

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00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 2: Well, so your first tip is to read the ads.

1169
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 2: And so, like you said, it could be tough to

1170
00:56:40,719 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: get some of these, but to look at the ads

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00:56:42,920 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 2: that's obviously number one.

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Speaker 12: Then look at the ads. Go to Blackfriday dot gottadal

1173
00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 12: dot com. Most of the ads are there, so you

1174
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:53,680
Speaker 12: can kind of let your fingers do the walking and

1175
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 12: begin to write down model numbers of ones that you're

1176
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:02,160
Speaker 12: interested in, and then you say to valuate the deals, right,

1177
00:57:02,239 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 12: you know, getting getting a good price on allows your

1178
00:57:05,360 --> 00:57:11,359
Speaker 12: product is no bargain. So there are TV's galore, you know,

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00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,200
Speaker 12: go to I happen to Like r things dot com,

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00:57:14,400 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 12: r T I n G s dot com. I'm sure

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00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 12: you've recommended to your listeners other places to check reviews

1182
00:57:21,480 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 12: and see is this really a good TV or not?

1183
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:28,040
Speaker 12: And the same thing with other products, you know, go

1184
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:32,080
Speaker 12: to consumer reports, read reviews, you know on Amazon and

1185
00:57:32,120 --> 00:57:36,200
Speaker 12: best Buy and Target. They want to be educated and

1186
00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:40,360
Speaker 12: not just be lured by, you know, forty percent off

1187
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:42,919
Speaker 12: fifty percent off list price when no one ever pays

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00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:43,520
Speaker 12: the list price.

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00:57:43,840 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the website that has the funny name camelcammelcammel

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00:57:47,120 --> 00:57:50,000
Speaker 2: dot com. That's a great one for Amazon because you

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00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,880
Speaker 2: can pop in a ur L and you know, a

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00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:55,800
Speaker 2: product and you know, let's say Amazon is selling something

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00:57:55,880 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 2: for you know, eighty dollars. You can look at the

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00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:02,200
Speaker 2: price history. How has it been eighty dollars seventeen times

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00:58:02,240 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 2: this year? Or is this the lowest price it's ever been?

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00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:06,320
Speaker 2: And so that's a really good way to do it.

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Speaker 12: Oh, absolutely, that was That was my third tip because

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00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:14,200
Speaker 12: most of us don't track product prices all year, so

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Speaker 12: how do you know if what they're advertising really is

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Speaker 12: a good deal or not. And as you say, you know,

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00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 12: look at Camel, Camel Camel, see what the price history

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00:58:21,760 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 12: was at least at Amazon and some of the third

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00:58:23,960 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 12: party sellers.

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00:58:24,960 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: What's this triple play you're talking about?

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00:58:27,720 --> 00:58:32,400
Speaker 12: This is mostly at JC, Penny and Coal's. The idea

1206
00:58:32,640 --> 00:58:37,560
Speaker 12: is to maximize your savings. Look for great deals. To

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00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:40,680
Speaker 12: start with, is there a coupon so you can get

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00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 12: an extra twenty percent off or five dollars off a

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00:58:44,200 --> 00:58:48,160
Speaker 12: twenty five dollars purchase, and then see if there's a rebate.

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00:58:48,440 --> 00:58:50,800
Speaker 12: So if you get all three, even though it's technically

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00:58:50,840 --> 00:58:53,040
Speaker 12: a triple play, I think that's a home run.

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00:58:53,840 --> 00:58:56,000
Speaker 2: Now, what about these you say to you know, the

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00:58:56,120 --> 00:59:00,080
Speaker 2: early bird gets the lacklustered doorbusters, and then you say

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00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:01,200
Speaker 2: to beat the early birds.

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00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: What do you mean by that.

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00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:07,000
Speaker 12: Well, basically you need to be early. These are limited

1217
00:59:07,080 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 12: quantity deals, particularly on the better bargains, and sometimes you know,

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00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:16,160
Speaker 12: some places like Walmart, for example, puts the items online

1219
00:59:16,200 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 12: prior to it being available in the store, and you know,

1220
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:22,800
Speaker 12: there's not unlimited quantities. You're not going to be able

1221
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:25,200
Speaker 12: to get a rain check, so you got to be early,

1222
00:59:25,240 --> 00:59:28,439
Speaker 12: whether it's going online to get it as soon as

1223
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 12: the sale begins or going to the store when the

1224
00:59:31,640 --> 00:59:35,320
Speaker 12: door's open. I tell you, I miss the days that

1225
00:59:35,360 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 12: you have to get up at four in the morning

1226
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:39,560
Speaker 12: and go out to Cohl's or Staples for a five

1227
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:41,080
Speaker 12: am or six am opening.

1228
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Speaker 2: And I did that many many times in my earlier

1229
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:47,640
Speaker 2: years because it was so fun. It was almost like

1230
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 2: you had this camaraderie with folks that were standing out there.

1231
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:54,440
Speaker 12: Because absolutely you bonded with the other crazy people like

1232
00:59:54,520 --> 00:59:57,640
Speaker 12: you exactly and the doors open and to be this

1233
00:59:57,880 --> 01:00:01,400
Speaker 12: mad dash, all that's gone. As I said at the top,

1234
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 12: retailers have taken the fun out of Black Friday by

1235
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:06,479
Speaker 12: stretching it out all month.

1236
01:00:07,200 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 1: Any other tip that you want to mention.

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01:00:10,480 --> 01:00:13,560
Speaker 12: Just, you know, get a gift receipt if you're going

1238
01:00:13,640 --> 01:00:16,320
Speaker 12: to give the thing as a present. And one of

1239
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 12: my big tips be sure you keep checking prices just

1240
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 12: because you think you've you know, filled most of the

1241
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 12: items on your shopping list. The shopping in comparison pricing

1242
01:00:26,640 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 12: doesn't end. There many stores have price match guarantees, So

1243
01:00:31,400 --> 01:00:33,440
Speaker 12: keep looking at the ads, and if there's a better

1244
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:38,720
Speaker 12: price before the period runs out at the particular retail,

1245
01:00:38,960 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 12: go back to the store and get back the difference,

1246
01:00:41,280 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 12: and if they balk at it, return it and then

1247
01:00:43,560 --> 01:00:44,320
Speaker 12: repurchase it.

1248
01:00:44,640 --> 01:00:45,160
Speaker 1: There you go.

1249
01:00:45,800 --> 01:00:48,200
Speaker 2: Do you think people are getting scammed more now or

1250
01:00:48,240 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 2: back when you started? Consumer World?

1251
01:00:51,120 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 12: In general? I just think scams are far more prevalent.

1252
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 12: I mean, in nineteen ninety five, the internet was very new,

1253
01:00:58,600 --> 01:01:01,400
Speaker 12: you know, so we're talking about so many years later.

1254
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:07,320
Speaker 12: I think scammed, particularly around the holidays. Just be careful,

1255
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 12: don't click on links, and I'm sure you've taught your

1256
01:01:10,760 --> 01:01:13,640
Speaker 12: listeners hover over the links, see where it's really going.

1257
01:01:14,360 --> 01:01:17,240
Speaker 2: My favorite the stuff, my favorite thing that you post,

1258
01:01:17,280 --> 01:01:20,520
Speaker 2: by the way, is the shrink flation stuff, because I mean,

1259
01:01:20,520 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 2: I'm not kidding, every product that I remember from you know,

1260
01:01:24,040 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 2: my childhood or whatever, it's all just smaller. Everything's just tinier.

1261
01:01:27,000 --> 01:01:30,120
Speaker 2: But it's like the same price, if not more, right.

1262
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:32,320
Speaker 12: And if you don't pay attention to the net weight

1263
01:01:32,920 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 12: or the net count and size of sheets on paper

1264
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 12: towels and toilet paper, you're really getting less for your money.

1265
01:01:40,040 --> 01:01:42,280
Speaker 12: It's a sneaky way to pass on a price increase.

1266
01:01:42,480 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to leave it there.

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01:01:43,800 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 2: Edgar Dwarski, founder of Consumerworld dot org.

1268
01:01:47,960 --> 01:01:49,320
Speaker 1: Check out his website.

1269
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:52,760
Speaker 2: It is definitely a great a great stop each and

1270
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,760
Speaker 2: every day to kind of see what the world is,

1271
01:01:55,520 --> 01:01:58,160
Speaker 2: what the world needs to know about shopping and deals

1272
01:01:58,160 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 2: and all that stuff.

1273
01:01:58,760 --> 01:01:59,400
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining us.

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01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:02,800
Speaker 2: Okay, that's fine, I'll take I do it every day,

1275
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 2: but you know, but for yeah, once a week is great.

1276
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:06,919
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me today.

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01:02:07,000 --> 01:02:07,200
Speaker 12: Thanks.

1278
01:02:07,440 --> 01:02:10,479
Speaker 2: Ch All right, let's see. Let me tell you about

1279
01:02:10,520 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 2: this quickly before the break. Apple is extending its Emergency

1280
01:02:14,720 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: SOS via satellite for an extra year for free. So

1281
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 2: when this first came out on iPhone fourteen, they said

1282
01:02:21,400 --> 01:02:23,840
Speaker 2: users were going to get it for two years. They

1283
01:02:23,880 --> 01:02:27,760
Speaker 2: have now extended that for a third year. And this

1284
01:02:27,800 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 2: is available on the iPhone fourteen and fifteen models. This

1285
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:35,120
Speaker 2: allows you to text with emergency services even if you

1286
01:02:35,200 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 2: don't have a cellular or Wi Fi signal. It will

1287
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:41,840
Speaker 2: reach up into space and find a satellite and get

1288
01:02:41,880 --> 01:02:44,440
Speaker 2: your message for help through. And I actually interviewed a

1289
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,880
Speaker 2: woman who was on a hike and she fell. Actually

1290
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:49,920
Speaker 2: she didn't fall, she just stepped on some ground that

1291
01:02:50,040 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 2: gave way and her ankle popped and broke basically, and

1292
01:02:54,040 --> 01:02:56,800
Speaker 2: she was stranded, and her friend tried dialing nine one

1293
01:02:56,840 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 2: one on their phone and it didn't work, and she

1294
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:02,120
Speaker 2: goes here, try my phone, and lo and behold, it

1295
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 2: had this new feature. She even know about it, and

1296
01:03:04,720 --> 01:03:07,720
Speaker 2: it connected to the satellites. I interviewed the first responders

1297
01:03:07,840 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 2: and they said, yeah, these things are literally saving lives

1298
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 2: on a weekly basis. So I'm still waiting for Android

1299
01:03:14,960 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 2: to get this feature. But if you have it on

1300
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,720
Speaker 2: your iPhone fourteen or fifteen, get familiar with it. It's

1301
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:24,680
Speaker 2: called Emergency SOS via satellite. It could definitely save your life.

1302
01:03:24,720 --> 01:03:28,000
Speaker 2: The other takeaway I had from interviewing the first responders

1303
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 2: is don't discount texting nine one one, Like a lot

1304
01:03:31,640 --> 01:03:34,600
Speaker 2: of places will let you text nine one one, And

1305
01:03:34,680 --> 01:03:37,600
Speaker 2: even if you don't have this satellite feature, try texting

1306
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 2: nine one one if you don't have a signal, because

1307
01:03:39,200 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 2: sometimes that'll go through and it sounds like when you

1308
01:03:42,360 --> 01:03:45,760
Speaker 2: text nine one one, a lot of these places will

1309
01:03:45,760 --> 01:03:48,800
Speaker 2: get your location and other data about you that can

1310
01:03:48,840 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 2: really help them find you. So obviously calling nine one

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Speaker 2: one still kind of like the gold standard, but texting,

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Speaker 2: if it's available where you are, if you ever needed it,

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Speaker 2: that's a really good way to get in touch with

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Speaker 2: first responders. And a lot of people don't even realize

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Speaker 2: that's a thing. So check it out. See if the

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Speaker 2: city that you live in or the county you live

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Speaker 2: in offers texting to nine one one. A lot of

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Speaker 2: them do, which was very surprising to me. Coming up

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Speaker 2: after the break, I'm gonna tell you how to check

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Speaker 2: the emergency settings on the Samsung, on the Pixel on

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Speaker 2: the iPhone, so you are fully prep no matter which

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Speaker 2: phone you have for an emergency, hopefully you never need it.

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Speaker 2: Plus your calls at Triple eight Rich one o one

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Speaker 2: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Rich Demiro here talking technology at Triple eight rich one

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Speaker 2: oh one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 2: zero one. Karen in Orange County, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 14: Hi, how are you? I gotta tell you I listened

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Speaker 14: to Leo Laporte for yours and you were killing it.

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Speaker 1: Oh thank you, I mean so much.

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Speaker 14: I don't want to put him down. No, No, Leo

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Speaker 14: it's justos for what you're doing.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. I just take a little different approach. I

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Speaker 1: love Leo.

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Speaker 2: I think that he did a great job and still

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Speaker 2: does on his.

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Speaker 14: Show, an excellent job. I'm just yeah, it's pretty hard

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Speaker 14: to step in somebody else and shoes and do that's

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Speaker 14: a fine job that you're doing well. Thank you, And

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Speaker 14: I'm very very untechi. You're gonna probably tell me in

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Speaker 14: the second one I'm doing wrong. But I acquired a

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Speaker 14: new credit card a few months ago for the bonus

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Speaker 14: points of course, like those of us cent are into

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Speaker 14: that du so, I could use it towards a airfare

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Speaker 14: or a hotel and I always paid off within the

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Speaker 14: next month.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good this time.

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Speaker 14: I mean I would never get a credit card unless

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Speaker 14: I did that. I learned my lesson medi.

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Speaker 1: So did I.

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Speaker 2: I yeah, I got the free T shirt in college,

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Speaker 2: and next thing you know, I had five thousand dollars

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Speaker 2: worth of debt and I don't know where it went.

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Speaker 2: I have no idea how I acquired it, but it

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Speaker 2: took me.

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Speaker 14: My friend talked me into doing it, and I could

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Speaker 14: have killed him when all of a sudden, all these

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Speaker 14: charges show up. That's why he's an X anyway. I

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Speaker 14: you know, I study religiously my credit card statements, just

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Speaker 14: like I do my checking out every morning. The first

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Speaker 14: thing I do when I wake up, after I make

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Speaker 14: my coffee is to see if there's any unouth right charges.

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Speaker 14: So on this new credit card, and I don't know

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Speaker 14: if you want me to mention the bank or not.

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Speaker 14: There's this unouth right charge and it's PayPal. I don't

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Speaker 14: use PayPal. I did years ago only to help out

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Speaker 14: my nephew in another city because he needed money and

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Speaker 14: I didn't. I didn't have a way to. I wouldn't.

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Speaker 14: I don't send checks or I don't do anything like that,

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Speaker 14: so it is right. I called the credit card company.

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Speaker 14: Usually this is taking care of in a split second.

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Speaker 14: They go, well, we have to call the party you

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Speaker 14: paid the money to, And I said, why did you

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Speaker 14: know who they are? And I do donate to several

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Speaker 14: animal organizations, but that's why I've never heard of They're

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Speaker 14: not even in the United States, They're in counter and

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Speaker 14: so they go, well, we'll call them. I said that

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Speaker 14: I'm telling you right now, it's not an osright churne.

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Speaker 14: So they insisted on doing their thing, and then the credit.

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Speaker 1: Card or the or PayPal.

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Speaker 12: Credit card okay?

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Speaker 1: Good? So credit card okay?

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Speaker 2: So, I mean at the end of the day, since

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Speaker 2: it is a credit card, you just don't pay if

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Speaker 2: it's not, you know, you just dispute it.

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Speaker 14: Look figure, But they keep putting it. They reversed charges

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Speaker 14: and put it back on my billigin and I said,

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Speaker 14: I'm not paying for something I never all run okay,

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Speaker 14: And then I called the company and they're going, well,

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Speaker 14: you know, we don't we can't control it. PayPal this

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Speaker 14: you know they charged us to see if we reverse it.

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Speaker 14: I excuse me, anyway, I still don't. I called back

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Speaker 14: this credit card company and I said, are you kidding me?

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Speaker 13: How how do you.

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Speaker 14: I've never in my home and I've had I have

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Speaker 14: a have a Who cares that my credit rating as

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Speaker 14: above eight hundred? I said, who done this?

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Speaker 12: Though?

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Speaker 14: I said I didn't own ra take away all the

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Speaker 14: company said that it went through faith.

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Speaker 2: Now all right, well here's here's here's what I think

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Speaker 2: you should do, Karen. So a couple things. Number One,

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Speaker 2: ditch this credit card because they suck the fact that

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Speaker 2: they are questioning your dispute is just absolutely insane to me.

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Speaker 2: So you got to get a new card or no

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Speaker 2: card at all if you want to avoid stuff like

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Speaker 2: this in the future. And I understand it's scary to

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Speaker 2: use debit because you know, if something like this happens

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Speaker 2: with a debit card, it's on you and it's not

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Speaker 2: on your credit card. So you got to this card

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Speaker 2: is no good because there this company is really really bad.

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Speaker 2: So that's number one. Number two, you got to go

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Speaker 2: into your PayPal account. So it sounds to me like

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Speaker 2: your PayPal account was either hacked or you did make

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01:08:54,080 --> 01:08:57,559
Speaker 2: some sort of payment on this account a long time

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:01,519
Speaker 2: ago and it turned into a recur or authorized payment,

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Speaker 2: and this can happen, and this is what you know.

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Speaker 1: These companies are set up like this.

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Speaker 2: They want you to they want this to happen, and

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Speaker 2: so they make it really easy to make these transactions recurring,

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Speaker 2: and they make it really tricky to find the root

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Speaker 2: of them. And I just logged into my PayPal to

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Speaker 2: kind of see where all this stuff lives, and it

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Speaker 2: took me a bit to find it. And I do

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Speaker 2: have a couple of recurring payments on my PayPal and

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Speaker 2: so you know, these are things that every year they

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Speaker 2: surprise me. I go, oh, yeah, I forgot I put

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Speaker 2: that on my PayPal And of course we all do this,

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Speaker 2: and they love that we do this because everyone gets

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Speaker 2: a little piece of these payments. So log into your

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Speaker 2: PayPal count. If you can't remember what your information is,

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Speaker 2: you got to do a password reset whatever. Get into

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Speaker 2: your account, press the settings. First thing you need to

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Speaker 2: do is just look at your your activity and see

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Speaker 2: the activity on there. And if there's any activity that

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Speaker 2: you don't recognize, like me, I've got a payment in

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Speaker 2: August for thirty eight dollars. You can look at this

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01:09:58,240 --> 01:10:01,519
Speaker 2: payment and there's a re or a problem. So that

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Speaker 2: is the number one thing you can do to figure out,

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01:10:05,240 --> 01:10:07,439
Speaker 2: you know, if that payment was wrong, you can press

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01:10:07,479 --> 01:10:10,000
Speaker 2: that button. The other thing is to see if these

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Speaker 2: are recurring payments. So go into the settings. That's the

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01:10:12,640 --> 01:10:16,280
Speaker 2: gear icon upper right hand corner, and you will see

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Speaker 2: what is labeled as payments up at the top, and

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Speaker 2: you click that and you're gonna see online purchases, in

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01:10:24,240 --> 01:10:27,799
Speaker 2: store purchases, and then you scroll down it says automatic payments,

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01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,719
Speaker 2: View and update all of your subscriptions and automatic payments.

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01:10:32,080 --> 01:10:33,679
Speaker 2: Now I think this should be on the front page

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Speaker 2: of PayPal. Of course, it is one, two, three, at

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01:10:36,479 --> 01:10:39,519
Speaker 2: least three clicks in and a scroll. So you go

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01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,759
Speaker 2: there and you can now see all the different things

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Speaker 2: that you have linked to your PayPal, and for me,

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:50,320
Speaker 2: it's a whole bunch of stuff. Some donations I've done. Netflix.

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01:10:50,360 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 2: At one point I must have had connected to hear

1456
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:57,240
Speaker 2: Skype Doctor Squatch, which I do like. I like their soap.

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01:10:57,280 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 2: I'll admit I made fun of them during the Super

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01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:01,160
Speaker 2: Bowl commercials and I end up buying it and I

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01:11:01,200 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 2: love it. So that's on my PayPal apparently. And then

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01:11:06,200 --> 01:11:08,680
Speaker 2: you can go to your inactive so if you want

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01:11:08,720 --> 01:11:12,760
Speaker 2: to get rid of those payments, go in there and

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01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 2: make sure they are either stopped or disconnected. And then

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01:11:15,880 --> 01:11:19,360
Speaker 2: that will you know, says remove PayPal as a payment

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01:11:19,439 --> 01:11:23,840
Speaker 2: method on my bill aer here direct TV, and so

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01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:26,760
Speaker 2: you can remove that as a payment method, and it

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01:11:26,800 --> 01:11:29,679
Speaker 2: says this will cancel your auto pay for Direct TV.

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Speaker 2: You can do that and then you can make sure

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Speaker 2: that that will never be charged again. The other thing

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Speaker 2: I would say to do is go to your wallet

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Speaker 2: on PayPal and remove all of your payment methods. So

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Speaker 2: right now I have at least one, two, three, four

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01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,800
Speaker 2: payment methods on there. You can go through and remove those,

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01:11:48,320 --> 01:11:50,559
Speaker 2: and they may be tricky and they may not let

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01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:52,840
Speaker 2: you remove like the last one, but hopefully you can

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01:11:52,880 --> 01:11:55,040
Speaker 2: remove all of those. And if that credit card that

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01:11:55,080 --> 01:11:58,400
Speaker 2: you're talking about is on there, you should remove that

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Speaker 2: as well.

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Speaker 1: So, Karen, that's what I'd recommend.

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Speaker 2: And if you listen to this show, which just sounds

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Speaker 2: like you do, you know, I'm not a huge fan

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Speaker 2: of credit cards. I do try to default to cash

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01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:12,240
Speaker 2: and debit as much as possible, but I understand they

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01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:14,519
Speaker 2: are sort of a necessary evil, especially when you're playing

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01:12:14,520 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 2: the points game, which can be kind of fun, but

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01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:20,240
Speaker 2: you can also get burned. So just be careful out there,

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Speaker 2: rich on Tech. That closes out this hour. We'll be

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Speaker 2: back with more rich on Tech at Triple eight rich

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Speaker 2: one on one eighty eight seven four to two four

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Speaker 2: one zero one right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: Rich DeMuro here talking tech at Triple eight rich one

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Speaker 2: one zero one. You can find me on social media.

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Speaker 2: I am at rich on Tech on most of the media.

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Speaker 2: I Instagram, Facebook threads. Oh I did something on Instagram

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Speaker 2: which is kind of fun. I'm still trying to figure

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Speaker 2: out what the point of it is. But it's called

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Speaker 2: a broadcast channel, so it's called rich on Tech Direct,

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Speaker 2: and if you join, I can basically send you links

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Speaker 2: in your messages of you know, stuff I think is

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Speaker 1: So I don't really know how you sign up.

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Speaker 2: I guess you just go to my Instagram and just

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Speaker 2: somehow on there it says join the broadcast channel. I

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Speaker 2: think you can go to my stories too, But anyway,

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Speaker 2: I got a couple thousand of you on there, and

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Speaker 2: like last night, on a Friday night, I just sent

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Speaker 2: It's kind of like, I guess it's kind of like

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Speaker 2: the radio because you can't talk back, though that's the

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Speaker 2: weird thing.

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Speaker 1: You can't respond, so it's like a one way street.

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Speaker 2: So I'm still trying to figure out like what the

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Speaker 2: point of it is, but it's kind of fun, I

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Speaker 2: guess for links anyway, So if you're on Instagram at

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Speaker 2: rich on Tech, check out the rich on Tech Direct

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Speaker 2: I'm coming up and going to tell you how to

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Speaker 2: set up the emergency settings on your Samsung, on your Pixel,

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Speaker 2: for a while, So let's get to Bill in Altadena, California.

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Speaker 1: Bill, you're on with Rich.

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01:14:18,320 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 3: Hey.

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01:14:18,640 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 9: Rich, So I have an Alexa and we got a

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01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:27,720
Speaker 9: smart plug and we gave it a command to go

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01:14:27,880 --> 01:14:32,280
Speaker 9: on at a certain time, and it's been the wrong

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01:14:33,280 --> 01:14:37,840
Speaker 9: and we've been unable to cancel that instruction keeps going

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01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 9: on at the wrong time of day.

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01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:43,240
Speaker 2: Okay, I lost you a little bit there. So you

1534
01:14:43,320 --> 01:14:46,720
Speaker 2: basically set up a smart plug. You you gave it

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01:14:47,120 --> 01:14:50,400
Speaker 2: a routine, and now you can't get rid of that routine.

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01:14:51,120 --> 01:14:51,519
Speaker 3: Correct.

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01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 1: Okay, have you gone into the Alexa app, Yes, and.

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01:14:56,080 --> 01:14:58,800
Speaker 9: Deleted the routine, but it still continues on.

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01:14:59,120 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 1: Oh wow, on even after the routine is dead.

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01:15:03,200 --> 01:15:07,360
Speaker 15: Uh yeah, Well you sound like my story at the beginning,

1541
01:15:07,400 --> 01:15:09,120
Speaker 15: because these things seem to have a mind to their own.

1542
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:14,400
Speaker 15: An Alexa specifically, it seems to really like root its

1543
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:15,479
Speaker 15: way into a lot of stuff.

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01:15:15,479 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 2: Now, there's a couple of things that could be happening here.

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01:15:17,760 --> 01:15:19,960
Speaker 2: Number one, have do you do you want to just

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01:15:20,000 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 2: remove this plug altogether from your Alexa or do you.

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01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:27,920
Speaker 9: Still want to be able to remove it and reinstall it?

1548
01:15:28,080 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's an option that's like the nuclear option.

1549
01:15:30,840 --> 01:15:32,680
Speaker 2: If you want to try that, that might be the

1550
01:15:32,720 --> 01:15:34,559
Speaker 2: best way to do it if you can't figure it out.

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01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 2: But there's a couple of things. So Alexa does this

1552
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:40,720
Speaker 2: thing called hunches. I don't think it's that because it's

1553
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 2: happening at the same time every day, the exact time that.

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01:15:43,160 --> 01:15:43,680
Speaker 1: You set it.

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01:15:44,280 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 8: Correct.

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01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 2: Okay, So it sounds like either this plug is sort

1557
01:15:47,800 --> 01:15:50,200
Speaker 2: of like hard coded to turn on and off. Did

1558
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:52,840
Speaker 2: you use the Alexa app to create this routine or

1559
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:55,760
Speaker 2: did you use the what's the brand.

1560
01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:56,120
Speaker 1: Of this plug?

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01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:57,640
Speaker 9: Amazon?

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01:15:58,080 --> 01:15:59,879
Speaker 1: Oh, it's Amazon's own plug Okay.

1563
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:02,120
Speaker 9: So it is the but use we use the Alexa

1564
01:16:02,200 --> 01:16:02,720
Speaker 9: to create it?

1565
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:04,519
Speaker 1: You did use the Alexa to create it? Okay?

1566
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:07,720
Speaker 2: So I think, uh, it sounds like you want to

1567
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 2: remove this from your Alexa altogether. Have you tried doing

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01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 2: that by going into devices and then and then settings

1569
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:15,280
Speaker 2: and then trashing that device?

1570
01:16:15,320 --> 01:16:15,920
Speaker 1: Have you tried that?

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01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 12: Uh?

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01:16:18,040 --> 01:16:19,759
Speaker 9: Oh, trashing the whole Alexa device?

1573
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:21,759
Speaker 1: No, well, the the just the smart plug.

1574
01:16:23,360 --> 01:16:24,520
Speaker 9: No, we haven't.

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01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 1: So that's the.

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01:16:24,960 --> 01:16:27,160
Speaker 2: First thing I would do. So open up the app

1577
01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:30,720
Speaker 2: and open up go to all device or go to

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01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:34,280
Speaker 2: devices and then go to all devices, select that device

1579
01:16:34,320 --> 01:16:36,160
Speaker 2: whatever that plug is. If you have a bunch of them,

1580
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 2: it may may take you a little bit to figure

1581
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 2: out which one it is. Uh, select that plug and

1582
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,559
Speaker 2: then choose settings, and then there's a way to trash

1583
01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:45,040
Speaker 2: it and that will remove it from your Alexa completely,

1584
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,280
Speaker 2: and then you want to go through the repairing process

1585
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,880
Speaker 2: of setting it back up with your Alexa, which.

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01:16:50,720 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 1: Should be pretty quick and easy. Yeah, yeah, added device.

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01:16:55,640 --> 01:16:57,640
Speaker 2: That would be probably what I would do first. The

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01:16:57,680 --> 01:17:01,880
Speaker 2: other thing you can do is just factory reset the

1589
01:17:01,920 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 2: actual plug, and usually that will erase all of the commands.

1590
01:17:07,680 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 2: The problem is if once you repair it and Alexis says, oh,

1591
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:13,960
Speaker 2: it's the same plug, it may just send it that

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01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:16,720
Speaker 2: command again, and that that could be a possibility. So

1593
01:17:17,479 --> 01:17:20,599
Speaker 2: I have some of these smart plugs, and I'm not kidding, Bill,

1594
01:17:20,680 --> 01:17:23,519
Speaker 2: I have set up like five, six, seven years ago,

1595
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:25,519
Speaker 2: and they still every year I plug them in for

1596
01:17:25,560 --> 01:17:27,880
Speaker 2: the holidays and they still just follow the routine that

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01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:31,320
Speaker 2: I put on them, like literally eight years ago. And

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01:17:31,400 --> 01:17:33,240
Speaker 2: so these things do last or like a you know,

1599
01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:35,680
Speaker 2: it's like a zombie, they just continue to follow the

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01:17:35,720 --> 01:17:38,680
Speaker 2: same thing. And then the other side of this is

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01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:42,280
Speaker 2: that some of these devices, like a Weimo or a

1602
01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:45,960
Speaker 2: Genie or a Greenie, whatever the name is, sometimes they

1603
01:17:45,960 --> 01:17:48,760
Speaker 2: have their own apps, and if you set up the

1604
01:17:48,920 --> 01:17:53,360
Speaker 2: routine or the time on off through those apps, they

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01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 2: may continue to follow through with that routine even if

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01:17:56,120 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 2: you're not using that app, or if you delete it

1607
01:17:57,840 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 2: from your phone. So it kind of hard codes the

1608
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,280
Speaker 2: device to say, hey, go in on this time, going

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01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:04,679
Speaker 2: on that time, or does it from.

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01:18:04,520 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: A server level.

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01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different ways that these things

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01:18:08,160 --> 01:18:11,560
Speaker 2: can get very very confusing, very fast. But what I

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01:18:11,600 --> 01:18:15,200
Speaker 2: would do is just delete that device altogether, maybe do

1614
01:18:15,280 --> 01:18:17,960
Speaker 2: a factory reset on it, and you can just Google

1615
01:18:18,000 --> 01:18:19,720
Speaker 2: for the instructions on how to do that for that

1616
01:18:19,800 --> 01:18:22,760
Speaker 2: specific device, but I think that should help. Once you

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01:18:22,840 --> 01:18:25,040
Speaker 2: repair it, it should be gone. But just make sure

1618
01:18:25,200 --> 01:18:27,880
Speaker 2: you go into your routines and make sure that those

1619
01:18:29,000 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 2: that that routine is not still in there, because these

1620
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:34,719
Speaker 2: things have a way of kind of like living on forever,

1621
01:18:35,120 --> 01:18:38,520
Speaker 2: and Alexa has an interesting way of finding these devices

1622
01:18:39,040 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 2: even when you've sort of said stop doing stuff with them.

1623
01:18:42,400 --> 01:18:45,640
Speaker 2: So it's meant to make things easier. Sometimes it can

1624
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 2: make things a little tougher. But Bill, keep me posted. Okay,

1625
01:18:48,520 --> 01:18:50,080
Speaker 2: give me an email on the website. Let me know

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01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:51,599
Speaker 2: if you got it figured out, because I do want

1627
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:56,599
Speaker 2: to help you change this from happening. Okay, I promised

1628
01:18:56,640 --> 01:19:00,200
Speaker 2: you instructions for this, so I talked about Apple extending

1629
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,720
Speaker 2: the Emergency SOS. But on any phone, whether you have

1630
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:06,000
Speaker 2: an iPhone, whether you have Samsung, or whether you have

1631
01:19:06,120 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 2: a Pixel, there are emergency settings that you need to

1632
01:19:09,120 --> 01:19:12,680
Speaker 2: set up on your phone. So number one, iPhone, go

1633
01:19:12,720 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 2: into your settings, go into Emergency SOS, and there's a

1634
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:18,559
Speaker 2: couple of things you need to do. Number one, there

1635
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 2: is an option called call after Severe Crash. So the

1636
01:19:22,000 --> 01:19:24,519
Speaker 2: recent iPhones have a way to detect if you've been

1637
01:19:24,560 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 2: in a crash, and they will alert your emergency contacts

1638
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 2: and or nine will one, So you want to have

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01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 2: that turned on. The other thing you want to have

1640
01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:36,640
Speaker 2: turned on is your emergency contacts. So if you have

1641
01:19:36,720 --> 01:19:40,519
Speaker 2: not set up your emergency contacts, set those up. Take

1642
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:42,800
Speaker 2: a second to do that. And the way that you

1643
01:19:42,880 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 2: do that is right underneath emergency contacts. It'll say edit

1644
01:19:46,520 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 2: in health and that'll bring you to add an emergency

1645
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 2: contact add someone and they can get a text with

1646
01:19:53,040 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 2: your location, the fact that something happened to you, and

1647
01:19:58,360 --> 01:20:00,719
Speaker 2: they can hopefully help out if something or did happen.

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01:20:01,720 --> 01:20:02,960
Speaker 2: The other thing you want to do is, if you

1649
01:20:02,960 --> 01:20:05,439
Speaker 2: have an iPhone fourteen or fifteen, get familiar with this

1650
01:20:05,520 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 2: emergency SOS via Satellite demo. So scroll all the way

1651
01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 2: down under Emergency SOS in the settings and if it

1652
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:16,320
Speaker 2: says emergency SOS via Satellite Demo, try it out. It

1653
01:20:16,360 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 2: won't actually call nine one one, but it will look

1654
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:22,760
Speaker 2: into the satellites in the sky and help you, you know,

1655
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,519
Speaker 2: kind of coordinate your phone because you do have to

1656
01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:26,679
Speaker 2: have a clear vision of the sky or a clear

1657
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:28,880
Speaker 2: view of the sky, and you do have to move

1658
01:20:28,880 --> 01:20:31,000
Speaker 2: your phone around to get that clear view.

1659
01:20:31,360 --> 01:20:32,679
Speaker 1: And so you can just try that out.

1660
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 2: And then in the health app, so open up the

1661
01:20:35,400 --> 01:20:38,880
Speaker 2: health app on your iPhone and set up your medical ID.

1662
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:40,800
Speaker 2: So to do that, you go to your profile which

1663
01:20:40,840 --> 01:20:42,839
Speaker 2: is in the upper right hand corner. You tap medical

1664
01:20:42,880 --> 01:20:46,640
Speaker 2: ID and you put in your information your basics. You

1665
01:20:46,720 --> 01:20:50,240
Speaker 2: know your height, your weight, and also any allergies you

1666
01:20:50,320 --> 01:20:53,840
Speaker 2: might have. And then you want to make sure both

1667
01:20:53,840 --> 01:20:57,360
Speaker 2: of those emergency access options are enabled, and that will

1668
01:20:57,439 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 2: enable a first responder to access this information from your

1669
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,320
Speaker 2: home screen or I should say your lock screen, even

1670
01:21:03,360 --> 01:21:06,280
Speaker 2: without being able to unlock your phone. Very very important

1671
01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:11,320
Speaker 2: on Samsung. Go to Settings Safety and Emergency again, Settings

1672
01:21:11,479 --> 01:21:15,560
Speaker 2: Safety and Emergency, tap Medical Info, hit the pencil in

1673
01:21:15,560 --> 01:21:18,479
Speaker 2: the upper right hand corner, add edit your Info. Make

1674
01:21:18,520 --> 01:21:21,840
Speaker 2: sure that show unlock screen is enabled again, that will

1675
01:21:21,920 --> 01:21:25,799
Speaker 2: enable a first responder to access this information without unlocking

1676
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:30,800
Speaker 2: your phone. Then tap Emergency Contacts. Add those again, make

1677
01:21:30,840 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 2: sure show onlock screen is enabled, and finally, under Emergency SOS,

1678
01:21:35,960 --> 01:21:39,519
Speaker 2: make sure share info with with Emergency Contacts is enabled,

1679
01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 2: and then just check the settings under emergency Sharing. I'll

1680
01:21:43,920 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 2: share a funny story real quick. I was setting this

1681
01:21:45,920 --> 01:21:48,840
Speaker 2: up on my Samsung device and I put my mother

1682
01:21:48,880 --> 01:21:51,439
Speaker 2: in law in to test it out, and I'm not kidding.

1683
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,000
Speaker 2: I hit an option that actually sent her a text

1684
01:21:54,000 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 2: that said something had happened to me, and it sent

1685
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 2: a picture and the picture of was my legs like

1686
01:21:59,160 --> 01:22:03,400
Speaker 2: between my life thanks because that's where the phone was.

1687
01:22:03,520 --> 01:22:05,960
Speaker 2: Thankfully I was wearing pants because that would have been

1688
01:22:06,000 --> 01:22:09,360
Speaker 2: really embarrassing. She goes, what's this picture you just sent me?

1689
01:22:09,680 --> 01:22:12,320
Speaker 2: And I said, oh my gosh, what and sure enough

1690
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,240
Speaker 2: the phone had sent a picture. So be careful when

1691
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,080
Speaker 2: you set up these settings that you're not actually doing

1692
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,720
Speaker 2: the test on pixel. Go to settings safety and Emergency

1693
01:22:20,320 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 2: and make sure the medical information and emergency contacts is

1694
01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:26,960
Speaker 2: set up. Make sure emergency SOS and car crash detection

1695
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:29,679
Speaker 2: is turned on. Yes, the pixel has car crash detection.

1696
01:22:30,600 --> 01:22:32,719
Speaker 2: Then you want to open up the personal safety app

1697
01:22:32,720 --> 01:22:35,519
Speaker 2: on the pixel. Fill out your medical information and your

1698
01:22:35,560 --> 01:22:39,920
Speaker 2: emergency contacts, and make sure that emergency info access is

1699
01:22:40,040 --> 01:22:42,680
Speaker 2: enabled so that nine will one call centers will get

1700
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,160
Speaker 2: your location if you ever called them or texted them.

1701
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:49,440
Speaker 2: All this information is on my Instagram. Go to Instagram

1702
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:52,599
Speaker 2: at rich on tech and you'll see it is pinned

1703
01:22:52,720 --> 01:22:56,040
Speaker 2: to my profile. It says, don't wait, set up these

1704
01:22:56,080 --> 01:22:59,640
Speaker 2: life saving phone features today. All those instructions I just

1705
01:22:59,680 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 2: gave you you on Instagram at rich on tech. All right,

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01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:07,439
Speaker 2: coming up, we've got more of your calls, more of

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01:23:07,479 --> 01:23:10,559
Speaker 2: your questions. Plus we're gonna talk to Vitally Pacharski of

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Speaker 2: Slick Deals to highlight some of the top deals out

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01:23:14,040 --> 01:23:18,280
Speaker 2: there for the holiday shopping season. Eighty eight rich one

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Speaker 1: This is rich On Tech.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich On Tech. Triple eight Rich one

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Speaker 2: O one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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Speaker 2: Pacharski of Slick Deals.

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Speaker 1: He's going to highlight some of.

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Speaker 2: The top deals out there for the holiday shopping season.

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Speaker 2: Buzz is in Walnut Creek, California. Buzz you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 16: Hey, Rich, So I'm not here on I five actually

1720
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:54,680
Speaker 16: driving along with all the other not yet. And it

1721
01:23:54,800 --> 01:23:56,800
Speaker 16: could to be that a dash cam would be kind

1722
01:23:56,800 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 16: of a nice add on, not a test list. So

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01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:02,680
Speaker 16: it just because do you have any I don't know,

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01:24:02,760 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 16: Buyer's guide suggestion, something that will help filter the million

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01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:08,840
Speaker 16: reviews and that sort of thing. I'd like to be

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01:24:08,880 --> 01:24:12,559
Speaker 16: able to see the front camer just in case here

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01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:15,360
Speaker 16: is a collision, I can at please put that video evidence.

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01:24:17,120 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 2: Yeah, and here's the thing. The interesting thing about the

1729
01:24:20,200 --> 01:24:23,840
Speaker 2: rear camera is that unless it's on your bumper, you're

1730
01:24:23,840 --> 01:24:27,439
Speaker 2: not really going to get a full kind of rear video.

1731
01:24:27,760 --> 01:24:31,360
Speaker 2: So there are some cameras that I've seen in the

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01:24:31,400 --> 01:24:33,519
Speaker 2: past that do attached back there, but most of them

1733
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:36,040
Speaker 2: just have like a front facing camera and a camera

1734
01:24:36,080 --> 01:24:39,920
Speaker 2: that faces inside the car. And so, of course, the

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01:24:39,920 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 2: one time that I needed this, and I do have

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01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 2: a Tesla, the one time I needed it, I wasn't

1737
01:24:44,120 --> 01:24:47,479
Speaker 2: rolling and so it wasn't recording when I got hit

1738
01:24:47,520 --> 01:24:49,920
Speaker 2: and run on my car. So yes, I do think

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01:24:50,160 --> 01:24:53,680
Speaker 2: a dash cam is definitely I'm just gonna mute you

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01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:56,120
Speaker 2: there because here's some I hear the I five in

1741
01:24:56,160 --> 01:24:59,240
Speaker 2: the background there. But you know, I do think that

1742
01:24:59,320 --> 01:25:02,639
Speaker 2: the dash especially in California or anywhere. I mean, it's

1743
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:04,880
Speaker 2: just it's kind of like peace of mind. And so

1744
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:09,000
Speaker 2: I agree. There are many many reviews out there, and

1745
01:25:09,040 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 2: I've tested a couple of these over the years. I've

1746
01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:15,880
Speaker 2: test tested a company called Nexsar, which is which makes

1747
01:25:15,880 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 2: some really nice dash cams and they connect nicely to

1748
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:24,439
Speaker 2: the iPhone that's any Xaar. I've also connect tested a

1749
01:25:24,479 --> 01:25:29,400
Speaker 2: company called Vava va Va and they have some really

1750
01:25:29,400 --> 01:25:33,920
Speaker 2: great dash cams as well, and they're pretty inexpensive, so

1751
01:25:34,040 --> 01:25:36,120
Speaker 2: and I thought they were really This one was really great,

1752
01:25:36,120 --> 01:25:42,519
Speaker 2: the Vava ten ADP dual dash cam. And so I'm

1753
01:25:42,560 --> 01:25:45,439
Speaker 2: looking at this dash cam. It actually looks like you

1754
01:25:45,479 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 2: can put the front lens. It's interesting. It looks like

1755
01:25:50,280 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 2: there's a little lens that you can put kind of

1756
01:25:52,520 --> 01:25:55,519
Speaker 2: in the back, which they didn't have when I had this,

1757
01:25:55,640 --> 01:25:57,760
Speaker 2: so that may be able to go, yeah, into the

1758
01:25:57,760 --> 01:25:59,960
Speaker 2: rear of your car. So that's one hundred and nineteen dollars.

1759
01:26:00,600 --> 01:26:03,400
Speaker 2: The other brands that some of the other review sites like,

1760
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 2: and I know you said there's a bunch of reviews

1761
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,679
Speaker 2: out there, Yes there are, but some of the brands

1762
01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:10,320
Speaker 2: kind of come up over and over, and that is

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01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:15,040
Speaker 2: Van True v A N T r U E. Wirecutter

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01:26:15,160 --> 01:26:17,880
Speaker 2: has them as a top pick. And then another brand

1765
01:26:17,880 --> 01:26:20,120
Speaker 2: that a lot of reviewers seem to like is called

1766
01:26:20,200 --> 01:26:24,240
Speaker 2: Thinkware T h I N K W A R E,

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01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:28,280
Speaker 2: Nextspace n E X T B A s C that's

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01:26:28,320 --> 01:26:29,600
Speaker 2: another one that a lot of them like.

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01:26:29,680 --> 01:26:31,679
Speaker 1: And Garmin Garman.

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01:26:31,760 --> 01:26:33,960
Speaker 2: You might know that brand name from other products, but

1771
01:26:34,080 --> 01:26:37,479
Speaker 2: they apparently make some decent dash cams. But you want

1772
01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 2: the front and back cameras for sure. Some of the

1773
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:43,800
Speaker 2: features I would look for is, you know, it's really

1774
01:26:43,840 --> 01:26:47,160
Speaker 2: comes down to the software, the ability to download the

1775
01:26:47,240 --> 01:26:50,479
Speaker 2: video from these cameras if you ever need it, and

1776
01:26:51,080 --> 01:26:54,479
Speaker 2: the SD card. So you want to have expandable memory.

1777
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:58,719
Speaker 2: You want to have nice software. You want to have

1778
01:26:59,600 --> 01:27:02,600
Speaker 2: high quality video, because some of these the video is

1779
01:27:02,640 --> 01:27:04,320
Speaker 2: just not very good, Like if you ever needed to

1780
01:27:04,320 --> 01:27:06,240
Speaker 2: get a license plate or something, you wouldn't be able

1781
01:27:06,280 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 2: to see it. So those are the things that I

1782
01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:11,160
Speaker 2: would look for personally. The one that I really like

1783
01:27:11,280 --> 01:27:14,000
Speaker 2: is actually the Ring dash cam, and I know it's

1784
01:27:14,040 --> 01:27:18,000
Speaker 2: gotten kind of mixed reviews, but I really like it

1785
01:27:18,040 --> 01:27:20,600
Speaker 2: and I think it works pretty well, and so I

1786
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 2: would check that one as well if you do have

1787
01:27:22,400 --> 01:27:23,800
Speaker 2: Ring devices in your house.

1788
01:27:23,840 --> 01:27:25,760
Speaker 1: If you don't, then don't worry about it.

1789
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:27,720
Speaker 2: But the Ring, what I like about it is it

1790
01:27:27,760 --> 01:27:31,839
Speaker 2: has cellular connectivity, which means if something happens to your car,

1791
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 2: it will upload that video to the cloud, and so

1792
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:37,920
Speaker 2: even if they stole the camera or something like that,

1793
01:27:38,760 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 2: you'd still have that video. And so it's a little

1794
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:43,360
Speaker 2: bit more on the pricey side, but it looks like

1795
01:27:43,400 --> 01:27:45,880
Speaker 2: it's out of stock actually, but all of these cameras

1796
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:48,760
Speaker 2: are going to be on sale for the holidays, so

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01:27:49,160 --> 01:27:50,639
Speaker 2: it's probably a good time to get them, and they're

1798
01:27:50,640 --> 01:27:54,240
Speaker 2: probably going to be a good a good stocking stuffer

1799
01:27:54,240 --> 01:27:57,160
Speaker 2: this year. So the other thing is I would look

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01:27:57,200 --> 01:27:59,920
Speaker 2: for a G four sensor so if someone knocks into

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01:28:00,080 --> 01:28:03,439
Speaker 2: your car, it will automatically start recording, So you want

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01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 2: to have one that does that as well. And the

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01:28:05,240 --> 01:28:07,320
Speaker 2: other thing to look out for is really the power.

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01:28:07,920 --> 01:28:09,400
Speaker 2: Some of these can be kind of bulky. You do

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01:28:09,520 --> 01:28:12,519
Speaker 2: have to run a power cable to your you know,

1806
01:28:12,560 --> 01:28:16,200
Speaker 2: to your car somehow, and they all kind of connect differently, like,

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01:28:16,240 --> 01:28:19,160
Speaker 2: for instance, the ring one connects to the oh gosh,

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01:28:19,160 --> 01:28:20,679
Speaker 2: I always get this name wrong.

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01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:25,080
Speaker 1: OBD Gosh, is it the OBD two port? I think

1810
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:26,000
Speaker 1: that's what it's called.

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01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 2: But it's like this little kind of plug in the

1812
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:31,960
Speaker 2: lower left hand corner of your car, near the near

1813
01:28:32,000 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 2: your your driver's side like foot, and so that gets

1814
01:28:35,520 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 2: its power from there. Other others go into like a

1815
01:28:38,040 --> 01:28:42,400
Speaker 2: USB port or what you would call twelve volt used

1816
01:28:42,400 --> 01:28:43,719
Speaker 2: to be called the cigarette lighter.

1817
01:28:44,080 --> 01:28:45,320
Speaker 1: Now it's called the twelve vault.

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01:28:45,520 --> 01:28:48,960
Speaker 2: So buzz. Hopefully you got some good suggestions. They are

1819
01:28:49,000 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 2: good things to look for. Also, keep an eye out

1820
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 2: for deals, because I'm sure a lot of these things

1821
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:59,240
Speaker 2: will go on sale throughout the holiday season. Zell this

1822
01:28:59,320 --> 01:29:02,960
Speaker 2: is important. Zell is finally going to start refunding people

1823
01:29:03,240 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 2: if they get scammed. This is a big, big change

1824
01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:08,800
Speaker 2: for ZEL. So if you've tried Zel, it's the one

1825
01:29:08,800 --> 01:29:10,840
Speaker 2: that's built into your bank account. It's the one that

1826
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:15,479
Speaker 2: the big banks started to combat all the people using

1827
01:29:15,560 --> 01:29:19,439
Speaker 2: venmo and PayPal. So this was started by all these

1828
01:29:19,479 --> 01:29:22,599
Speaker 2: big banks like Chase and Bank of America. They said, hey,

1829
01:29:22,640 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 2: we want a little piece of that, and so they

1830
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,599
Speaker 2: started ZEL and they made it really easy because Zell

1831
01:29:26,720 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 2: is built into your app on your phone that you

1832
01:29:28,960 --> 01:29:31,639
Speaker 2: already have from your bank, and the money goes straight

1833
01:29:31,680 --> 01:29:34,719
Speaker 2: into your bank account. And there really are no fees

1834
01:29:34,760 --> 01:29:38,000
Speaker 2: that I've seen on this. But the problem is because

1835
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:40,960
Speaker 2: it's so easy and because it's so integrated into your bank,

1836
01:29:41,240 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 2: the scammers love it because as soon as they got

1837
01:29:43,240 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 2: the money from you, there is nothing you can do

1838
01:29:45,600 --> 01:29:47,960
Speaker 2: to get that money back. At least with venmo and

1839
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,479
Speaker 2: PayPal you might have a little bit of a fighting

1840
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:52,760
Speaker 2: chance of saying, hey, wait a second, this wasn't fair.

1841
01:29:53,360 --> 01:29:55,400
Speaker 2: But now Zell has kind of gotten with the times

1842
01:29:55,439 --> 01:29:58,360
Speaker 2: and they said, okay, we are actually going to start

1843
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 2: refunding victims of it imposter scams. And I think US

1844
01:30:03,120 --> 01:30:05,880
Speaker 2: regulators were kind of pressuring them to do this. But

1845
01:30:05,960 --> 01:30:08,560
Speaker 2: now people who are duped into sending money to scammers

1846
01:30:08,880 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 2: that are pretending to be government agencies, banks or service riders.

1847
01:30:12,680 --> 01:30:14,800
Speaker 2: Now you can ask Zel for your money back and

1848
01:30:14,840 --> 01:30:16,960
Speaker 2: they will actually figure out a way to go into

1849
01:30:16,960 --> 01:30:19,680
Speaker 2: the other person's bank account that you send it to

1850
01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:22,000
Speaker 2: grab that money back out and give it back to you.

1851
01:30:22,360 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be instant, it's not gonna be every

1852
01:30:24,240 --> 01:30:26,719
Speaker 2: single time, but you definitely have a better fighting chance.

1853
01:30:26,760 --> 01:30:28,959
Speaker 2: So thank you Zell for doing something good for the consumer.

1854
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:32,360
Speaker 2: Coming up next, we'll talk slick Deals on rich on Tech.

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01:30:34,920 --> 01:30:38,479
Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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01:30:38,560 --> 01:30:41,240
Speaker 2: technology with you at Triple eight Rich one oh one

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01:30:41,360 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 2: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,840
Speaker 2: If you want links to anything I've mentioned throughout the show,

1859
01:30:47,880 --> 01:30:51,240
Speaker 2: just go to the wiki rich on Tech dot tv

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01:30:51,680 --> 01:30:56,799
Speaker 2: slash wiki. Joining me now is Vitally Pacharski of Slick

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01:30:56,840 --> 01:30:59,439
Speaker 2: Deals and uh, welcome to the show.

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01:31:00,640 --> 01:31:02,040
Speaker 3: Hey, Rich, thanks for having me.

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01:31:02,280 --> 01:31:04,160
Speaker 1: Thanks for joining me. I know we talked.

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01:31:04,960 --> 01:31:07,479
Speaker 2: The listeners don't know this, but we talked this week

1865
01:31:07,520 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 2: at KTLA. We did a segment that's going to air

1866
01:31:09,800 --> 01:31:14,600
Speaker 2: Monday on TV. But you were such a great resource

1867
01:31:14,640 --> 01:31:16,200
Speaker 2: for TV that I said, Hey, can you come on

1868
01:31:16,200 --> 01:31:18,439
Speaker 2: the radio show and talk about some of the top

1869
01:31:18,479 --> 01:31:21,160
Speaker 2: deals out there. So thanks for joining me today, and

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01:31:21,439 --> 01:31:25,000
Speaker 2: let's talk about slick Deals number one. Because I've mentioned

1871
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:27,680
Speaker 2: throughout all the guests today have been from websites I

1872
01:31:27,800 --> 01:31:30,080
Speaker 2: visit on a daily basis, Slick Deals is another one

1873
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 2: of those. Explain what slick Deals is all about.

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01:31:34,640 --> 01:31:37,720
Speaker 17: Well, stick Deals is really all about helping shoppers. It's

1875
01:31:37,760 --> 01:31:40,839
Speaker 17: not just a website at this point. We have the website,

1876
01:31:40,840 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 17: of course, which has been with us for quite some time.

1877
01:31:43,520 --> 01:31:45,719
Speaker 17: We have a very active mobile app, and we also

1878
01:31:45,760 --> 01:31:48,800
Speaker 17: have a browser extension to help you fill coupons and

1879
01:31:48,840 --> 01:31:51,720
Speaker 17: find the best deals. But really what we are is

1880
01:31:51,760 --> 01:31:55,519
Speaker 17: a community of twelve million strong shoppers who come to

1881
01:31:55,560 --> 01:31:59,920
Speaker 17: the site or to the platform daily posting, sharing, vetting,

1882
01:32:00,120 --> 01:32:03,360
Speaker 17: voting up commenting on the best deals from your favorite

1883
01:32:03,360 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 17: retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Dell, Lenobo.

1884
01:32:07,160 --> 01:32:10,120
Speaker 2: That's what I love about the website is that anyone

1885
01:32:10,200 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 2: can submit a deal and it can be voted up

1886
01:32:13,560 --> 01:32:17,680
Speaker 2: to the top. And that means that since you have

1887
01:32:17,720 --> 01:32:19,880
Speaker 2: all these crawlers out there on the web, and I

1888
01:32:19,880 --> 01:32:22,519
Speaker 2: mean crawlers by like regular people that are always just like, oh,

1889
01:32:22,560 --> 01:32:25,120
Speaker 2: I found something really good. They post it and other

1890
01:32:25,200 --> 01:32:28,000
Speaker 2: people kind of vet it and say, Okay, this is

1891
01:32:28,040 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 2: really good, let's vote it up. And then a lot

1892
01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:32,519
Speaker 2: of times those things sell out because they're so popular.

1893
01:32:33,760 --> 01:32:34,720
Speaker 3: That's exactly right.

1894
01:32:34,760 --> 01:32:38,040
Speaker 17: I think that's that's the most powerful feature that we

1895
01:32:38,120 --> 01:32:41,479
Speaker 17: have is the community. Without them, the site would be

1896
01:32:42,160 --> 01:32:45,880
Speaker 17: not nearly as stressworthy. I said, it's twelve million people, right,

1897
01:32:45,960 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 17: I think of them as toll million friends, the good

1898
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 17: friends that will tell you how good your product or

1899
01:32:51,360 --> 01:32:53,720
Speaker 17: your deal that you found is or how bad it is,

1900
01:32:53,760 --> 01:32:55,280
Speaker 17: and provide unbiased feedback.

1901
01:32:55,840 --> 01:32:58,080
Speaker 2: So how can people use this to find the best

1902
01:32:58,080 --> 01:32:59,360
Speaker 2: deals this holiday season?

1903
01:33:00,400 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 17: Depending on how you like to shop, we have probably

1904
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:06,360
Speaker 17: something for everybody. If you are on a portunistic shopper,

1905
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:09,680
Speaker 17: the website and the mobile app are your best destinations.

1906
01:33:09,920 --> 01:33:11,800
Speaker 17: Mobile app is something to keep on the go. The

1907
01:33:11,840 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 17: website is something that you keep with you on your computer.

1908
01:33:14,479 --> 01:33:17,639
Speaker 17: But if you're more of a casual shopper, consider also

1909
01:33:17,720 --> 01:33:21,240
Speaker 17: using a browser extension. It kind of lives with your browser,

1910
01:33:21,240 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 17: whether it's Chrome, edged Safari, or Firefox, and once you

1911
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:28,440
Speaker 17: install it, we'll let you know if we have additional discounts.

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01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:32,240
Speaker 17: Anytime you browse the popular shopping site, or if we

1913
01:33:32,280 --> 01:33:35,200
Speaker 17: have amazing deals happening right this moment, as you're shopping

1914
01:33:35,240 --> 01:33:38,720
Speaker 17: on Amazon, Macy's, Coals, you name it, we'll pop up

1915
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 17: a little small notification saying, hey, by the way, while

1916
01:33:42,320 --> 01:33:45,479
Speaker 17: you're here, we have a couple of amazing community vetted deals.

1917
01:33:45,520 --> 01:33:47,840
Speaker 17: If you're interested, you can absolutely participate.

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01:33:48,760 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 2: Okay, So how are the deals shaping up this season?

1919
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:55,000
Speaker 1: Are they better than yours past?

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01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 17: The deals are really good this Friday. We've already seen

1921
01:33:59,280 --> 01:34:02,120
Speaker 17: a lot of retail this block Friday, in Cyber Monday,

1922
01:34:02,160 --> 01:34:04,840
Speaker 17: we've seen a lot of retailers start early as they

1923
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:10,120
Speaker 17: have done in the years past. We definitely are seeing them,

1924
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:13,160
Speaker 17: have seen them as early as October. And one thing

1925
01:34:13,200 --> 01:34:16,040
Speaker 17: that we are noticing is you already mentioned rich deals

1926
01:34:16,080 --> 01:34:18,160
Speaker 17: do tend to sell out. So if you come to

1927
01:34:18,200 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 17: the site of the mobile app and if you see something,

1928
01:34:20,760 --> 01:34:24,400
Speaker 17: grab it. But guess what, we're not only about in

1929
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:26,640
Speaker 17: the moment shopping. If you're looking for something that we

1930
01:34:26,720 --> 01:34:30,080
Speaker 17: currently don't have today, we also provide an amazing feature

1931
01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:33,120
Speaker 17: called deal Alerts. So if you're looking for something like

1932
01:34:33,240 --> 01:34:37,320
Speaker 17: Legos or PlayStation five, or Airpod's pro or a new grill,

1933
01:34:37,920 --> 01:34:40,280
Speaker 17: or as me, I'm building a home theater, I'm looking

1934
01:34:40,320 --> 01:34:43,200
Speaker 17: for speakers and receivers. Right now, come to the site

1935
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:45,599
Speaker 17: or the mobile app and set yourself a deal alert

1936
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,680
Speaker 17: and we'll let you know through either email, SMS if

1937
01:34:48,720 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 17: you sign up with a phone number, or a push

1938
01:34:50,920 --> 01:34:53,160
Speaker 17: notification on the mobile app the next time a good

1939
01:34:53,200 --> 01:34:53,799
Speaker 17: deal drops.

1940
01:34:54,479 --> 01:34:56,880
Speaker 2: So this is always sort of a debate, But what

1941
01:34:56,920 --> 01:34:59,120
Speaker 2: do you think are some of the best categories this

1942
01:34:59,160 --> 01:35:01,439
Speaker 2: time of year? Employees wondered do I buy a TV

1943
01:35:01,600 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 2: during Black Friday or during the Super Bowl season.

1944
01:35:05,640 --> 01:35:08,320
Speaker 17: Electronics is usually a great thing to buy and Black

1945
01:35:08,320 --> 01:35:12,320
Speaker 17: Friday in Cyber Monday, and really majority of categories are

1946
01:35:12,640 --> 01:35:17,040
Speaker 17: on sale, whether it's apparel, whether it's grills. But what

1947
01:35:17,120 --> 01:35:22,160
Speaker 17: we usually see gaming, smart home devices, headphones, video games,

1948
01:35:22,439 --> 01:35:25,320
Speaker 17: lots of tabletop kitchen appliance is everything from the most

1949
01:35:25,320 --> 01:35:27,840
Speaker 17: basic five dollars toaster, which we can actually have a

1950
01:35:27,880 --> 01:35:30,280
Speaker 17: few this Black Friday, all the way up to the

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Speaker 17: higher end appliances like maybe a Ninja blender or maybe

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Speaker 17: even something more even more expensive like a really nice

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Speaker 17: kitchen aid mixer.

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Speaker 3: Discounted gift cards can batteries.

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Speaker 17: Can never have enough of those, especially for that holiday

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Speaker 17: morning when you opened your boxes. Streaming and subscription services,

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Speaker 17: this is a great time to get those. A lot

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Speaker 17: of them will come out with you know, significant discounts,

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Speaker 17: especially if you prepay for a year, security, cameras, sporting goods, equipments,

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Speaker 17: really anything.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a really broad thing.

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Speaker 17: One thing that we don't see as much of is

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Speaker 17: major appliances, you know, washers, dryers, dishwashers, probably not the

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Speaker 17: best time to buy, but we'll see an occasional deal

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Speaker 17: here and there.

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Speaker 2: Are you seeing any new trends with the way retailers

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Speaker 2: are discounting things? You mentioned that with the streaming services.

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Speaker 2: I've noticed that, Yeah, when you pay in advance, like

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Speaker 2: I just paid for like a year of Disney Plus

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Speaker 2: and I got a pretty good deal on that. So

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Speaker 2: any kind of pricing trends you're seeing with discounts.

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Speaker 17: You know, I think a lot more and more merchants

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Speaker 17: are thinking about sort of creating a premium customer segment.

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Speaker 17: We've seen this with Amazon Prime many years ago, and

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Speaker 17: now Amazon Prime is sort of like almost a must

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Speaker 17: to have if you're an Amazon shopper, Walmart Plus has

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Speaker 17: been doing the same thing. In fact, some of the

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Speaker 17: best Black Frieda deals get early access if you have

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Speaker 17: Walmart Plus.

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Speaker 3: We suspect that more and more.

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Speaker 17: Merchants will have similar programs coming out in years to come. Additionally,

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Speaker 17: a lot of the times, having a credit card that

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Speaker 17: is issued by the stores, such as an Amazon Prime

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Speaker 17: Visa or say a Target Red Card, we'll get your

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Speaker 17: additional benefits, whether it's discounts or free shipping.

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Speaker 3: So it's worth looking into as well.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting with the Walmart Plus and the best Buy

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Speaker 2: or sorry Walmart Plus and Amazon. Best Buy is also

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Speaker 2: doing that with their drops. And so I've noticed because

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Speaker 2: they've been sending me emails about some of their deals.

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Speaker 2: A lot of them you get, like if you have

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Speaker 2: to like their I think it's like total something.

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Speaker 1: It's like best Buy.

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Speaker 2: It's like some sort of membership program that best Buy

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Speaker 2: has you can get a bigger discount on some of

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Speaker 2: their deals, so that.

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Speaker 3: It's called total tech almost like rich on Tech.

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Speaker 2: There you go, rich on Tech, Total tech. All right,

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Speaker 2: what about travel deals?

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Speaker 3: Is it? You know?

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Speaker 2: I know people are just trying to get through their

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Speaker 2: budget with their gifts they want to get, But is

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Speaker 2: it a good time to book travel.

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Speaker 17: It is it, actually, it is, especially if you live

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Speaker 17: near a one of the major airports like Los Angeles

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Speaker 17: or New York or Chicago. Lots of deals going on.

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Speaker 17: I'll give you one example right now. Short short trip

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Speaker 17: fairs like LA to San Francisco on Jet Blue or

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Speaker 17: United are down to seventy eight bucks normally and ninety

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Speaker 17: eight dollars. If you don't live next to a major airport,

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Speaker 17: don't you know, don't worry. We actually have a deal

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Speaker 17: on a Southwest gift card that is discounting twenty percent off.

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Speaker 17: It's a five hundred dollars Southwest gift card on sale

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Speaker 17: for four hundred bucks, and that's happening at Sam's Club.

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Speaker 17: So you do have to have a SAMs Club membership,

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Speaker 17: but if you already do and it's actually not that expensive,

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Speaker 17: you can get this deal. There's another one if you

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Speaker 17: like vacations and if you like staying at places other

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Speaker 17: than hotels or maybe having some fun activities.

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Speaker 3: We do have a their BnB gift card at best Buy.

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Speaker 3: It's a four.

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Speaker 17: Hundred dollar Airbnb gift card and comes with an additional

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Speaker 17: seventy five dollars best Buy gift card for free, so

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Speaker 17: you pay four hundred dollars basically for four hundred and

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Speaker 17: seventy five dollars value.

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Speaker 3: And then always check your credit cards that you have.

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Speaker 17: There are some credit cards that are scifically geart to travelers.

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Speaker 17: American Express, for example, always will run different promotions, but

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Speaker 17: also check the rewards. A lot of the times, credit cards,

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Speaker 17: especially today, will offer sign up bonuses, so look for

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Speaker 17: additional sign up points, and you can always come to

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Speaker 17: Slick deals. We actually have plenty of interesting offers on

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Speaker 17: credit cards specifically too.

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Speaker 2: I just went to your website and I always check

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Speaker 2: out the front page deals, and one that made it

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Speaker 2: there is this Uber one. So a year, I pay

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Speaker 2: like ten bucks a month for Uber one, and you've

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Speaker 2: got to Slick deals here for forty seven to fifty

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Speaker 2: for the whole year, which is a huge savings. Now,

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Speaker 2: some of these deals, and this is probably something we

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01:39:40,360 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 2: should talk about, are sort of what's called targeted, So

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Speaker 2: these companies will only offer them to a certain segment

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Speaker 2: of their customer base.

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Speaker 17: Right, that's true, and that's what our community does really well.

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Speaker 3: They'll quickly explain to you.

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Speaker 17: It's like, hey, if you're not a new customer, then

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Speaker 17: you won't qualify, so you can kind of look through

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Speaker 17: this bypass those deals if you know.

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Speaker 3: Longer are eligible for these promos.

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Speaker 17: And again, that's kind of one of the biggest powers

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Speaker 17: that the superpower of flictos is having this community of

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01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,720
Speaker 17: people who do this, who sort of completely demystify and

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01:40:10,840 --> 01:40:12,920
Speaker 17: really let you understand what's for you and what's not.

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01:40:13,360 --> 01:40:15,679
Speaker 2: Well, look at this, I just found this deal inside

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Speaker 2: my Uber app sixty percent off for the year. So

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Speaker 2: that's I love it. And it's like one of these

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Speaker 2: things and we'll kind of end on this. But when

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Speaker 2: you get a deal, even though we are spending money

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Speaker 2: at the end of the day, why does it feel

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Speaker 2: so good to get that deal?

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Speaker 3: You know, I'll give.

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Speaker 17: You a quote that one of our shoppers left with us.

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Speaker 17: We do regular shopper interviews and this is verbatim. My

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Speaker 17: biggest happiness from online shopping is not the shopping itself,

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Speaker 17: but finding a really good deal. I think a lot

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Speaker 17: of us are either sports fans or are just competitive

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Speaker 17: people by nature, and I think it always feels like

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Speaker 17: scoring when you find that amazing deal. And yes, as

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Speaker 17: you said, you still spend money, but it makes you

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Speaker 17: feel good that you spend your money smartly.

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Speaker 2: I'm paying right now one hundred and nineteen dollars a

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Speaker 2: year for this uber plan, and this deal that I

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Speaker 2: just found on your website is forty eight dollars for

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Speaker 2: the year. That's four dollars a month, so sixty percent off.

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Speaker 2: So it was money I was going to spend anyway,

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Speaker 2: and now I'm spending less of it, so it does

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Speaker 2: feel good. And again, the website is slickdeals dot net

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Speaker 2: and my guest Vitally Pacharski of slick Deals, thanks so

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Speaker 2: much for joining me today.

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Speaker 3: Thanks so much for having me Rich.

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Speaker 1: I know you have your eye on something. What do

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01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:33,400
Speaker 1: you have your eye on this this holiday?

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Speaker 11: See?

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Speaker 1: What are you shopping for?

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Speaker 3: I'm shopping for a home theater setup.

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Speaker 17: I'm building kind of a closed room, dark everything home

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Speaker 17: theater so receivers, speakers and a really nice for K projector.

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Speaker 1: M very nice.

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Speaker 2: I was just looking at my Sonos today thinking, hmm,

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Speaker 2: I wonder if I should update my soundbar.

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Speaker 1: It's been a while, all right. Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me on the website.

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Speaker 2: If you want a link to it, just go to

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Speaker 2: Rich on tech dot tv slash wiki and you can

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Speaker 2: get the link to Slick Deals again. Slick Deals front

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Speaker 2: page is a great place to start your day if

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01:42:05,640 --> 01:42:07,759
Speaker 2: you like that hunt, you know, if you like shopping,

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01:42:08,200 --> 01:42:10,320
Speaker 2: and if you like these deals and if you like

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Speaker 2: finding stuff that you might want to purchase. And the

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Speaker 2: explanations are the best because they make it really clear

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Speaker 2: as to why this is a good deal and why

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Speaker 2: you might want to jump on it, and how to

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Speaker 2: do it most importantly, all right, coming up, we'll close

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Speaker 2: out the show with a couple more stories and your feedback.

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Speaker 2: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 2: rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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Speaker 2: talking technology, and it's time for your favorite segment feedback.

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Speaker 2: But before we get to that, let me get through

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Speaker 2: a few other stories. I wanted to mention Verizon now

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Speaker 2: offering unlimited individual cloud storage for fourteen bucks a month.

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Speaker 2: So this is a new cloud storage plan for individual

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Speaker 2: person fourteen dollars a month month. Let's you store photos, videos, documents, PDFs,

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Speaker 2: whatever you want from both your phone and computers. So

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Speaker 2: it's basically a cloud drive that's unlimited.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: According to the Verge, individual files can exceed ten gigabytes

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Speaker 2: daily uploads or limited to fifty gigabytes, but for most

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Speaker 2: people this will pretty much be unlimited. They also have

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Speaker 2: a group unlimited plan for twenty dollars a month, which

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Speaker 2: lets you have five friends and family have their own

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Speaker 2: unlimited storage. So I actually signed up for that just

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01:43:30,800 --> 01:43:33,799
Speaker 2: to test it out. For some reason, Verizon was offering

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Speaker 2: it to me for fourteen dollars a month. I don't

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01:43:35,720 --> 01:43:38,000
Speaker 2: know why, but I signed up. But you get one

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Speaker 2: month free, So I just pulled the you know, just

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Speaker 2: decided to do it and see what it's all like.

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Speaker 1: And so I installed it on my computer.

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Speaker 2: I have not installed it on my phone, but basically

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01:43:49,320 --> 01:43:51,559
Speaker 2: it lets you back up. I'm trying to figure out

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01:43:52,520 --> 01:43:54,920
Speaker 2: if you can drag stuff into this and drop it in.

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01:43:55,000 --> 01:43:58,160
Speaker 2: It seems like you can, but it's a little I'm

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Speaker 2: still working on it, but anyway, it's kind of a

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Speaker 2: good deal for fourteen dollars a month unlimited, it's not bad.

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Speaker 1: So if you want to back up your photos or whatever.

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Speaker 2: The only thing is it is linked to a carrier

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Speaker 2: like Verizon, so not everyone wants to link their online

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Speaker 2: world to their cell phone carrier. Amazon is going to

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Speaker 2: start selling cars online. Yes, Hyundai and Amazon have teamed

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Speaker 2: up to offer online vehicle sales, which is just incredible.

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Speaker 2: I hope this is as good as it seems. So

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Speaker 2: Amazon is going to launch online vehicle sales starting with

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Speaker 2: Hyundai in twenty twenty four. You can purchase a car

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Speaker 2: on Amazon and pick it up from your local dealer.

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Speaker 2: The question is will this be a nice kind of

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Speaker 2: experience or will the dealers muck it up? I hope

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Speaker 2: they don't. I really really hope this is like you

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Speaker 2: see the price, you pay it, and you go pick

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Speaker 2: up your car. Let's hope it's just like that. But

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Speaker 2: that's a great start. And one of the things I

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Speaker 2: did buy my car online last time, and it was incredible.

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Speaker 2: The entire process was online from start to finish, and

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Speaker 2: then they just delivered it to my driveway. And it

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Speaker 2: was such a great process because guess what, I didn't

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Speaker 2: have to go in that back room where the guy

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Speaker 2: sits there with the four squares and starts writing down

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Speaker 2: payment monthly, this, that, and then you got to go

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Speaker 2: back how much you offer them. It's like buying a

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Speaker 2: car is the worst experience in the world. And I

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Speaker 2: always say, these people that are selling the cars, they

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Speaker 2: are doing it every single day, and they know exactly

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Speaker 2: how to do it. We go in once every three

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01:45:34,880 --> 01:45:37,360
Speaker 2: to six years to negotiate and guess who's gonna win

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Speaker 2: in that circumstance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they are.

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Speaker 2: And I got an email from a listener that said

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Speaker 2: they got an email from Spectrum.

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Speaker 1: Here's what the email says.

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Speaker 2: During the week of December twelfth, twenty twenty three, We're

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Speaker 2: going to introduce a new default video resolution setting a

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Speaker 2: four to EIGHTP for our unlimited plus mobile customers, allowing

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Speaker 2: better data management over the cellular network. Uh huh, better

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Speaker 2: data management for who? For Spectrum, they buy their service

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Speaker 2: from Verizon, So this means they're going to switch this

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Speaker 2: setting to be lower for all of their customers, which

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Speaker 2: means they have to pay Verizon less because they're using

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Speaker 2: less data. It does not benefit the customer in any way.

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Speaker 2: And Spectrum says, if you want to change the video

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Speaker 2: resolution back to seven to twenty P once the feature launches,

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Speaker 2: please visit our support page to learn more. So this

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Speaker 2: actually inspired a post on my website, rich on tech

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Speaker 2: dot TV. All of the carriers AT and T, Verizon,

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Speaker 2: T Mobile, they all have a dirty little secret, and

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Speaker 2: that is they reduce the quality of the video that

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Speaker 2: you get on your smartphone, even if you pay for

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Speaker 2: a higher resolution. But you can go in and change

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Speaker 2: this if you're on an unlimited plan that allows it.

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Speaker 2: So it's four eighty which is DVD quality by default,

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Speaker 2: you can go in and change it to either ten ADP.

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Speaker 2: Most of the time it's just ten ADP or four

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Speaker 2: k T and Verizon T Mobile. You can do it

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Speaker 2: from the website or from the app. I've put all

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Speaker 2: the instructions on my website. Rich on tech dot tv.

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Speaker 2: If you're paying for unlimited, you might as well get

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Speaker 2: the HD streaming, all right. Now, let's get to the feedback. Oh,

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Speaker 2: I only have a minute here. Hey, Rich, loved hearing

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Speaker 2: your report about Korea. I've been an Apple guy for

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Speaker 2: a long time. As you were discussing the Samsung Fold,

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Speaker 2: I was walking past the best Buy yep, I walked

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Speaker 2: in in real time you were speaking with the Samsung guy.

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Speaker 2: My initial impression was the resolution was impressive. I'm an

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Speaker 2: iPhone fourteen Pro Max owner doing a side by side

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Speaker 2: unscientific evaluation. They are pretty close and clarity and definition.

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Speaker 2: Upon closer inspection, I realized the screen attached to the

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Speaker 2: body looked a little honky tonk technical term cheap. I

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Speaker 2: cannot unsee the crease in the fold, which I can

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Speaker 2: only envision cracking. Finally, that improved hinge looks glaringly to

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Speaker 2: my eye like an obvious workaround. Do you love the

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Speaker 2: idea of a foldable device? I remember innovations attempted by Sharp,

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Speaker 2: but that usually ended up half baked. Love your show, Greg,

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the feedback.

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Speaker 1: Greg.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, foldable phones. They're making in roads, but they're not

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Speaker 2: there just yet. If you can believe it, that is

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Speaker 2: going to do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 2: It always goes by so fast. Once again, you can

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Speaker 2: find me on social media. I am at rich on tech.

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Speaker 2: I'm on Instagram, Twitter, all the good places there Actually

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Speaker 2: not Twitter, what am I saying? That's on autopilot, No Instagram,

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Speaker 2: Facebook threads, and honestly I'm starting to phase out Twitter

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Speaker 2: or at X whatever they call it. Next week we're

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Speaker 2: going to talk to Matt Swider of The Shortcut. He's

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Speaker 2: going to talk tech deals plus the latest report from

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Speaker 2: Privacy not included. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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Speaker 2: so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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Speaker 2: appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to

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Speaker 2: everyone who makes this show possible. My name is Richdmiro.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you real soon, Happy Thanksgiving,