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Speaker 2: What's going on? I'm Rich Damiro.

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Speaker 1: This is Rich on Tech, the podcast that tells you

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Speaker 1: what you need to know about all the interesting little

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Speaker 2: So this is not everything you need to know.

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Speaker 1: About technology, but it's the stuff that I find interesting

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Speaker 1: the tech reporter at KTLA five News in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so much for tuning me in here.

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Speaker 1: On the podcast. I do appreciate it. Got a lot

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Speaker 1: as an actual tool on the Google website, So before

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Speaker 1: It's been kind of tough to find, right you had

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Speaker 1: to do a search for like hotels near me or

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Speaker 1: hotels Los Angeles, and then it would kind of pop up.

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Speaker 1: Now you can just go to Google dot com slash hotels,

447
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Speaker 1: and Google has built a very good hotel website, and

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Speaker 1: of course they're using machine learning to make it really nice.

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Speaker 1: So a couple of things I like about the Google

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Speaker 1: website is that it gives you price insights. So Google

451
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Speaker 1: is constantly tracking the prices for all these hotels, and

452
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Speaker 1: that way it can tell you, yeah, this hotel is

453
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Speaker 1: really expensive this weekend.

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Speaker 2: And so if I'm you.

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Speaker 1: Know, and you might say, well, I gotta travel there

456
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Speaker 1: for work anyway, so what does it matter. Well, if

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Speaker 1: kind of nice to know, ooh, look at that weekend,

459
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Speaker 1: that's really expensive to travel to Portland. But this weekend, Wow,

460
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Speaker 1: that's really cheap. Let me go to the Portland.

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Speaker 2: On that weekend.

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Speaker 1: And these are the kind of price insights that you

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Speaker 1: can get from Google, who is tracking.

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Speaker 2: Them at all times. I love this stuff. So that's

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Speaker 2: number one.

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Speaker 1: Number two is you can kind of sort in various ways.

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Speaker 1: My favorite filter and I don't always find it, but

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Speaker 1: it's called deals. So of course, like I said, with

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Speaker 1: Google kind of monitoring all the different prices and keeping

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Speaker 1: track of that, it knows which hotels are deals and

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Speaker 1: which are not. So I personally love getting a hotel

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Speaker 1: that normally costs more for less, right everyone does, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think, but Google will tell you in the filter.

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Speaker 1: I just want to see deals, so you can just

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Speaker 1: see the hotels or deals. The other thing is if

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Speaker 1: you're a Google one member, which if you have storage

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Speaker 1: with Google, you have some specific deals that are just

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Speaker 1: exclusive to you.

479
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Speaker 2: These are better prices than you can get publicly.

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Speaker 1: You also have hotel highlights, so you can see like

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Speaker 1: if the hotel has a fancy pool, or if it's

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Speaker 1: a luxury hotel, or if it's popular with families. Again,

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Speaker 1: this is all stuff that Google is getting from machine

484
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Speaker 1: learning because if they notice a lot of people mention

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Speaker 1: their family in almost every review of a hotel, Google

486
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Speaker 1: and their computers are going to say, oh, this hotel

487
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Speaker 1: must be good for families, so that's smart. And you

488
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Speaker 1: can also see which hotels are near a landmark. So

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Speaker 1: if you say something like hotels near Disney World, Google

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Speaker 1: will show you on Google Maps the hotels that are

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Speaker 1: close to that landmark, so that's nice, and you can

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Speaker 1: also get the walking and driving distances. Now, the only

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Speaker 1: thing I'm a little bit uncertain about when it comes

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Speaker 1: to Google hotels is are these are they using all

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Speaker 1: the data available or is it just partner hotels. So

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Speaker 1: Google in their blog posts says the filter uses machine

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Speaker 1: learning to highlight hotels where one or more of our

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Speaker 1: partners offer rates that are significantly lower than you usual price.

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Speaker 1: So maybe I think they mean by partners like all

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Speaker 1: the websites that they jump you off to to book

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Speaker 1: your hotel. That's kind of what I'm guessing. But anyway,

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Speaker 1: check it out Google dot com Slash hotels one more

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Speaker 1: place to research. Firefox has a new handy way to

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Speaker 2: For a while.

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Speaker 1: But just bookmark this and you never know when you're

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Speaker 1: gonna need it, but when you do, it's very handy.

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Speaker 1: All it is is a super simple Dragon drop interface.

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Speaker 1: You drag a file up to one gigabyte. It generates

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Speaker 1: these other services. But again, what Firefox is saying is,

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Speaker 1: it's send dot Firefox dot com. Next time you need

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Speaker 1: And this app I thought was kind of cool. It's

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Speaker 1: called Keeper. This is a tax keeping app. And I

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Speaker 1: know it's tax time. I'm going through all my receipts.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure you are too, And every year I say

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Speaker 1: the same thing, I'm going to keep track of all

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Speaker 1: my receipts perfectly, and sometimes I do, sometimes they don't.

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Speaker 1: I try to categorize things. I've been using an app

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Speaker 1: called Everlance, which I really like, which tracks my expenses

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Speaker 1: and my miles. But again, you have to go through

541
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Speaker 1: and kind of categorize all the stuff keeper And by

542
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Speaker 1: the way, I haven't tried this personally yet, but I

543
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Speaker 1: just love I love the pitch on the website and

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Speaker 1: it's from y Combinator, so I mean, you know, it's

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Speaker 1: kind of a startup that's backed by.

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Speaker 2: A very decent, decent organization. But here's what it does.

547
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Speaker 1: You kind of log in with your bank account, your

548
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Speaker 1: credit card, all that good stuff, and then it goes

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Speaker 1: to work. It scans all your transactions and it looks

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Speaker 1: for the stuff that it knows could be quote unquote written.

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Speaker 2: Off right in various categories.

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Speaker 1: So software expenses, transportation, industry, education subscriptions, home office expenses,

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Speaker 1: working meals, and when it finds something that's kind of questionable,

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Speaker 1: like let's say you went to Starbucks, it will text

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Speaker 1: you and it will say, hey, we saw you went

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Speaker 1: to Starbucks yesterday for fourteen dollars and thirty two cents.

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Speaker 1: Was that a meeting with a business client? And you

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Speaker 1: reply yes or no to that text and they will

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Speaker 1: automatically categorize that for you. And apparently they're using a

560
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Speaker 1: combination of machine learning algorithm but also real kind of

561
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Speaker 1: bookkeeper accountants on the back end, so it automatically categorizes everything.

562
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Speaker 1: You can export all your write offs into tools like

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Speaker 1: TurboTax or H and R block at the end of

564
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Speaker 1: the year, and they say this is great for real

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Speaker 1: estate agents, actors, ride share drivers, scooter charge scooter chargers,

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Speaker 1: freelance designers, freelance writers, photographers, Airbnb hosts.

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Speaker 2: And I identify with this.

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Speaker 1: So even though I've got a job at KTLA, I

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Speaker 1: do a lot of freelance stuff.

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Speaker 2: And you know, I wrote a book last year.

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Speaker 1: I do a lot of speaking engagements. You know, I

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Speaker 1: just I have a lot of little things that generate

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Speaker 1: side income and these are things that I have to

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Speaker 1: kind of keep track of. And it's not very easy,

575
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Speaker 1: believe me, with full time job and two kids, you

576
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Speaker 1: kind of let a lot of this stuff.

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Speaker 2: I don't know is that an expense. Was that not

578
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Speaker 2: an expense.

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Speaker 1: But with an app like this, it makes it a

580
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Speaker 1: lot easier to keep track of this stuff and come

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Speaker 1: tax time, you know, it's much easier to just kind

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Speaker 1: of hand this stuff over to an accountant or at

583
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Speaker 1: least have base to help do this stuff yourself. So

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Speaker 1: again it's called keeper tax dot com.

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Speaker 2: That's the website, it's an app.

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Speaker 1: It's ten dollars a month, which, by the way, I

587
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Speaker 1: think is well worth it because this stuff does not

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Speaker 1: come cheap. If you want to keep track of your

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Speaker 1: taxes and all that stuff. I mean, you're talking one

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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty dollars a year to keep track of

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Speaker 1: all of your business expenses.

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Speaker 2: That's a pretty good deal.

593
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Speaker 1: And the money it's gonna save you on the back

594
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Speaker 1: end when it comes to headaches and all that stuff

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Speaker 1: with your taxes probably a lot better. Finally, of note,

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Speaker 1: HP is recalling seventy eight five hundred laptop batteries that

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Speaker 1: can pose fire and burn hazards. So I'll let you

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Speaker 1: go to the website to kind of see it's HP

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Speaker 1: dot com Slash Go Slash Battery Program twenty eighteen. So

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Speaker 1: this was something that they originally announced last year, but

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Speaker 1: they have continued to kind of I guess get the

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Speaker 1: word out about this recall. Maybe more batteries are recalled

603
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Speaker 1: at this point, but again, it's laptops that were sold

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Speaker 1: between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, HP ProBooks, HP Pavilion

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Speaker 1: and HP eleven Notebook PCs and HP X three sixty,

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Speaker 1: So again, couple of notable models of HP laptops. You

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Speaker 1: can download software from HP's website in thirty seconds. It

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Speaker 1: will tell you if your laptop is one of those affected.

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Speaker 1: If you have an HP that you think you bought

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Speaker 1: between twenty fifteen and twenty eighteen, it's probably worth it

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Speaker 1: to just check it out and see if you can

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Speaker 1: get a battery replacement. That's gonna do it for this

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Speaker 1: week's show. Thanks so much for listening to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I do appreciate it, and let me know on social

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Speaker 1: That's the best part of my job is really helping

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Speaker 2: Is it? You know? Size? Is it pictures?

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Speaker 1: Is it?

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Speaker 2: Screen quality? And I can answer these things.

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Speaker 1: It's the stuff that would take you, guys a lot

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Speaker 1: And thanks so much for all your likes and retweets

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Speaker 1: and all the comments you leave me on Instagram. I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to reply to all those dms. I know it's tough,

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Speaker 1: all right. If you on links to anything I'll talk

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Speaker 1: about here, go to my website rich on Tech dot tv.

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Speaker 1: I have not been posting the links in the show

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Speaker 1: notes because I feel like, if you're like me, I

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Speaker 1: listen to a lot of podcasts. If I hear something interesting,

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Speaker 1: I just go on Google. So if it's an HP recall,

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Speaker 1: I just Google HP recall. I usually find the information.

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Speaker 1: If it's something that's really obscure and you can't find

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Speaker 1: anywhere else, I will post it in the show links.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, let me know if that's working out

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Speaker 1: for you or if it's not.

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Speaker 2: I'm happy to hear your feedback.

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Speaker 1: I'm rich tamiro Rich on tech dot TV. I'll talk

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Speaker 1: to you real soon