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Speaker 1: Hands off with the Google Pixel four. Google smart speakers

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Speaker 1: get a handy new feature. Samsung has a fingerprint issue

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Speaker 1: on its hands. See what I did there and your

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Speaker 1: tech questions answered? What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro. This

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech, the podcast where I talk about

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Speaker 1: the tech stuff I think you should know about. Plus

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Speaker 1: I answer all the questions that you just send me.

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Speaker 1: Here them right there, that's them questions. We print them out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.

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Speaker 1: Welcome producer Megan. What's going on?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Hey, is that your new thing? Did you think about that?

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Speaker 2: Did you have that swear that just came out? And

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Speaker 2: then I and then you literally like read my mind

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Speaker 2: and I, yeah, I don't know where that came from. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so maybe that's my thing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe, well okay, so this is, hey, hey, kind of funny.

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Speaker 1: But so you know, I fill in for Leo Laporte. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: on occasion. Actually I'm gonna be doing it in two weeks.

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Speaker 1: But so I didn't realized that he had a way

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Speaker 1: of like introducing the show every time. And so it's

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Speaker 1: really like when you're doing a syndicated radio show, like

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Speaker 1: it's really nerve wracking. I think like literally you're on

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Speaker 1: like the producers. You're in your ear and it's like

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Speaker 1: you're hot, you know, and all of a sudden you're

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Speaker 1: like lived all these people around the nation, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to say, like how do you say,

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Speaker 1: you know, like good morning, but it wasn't morning in

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Speaker 1: some places, you know. So anyway, so I noticed that

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Speaker 1: Leo always he always does something like well, hey, hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: so it kind of like reminded me of what you

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Speaker 1: just did. But I have not come up with a thing, yeah,

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Speaker 1: like of what I say.

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Speaker 2: But there's another podcast I listened to and they go hello.

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Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Right, so everyone has their thing of how

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Speaker 1: they intro and if you watch or listen to this show,

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Speaker 1: I should say listen because there is no watching. You

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Speaker 1: realize that there is nothing. There's no givens, there's everything.

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Speaker 1: Every week is like one hundred percent different. So but anyway,

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Speaker 1: we did just have a meeting with our big boss

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Speaker 1: here at our new company. You know, we were purchased

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Speaker 1: KTLA as part of Tribune was purchased by another a

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Speaker 1: new company called Nextstar. And so that's our new company

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Speaker 1: that we work for, which I used to work for

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Speaker 1: back in the day we had our big meeting. How

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Speaker 1: nervous were you scale of one to ten for this meeting.

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Speaker 1: Did you sleep last night?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I slept. I actually did sleep.

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Speaker 1: I supped really well.

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Speaker 1: No, Well, I was also jet lagged.

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Speaker 2: I feel like, as a reporter, like you just can't

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Speaker 2: I feel like you're used to just always being on.

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Speaker 2: But for me, I'm like, I feel like I just

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Speaker 1: But I think we did well. The meeting was very short.

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Speaker 1: We just ended up. We ended up just talking about

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Speaker 1: get to the big news of the week. The Pixel

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Speaker 1: We've talked about this before, when you can reveal your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: So Pixel four is the new smartphone from Google, and

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Megan with the first question of the day.

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Speaker 2: All right, So this first question comes from Evelyn and

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Speaker 2: she writes in on rich on tech Dot TV. All

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Speaker 2: you have to do is you can send a question

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Speaker 2: to Rich through rich on tech dot TV, go to

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Speaker 2: the contact page and you can submit your question. Evelyn asks,

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Speaker 2: what have you heard about this product? It's called Infinity Cloud.

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Speaker 1: This is not the first question I'm getting about this thing.

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Speaker 1: And it's spelled in a weird way, like it's spelled

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Speaker 1: Is it spelled infinity kloed? Is that how she spelled it? Yes? Okay,

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Speaker 1: a direct payment, but they work with Walmart to figure

435
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Speaker 1: out how to get their stuff there. Hey, we'll give

436
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Speaker 1: you five cents off every can because we know you

437
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Speaker 1: give us a very good spot on the shelf every year.

438
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Speaker 1: You're not down at the bottom. They put the cheap

439
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Speaker 1: stuff at the bottom. Yeah, because that's not paying.

440
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I always go for the cheap stuff. Always.

441
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Speaker 1: Always. You got a shop by the unit price, and

442
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Speaker 1: so this is not a surprise. But I think and

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Speaker 1: I looked at the Amazon toy list on their website,

444
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Speaker 1: I co only find t twenty eighteens right now, But

445
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Speaker 1: it doesn't say anywhere that like it says. Okay, So

446
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Speaker 1: here's what Amazon says for their part. Every product on

447
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Speaker 1: our annual holiday Toy List, which features family gift ideas,

448
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Speaker 1: is independently curated by a team of in house experts

449
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Speaker 1: based on a high bar for quality, design, innovation, and

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Speaker 1: play experience. We source product ideas from many places, including

451
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Speaker 1: our selling partners, who have an opportunity to nominate their

452
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Speaker 1: best toys for the season and increase visibility of those toys.

453
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Speaker 1: So Amazon saying like, yeah, this is what we do. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of like, I mean, I hate to

455
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Speaker 1: say this, but it's like awards, like you know when

456
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Speaker 1: people get like Emmys and stuff, like you don't pay

457
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Speaker 1: for that, but you pay to nominate yourself.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean they also pay a lot in

459
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Speaker 2: like promoting the show or the movie, Like the Oscars

460
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Speaker 2: is all I don't want to say rigged, but like

461
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Speaker 2: they put millions into just getting you know, like.

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Speaker 1: If there's a core Great, you only know about the

463
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Speaker 1: Great documentary because it's advertised fifty different ways too.

464
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Netflix probably spent fifteen million on whatever pr

465
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Speaker 2: just to like make happen, so it's happening. Shocking. It's

466
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Speaker 2: like but I think people also like to, you know,

467
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Speaker 2: kind of make it a bigger deal than it is.

468
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Speaker 1: Well, I think it is a big deal because people

469
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Speaker 1: need to know that this is happening. When you hear

470
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Speaker 1: from someone like myself, it's independent. I'm not I don't

471
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Speaker 1: get paid by a company to say I love their stuff.

472
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Speaker 1: And so I think that's the big delineation is that

473
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Speaker 1: with all these YouTubers and stuff, and I'm not hating

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Speaker 1: on them, I love them. But the reality is when

475
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Speaker 1: you see that sponsored or that ad, the company is

476
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Speaker 1: using them as a conduit to get their product in

477
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Speaker 1: front of your face. Yes, and that's fine, but you

478
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Speaker 1: just you know that because you see sponsored or add a.

479
00:21:37,160 --> 00:21:40,879
Speaker 1: But on Amazon, like if it says paid placement, you

480
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Speaker 1: understand that, like this is sponsored. There's just a delineation.

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Speaker 1: When you know something sponsored, you just say in your

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Speaker 1: mind like, Okay, that's fine, it doesn't ruin it as

483
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Speaker 1: a product, but it's you understand that. And I think

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Speaker 1: that relationship has to be clear.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but in stores they don't No, they.

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Speaker 1: Don't say that, but you understand you're in store. So anyway,

487
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Speaker 1: long story short, I think you know, listen to as

488
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Speaker 1: many void as you can, especially independent voices. And you

489
00:22:03,200 --> 00:22:04,920
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of websites that do reviews now,

490
00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: so you know you can just cross reference to reviews

491
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,399
Speaker 1: and you'll see like the trends among all of them.

492
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Speaker 1: Oh no, it's my turn. You already did a question? Yeah?

493
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Speaker 1: Or did I know?

494
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Speaker 2: You just did Amazon?

495
00:22:16,160 --> 00:22:19,479
Speaker 1: I just did Amazon. Okay, see, I trusted my judgment.

496
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Speaker 1: It's your turn.

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Speaker 2: Go ahead, all right. We got a fun message from

498
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Speaker 2: Steven who said, I really like your show, always tons

499
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Speaker 2: of information. I heard you on Brian Tong's podcast. I

500
00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,560
Speaker 2: listened weekly and now enjoy it a lot.

501
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Speaker 1: Oh, it's so good. I just saw Brian Tongue at

502
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Speaker 1: the Pixel events and it's great. You know, he's a

503
00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:44,720
Speaker 1: great friend. He's been you know, we've known each other

504
00:22:44,760 --> 00:22:47,160
Speaker 1: since we worked at sne together that and so he

505
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Speaker 1: left seen it and did his own thing. So now

506
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Speaker 1: he's part of this YouTube crew, which, by the way,

507
00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: they rolled deep, like nineteen of them. They're all like,

508
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Speaker 1: they all collab and this and that. It's pretty cool

509
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Speaker 1: to say, Yeah, so I'm not part of that group,

510
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Speaker 1: but I know them.

511
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Speaker 2: You could be.

512
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Speaker 1: I say hi to them and I know them, but

513
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Speaker 1: I'm not part of them, but they're doing great anyway.

514
00:23:05,640 --> 00:23:07,000
Speaker 1: So do you have a question as well?

515
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Speaker 2: Yes, I do. This question comes from Dan hey Rich

516
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Speaker 2: any thoughts on a Mac Mini versus iMac looking for

517
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Speaker 2: something to have at home Internet browsing, email, video conferencing

518
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Speaker 2: for work.

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Speaker 1: I would definitely go iMac. I think the Mac Mini

520
00:23:22,480 --> 00:23:25,440
Speaker 1: sounds great, But what's the point. I mean, unless you

521
00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: already have your monitor that you love and the keyboard

522
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:30,960
Speaker 1: that you love and all these accessories that you have

523
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Speaker 1: to bring to the table. I go with an Imacy.

524
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Speaker 1: My dream is to have an iMac. I have want

525
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Speaker 1: I've never owned iMac, never owned an iMac. It has

526
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Speaker 1: literally been my dream to have an iMac on my

527
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Speaker 1: desktop for the past decade.

528
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Speaker 2: You need to have a little writer writer room, right,

529
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Speaker 2: You'll have your iMac and like he's just right there.

530
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Speaker 1: I just want that. But then here's my problem. I

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Speaker 1: can't justify purchasing an iMac when I have my computer

532
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Speaker 1: that I use everywhere in my laptop that I just

533
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Speaker 1: put on my desk. Yeah, and then also I imagine, like, okay,

534
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Speaker 1: so I have to go between like both things, and

535
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Speaker 1: like whatever I put on the desktop, there is not

536
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Speaker 1: on that desktop and then sink it up. I don't

537
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Speaker 1: think so, there probably is. But my advice what was

538
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: this person's name again? Uh?

539
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:14,080
Speaker 2: Dan Stan Dan Dan Dan Dan?

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Speaker 1: My advice is do not, I repeat, do not go

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Speaker 1: with the base model iMac because it's one thousand ninety

542
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Speaker 1: nine dollars. That's the sucker's bat. You do not get

543
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Speaker 1: the best things on that computer, namely the best screen.

544
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Speaker 1: You get an old non retina screen. Now do you

545
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Speaker 1: remember when you had your MacBook Air versus the computer

546
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Speaker 1: they gave you here? Yeah, you know one has the

547
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Speaker 1: retina screen, one doesn't. Can you tell the difference? Yes,

548
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Speaker 1: night and day.

549
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Speaker 2: It's insane, like it's crazy.

550
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Speaker 1: So imagine imagine spending one thousand ninety nine on an

551
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Speaker 1: iMac to get a non retina display. When you can,

552
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Speaker 1: you've already gone the thousand ninety nine right, go the

553
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Speaker 1: two hundred dollars further, don't eat now, start and get

554
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Speaker 1: the retina.

555
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Speaker 2: Yeah, do your eyes a favor.

556
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Speaker 1: Everything with me is eating out or drinking we w Well,

557
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying because I always see money as like

558
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Speaker 1: all these little decisions we make in our lives. Yes,

559
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Speaker 1: where you go out like I went out the other

560
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Speaker 1: night I bought a round of drinks from my family.

561
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Speaker 1: It was like sixty bucks, I know, very nice. No, yes,

562
00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 1: those those milkshakes up. Yeah, And I'm telling you it

563
00:25:24,480 --> 00:25:27,200
Speaker 1: was sixty dollars. And so that is six months of

564
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Speaker 1: Spotify in my head right there. Yeah, and everyone it's

565
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Speaker 1: not just me that's doing this, see, And it's all

566
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Speaker 1: these little things like if you buy coffee at Starbucks,

567
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Speaker 1: you know, it's four forty five for like a latte now, yeah,

568
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Speaker 1: and that is half a month of some cloud service

569
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Speaker 1: that you've been hemming and hauling over. And so we

570
00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:48,840
Speaker 1: make these little decisions so easily in real life. Then

571
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Speaker 1: when it comes to buying a Mac you say, well,

572
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Speaker 1: I'll just save the two hundred bucks and go with

573
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Speaker 1: the base model. Spend the extra two hundred and get

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Speaker 1: the model that has the retina display and it's a

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Speaker 1: four K display as well, and you also get some

576
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Speaker 1: other improved graphics, you know, bigger, not a bigger hard drive,

577
00:26:04,200 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: but just better. A couple other specs are better too,

578
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,280
Speaker 1: so good question. Yeah, and the Mac Mini, don't get

579
00:26:10,280 --> 00:26:12,640
Speaker 1: me wrong, I think that's awesome. Back in the day

580
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Speaker 1: when when the home theater PC was a big deal,

581
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Speaker 1: that Mac Mini was kind of cool because you can

582
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Speaker 1: hook it up your TV, and I don't see the

583
00:26:18,840 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: point of that anymore. It's getting Apple TV. Nest Mini

584
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Speaker 1: is getting a makeover, available October twenty second. Is the

585
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Speaker 1: new Yeah. This used to be called the Google Home Mini.

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Speaker 1: Now it's the Nest Mini, probably Google's most popular smart speaker.

587
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Speaker 1: I've got a bunch of them around my house. Do

588
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Speaker 1: you have any of these around your place? Nest many

589
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Speaker 1: like these little things.

590
00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, my sister has one.

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Speaker 1: Okay, do you need one? I mean I have one.

592
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Speaker 1: I can give you Okay, okay, I will give you one.

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Speaker 2: Oh okay, the new one.

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00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:50,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, not the new one, the old one. For

595
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,520
Speaker 1: a while I was getting these things, is like in

596
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Speaker 1: like gift bags, like randomly you go to like an event,

597
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 1: you get like a Google Home Mini, and I was

598
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Speaker 1: giving them out. I've reached a point of like saturation

599
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:00,800
Speaker 1: where everyone I know like does want him anymore?

600
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:01,520
Speaker 2: Like I'm good.

601
00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. So the Google Home Mini was launched in twenty seventeen.

602
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Speaker 1: The new version. There's not too much to know about it.

603
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,320
Speaker 1: It's fifty dollars, same price that used to be. These

604
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 1: things usually go on sale as a loss Leader. During

605
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,160
Speaker 1: the holidays, you can pick them up for twenty nine

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Speaker 1: thirty nine dollars. You know, at least ten dollars off

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00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:20,960
Speaker 1: during the holidays. I'd say, if not, probably twenty nine

608
00:27:21,040 --> 00:27:23,959
Speaker 1: is a more viable price point. So don't buy this

609
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Speaker 1: thing at forty nine dollars. I hate to say this

610
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Speaker 1: with all Google stuff, but they price it in a

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Speaker 1: way that they know. Some of these things, like these

612
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,040
Speaker 1: Nest Minis, they're just going to go on sale. Yeah,

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00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:34,520
Speaker 1: Target's going to put them on sale, Walmart, best Buy.

614
00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:37,439
Speaker 1: So the thing to know about it now is it

615
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,439
Speaker 1: kind of looks the same, but it's made from one

616
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Speaker 1: hundred percent recycled plastic bottles. So all those bottles that

617
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Speaker 1: you're thrown out from your water, your your Fiji water drink,

618
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,080
Speaker 1: that's true. You have a flask.

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Speaker 2: And when he says flask, he means to say hydrophile.

620
00:27:53,520 --> 00:27:55,000
Speaker 1: Oh I forgot the first part of that word.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not that's rich that has the flask.

622
00:27:57,880 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: So the Nest Mini is made from your cycled plastic bottles,

623
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Speaker 1: which is really cool. One hundred percent, which I love.

624
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Speaker 1: It also has forty percent more bass than the original model.

625
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: Every time I see the word bass. Yeah, I see bass.

626
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,720
Speaker 2: Yeah, I see. Why do I see bass?

627
00:28:11,760 --> 00:28:15,919
Speaker 1: Because it's spelled bass. He says bass. Yeah, it's spelled bass.

628
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:19,919
Speaker 1: I see bass. It's like when I go fishing, do

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Speaker 1: I go bass fishing? No, I go bass fishing. But

630
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Speaker 1: it's spelled the same. I used to do that, by

631
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Speaker 1: the way. Not it's been a long time fishing. I

632
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: used to all the time. Oh yeah, you growing up.

633
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Speaker 2: That's shocking.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see. You can group the speakers together we

635
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,720
Speaker 1: talked about in the last podcast. So they don't sound

636
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: as good the old ones don't. At least maybe the

637
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: new ones sound better. The voice assists the Google Assistant

638
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:44,080
Speaker 1: now adjusts depending on the background noise, which is really

639
00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: neat because if you have the dishwasher going and you

640
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,880
Speaker 1: ask Google something, it might be tough to hear in

641
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: the past and you have to go and turn the

642
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,240
Speaker 1: volume up. Now it dynamically uses its microphones to hear

643
00:28:54,240 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: what the ambient sound is, and it'll bump up the

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Speaker 1: volume a little bit.

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Speaker 2: What about if you're watching a TV show and you

646
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: say like, hey, Google, and then like the TV shows

647
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 2: in the background, and it's like picking up the show,

648
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 2: but you're.

649
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: Like you, that's a whole problem. Yeah, I don't know.

650
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: I mean that's a show off. Well that's like a

651
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:10,920
Speaker 1: whole issue with this whole ah Google thing. It's like

652
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 1: so many things turn you know, trigger it, and they

653
00:29:14,320 --> 00:29:16,520
Speaker 1: get false triggers and it starts listening to other stuff.

654
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: But it's pretty good about the ambient sound, Like from

655
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,360
Speaker 1: what I've seen when I'm in like a loud room

656
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: and I trigger it, it's it's pretty darn good. There's

657
00:29:23,640 --> 00:29:25,960
Speaker 1: also a new intercom feature, and I got to test

658
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 1: this out at the Google offices and it was really neat.

659
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: This turns your nests into an intercom system. I love that.

660
00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:35,200
Speaker 1: Have you ever used an intercom like in your house? Yeah, okay,

661
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: so we used to have one, like back in the day. Okay,

662
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: you have one. Yeah, so it's like we don't use it,

663
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:41,600
Speaker 1: No one does. It's kind of like one of those

664
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,360
Speaker 1: things from like the eighties or seventies, you know. It's

665
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:46,640
Speaker 1: like an old school thing. Yeah, And it's like we

666
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: had it in my house growing up, and I thought

667
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: it was so cool as a nerd. So I'd always

668
00:29:50,320 --> 00:29:52,360
Speaker 1: be like, on the thing, I'm making everyone please come

669
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:53,760
Speaker 1: down to dinner, you know, and like.

670
00:29:53,920 --> 00:29:56,200
Speaker 2: Everyone, you're going to do this with your kids if

671
00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 2: you get this.

672
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:59,120
Speaker 1: Well, so there's a feature. There's two features on the

673
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: Nest Mini now. One is called broadcast, which you can

674
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: do from any So you could do that from your phone.

675
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:05,920
Speaker 1: So if you pick up your phone and say, h,

676
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: Google broadcast, I'm headed home, it will take your voice

677
00:30:10,560 --> 00:30:12,200
Speaker 1: and it will play on all your speakers at the

678
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,880
Speaker 1: same time. That's one feature and you can try that

679
00:30:15,000 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: right now. The other feature that they're enabling, which is new,

680
00:30:17,840 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: is called intercom. I can say, h Google, call the

681
00:30:22,600 --> 00:30:26,520
Speaker 1: living room, Google Mini, whatever you've named it, and it

682
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: will make a call to it. It'll ring. The other

683
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: person on the other end taps the top and they

684
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,920
Speaker 1: go hello, and you're like, hey, what's up. I'm right

685
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: over here, I'm across the room, you know, I'm across

686
00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:35,400
Speaker 1: the house.

687
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 2: Yeah.

688
00:30:36,960 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: Pretty cool. Yeah, I mean you have to figure out

689
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: the use case. But if you have a big house,

690
00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 1: you know, like I always imagine like one of these

691
00:30:44,280 --> 00:30:45,600
Speaker 1: days I'd have a house that like, you know, when

692
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 1: you have that dinner table that's like a mile long.

693
00:30:48,520 --> 00:30:51,640
Speaker 1: To Lindsay and I have done that before, We've eaten dinner,

694
00:30:51,640 --> 00:30:53,200
Speaker 1: like at the opposite end of the Our dinner table

695
00:30:53,240 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: is not that long, but its no no, but we

696
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:59,280
Speaker 1: have like a decently it's a pretty it's a more

697
00:30:59,320 --> 00:31:01,440
Speaker 1: long than normal tape. Yeah, and so I always think

698
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: it's funny, like when we first got it to sit

699
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 1: on the opposite ends and it's just so funny put

700
00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:06,760
Speaker 1: candles in the middle, and like you just have like

701
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: your Friday night dinner, like.

702
00:31:08,320 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 2: Can you please bring in the dijon mustard very down

703
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:12,120
Speaker 2: to nabbey.

704
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: That's lost on me, no idea, Okay, it's like fancy.

705
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,360
Speaker 2: Fancy, Yeah, the fancy.

706
00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,960
Speaker 1: So that's the next Mini. And the other thing to

707
00:31:22,960 --> 00:31:25,479
Speaker 1: know about the next Mini is that it is faster

708
00:31:25,600 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: at processing your commands because they've built some machine learning

709
00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: onto the device, so it kind of understands like you

710
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: always ask every day at two pm to turn the

711
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: lights up or whatever. I always ask every day when

712
00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:39,080
Speaker 1: I get in to like turn on the kitchen lights,

713
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: and so it will learn that and it will figure

714
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: that out and process faster now somehow.

715
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,640
Speaker 2: And it's like it plays Lizzo because you always walk

716
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:47,960
Speaker 2: every day.

717
00:31:47,520 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: Walk in and play my normal and it's like whatever

718
00:31:52,440 --> 00:31:55,400
Speaker 1: she sayings, I don't know that song close something like that.

719
00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:01,200
Speaker 2: Okay. The next question comes from Paula and and she says,

720
00:32:02,320 --> 00:32:06,760
Speaker 2: facial recognition on phones, I prefer the fingerprint way with

721
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 2: face wreck. Someone could grab your phone and point it

722
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 2: at you and run away, then they'd have your phone unlocked.

723
00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 2: Am I right or wrong?

724
00:32:16,080 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: Uh? So true? Yeah, I think face face unlock is

725
00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: a double edged sword.

726
00:32:20,560 --> 00:32:22,320
Speaker 2: I always do that when you want to want me

727
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,400
Speaker 2: to record something, I'll like take your phone and I'll

728
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: pin your.

729
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,760
Speaker 1: Face works right, Yeah. And it's the same thing with

730
00:32:27,800 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: a pixel. I mean it. You know, my brother when

731
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,640
Speaker 1: he was you know, when we were out that night

732
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,560
Speaker 1: in New York City, he just like held the phone

733
00:32:34,640 --> 00:32:36,320
Speaker 1: up to my face and unlocked. You know, you just

734
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: do that and it's like boom.

735
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:38,200
Speaker 2: Yeah.

736
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: And so I do think there is something to that.

737
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 1: And I think that I don't know, maybe they'll figure

738
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:44,239
Speaker 1: out a way around that. I don't know what.

739
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:46,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe like a palm reader.

740
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, like well, or it shose your hand. Yeah, I

741
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: notices how you hold the phone. Maybe, I don't know.

742
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: I mean that could be. I don't know. We're just

743
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:53,920
Speaker 1: we're just spitballing here because we don't know.

744
00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like I do. Do you hear stories

745
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:57,680
Speaker 2: about this happen.

746
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,520
Speaker 1: I don't hear stories about it happening. I've thought about, like, yeah,

747
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:02,200
Speaker 1: someone someone finds you and they're just like, you know,

748
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,000
Speaker 1: they hold you down, they put the phone in front

749
00:33:04,040 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: of your face, and you're just like, oh, well, there

750
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,120
Speaker 1: goes my whole phone.

751
00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,640
Speaker 2: I feel like people don't care that much.

752
00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:10,400
Speaker 1: Well, I don't know. Yeah, I mean I don't want

753
00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: to find out. Do you want to find out?

754
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 2: No? But I also have an eight plus, So I'm

755
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 2: like the.

756
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: Past, and so I to answer this person's question, I

757
00:33:19,440 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: would say I'm on the same wavelength. I get it, like,

758
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,840
Speaker 1: there are things that face unlocked. It is pretty cool

759
00:33:24,920 --> 00:33:27,160
Speaker 1: to have it. But I also see the other side

760
00:33:27,200 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: of when you're this is the way I see it.

761
00:33:29,560 --> 00:33:33,160
Speaker 1: When you're using a fingerprint scanner, you're in control because

762
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,360
Speaker 1: it's your finger and someone can't. Yeah, they can hold

763
00:33:35,360 --> 00:33:36,880
Speaker 1: you down and force you to put your fingerprint on there,

764
00:33:36,920 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: but it's a little bit different, you know, it takes

765
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 1: like more physical coercion, whereas for face, like you said,

766
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 1: you can just hold it up and be like boom,

767
00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:44,880
Speaker 1: and next thing you know, it's unlocked.

768
00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, So I want to try it?

769
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yeah, let's see. So I won't look okay,

770
00:33:51,160 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: so I'm not going to look okay, and it's not unlocking.

771
00:33:53,560 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: But if I'm just like right here and I look

772
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:59,640
Speaker 1: at it, is it unlocking? It's not. See it knows

773
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:03,680
Speaker 1: that you're Yeah, okay, that's the pixel. Now try it.

774
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: You want to try it with the iPhone? Yeah, okay,

775
00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:07,120
Speaker 1: So we just tried it with pixel, so now try

776
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: it with the iPhone. So I'm gonna I'm gonna look away, Okay.

777
00:34:11,280 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: Now I'm looking at it, and uh no, it says

778
00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: swipe to unlock, swipe up to unlock, So swipe up

779
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: and then turn it to me really quick and see

780
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: if it works. See. Yeah, see, I think I think

781
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,799
Speaker 1: they're on to us, Megan, I mean that that's I mean.

782
00:34:25,800 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 2: Wait, look at it.

783
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: Okay. Oh yeah, so I don't know. I think, uh so,

784
00:34:30,640 --> 00:34:32,319
Speaker 1: maybe maybe they have figured it out.

785
00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:34,240
Speaker 2: Don't worry about it, Paula.

786
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all good. We just tested it in our

787
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,920
Speaker 1: very uh non scientific testing. We found that you do

788
00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: not have to worry about this.

789
00:34:41,160 --> 00:34:43,200
Speaker 2: Yes, you will be fine.

790
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: But it seems to I mean, I don't know that

791
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: seems to work Okay, let's move on. Pixel Book Go

792
00:34:49,360 --> 00:34:51,759
Speaker 1: is another product that Google unveiled at their event. I

793
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: got to play with this for a little bit, and

794
00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,400
Speaker 1: I will be honest, I one fell in love with

795
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: this device. It is their Chromebook. It's a high performance

796
00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: Chromebook and and it's kind of like, well, I guess

797
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:05,959
Speaker 1: it's not as high performance as the standard pixel book,

798
00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:09,279
Speaker 1: but it's still it's a lightweight kind of device for

799
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,399
Speaker 1: the average person that just needs to do basic things

800
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 1: on their computer. But the best part is it's barely

801
00:35:14,239 --> 00:35:17,560
Speaker 1: two pounds. It's super thin. It's prices six hundred and

802
00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:19,720
Speaker 1: forty nine dollars, which is a kind of a sweet spot.

803
00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: I would have liked it to be four ninety nine.

804
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: I think that is a super sweet spot. When it

805
00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: comes to a laptop, four ninety nine is like, that

806
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:31,160
Speaker 1: is no brainer. You get a really nice computer for

807
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: four ninety nine. Six forty nine is a little bit

808
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: more expensive. But again it goes back to what I'm

809
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:37,360
Speaker 1: saying about. I think Google prices some of these things

810
00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:40,719
Speaker 1: knowing they might be discounted at during the holidays, right,

811
00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: But I don't know what this one depends. We'll have

812
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: to see because I don't know how much it would

813
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: be discounted. But it's got quiet backlit keys, and I'll

814
00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:51,719
Speaker 1: be one hundred percent honest, like I was ready to

815
00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,239
Speaker 1: purchase this thing. Really Yeah, I liked it that much.

816
00:35:54,280 --> 00:35:57,280
Speaker 1: It's like everything I want in a computer, super easy.

817
00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about viruses, It turns on automatic,

818
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: the battery lasts a long time, it runs Chrome. What

819
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,640
Speaker 1: more do you need? The only problem is I like

820
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: to edit video on my computer and I also use Final.

821
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,400
Speaker 2: Cut, and so what can't you use Adobe?

822
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,319
Speaker 1: No, not on this one, because you can't install any

823
00:36:13,360 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: programs on it except like the way I look at

824
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:18,400
Speaker 1: it is, I think you can ins sol Android apps

825
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: on it at this point. Oh so maybe I could

826
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: if it's an Android app. You know what. I gotta

827
00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: try that out because it's been I've never used a Chromebook.

828
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: It's been a long time.

829
00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:30,280
Speaker 2: Does Google have their own video editing software?

830
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:30,719
Speaker 1: I do not.

831
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,480
Speaker 2: I share, but they don't.

832
00:36:33,480 --> 00:36:35,400
Speaker 1: I don't think they position their stuff as like content

833
00:36:35,440 --> 00:36:38,520
Speaker 1: creation devices like the pixel book Go to me is

834
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: for someone who is a mobile worker who does spreadsheets

835
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: or email or word processing, is writing a book. They're

836
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: not editing video they're not editing music, they're not creating content.

837
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 2: It's a different space exactly.

838
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:56,320
Speaker 1: Even I would argue maybe if you're like a web blogger,

839
00:36:56,640 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: you probably I mean, I guess nowadays you could do

840
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of blogging with just your Chrome because

841
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:05,200
Speaker 1: I use what's the uh, this is fantastic. By the way,

842
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,680
Speaker 1: if you ever need it, I use, so you can.

843
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:11,279
Speaker 1: I'm not ever doing anything in Photoshop. And I think

844
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:13,439
Speaker 1: even Photoshop probably runs on this thing, because they probably

845
00:37:13,480 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: have a version of it for this. If you could

846
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,799
Speaker 1: run Android apps on it, that kind of changes the game. Yeah,

847
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: I should probably, I should probably know this, Megan. I

848
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: think that you talk while I figure out can the

849
00:37:23,560 --> 00:37:28,279
Speaker 1: pixel book go run Android apps? And I mean because

850
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 1: if it does, yeah, install Android apps on your pixel

851
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: Book technically, so I should try this. If it can

852
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: run Adobe.

853
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're never getting that asap.

854
00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: By the way, No, I'm never getting the iMac. I'm

855
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: never getting a new Mac. You know how many things

856
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: I've told you how many things are on my list

857
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:42,560
Speaker 1: of purchases.

858
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Well.

859
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,360
Speaker 1: Everything just keeps coming out new, and I'm like, yeah,

860
00:37:47,360 --> 00:37:49,680
Speaker 1: but I kind of want the pixel Book. And by

861
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:51,200
Speaker 1: the way, I would not get the six forty nine

862
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: personally because I want higher specs. It goes all the

863
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: way up to I think it like thirteen ninety nine,

864
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:58,600
Speaker 1: which is still pretty cheap. I think so because that

865
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: has like sixteen gigs a RAM, and like I think

866
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Speaker 1: two fifty six.

867
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Speaker 2: Wow, that would be really crazy if you just switched

868
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Speaker 2: to just using a chromebook.

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Speaker 1: If I can install Adobe Rush, the only thing I

870
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Speaker 1: would not be able to do is final cut, which

871
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 1: and I message from your message that's true, that would

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Speaker 1: be it's.

873
00:38:16,200 --> 00:38:16,960
Speaker 2: See that's a bummer.

874
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Speaker 1: That is a bummer. And yeah, but anyway, the app

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00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,360
Speaker 1: I was talking about that I used to resize images

876
00:38:22,520 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: is called Promo dot Com Slash Tools slash Image dash Resizer.

877
00:38:28,719 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: It you pop, you drag and drop an image into

878
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: there and it resizes it to every single perfect size

879
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:43,239
Speaker 1: for every platform. Yeah, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, thumbnails, Pinterest, LinkedIn, snapchat,

880
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,040
Speaker 1: email and blog, Google Display Network whatever that is. I

881
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: guess that's for ads. So cool.

882
00:38:49,800 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you need that.

883
00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,280
Speaker 1: So pixel book go. It also has this weird grippable

884
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: design which is kind of cool. On the bottom, it's

885
00:38:56,200 --> 00:38:58,919
Speaker 1: like it's like ribbed almost, which is kind of weird,

886
00:38:58,960 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: but it helps you grip it so you don't drop it,

887
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 1: and it's it makes sense, so it's not like smooth

888
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: on the bottom. Kind of cool. Let's see what else

889
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:10,280
Speaker 1: twelve hours of battery life wo two hours. Twenty minutes

890
00:39:10,280 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: of charging gives you two hours of battery. It's kind

891
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:13,880
Speaker 1: of cool. If you're getting on the plane, you just

892
00:39:13,880 --> 00:39:16,960
Speaker 1: want to top it off a little bit. Got that. Uh,

893
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:18,880
Speaker 1: the keyboard. They really made a big deal out of

894
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,320
Speaker 1: this because I don't know, if you typing on mine.

895
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 2: They say it's called hush hush.

896
00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: They call it hush keys, and so it's really quiet.

897
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: I honestly, like I said, I fell in love with

898
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: this thing. Like I sat there and I I was

899
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 1: I was, I was playing with it, and I was

900
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: literally saying I could see myself using this, And I've

901
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: always wanted to kind of break free of like my

902
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: standard I've had the same kind of MacBook Pro for

903
00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: like a decade now, and it just be kind of

904
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,439
Speaker 1: fun to be like that guy with the pixel book.

905
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:48,440
Speaker 1: People are looking at You're like, what is that? It's

906
00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:51,400
Speaker 1: that weird grippy thing on the bottom of your laptop.

907
00:39:51,440 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 1: What's that weird? You know, you don't have to sit

908
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:55,399
Speaker 1: there and do a Windows update for two hours every

909
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,280
Speaker 1: day because you know, they come out this giant update

910
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:01,400
Speaker 1: that takes forever. So, oh, you don't have to. You

911
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: don't have these loud keys like I have my MacBook.

912
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think I'm gonna get one.

913
00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:07,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think you should.

914
00:40:07,960 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: We'll say see how I deal.

915
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:15,560
Speaker 2: All right, So this question comes from Rainah. The subject

916
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 2: is Spectrum's latest four dollars rate increase with no speed increase.

917
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:23,160
Speaker 2: So she says that on October eleventh, she got an

918
00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 2: email from Spectrum announcing that she can get speeds up

919
00:40:26,480 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 2: to two hundred megabytes megabytes per second with no rate increase.

920
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 2: And then she said, my September bill said that there

921
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 2: will be a general four dollars a month rate increase

922
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 2: on my October bill.

923
00:40:39,320 --> 00:40:42,000
Speaker 1: What's her name, Raina, Raina, And then she.

924
00:40:41,960 --> 00:40:44,120
Speaker 2: Said, I can't seem to hold those two thoughts in

925
00:40:44,120 --> 00:40:45,319
Speaker 2: my head. My current.

926
00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 1: Now you don't have to read all the rest part.

927
00:40:47,920 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: She goes on and on. Okay, okay, but I think

928
00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:52,000
Speaker 1: the first part is really the interesting part about it.

929
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:54,160
Speaker 2: There was a there was an increase before this.

930
00:40:54,480 --> 00:40:56,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, so here's the story and I and I've

931
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: I've done this on Twitter enough so I don't really

932
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,319
Speaker 1: want to beat a dead horse here. But the reality is,

933
00:41:04,360 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 1: can we still say that? I don't even know. I

934
00:41:05,560 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: don't even know what you could say anymore. I feel

935
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:08,440
Speaker 1: like that's like such an old saying.

936
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:11,839
Speaker 2: That, Like what a visual? I like really thought about that.

937
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: Have you heard that before?

938
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: Never beat a dead horse?

939
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:16,040
Speaker 1: Have you heard that term?

940
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:18,760
Speaker 2: I mean, I've heard it. I don't really understand.

941
00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,319
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna stop saying that. I don't why would

942
00:41:21,320 --> 00:41:23,480
Speaker 1: I wouldn't beat anything? Like, why would it beat a

943
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:23,919
Speaker 1: dead horse?

944
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: I'm a horse lover.

945
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: No, I can't wait to get on a horse again.

946
00:41:27,520 --> 00:41:28,160
Speaker 1: Now I'm just kidding.

947
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,560
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're a big a questrian.

948
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:34,520
Speaker 1: Yeah okay. So here's what happened. Spectrum came out about

949
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: two months ago, and we talked about this in the podcast,

950
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:38,600
Speaker 1: and everyone responded saying, oh my gosh, they doubled the

951
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:41,080
Speaker 1: speeds in Los Angeles and across the nation to like

952
00:41:41,120 --> 00:41:43,000
Speaker 1: two hundred what everyone was paying for one hundred, So

953
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: now you got the same like price, but like, oh

954
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:47,360
Speaker 1: my gosh, it's way faster. This happened at my house.

955
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden. I get my bill last

956
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: week and in tiny little writing, it's like, effective next bill,

957
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,479
Speaker 1: there will be a four dollars increase on your bill.

958
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 1: They didn't say it was for speed. They just said

959
00:41:57,080 --> 00:42:00,480
Speaker 1: four dollars monthly whatever. And so then a week later

960
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: I get an email or two days later, I get

961
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: an email from Spectrum saying We've increased your speed at

962
00:42:04,640 --> 00:42:07,440
Speaker 1: no cost to you. I'm like, what, No, what is

963
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 1: it like? Just don't send an email like that after

964
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,239
Speaker 1: you just raise my bill by four dollars. So now

965
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: I'm paying next bill would be sixty nine to ninety

966
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:18,359
Speaker 1: nine a month for internet, And I think it's kind

967
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: of ridiculous that they did that.

968
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 2: They should have just said, like, we're going to charge

969
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 2: you four dollars more because the speed is increasing.

970
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,560
Speaker 1: Hey, we improve your speed by the way, we have

971
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,320
Speaker 1: costs that go up to and at the end of

972
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,000
Speaker 1: the day, they know that people rely on their internets

973
00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,880
Speaker 1: and they can charge one hundred dollars a month and

974
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: people will still not switch because a they have kind

975
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,480
Speaker 1: of a monopoly on it totally. There's only like two

976
00:42:38,480 --> 00:42:40,640
Speaker 1: providers in every area. Usually one's not very good.

977
00:42:40,920 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 2: What's the other provider here?

978
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: It just depends where you live. Like it could be

979
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: AT and T and some there's it just depends. It

980
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,080
Speaker 1: all depends where you live. So if you want to check,

981
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: I always try to give you a little knowledge with

982
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:57,520
Speaker 1: my rants, but high speed Internet dot com can you

983
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,279
Speaker 1: can pop in your zip code and kind of see

984
00:42:59,280 --> 00:43:01,759
Speaker 1: what the provider is in your area. Did she say

985
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:07,920
Speaker 1: where she lives? No, I'll just do West La as

986
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: an example, And in West LA you can get Frontier

987
00:43:11,400 --> 00:43:15,920
Speaker 1: Spectrum via SAT and hues net and cybernet. So obviously

988
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,560
Speaker 1: the only two that are wired are really Spectrum and Frontier.

989
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. This is what I will leave

990
00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: with you. The good news is that we are on

991
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 1: the verge of these five G networks being in big

992
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,399
Speaker 1: cities in a big way, and when those take off,

993
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:32,920
Speaker 1: you'll be able to have a third option in many

994
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:36,800
Speaker 1: cases overnight. Yeah, because you can now get a signal

995
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: from the sky or I should say from the air

996
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 1: that is just as good that can rival these wired connections.

997
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,480
Speaker 1: So hopefully that should switch up prices a little bit.

998
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,480
Speaker 1: The problem is a lot of these five G connections

999
00:43:48,520 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: are from the same companies that own the wired connections,

1000
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,160
Speaker 1: and so competition will be there at the beginning, but

1001
00:43:53,360 --> 00:43:55,279
Speaker 1: like anything else, at the end of the day, they're

1002
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: gonna level out the prices. Anyway, Well, that's gonna do

1003
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Speaker 1: it for the podcast. Thanks so much for listening, Megan.

1004
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:02,400
Speaker 1: Did you enjoy the show?

1005
00:44:02,640 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 2: Yeah, I learned a lot too.

1006
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:05,719
Speaker 1: I feel like this was a really good show. I

1007
00:44:05,719 --> 00:44:08,280
Speaker 1: feel like we both learned a lot here in this journey.

1008
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Speaker 1: My book is called one and one iPhone Tips and

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Speaker 1: Tricks Is It is available right now for both the iPhone,

1010
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:19,760
Speaker 1: sorry for in Kindle form like ebook form, and also

1011
00:44:19,800 --> 00:44:23,759
Speaker 1: paperback form. So it is available on Amazon check it out.

1012
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:25,840
Speaker 1: You can read it for free through Kindle Unlimited, or

1013
00:44:25,880 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 1: you can purchase it and keep it either as paperback

1014
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: or as ebook. Megan, how can people get in touch

1015
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:31,799
Speaker 1: with you?

1016
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:35,480
Speaker 2: I am on Twitter, I'm at producer Megan, and I've

1017
00:44:35,480 --> 00:44:38,120
Speaker 2: been getting some questions this past week from people.

1018
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:39,720
Speaker 1: Okay, did you bring any of them to the show?

1019
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,600
Speaker 1: I know, okay for next show. So if you have

1020
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Speaker 1: a question, you can tweet producer Megan as well. Well,

1021
00:44:44,760 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 1: you tweet me and you know we'll get it on

1022
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Speaker 1: the show. And for me, you can find me on

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Speaker 1: social media at rich On tech on Instagram, Facebook dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash rich on tech. That's going to do it for

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Speaker 1: our show. Please, if you're listening for the first time,

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Speaker 1: subscribe to us in your favorite audio app and listen

1027
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Speaker 1: every week. Thanks so much for listening. We'll see you

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Speaker 1: real soon. Bye bye.