WEBVTT - Emergency phone setup & smart holiday shopping

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<v Speaker 1>What's going on.

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<v Speaker 2>Julie Ramhold, consumer analysts with deal news dot com, is

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<v Speaker 2>going to talk Black Friday strategies for shopping. Then we've

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

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<v Speaker 2>top tips to get a deal on Black Friday. And

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<v Speaker 2>Vitally Pacharski of Slick Deals is gonna highlight some of

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<v Speaker 2>the top deals out there for the holiday shopping season.

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<v Speaker 1>You see the theme in this week show.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, it is holiday shopping season in full swing, and

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<v Speaker 2>I want to make sure that you get the best

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<v Speaker 2>deals and don't.

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<v Speaker 1>Get ripped off.

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<v Speaker 2>So this week, like many folks that are a little

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<v Speaker 2>bit early, I set up my holiday lights and I

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<v Speaker 2>just wanted to tell you a funny little story about that.

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<v Speaker 2>So I set up my holiday lights and I just

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<v Speaker 2>did the inside because this is a big project. You know,

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<v Speaker 2>I didn't even do the outside yet, but I did

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<v Speaker 2>the inside. You know, you lug all the boxes in

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<v Speaker 2>from the garage, you go through what you have number one.

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<v Speaker 2>You think you're going to remember the changes that you

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<v Speaker 2>made from the year before, like did I get new lights?

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<v Speaker 2>Did I get this? How did I put that away?

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<v Speaker 2>You forget everything. As soon as you put that stuff

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<v Speaker 2>away in the garage. You do not remember a thing.

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<v Speaker 2>You're like, oh, next year, I'll remember that I bought

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<v Speaker 2>these new lights, or I put these lights on the tree,

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<v Speaker 2>or I put these lights outside. Now you forget everything.

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<v Speaker 2>So from now on, number one, I'm keeping a holiday

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<v Speaker 2>lights journal, and I'm going to write in that journal,

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<v Speaker 2>like here's the stuff I bought this year, Here's what

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<v Speaker 2>I changed this year, Here's what I did. But that's

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<v Speaker 2>besides the point. What I wanted to tell you is

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<v Speaker 2>that I set up, of course, everything on the smart

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<v Speaker 2>home system. So I plugged all the lights into smart plugs,

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<v Speaker 2>and then I set up with Google a command so

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<v Speaker 2>I can just say H Google H stands for hey,

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<v Speaker 2>turn on the Christmas lights, and boom, all the lights

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<v Speaker 2>in the house turn on. And I had them set

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<v Speaker 2>up two ways to go off. I had it set

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<v Speaker 2>up to go off after twenty minutes of no motion.

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<v Speaker 2>And that actually turn out to be kind of a

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<v Speaker 2>problem because it turns out I don't walk through my

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<v Speaker 2>kitchen where the motion detector is every twenty minutes. And

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<v Speaker 2>so I was sitting there scratching my head because the

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<v Speaker 2>lights would go off in the house. I'm like, did

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<v Speaker 2>you just turn those off? Did you turn them off?

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<v Speaker 2>Who turned off the Christmas lights? And I remembered that

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<v Speaker 2>I had them set on this motion sensor, so I

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<v Speaker 2>disabled that. But I did come up with the command

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<v Speaker 2>of turn off the plugs. H Google, turn off the

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<v Speaker 2>smart plugs, and that would just turn off all the

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<v Speaker 2>smart plugs in the house, which the only ones we're

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<v Speaker 2>using are the ones with the Christmas lights. Well, anyway,

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<v Speaker 2>I told my wife this and I guess she forgot

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<v Speaker 2>and so I come home from work and I say,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, turn on the Christmas lights whatever, And they're

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<v Speaker 2>not working. Nothing's coming on, and I'm like, what is

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<v Speaker 2>going on here? And I'm getting angrier and angrier because

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<v Speaker 2>I'm like, this is why technology, this is why it's

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<v Speaker 2>so tough for people, because a simple thing just doesn't work.

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<v Speaker 2>I set this up yesterday and none of it works. Well,

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<v Speaker 2>it turns out after much much anger on my part,

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<v Speaker 2>and I wasn't really angry. I was just like this

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<v Speaker 2>is so like, this is what I need to talk

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<v Speaker 2>about on the show, Like you set this stuff up

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<v Speaker 2>and it really doesn't work, Like people need to know

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<v Speaker 2>that they're not alone in this stuff. And so I

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<v Speaker 2>get a text from my wife and I forget how

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<v Speaker 2>this all went. But long story short, she's like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, I forgot what the command was last

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<v Speaker 2>night to turn off the lights, so I just unplugged

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<v Speaker 2>them all.

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<v Speaker 1>What.

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<v Speaker 2>I go around to all of the holiday lights and

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<v Speaker 2>I see all the plugs pulled out of the wall

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<v Speaker 2>because she couldn't remember what the command was to turn

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<v Speaker 2>them off. And I am I at this point, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>actually my anger went to just laughing out loud because

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<v Speaker 2>I said, this is this is hilarious. This is the

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<v Speaker 2>reality of tech in our world. Yes, thank you Bobo.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh so, anyway, I got a good laugh out of that.

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that was just so funny because here it

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<v Speaker 2>is all the planning in the world, all of the

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<v Speaker 2>technology in the world, and still my wife just goes

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<v Speaker 2>ahead and unplugs them, and you know, I'm sitting there

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<v Speaker 2>trying to figure out what the heck is going on. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>I thought that was pretty funny. Anyway, just know the

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<v Speaker 2>commands for your smart stuff. I thought this was interesting.

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<v Speaker 2>This week, I got an email from AMC. I'm part

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<v Speaker 2>of that Stubbs thing, and they said, oh, here, thanks

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

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<v Speaker 2>gone too. I pay like twenty five dollars a month

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<v Speaker 2>to see as many movies as I want. I thought

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<v Speaker 2>it was a good idea, and I looked down the

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

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<v Speaker 2>and you've seen nine movies. So I did the math

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<v Speaker 2>in my head. Okay, February to now whatever it is,

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<v Speaker 2>ten months, I don't know. Times twenty five dollars a month,

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<v Speaker 2>two hundred and fifty dollars divided by nine movies. I was

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<v Speaker 2>paying like double the I was paying more for movies

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<v Speaker 2>than a movie ticket.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I realized something.

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<v Speaker 2>This same exact thing happened to me a couple of

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<v Speaker 2>years ago when I got this same exact email for

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<v Speaker 2>my gym membership and it was like, hey, Rich, thanks

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<v Speaker 2>for being.

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<v Speaker 1>A member of the gym. Here's how many times you

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<v Speaker 1>went this year.

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<v Speaker 2>And it was like, I did the math, and I

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<v Speaker 2>was like, wait a second, I just paid like this

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<v Speaker 2>much per gym session.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh huh, and I canceled that day.

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

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

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<v Speaker 1>I'll have some time off, maybe I'll see like two

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<v Speaker 1>movies a week. Whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>But it made me realize that if you run any

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<v Speaker 2>sort of service where people are paying a subscription to you,

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<v Speaker 2>do not send them an email with how many times

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<v Speaker 2>they've gotten a use out of that subscription, because no

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<v Speaker 2>matter what, someone's gonna do the math and they're going

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<v Speaker 2>to realize, hold on, this is not a very good deal.

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<v Speaker 2>Like can you imagine if NETFLI send you an email

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<v Speaker 2>that said, hey, here's how much you pay, and here's

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<v Speaker 2>how much hours you've watched, and you do that math,

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

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>Netflix, I think is a bad example because most people

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<v Speaker 2>are getting their value. But let's say like one of

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<v Speaker 2>these other services, maybe it's like a music streaming service,

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<v Speaker 2>maybe it's like one of the lesser streaming services. People

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<v Speaker 2>don't want to know this information. Don't give us the

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<v Speaker 2>information because then we'll keep paying. So that's a little

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<v Speaker 2>tip for your companies out there that want to get

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<v Speaker 2>that subscription revenue. Don't give us the numbers. We don't

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<v Speaker 2>want to know them. Yesterday at work, we had this

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<v Speaker 2>friends giving which was really fun. I was kind of

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<v Speaker 2>dreading it just a little bit because you know, when

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<v Speaker 2>you get a whole bunch of TV people in a room,

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<v Speaker 2>it could be interesting. You know, TV people have a

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<v Speaker 2>lot of big personality. So I'm sitting there like, Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>what's this going to be?

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<v Speaker 3>Like?

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<v Speaker 1>Is there going to be booze? The answer to that

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<v Speaker 1>was really no.

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<v Speaker 2>So you know, we were literally at a brightly lit

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<v Speaker 2>bar in Hollywood with no booze and a bunch of

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<v Speaker 2>us are just standing around for like forty minutes, and

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<v Speaker 2>it actually turned out to be really fun.

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<v Speaker 1>We had a great time.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm all the KTLA folks that I work with, we

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<v Speaker 2>just had a great time. Even though there was no

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<v Speaker 2>booze flowing. We had such a good time, and so

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<v Speaker 2>it was a lot more fun than I thought it

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<v Speaker 2>would be, and we didn't want it to end. In fact,

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<v Speaker 2>we had a nice Thanksgiving dinner at this restaurant called

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<v Speaker 2>Gwen in Hollywood.

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<v Speaker 1>Curtis Stone is a big celebrity chef. He hosted us.

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<v Speaker 2>But anyway, the reason I tell you this is because

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<v Speaker 2>it was a given that everyone around the dinner table

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

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<v Speaker 2>me just air drop you those. And I will talk

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<v Speaker 2>about how Apple is sort of bridging the gap between

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<v Speaker 2>iPhone and Android in the next segment. But it's just

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<v Speaker 2>it's still sad to me that people just use these

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<v Speaker 2>proprietary eponyms like let me just air drop you, like

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<v Speaker 2>everyone in the world has air drop and has that

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<v Speaker 2>make someone feel that has a Samsung or a Pixel?

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<v Speaker 1>Not very good.

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<v Speaker 2>So again, number one, don't assume people have it, especially

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<v Speaker 2>as the holidays come up. I know you're going to

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<v Speaker 2>be exchanging pictures with folks, so let me just go

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<v Speaker 2>over the three ways to share pictures. It's not just

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<v Speaker 2>air rap, so you can say, let me send you

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<v Speaker 2>those pictures.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you have? Do you have an Android? Do

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<v Speaker 1>you have a Samsung? Do you have a Pixel?

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

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<v Speaker 2>surprised how many people don't know how to activate this.

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<v Speaker 2>You swipe from the upper right hand corner that will

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<v Speaker 2>bring up control panel. Then you tap, just tap like

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<v Speaker 2>a press and hold on like the Bluetooth icon, that

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<v Speaker 2>will bring up a menu that says air drop. You

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<v Speaker 2>press and hold on that and it says everyone for

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<v Speaker 2>ten minutes, and that will enable you to share stuff

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<v Speaker 2>with everyone that has an iPhone for the next ten minutes. Now,

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<v Speaker 2>if you're on Google, they have something on Android for

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<v Speaker 2>all Android phones called Nearby Share, and this is really handy.

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<v Speaker 2>So if you go into Settings Google Nearby Share, you

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<v Speaker 2>can turn it on, set it up, name your phone,

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<v Speaker 2>all that good stuff. But then when you want to

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<v Speaker 2>share something, just use the share menu and look for

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<v Speaker 2>nearby Share and that will share it with other Android

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<v Speaker 2>users and they will be able to accept that as well.

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<v Speaker 2>They might have to toggle this on in their quick settings,

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<v Speaker 2>but it's very simple and it's basically Android's version of

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<v Speaker 2>air Drop.

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<v Speaker 1>Now, if you're on.

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<v Speaker 2>Samsung, they have a really cool feature that is called

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<v Speaker 2>quick Share, and this is a feature that actually works

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<v Speaker 2>with both iPhones and other Androids. And so you go

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<v Speaker 2>into the gallery okay, and you press share and you'll

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<v Speaker 2>see something called quick Share and you can share with

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<v Speaker 2>other Samsung devices. But what's neat about this is that

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<v Speaker 2>there is a little icon with a QR code. You

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<v Speaker 2>can hit that and it will generate a QR code

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<v Speaker 2>that the other phone, no matter what phone they have,

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<v Speaker 2>can scan, and that QR code will easily have your

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<v Speaker 2>photos and videos that you want to share in that

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<v Speaker 2>link and so anyone can download those.

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<v Speaker 1>That is a very simple way to share stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>I know people get a bad rap for having an iPhone, Android, iPhone, Samsung,

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<v Speaker 2>Samsung whatever.

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<v Speaker 1>So that is three super simple ways.

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<v Speaker 2>To share your photos and videos this holiday season that

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<v Speaker 2>does not require airdrop or iPhone to iPhone.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, coming up, what the heck happened to Open AI?

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<v Speaker 2>We'll talk about that plus your calls at Triple eight

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging

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<v Speaker 2>Morris in studio City Morris, you're on with Rich Yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>good morning.

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<v Speaker 4>I have a situation here. I have a one target drive.

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<v Speaker 5>CD burner and uh, I'm burning making copies of CDs

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<v Speaker 5>and they're skipping. They're skipping on the from the drive mechanism.

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<v Speaker 5>Is it I'm burningham too fast? Should I slow the

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<v Speaker 5>speed down? I don't know what to do about it?

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<v Speaker 1>What? What kind of CDs? Are these? Just standard like

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<v Speaker 1>audio scenes.

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<v Speaker 4>Standard the music CDs and but the CD burner I

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<v Speaker 4>have also burns Blue Ay disc and DVD also okay,

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<v Speaker 4>but I'm not burning Blue Ay Disc or DVD right now,

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<v Speaker 4>just standard CDs and make them duplicates. But they're skippy, okay?

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<v Speaker 1>And are they skipping when you play them?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, so when you play them they skip? Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's been a while since I have since I

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<v Speaker 2>have duplicated a CD. I mean, I'm talking it's got

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<v Speaker 2>to be ten years at this point, maybe eight nine,

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<v Speaker 2>ten years. But I think a couple of things could

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<v Speaker 2>be playing could be at play here. So number one,

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<v Speaker 2>the CDs themselves could be damaged, so they could be scratched.

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, CDs have been out for a while, so

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<v Speaker 2>these CDs. Your source CDs could be scratched, they could

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<v Speaker 2>have dust, they could have dirt on them, they could

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<v Speaker 2>just be deteriorated because they're kind of old. So maybe

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<v Speaker 2>that's that's one problem. I think the second side of

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<v Speaker 2>this is maybe the software and or the hardware. So maybe,

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<v Speaker 2>like you said, you can try doing a slower duplication

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<v Speaker 2>because I know back in the day these DVD drives

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<v Speaker 2>and they used to have like one x two x,

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<v Speaker 2>four x eight x, So it might be that your

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<v Speaker 2>computer can't handle the higher speed duplication, so maybe try

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<v Speaker 2>lowering down.

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<v Speaker 1>I would assume you've tried that.

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<v Speaker 2>The other part is really the software, so make sure

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<v Speaker 2>all of your software is up to date and make

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<v Speaker 2>sure that you are running the latest software for no

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<v Speaker 2>matter what you're using for both the drive, the drivers

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<v Speaker 2>for that, and also the duplication software. And just clean

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<v Speaker 2>the CD so you know, use like maybe a microfiber

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<v Speaker 2>cloth or something to gently wipe the CD before you

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<v Speaker 2>do it. If it's happening with every CD that you try,

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<v Speaker 2>I would assume it's a hardware or software issue. If

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<v Speaker 2>it's happening with just some of the CDs that you're dupating,

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<v Speaker 2>that I think it would be a dirt issue or

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<v Speaker 2>an issue with the lens on the drive or something

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<v Speaker 2>like that. But that's what I would do. That's what

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<v Speaker 2>I would try see if that helps. And you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's hey, you know what, some people are still using CDs.

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<v Speaker 2>I guess it's been a while for me, but I

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<v Speaker 2>remember how simple they were. It's like you popped one in,

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<v Speaker 2>it played the ten songs that were on there, and

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<v Speaker 2>you moved on to the next thing. And I played

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<v Speaker 2>the heck out of some of my CDs back in

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<v Speaker 2>the day. I mean I really did. It was like

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<v Speaker 2>it was like, man, those things. Thankfully they didn't wear

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<v Speaker 2>out because I would have worn them out. Thanks for

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<v Speaker 2>the call, Wars appreciate it. So this is huge, huge,

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<v Speaker 2>huge news.

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<v Speaker 1>In the world. Apple.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's file this under can I say hell Hell freezes over?

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<v Speaker 2>Because it has. Apple has announced our CS support for

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<v Speaker 2>the iPhone coming in twenty twenty four. This means that

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<v Speaker 2>the big vide between iPhones and Android when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to text messaging has been bridged. I can't believe that

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<v Speaker 2>this is happening. It is such a surprise that Apple

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<v Speaker 2>made this announcement. So what's gonna happen. Apple is basically

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<v Speaker 2>bringing the standard which is called RCS Rich Communication Services

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<v Speaker 2>to the iPhone. This is a standard that has been

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<v Speaker 2>on Android phones for a while. It brings I message

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<v Speaker 2>type messaging between the iPhone and Android.

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<v Speaker 1>What does that mean?

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, the bubbles are still gonna be green when someone

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<v Speaker 2>texts from an Android to the iPhone, but they can

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<v Speaker 2>now send full resolution pictures, full resolution videos, and you'll

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<v Speaker 2>be able to see when they're typing. You'll be able

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<v Speaker 2>to see when they've read something if you want. You'll

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<v Speaker 2>be able to have just all the features that you

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<v Speaker 2>would expect from modern messaging things that we have now

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<v Speaker 2>turned to messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp that will

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<v Speaker 2>now be cross platform. Now, I message is not going away.

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<v Speaker 2>Apple still says I message is the best and most

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<v Speaker 2>secure way to message between iPhones and that's still going

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<v Speaker 2>to be the default. That's also end to end encrypted.

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<v Speaker 2>So far, it does not look like the RCS messages.

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<v Speaker 2>The text messaging between these two you know, Android iPhone

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<v Speaker 2>is going to be end to end encrypted, but it

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<v Speaker 2>will be encrypted to a certain level, so.

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<v Speaker 1>It's not going to be the most secure messaging.

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<v Speaker 2>But I think for everyday message messages, it'll still be

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<v Speaker 2>pretty good.

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<v Speaker 1>So why did they do this?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I think there's a lot of pressure on Apple

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<v Speaker 2>right now because people are noticing that they are very

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<v Speaker 2>proprietary with their systems, especially over in Europe, and Europe's

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<v Speaker 2>been passing a lot of regulations. That's why we got USBC,

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<v Speaker 2>That's why we may see a more open app store

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<v Speaker 2>over there. But I think Apple is seeing what's happening

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<v Speaker 2>and they're saying, you know what, We're kind of sick

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<v Speaker 2>and tired of being the odd man out at this point.

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<v Speaker 2>Let's just give the folks what they want, and what

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<v Speaker 2>we want are more open systems and more cross platform systems.

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<v Speaker 2>So this whole thing of if you have an Android

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<v Speaker 2>and you're sort of lesser than that will no longer

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<v Speaker 2>be the case because your messages will go through like

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<v Speaker 2>they should, your pictures will look nice, your videos will

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<v Speaker 2>look nice. Thank you Apple for doing this, finally getting

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<v Speaker 2>on board with what the rest of the with the

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<v Speaker 2>providers are doing. All right, Coming up, Julie Ramhold, consumer

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<v Speaker 2>analyst with Deal News, gonna join us to talk Black

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<v Speaker 2>Friday strategies. You are listening to Rich on Tech. Welcome

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<v Speaker 2>back to Rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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<v Speaker 2>talking technology with you at triple eight rich one oh

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<v Speaker 2>one eight eight eight seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Four to two four one zero one.

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<v Speaker 2>I see you're already taking advantage of the website messages

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<v Speaker 2>at richontech dot tv, so keep them coming. I'll get

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<v Speaker 2>to a couple of those in a second, but let's

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<v Speaker 2>bring on my guests. Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with dealnews

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<v Speaker 2>dot com. Julie, thanks for joining me me So deal

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<v Speaker 2>news is one of my first stops each day. I

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<v Speaker 2>check it each and every day. It's a great website

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<v Speaker 2>for finding deals. Can you tell me a little bit

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<v Speaker 2>about it? What you guys do there?

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<v Speaker 3>Sure?

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<v Speaker 6>So, we're kind of like a shopping comparison site, and

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<v Speaker 6>basically we have a team full of live curators that

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<v Speaker 6>go out online every day and sign the best deals

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<v Speaker 6>so that we can list them on the site, and

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<v Speaker 6>we provide a little extra context about why these deals

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<v Speaker 6>are worth shopping. So we'll tell you that something is

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<v Speaker 6>twenty percent off, or maybe that something's full price, but

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<v Speaker 6>it's been out of stock all over the place, so

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<v Speaker 6>now you can actually get whatever that item may be.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that is my favorite part about the website. Is

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<v Speaker 2>that each and every post has a little bit of

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<v Speaker 2>perspective with it. So, for instance, you've got this Black

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<v Speaker 2>Friday headphone deals at best Buy, and it says we've

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<v Speaker 2>pictured the Bows Quiet Comfort forty five bluetooth noise canceling

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<v Speaker 2>headphones for one ninety nine, which is one hundred and

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<v Speaker 2>thirty dollars off, and so or it'll I'll tell you like, hey,

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<v Speaker 2>this is ten dollars less than we've ever seen this product.

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<v Speaker 6>Things like that exactly, And that's really helpful, especially this

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<v Speaker 6>time of year when you're trying to decide if the

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<v Speaker 6>deals are worth shopping or.

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<v Speaker 7>If you can safely wait until later.

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<v Speaker 2>So I guess that's my number one question. I've already

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<v Speaker 2>started sort of making my list and checking it twice,

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<v Speaker 2>but I mean, it's coming up. So how do you

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<v Speaker 2>think we come up with our strategy for Black Friday

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<v Speaker 2>shopping lists?

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<v Speaker 6>So Black Friday has kind of become this elongated season now,

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<v Speaker 6>so I feel like if you haven't started making a

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<v Speaker 6>list yet, you might be a little overwhelmed, just because

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<v Speaker 6>some stores have already started their sales, some have been

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<v Speaker 6>rolling out early Black Friday deals, so ultimately the information's

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<v Speaker 6>kind of out there and your approach now maybe a

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<v Speaker 6>little bit more reactive rather than proactive, but it's not

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<v Speaker 6>too late by any means. It's just now's a good

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<v Speaker 6>time to start browsing the ads and checking out your

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<v Speaker 6>favorite retailers to see what kinds of deals are available.

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<v Speaker 6>And then also that'll give you a heads up on

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<v Speaker 6>what's coming later in the week as well.

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<v Speaker 2>So do you guys post the actual ads or do

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<v Speaker 2>you just post like the best parts of the ads?

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<v Speaker 6>We go through all the ads and basically pull the

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<v Speaker 6>offers that jump out at us as being the best

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<v Speaker 6>that they're offering, and so we'll post those to like

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<v Speaker 6>our store guides as well as the general site too.

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<v Speaker 6>So we don't list the ads in their entirety, but

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<v Speaker 6>that's probably a good thing because some of them get

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<v Speaker 6>really really long and can be kind of convoluted. So

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<v Speaker 6>we pull all the best parts out of the ads

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<v Speaker 6>and put them up so that our users can have

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<v Speaker 6>an easier time of tracking it.

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<v Speaker 2>And I love how you list You've right now, You've

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<v Speaker 2>got three hundred and ninety five total offers. Biggest discount

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<v Speaker 2>ninety two percent off, average savings two hundred and fifty

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<v Speaker 2>three dollars and fifty three cents coupon codes fifty three,

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<v Speaker 2>and you can also filter out kind of the three

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<v Speaker 2>hundred and ninety five Black Friday offers that you've identified.

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<v Speaker 7>Absolutely.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, we've definitely made a lot of strides in the

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<v Speaker 6>last five years or so to make the site even

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<v Speaker 6>more user friendly so that you can get as broad

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<v Speaker 6>or as granular with your searches and your deal alerts

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<v Speaker 6>that you want and spend as much time with us

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<v Speaker 6>as you'd like to.

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<v Speaker 2>It's so interesting to me that Black Friday used to

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<v Speaker 2>only mean waiting in line at the store in store,

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<v Speaker 2>and now it is kind of both. It's online and

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<v Speaker 2>in store. Have we seen that shift in recent years?

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<v Speaker 3>It is.

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<v Speaker 6>It's definitely shifted more online in recent years because of

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<v Speaker 6>the pandemic. I think we were already sort of seeing

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<v Speaker 6>things like in store doorbusters disappear.

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<v Speaker 2>I think those videos from uh Walmart, We're not going

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<v Speaker 2>to see those this year because those are always so fun.

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<v Speaker 6>We definitely have not seen any stories about tramplings in

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<v Speaker 6>the last few years, at least.

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<v Speaker 7>That I can recall.

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<v Speaker 6>But it's true like retailers have kind of already moved

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<v Speaker 6>away from that to some degree, and the pandemic really

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<v Speaker 6>just accelerated that whole situation.

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<v Speaker 7>So you basically can.

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<v Speaker 6>Find doorbusters online now, and you have a bunch of

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<v Speaker 6>major retailers that are closing for Thanksgiving Day, so the

0:22:12.880 --> 0:22:15.840
<v Speaker 6>pressure to do at least your initial shopping in store

0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:19.399
<v Speaker 6>has kind of disappeared.

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<v Speaker 2>So you deal with this stuff on a daily basis.

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<v Speaker 2>What do we need to know in year twenty twenty

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<v Speaker 2>three for Black Friday?

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<v Speaker 6>So first of all, I would say check now, because

0:22:29.359 --> 0:22:32.960
<v Speaker 6>some major retailers have already started their sales. Amazon started

0:22:33.000 --> 0:22:35.440
<v Speaker 6>theirs yesterday, Best Buys started theirs yesterday.

0:22:35.600 --> 0:22:36.520
<v Speaker 7>Targets is due.

0:22:36.359 --> 0:22:40.040
<v Speaker 6>To start tomorrow, Walmart's will start on the twenty second,

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

0:22:44.400 --> 0:22:46.480
<v Speaker 6>it's a good time to do so, just to get

0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:50.160
<v Speaker 6>an idea of what's coming. But also know that most

0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:52.520
<v Speaker 6>stores are probably gonna be closed on Thanksgiving Day, and

0:22:52.600 --> 0:22:55.120
<v Speaker 6>so that doesn't mean you have to wait until Black

0:22:55.160 --> 0:22:57.840
<v Speaker 6>Friday to do your shopping. The sales will start online

0:22:57.880 --> 0:23:01.480
<v Speaker 6>if they haven't started already, so be sure to carve

0:23:01.520 --> 0:23:05.080
<v Speaker 6>out some time in between carving the Turkey to take

0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:07.880
<v Speaker 6>a look at what's online and take advantage of any

0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.160
<v Speaker 6>early deals online that you can so that you can

0:23:10.680 --> 0:23:12.280
<v Speaker 6>kind of avoid the chaos that can.

0:23:12.160 --> 0:23:13.359
<v Speaker 7>Come with Black Friday shopping.

0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:16.160
<v Speaker 2>Where are we seeing the biggest discounts? Is it across

0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.080
<v Speaker 2>the board? Is it on electronics? Is it on TVs?

0:23:19.160 --> 0:23:21.040
<v Speaker 1>I heard laptops are going to be pretty hot this

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<v Speaker 1>year with the discounts.

0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:26.520
<v Speaker 6>Laptops are definitely seeing good deals. I will say one

0:23:26.520 --> 0:23:28.560
<v Speaker 6>thing that really stood out to me about TVs this

0:23:28.640 --> 0:23:33.359
<v Speaker 6>year is it's become apparent how much more affordable they are.

0:23:33.920 --> 0:23:36.040
<v Speaker 6>So a few years ago, I know that we were

0:23:36.040 --> 0:23:38.720
<v Speaker 6>all really excited to see like a seventy five inch

0:23:38.960 --> 0:23:41.760
<v Speaker 6>name brand TV for six hundred dollars or so, and

0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:45.440
<v Speaker 6>that's kind of become a mainstay thing for Black Friday

0:23:45.480 --> 0:23:47.639
<v Speaker 6>since then. But it's not six hundred dollars anymore. It's,

0:23:47.760 --> 0:23:50.280
<v Speaker 6>you know, five hundred eighty dollars, five hundred and fifty dollars,

0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.080
<v Speaker 6>depending on where you're shopping and what brand you're looking at.

0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:58.600
<v Speaker 6>So in general, TVs have gotten so affordable that you

0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:01.560
<v Speaker 6>should be able to find something on Black Friday that

0:24:01.680 --> 0:24:05.600
<v Speaker 6>fits any budget. But if you don't, you can also

0:24:05.640 --> 0:24:09.000
<v Speaker 6>shop at other times of year. So check back again

0:24:09.040 --> 0:24:11.000
<v Speaker 6>in January if you don't see a TV that fits

0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:13.680
<v Speaker 6>all of the boxes that you want. But the truth

0:24:13.720 --> 0:24:15.800
<v Speaker 6>is that there's so many on sale, and it's so

0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:19.280
<v Speaker 6>many different price points. I would be surprised if you

0:24:19.320 --> 0:24:21.119
<v Speaker 6>can't find something to fit your budget.

0:24:21.359 --> 0:24:24.359
<v Speaker 2>What about getting taken because this is an easy time

0:24:24.400 --> 0:24:26.200
<v Speaker 2>to see a deal that's too good to be true.

0:24:26.560 --> 0:24:28.440
<v Speaker 2>You do a search on Google, it comes up with

0:24:28.520 --> 0:24:31.320
<v Speaker 2>the price, it's some retailer you've never heard of. You

0:24:31.400 --> 0:24:33.760
<v Speaker 2>end up pressing by and next thing you know, it's

0:24:33.800 --> 0:24:35.719
<v Speaker 2>not what you expected or I don't know.

0:24:36.000 --> 0:24:38.600
<v Speaker 1>Does that happen these days? And how do you avoid

0:24:38.640 --> 0:24:40.320
<v Speaker 1>that it does?

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<v Speaker 6>And I generally say that it's best to kind of

0:24:43.880 --> 0:24:46.360
<v Speaker 6>make a list of stores that you know you want

0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:48.480
<v Speaker 6>a shop for Black Friday, or the ones that you're

0:24:48.520 --> 0:24:52.480
<v Speaker 6>comfortable with visiting if you need to. So maybe you

0:24:52.520 --> 0:24:54.439
<v Speaker 6>want to do all of your shopping at Target, but

0:24:54.480 --> 0:24:58.080
<v Speaker 6>they sell out of an iPad or something. Rather than

0:24:58.560 --> 0:25:02.600
<v Speaker 6>rely on this potentially shady business online that you've never

0:25:02.640 --> 0:25:05.399
<v Speaker 6>heard of, be ready to go to Walmart and best

0:25:05.440 --> 0:25:07.920
<v Speaker 6>Buy and even check warehouse clubs if you're a member

0:25:07.920 --> 0:25:11.119
<v Speaker 6>of like Costco or Sam's Club or BJ's Wholesale. Just

0:25:11.160 --> 0:25:14.840
<v Speaker 6>because they may not officially price match, but a lot

0:25:14.840 --> 0:25:17.760
<v Speaker 6>of retailers essentially will charge the same prices for the

0:25:17.880 --> 0:25:19.880
<v Speaker 6>really popular items this time of year.

0:25:20.359 --> 0:25:22.399
<v Speaker 7>So if it does sell out at one.

0:25:22.240 --> 0:25:24.560
<v Speaker 6>Place, you absolutely should be able to find it at

0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:29.359
<v Speaker 6>another reputable retailer without having to go online and do

0:25:29.440 --> 0:25:30.320
<v Speaker 6>some heavy hunting.

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<v Speaker 2>I've heard that a lot of these retailers, if it

0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:35.200
<v Speaker 2>says Black Friday deal, they won't price match. So can

0:25:35.240 --> 0:25:39.000
<v Speaker 2>you touch upon the return, exchange and price match policies

0:25:39.040 --> 0:25:39.800
<v Speaker 2>we should know about.

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<v Speaker 6>Yeah, So in general, I say that if you're shopping

0:25:44.040 --> 0:25:46.560
<v Speaker 6>for Black Friday, it's a safe bet to just assume

0:25:46.600 --> 0:25:48.879
<v Speaker 6>that there will be no official price matching. Like I

0:25:48.920 --> 0:25:50.800
<v Speaker 6>said before, that doesn't mean you won't be able to

0:25:50.840 --> 0:25:54.640
<v Speaker 6>find the same prices elsewhere. But if you see something

0:25:54.680 --> 0:25:57.600
<v Speaker 6>at Target and Walmart is closer, and you try to

0:25:57.600 --> 0:26:00.040
<v Speaker 6>get Walmart to price match for Black Friday.

0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:00.960
<v Speaker 7>That's not going to happen.

0:26:01.560 --> 0:26:06.160
<v Speaker 6>So instead of taking that step, what I encourage people

0:26:06.200 --> 0:26:08.960
<v Speaker 6>to do is look at what holiday price guarantees some

0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:13.080
<v Speaker 6>retailers are putting into place. So, for instance, Target has

0:26:13.200 --> 0:26:16.840
<v Speaker 6>its holiday price guarantee that started on October twenty second,

0:26:17.240 --> 0:26:19.320
<v Speaker 6>and essentially anything you buy at Target.

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<v Speaker 7>Okay, I shouldn't say anything.

0:26:21.720 --> 0:26:24.840
<v Speaker 6>Most things you buy at Target from October twenty second

0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:28.080
<v Speaker 6>through December twenty fourth will fall under this guarantee. So

0:26:28.560 --> 0:26:30.320
<v Speaker 6>if you bought them at Target and then they drop

0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:32.720
<v Speaker 6>in price before December twenty fourth, you should be able

0:26:32.760 --> 0:26:35.600
<v Speaker 6>to get a price adjustment. There's going to be some exclusions,

0:26:35.640 --> 0:26:38.760
<v Speaker 6>of course, but for the most part, you should be

0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:42.760
<v Speaker 6>able to safely pick up these items now, even if

0:26:42.760 --> 0:26:45.080
<v Speaker 6>they have Black Friday Deal on them or whatever, and

0:26:45.160 --> 0:26:48.280
<v Speaker 6>know that you're getting a good price, especially because I

0:26:48.359 --> 0:26:52.359
<v Speaker 6>don't think Target wants its associates to be doing a

0:26:52.359 --> 0:26:53.960
<v Speaker 6>lot of price adjustments later on.

0:26:54.200 --> 0:26:57.320
<v Speaker 7>So the author kind of good that if you see.

0:26:57.000 --> 0:26:59.320
<v Speaker 6>Something labeled a Black Friday Deal at Target, that's probably

0:26:59.359 --> 0:27:01.080
<v Speaker 6>the lowest price on that item you're going to see

0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:01.480
<v Speaker 6>this season.

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

0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:06.800
<v Speaker 2>be fun? Is this a fun time of year or

0:27:06.840 --> 0:27:10.560
<v Speaker 2>is it super stressful for the shopping I think it.

0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:11.280
<v Speaker 7>Should be fun.

0:27:11.359 --> 0:27:13.240
<v Speaker 6>I say to you, all your shopping online, and if

0:27:13.240 --> 0:27:15.640
<v Speaker 6>you want your item sooner, opt for in store pickup,

0:27:15.720 --> 0:27:19.360
<v Speaker 6>and then that makes the whole thing significantly less stressful

0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:20.120
<v Speaker 6>in my book.

0:27:20.240 --> 0:27:24.320
<v Speaker 2>All Right, Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst with dealnews dot com.

0:27:25.000 --> 0:27:26.800
<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much for joining me today. I really like

0:27:26.840 --> 0:27:29.600
<v Speaker 2>the website. Any any feature on the website people should

0:27:29.600 --> 0:27:31.480
<v Speaker 2>look for first, just click that big banner that says

0:27:31.480 --> 0:27:32.000
<v Speaker 2>Black Friday.

0:27:32.080 --> 0:27:33.600
<v Speaker 1>Huh, I would.

0:27:33.400 --> 0:27:35.399
<v Speaker 7>Say, click that big banner and check out all the

0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:36.320
<v Speaker 7>Black Friday deals.

0:27:36.440 --> 0:27:38.640
<v Speaker 1>All right, thanks so much for joining me today. Appreciate it.

0:27:39.160 --> 0:27:40.919
<v Speaker 7>Thanks for having me, all right.

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<v Speaker 2>More of your calls at triple eight rich one O

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<v Speaker 2>one eight eight eight seven four to two four one

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<v Speaker 2>zero one. My name is Rich d'miro and you are

0:27:50.640 --> 0:27:57.920
<v Speaker 2>listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:02.800
<v Speaker 2>Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology at

0:28:02.840 --> 0:28:04.399
<v Speaker 2>triple eight rich one on one.

0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:05.720
<v Speaker 1>That's eight eight eight.

0:28:05.800 --> 0:28:10.760
<v Speaker 2>Seven four to two four one zero one website rich

0:28:10.840 --> 0:28:18.320
<v Speaker 2>on Tech dot TV. I got a message from Jen

0:28:19.240 --> 0:28:21.480
<v Speaker 2>She said, what the heck? Whose side are you on, Rich,

0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:23.840
<v Speaker 2>The wealthy companies, not the people who are forced to

0:28:23.840 --> 0:28:26.760
<v Speaker 2>pay subscriptions. Of course, we should know how much per

0:28:26.760 --> 0:28:29.119
<v Speaker 2>item view we're paying, and then we can make an

0:28:29.119 --> 0:28:31.159
<v Speaker 2>informed choice or continue or not.

0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:34.520
<v Speaker 1>Very strange. Yeah, I was kind of joking.

0:28:34.640 --> 0:28:37.879
<v Speaker 2>I mean, Louck companies could do whatever they want, but

0:28:38.080 --> 0:28:41.000
<v Speaker 2>I just thought it's funny. I think it's funny when

0:28:41.040 --> 0:28:44.800
<v Speaker 2>they send something that I think the reality is they're

0:28:44.840 --> 0:28:46.960
<v Speaker 2>trying to show you the value you're getting out of

0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:50.680
<v Speaker 2>your subscription, and in some cases like mine, you realize

0:28:50.760 --> 0:28:53.160
<v Speaker 2>just how bad of a value it is. So it's

0:28:53.240 --> 0:28:56.360
<v Speaker 2>kind of tongue in cheek. Jen, thank you for listening,

0:28:56.360 --> 0:28:57.200
<v Speaker 2>Thanks for the feedback.

0:28:57.240 --> 0:28:57.920
<v Speaker 1>I appreciate it.

0:28:57.960 --> 0:29:00.200
<v Speaker 2>But you know, sometimes I kind of you know, you

0:29:00.200 --> 0:29:03.320
<v Speaker 2>have to have a lighthearted sense of humor. Here, Bob

0:29:03.440 --> 0:29:06.560
<v Speaker 2>from Oral Valley, Arizona, you're on with Rich.

0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:07.920
<v Speaker 3>Hi.

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<v Speaker 8>Rich, I have a question the Higher App. I've got

0:29:12.800 --> 0:29:18.720
<v Speaker 8>everything enabled, everything blocking. Every few weeks, I get one

0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:21.400
<v Speaker 8>call after the other, maybe twenty or thirty calls within

0:29:21.440 --> 0:29:24.480
<v Speaker 8>a minute from a Chevrolet dealer in California. So I

0:29:24.480 --> 0:29:28.080
<v Speaker 8>don't want to mention them because they might legitimate. Well

0:29:28.160 --> 0:29:30.600
<v Speaker 8>they can't leave a message, but it's annoying. It's just

0:29:31.200 --> 0:29:33.880
<v Speaker 8>I can see all the numbers of the calls on

0:29:33.920 --> 0:29:36.040
<v Speaker 8>the Higher App. So is there any way to even

0:29:36.080 --> 0:29:39.520
<v Speaker 8>block those or just let them come through? And what's

0:29:39.560 --> 0:29:43.680
<v Speaker 8>the reason for that same number coming through every few

0:29:43.720 --> 0:29:45.520
<v Speaker 8>weeks twenty or thirty calls at a time.

0:29:46.040 --> 0:29:48.680
<v Speaker 1>Well, do you have a car that they're trying to repossess.

0:29:50.160 --> 0:29:52.760
<v Speaker 8>Well, it's funny, you know. It's funny because the day

0:29:52.800 --> 0:29:57.160
<v Speaker 8>after I get those messages, I get a message saying, hey,

0:29:57.280 --> 0:29:59.160
<v Speaker 8>it's not my name. They say, hey, Johnny, are you

0:29:59.200 --> 0:30:02.400
<v Speaker 8>ready for a car alone? So I just send that

0:30:02.440 --> 0:30:04.600
<v Speaker 8>to I think it's seven seven two six When that's

0:30:04.640 --> 0:30:06.000
<v Speaker 8>reported as a spam.

0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:08.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean I think that. I think that it

0:30:08.200 --> 0:30:10.760
<v Speaker 2>could be. So it's the same number every time that's

0:30:10.760 --> 0:30:12.520
<v Speaker 2>calling you, same.

0:30:12.400 --> 0:30:16.640
<v Speaker 8>Number as the Chevrolet dealer in California, and I checked it.

0:30:16.800 --> 0:30:20.480
<v Speaker 8>Although that number for this Chevrolet DIY it'll looks different

0:30:20.560 --> 0:30:24.400
<v Speaker 8>than this one. It has their name. So I don't

0:30:24.400 --> 0:30:26.200
<v Speaker 8>know how they got my number and why they just

0:30:26.320 --> 0:30:29.920
<v Speaker 8>send twenty sometimes it's you know, thirty calls at a time,

0:30:30.000 --> 0:30:30.880
<v Speaker 8>just an a loop.

0:30:31.200 --> 0:30:33.560
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's that's weird. I mean, I don't think the

0:30:33.560 --> 0:30:35.880
<v Speaker 2>dealership would be calling like that unless.

0:30:35.560 --> 0:30:37.720
<v Speaker 1>It is I think so, unless it is a case.

0:30:37.560 --> 0:30:40.440
<v Speaker 2>Of mistake and identity and they are trying to reclaim

0:30:40.440 --> 0:30:42.560
<v Speaker 2>a car or something, and that could be you know,

0:30:42.560 --> 0:30:45.520
<v Speaker 2>they could just have your number popped in for someone

0:30:45.520 --> 0:30:46.400
<v Speaker 2>that they're trying to reach.

0:30:47.200 --> 0:30:49.400
<v Speaker 1>I have gotten those calls in the past. Are you

0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:52.000
<v Speaker 1>on an iPhone or Android iPhone?

0:30:52.160 --> 0:30:55.640
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So I think even though you're using this high app,

0:30:55.680 --> 0:30:58.040
<v Speaker 2>if it's coming from the same number every time, I

0:30:58.080 --> 0:31:02.640
<v Speaker 2>would just recommend using iPhones built in ability to block

0:31:02.720 --> 0:31:05.360
<v Speaker 2>a number. And so what I would do is go

0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:09.440
<v Speaker 2>into your recence, tap the little I that is next

0:31:09.480 --> 0:31:13.520
<v Speaker 2>to the phone number, and then scroll all the way

0:31:13.560 --> 0:31:17.080
<v Speaker 2>down and it says block this caller. And once you

0:31:17.200 --> 0:31:20.120
<v Speaker 2>block that caller, they will not be able to I

0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:22.760
<v Speaker 2>believe they It won't even ring your phone once it's blocked.

0:31:22.760 --> 0:31:25.520
<v Speaker 2>It's just not going to come through. So again, go

0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:29.960
<v Speaker 2>into your dialer app, tap the recens find this phone number,

0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:32.840
<v Speaker 2>tap the I next to it, and then tap block

0:31:32.920 --> 0:31:35.640
<v Speaker 2>this caller, and that should do it. There are similar

0:31:35.640 --> 0:31:38.720
<v Speaker 2>ways of doing that on both the Samsung devices and

0:31:38.760 --> 0:31:42.920
<v Speaker 2>the Pixel devices. So again it's the difference between using Hya,

0:31:43.040 --> 0:31:47.320
<v Speaker 2>which you're using a third party call screening app, and

0:31:47.480 --> 0:31:49.960
<v Speaker 2>using the built in kind of dialer on the phone

0:31:50.320 --> 0:31:52.200
<v Speaker 2>to just take care of that call before it even

0:31:52.200 --> 0:31:55.000
<v Speaker 2>reaches anything. So that's what I would do, and I

0:31:55.000 --> 0:31:58.480
<v Speaker 2>think that should take care of it. Otherwise on the

0:31:58.680 --> 0:32:02.680
<v Speaker 2>High app when and just in general with these spam calls.

0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:06.800
<v Speaker 2>My recommendation is number one, generally, don't pick them up.

0:32:07.160 --> 0:32:09.520
<v Speaker 2>So you don't want to pick them up, because when

0:32:09.520 --> 0:32:12.840
<v Speaker 2>you pick them up sometimes it will register your number

0:32:12.920 --> 0:32:16.200
<v Speaker 2>as a live number, so they just dial a whole

0:32:16.200 --> 0:32:18.520
<v Speaker 2>bunch of numbers and if they see that someone picks

0:32:18.560 --> 0:32:20.160
<v Speaker 2>up that number, they're like, oh, we got a good one,

0:32:20.480 --> 0:32:22.320
<v Speaker 2>and they may try to call that number again. So

0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:24.880
<v Speaker 2>that's generally what I would try to do is avoid

0:32:25.000 --> 0:32:29.200
<v Speaker 2>picking up these spam calls at any rate. But for you,

0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:31.760
<v Speaker 2>I think getting this number over and over and over,

0:32:32.080 --> 0:32:34.480
<v Speaker 2>just go ahead and use your phone dialer to block

0:32:34.520 --> 0:32:39.120
<v Speaker 2>that message. Let's go to Jim in Hysperia, California. Jim,

0:32:39.160 --> 0:32:39.800
<v Speaker 2>you're on with Rich.

0:32:41.000 --> 0:32:41.720
<v Speaker 9>I ain't Rich.

0:32:41.760 --> 0:32:42.440
<v Speaker 10>How are you doing?

0:32:42.800 --> 0:32:45.360
<v Speaker 1>I am doing great, good good.

0:32:45.400 --> 0:32:46.360
<v Speaker 11>I have a question.

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<v Speaker 10>I ask some speakers from Nests Well that's actually Google.

0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.800
<v Speaker 10>You know, they're called the Nest Audio Speakers.

0:32:55.920 --> 0:32:56.120
<v Speaker 12>You know.

0:32:56.200 --> 0:32:57.640
<v Speaker 10>I bought them from the Google Store.

0:32:57.800 --> 0:32:58.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.

0:32:58.040 --> 0:33:00.760
<v Speaker 2>It's like a it's like two speakers basically, they're like

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<v Speaker 2>different colors.

0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:03.240
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:33:03.320 --> 0:33:08.320
<v Speaker 10>Yeah. So I have a Wi Fi Spectrum and I

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<v Speaker 10>have a six E. It's one of the updated routers,

0:33:13.560 --> 0:33:18.160
<v Speaker 10>and it's a it's called the six E router.

0:33:19.160 --> 0:33:20.320
<v Speaker 1>That's the slatest.

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<v Speaker 10>Yeah, so every time that I connect the speaker, it

0:33:26.280 --> 0:33:28.840
<v Speaker 10>goes all the way through it and it catches it

0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:30.320
<v Speaker 10>and it connects.

0:33:30.400 --> 0:33:31.000
<v Speaker 11>But then.

0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:37.520
<v Speaker 10>That it does something about an ap isolation where it

0:33:37.560 --> 0:33:43.080
<v Speaker 10>has to be enabled or disabled called and I've called

0:33:43.120 --> 0:33:46.800
<v Speaker 10>the spectrum and they've they've said, you know.

0:33:47.120 --> 0:33:50.800
<v Speaker 1>Uh, you know, they can't help.

0:33:50.840 --> 0:33:52.080
<v Speaker 10>You can't do that or something.

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<v Speaker 1>So on your router.

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<v Speaker 2>So ap isolation is basically a way to ensure that

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<v Speaker 2>the items on your network are sort of isolated, almost

0:34:04.360 --> 0:34:07.680
<v Speaker 2>like sandbox from other items, so that way they can't

0:34:07.760 --> 0:34:11.080
<v Speaker 2>ruin things on your network. They can only access certain resources.

0:34:11.480 --> 0:34:14.200
<v Speaker 2>So I think what's happening is it sounds like if

0:34:14.200 --> 0:34:16.719
<v Speaker 2>it's giving you that message, either a you're connecting to

0:34:16.800 --> 0:34:20.200
<v Speaker 2>a guest network on your router, which I don't think

0:34:20.239 --> 0:34:22.439
<v Speaker 2>you would be doing, but if you are, that could

0:34:22.440 --> 0:34:25.680
<v Speaker 2>be the number one thing is switched to the standard network,

0:34:25.719 --> 0:34:28.560
<v Speaker 2>not the guest network. But if you're on the regular

0:34:28.560 --> 0:34:30.880
<v Speaker 2>network and you're still getting this error message, I would

0:34:30.880 --> 0:34:33.200
<v Speaker 2>go into your router settings and see if you can

0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:37.400
<v Speaker 2>turn off the AP isolation. And there could be different

0:34:37.480 --> 0:34:41.360
<v Speaker 2>names for this. It could be wireless isolation, client isolation,

0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:45.440
<v Speaker 2>any of those settings. Just look for that and toggle

0:34:45.480 --> 0:34:47.480
<v Speaker 2>that off. So the way to find your settings for

0:34:47.520 --> 0:34:50.920
<v Speaker 2>any router, they're typically printed on the bottom, and so

0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.279
<v Speaker 2>you flip your router over and that's the box that

0:34:53.320 --> 0:34:56.080
<v Speaker 2>the cable company gives you. Printed on the bottom of

0:34:56.120 --> 0:34:59.880
<v Speaker 2>that is usually an address. It usually starts with like

0:35:01.480 --> 0:35:05.000
<v Speaker 2>so it's like one nine eight one six eight something

0:35:05.040 --> 0:35:07.680
<v Speaker 2>like that. You type that into your web browser. That

0:35:07.760 --> 0:35:11.319
<v Speaker 2>will bring you to the settings on your router. And

0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:14.440
<v Speaker 2>usually there is a log in username and a password

0:35:14.560 --> 0:35:17.120
<v Speaker 2>that is from the factory printed on the bottom of

0:35:17.120 --> 0:35:19.719
<v Speaker 2>your router. So once you log in there, you can

0:35:19.760 --> 0:35:22.920
<v Speaker 2>look for your settings and look for that AP isolation.

0:35:23.040 --> 0:35:24.600
<v Speaker 2>It may take a little bit for you to find it.

0:35:24.640 --> 0:35:26.240
<v Speaker 2>You have to go through all the Wi Fi settings

0:35:26.280 --> 0:35:28.440
<v Speaker 2>and be careful because you don't want to change a

0:35:28.480 --> 0:35:30.680
<v Speaker 2>lot of stuff because these things come from the factory.

0:35:30.680 --> 0:35:32.719
<v Speaker 2>If you don't know what you're doing, it could be

0:35:32.800 --> 0:35:35.600
<v Speaker 2>detrimental to your wireless setup. Now, if you mess something

0:35:35.680 --> 0:35:38.520
<v Speaker 2>up and it's totally not working, there's usually a little

0:35:38.600 --> 0:35:41.000
<v Speaker 2>push button on the bottom of your router that you

0:35:41.040 --> 0:35:43.440
<v Speaker 2>can press and hold for like twenty or thirty seconds

0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:46.120
<v Speaker 2>and it will put everything back to normal factory settings.

0:35:46.480 --> 0:35:48.520
<v Speaker 2>So if worst comes to worse you mess something up,

0:35:48.560 --> 0:35:50.759
<v Speaker 2>you can do that. But I would look into your

0:35:50.800 --> 0:35:53.359
<v Speaker 2>settings and see if you can do that, and once

0:35:53.400 --> 0:35:58.000
<v Speaker 2>you turn off this ap isolation, then hopefully these speakers

0:35:58.040 --> 0:36:00.759
<v Speaker 2>can be able to get onto your network properly and

0:36:01.280 --> 0:36:03.080
<v Speaker 2>talk to each other. The other thing I would do

0:36:03.239 --> 0:36:05.560
<v Speaker 2>is just make sure the software on these speakers is

0:36:06.200 --> 0:36:08.840
<v Speaker 2>up to date because these have been around for a while.

0:36:09.120 --> 0:36:10.560
<v Speaker 2>But the problem is you may not be able to

0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:13.000
<v Speaker 2>update them unless you get them on the network, so

0:36:13.040 --> 0:36:15.160
<v Speaker 2>it could be a game of chicken and egg here.

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<v Speaker 2>So good question, Jim, Thanks for the call today. Triple

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<v Speaker 2>eight eight eight seven four to two, four to one

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<v Speaker 2>zero one big, big, big surprise change at open ai.

0:37:36.000 --> 0:37:39.200
<v Speaker 2>This is wild. Now we know that ai is changing

0:37:39.239 --> 0:37:41.960
<v Speaker 2>things day by day, but little do we know behind

0:37:42.000 --> 0:37:45.640
<v Speaker 2>the scenes of open ai there were some issues. Sam Altman,

0:37:45.920 --> 0:37:50.839
<v Speaker 2>CEO of open Ai, is gone. They booted him out

0:37:50.920 --> 0:37:55.200
<v Speaker 2>the board of directors. Why they said, based on a

0:37:55.280 --> 0:37:59.480
<v Speaker 2>review process they found he was not consistently candid in

0:37:59.520 --> 0:38:03.120
<v Speaker 2>his communit locations with the board, which hindered their ability

0:38:03.200 --> 0:38:08.200
<v Speaker 2>to fulfill their responsibilities. What does that mean? What's that crypticness?

0:38:08.600 --> 0:38:09.200
<v Speaker 2>We don't know.

0:38:09.800 --> 0:38:12.359
<v Speaker 1>All we know is that the board did not like

0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:13.480
<v Speaker 1>what this guy was doing.

0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.719
<v Speaker 2>This is the guy who invented chat GPT, the thing

0:38:16.760 --> 0:38:20.280
<v Speaker 2>that has single handedly changed the world in the last year,

0:38:20.920 --> 0:38:24.120
<v Speaker 2>and now he has moved on. Now he did tweet

0:38:24.320 --> 0:38:26.359
<v Speaker 2>x whatever you want to talk about and he said, look,

0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:27.240
<v Speaker 2>something's next.

0:38:27.920 --> 0:38:29.800
<v Speaker 1>But this was not of his own doing.

0:38:30.200 --> 0:38:33.160
<v Speaker 2>And it's very odd for a company that is yeah,

0:38:33.160 --> 0:38:35.560
<v Speaker 2>they've been around for a bit, but just with their

0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:39.479
<v Speaker 2>public product of chat GBT, that's only been around for

0:38:39.680 --> 0:38:42.680
<v Speaker 2>about eleven months now or I guess almost a year.

0:38:43.480 --> 0:38:46.439
<v Speaker 2>And by the way, they just did their developer day

0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:50.040
<v Speaker 2>last week, which means this guy was on stage talking

0:38:50.040 --> 0:38:52.480
<v Speaker 2>about how great this company is and all the great

0:38:52.520 --> 0:38:53.320
<v Speaker 2>things that are coming.

0:38:53.680 --> 0:38:55.160
<v Speaker 1>So he did not see this coming.

0:38:55.160 --> 0:38:58.200
<v Speaker 2>He should have asked chat GBT, what's my future because

0:38:58.520 --> 0:39:01.160
<v Speaker 2>he would have found out. Maybe maybe chat GBT knew

0:39:01.200 --> 0:39:01.839
<v Speaker 2>before he did.

0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:03.319
<v Speaker 3>Uh.

0:39:03.360 --> 0:39:05.520
<v Speaker 1>So we don't know what's gonna happen.

0:39:05.600 --> 0:39:07.840
<v Speaker 2>We don't know what this means for the quality or

0:39:07.920 --> 0:39:10.600
<v Speaker 2>future of chat GBT, or if they had something like

0:39:11.040 --> 0:39:13.160
<v Speaker 2>you know this, Uh, maybe they had like some humanoid

0:39:13.800 --> 0:39:16.160
<v Speaker 2>that they were building that he was secretly hiding in

0:39:16.320 --> 0:39:18.840
<v Speaker 2>like a you know, like one of those like alien tanks,

0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:20.880
<v Speaker 2>Like maybe he had one of those in the office

0:39:20.880 --> 0:39:22.520
<v Speaker 2>and they found it and they're just like, Okay, you

0:39:22.560 --> 0:39:25.480
<v Speaker 2>gotta go, dude, this is getting weird. Chat GBT is

0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:31.120
<v Speaker 2>getting too human. Anyway, I joke that is a joke, Jen,

0:39:31.280 --> 0:39:32.000
<v Speaker 2>don't email me.

0:39:33.040 --> 0:39:33.959
<v Speaker 1>Just kidding.

0:39:35.960 --> 0:39:38.560
<v Speaker 2>Anyway, So we'll see what happens with chat GBT. But

0:39:38.600 --> 0:39:40.719
<v Speaker 2>this was a big, big surprise. And I usually don't

0:39:40.719 --> 0:39:44.520
<v Speaker 2>talk about, you know, employee changes on this show because

0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:47.080
<v Speaker 2>that's not really consumer focused. But it's just very odd

0:39:47.120 --> 0:39:50.319
<v Speaker 2>and it is definitely the story that is getting the

0:39:50.360 --> 0:39:53.399
<v Speaker 2>most discussion I think I've ever seen on a tech

0:39:53.480 --> 0:39:56.200
<v Speaker 2>story in recent years, because it is just wild for

0:39:56.239 --> 0:39:59.880
<v Speaker 2>this guy to start such a transformative product and be

0:40:00.120 --> 0:40:02.200
<v Speaker 2>booted from his own company.

0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:06.160
<v Speaker 1>Let's go to Jack in Anaheim. Jack, you're on with Rich.

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<v Speaker 12>Hi.

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<v Speaker 11>Rich, I have a primary question, but then when you

0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:13.560
<v Speaker 11>talked about chat g TP, I have a second follow up question.

0:40:13.600 --> 0:40:16.319
<v Speaker 11>My first question is very simple. I was looking at

0:40:16.560 --> 0:40:19.759
<v Speaker 11>some property on Zillo and the picture comes up in

0:40:19.800 --> 0:40:27.759
<v Speaker 11>it's it's blurred or digitally sneered out, and I noticed

0:40:27.800 --> 0:40:29.719
<v Speaker 11>when I went to Google the same thing. Is there

0:40:29.800 --> 0:40:31.440
<v Speaker 11>that the house, the front of the house or the

0:40:31.440 --> 0:40:33.640
<v Speaker 11>front of the property is is.

0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:35.759
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's blurred. Yep.

0:40:36.040 --> 0:40:39.680
<v Speaker 11>How would I do that for my property? That properties

0:40:39.680 --> 0:40:40.080
<v Speaker 11>that I own?

0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:42.319
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you can do this pretty easily. I actually did

0:40:42.320 --> 0:40:44.600
<v Speaker 2>this for Zillo a couple of weeks ago, and I

0:40:44.600 --> 0:40:47.400
<v Speaker 2>couldn't believe how fast they did it. So when I

0:40:47.480 --> 0:40:50.879
<v Speaker 2>bought my house, all the pictures were on there, and

0:40:51.440 --> 0:40:53.600
<v Speaker 2>even though I edited. I claimed my house and I

0:40:53.719 --> 0:40:56.120
<v Speaker 2>edited and I said take these pictures off, they still

0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.359
<v Speaker 2>just remain there like they just every time I said

0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:01.520
<v Speaker 2>edit and remove photos, they still were there. And I'm

0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:03.360
<v Speaker 2>not talking about the exterior. I'm talking about the interior.

0:41:03.400 --> 0:41:04.400
<v Speaker 2>I was like, you know, you could just see in

0:41:04.440 --> 0:41:06.759
<v Speaker 2>detail every single room of my home. And so I

0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:08.319
<v Speaker 2>was like, eh, I don't really need that, Like why

0:41:08.360 --> 0:41:10.080
<v Speaker 2>do I want people to take a tour of my house?

0:41:10.160 --> 0:41:10.359
<v Speaker 3>Right?

0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:14.000
<v Speaker 2>And so I emailed Zillo and I just sent them

0:41:14.160 --> 0:41:16.480
<v Speaker 2>my link to you know, the house, and they literally,

0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:18.359
<v Speaker 2>within I think it was like an hour, they said,

0:41:18.360 --> 0:41:19.600
<v Speaker 2>all right, your pictures are gone.

0:41:19.760 --> 0:41:19.880
<v Speaker 1>Now.

0:41:19.920 --> 0:41:21.879
<v Speaker 2>I didn't blur the outside. I didn't go that far.

0:41:22.000 --> 0:41:25.279
<v Speaker 2>But you can do that. So on Zillo, you have

0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:27.800
<v Speaker 2>to claim your house. If you've done that, you go

0:41:27.920 --> 0:41:30.680
<v Speaker 2>through that process of just going to the website sign

0:41:30.800 --> 0:41:34.200
<v Speaker 2>in claim your house and I don't know what it's

0:41:34.200 --> 0:41:36.080
<v Speaker 2>been a long time since I claimed it, but basically

0:41:36.160 --> 0:41:38.600
<v Speaker 2>you put in your address and somehow you get to

0:41:38.640 --> 0:41:41.120
<v Speaker 2>be the owner. I think they check like the property,

0:41:42.080 --> 0:41:44.399
<v Speaker 2>like some little bit of info, and you confirm it

0:41:44.480 --> 0:41:46.600
<v Speaker 2>with like a couple of questions, then it becomes yours.

0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:48.120
<v Speaker 1>So that's the first thing you have to do.

0:41:48.200 --> 0:41:50.480
<v Speaker 2>If you haven't done that, you do that, and then

0:41:50.520 --> 0:41:53.880
<v Speaker 2>you can edit the facts from the owner's view. And

0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:56.799
<v Speaker 2>there's a box that says hide photos displayed on your

0:41:56.800 --> 0:42:01.439
<v Speaker 2>home's Zillo page and you can save those changes and

0:42:01.719 --> 0:42:04.080
<v Speaker 2>those photos will be blurred out and your your photo

0:42:04.120 --> 0:42:05.920
<v Speaker 2>of your exterior of your house will be blurred out.

0:42:06.280 --> 0:42:08.080
<v Speaker 2>So that's the number one way to do it.

0:42:08.080 --> 0:42:10.160
<v Speaker 11>But I don't want to delete the other photos of

0:42:10.160 --> 0:42:11.920
<v Speaker 11>the injurior because I've done so much so I want

0:42:11.920 --> 0:42:15.080
<v Speaker 11>to be able to compare that when if I sell. Well,

0:42:15.760 --> 0:42:17.279
<v Speaker 11>I like those photos, but I just want to blur

0:42:17.320 --> 0:42:17.839
<v Speaker 11>out the front.

0:42:18.040 --> 0:42:22.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, there are different there's you can there's options for

0:42:22.040 --> 0:42:24.640
<v Speaker 2>the different photos, so you would just blur the photos

0:42:24.640 --> 0:42:26.640
<v Speaker 2>from the outside, so you're doing the opsode what I did.

0:42:26.920 --> 0:42:28.839
<v Speaker 2>Now on Google you can do the same thing on

0:42:28.880 --> 0:42:34.160
<v Speaker 2>Google Maps. And on Google Maps you can. I'm looking

0:42:34.160 --> 0:42:37.040
<v Speaker 2>at the directions here, let's see, so you've got to go.

0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:39.839
<v Speaker 2>I don't have the actual directions on how to do it,

0:42:39.880 --> 0:42:41.080
<v Speaker 2>but there is a way to do it.

0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:44.040
<v Speaker 11>Yeah, you did great. That's all I need is I

0:42:44.080 --> 0:42:47.640
<v Speaker 11>need a a sign pointing me the right direction. You've

0:42:47.640 --> 0:42:49.120
<v Speaker 11>done that answer quick question.

0:42:49.120 --> 0:42:49.600
<v Speaker 1>But hold on.

0:42:49.640 --> 0:42:51.880
<v Speaker 2>Here's here's here's the main thing I want other people

0:42:51.920 --> 0:42:56.880
<v Speaker 2>to know about. About the whole Google Maps and blurring

0:42:56.880 --> 0:42:59.560
<v Speaker 2>out your house. You can never get it back once

0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:00.960
<v Speaker 2>it's blow or it does.

0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:03.880
<v Speaker 1>Not come back. So okay, you just need to know that.

0:43:03.960 --> 0:43:05.880
<v Speaker 2>And the way you do it is actually you go

0:43:05.920 --> 0:43:07.680
<v Speaker 2>to street View, you go to your house and there's

0:43:07.880 --> 0:43:10.560
<v Speaker 2>report a problem, and then you can, you know, go

0:43:10.600 --> 0:43:13.200
<v Speaker 2>through the steps and you can say my house request blurring.

0:43:13.960 --> 0:43:16.880
<v Speaker 2>I didn't go that far because you know, I just

0:43:16.960 --> 0:43:18.960
<v Speaker 2>I once I got to think about that, because once

0:43:19.000 --> 0:43:20.640
<v Speaker 2>you do it, it's it's gone. And I have been

0:43:20.680 --> 0:43:22.880
<v Speaker 2>on street View and I've seen some of that stuff.

0:43:22.920 --> 0:43:25.239
<v Speaker 2>So I'll put those links on the show notes. But

0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:26.680
<v Speaker 2>what's the second question.

0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:31.120
<v Speaker 11>You just were talking about artificial intelligence, and I went

0:43:31.200 --> 0:43:34.360
<v Speaker 11>on about two weeks ago to chat GPT or whatever

0:43:34.680 --> 0:43:37.160
<v Speaker 11>it is, and I needed to ask you. They want

0:43:37.280 --> 0:43:42.120
<v Speaker 11>so much information for me to upload it or access it,

0:43:43.640 --> 0:43:50.200
<v Speaker 11>and I there was also actually like pictures of you know,

0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:55.240
<v Speaker 11>black background with white letters, okay, like copy and paste

0:43:55.280 --> 0:43:59.080
<v Speaker 11>to get it to work, okay, And it just seemed

0:43:59.120 --> 0:44:01.560
<v Speaker 11>like to INVASI to me, is that How is that

0:44:01.600 --> 0:44:02.920
<v Speaker 11>how I would sign up to use it?

0:44:03.520 --> 0:44:05.800
<v Speaker 2>I don't think so, because I signed up in one click.

0:44:05.920 --> 0:44:08.600
<v Speaker 2>So I think you're on either a third party site

0:44:08.600 --> 0:44:11.520
<v Speaker 2>that is trying to hijack the chat GBT name.

0:44:11.960 --> 0:44:13.960
<v Speaker 1>But the only.

0:44:13.800 --> 0:44:17.560
<v Speaker 2>Website to access chat GBT, and it's free, by the way,

0:44:18.120 --> 0:44:24.200
<v Speaker 2>is chat dot OpenAI dot com. So Jack, if you

0:44:24.239 --> 0:44:27.040
<v Speaker 2>weren't going to that website, I would go to that website.

0:44:27.080 --> 0:44:29.680
<v Speaker 2>I signed up. I rarely do this, but I did

0:44:29.680 --> 0:44:32.120
<v Speaker 2>sign up. I signed in using my Google account, so

0:44:32.160 --> 0:44:34.239
<v Speaker 2>I just signed in with Google. It gives you the

0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.440
<v Speaker 2>option of signing in with a couple of different ways,

0:44:36.800 --> 0:44:40.040
<v Speaker 2>but I just did that. Now, I did say, let

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<v Speaker 2>me see if I see sign up. Okay, Yeah, it's

0:44:42.239 --> 0:44:44.359
<v Speaker 2>just you know, ask you for email address. I do

0:44:44.400 --> 0:44:47.000
<v Speaker 2>think you have to confirm your phone number though, for sure,

0:44:47.440 --> 0:44:49.800
<v Speaker 2>because you know, they want to keep this from being abused,

0:44:50.280 --> 0:44:53.400
<v Speaker 2>so you know. But you can also use Google, Microsoft

0:44:53.440 --> 0:44:55.840
<v Speaker 2>or Apple to log in as well. I don't typically

0:44:55.920 --> 0:44:58.600
<v Speaker 2>recommend that, but for trusted websites like an open ai,

0:44:58.680 --> 0:45:01.160
<v Speaker 2>I think that's fine. But I would check out chat

0:45:01.200 --> 0:45:05.759
<v Speaker 2>dot OpenAI dot com. That is the official website. They

0:45:05.760 --> 0:45:08.360
<v Speaker 2>also have an app for the iPhone and for Android.

0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:10.880
<v Speaker 2>But keep in mind there are a lot of what

0:45:10.960 --> 0:45:13.840
<v Speaker 2>I call kling on apps. These are third party apps

0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:16.640
<v Speaker 2>that are using the Chat GBT name, and you just

0:45:16.680 --> 0:45:19.080
<v Speaker 2>have to be careful. And it gets a little confusing

0:45:19.160 --> 0:45:24.400
<v Speaker 2>because here's the thing. Many products use GPT for or

0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:28.880
<v Speaker 2>GPT that is a product from CHATGBT, and companies have

0:45:28.960 --> 0:45:33.880
<v Speaker 2>the option of using chatgpt's technology to build their own

0:45:34.000 --> 0:45:37.600
<v Speaker 2>AI products, and so it gets very confusing because yes,

0:45:37.880 --> 0:45:41.600
<v Speaker 2>a product like Notion or a product like Everno or

0:45:41.760 --> 0:45:44.120
<v Speaker 2>any app that you download nowadays, it says, hey we

0:45:44.160 --> 0:45:47.360
<v Speaker 2>have AI and it's usually a GPT and usually on

0:45:47.400 --> 0:45:52.520
<v Speaker 2>the back end it is being powered by OpenAI's GPT technology.

0:45:52.800 --> 0:45:57.360
<v Speaker 2>But the official CHATGPT lives at chat dot OpenAI dot com.

0:45:57.440 --> 0:45:59.600
<v Speaker 2>That is the website you want to go to and

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<v Speaker 2>I actually have been using chat GBT more. I was

0:46:03.160 --> 0:46:06.799
<v Speaker 2>using Claude by Anthropic, but with this latest I pay

0:46:06.840 --> 0:46:09.560
<v Speaker 2>for the twenty dollars a month for chat gbt the premium,

0:46:09.600 --> 0:46:12.000
<v Speaker 2>and it is just quite incredible what it can do.

0:46:12.480 --> 0:46:14.280
<v Speaker 2>If you want to see an example, I actually posted

0:46:14.280 --> 0:46:17.600
<v Speaker 2>a picture today on my Instagram uh and my stories

0:46:17.640 --> 0:46:20.120
<v Speaker 2>at rich on Tech, and I ask people if they're

0:46:20.160 --> 0:46:23.920
<v Speaker 2>watching the USC or UCLA game, and the picture I

0:46:23.960 --> 0:46:26.920
<v Speaker 2>have on there is actually AI generated. It is just

0:46:27.640 --> 0:46:32.239
<v Speaker 2>wild what this thing can do. All right, great questions, Jack,

0:46:32.320 --> 0:46:34.520
<v Speaker 2>Thanks so much for the call today at Triple eight

0:46:34.680 --> 0:46:37.200
<v Speaker 2>rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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

0:46:41.800 --> 0:46:44.680
<v Speaker 2>founder of Consumer World, coming up, plus more of your

0:46:44.760 --> 0:46:50.359
<v Speaker 2>questions right here on rich on Tech. Welcome back to

0:46:50.760 --> 0:46:52.960
<v Speaker 2>rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

0:46:53.080 --> 0:46:56.919
<v Speaker 2>talking technology at Triple eight rich one on one eight

0:46:56.960 --> 0:47:01.280
<v Speaker 2>eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

0:47:01.920 --> 0:47:03.759
<v Speaker 2>Coming up this hour, we're going to talk to the

0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:06.360
<v Speaker 2>founder of Consumer World, one of the websites that I

0:47:06.440 --> 0:47:10.600
<v Speaker 2>visit every day, Edgar Dwarski. He's going to share top

0:47:10.640 --> 0:47:13.640
<v Speaker 2>tips on how to get a deal on Black Friday. Plus,

0:47:13.680 --> 0:47:15.400
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to tell you how to set up emergency

0:47:15.520 --> 0:47:19.840
<v Speaker 2>services on your smartphone. Very very important. Let's go to

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<v Speaker 2>Ken in Aurora, Colorado. Ken, you're on with rich All.

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<v Speaker 13>Hi, thanks for taking my call. Well, I'm just calling

0:47:29.719 --> 0:47:33.360
<v Speaker 13>on behalf of a friend of mine. Her relative is

0:47:33.400 --> 0:47:38.879
<v Speaker 13>planning to buy her a brand new phone smartphone and

0:47:39.040 --> 0:47:42.360
<v Speaker 13>then put that phone on the relative phone service company,

0:47:43.200 --> 0:47:45.839
<v Speaker 13>and then the relative would then be paying that.

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<v Speaker 1>Phone bill for her nice relative?

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<v Speaker 13>Yeah, what's that?

0:47:51.280 --> 0:47:52.040
<v Speaker 1>Nice relative?

0:47:53.000 --> 0:47:57.920
<v Speaker 13>Yeah really, I've been I was a petted about that myself. However,

0:47:58.560 --> 0:48:03.160
<v Speaker 13>my friend has a fairly new Moto Gen Android smartphone,

0:48:04.120 --> 0:48:06.600
<v Speaker 13>and that of course has her photos and her phone

0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:09.279
<v Speaker 13>list and all the apps that she enjoys. And so

0:48:09.400 --> 0:48:13.799
<v Speaker 13>here's my question of instead of that relative buying a

0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:16.120
<v Speaker 13>brand new phone and shipping it to it, would it

0:48:16.120 --> 0:48:20.840
<v Speaker 13>be doable for my friends to ask her relative to

0:48:21.000 --> 0:48:24.080
<v Speaker 13>use the I M E I numbers from the Moto

0:48:24.160 --> 0:48:29.480
<v Speaker 13>g at the phone store to switch my my friend's

0:48:29.640 --> 0:48:33.520
<v Speaker 13>phone service over to the relative's phone service by computer

0:48:33.640 --> 0:48:37.320
<v Speaker 13>at the phone store without having without having the relative

0:48:37.560 --> 0:48:40.200
<v Speaker 13>buy a brand new phone. Is that doable?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh? You lost me? I'm confused.

0:48:42.920 --> 0:48:46.359
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So so the okay, you've got you've got the

0:48:46.360 --> 0:48:47.320
<v Speaker 2>Moto G phone.

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<v Speaker 1>Is that already? Is that the old phone or the

0:48:49.040 --> 0:48:49.600
<v Speaker 1>new phone?

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<v Speaker 12>That's the old.

0:48:50.800 --> 0:48:53.440
<v Speaker 13>Phone okay, once she had that at this moment.

0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:56.120
<v Speaker 2>Okay, she's got that phone, and then she's she's going

0:48:56.160 --> 0:48:57.040
<v Speaker 2>to get a new phone.

0:48:58.960 --> 0:49:01.759
<v Speaker 13>Yeah, her, her, her, the relative wants to buy her

0:49:01.800 --> 0:49:02.279
<v Speaker 13>a new phone.

0:49:02.320 --> 0:49:04.040
<v Speaker 1>Okay. And the relative lives somewhere.

0:49:03.719 --> 0:49:08.600
<v Speaker 13>Else correct, yeah, her relative of Oh.

0:49:08.480 --> 0:49:10.320
<v Speaker 2>And the relative is going to pay for the phone,

0:49:10.400 --> 0:49:11.800
<v Speaker 2>and she's going to pay for the service.

0:49:12.680 --> 0:49:13.040
<v Speaker 4>Correct.

0:49:13.160 --> 0:49:16.200
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So the relative should buy the phone where she lives,

0:49:17.120 --> 0:49:20.000
<v Speaker 2>buy the phone, go into her carrier, activate the phone,

0:49:20.000 --> 0:49:21.800
<v Speaker 2>and then ship it to the person that's going to

0:49:21.880 --> 0:49:22.640
<v Speaker 2>use it.

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<v Speaker 13>Okay, Yes, that's correct. That that that is the plan

0:49:26.360 --> 0:49:29.120
<v Speaker 13>at the moment. Okay, but what but what I'm asking

0:49:29.440 --> 0:49:33.560
<v Speaker 13>And to save this relative some money? Yeah, and to

0:49:33.600 --> 0:49:37.080
<v Speaker 13>make it more straightforward for my friend to hang on

0:49:37.160 --> 0:49:41.200
<v Speaker 13>to her her photos and her apps and the phone

0:49:41.200 --> 0:49:44.960
<v Speaker 13>that that are on the old phone. Uh can uh?

0:49:45.840 --> 0:49:49.399
<v Speaker 13>And my friend's relative takes the I N E I

0:49:49.600 --> 0:49:54.560
<v Speaker 13>numbers from the Moto G to the phone store where

0:49:54.640 --> 0:49:58.600
<v Speaker 13>she was planning on buying the new phone, and then

0:49:58.800 --> 0:50:03.840
<v Speaker 13>just the employee there using those I am I numbers

0:50:04.320 --> 0:50:08.840
<v Speaker 13>just uh kind of by remote controls with the phone

0:50:08.880 --> 0:50:10.560
<v Speaker 13>service from the old phone.

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<v Speaker 1>I'm sorry, Yeah, it's possible. It's possible.

0:50:14.800 --> 0:50:17.480
<v Speaker 2>I'm a little confused, but it's one hundred percent possible

0:50:17.560 --> 0:50:19.759
<v Speaker 2>that you can you can activate a phone using just

0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:22.640
<v Speaker 2>the Imei numbers. That's that's pretty much how all of

0:50:22.640 --> 0:50:26.000
<v Speaker 2>the carriers do it nowadays. But what's confusing is your

0:50:26.000 --> 0:50:28.520
<v Speaker 2>friend has to procure the new phone. How's she getting

0:50:28.520 --> 0:50:29.800
<v Speaker 2>the new phone?

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<v Speaker 13>Okay, Well, the plan was, like you said a few

0:50:32.960 --> 0:50:35.560
<v Speaker 13>months ago, the rug is going to go and buy

0:50:35.600 --> 0:50:38.600
<v Speaker 13>the phone and put that phone on the relatives phone

0:50:38.640 --> 0:50:41.600
<v Speaker 13>service and then then ship it to my friend. Yeah,

0:50:41.640 --> 0:50:47.240
<v Speaker 13>well and but uh uh but that but there's nothing

0:50:47.239 --> 0:50:51.960
<v Speaker 13>in that plan about saving my friend's photos.

0:50:52.120 --> 0:50:54.480
<v Speaker 1>Well it's a friend, okay. So when that's on on

0:50:54.600 --> 0:50:55.720
<v Speaker 1>the Moto G, when.

0:50:55.600 --> 0:50:58.759
<v Speaker 2>The friend gets the phone, she transfers the stuff from

0:50:58.800 --> 0:51:00.640
<v Speaker 2>the Moto G to the new phone. She's going to

0:51:00.680 --> 0:51:03.200
<v Speaker 2>have both phones, so it'll be easy to transfer the

0:51:03.239 --> 0:51:06.520
<v Speaker 2>stuff over. So it's whether the phone is activated or

0:51:06.520 --> 0:51:08.200
<v Speaker 2>not doesn't really matter. I mean, it's going to be

0:51:08.239 --> 0:51:10.719
<v Speaker 2>activated when she gets it. Now, if you're asking me

0:51:10.920 --> 0:51:13.960
<v Speaker 2>if the if the relative, if the person that's getting

0:51:13.960 --> 0:51:16.440
<v Speaker 2>this phone can go out and buy it themselves and

0:51:16.480 --> 0:51:20.240
<v Speaker 2>then activate it like remotely on the other person's account,

0:51:20.680 --> 0:51:25.120
<v Speaker 2>that could also be an option. And it's not that nothing.

0:51:25.719 --> 0:51:28.759
<v Speaker 2>The carriers don't require a physical phone in their hand

0:51:28.840 --> 0:51:31.959
<v Speaker 2>to activate it. If it's if it's being activated without

0:51:32.000 --> 0:51:35.759
<v Speaker 2>a SIM card, usually it's it's being activated nowadays with

0:51:35.800 --> 0:51:38.360
<v Speaker 2>an eSIM So you can do that online.

0:51:38.560 --> 0:51:39.840
<v Speaker 1>You can do that on the phone.

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<v Speaker 2>In fact, they don't want you to come into the

0:51:41.360 --> 0:51:43.919
<v Speaker 2>store anymore because guess what that costs them money because

0:51:43.960 --> 0:51:46.120
<v Speaker 2>they got to use one of their employees, so they

0:51:46.160 --> 0:51:48.600
<v Speaker 2>would they would rather do this online. And yes, it

0:51:48.640 --> 0:51:52.400
<v Speaker 2>can all be done online. But the question is, because

0:51:52.520 --> 0:51:56.200
<v Speaker 2>this phone is being used by a third party that

0:51:56.320 --> 0:51:59.279
<v Speaker 2>is not the person. Your your friend is not going

0:51:59.320 --> 0:52:01.120
<v Speaker 2>to be able to active this phone on their own

0:52:01.239 --> 0:52:03.839
<v Speaker 2>because she's not the account owner. So it may come

0:52:03.880 --> 0:52:07.160
<v Speaker 2>into play where you have to put your the person

0:52:07.200 --> 0:52:09.520
<v Speaker 2>who's getting this phone has to put the other person

0:52:09.560 --> 0:52:11.719
<v Speaker 2>on the phone third party, and they have to get

0:52:11.719 --> 0:52:14.959
<v Speaker 2>permission and be on the line to activate this phone

0:52:15.000 --> 0:52:17.160
<v Speaker 2>because otherwise, you know, and I could just say, oh,

0:52:17.200 --> 0:52:18.800
<v Speaker 2>I know your account number, and I can activate a

0:52:18.880 --> 0:52:19.560
<v Speaker 2>bunch of lines.

0:52:19.920 --> 0:52:21.440
<v Speaker 1>But that's that's how I would do it.

0:52:21.440 --> 0:52:25.280
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it sounds a little complicated, but the bottom

0:52:25.320 --> 0:52:28.480
<v Speaker 2>line is that your friend has this Moto G phone

0:52:28.840 --> 0:52:31.279
<v Speaker 2>unless they're trading it in, which you didn't say that.

0:52:32.080 --> 0:52:33.880
<v Speaker 2>Unless they're trading it in, she's still going to have

0:52:33.920 --> 0:52:36.359
<v Speaker 2>that phone when the new phone arrives to her, whether

0:52:36.360 --> 0:52:38.680
<v Speaker 2>your friend is sending her that phone, whether she's going

0:52:38.680 --> 0:52:41.440
<v Speaker 2>out to Best Buy and purchasing that phone. But usually

0:52:41.480 --> 0:52:43.239
<v Speaker 2>if you purchase a store like that, they want to

0:52:43.280 --> 0:52:46.560
<v Speaker 2>activate it in the store. So your friend who is

0:52:46.600 --> 0:52:49.400
<v Speaker 2>getting the phone or giving them the phone needs to

0:52:49.400 --> 0:52:52.799
<v Speaker 2>buy this phone online from like an Amazon or an

0:52:52.880 --> 0:52:55.920
<v Speaker 2>Apple dot com and just ship it directly to this person.

0:52:55.960 --> 0:52:57.919
<v Speaker 2>And that's what I would do. When the person gets

0:52:58.000 --> 0:53:01.759
<v Speaker 2>the phone, they can call their friend and you know,

0:53:01.880 --> 0:53:04.680
<v Speaker 2>activate it with them on the line, call the you know,

0:53:04.800 --> 0:53:07.919
<v Speaker 2>do a three way call whatever, and activate it through

0:53:07.920 --> 0:53:09.839
<v Speaker 2>the cell phone company on that. But no, the phone

0:53:09.840 --> 0:53:12.360
<v Speaker 2>does not necessarily need to be in the physical presence

0:53:12.400 --> 0:53:15.600
<v Speaker 2>of the store to activate. Many of these activations could

0:53:15.600 --> 0:53:19.440
<v Speaker 2>be done online unless the phone doesn't support an eSIM

0:53:19.440 --> 0:53:21.000
<v Speaker 2>and then it would be a little bit of a problem.

0:53:21.080 --> 0:53:23.440
<v Speaker 2>So Ken, thanks so much for the call. Hope they

0:53:23.480 --> 0:53:26.879
<v Speaker 2>get that sorted out. But it sounds pretty straightforward. I mean,

0:53:26.920 --> 0:53:29.399
<v Speaker 2>it's obviously it's easier to be in person, but these

0:53:29.400 --> 0:53:31.040
<v Speaker 2>things can be done. Kids are at college all the

0:53:31.040 --> 0:53:33.480
<v Speaker 2>time they get phones activated by their parents that are

0:53:33.480 --> 0:53:36.200
<v Speaker 2>in different states that are still footing the bill. Because

0:53:36.200 --> 0:53:38.040
<v Speaker 2>that's the best part about being in college. Your parents

0:53:38.120 --> 0:53:42.000
<v Speaker 2>probably still pay for your stuff. Edgar Dwarski, founder of

0:53:42.080 --> 0:53:46.200
<v Speaker 2>Consumer World, joining me next right here on rich on Tech.

0:53:47.880 --> 0:53:52.400
<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

0:53:52.440 --> 0:53:55.319
<v Speaker 2>technology with you at Triple eight rich one on one

0:53:55.440 --> 0:54:00.120
<v Speaker 2>eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one one.

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<v Speaker 2>Another website I check on a daily basis, Consumer World. Yeah,

0:54:05.440 --> 0:54:05.960
<v Speaker 2>I check a lot.

0:54:05.920 --> 0:54:07.400
<v Speaker 1>Of websites on a daily basis.

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<v Speaker 2>This is run by Edgar Dwarski, and Edgar is on

0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:13.040
<v Speaker 2>the line.

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<v Speaker 1>Edgar, thanks for joining.

0:54:14.080 --> 0:54:16.400
<v Speaker 12>Me, Hi, Rich, thanks for having me on the program.

0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:18.120
<v Speaker 1>Thanks for doing this.

0:54:18.920 --> 0:54:23.440
<v Speaker 2>You posted about let's see ten tips to bag a

0:54:23.600 --> 0:54:26.640
<v Speaker 2>Black Friday bargain. Now you've been covering this stuff for

0:54:26.680 --> 0:54:28.520
<v Speaker 2>a long time. First off, just tell me about the

0:54:28.560 --> 0:54:30.279
<v Speaker 2>website consumerworld dot org.

0:54:31.080 --> 0:54:36.000
<v Speaker 12>Well, I started Consumer World probably back in nineteen ninety five,

0:54:36.400 --> 0:54:39.480
<v Speaker 12>you know, three months after Amazon and eBay who were born.

0:54:39.800 --> 0:54:40.680
<v Speaker 13>I should only.

0:54:40.520 --> 0:54:44.440
<v Speaker 12>Make half their money, oh Man, or a tiny percentage

0:54:44.480 --> 0:54:49.160
<v Speaker 12>of their money. It's basically consumer education website. I'm a

0:54:49.320 --> 0:54:53.440
<v Speaker 12>consumer lawyer. I've worked at the AG's office in Massachusetts,

0:54:53.480 --> 0:54:57.320
<v Speaker 12>and I try to teach people how to be smart

0:54:57.480 --> 0:55:01.080
<v Speaker 12>with their money, don't get taken by scam. And since

0:55:01.120 --> 0:55:04.319
<v Speaker 12>I'm a bargain hunter at heart, I always look for

0:55:04.360 --> 0:55:07.279
<v Speaker 12>a bargain of the week and once a year I

0:55:07.320 --> 0:55:10.560
<v Speaker 12>do my top tips to find Black Friday bargains. And

0:55:10.640 --> 0:55:12.799
<v Speaker 12>let me tell you, it's getting harder and harder every

0:55:12.880 --> 0:55:16.840
<v Speaker 12>year because of the way retailers have kind of jumped

0:55:16.840 --> 0:55:17.240
<v Speaker 12>the gun.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean by that?

0:55:20.120 --> 0:55:25.960
<v Speaker 12>Retailers used to have Black Friday novel idea on Black

0:55:26.000 --> 0:55:31.040
<v Speaker 12>Friday itself, and then they started offering deals on Thanksgiving,

0:55:31.320 --> 0:55:34.360
<v Speaker 12>and then they started on Wednesday before Black Friday, and

0:55:34.400 --> 0:55:37.840
<v Speaker 12>then Sunday before Black Friday. Now as soon as November

0:55:37.920 --> 0:55:41.160
<v Speaker 12>rolls around, they do multiple things. I mean, for example,

0:55:41.600 --> 0:55:45.920
<v Speaker 12>Walmart did part one of their Black Friday sale and

0:55:45.960 --> 0:55:48.319
<v Speaker 12>it began I think on the eighth or ninth of

0:55:48.360 --> 0:55:51.399
<v Speaker 12>the month, and it's already over, and those deals are

0:55:51.400 --> 0:55:56.200
<v Speaker 12>not necessarily being repeated, so you don't know when to strike.

0:55:57.320 --> 0:55:59.560
<v Speaker 2>Like the old days, you knew that you were getting

0:55:59.600 --> 0:56:01.960
<v Speaker 2>the best on you know, Black Friday, if it was

0:56:02.000 --> 0:56:04.800
<v Speaker 2>a doorbuster or whatever. Now it's just getting tougher because

0:56:04.800 --> 0:56:07.439
<v Speaker 2>the time is getting longer, and so you're like, wait,

0:56:07.480 --> 0:56:07.960
<v Speaker 2>do I get it?

0:56:08.000 --> 0:56:08.160
<v Speaker 3>Now?

0:56:08.200 --> 0:56:10.240
<v Speaker 1>Do you think it's gonna be better closer to the holiday?

0:56:10.680 --> 0:56:12.800
<v Speaker 1>So I understand that exactly.

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

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<v Speaker 12>You know, there are several websites that get the ads

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<v Speaker 12>leaked to them so you can do your comparison, but

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<v Speaker 12>even those were late this year. I mean, for example,

0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:30.160
<v Speaker 12>home Depot and Low's still haven't put their ads out

0:56:30.239 --> 0:56:32.920
<v Speaker 12>for Black Friday itself, so who knows what kind of

0:56:32.920 --> 0:56:34.759
<v Speaker 12>great deals they're going to have then.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, so your first tip is to read the ads.

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<v Speaker 2>And so, like you said, it could be tough to

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<v Speaker 2>get some of these, but to look at the ads

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<v Speaker 2>that's obviously number one.

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<v Speaker 12>Then look at the ads. Go to Blackfriday dot gottadal

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<v Speaker 12>dot com. Most of the ads are there, so you

0:56:50.640 --> 0:56:53.680
<v Speaker 12>can kind of let your fingers do the walking and

0:56:54.360 --> 0:56:57.640
<v Speaker 12>begin to write down model numbers of ones that you're

0:56:57.680 --> 0:57:02.160
<v Speaker 12>interested in, and then you say to valuate the deals, right,

0:57:02.239 --> 0:57:05.279
<v Speaker 12>you know, getting getting a good price on allows your

0:57:05.360 --> 0:57:11.359
<v Speaker 12>product is no bargain. So there are TV's galore, you know,

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<v Speaker 12>go to I happen to Like r things dot com,

0:57:14.400 --> 0:57:17.120
<v Speaker 12>r T I n G s dot com. I'm sure

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<v Speaker 12>you've recommended to your listeners other places to check reviews

0:57:21.480 --> 0:57:25.960
<v Speaker 12>and see is this really a good TV or not?

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<v Speaker 12>And the same thing with other products, you know, go

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<v Speaker 12>to consumer reports, read reviews, you know on Amazon and

0:57:32.120 --> 0:57:36.200
<v Speaker 12>best Buy and Target. They want to be educated and

0:57:36.240 --> 0:57:40.360
<v Speaker 12>not just be lured by, you know, forty percent off

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<v Speaker 12>fifty percent off list price when no one ever pays

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<v Speaker 12>the list price.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and the website that has the funny name camelcammelcammel

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<v Speaker 2>dot com. That's a great one for Amazon because you

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<v Speaker 2>can pop in a ur L and you know, a

0:57:52.960 --> 0:57:55.800
<v Speaker 2>product and you know, let's say Amazon is selling something

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<v Speaker 2>for you know, eighty dollars. You can look at the

0:57:58.720 --> 0:58:02.200
<v Speaker 2>price history. How has it been eighty dollars seventeen times

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<v Speaker 2>this year? Or is this the lowest price it's ever been?

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<v Speaker 2>And so that's a really good way to do it.

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<v Speaker 12>Oh, absolutely, that was That was my third tip because

0:58:10.400 --> 0:58:14.200
<v Speaker 12>most of us don't track product prices all year, so

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<v Speaker 12>how do you know if what they're advertising really is

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<v Speaker 12>a good deal or not. And as you say, you know,

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<v Speaker 12>look at Camel, Camel Camel, see what the price history

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<v Speaker 12>was at least at Amazon and some of the third

0:58:23.960 --> 0:58:24.680
<v Speaker 12>party sellers.

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<v Speaker 1>What's this triple play you're talking about?

0:58:27.720 --> 0:58:32.400
<v Speaker 12>This is mostly at JC, Penny and Coal's. The idea

0:58:32.640 --> 0:58:37.560
<v Speaker 12>is to maximize your savings. Look for great deals. To

0:58:37.640 --> 0:58:40.680
<v Speaker 12>start with, is there a coupon so you can get

0:58:40.680 --> 0:58:43.640
<v Speaker 12>an extra twenty percent off or five dollars off a

0:58:44.200 --> 0:58:48.160
<v Speaker 12>twenty five dollars purchase, and then see if there's a rebate.

0:58:48.440 --> 0:58:50.800
<v Speaker 12>So if you get all three, even though it's technically

0:58:50.840 --> 0:58:53.040
<v Speaker 12>a triple play, I think that's a home run.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, what about these you say to you know, the

0:58:56.120 --> 0:59:00.080
<v Speaker 2>early bird gets the lacklustered doorbusters, and then you say

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<v Speaker 2>to beat the early birds.

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<v Speaker 1>What do you mean by that.

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<v Speaker 12>Well, basically you need to be early. These are limited

0:59:07.080 --> 0:59:11.680
<v Speaker 12>quantity deals, particularly on the better bargains, and sometimes you know,

0:59:11.800 --> 0:59:16.160
<v Speaker 12>some places like Walmart, for example, puts the items online

0:59:16.200 --> 0:59:20.160
<v Speaker 12>prior to it being available in the store, and you know,

0:59:20.240 --> 0:59:22.800
<v Speaker 12>there's not unlimited quantities. You're not going to be able

0:59:22.800 --> 0:59:25.200
<v Speaker 12>to get a rain check, so you got to be early,

0:59:25.240 --> 0:59:28.439
<v Speaker 12>whether it's going online to get it as soon as

0:59:28.440 --> 0:59:31.560
<v Speaker 12>the sale begins or going to the store when the

0:59:31.640 --> 0:59:35.320
<v Speaker 12>door's open. I tell you, I miss the days that

0:59:35.360 --> 0:59:37.000
<v Speaker 12>you have to get up at four in the morning

0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:39.560
<v Speaker 12>and go out to Cohl's or Staples for a five

0:59:39.640 --> 0:59:41.080
<v Speaker 12>am or six am opening.

0:59:41.360 --> 0:59:45.040
<v Speaker 2>And I did that many many times in my earlier

0:59:45.160 --> 0:59:47.640
<v Speaker 2>years because it was so fun. It was almost like

0:59:47.960 --> 0:59:50.960
<v Speaker 2>you had this camaraderie with folks that were standing out there.

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<v Speaker 12>Because absolutely you bonded with the other crazy people like

0:59:54.520 --> 0:59:57.640
<v Speaker 12>you exactly and the doors open and to be this

0:59:57.880 --> 1:00:01.400
<v Speaker 12>mad dash, all that's gone. As I said at the top,

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<v Speaker 12>retailers have taken the fun out of Black Friday by

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<v Speaker 12>stretching it out all month.

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<v Speaker 1>Any other tip that you want to mention.

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<v Speaker 12>Just, you know, get a gift receipt if you're going

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<v Speaker 12>to give the thing as a present. And one of

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<v Speaker 12>my big tips be sure you keep checking prices just

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<v Speaker 12>because you think you've you know, filled most of the

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<v Speaker 12>items on your shopping list. The shopping in comparison pricing

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<v Speaker 12>doesn't end. There many stores have price match guarantees, So

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<v Speaker 12>keep looking at the ads, and if there's a better

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<v Speaker 12>price before the period runs out at the particular retail,

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<v Speaker 12>go back to the store and get back the difference,

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<v Speaker 12>and if they balk at it, return it and then

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<v Speaker 12>repurchase it.

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<v Speaker 1>There you go.

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<v Speaker 2>Do you think people are getting scammed more now or

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<v Speaker 2>back when you started? Consumer World?

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<v Speaker 12>In general? I just think scams are far more prevalent.

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<v Speaker 12>I mean, in nineteen ninety five, the internet was very new,

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<v Speaker 12>you know, so we're talking about so many years later.

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<v Speaker 12>I think scammed, particularly around the holidays. Just be careful,

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<v Speaker 12>don't click on links, and I'm sure you've taught your

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<v Speaker 12>listeners hover over the links, see where it's really going.

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<v Speaker 2>My favorite the stuff, my favorite thing that you post,

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<v Speaker 2>by the way, is the shrink flation stuff, because I mean,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not kidding, every product that I remember from you know,

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<v Speaker 2>my childhood or whatever, it's all just smaller. Everything's just tinier.

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<v Speaker 2>But it's like the same price, if not more, right.

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<v Speaker 12>And if you don't pay attention to the net weight

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<v Speaker 12>or the net count and size of sheets on paper

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<v Speaker 12>towels and toilet paper, you're really getting less for your money.

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<v Speaker 12>It's a sneaky way to pass on a price increase.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, we're going to leave it there.

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<v Speaker 2>Edgar Dwarski, founder of Consumerworld dot org.

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<v Speaker 1>Check out his website.

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<v Speaker 2>It is definitely a great a great stop each and

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<v Speaker 2>every day to kind of see what the world is,

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<v Speaker 2>what the world needs to know about shopping and deals

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<v Speaker 2>and all that stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for joining us.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's fine, I'll take I do it every day,

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<v Speaker 2>but you know, but for yeah, once a week is great.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for joining me today.

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<v Speaker 12>Thanks.

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<v Speaker 2>Ch All right, let's see. Let me tell you about

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<v Speaker 2>this quickly before the break. Apple is extending its Emergency

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<v Speaker 2>SOS via satellite for an extra year for free. So

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<v Speaker 2>when this first came out on iPhone fourteen, they said

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<v Speaker 2>users were going to get it for two years. They

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<v Speaker 2>have now extended that for a third year. And this

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<v Speaker 2>is available on the iPhone fourteen and fifteen models. This

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<v Speaker 2>allows you to text with emergency services even if you

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<v Speaker 2>don't have a cellular or Wi Fi signal. It will

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<v Speaker 2>reach up into space and find a satellite and get

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<v Speaker 2>your message for help through. And I actually interviewed a

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<v Speaker 2>woman who was on a hike and she fell. Actually

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<v Speaker 2>she didn't fall, she just stepped on some ground that

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<v Speaker 2>gave way and her ankle popped and broke basically, and

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<v Speaker 2>she was stranded, and her friend tried dialing nine one

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<v Speaker 2>one on their phone and it didn't work, and she

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<v Speaker 2>goes here, try my phone, and lo and behold, it

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<v Speaker 2>had this new feature. She even know about it, and

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<v Speaker 2>it connected to the satellites. I interviewed the first responders

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<v Speaker 2>and they said, yeah, these things are literally saving lives

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<v Speaker 2>on a weekly basis. So I'm still waiting for Android

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<v Speaker 2>to get this feature. But if you have it on

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<v Speaker 2>your iPhone fourteen or fifteen, get familiar with it. It's

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<v Speaker 2>called Emergency SOS via satellite. It could definitely save your life.

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<v Speaker 2>The other takeaway I had from interviewing the first responders

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<v Speaker 2>is don't discount texting nine one one, Like a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of places will let you text nine one one, And

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<v Speaker 2>even if you don't have this satellite feature, try texting

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<v Speaker 2>nine one one if you don't have a signal, because

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<v Speaker 2>sometimes that'll go through and it sounds like when you

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<v Speaker 2>text nine one one, a lot of these places will

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<v Speaker 2>get your location and other data about you that can

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<v Speaker 2>really help them find you. So obviously calling nine one

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<v Speaker 2>one still kind of like the gold standard, but texting,

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<v Speaker 2>if it's available where you are, if you ever needed it,

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<v Speaker 2>that's a really good way to get in touch with

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<v Speaker 2>first responders. And a lot of people don't even realize

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<v Speaker 2>that's a thing. So check it out. See if the

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<v Speaker 2>city that you live in or the county you live

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<v Speaker 2>in offers texting to nine one one. A lot of

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<v Speaker 2>them do, which was very surprising to me. Coming up

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<v Speaker 2>after the break, I'm gonna tell you how to check

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<v Speaker 2>the emergency settings on the Samsung, on the Pixel on

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<v Speaker 2>the iPhone, so you are fully prep no matter which

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<v Speaker 2>phone you have for an emergency, hopefully you never need it.

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<v Speaker 2>Plus your calls at Triple eight Rich one o one

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<v Speaker 2>eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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<v Speaker 2>This is rich on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 2>Rich Demiro here talking technology at Triple eight rich one

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<v Speaker 2>oh one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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<v Speaker 2>zero one. Karen in Orange County, you're on with Rich.

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<v Speaker 14>Hi, how are you? I gotta tell you I listened

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<v Speaker 14>to Leo Laporte for yours and you were killing it.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh thank you, I mean so much.

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<v Speaker 14>I don't want to put him down. No, No, Leo

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<v Speaker 14>it's justos for what you're doing.

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you. I just take a little different approach. I

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<v Speaker 1>love Leo.

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<v Speaker 2>I think that he did a great job and still

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<v Speaker 2>does on his.

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<v Speaker 14>Show, an excellent job. I'm just yeah, it's pretty hard

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<v Speaker 14>to step in somebody else and shoes and do that's

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<v Speaker 14>a fine job that you're doing well. Thank you, And

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<v Speaker 14>I'm very very untechi. You're gonna probably tell me in

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<v Speaker 14>the second one I'm doing wrong. But I acquired a

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<v Speaker 14>new credit card a few months ago for the bonus

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<v Speaker 14>points of course, like those of us cent are into

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<v Speaker 14>that du so, I could use it towards a airfare

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<v Speaker 14>or a hotel and I always paid off within the

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<v Speaker 14>next month.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, good this time.

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<v Speaker 14>I mean I would never get a credit card unless

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<v Speaker 14>I did that. I learned my lesson medi.

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<v Speaker 1>So did I.

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<v Speaker 2>I yeah, I got the free T shirt in college,

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<v Speaker 2>and next thing you know, I had five thousand dollars

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<v Speaker 2>worth of debt and I don't know where it went.

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<v Speaker 2>I have no idea how I acquired it, but it

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<v Speaker 2>took me.

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<v Speaker 14>My friend talked me into doing it, and I could

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<v Speaker 14>have killed him when all of a sudden, all these

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<v Speaker 14>charges show up. That's why he's an X anyway. I

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<v Speaker 14>you know, I study religiously my credit card statements, just

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<v Speaker 14>like I do my checking out every morning. The first

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<v Speaker 14>thing I do when I wake up, after I make

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<v Speaker 14>my coffee is to see if there's any unouth right charges.

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<v Speaker 14>So on this new credit card, and I don't know

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<v Speaker 14>if you want me to mention the bank or not.

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<v Speaker 14>There's this unouth right charge and it's PayPal. I don't

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<v Speaker 14>use PayPal. I did years ago only to help out

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<v Speaker 14>my nephew in another city because he needed money and

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<v Speaker 14>I didn't. I didn't have a way to. I wouldn't.

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<v Speaker 14>I don't send checks or I don't do anything like that,

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<v Speaker 14>so it is right. I called the credit card company.

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<v Speaker 14>Usually this is taking care of in a split second.

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<v Speaker 14>They go, well, we have to call the party you

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<v Speaker 14>paid the money to, And I said, why did you

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<v Speaker 14>know who they are? And I do donate to several

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<v Speaker 14>animal organizations, but that's why I've never heard of They're

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<v Speaker 14>not even in the United States, They're in counter and

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<v Speaker 14>so they go, well, we'll call them. I said that

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<v Speaker 14>I'm telling you right now, it's not an osright churne.

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<v Speaker 14>So they insisted on doing their thing, and then the credit.

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<v Speaker 1>Card or the or PayPal.

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<v Speaker 12>Credit card okay?

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<v Speaker 1>Good? So credit card okay?

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<v Speaker 2>So, I mean at the end of the day, since

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<v Speaker 2>it is a credit card, you just don't pay if

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<v Speaker 2>it's not, you know, you just dispute it.

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<v Speaker 14>Look figure, But they keep putting it. They reversed charges

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<v Speaker 14>and put it back on my billigin and I said,

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<v Speaker 14>I'm not paying for something I never all run okay,

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<v Speaker 14>And then I called the company and they're going, well,

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<v Speaker 14>you know, we don't we can't control it. PayPal this

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<v Speaker 14>you know they charged us to see if we reverse it.

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<v Speaker 14>I excuse me, anyway, I still don't. I called back

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<v Speaker 14>this credit card company and I said, are you kidding me?

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<v Speaker 13>How how do you.

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<v Speaker 14>I've never in my home and I've had I have

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<v Speaker 14>a have a Who cares that my credit rating as

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<v Speaker 14>above eight hundred? I said, who done this?

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<v Speaker 12>Though?

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<v Speaker 14>I said I didn't own ra take away all the

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<v Speaker 14>company said that it went through faith.

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<v Speaker 2>Now all right, well here's here's here's what I think

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<v Speaker 2>you should do, Karen. So a couple things. Number One,

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<v Speaker 2>ditch this credit card because they suck the fact that

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<v Speaker 2>they are questioning your dispute is just absolutely insane to me.

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<v Speaker 2>So you got to get a new card or no

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<v Speaker 2>card at all if you want to avoid stuff like

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<v Speaker 2>this in the future. And I understand it's scary to

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<v Speaker 2>use debit because you know, if something like this happens

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<v Speaker 2>with a debit card, it's on you and it's not

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<v Speaker 2>on your credit card. So you got to this card

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<v Speaker 2>is no good because there this company is really really bad.

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<v Speaker 2>So that's number one. Number two, you got to go

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<v Speaker 2>into your PayPal account. So it sounds to me like

1:08:50.760 --> 1:08:54.040
<v Speaker 2>your PayPal account was either hacked or you did make

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<v Speaker 2>some sort of payment on this account a long time

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<v Speaker 2>ago and it turned into a recur or authorized payment,

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<v Speaker 2>and this can happen, and this is what you know.

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<v Speaker 1>These companies are set up like this.

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<v Speaker 2>They want you to they want this to happen, and

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<v Speaker 2>so they make it really easy to make these transactions recurring,

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<v Speaker 2>and they make it really tricky to find the root

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<v Speaker 2>of them. And I just logged into my PayPal to

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<v Speaker 2>kind of see where all this stuff lives, and it

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<v Speaker 2>took me a bit to find it. And I do

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<v Speaker 2>have a couple of recurring payments on my PayPal and

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, these are things that every year they

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<v Speaker 2>surprise me. I go, oh, yeah, I forgot I put

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<v Speaker 2>that on my PayPal And of course we all do this,

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<v Speaker 2>and they love that we do this because everyone gets

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<v Speaker 2>a little piece of these payments. So log into your

1:09:36.000 --> 1:09:38.479
<v Speaker 2>PayPal count. If you can't remember what your information is,

1:09:38.520 --> 1:09:41.160
<v Speaker 2>you got to do a password reset whatever. Get into

1:09:41.200 --> 1:09:44.720
<v Speaker 2>your account, press the settings. First thing you need to

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<v Speaker 2>do is just look at your your activity and see

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<v Speaker 2>the activity on there. And if there's any activity that

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<v Speaker 2>you don't recognize, like me, I've got a payment in

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<v Speaker 2>August for thirty eight dollars. You can look at this

1:09:58.240 --> 1:10:01.519
<v Speaker 2>payment and there's a re or a problem. So that

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<v Speaker 2>is the number one thing you can do to figure out,

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<v Speaker 2>you know, if that payment was wrong, you can press

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<v Speaker 2>that button. The other thing is to see if these

1:10:10.040 --> 1:10:12.559
<v Speaker 2>are recurring payments. So go into the settings. That's the

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<v Speaker 2>gear icon upper right hand corner, and you will see

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<v Speaker 2>what is labeled as payments up at the top, and

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<v Speaker 2>you click that and you're gonna see online purchases, in

1:10:24.240 --> 1:10:27.799
<v Speaker 2>store purchases, and then you scroll down it says automatic payments,

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<v Speaker 2>View and update all of your subscriptions and automatic payments.

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<v Speaker 2>Now I think this should be on the front page

1:10:33.680 --> 1:10:36.400
<v Speaker 2>of PayPal. Of course, it is one, two, three, at

1:10:36.479 --> 1:10:39.519
<v Speaker 2>least three clicks in and a scroll. So you go

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<v Speaker 2>there and you can now see all the different things

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<v Speaker 2>that you have linked to your PayPal, and for me,

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<v Speaker 2>it's a whole bunch of stuff. Some donations I've done. Netflix.

1:10:50.360 --> 1:10:52.280
<v Speaker 2>At one point I must have had connected to hear

1:10:52.479 --> 1:10:57.240
<v Speaker 2>Skype Doctor Squatch, which I do like. I like their soap.

1:10:57.280 --> 1:10:59.000
<v Speaker 2>I'll admit I made fun of them during the Super

1:10:59.040 --> 1:11:01.160
<v Speaker 2>Bowl commercials and I end up buying it and I

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<v Speaker 2>love it. So that's on my PayPal apparently. And then

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<v Speaker 2>you can go to your inactive so if you want

1:11:08.720 --> 1:11:12.760
<v Speaker 2>to get rid of those payments, go in there and

1:11:12.840 --> 1:11:15.840
<v Speaker 2>make sure they are either stopped or disconnected. And then

1:11:15.880 --> 1:11:19.360
<v Speaker 2>that will you know, says remove PayPal as a payment

1:11:19.439 --> 1:11:23.840
<v Speaker 2>method on my bill aer here direct TV, and so

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<v Speaker 2>you can remove that as a payment method, and it

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<v Speaker 2>says this will cancel your auto pay for Direct TV.

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<v Speaker 2>You can do that and then you can make sure

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<v Speaker 2>that that will never be charged again. The other thing

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<v Speaker 2>I would say to do is go to your wallet

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<v Speaker 2>on PayPal and remove all of your payment methods. So

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<v Speaker 2>right now I have at least one, two, three, four

1:11:44.600 --> 1:11:47.800
<v Speaker 2>payment methods on there. You can go through and remove those,

1:11:48.320 --> 1:11:50.559
<v Speaker 2>and they may be tricky and they may not let

1:11:50.600 --> 1:11:52.840
<v Speaker 2>you remove like the last one, but hopefully you can

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<v Speaker 2>remove all of those. And if that credit card that

1:11:55.080 --> 1:11:58.400
<v Speaker 2>you're talking about is on there, you should remove that

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<v Speaker 2>as well.

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<v Speaker 1>So, Karen, that's what I'd recommend.

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<v Speaker 2>And if you listen to this show, which just sounds

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<v Speaker 2>like you do, you know, I'm not a huge fan

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<v Speaker 2>of credit cards. I do try to default to cash

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<v Speaker 2>and debit as much as possible, but I understand they

1:12:12.280 --> 1:12:14.519
<v Speaker 2>are sort of a necessary evil, especially when you're playing

1:12:14.520 --> 1:12:17.320
<v Speaker 2>the points game, which can be kind of fun, but

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<v Speaker 2>you can also get burned. So just be careful out there,

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<v Speaker 2>I'm coming up and going to tell you how to

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<v Speaker 2>on your iPhone. But first, let's Bill's been on hold

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<v Speaker 2>for a while, So let's get to Bill in Altadena, California.

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<v Speaker 1>Bill, you're on with Rich.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey.

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<v Speaker 9>Rich, So I have an Alexa and we got a

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<v Speaker 9>smart plug and we gave it a command to go

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<v Speaker 9>on at a certain time, and it's been the wrong

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<v Speaker 9>and we've been unable to cancel that instruction keeps going

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<v Speaker 9>on at the wrong time of day.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, I lost you a little bit there. So you

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<v Speaker 2>basically set up a smart plug. You you gave it

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<v Speaker 2>a routine, and now you can't get rid of that routine.

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<v Speaker 3>Correct.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, have you gone into the Alexa app, Yes, and.

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<v Speaker 9>Deleted the routine, but it still continues on.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh wow, on even after the routine is dead.

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<v Speaker 15>Uh yeah, Well you sound like my story at the beginning,

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<v Speaker 15>because these things seem to have a mind to their own.

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<v Speaker 15>An Alexa specifically, it seems to really like root its

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<v Speaker 15>way into a lot of stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, there's a couple of things that could be happening here.

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<v Speaker 2>Number one, have do you do you want to just

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<v Speaker 2>remove this plug altogether from your Alexa or do you.

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<v Speaker 9>Still want to be able to remove it and reinstall it?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean that's an option that's like the nuclear option.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want to try that, that might be the

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<v Speaker 2>best way to do it if you can't figure it out.

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<v Speaker 2>But there's a couple of things. So Alexa does this

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<v Speaker 2>thing called hunches. I don't think it's that because it's

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<v Speaker 2>happening at the same time every day, the exact time that.

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<v Speaker 1>You set it.

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<v Speaker 8>Correct.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, So it sounds like either this plug is sort

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<v Speaker 2>of like hard coded to turn on and off. Did

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<v Speaker 2>you use the Alexa app to create this routine or

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<v Speaker 2>did you use the what's the brand.

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<v Speaker 1>Of this plug?

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<v Speaker 9>Amazon?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh, it's Amazon's own plug Okay.

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<v Speaker 9>So it is the but use we use the Alexa

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<v Speaker 9>to create it?

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<v Speaker 1>You did use the Alexa to create it? Okay?

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<v Speaker 2>So I think, uh, it sounds like you want to

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<v Speaker 2>remove this from your Alexa altogether. Have you tried doing

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<v Speaker 2>that by going into devices and then and then settings

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<v Speaker 2>and then trashing that device?

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<v Speaker 1>Have you tried that?

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<v Speaker 12>Uh?

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<v Speaker 9>Oh, trashing the whole Alexa device?

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<v Speaker 1>No, well, the the just the smart plug.

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<v Speaker 9>No, we haven't.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's the.

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<v Speaker 2>First thing I would do. So open up the app

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<v Speaker 2>and open up go to all device or go to

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<v Speaker 2>devices and then go to all devices, select that device

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<v Speaker 2>whatever that plug is. If you have a bunch of them,

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<v Speaker 2>it may may take you a little bit to figure

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<v Speaker 2>out which one it is. Uh, select that plug and

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<v Speaker 2>then choose settings, and then there's a way to trash

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<v Speaker 2>it and that will remove it from your Alexa completely,

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<v Speaker 2>and then you want to go through the repairing process

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<v Speaker 2>of setting it back up with your Alexa, which.

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<v Speaker 1>Should be pretty quick and easy. Yeah, yeah, added device.

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<v Speaker 2>That would be probably what I would do first. The

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<v Speaker 2>other thing you can do is just factory reset the

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<v Speaker 2>actual plug, and usually that will erase all of the commands.

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<v Speaker 2>The problem is if once you repair it and Alexis says, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>it's the same plug, it may just send it that

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<v Speaker 2>command again, and that that could be a possibility. So

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<v Speaker 2>I have some of these smart plugs, and I'm not kidding, Bill,

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<v Speaker 2>I have set up like five, six, seven years ago,

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<v Speaker 2>and they still every year I plug them in for

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<v Speaker 2>the holidays and they still just follow the routine that

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<v Speaker 2>I put on them, like literally eight years ago. And

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<v Speaker 2>so these things do last or like a you know,

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<v Speaker 2>it's like a zombie, they just continue to follow the

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<v Speaker 2>same thing. And then the other side of this is

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<v Speaker 2>that some of these devices, like a Weimo or a

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<v Speaker 2>Genie or a Greenie, whatever the name is, sometimes they

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<v Speaker 2>have their own apps, and if you set up the

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<v Speaker 2>routine or the time on off through those apps, they

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<v Speaker 2>may continue to follow through with that routine even if

1:17:56.120 --> 1:17:57.840
<v Speaker 2>you're not using that app, or if you delete it

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<v Speaker 2>from your phone. So it kind of hard codes the

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<v Speaker 2>device to say, hey, go in on this time, going

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<v Speaker 2>on that time, or does it from.

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<v Speaker 1>A server level.

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<v Speaker 2>So there's a lot of different ways that these things

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<v Speaker 2>can get very very confusing, very fast. But what I

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<v Speaker 2>would do is just delete that device altogether, maybe do

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<v Speaker 2>a factory reset on it, and you can just Google

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<v Speaker 2>for the instructions on how to do that for that

1:18:19.800 --> 1:18:22.760
<v Speaker 2>specific device, but I think that should help. Once you

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<v Speaker 2>repair it, it should be gone. But just make sure

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<v Speaker 2>you go into your routines and make sure that those

1:18:29.000 --> 1:18:32.400
<v Speaker 2>that that routine is not still in there, because these

1:18:32.400 --> 1:18:34.719
<v Speaker 2>things have a way of kind of like living on forever,

1:18:35.120 --> 1:18:38.520
<v Speaker 2>and Alexa has an interesting way of finding these devices

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<v Speaker 2>even when you've sort of said stop doing stuff with them.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's meant to make things easier. Sometimes it can

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<v Speaker 2>make things a little tougher. But Bill, keep me posted. Okay,

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<v Speaker 2>give me an email on the website. Let me know

1:18:50.120 --> 1:18:51.599
<v Speaker 2>if you got it figured out, because I do want

1:18:51.600 --> 1:18:56.599
<v Speaker 2>to help you change this from happening. Okay, I promised

1:18:56.640 --> 1:19:00.200
<v Speaker 2>you instructions for this, so I talked about Apple extending

1:19:00.240 --> 1:19:03.720
<v Speaker 2>the Emergency SOS. But on any phone, whether you have

1:19:03.760 --> 1:19:06.000
<v Speaker 2>an iPhone, whether you have Samsung, or whether you have

1:19:06.120 --> 1:19:09.080
<v Speaker 2>a Pixel, there are emergency settings that you need to

1:19:09.120 --> 1:19:12.680
<v Speaker 2>set up on your phone. So number one, iPhone, go

1:19:12.720 --> 1:19:16.160
<v Speaker 2>into your settings, go into Emergency SOS, and there's a

1:19:16.160 --> 1:19:18.559
<v Speaker 2>couple of things you need to do. Number one, there

1:19:18.600 --> 1:19:21.960
<v Speaker 2>is an option called call after Severe Crash. So the

1:19:22.000 --> 1:19:24.519
<v Speaker 2>recent iPhones have a way to detect if you've been

1:19:24.560 --> 1:19:28.080
<v Speaker 2>in a crash, and they will alert your emergency contacts

1:19:28.120 --> 1:19:31.000
<v Speaker 2>and or nine will one, So you want to have

1:19:31.040 --> 1:19:33.120
<v Speaker 2>that turned on. The other thing you want to have

1:19:33.160 --> 1:19:36.640
<v Speaker 2>turned on is your emergency contacts. So if you have

1:19:36.720 --> 1:19:40.519
<v Speaker 2>not set up your emergency contacts, set those up. Take

1:19:40.560 --> 1:19:42.800
<v Speaker 2>a second to do that. And the way that you

1:19:42.880 --> 1:19:46.479
<v Speaker 2>do that is right underneath emergency contacts. It'll say edit

1:19:46.520 --> 1:19:50.160
<v Speaker 2>in health and that'll bring you to add an emergency

1:19:50.160 --> 1:19:53.000
<v Speaker 2>contact add someone and they can get a text with

1:19:53.040 --> 1:19:57.200
<v Speaker 2>your location, the fact that something happened to you, and

1:19:58.360 --> 1:20:00.719
<v Speaker 2>they can hopefully help out if something or did happen.

1:20:01.720 --> 1:20:02.960
<v Speaker 2>The other thing you want to do is, if you

1:20:02.960 --> 1:20:05.439
<v Speaker 2>have an iPhone fourteen or fifteen, get familiar with this

1:20:05.520 --> 1:20:09.400
<v Speaker 2>emergency SOS via Satellite demo. So scroll all the way

1:20:09.400 --> 1:20:11.960
<v Speaker 2>down under Emergency SOS in the settings and if it

1:20:12.000 --> 1:20:16.320
<v Speaker 2>says emergency SOS via Satellite Demo, try it out. It

1:20:16.360 --> 1:20:20.080
<v Speaker 2>won't actually call nine one one, but it will look

1:20:20.120 --> 1:20:22.760
<v Speaker 2>into the satellites in the sky and help you, you know,

1:20:22.840 --> 1:20:24.519
<v Speaker 2>kind of coordinate your phone because you do have to

1:20:24.560 --> 1:20:26.679
<v Speaker 2>have a clear vision of the sky or a clear

1:20:26.760 --> 1:20:28.880
<v Speaker 2>view of the sky, and you do have to move

1:20:28.880 --> 1:20:31.000
<v Speaker 2>your phone around to get that clear view.

1:20:31.360 --> 1:20:32.679
<v Speaker 1>And so you can just try that out.

1:20:33.160 --> 1:20:35.400
<v Speaker 2>And then in the health app, so open up the

1:20:35.400 --> 1:20:38.880
<v Speaker 2>health app on your iPhone and set up your medical ID.

1:20:38.960 --> 1:20:40.800
<v Speaker 2>So to do that, you go to your profile which

1:20:40.840 --> 1:20:42.839
<v Speaker 2>is in the upper right hand corner. You tap medical

1:20:42.880 --> 1:20:46.640
<v Speaker 2>ID and you put in your information your basics. You

1:20:46.720 --> 1:20:50.240
<v Speaker 2>know your height, your weight, and also any allergies you

1:20:50.320 --> 1:20:53.840
<v Speaker 2>might have. And then you want to make sure both

1:20:53.840 --> 1:20:57.360
<v Speaker 2>of those emergency access options are enabled, and that will

1:20:57.439 --> 1:21:00.760
<v Speaker 2>enable a first responder to access this information from your

1:21:00.760 --> 1:21:03.320
<v Speaker 2>home screen or I should say your lock screen, even

1:21:03.360 --> 1:21:06.280
<v Speaker 2>without being able to unlock your phone. Very very important

1:21:06.600 --> 1:21:11.320
<v Speaker 2>on Samsung. Go to Settings Safety and Emergency again, Settings

1:21:11.479 --> 1:21:15.560
<v Speaker 2>Safety and Emergency, tap Medical Info, hit the pencil in

1:21:15.560 --> 1:21:18.479
<v Speaker 2>the upper right hand corner, add edit your Info. Make

1:21:18.520 --> 1:21:21.840
<v Speaker 2>sure that show unlock screen is enabled again, that will

1:21:21.920 --> 1:21:25.799
<v Speaker 2>enable a first responder to access this information without unlocking

1:21:25.840 --> 1:21:30.800
<v Speaker 2>your phone. Then tap Emergency Contacts. Add those again, make

1:21:30.840 --> 1:21:35.759
<v Speaker 2>sure show onlock screen is enabled, and finally, under Emergency SOS,

1:21:35.960 --> 1:21:39.519
<v Speaker 2>make sure share info with with Emergency Contacts is enabled,

1:21:40.600 --> 1:21:43.920
<v Speaker 2>and then just check the settings under emergency Sharing. I'll

1:21:43.920 --> 1:21:45.800
<v Speaker 2>share a funny story real quick. I was setting this

1:21:45.920 --> 1:21:48.840
<v Speaker 2>up on my Samsung device and I put my mother

1:21:48.880 --> 1:21:51.439
<v Speaker 2>in law in to test it out, and I'm not kidding.

1:21:51.600 --> 1:21:54.000
<v Speaker 2>I hit an option that actually sent her a text

1:21:54.000 --> 1:21:56.200
<v Speaker 2>that said something had happened to me, and it sent

1:21:56.240 --> 1:21:59.120
<v Speaker 2>a picture and the picture of was my legs like

1:21:59.160 --> 1:22:03.400
<v Speaker 2>between my life thanks because that's where the phone was.

1:22:03.520 --> 1:22:05.960
<v Speaker 2>Thankfully I was wearing pants because that would have been

1:22:06.000 --> 1:22:09.360
<v Speaker 2>really embarrassing. She goes, what's this picture you just sent me?

1:22:09.680 --> 1:22:12.320
<v Speaker 2>And I said, oh my gosh, what and sure enough

1:22:12.360 --> 1:22:14.240
<v Speaker 2>the phone had sent a picture. So be careful when

1:22:14.240 --> 1:22:16.080
<v Speaker 2>you set up these settings that you're not actually doing

1:22:16.120 --> 1:22:19.720
<v Speaker 2>the test on pixel. Go to settings safety and Emergency

1:22:20.320 --> 1:22:23.360
<v Speaker 2>and make sure the medical information and emergency contacts is

1:22:23.400 --> 1:22:26.960
<v Speaker 2>set up. Make sure emergency SOS and car crash detection

1:22:27.160 --> 1:22:29.679
<v Speaker 2>is turned on. Yes, the pixel has car crash detection.

1:22:30.600 --> 1:22:32.719
<v Speaker 2>Then you want to open up the personal safety app

1:22:32.720 --> 1:22:35.519
<v Speaker 2>on the pixel. Fill out your medical information and your

1:22:35.560 --> 1:22:39.920
<v Speaker 2>emergency contacts, and make sure that emergency info access is

1:22:40.040 --> 1:22:42.680
<v Speaker 2>enabled so that nine will one call centers will get

1:22:42.680 --> 1:22:45.160
<v Speaker 2>your location if you ever called them or texted them.

1:22:45.920 --> 1:22:49.440
<v Speaker 2>All this information is on my Instagram. Go to Instagram

1:22:49.560 --> 1:22:52.599
<v Speaker 2>at rich on tech and you'll see it is pinned

1:22:52.720 --> 1:22:56.040
<v Speaker 2>to my profile. It says, don't wait, set up these

1:22:56.080 --> 1:22:59.640
<v Speaker 2>life saving phone features today. All those instructions I just

1:22:59.680 --> 1:23:03.519
<v Speaker 2>gave you you on Instagram at rich on tech. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>coming up, we've got more of your calls, more of

1:23:07.479 --> 1:23:10.559
<v Speaker 2>your questions. Plus we're gonna talk to Vitally Pacharski of

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<v Speaker 2>Slick Deals to highlight some of the top deals out

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<v Speaker 2>there for the holiday shopping season. Eighty eight rich one

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<v Speaker 2>on one eighty eight seven four one zero one.

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<v Speaker 1>This is rich On Tech.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to rich On Tech. Triple eight Rich one

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<v Speaker 2>O one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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<v Speaker 2>zero one. Coming up this hour, we're talking to Vitally

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<v Speaker 2>Pacharski of Slick Deals.

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<v Speaker 1>He's going to highlight some of.

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<v Speaker 2>The top deals out there for the holiday shopping season.

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<v Speaker 2>Buzz is in Walnut Creek, California. Buzz you're on with Rich.

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<v Speaker 16>Hey, Rich, So I'm not here on I five actually

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<v Speaker 16>driving along with all the other not yet. And it

1:23:54.800 --> 1:23:56.800
<v Speaker 16>could to be that a dash cam would be kind

1:23:56.800 --> 1:23:59.280
<v Speaker 16>of a nice add on, not a test list. So

1:23:59.320 --> 1:24:02.680
<v Speaker 16>it just because do you have any I don't know,

1:24:02.760 --> 1:24:06.000
<v Speaker 16>Buyer's guide suggestion, something that will help filter the million

1:24:06.080 --> 1:24:08.840
<v Speaker 16>reviews and that sort of thing. I'd like to be

1:24:08.880 --> 1:24:12.559
<v Speaker 16>able to see the front camer just in case here

1:24:12.600 --> 1:24:15.360
<v Speaker 16>is a collision, I can at please put that video evidence.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and here's the thing. The interesting thing about the

1:24:20.200 --> 1:24:23.840
<v Speaker 2>rear camera is that unless it's on your bumper, you're

1:24:23.840 --> 1:24:27.439
<v Speaker 2>not really going to get a full kind of rear video.

1:24:27.760 --> 1:24:31.360
<v Speaker 2>So there are some cameras that I've seen in the

1:24:31.400 --> 1:24:33.519
<v Speaker 2>past that do attached back there, but most of them

1:24:33.600 --> 1:24:36.040
<v Speaker 2>just have like a front facing camera and a camera

1:24:36.080 --> 1:24:39.920
<v Speaker 2>that faces inside the car. And so, of course, the

1:24:39.920 --> 1:24:42.280
<v Speaker 2>one time that I needed this, and I do have

1:24:42.320 --> 1:24:44.040
<v Speaker 2>a Tesla, the one time I needed it, I wasn't

1:24:44.120 --> 1:24:47.479
<v Speaker 2>rolling and so it wasn't recording when I got hit

1:24:47.520 --> 1:24:49.920
<v Speaker 2>and run on my car. So yes, I do think

1:24:50.160 --> 1:24:53.680
<v Speaker 2>a dash cam is definitely I'm just gonna mute you

1:24:53.720 --> 1:24:56.120
<v Speaker 2>there because here's some I hear the I five in

1:24:56.160 --> 1:24:59.240
<v Speaker 2>the background there. But you know, I do think that

1:24:59.320 --> 1:25:02.639
<v Speaker 2>the dash especially in California or anywhere. I mean, it's

1:25:02.680 --> 1:25:04.880
<v Speaker 2>just it's kind of like peace of mind. And so

1:25:05.120 --> 1:25:09.000
<v Speaker 2>I agree. There are many many reviews out there, and

1:25:09.040 --> 1:25:11.240
<v Speaker 2>I've tested a couple of these over the years. I've

1:25:11.640 --> 1:25:15.880
<v Speaker 2>test tested a company called Nexsar, which is which makes

1:25:15.880 --> 1:25:19.200
<v Speaker 2>some really nice dash cams and they connect nicely to

1:25:19.280 --> 1:25:24.439
<v Speaker 2>the iPhone that's any Xaar. I've also connect tested a

1:25:24.479 --> 1:25:29.400
<v Speaker 2>company called Vava va Va and they have some really

1:25:29.400 --> 1:25:33.920
<v Speaker 2>great dash cams as well, and they're pretty inexpensive, so

1:25:34.040 --> 1:25:36.120
<v Speaker 2>and I thought they were really This one was really great,

1:25:36.120 --> 1:25:42.519
<v Speaker 2>the Vava ten ADP dual dash cam. And so I'm

1:25:42.560 --> 1:25:45.439
<v Speaker 2>looking at this dash cam. It actually looks like you

1:25:45.479 --> 1:25:50.240
<v Speaker 2>can put the front lens. It's interesting. It looks like

1:25:50.280 --> 1:25:52.519
<v Speaker 2>there's a little lens that you can put kind of

1:25:52.520 --> 1:25:55.519
<v Speaker 2>in the back, which they didn't have when I had this,

1:25:55.640 --> 1:25:57.760
<v Speaker 2>so that may be able to go, yeah, into the

1:25:57.760 --> 1:25:59.960
<v Speaker 2>rear of your car. So that's one hundred and nineteen dollars.

1:26:00.600 --> 1:26:03.400
<v Speaker 2>The other brands that some of the other review sites like,

1:26:03.439 --> 1:26:04.880
<v Speaker 2>and I know you said there's a bunch of reviews

1:26:04.880 --> 1:26:07.679
<v Speaker 2>out there, Yes there are, but some of the brands

1:26:07.840 --> 1:26:10.320
<v Speaker 2>kind of come up over and over, and that is

1:26:10.479 --> 1:26:15.040
<v Speaker 2>Van True v A N T r U E. Wirecutter

1:26:15.160 --> 1:26:17.880
<v Speaker 2>has them as a top pick. And then another brand

1:26:17.880 --> 1:26:20.120
<v Speaker 2>that a lot of reviewers seem to like is called

1:26:20.200 --> 1:26:24.240
<v Speaker 2>Thinkware T h I N K W A R E,

1:26:25.400 --> 1:26:28.280
<v Speaker 2>Nextspace n E X T B A s C that's

1:26:28.320 --> 1:26:29.600
<v Speaker 2>another one that a lot of them like.

1:26:29.680 --> 1:26:31.679
<v Speaker 1>And Garmin Garman.

1:26:31.760 --> 1:26:33.960
<v Speaker 2>You might know that brand name from other products, but

1:26:34.080 --> 1:26:37.479
<v Speaker 2>they apparently make some decent dash cams. But you want

1:26:37.520 --> 1:26:40.439
<v Speaker 2>the front and back cameras for sure. Some of the

1:26:40.439 --> 1:26:43.800
<v Speaker 2>features I would look for is, you know, it's really

1:26:43.840 --> 1:26:47.160
<v Speaker 2>comes down to the software, the ability to download the

1:26:47.240 --> 1:26:50.479
<v Speaker 2>video from these cameras if you ever need it, and

1:26:51.080 --> 1:26:54.479
<v Speaker 2>the SD card. So you want to have expandable memory.

1:26:55.080 --> 1:26:58.719
<v Speaker 2>You want to have nice software. You want to have

1:26:59.600 --> 1:27:02.600
<v Speaker 2>high quality video, because some of these the video is

1:27:02.640 --> 1:27:04.320
<v Speaker 2>just not very good, Like if you ever needed to

1:27:04.320 --> 1:27:06.240
<v Speaker 2>get a license plate or something, you wouldn't be able

1:27:06.280 --> 1:27:08.160
<v Speaker 2>to see it. So those are the things that I

1:27:08.160 --> 1:27:11.160
<v Speaker 2>would look for personally. The one that I really like

1:27:11.280 --> 1:27:14.000
<v Speaker 2>is actually the Ring dash cam, and I know it's

1:27:14.040 --> 1:27:18.000
<v Speaker 2>gotten kind of mixed reviews, but I really like it

1:27:18.040 --> 1:27:20.600
<v Speaker 2>and I think it works pretty well, and so I

1:27:20.600 --> 1:27:22.280
<v Speaker 2>would check that one as well if you do have

1:27:22.400 --> 1:27:23.800
<v Speaker 2>Ring devices in your house.

1:27:23.840 --> 1:27:25.760
<v Speaker 1>If you don't, then don't worry about it.

1:27:25.800 --> 1:27:27.720
<v Speaker 2>But the Ring, what I like about it is it

1:27:27.760 --> 1:27:31.839
<v Speaker 2>has cellular connectivity, which means if something happens to your car,

1:27:32.439 --> 1:27:35.200
<v Speaker 2>it will upload that video to the cloud, and so

1:27:35.360 --> 1:27:37.920
<v Speaker 2>even if they stole the camera or something like that,

1:27:38.760 --> 1:27:41.120
<v Speaker 2>you'd still have that video. And so it's a little

1:27:41.120 --> 1:27:43.360
<v Speaker 2>bit more on the pricey side, but it looks like

1:27:43.400 --> 1:27:45.880
<v Speaker 2>it's out of stock actually, but all of these cameras

1:27:45.880 --> 1:27:48.760
<v Speaker 2>are going to be on sale for the holidays, so

1:27:49.160 --> 1:27:50.639
<v Speaker 2>it's probably a good time to get them, and they're

1:27:50.640 --> 1:27:54.240
<v Speaker 2>probably going to be a good a good stocking stuffer

1:27:54.240 --> 1:27:57.160
<v Speaker 2>this year. So the other thing is I would look

1:27:57.200 --> 1:27:59.920
<v Speaker 2>for a G four sensor so if someone knocks into

1:28:00.080 --> 1:28:03.439
<v Speaker 2>your car, it will automatically start recording, So you want

1:28:03.439 --> 1:28:05.200
<v Speaker 2>to have one that does that as well. And the

1:28:05.240 --> 1:28:07.320
<v Speaker 2>other thing to look out for is really the power.

1:28:07.920 --> 1:28:09.400
<v Speaker 2>Some of these can be kind of bulky. You do

1:28:09.520 --> 1:28:12.519
<v Speaker 2>have to run a power cable to your you know,

1:28:12.560 --> 1:28:16.200
<v Speaker 2>to your car somehow, and they all kind of connect differently, like,

1:28:16.240 --> 1:28:19.160
<v Speaker 2>for instance, the ring one connects to the oh gosh,

1:28:19.160 --> 1:28:20.679
<v Speaker 2>I always get this name wrong.

1:28:20.880 --> 1:28:25.080
<v Speaker 1>OBD Gosh, is it the OBD two port? I think

1:28:25.200 --> 1:28:26.000
<v Speaker 1>that's what it's called.

1:28:26.439 --> 1:28:29.040
<v Speaker 2>But it's like this little kind of plug in the

1:28:29.120 --> 1:28:31.960
<v Speaker 2>lower left hand corner of your car, near the near

1:28:32.000 --> 1:28:35.479
<v Speaker 2>your your driver's side like foot, and so that gets

1:28:35.520 --> 1:28:37.880
<v Speaker 2>its power from there. Other others go into like a

1:28:38.040 --> 1:28:42.400
<v Speaker 2>USB port or what you would call twelve volt used

1:28:42.400 --> 1:28:43.719
<v Speaker 2>to be called the cigarette lighter.

1:28:44.080 --> 1:28:45.320
<v Speaker 1>Now it's called the twelve vault.

1:28:45.520 --> 1:28:48.960
<v Speaker 2>So buzz. Hopefully you got some good suggestions. They are

1:28:49.000 --> 1:28:51.240
<v Speaker 2>good things to look for. Also, keep an eye out

1:28:51.240 --> 1:28:54.120
<v Speaker 2>for deals, because I'm sure a lot of these things

1:28:54.160 --> 1:28:59.240
<v Speaker 2>will go on sale throughout the holiday season. Zell this

1:28:59.320 --> 1:29:02.960
<v Speaker 2>is important. Zell is finally going to start refunding people

1:29:03.240 --> 1:29:06.160
<v Speaker 2>if they get scammed. This is a big, big change

1:29:06.160 --> 1:29:08.800
<v Speaker 2>for ZEL. So if you've tried Zel, it's the one

1:29:08.800 --> 1:29:10.840
<v Speaker 2>that's built into your bank account. It's the one that

1:29:10.880 --> 1:29:15.479
<v Speaker 2>the big banks started to combat all the people using

1:29:15.560 --> 1:29:19.439
<v Speaker 2>venmo and PayPal. So this was started by all these

1:29:19.479 --> 1:29:22.599
<v Speaker 2>big banks like Chase and Bank of America. They said, hey,

1:29:22.640 --> 1:29:24.439
<v Speaker 2>we want a little piece of that, and so they

1:29:24.479 --> 1:29:26.599
<v Speaker 2>started ZEL and they made it really easy because Zell

1:29:26.720 --> 1:29:28.960
<v Speaker 2>is built into your app on your phone that you

1:29:28.960 --> 1:29:31.639
<v Speaker 2>already have from your bank, and the money goes straight

1:29:31.680 --> 1:29:34.719
<v Speaker 2>into your bank account. And there really are no fees

1:29:34.760 --> 1:29:38.000
<v Speaker 2>that I've seen on this. But the problem is because

1:29:38.040 --> 1:29:40.960
<v Speaker 2>it's so easy and because it's so integrated into your bank,

1:29:41.240 --> 1:29:43.240
<v Speaker 2>the scammers love it because as soon as they got

1:29:43.240 --> 1:29:45.519
<v Speaker 2>the money from you, there is nothing you can do

1:29:45.600 --> 1:29:47.960
<v Speaker 2>to get that money back. At least with venmo and

1:29:48.000 --> 1:29:50.479
<v Speaker 2>PayPal you might have a little bit of a fighting

1:29:50.560 --> 1:29:52.760
<v Speaker 2>chance of saying, hey, wait a second, this wasn't fair.

1:29:53.360 --> 1:29:55.400
<v Speaker 2>But now Zell has kind of gotten with the times

1:29:55.439 --> 1:29:58.360
<v Speaker 2>and they said, okay, we are actually going to start

1:29:58.439 --> 1:30:03.080
<v Speaker 2>refunding victims of it imposter scams. And I think US

1:30:03.120 --> 1:30:05.880
<v Speaker 2>regulators were kind of pressuring them to do this. But

1:30:05.960 --> 1:30:08.560
<v Speaker 2>now people who are duped into sending money to scammers

1:30:08.880 --> 1:30:12.360
<v Speaker 2>that are pretending to be government agencies, banks or service riders.

1:30:12.680 --> 1:30:14.800
<v Speaker 2>Now you can ask Zel for your money back and

1:30:14.840 --> 1:30:16.960
<v Speaker 2>they will actually figure out a way to go into

1:30:16.960 --> 1:30:19.680
<v Speaker 2>the other person's bank account that you send it to

1:30:19.720 --> 1:30:22.000
<v Speaker 2>grab that money back out and give it back to you.

1:30:22.360 --> 1:30:24.240
<v Speaker 2>It's not gonna be instant, it's not gonna be every

1:30:24.240 --> 1:30:26.719
<v Speaker 2>single time, but you definitely have a better fighting chance.

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<v Speaker 2>So thank you Zell for doing something good for the consumer.

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<v Speaker 2>Coming up next, we'll talk slick Deals on rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 2>Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here talking

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<v Speaker 2>technology with you at Triple eight Rich one oh one

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<v Speaker 2>eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want links to anything I've mentioned throughout the show,

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<v Speaker 2>just go to the wiki rich on Tech dot tv

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<v Speaker 2>slash wiki. Joining me now is Vitally Pacharski of Slick

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<v Speaker 2>Deals and uh, welcome to the show.

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<v Speaker 3>Hey, Rich, thanks for having me.

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<v Speaker 1>Thanks for joining me. I know we talked.

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<v Speaker 2>The listeners don't know this, but we talked this week

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<v Speaker 2>at KTLA. We did a segment that's going to air

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<v Speaker 2>Monday on TV. But you were such a great resource

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<v Speaker 2>for TV that I said, Hey, can you come on

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<v Speaker 2>the radio show and talk about some of the top

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<v Speaker 2>deals out there. So thanks for joining me today, and

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<v Speaker 2>let's talk about slick Deals number one. Because I've mentioned

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<v Speaker 2>throughout all the guests today have been from websites I

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<v Speaker 2>visit on a daily basis, Slick Deals is another one

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<v Speaker 2>of those. Explain what slick Deals is all about.

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<v Speaker 17>Well, stick Deals is really all about helping shoppers. It's

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<v Speaker 17>not just a website at this point. We have the website,

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<v Speaker 17>of course, which has been with us for quite some time.

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<v Speaker 17>We have a very active mobile app, and we also

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<v Speaker 17>have a browser extension to help you fill coupons and

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<v Speaker 17>find the best deals. But really what we are is

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<v Speaker 17>a community of twelve million strong shoppers who come to

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<v Speaker 17>the site or to the platform daily posting, sharing, vetting,

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<v Speaker 17>voting up commenting on the best deals from your favorite

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<v Speaker 17>retailers like Amazon, Walmart, Dell, Lenobo.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I love about the website is that anyone

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<v Speaker 2>can submit a deal and it can be voted up

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<v Speaker 2>to the top. And that means that since you have

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<v Speaker 2>all these crawlers out there on the web, and I

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<v Speaker 2>mean crawlers by like regular people that are always just like, oh,

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<v Speaker 2>I found something really good. They post it and other

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<v Speaker 2>people kind of vet it and say, Okay, this is

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<v Speaker 2>really good, let's vote it up. And then a lot

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<v Speaker 2>of times those things sell out because they're so popular.

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<v Speaker 3>That's exactly right.

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<v Speaker 17>I think that's that's the most powerful feature that we

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<v Speaker 17>have is the community. Without them, the site would be

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<v Speaker 17>not nearly as stressworthy. I said, it's twelve million people, right,

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<v Speaker 17>I think of them as toll million friends, the good

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<v Speaker 17>friends that will tell you how good your product or

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<v Speaker 17>your deal that you found is or how bad it is,

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<v Speaker 17>and provide unbiased feedback.

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<v Speaker 2>So how can people use this to find the best

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<v Speaker 2>deals this holiday season?

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<v Speaker 17>Depending on how you like to shop, we have probably

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<v Speaker 17>something for everybody. If you are on a portunistic shopper,

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<v Speaker 17>the website and the mobile app are your best destinations.

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<v Speaker 17>Mobile app is something to keep on the go. The

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<v Speaker 17>website is something that you keep with you on your computer.

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<v Speaker 17>But if you're more of a casual shopper, consider also

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<v Speaker 17>using a browser extension. It kind of lives with your browser,

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<v Speaker 17>whether it's Chrome, edged Safari, or Firefox, and once you

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<v Speaker 17>install it, we'll let you know if we have additional discounts.

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<v Speaker 17>Anytime you browse the popular shopping site, or if we

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<v Speaker 17>have amazing deals happening right this moment, as you're shopping

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<v Speaker 17>on Amazon, Macy's, Coals, you name it, we'll pop up

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<v Speaker 17>a little small notification saying, hey, by the way, while

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<v Speaker 17>you're here, we have a couple of amazing community vetted deals.

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<v Speaker 17>If you're interested, you can absolutely participate.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, So how are the deals shaping up this season?

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<v Speaker 1>Are they better than yours past?

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<v Speaker 17>The deals are really good this Friday. We've already seen

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<v Speaker 17>a lot of retail this block Friday, in Cyber Monday,

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<v Speaker 17>we've seen a lot of retailers start early as they

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<v Speaker 17>have done in the years past. We definitely are seeing them,

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<v Speaker 17>have seen them as early as October. And one thing

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<v Speaker 17>that we are noticing is you already mentioned rich deals

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<v Speaker 17>do tend to sell out. So if you come to

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<v Speaker 17>the site of the mobile app and if you see something,

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<v Speaker 17>grab it. But guess what, we're not only about in

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<v Speaker 17>the moment shopping. If you're looking for something that we

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<v Speaker 17>currently don't have today, we also provide an amazing feature

1:34:30.560 --> 1:34:33.120
<v Speaker 17>called deal Alerts. So if you're looking for something like

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<v Speaker 17>Legos or PlayStation five, or Airpod's pro or a new grill,

1:34:37.920 --> 1:34:40.280
<v Speaker 17>or as me, I'm building a home theater, I'm looking

1:34:40.320 --> 1:34:43.200
<v Speaker 17>for speakers and receivers. Right now, come to the site

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<v Speaker 17>or the mobile app and set yourself a deal alert

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<v Speaker 17>and we'll let you know through either email, SMS if

1:34:48.720 --> 1:34:50.840
<v Speaker 17>you sign up with a phone number, or a push

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<v Speaker 17>notification on the mobile app the next time a good

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<v Speaker 17>deal drops.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is always sort of a debate, But what

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<v Speaker 2>do you think are some of the best categories this

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<v Speaker 2>time of year? Employees wondered do I buy a TV

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<v Speaker 2>during Black Friday or during the Super Bowl season.

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<v Speaker 17>Electronics is usually a great thing to buy and Black

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<v Speaker 17>Friday in Cyber Monday, and really majority of categories are

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<v Speaker 17>on sale, whether it's apparel, whether it's grills. But what

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<v Speaker 17>we usually see gaming, smart home devices, headphones, video games,

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<v Speaker 17>lots of tabletop kitchen appliance is everything from the most

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<v Speaker 17>basic five dollars toaster, which we can actually have a

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<v Speaker 17>few this Black Friday, all the way up to the

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<v Speaker 17>higher end appliances like maybe a Ninja blender or maybe

1:35:33.960 --> 1:35:37.479
<v Speaker 17>even something more even more expensive like a really nice

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<v Speaker 17>kitchen aid mixer.

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<v Speaker 3>Discounted gift cards can batteries.

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<v Speaker 17>Can never have enough of those, especially for that holiday

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<v Speaker 17>morning when you opened your boxes. Streaming and subscription services,

1:35:48.280 --> 1:35:50.040
<v Speaker 17>this is a great time to get those. A lot

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<v Speaker 17>of them will come out with you know, significant discounts,

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<v Speaker 17>especially if you prepay for a year, security, cameras, sporting goods, equipments,

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<v Speaker 17>really anything.

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<v Speaker 3>It's it's a really broad thing.

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<v Speaker 17>One thing that we don't see as much of is

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<v Speaker 17>major appliances, you know, washers, dryers, dishwashers, probably not the

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<v Speaker 17>best time to buy, but we'll see an occasional deal

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<v Speaker 17>here and there.

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<v Speaker 2>Are you seeing any new trends with the way retailers

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<v Speaker 2>are discounting things? You mentioned that with the streaming services.

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<v Speaker 2>I've noticed that, Yeah, when you pay in advance, like

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<v Speaker 2>I just paid for like a year of Disney Plus

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<v Speaker 2>and I got a pretty good deal on that. So

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<v Speaker 2>any kind of pricing trends you're seeing with discounts.

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<v Speaker 17>You know, I think a lot more and more merchants

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<v Speaker 17>are thinking about sort of creating a premium customer segment.

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<v Speaker 17>We've seen this with Amazon Prime many years ago, and

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<v Speaker 17>now Amazon Prime is sort of like almost a must

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<v Speaker 17>to have if you're an Amazon shopper, Walmart Plus has

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<v Speaker 17>been doing the same thing. In fact, some of the

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<v Speaker 17>best Black Frieda deals get early access if you have

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<v Speaker 17>Walmart Plus.

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<v Speaker 3>We suspect that more and more.

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<v Speaker 17>Merchants will have similar programs coming out in years to come. Additionally,

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<v Speaker 17>a lot of the times, having a credit card that

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<v Speaker 17>is issued by the stores, such as an Amazon Prime

1:37:05.520 --> 1:37:08.439
<v Speaker 17>Visa or say a Target Red Card, we'll get your

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<v Speaker 17>additional benefits, whether it's discounts or free shipping.

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<v Speaker 3>So it's worth looking into as well.

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<v Speaker 2>It's interesting with the Walmart Plus and the best Buy

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<v Speaker 2>or sorry Walmart Plus and Amazon. Best Buy is also

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<v Speaker 2>doing that with their drops. And so I've noticed because

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<v Speaker 2>they've been sending me emails about some of their deals.

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<v Speaker 2>A lot of them you get, like if you have

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<v Speaker 2>to like their I think it's like total something.

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<v Speaker 1>It's like best Buy.

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<v Speaker 2>It's like some sort of membership program that best Buy

1:37:33.439 --> 1:37:35.960
<v Speaker 2>has you can get a bigger discount on some of

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<v Speaker 2>their deals, so that.

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<v Speaker 3>It's called total tech almost like rich on Tech.

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<v Speaker 2>There you go, rich on Tech, Total tech. All right,

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<v Speaker 2>what about travel deals?

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<v Speaker 3>Is it? You know?

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<v Speaker 2>I know people are just trying to get through their

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<v Speaker 2>budget with their gifts they want to get, But is

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<v Speaker 2>it a good time to book travel.

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<v Speaker 17>It is it, actually, it is, especially if you live

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<v Speaker 17>near a one of the major airports like Los Angeles

1:37:55.880 --> 1:37:58.200
<v Speaker 17>or New York or Chicago. Lots of deals going on.

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<v Speaker 17>I'll give you one example right now. Short short trip

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<v Speaker 17>fairs like LA to San Francisco on Jet Blue or

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<v Speaker 17>United are down to seventy eight bucks normally and ninety

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<v Speaker 17>eight dollars. If you don't live next to a major airport,

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<v Speaker 17>don't you know, don't worry. We actually have a deal

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<v Speaker 17>on a Southwest gift card that is discounting twenty percent off.

1:38:20.880 --> 1:38:23.519
<v Speaker 17>It's a five hundred dollars Southwest gift card on sale

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<v Speaker 17>for four hundred bucks, and that's happening at Sam's Club.

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<v Speaker 17>So you do have to have a SAMs Club membership,

1:38:28.439 --> 1:38:30.920
<v Speaker 17>but if you already do and it's actually not that expensive,

1:38:31.200 --> 1:38:34.120
<v Speaker 17>you can get this deal. There's another one if you

1:38:34.320 --> 1:38:37.639
<v Speaker 17>like vacations and if you like staying at places other

1:38:37.680 --> 1:38:40.880
<v Speaker 17>than hotels or maybe having some fun activities.

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<v Speaker 3>We do have a their BnB gift card at best Buy.

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<v Speaker 3>It's a four.

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<v Speaker 17>Hundred dollar Airbnb gift card and comes with an additional

1:38:48.640 --> 1:38:51.479
<v Speaker 17>seventy five dollars best Buy gift card for free, so

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<v Speaker 17>you pay four hundred dollars basically for four hundred and

1:38:53.439 --> 1:38:55.440
<v Speaker 17>seventy five dollars value.

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<v Speaker 3>And then always check your credit cards that you have.

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<v Speaker 17>There are some credit cards that are scifically geart to travelers.

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<v Speaker 17>American Express, for example, always will run different promotions, but

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<v Speaker 17>also check the rewards. A lot of the times, credit cards,

1:39:10.479 --> 1:39:13.599
<v Speaker 17>especially today, will offer sign up bonuses, so look for

1:39:13.720 --> 1:39:16.840
<v Speaker 17>additional sign up points, and you can always come to

1:39:16.840 --> 1:39:19.200
<v Speaker 17>Slick deals. We actually have plenty of interesting offers on

1:39:19.240 --> 1:39:20.479
<v Speaker 17>credit cards specifically too.

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<v Speaker 2>I just went to your website and I always check

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<v Speaker 2>out the front page deals, and one that made it

1:39:25.840 --> 1:39:30.240
<v Speaker 2>there is this Uber one. So a year, I pay

1:39:30.280 --> 1:39:32.720
<v Speaker 2>like ten bucks a month for Uber one, and you've

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<v Speaker 2>got to Slick deals here for forty seven to fifty

1:39:35.200 --> 1:39:37.960
<v Speaker 2>for the whole year, which is a huge savings. Now,

1:39:38.360 --> 1:39:40.360
<v Speaker 2>some of these deals, and this is probably something we

1:39:40.360 --> 1:39:42.960
<v Speaker 2>should talk about, are sort of what's called targeted, So

1:39:43.080 --> 1:39:46.160
<v Speaker 2>these companies will only offer them to a certain segment

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<v Speaker 2>of their customer base.

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<v Speaker 17>Right, that's true, and that's what our community does really well.

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<v Speaker 3>They'll quickly explain to you.

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<v Speaker 17>It's like, hey, if you're not a new customer, then

1:39:56.200 --> 1:39:58.519
<v Speaker 17>you won't qualify, so you can kind of look through

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<v Speaker 17>this bypass those deals if you know.

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<v Speaker 3>Longer are eligible for these promos.

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<v Speaker 17>And again, that's kind of one of the biggest powers

1:40:04.840 --> 1:40:07.240
<v Speaker 17>that the superpower of flictos is having this community of

1:40:07.280 --> 1:40:10.720
<v Speaker 17>people who do this, who sort of completely demystify and

1:40:10.840 --> 1:40:12.920
<v Speaker 17>really let you understand what's for you and what's not.

1:40:13.360 --> 1:40:15.679
<v Speaker 2>Well, look at this, I just found this deal inside

1:40:15.680 --> 1:40:18.559
<v Speaker 2>my Uber app sixty percent off for the year. So

1:40:18.640 --> 1:40:21.200
<v Speaker 2>that's I love it. And it's like one of these

1:40:21.200 --> 1:40:23.880
<v Speaker 2>things and we'll kind of end on this. But when

1:40:23.920 --> 1:40:26.679
<v Speaker 2>you get a deal, even though we are spending money

1:40:26.720 --> 1:40:29.040
<v Speaker 2>at the end of the day, why does it feel

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<v Speaker 2>so good to get that deal?

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<v Speaker 3>You know, I'll give.

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<v Speaker 17>You a quote that one of our shoppers left with us.

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<v Speaker 17>We do regular shopper interviews and this is verbatim. My

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<v Speaker 17>biggest happiness from online shopping is not the shopping itself,

1:40:43.640 --> 1:40:46.760
<v Speaker 17>but finding a really good deal. I think a lot

1:40:46.800 --> 1:40:49.320
<v Speaker 17>of us are either sports fans or are just competitive

1:40:49.320 --> 1:40:51.880
<v Speaker 17>people by nature, and I think it always feels like

1:40:51.960 --> 1:40:55.160
<v Speaker 17>scoring when you find that amazing deal. And yes, as

1:40:55.200 --> 1:40:57.559
<v Speaker 17>you said, you still spend money, but it makes you

1:40:57.600 --> 1:41:00.320
<v Speaker 17>feel good that you spend your money smartly.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm paying right now one hundred and nineteen dollars a

1:41:03.520 --> 1:41:06.120
<v Speaker 2>year for this uber plan, and this deal that I

1:41:06.160 --> 1:41:08.880
<v Speaker 2>just found on your website is forty eight dollars for

1:41:08.960 --> 1:41:12.000
<v Speaker 2>the year. That's four dollars a month, so sixty percent off.

1:41:12.040 --> 1:41:14.480
<v Speaker 2>So it was money I was going to spend anyway,

1:41:14.960 --> 1:41:17.439
<v Speaker 2>and now I'm spending less of it, so it does

1:41:17.439 --> 1:41:22.520
<v Speaker 2>feel good. And again, the website is slickdeals dot net

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<v Speaker 2>and my guest Vitally Pacharski of slick Deals, thanks so

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<v Speaker 2>much for joining me today.

1:41:29.160 --> 1:41:30.479
<v Speaker 3>Thanks so much for having me Rich.

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<v Speaker 1>I know you have your eye on something. What do

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<v Speaker 1>you have your eye on this this holiday?

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<v Speaker 11>See?

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<v Speaker 1>What are you shopping for?

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<v Speaker 3>I'm shopping for a home theater setup.

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<v Speaker 17>I'm building kind of a closed room, dark everything home

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<v Speaker 17>theater so receivers, speakers and a really nice for K projector.

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<v Speaker 1>M very nice.

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<v Speaker 2>I was just looking at my Sonos today thinking, hmm,

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<v Speaker 2>I wonder if I should update my soundbar.

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<v Speaker 1>It's been a while, all right. Thanks so much for

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<v Speaker 1>joining me on the website.

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<v Speaker 2>If you want a link to it, just go to

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<v Speaker 2>Rich on tech dot tv slash wiki and you can

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<v Speaker 2>get the link to Slick Deals again. Slick Deals front

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<v Speaker 2>page is a great place to start your day if

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<v Speaker 2>you like that hunt, you know, if you like shopping,

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<v Speaker 2>and if you like these deals and if you like

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<v Speaker 2>finding stuff that you might want to purchase. And the

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<v Speaker 2>explanations are the best because they make it really clear

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<v Speaker 2>as to why this is a good deal and why

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<v Speaker 2>you might want to jump on it, and how to

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<v Speaker 2>do it most importantly, all right, coming up, we'll close

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<v Speaker 2>out the show with a couple more stories and your feedback.

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<v Speaker 2>You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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<v Speaker 2>rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out with you,

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<v Speaker 2>talking technology, and it's time for your favorite segment feedback.

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<v Speaker 2>But before we get to that, let me get through

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<v Speaker 2>a few other stories. I wanted to mention Verizon now

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<v Speaker 2>offering unlimited individual cloud storage for fourteen bucks a month.

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<v Speaker 2>So this is a new cloud storage plan for individual

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<v Speaker 2>person fourteen dollars a month month. Let's you store photos, videos, documents, PDFs,

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<v Speaker 2>whatever you want from both your phone and computers. So

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<v Speaker 2>it's basically a cloud drive that's unlimited.

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<v Speaker 3>Now.

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<v Speaker 2>According to the Verge, individual files can exceed ten gigabytes

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<v Speaker 2>daily uploads or limited to fifty gigabytes, but for most

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<v Speaker 2>people this will pretty much be unlimited. They also have

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<v Speaker 2>a group unlimited plan for twenty dollars a month, which

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<v Speaker 2>lets you have five friends and family have their own

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<v Speaker 2>unlimited storage. So I actually signed up for that just

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<v Speaker 2>to test it out. For some reason, Verizon was offering

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<v Speaker 2>it to me for fourteen dollars a month. I don't

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<v Speaker 2>know why, but I signed up. But you get one

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<v Speaker 2>month free, So I just pulled the you know, just

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<v Speaker 2>decided to do it and see what it's all like.

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<v Speaker 1>And so I installed it on my computer.

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<v Speaker 2>I have not installed it on my phone, but basically

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<v Speaker 2>it lets you back up. I'm trying to figure out

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<v Speaker 2>if you can drag stuff into this and drop it in.

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<v Speaker 2>It seems like you can, but it's a little I'm

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<v Speaker 2>still working on it, but anyway, it's kind of a

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<v Speaker 2>good deal for fourteen dollars a month unlimited, it's not bad.

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<v Speaker 1>So if you want to back up your photos or whatever.

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<v Speaker 2>The only thing is it is linked to a carrier

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<v Speaker 2>like Verizon, so not everyone wants to link their online

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<v Speaker 2>world to their cell phone carrier. Amazon is going to

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<v Speaker 2>start selling cars online. Yes, Hyundai and Amazon have teamed

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<v Speaker 2>up to offer online vehicle sales, which is just incredible.

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<v Speaker 2>I hope this is as good as it seems. So

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<v Speaker 2>Amazon is going to launch online vehicle sales starting with

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<v Speaker 2>Hyundai in twenty twenty four. You can purchase a car

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<v Speaker 2>on Amazon and pick it up from your local dealer.

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<v Speaker 2>The question is will this be a nice kind of

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<v Speaker 2>experience or will the dealers muck it up? I hope

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<v Speaker 2>they don't. I really really hope this is like you

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<v Speaker 2>see the price, you pay it, and you go pick

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<v Speaker 2>up your car. Let's hope it's just like that. But

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<v Speaker 2>that's a great start. And one of the things I

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<v Speaker 2>did buy my car online last time, and it was incredible.

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<v Speaker 2>The entire process was online from start to finish, and

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<v Speaker 2>then they just delivered it to my driveway. And it

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<v Speaker 2>was such a great process because guess what, I didn't

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<v Speaker 2>have to go in that back room where the guy

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<v Speaker 2>sits there with the four squares and starts writing down

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<v Speaker 2>payment monthly, this, that, and then you got to go

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<v Speaker 2>back how much you offer them. It's like buying a

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<v Speaker 2>car is the worst experience in the world. And I

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<v Speaker 2>always say, these people that are selling the cars, they

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<v Speaker 2>are doing it every single day, and they know exactly

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<v Speaker 2>how to do it. We go in once every three

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<v Speaker 2>to six years to negotiate and guess who's gonna win

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<v Speaker 2>in that circumstance.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, they are.

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<v Speaker 2>And I got an email from a listener that said

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<v Speaker 2>they got an email from Spectrum.

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<v Speaker 1>Here's what the email says.

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<v Speaker 2>During the week of December twelfth, twenty twenty three, We're

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<v Speaker 2>going to introduce a new default video resolution setting a

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<v Speaker 2>four to EIGHTP for our unlimited plus mobile customers, allowing

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<v Speaker 2>better data management over the cellular network. Uh huh, better

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<v Speaker 2>data management for who? For Spectrum, they buy their service

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<v Speaker 2>from Verizon, So this means they're going to switch this

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<v Speaker 2>setting to be lower for all of their customers, which

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<v Speaker 2>means they have to pay Verizon less because they're using

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<v Speaker 2>less data. It does not benefit the customer in any way.

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<v Speaker 2>And Spectrum says, if you want to change the video

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<v Speaker 2>resolution back to seven to twenty P once the feature launches,

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<v Speaker 2>please visit our support page to learn more. So this

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<v Speaker 2>actually inspired a post on my website, rich on tech

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<v Speaker 2>dot TV. All of the carriers AT and T, Verizon,

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<v Speaker 2>T Mobile, they all have a dirty little secret, and

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<v Speaker 2>that is they reduce the quality of the video that

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<v Speaker 2>you get on your smartphone, even if you pay for

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<v Speaker 2>a higher resolution. But you can go in and change

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<v Speaker 2>this if you're on an unlimited plan that allows it.

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<v Speaker 2>So it's four eighty which is DVD quality by default,

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<v Speaker 2>you can go in and change it to either ten ADP.

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<v Speaker 2>Most of the time it's just ten ADP or four

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<v Speaker 2>k T and Verizon T Mobile. You can do it

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<v Speaker 2>from the website or from the app. I've put all

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<v Speaker 2>the instructions on my website. Rich on tech dot tv.

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<v Speaker 2>If you're paying for unlimited, you might as well get

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<v Speaker 2>the HD streaming, all right. Now, let's get to the feedback. Oh,

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<v Speaker 2>I only have a minute here. Hey, Rich, loved hearing

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<v Speaker 2>your report about Korea. I've been an Apple guy for

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<v Speaker 2>a long time. As you were discussing the Samsung Fold,

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<v Speaker 2>I was walking past the best Buy yep, I walked

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<v Speaker 2>in in real time you were speaking with the Samsung guy.

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<v Speaker 2>My initial impression was the resolution was impressive. I'm an

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<v Speaker 2>iPhone fourteen Pro Max owner doing a side by side

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<v Speaker 2>unscientific evaluation. They are pretty close and clarity and definition.

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<v Speaker 2>Upon closer inspection, I realized the screen attached to the

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<v Speaker 2>body looked a little honky tonk technical term cheap. I

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<v Speaker 2>cannot unsee the crease in the fold, which I can

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<v Speaker 2>only envision cracking. Finally, that improved hinge looks glaringly to

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<v Speaker 2>my eye like an obvious workaround. Do you love the

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<v Speaker 2>idea of a foldable device? I remember innovations attempted by Sharp,

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<v Speaker 2>but that usually ended up half baked. Love your show, Greg,

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<v Speaker 2>Thanks for the feedback.

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<v Speaker 1>Greg.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, foldable phones. They're making in roads, but they're not

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<v Speaker 2>there just yet. If you can believe it, that is

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<v Speaker 2>going to do it for this episode of the show.

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<v Speaker 2>It always goes by so fast. Once again, you can

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<v Speaker 2>find me on social media. I am at rich on tech.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm on Instagram, Twitter, all the good places there Actually

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<v Speaker 2>not Twitter, what am I saying? That's on autopilot, No Instagram,

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<v Speaker 2>Facebook threads, and honestly I'm starting to phase out Twitter

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<v Speaker 2>or at X whatever they call it. Next week we're

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<v Speaker 2>going to talk to Matt Swider of The Shortcut. He's

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<v Speaker 2>going to talk tech deals plus the latest report from

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<v Speaker 2>Privacy not included. Thanks so much for listening. There are

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<v Speaker 2>so many ways you can spend your time. I do

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<v Speaker 2>appreciate you spending it right here with me. Thanks to

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<v Speaker 2>everyone who makes this show possible. My name is Richdmiro.

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<v Speaker 2>I'll talk to you real soon, Happy Thanksgiving,