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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Dmuiro and this is Rich

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

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Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the

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Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me. My

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Speaker 1: name is rich Demiro, tech reporter at KTLA Channel five

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Speaker 1: in Los Angeles. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. What a show I

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Speaker 1: have planned for you today? Well, yeah, sure, okay. You

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Speaker 1: know I plan these things throughout the week, and I

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Speaker 1: like I have so many little note taking I actually

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Speaker 1: I've got ever Note, I've got Google Keep, I've got

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Speaker 1: the notes on my you know whatever, the Apple what's

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Speaker 1: The problem is in you know, you might say, oh, Rich,

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Speaker 1: Apple or the iPhone. Well, I like to have cross

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Speaker 1: platform things like I don't like to use anything that's

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Speaker 1: can have all your tasks. Let's say you I have

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Speaker 1: So there's things like Google Authenticator, there's Authie, there's Microsoft Authenticator.

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Speaker 1: maybe it'll be the what's the other thing he has?

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Speaker 1: This is the solar wall, the power the Tesla power wall.

431
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Speaker 1: You know, until it's all powered by that, you know,

432
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Speaker 1: he's just not gonna accept it. So bitcoin price went

433
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Speaker 1: way down. And again this is a consumer podcast, so

434
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Speaker 1: I don't you know, I'm not telling you buy bitcoin

435
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,960
Speaker 1: or not or invest in it or whatever. But these

436
00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:20,600
Speaker 1: are the things that consumers are talking about. Like everyday

437
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,159
Speaker 1: people are like, are you in doge coin? Are you

438
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Speaker 1: in bitcoin? Are you buying it? What do you think

439
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,320
Speaker 1: of it? Do you think it's the future. So these

440
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Speaker 1: are the these things that like used to be super

441
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,919
Speaker 1: duper nerdy have percolated and bubbled up to the surface

442
00:22:34,040 --> 00:22:37,679
Speaker 1: of just like party conversation, you know, just like everyday

443
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,720
Speaker 1: people that are hanging out with their friends are talking

444
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Speaker 1: about how much dose cooin they have, or how much

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Speaker 1: Bitcoin they have, or whether they're gonna sell or whether

446
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Speaker 1: they're gonna keep it. So we'll see. I mean, this

447
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:49,840
Speaker 1: is just something to follow. I was also following the

448
00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:51,800
Speaker 1: whole I don't have any doze coin, but I was

449
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Speaker 1: following the the the whole situation on Saturday Night Live

450
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Speaker 1: when when Elon was hosting and people were just literally,

451
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Speaker 1: I mean the YouTube streams that I was on was

452
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,760
Speaker 1: literally a chart of dosee coin, which is another type

453
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Speaker 1: of cryptocurrency. You've probably heard of it. It's one with

454
00:23:08,880 --> 00:23:13,040
Speaker 1: a friendly little dog face and it's it sells for

455
00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: like under a dollar. So at one point it was

456
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: like a couple pennies. It went up to like I

457
00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:18,440
Speaker 1: think the top I saw it was like seventy five

458
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Speaker 1: cents or maybe sixty seven cents whatever it was. But

459
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Speaker 1: if you bought it at ten cents, that's a huge increase, right,

460
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Speaker 1: And so all these people were sitting there watching Saturday

461
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Speaker 1: Night Live thinking that when Elon would mention dosee coin

462
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Speaker 1: on TV boom, the price would pop, they could sell

463
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Speaker 1: and they're next thing to another doze coin millionaire. That did

464
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Speaker 1: not happen. In fact, the price went down really really bad.

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Speaker 1: I mean it went I don't think it's recovered. And

466
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Speaker 1: so that didn't really work out, and it was it

467
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Speaker 1: was kind of funny to watch. I was actually going

468
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Speaker 1: to purchase some just you know, it's kind of like

469
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Speaker 1: a it's kind of like gambling. It's like you've got

470
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Speaker 1: to be in it to win it. It's just kind

471
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Speaker 1: of fun. And I was going to purchase, you know,

472
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Speaker 1: like I don't know one hundred who knows. And I

473
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Speaker 1: went to robin Hood, which I have the app. I

474
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Speaker 1: don't I don't have anything in the app, but I

475
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Speaker 1: just you know, I signed up when I did a

476
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 1: story on it many many years ago, so I still

477
00:24:08,760 --> 00:24:11,000
Speaker 1: had an account. My login worked. Then when I went

478
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Speaker 1: to buy it, it was like, oh, you have to verify

479
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Speaker 1: your bank account. I was like, oh, and I did it,

480
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:17,080
Speaker 1: but it was like we need two to three days

481
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Speaker 1: to do that, and that did not happen in time

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Speaker 1: for the for the giant fall of dose coins. So

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Speaker 1: I guess it worked out in my benefit because I

484
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Speaker 1: did not lose a whole bunch of money on the doge.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Steve asks, Hey, Rich, what's your recommendation for

486
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Speaker 1: a video download software for a Mac to pull videos

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Speaker 1: off websites like YouTube. There seems to be a lot

488
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Speaker 1: of shady ones out there that I'm afraid to load

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Speaker 1: onto my Mac. Steve. All right, Steve, I will tell

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Speaker 1: you the answer to this, but with the idea that

491
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Speaker 1: you know, this is a very legitimate app. It's my favorite.

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Speaker 1: It works fantastically. In fact, once I tell you the

493
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Speaker 1: name of this company, all of their software is really

494
00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:05,879
Speaker 1: really spectacular and you will just be amazed at it.

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Speaker 1: But the one that I like is called YouTube Converter two.

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Speaker 1: It's by soft O Reno so soft O r I

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Speaker 1: n O, and they make a bunch of products that

498
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Speaker 1: are just really smart products. So they have two in

499
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Speaker 1: particular that I really like. Number one is called Walter

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00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:27,760
Speaker 1: Pro w A L t R pro And what that

501
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Speaker 1: does is you plug in your iPhone and you can

502
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Speaker 1: drag and drop any file you want onto your iPhone

503
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Speaker 1: and it's filed away. Now, with the advent of iCloud,

504
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Speaker 1: it's a little bit easier to kind of put documents

505
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Speaker 1: and things on your phone. So you can just drag

506
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Speaker 1: them from your computer onto iCloud and you know iCloud

507
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Speaker 1: drive and it's on your phone and you can access

508
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Speaker 1: them through the files app. But music, MP three's videos,

509
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Speaker 1: you know, home video, whatever, you can put it all

510
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Speaker 1: on this app and it will just go to your iPhone.

511
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Speaker 1: Now that's not what you asked. You asked for the

512
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Speaker 1: ute tube pulling. Now, I can't recommend that you take

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Speaker 1: videos off of YouTube, right unless there is a legitimate reason.

514
00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,399
Speaker 1: Perhaps it's the video that you uploaded and it's your

515
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Speaker 1: personal video and you want to make a backup of it.

516
00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,080
Speaker 1: That's one way you could do it is with this app.

517
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Speaker 1: But what you do is your progative. I'm just telling

518
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Speaker 1: you what's out there and what is really good. And

519
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: this program has been out for a long time. It's great,

520
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 1: it's legitimate, it's it really works well. It's called soft

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Speaker 1: a Reno YouTube Converter two. And you're not going to

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Speaker 1: get it for free. By the way, it is going

523
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Speaker 1: to be twenty dollars oh yearly. Now wow, okay, so

524
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:38,840
Speaker 1: it's twenty dollars a year now, But you know that's

525
00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: just everything has become a recurring subscription it's kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: Even with software, I think it's pretty rare to find

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Speaker 1: any app these days that you purchase that is an

528
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Speaker 1: outright purchase, except for my Final Cut still going strong.

529
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Speaker 1: I purchased Final Cut so many years ago. I think

530
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Speaker 1: it was two hundred and ninety nine dollars, and of

531
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Speaker 1: course at the time, you know, I was a struggling

532
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:05,040
Speaker 1: student or whatever, maybe my first job, and oh my gosh,

533
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: two hundred and ninety nine dollars was such a leap.

534
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 1: But I needed it, and I you know, cobbled together

535
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Speaker 1: the funds I bought it, and I got to say,

536
00:27:12,280 --> 00:27:15,679
Speaker 1: it's been it's been fantastic ever since. I have not

537
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: paid for it again. I've installed it on all my machines,

538
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 1: or I should say, all my computers that I get,

539
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:22,960
Speaker 1: like every time I get a new computer. It installs

540
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: just fine, It gets updates, it keeps getting updates. So Apple,

541
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: thank you for your continued service on Final Cut pro.

542
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 1: It has just been the most amazing thing I've ever purchased. Now,

543
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,000
Speaker 1: on the other hand, you know Premiere, you know, if

544
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Speaker 1: you want to use that, which thankfully my company pays for,

545
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: but they you know, that's like you got I don't

546
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 1: think you can buy that outright anymore. I might be wrong,

547
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: but I think almost every piece of software at this

548
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: point you have to purchase on a yearly basis or

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00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:54,840
Speaker 1: some sort of recurring thing. And you know, that's the

550
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,159
Speaker 1: the idea is these recurring subscriptions. Everyone wants them, and

551
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: who wouldn't. I mean, it's so lucrative. You know, these

552
00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: people that sold you know, these ninety nine cent apps.

553
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 1: It's like, Okay, how can we add something in that's

554
00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:07,959
Speaker 1: just you know, a little bit more, a little bit

555
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: more recurring than just ninety nine cents. So there you go, Steve,

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Speaker 1: that's the answer. Amazon introduced new Echo Show devices. They've

557
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Speaker 1: got the new Echo Show eight, they've got the Echo

558
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Speaker 1: Show five, and an Echo Show for kids. So the

559
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,679
Speaker 1: main thing about these these new Echo Shows is that

560
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:30,119
Speaker 1: the cameras are better for better video calling. And the

561
00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: cameras also digital pan and zoom zoom, so that means

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Speaker 1: it kind of follows you around. So a lot of

563
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Speaker 1: these cameras we've seen the first time I saw this

564
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:42,320
Speaker 1: was actually was it Facebook or was it Google? Either

565
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:46,720
Speaker 1: the Facebook portal or the Google Nest Hub. Max was

566
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:48,960
Speaker 1: the first one to do this, where the camera kind

567
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Speaker 1: of follows you around. So for me, if I'm cooking

568
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Speaker 1: in the kitchen, I have my mom on the other end,

569
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Speaker 1: and you know, she can see kind of like the

570
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Speaker 1: camera follows me around as I'm moving around. So I'm cooking,

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Speaker 1: She's like, you're always cooking? Yeah, ring a pandemic. I

572
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:06,400
Speaker 1: was always cooking. I still am. But yeah, so these

573
00:29:06,480 --> 00:29:09,959
Speaker 1: these are you know the thing I take issue with

574
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:11,840
Speaker 1: all of these devices. And I was just in the

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Speaker 1: Amazon four Star store yesterday. I had to return something,

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00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:17,960
Speaker 1: and you know, they gave me a ten percent off

577
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Speaker 1: coupon for any purchase that day, and I was like

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00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:23,440
Speaker 1: literally looking through the store for something to spend my

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00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,479
Speaker 1: money on. And I, you know, I was sitting there,

580
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Speaker 1: I'm like, why am I going to buy something that

581
00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: I don't need? Right? And I had my eye on

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Speaker 1: like an Echo Show five. I had my eye on

583
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Speaker 1: the Echo Show ten. I had my eye on some

584
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Speaker 1: stuff from Ring and then just some random assorted stuff.

585
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Speaker 1: But I ended up not getting anything. I was like, oh,

586
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna walk out, and so I did. I

587
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: gave up the ten percent, but I was playing around

588
00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:47,160
Speaker 1: a little bit with the I think it was the

589
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Speaker 1: old Echo Show five, which they had for a pretty

590
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Speaker 1: good deal. I think it was like fifty bucks forty

591
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: five dollars, and you know, you tap it and I

592
00:29:53,880 --> 00:29:55,760
Speaker 1: was like, oh, is this thing working? And it's like

593
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Speaker 1: the delay on the screen like when you like. It's

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00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: just these things seem to be very underpowered, and I

595
00:30:01,080 --> 00:30:03,840
Speaker 1: don't really understand why. You know, I've used them from

596
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: you know, basically it's just Google and Amazon. And I'll

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Speaker 1: be honest, I don't have an Echo Show. I've never

598
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Speaker 1: actually had one in my place, so maybe it was

599
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 1: just a fluke, but I just get the impression that

600
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Speaker 1: these things are a little bit more underpowered than they

601
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Speaker 1: need to be. And I feel like that within the

602
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Speaker 1: Google Nest tub Max. I feel like that with the

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Speaker 1: Google Nest Hub. It's just like the delay from when

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Speaker 1: you swipe it or tap it is just like a

605
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Speaker 1: little bit. It's like kind of like a cheaper Android phone.

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Speaker 1: You know, it doesn't responds as beautifully as the iPhone does.

607
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Speaker 1: Like the iPhone and the OnePlus devices, you touch them

608
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Speaker 1: and they're like boom, instant, instant. Everything's so fast and fluid.

609
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:41,360
Speaker 1: But the rest of the phones that I test are

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Speaker 1: just a little bit like you're like, did I touch?

611
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Speaker 1: Did I did? I? Wait? Hold, did I touch that?

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Speaker 1: Did I? Okay, yeah I did? Because then it responds.

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Speaker 1: So the Echo Show eight is uh has a thirteen

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Speaker 1: megapixel wide angle camera with this is a eight inch

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Speaker 1: HD screen. It's got a built in shutter. It Oh,

616
00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:05,680
Speaker 1: it has a new process or a new octacore processor.

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00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: So there we go. Dual stereo speaker. So maybe I

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Speaker 1: should go with the Echo Show eight and the camera

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Speaker 1: pans and zooms when you're on calls. That's one hundred

620
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: and twenty nine dollars. My advice with any Amazon product

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Speaker 1: is to always always wait for them to go on sale.

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00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,400
Speaker 1: The Amazon Amazon branded devices always go on sale no

623
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Speaker 1: matter what. In fact, if you have an Amazon four

624
00:31:28,080 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: Star store near you or whatever they call me, yeah

625
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:35,320
Speaker 1: Amazon Books, Amazon four Star, go visit the store because

626
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 1: often I've seen in the store the prices are considerably

627
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:42,480
Speaker 1: less than the price you would pay online. And they

628
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: do it on purpose because they want to get you

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Speaker 1: in there and they say, oh wow, this has cool deals,

630
00:31:46,520 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: like they don't want to make it like, oh, why

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00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,840
Speaker 1: wouldn't I just shop on Amazon? Well, the reason to

632
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:52,240
Speaker 1: come into the store is because they have deals that

633
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: are not available anywhere else. So in fact, when I

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Speaker 1: went there to look at the Amazon Echo Show ten,

635
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:00,920
Speaker 1: it was on sale for one hundred and ninety nine

636
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,920
Speaker 1: dollars and I was like, wait, that's better than the

637
00:32:02,920 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: website for two point fifteen. They said, yeah, it's an

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00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 1: in store deal, and sure enough, that was the only price.

639
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 1: Like when I went back home, you couldn't get that deal. Now.

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00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 1: I think the Echo Show went on sale for one

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00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: ninety nine at some point on the website. But again,

642
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Speaker 1: you know, set up some sort of alert to get

643
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:22,200
Speaker 1: an alert on these devices, either using honey or camel,

644
00:32:22,240 --> 00:32:24,240
Speaker 1: camel camel, whatever you want to do, but just get it.

645
00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: Get an alert that tells you when these things go

646
00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: on sale. And that's when you buy ring products too,

647
00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,320
Speaker 1: because those will often go on sale. So any Amazon stuff.

648
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: Echo Show five is eighty five bucks, and it's got

649
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 1: a five point five inch display, and it's got a

650
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 1: bunch of different colors charcoal, glacier white, and deep sea blue,

651
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:49,120
Speaker 1: and it has an upgraded HD camera with double the pixels.

652
00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:52,840
Speaker 1: So I and then the kids won is ninety five bucks.

653
00:32:52,840 --> 00:32:54,920
Speaker 1: And that comes to the two year worry free guarantee.

654
00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,200
Speaker 1: And these are available in it looks like June. But

655
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: here's the thing with all this stuff, So I've been

656
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:05,760
Speaker 1: really testing out the you know, the A word al

657
00:33:05,840 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 1: Exa versus Google and all their stuff versus Apple. And

658
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: here's my thoughts. Apple is of course like the slickest

659
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: of all three, right, but there's little little design things

660
00:33:18,200 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: that I don't like. And I feel like their home

661
00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: app is like kind of confusing because it's just like

662
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,240
Speaker 1: it's a lot like and you have to like hard

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00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: press to get certain features, and like a lot of

664
00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 1: stuff is like hidden and just not like you could

665
00:33:29,080 --> 00:33:32,040
Speaker 1: tell there's a lot to go there. Google I'm so

666
00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: used to because that's the one that I use and

667
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: I have used for many years, and I just assumed

668
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,360
Speaker 1: it was the best. But then I started playing with

669
00:33:38,400 --> 00:33:42,959
Speaker 1: the Amazon stuff and I'm like, wait a second. The app.

670
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:47,440
Speaker 1: Al Exa app is like very full featured, especially when

671
00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: it comes to things like creating routines. I think it's

672
00:33:50,680 --> 00:33:53,160
Speaker 1: very friendly, and I'm actually now tempted to switch my

673
00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: entire house over to al Exa for all the home

674
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: stuff because I feel like I'm kind of missing out.

675
00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:02,680
Speaker 1: Like I tried to do a routine on Google, and

676
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,720
Speaker 1: it's it's just horrible. It doesn't work half the time.

677
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,880
Speaker 1: It's like it's just weird, Like I they don't you

678
00:34:09,920 --> 00:34:12,640
Speaker 1: have to like spell out commands, whereas with like Alexa.

679
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:14,840
Speaker 1: Sorry now I said it. But the way it works

680
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: on the Echo or whatever the Amazon app is that

681
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: you just literally like pick and choose almost like puzzle pieces,

682
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: you like pop them into your routine and it's got

683
00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: like everything listed. That's the way it should be because

684
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,520
Speaker 1: that's smart. But you know that's I don't know. So

685
00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:33,680
Speaker 1: I will say I don't know if I'm gonna switch today,

686
00:34:33,760 --> 00:34:36,920
Speaker 1: but I'm moving in that direction becausehen I first tested

687
00:34:36,960 --> 00:34:39,759
Speaker 1: out you know Who, the response was not as good

688
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:42,720
Speaker 1: as Google. Like Google gets like the commands, like nails

689
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: them when it comes to voice commands. But it's just

690
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:49,320
Speaker 1: the automations I find are just really lacking on Google.

691
00:34:49,320 --> 00:34:51,640
Speaker 1: And maybe it's just I hung out with my friend

692
00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: Dave Malcoff, who I always say he is nerdier than

693
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: me in a good way, and he just inspires me

694
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:00,960
Speaker 1: to be nerdier because he's like, oh, I've got my

695
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:04,680
Speaker 1: whole house. Everything is automated with with you know who,

696
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 1: and you know I say I say I'm leaving and

697
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: it does this. And I say I'm home and it

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00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:12,600
Speaker 1: does this. And every room has a you know, automatic light.

699
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: So if the kids leave the lights on, and I'm like,

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Speaker 1: why am I not doing this? Like I'm literally I've

701
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 1: I've stalled on my home smart home improvements over the

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00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,919
Speaker 1: past like three years, Like I just stopped. I don't

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00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:27,160
Speaker 1: know why. Like I'm in my office in my kids room,

704
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:29,880
Speaker 1: and my kids room is a great example. They have

705
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:34,160
Speaker 1: two smart lights and and a Google Home And why

706
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:36,440
Speaker 1: every night I say, change the lights and candle light

707
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:38,719
Speaker 1: when I'm reading to them, and then we change them

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00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,279
Speaker 1: to bright white during the day. But I'm like, Number one,

709
00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:43,279
Speaker 1: that could be automated. Number two, why don't I have

710
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: a smart switch in there that would notice when they

711
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: leave the room and of course they inevitably leave the

712
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: lights on, and it would just turn the lights off. Now, yes,

713
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 1: I will still teach my kids that they should turn

714
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 1: off the lights when they leave the room, but honestly,

715
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,320
Speaker 1: like we're getting to this place in the world where

716
00:35:58,040 --> 00:35:59,759
Speaker 1: you really don't have to turn off lights anywhere. You

717
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:03,360
Speaker 1: go to bathroom and the lights turn on, the water

718
00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: turns on, the soap automatically dispenses. So I get it.

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00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: These classic things of like turn off the light when

720
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,080
Speaker 1: you leave the room, but like, in the future, we

721
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 1: probably won't have to do that because these lights are

722
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:18,880
Speaker 1: smart enough. Even with the Amazon or the Apple stuff.

723
00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: I noticed there's some sort of detector that tells when

724
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:24,920
Speaker 1: people leave the room. I don't know where it's getting

725
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:26,920
Speaker 1: that data from. I got to figure it out, but

726
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:28,719
Speaker 1: it's like, Oh, when the last person leaves the room,

727
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:30,200
Speaker 1: do you want us to turn everything off? That's an

728
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 1: option inside the Apple HomeKit. I'm like, wait, where are

729
00:36:33,560 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: you getting that from? Hold on, how do you know

730
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:37,600
Speaker 1: when the last person leaves the room? Like are you listening?

731
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: Is there some sort of motion sensor? And my fillips

732
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:43,239
Speaker 1: you hub like, because I think it's getting it from that,

733
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,600
Speaker 1: but I'm just not sure what was I talking about? Oh,

734
00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:50,440
Speaker 1: the Amazon stuff. So anyway, this is the stuff that

735
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 1: keeps me up at night. If you've listened to this podcast,

736
00:36:52,760 --> 00:36:55,480
Speaker 1: you know that the stuff that percolates in my brain

737
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: is always just like, I really hate the idea that

738
00:36:58,840 --> 00:37:01,759
Speaker 1: these tech companies are trying to ilo us into their

739
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: little corners. I think we're gonna see that happening less

740
00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: and less even though it's it's this is what I

741
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: find interesting. A lot of these light bulbs that you

742
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,520
Speaker 1: purchase even though they say like home Kit or Google

743
00:37:14,520 --> 00:37:19,040
Speaker 1: Assistant or you know, you know who compatible. I don't

744
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 1: want to say her name because she pops up easily.

745
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:24,520
Speaker 1: A lot of them just work with each other without

746
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: really saying it like they they A lot of them

747
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:29,239
Speaker 1: just are interchangeable, and I think people are getting hip

748
00:37:29,280 --> 00:37:32,920
Speaker 1: to that. But now they came up with this alliance Google,

749
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: Apple and Amazon that they're going to start making stuff

750
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: that all works together, which I think is a win

751
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:40,760
Speaker 1: for consumers because you know, if something better comes along,

752
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,800
Speaker 1: kind of like I was talking with the cell phone stuff.

753
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: You want to be able to switch and you want

754
00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:46,640
Speaker 1: to be able to, you know, be fluid and and

755
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:55,200
Speaker 1: move on. All right, Next question from Laura. She says, Hey, Rich,

756
00:37:55,239 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: I really enjoy your advice. I have a Fitbit watch

757
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 1: that I enjoy, but then I have apps on my

758
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: phone that only use the iOS data. What is the

759
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: best and affordable way to get my fitbit data on

760
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: my iOS on a continuous basis. The apps I like

761
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:12,280
Speaker 1: or Map, my run and Pacer I use the Fippit

762
00:38:12,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: more for sleeping sleep monitoring. While I'm running, I carry

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00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: my phone with me for those two apps. Please help.

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00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:23,560
Speaker 1: Thanks Laura, Laura, this is a great question and it's

765
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: one that is so Fippit is kind of one of

766
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,879
Speaker 1: the holdouts with So what you're talking about is called

767
00:38:29,920 --> 00:38:33,279
Speaker 1: Apple Health, and so if an app is made, you know,

768
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:38,000
Speaker 1: a fitness app on the iOS ecosystem, basically feeds data

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00:38:38,040 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: into Apple Health. And the idea is that Apple Health

770
00:38:41,360 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 1: is kind of like this one stop shop to see

771
00:38:44,080 --> 00:38:46,600
Speaker 1: all of your health related data, no matter which app

772
00:38:46,640 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 1: it came from. So it can come from the workout

773
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: app built into the iPhone or the Apple Watch rather

774
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 1: I guess both, or it can come from you know,

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00:38:55,840 --> 00:38:57,919
Speaker 1: Sweat with Kla. Is that the is that the app

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00:38:57,960 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: Sweat with Kayla? Yeah, Sweat with Kla. And then there's like,

777
00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: you know, there's so many fitness apps, right, and so

778
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: they all feed you know, Peloton, they all feed into

779
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: the Apple the health app using what's called HealthKit, but

780
00:39:13,440 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 1: Fitbit does not. So how can you get around this

781
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: to get all your stuff in one place? What I

782
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:23,000
Speaker 1: would do is maybe just ditch Apple Health and switch

783
00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:28,279
Speaker 1: over to Google Google Fit and Google Fit will work

784
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:32,400
Speaker 1: with fitbit. And the question is, well, it should actually

785
00:39:32,560 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 1: import data from on my phone. It does. It imports

786
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:39,399
Speaker 1: the data from from Apple Health. So let me give

787
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 1: you the scenario. Map my run and Pacer feed into

788
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,480
Speaker 1: Apple Health. They might also feed in directly to Google Fit.

789
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: You can. Let's let's let me just do a quick

790
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,719
Speaker 1: search and see. So map my run google Fit. Let's

791
00:39:51,760 --> 00:39:55,440
Speaker 1: see if it works with it. Yes, it does. Okay,

792
00:39:55,520 --> 00:39:57,680
Speaker 1: so you can you can do map my run directly

793
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: into Google fit. And what's the other one. Pay I'm

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00:40:00,719 --> 00:40:04,839
Speaker 1: guessing Pacer goes into Google Fit. Let's see, Pacer goes

795
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 1: into Google Fit. But that's with Pacer, Yeah, it might

796
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,160
Speaker 1: be just yeah, so you can feed all of these

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00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: apps into Google Fit, and then your fitbit will also

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00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: go into Google Fit. Now you might be saying, rich,

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00:40:16,640 --> 00:40:18,280
Speaker 1: I have an iPhone. I just said, I have an iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Why are you telling me about Google Fit? Well, google

801
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: Fit works on the iPhone, I know, surprise, surprise. So

802
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:25,360
Speaker 1: I installed it on my iPhone when I was testing

803
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: the one plus watch and I've left it on there.

804
00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,960
Speaker 1: And it's actually kind of cool because I kind of

805
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:33,360
Speaker 1: like the way that they slice and dice your information.

806
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: So once you have all this information flowing into the

807
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 1: google Fit app, it's actually pretty it. It presents it

808
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:46,560
Speaker 1: in a nice manner and it also gives you insights

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00:40:46,560 --> 00:40:49,120
Speaker 1: that I think are are pretty cool. Now, the Apple

810
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: Health app is pretty good, but I just I think

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Speaker 1: that if you're wanting your sleep and you want the

812
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:56,680
Speaker 1: maps of the runs and the pacer stuff all in

813
00:40:56,719 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: one place, you got to go with google Fit download

814
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,560
Speaker 1: at your phone, connect all the apps or google Fit.

815
00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,360
Speaker 1: If these if map my run and pacer on iOS

816
00:41:05,400 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: do not feed directly into google Fit, which they may not,

817
00:41:08,400 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 1: that might just be an Android feature. You can just

818
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,439
Speaker 1: use the use them to keep talking to Apple Health

819
00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:16,479
Speaker 1: and then google Fit will read the data from Apple Health.

820
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:18,759
Speaker 1: So again it's kind of like an aggregator, and that's

821
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:20,560
Speaker 1: what these apps were meant to be, and so is

822
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Speaker 1: the Apple app. But that's the way I would do

823
00:41:23,320 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: it and see if it'll work. And the sleep monitoring

824
00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:29,280
Speaker 1: all fitbit is pretty good, so that should be pretty

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00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,879
Speaker 1: nice to see inside of the Google Fit app. All right,

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Speaker 1: I thought this was pretty cool. We did a story

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Speaker 1: with this company called Deep Sentinel, and let me just

828
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Speaker 1: make sure I didn't talk about this on my last podcast.

829
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Speaker 1: I don't think I did, but I just want to

830
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Speaker 1: be sure because let's see, did I talk about it? No?

831
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Speaker 1: I did not. Okay, So we did a story with

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Speaker 1: this security system called deep Sentinel, and I just thought

833
00:41:56,719 --> 00:41:59,760
Speaker 1: this was the coolest, smartest idea ever. It's very expensive,

834
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you upfront, but once you see these cameras,

835
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: you're like, wow, why doesn't every camera have that? So

836
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:09,400
Speaker 1: the guy who started this company is one of the

837
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Speaker 1: co founders of redfin and I'm always amazed when these

838
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,240
Speaker 1: people meet up with me. By the way I talked earlier,

839
00:42:14,320 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: how you know, the guy with tentacle, how they'll just

840
00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:18,279
Speaker 1: you know, but some people actually fly in to like

841
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,080
Speaker 1: meet with Rich DeMuro to like talk about their stuff,

842
00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: and I'm always impressed when they do that. So thank

843
00:42:23,719 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: you when you decide to do that. I know I'm

844
00:42:25,680 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 1: local news, but you know, it's kind of cool when

845
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: you when you take things seriously enough that you don't

846
00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:35,400
Speaker 1: mind flying in. So David, you know, co founder of Redfinn.

847
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,560
Speaker 1: I'm sure he made a bazillion dollars starting that company.

848
00:42:38,600 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: He was the chief technical officer. So he was telling

849
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:43,399
Speaker 1: me some of the things that they came up with

850
00:42:43,719 --> 00:42:47,279
Speaker 1: at Redfinn that are still like their patents, that are

851
00:42:47,320 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: just phenomenal when it comes to like the way you

852
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: browse houses. And the main thing he was telling me

853
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:55,160
Speaker 1: is they came up with the idea of houses and

854
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,760
Speaker 1: they're pricing like laid out on a map like nobody

855
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:00,440
Speaker 1: had ever done that before. We can just roll down

856
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 1: a street and see every house lined up and see

857
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 1: how much each one of those homes either is selling

858
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:08,319
Speaker 1: for or costs or is valued at. And I just

859
00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:10,080
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just like little things like that we

860
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: take for granted now that these people had to invent

861
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: back in the day and come up with and he

862
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: was one of them, so he did really well there anyway,

863
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,880
Speaker 1: So now he does this thing called Deep Sentinel. We

864
00:43:19,960 --> 00:43:21,719
Speaker 1: met up and he showed me these cameras on a

865
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 1: house here in La and the cameras come with a

866
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:30,160
Speaker 1: speaker on top and then the also there's AI. So

867
00:43:30,200 --> 00:43:32,040
Speaker 1: there's a box in your house that's sort of like

868
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:35,160
Speaker 1: a little computer box that the cameras feed into. That

869
00:43:35,200 --> 00:43:38,120
Speaker 1: box is programmed with an algorithm that looks for any

870
00:43:38,239 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: signs of trouble. And he wouldn't tell me exactly what

871
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,920
Speaker 1: it looks for. I'm sure that's proprietary with their algorithm,

872
00:43:43,960 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: and who really knows what a sign of trouble is, Like,

873
00:43:46,280 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: I mean, me running around the backyard with my kids.

874
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:50,560
Speaker 1: Like do they think that that looks like trouble? It

875
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: could be. So what happens is when the AI senses trouble,

876
00:43:55,080 --> 00:43:58,520
Speaker 1: it flicks the feed from your house up to a

877
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: virtual guard at station somewhere in you somewhere in the US.

878
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: Like they're I don't know if they're working from home

879
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,719
Speaker 1: or some sort of office or whatever, but they start

880
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:08,840
Speaker 1: seeing the feed from your house and they kind of

881
00:44:08,880 --> 00:44:11,759
Speaker 1: analyze with their human eyes what's going on. So if

882
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 1: they see me just running with the kids, okay, fine,

883
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,680
Speaker 1: But if they see a guy with a crowbar at

884
00:44:16,760 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 1: the edge of the house, they're like, hey, what's going on?

885
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:23,839
Speaker 1: And they can immediately speak through the microphone on the

886
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:27,120
Speaker 1: camera on the speaker on the camera and question people

887
00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 1: talk to them do whatever. Now, you might say, well,

888
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,400
Speaker 1: rich a big deal. It's a security like what are

889
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 1: they gonna do. They're gonna stop. Well, if you're at

890
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,839
Speaker 1: someone's house and someone yells out through the speaker saying, hey,

891
00:44:36,880 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Here, you're gonna run. I mean,

892
00:44:39,440 --> 00:44:41,919
Speaker 1: you're not gonna keep doing what you're doing. Chances are right.

893
00:44:42,239 --> 00:44:44,200
Speaker 1: So he told me that they're stopping crimes on a

894
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:48,280
Speaker 1: daily basis. I just when I think about this feature,

895
00:44:48,360 --> 00:44:51,799
Speaker 1: it's just like wow, it's really like all these other

896
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,480
Speaker 1: security cameras I've talked about over the years now seem

897
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:58,040
Speaker 1: like they are child's play compared to this one, because

898
00:44:58,080 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: it comes with a guard. Like, imagine that your cameras

899
00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:05,960
Speaker 1: are monitored, Like that's so cool. They only do outside

900
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:10,160
Speaker 1: for security reasons. They don't monitor inside cameras. A three pack,

901
00:45:10,239 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 1: like a starter pack, is like seven hundred dollars for

902
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: the three cameras, and then it's one hundred dollars a

903
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: month for monitoring, which I know sounds super expensive, but

904
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,000
Speaker 1: even like if you're paying you know some of the

905
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: ADT plans like fifty five sixty bucks a month, and

906
00:45:24,520 --> 00:45:26,800
Speaker 1: you know that of course includes equipment a lot of times.

907
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:28,920
Speaker 1: But the reality is the guy I talked to you

908
00:45:28,920 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 1: that had this said, look, it's it's like the price

909
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:33,080
Speaker 1: you pay, it's like you feel better, you feel like

910
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:36,279
Speaker 1: your family's safe. And I really like, this has really

911
00:45:36,320 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: gotten to me because I love these cameras. I love

912
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:41,920
Speaker 1: all the Ring cameras and stuff. But I feel like,

913
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,120
Speaker 1: mark my words, either Ring will purchase this company or

914
00:45:46,920 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: this will be built into more cameras in the future.

915
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: Like this, this has to be a feature of these cameras,

916
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 1: and it will probably be an add on or a

917
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,920
Speaker 1: premium feature. Or I could even see Deep Sentinel being

918
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,080
Speaker 1: an add on to a Ring like you Ring my

919
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:03,120
Speaker 1: contract or I don't who knows or whys or one

920
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: of these camera companies or any of them. Like imagine

921
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: that you could just plug this service into any camera

922
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,600
Speaker 1: that you get. Now, I think there's some technical issues

923
00:46:10,640 --> 00:46:13,880
Speaker 1: there because this camera has to feed into the AI first,

924
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 1: because the AI is really what gets the trigger. So

925
00:46:17,840 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: someone's not watching the camera all the time because that

926
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: would be prohibitively expensive. So again this is where David

927
00:46:23,480 --> 00:46:26,080
Speaker 1: Smarts come in, Like he thought of, Okay, well, it's

928
00:46:26,080 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 1: too expensive to have humans sitting there watching thousands of

929
00:46:29,560 --> 00:46:31,960
Speaker 1: cameras across America at any good time. You can't even

930
00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 1: do that. But what if we had AI watching those cameras,

931
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: which could be doing it twenty four to seven and

932
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,120
Speaker 1: then every time it senses a problem, it flips that

933
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:43,440
Speaker 1: feed up to a human. I mean, ah, this is

934
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,840
Speaker 1: why I love this stuff. Just brilliant. So again expensive

935
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:50,720
Speaker 1: right now, but I think that this is a really

936
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,879
Speaker 1: really fascinating concept, and I think we're going to see

937
00:46:53,880 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: more of this type of thing. All right, let's see

938
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: good Morning Rich if you listen to the podcast I

939
00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:08,239
Speaker 1: always joke about. Good Morning, Phil says, my mom has

940
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: Windows ten and I'm still on Windows seven? Is this

941
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:13,240
Speaker 1: still possible for me to log into my mom's computer

942
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,920
Speaker 1: with minimal steps? At many times I show her how

943
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,800
Speaker 1: to log into her laptop, she still needs my remote assistance.

944
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,799
Speaker 1: She even has trouble just logging into the computer with

945
00:47:21,800 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: her four digit password. I currently use the free version

946
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: of Team Viewer, but sometimes she has trouble finding the

947
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: ID and password to successfully connect. There's got to be

948
00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 1: others like me with elderly parents who need remote assistance.

949
00:47:33,440 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: Your recommendation is appreciated. Love all your techie content, respectfully,

950
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: Phil and Lyn. Great question. It's funny. This is how

951
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,080
Speaker 1: me and my brother log into my mom's computer when

952
00:47:46,080 --> 00:47:47,879
Speaker 1: we need to give her tech support. And it's worked

953
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: out pretty well. And my mom is not very techy.

954
00:47:50,160 --> 00:47:52,799
Speaker 1: I talk about her often on the show. But she's

955
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:57,560
Speaker 1: a tech trooper and she's willing to participate in any

956
00:47:57,600 --> 00:48:01,319
Speaker 1: tech that we will sort of you know, set her

957
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,200
Speaker 1: up with like she's not like no no, no, no,

958
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:05,200
Speaker 1: no no. Like so my brother set her up a

959
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 1: Team viewer and you know, he uses it. I use

960
00:48:07,520 --> 00:48:10,760
Speaker 1: it and it's fantastic. But yes, there's two steps involved.

961
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,319
Speaker 1: Number one, computer has to be on. Number two, she

962
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:16,640
Speaker 1: probably has to be logged in. We haven't, I don't.

963
00:48:16,800 --> 00:48:18,239
Speaker 1: I think we made it so that she doesn't really

964
00:48:18,239 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: have a log in, like it just stays on all

965
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: the time. And then number three, you need the password

966
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: and the your ID. Now the idea is saved from

967
00:48:28,000 --> 00:48:30,520
Speaker 1: session to session. The password is what changes. And so

968
00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,359
Speaker 1: you're right, they do need to locate the password. Now.

969
00:48:33,760 --> 00:48:35,560
Speaker 1: In the past, my mom has said, oh I can't

970
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:37,800
Speaker 1: find the password. Where'd it go? It's usually she doesn't

971
00:48:37,800 --> 00:48:39,680
Speaker 1: call it the tray, the system tray, but that's where

972
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: it lives. And maybe Team Viewer like shut down or something,

973
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:45,240
Speaker 1: so it's not there or it kind of went behind,

974
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,239
Speaker 1: you know how. Sometimes Windows will consolidate the stuff in

975
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: the system tray. Sometimes it does that and you have

976
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: to expand it. But there's never been a problem, like

977
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 1: she's always been able to find it. Now when it

978
00:48:55,360 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 1: comes to the logging into the computer with her four

979
00:48:57,120 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 1: digit password, I would suggest changing that if you can

980
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: to the Windows Hello, if you can do it with

981
00:49:04,560 --> 00:49:07,160
Speaker 1: her face, like if she can just sit in front

982
00:49:07,160 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: of the computer and log in with the face, that

983
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 1: might help where it recognizes you and just logs in. Otherwise,

984
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: the Team Viewer, I know you don't want to hear this,

985
00:49:18,200 --> 00:49:20,760
Speaker 1: but you can. I think the trick is Team Viewer

986
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:25,040
Speaker 1: for free. It changes the password every time, of course

987
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: because they don't want people to get used to it.

988
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 1: But I think if you pay for team Viewer, the

989
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:32,800
Speaker 1: password can stay the same. So you might consider maybe

990
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: purchasing a subscription to team Viewer and you can attack

991
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:41,000
Speaker 1: it that way. Or I use Microsoft Remote Desktop for

992
00:49:41,160 --> 00:49:43,640
Speaker 1: my computer at work and that works fantastic, and I

993
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:47,720
Speaker 1: believe it's free. So maybe you check out Microsoft Remote

994
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:51,600
Speaker 1: Desktop and see if it's compatible with Windows seven. And

995
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:55,840
Speaker 1: if it is, that might be a little bit easier

996
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,839
Speaker 1: because you can log in with a username with her

997
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:01,160
Speaker 1: username and password, and so you can get in that

998
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,120
Speaker 1: way and it's it's free. So I would try that

999
00:50:04,280 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: and see what happens. System requirements. Uh oh, Windows, yep,

1000
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:14,279
Speaker 1: it looks like you do need Windows eight minimum, so

1001
00:50:14,320 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: that may not work, but you know they might have

1002
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: an older version that that could work. So those are

1003
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:21,839
Speaker 1: my two, uh my two pieces of advice. But thank

1004
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:23,839
Speaker 1: you for helping out your mom with her computer. I

1005
00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:27,000
Speaker 1: know it's it's definitely a struggle sometimes, and you know,

1006
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: I get frustrated sometimes when I'm when I'm helping her,

1007
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: and I have to think that like it's you know,

1008
00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: you come from this idea of like everything just makes

1009
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:38,480
Speaker 1: sense for you if you're a techie, and to literally

1010
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:42,200
Speaker 1: just wipe that off the the what do you call

1011
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: the plate, I don't know, whatever you want to call it,

1012
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:46,799
Speaker 1: just wipe that away and just like come from a

1013
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,719
Speaker 1: standpoint of I don't understand any of this stuff, like

1014
00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:51,880
Speaker 1: none of it. Like the biggest thing I see with

1015
00:50:51,920 --> 00:50:54,319
Speaker 1: people with their with their devices and their phones and

1016
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,879
Speaker 1: their their computers is they don't want to mess anything up, right.

1017
00:50:57,200 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: They think that they're going to do one thing and

1018
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:01,720
Speaker 1: everything's going to be messed. It keeps people from changing

1019
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:04,840
Speaker 1: their passwords, It keeps people people from switching to a

1020
00:51:04,840 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 1: better system for something or switching to a new app.

1021
00:51:07,680 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: It's like, nobody wants to mess up the status quo

1022
00:51:11,239 --> 00:51:14,319
Speaker 1: on their devices if they're not a techie. And I

1023
00:51:14,360 --> 00:51:17,080
Speaker 1: get it. We take for granted if you're a techie that, yeah,

1024
00:51:17,239 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 1: I want to break stuff every day. I want to

1025
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:20,600
Speaker 1: try something new every day. I want to try a

1026
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: new pre you know, upgrade my software. There's there's people

1027
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: that don't want to update their iPhone software because it's

1028
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: gonna change something. And I get it, it's gonna Yeah.

1029
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:31,759
Speaker 1: My son updated his computer the other day and now

1030
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,000
Speaker 1: he's a he's a digital native, so he's sitting there like,

1031
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,160
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, this is the best update ever. Apple

1032
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:40,359
Speaker 1: is just so amazing. Oh my gosh. Like he got

1033
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 1: big sur finally, Like I don't know if it forced

1034
00:51:42,920 --> 00:51:44,640
Speaker 1: him to or he just decided to do it, but

1035
00:51:44,800 --> 00:51:47,560
Speaker 1: his laptop got big sur and he's like, this is

1036
00:51:47,600 --> 00:51:49,600
Speaker 1: so cool, and he was just going off. And that's

1037
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,840
Speaker 1: a reaction from someone who embraces and loves technology, whereas

1038
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:55,799
Speaker 1: a lot of people are not like that. And you

1039
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,440
Speaker 1: have to keep that in mind. A lot of people

1040
00:51:57,480 --> 00:52:00,359
Speaker 1: sit there and they fear any change when it comes

1041
00:52:00,400 --> 00:52:03,919
Speaker 1: to tech. And I get it. I totally understand. I'm

1042
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:06,200
Speaker 1: not like that, Like I am the person that's breaking

1043
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: stuff on a daily basis, and I love it. But

1044
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: it's just one of these things that you just have

1045
00:52:10,960 --> 00:52:13,479
Speaker 1: to keep in mind. There are different folks out there,

1046
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: all right, this is kind of cool. This is a

1047
00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:20,879
Speaker 1: new app from OnePlus, and here's here's the biggest thing,

1048
00:52:20,920 --> 00:52:24,760
Speaker 1: and I talk about I'm look, I'm probably gonna switch

1049
00:52:24,800 --> 00:52:27,680
Speaker 1: to a Pixel phone when it comes out. I'm hoping

1050
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: next week when Google has their big event. They've got

1051
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,200
Speaker 1: Google Io on let's see, I think it's on the

1052
00:52:34,239 --> 00:52:39,280
Speaker 1: eighteenth of May. And so usually historically they've either announced

1053
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:41,720
Speaker 1: a phone during that event, or they haven't, or they've

1054
00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,240
Speaker 1: they've teased a phone, a new phone. Usually the Pixels

1055
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,319
Speaker 1: come out in October. But you know, all things are

1056
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:50,040
Speaker 1: off the table at this point because Apple is so

1057
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:52,600
Speaker 1: far ahead of the rest of these cell phone companies

1058
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: that they've all been forced to push up the release dates,

1059
00:52:56,239 --> 00:52:59,640
Speaker 1: like they are all releasing their phones earlier because the

1060
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: iphonees are just so good that they need something to

1061
00:53:02,400 --> 00:53:04,319
Speaker 1: compete with them. All these phones they've been putting out

1062
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: are just iPhones better. And so Samsung came out with

1063
00:53:09,440 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: their phones earlier. OnePlus was a little earlier, I believe,

1064
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,799
Speaker 1: and now hopefully we'll see Google do that as well.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, I digress. But the one, you know, big

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Speaker 1: difference between the iPhone and the Androids of the world

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Speaker 1: is kind of the innercompatibility, interoperability with your laptop and

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Speaker 1: other assorted devices, right, and so airdrop is like this

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Speaker 1: magical thing that the Mac has with the iPhone and

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Speaker 1: with Android you really don't have that. Now Android to

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00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:44,080
Speaker 1: Android has finally gotten a feature called nearby Share, which

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone ever uses or knows about, but

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Speaker 1: it's there and it works, and it works really well.

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Speaker 1: But now we've got this program from one plus. It's

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Speaker 1: called clipped clipt and this is a little app that

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00:54:00,760 --> 00:54:05,240
Speaker 1: lets you share text, photos and files between your computer

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Speaker 1: and I have this installed in my Mac and also

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Speaker 1: an Android phone. And what it does, it's kind of brilliant. Actually.

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Speaker 1: It uses your Google Drive to transfer the data in

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Speaker 1: a secure and encrypted way, and so when you copy something,

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00:54:19,960 --> 00:54:22,200
Speaker 1: and you could use it as simple as the clipboard,

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Speaker 1: So if you copy something on your computer, it will

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00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,400
Speaker 1: show up on your phone immediately, or you can take

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Speaker 1: it a step further and send files and so you

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00:54:30,480 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: can send like large files. Now it's not air drop,

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00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:35,760
Speaker 1: it's not going direct Wi Fi, so it's not as fast,

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Speaker 1: but it is efficient and it works and I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I've had it on my phone for a bit now

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty cool. And you know, you can do

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Speaker 1: large file sizes. And they've come up with a way

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Speaker 1: to use Google Drive in a secure way where thank

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Speaker 1: you OnePlus for the way they authenticate your Google Drive.

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Speaker 1: And this is why I don't allow third party access

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Speaker 1: to my Google Drive or Gmail is because they want

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00:54:58,200 --> 00:55:01,360
Speaker 1: to read all the contents re and access and be

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Speaker 1: able to delete or modify all the contents of your drive.

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Speaker 1: And so if you ever see when you sign in

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Speaker 1: with Google, which I don't recommend you doing anyway, but

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Speaker 1: if you have to for something like this, if you

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Speaker 1: ever see where it says read, write, modify and delete

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Speaker 1: the entire contents of your Google Drive or your Gmail,

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Speaker 1: say absolutely not. Now, these developers are being lazy or

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00:55:27,800 --> 00:55:30,480
Speaker 1: they're trying to steal your information. I say steal, I

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00:55:30,520 --> 00:55:33,279
Speaker 1: mean scrape your information. A lot of times they're trying

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00:55:33,280 --> 00:55:35,120
Speaker 1: to scrape it so that they can, like with the

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00:55:35,120 --> 00:55:37,800
Speaker 1: case of Gmail, a lot of services want access to

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Speaker 1: your full inbox so that they can gather information from

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Speaker 1: your purchase history and then sell that data and whatever.

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Speaker 1: So but the other group of developers are just being lazy,

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Speaker 1: and the way they should develop their app in the

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00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:56,400
Speaker 1: way that Clipped did is it only has access to

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Speaker 1: the data that it creates. So it will create a

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Speaker 1: little file folder inside Google Drive that says clipped and

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00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: it can only access that, and it will say that

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Speaker 1: on that authorization screen, it'll say full access, delete, read,

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Speaker 1: write to the data that we create. That's what you want.

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00:56:13,800 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 1: That is safe. That is much better than just giving

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Speaker 1: full No way, why do you want to get full

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00:56:18,640 --> 00:56:20,920
Speaker 1: access to your Google Drive? Huhuh that's that's like a

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00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:24,920
Speaker 1: no no anyway. The uh So, the app Clipped works

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Speaker 1: on Android and Mac, Android and Windows, and it's it's

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00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:31,200
Speaker 1: really cool and it's I've used it. I would check

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00:56:31,239 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: it out if you want like a kind of a

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00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: little convenient and simple copy and paste or file sharing

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Speaker 1: between Android and your Mac basically any computer that runs Chrome,

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00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,120
Speaker 1: because that's you get you get the Chrome extension on

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00:56:45,160 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: your computer and then you get the the little Clipped

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Speaker 1: app on your phone and it works great. I'm I'm

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00:56:51,239 --> 00:56:54,760
Speaker 1: loving it. So I've got you know, little Mac extension.

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00:56:54,760 --> 00:56:57,440
Speaker 1: It says text image file link and boom you can

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Speaker 1: upload a file. It goes to your phone, vice versa.

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Speaker 1: So it's pretty cool. So check it out. All right,

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Speaker 1: I think we have time for one more question from Carol.

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Speaker 1: Carol dear Rich. Years ago there was Gateway Computers. They

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Speaker 1: had cowprint boxes and you can go to the store

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Speaker 1: and get a whole computer set up in a box, tower, monitor, printer, mouse, keyboard,

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00:57:15,040 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: et cetera. Is there anything like that now for seniors? Oh?

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Speaker 1: That is a great, great question. I love. Can I

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Speaker 1: just reminisce for a moment about Gateway Gateway two thousand.

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Speaker 1: Back in the day, do you remember that Gateway two thousand?

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00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:33,640
Speaker 1: It was my favorite thing to look through the PC

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00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:35,920
Speaker 1: World magazine every month when it came to my house.

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Speaker 1: And the thickest part of the magazine was the center,

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00:57:39,320 --> 00:57:43,200
Speaker 1: and the center had the Gateway two thousand ads and

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00:57:43,240 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 1: they were so good. They were thick card stocks. You

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00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:49,720
Speaker 1: can find them super easily. Now, as the company sort

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00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: of waned in the later years, the ads were less thick.

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00:57:52,880 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 1: They were just printed on the paper the standard pages

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00:57:58,040 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 1: but ted Waite was their founder and CEO. He was

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00:58:00,760 --> 00:58:04,320
Speaker 1: always in it. It was always these wild situations. It

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00:58:04,360 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: was almost like a story where I'm trying to remember.

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00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:08,480
Speaker 1: Most of the ones I remember right now were like

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00:58:08,520 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: the holiday scenes where it was just it's like, ah,

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Speaker 1: it was just so cool. They were in Sioux Falls,

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Speaker 1: South Dakota. It was just h One of my favorite companies.

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00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 1: E Machines ended up buying them, and then I believe

1157
00:58:19,720 --> 00:58:22,040
Speaker 1: Acer bought them. I don't know, but I think that's

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00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 1: what happened to them. And yes, they had stores. At

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Speaker 1: some point they had kind of the equivalent of the

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Speaker 1: Apple stores. They had a bunch in Los Angeles called

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00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:33,920
Speaker 1: Gateway Country Stores, and one of them was it became

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00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them became relaxed. The back stores.

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Speaker 1: If you're in LA and it's like a chain of

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00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 1: stores that's for like chairs and stuff. I don't know,

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00:58:42,560 --> 00:58:45,200
Speaker 1: I don't even think those are around anymore. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: I digress. So I love Gateway. It was one of

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Speaker 1: my first computers. It was my favorite computer. I love

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Speaker 1: the motif of the cows. Uh. But what you're looking for.

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Speaker 1: I was just at Costco yesterday. I always recommend go

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Speaker 1: to Costco get a computer there. Now, they don't have

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Speaker 1: the print in the box, but they will have the

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Speaker 1: mouse and the keyboard and the computer. I was there yesterday,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, they're a little bit more expensive. I think

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00:59:07,600 --> 00:59:09,560
Speaker 1: the cheapest one I saw there was five seventy nine,

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Speaker 1: But typically typically at Costco they have two all in

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Speaker 1: one PCs that are a fantastic value. I saw two yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I think one was five to seventy nine. One was

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Speaker 1: six ninety nine, which I know is a little expensive,

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00:59:22,360 --> 00:59:24,680
Speaker 1: but not really for what you're getting. You're getting a

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Speaker 1: really solid computer. And what the trick is about Costco

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00:59:28,520 --> 00:59:31,120
Speaker 1: versus like Best Buyer these other places, is that the

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00:59:31,160 --> 00:59:34,160
Speaker 1: computer you're getting is just a little bit better. It's

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00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: got the specs are just a little bit more specked

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00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:39,360
Speaker 1: out then, like you might be getting a bigger hard drive,

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00:59:39,480 --> 00:59:43,400
Speaker 1: more memory, slightly better processor. And it's Costco. They always

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00:59:43,440 --> 00:59:46,280
Speaker 1: negotiate sort of like better deals than everyone else. So

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00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:48,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of like anything you buy at Costco, it's

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00:59:48,480 --> 00:59:50,800
Speaker 1: gonna be just a little bit better quality than anywhere

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Speaker 1: else you get it. So that's what I would recommend, Carol,

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Speaker 1: if you have a membership to Costco, check it out.

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Speaker 1: And I know it might seem you know, people want

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Speaker 1: these all in ones for like three hundred bucks, but

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Speaker 1: believe me, I made that mistake of buying one of

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Speaker 1: those once and it was garbage. So spend a little

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Speaker 1: bit more, get something that's going to last just a

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