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Speaker 1: show rich on Tech dot TV. You can follow me

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Speaker 1: the first one is Google dot com slash search slash images.

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Speaker 1: So you know that you can use Google to search

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Speaker 1: and it looks pretty incredible. You can use these pictures

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Speaker 1: So maybe you just wanted to get a printable PDF

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Speaker 1: for some sort of confirmation. You can do that with

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Speaker 1: this website again, it is called ten minute Mail. Now,

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Speaker 1: this is a new one that I've recently stumbled upon

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Speaker 1: Next up is a website that's called cleantext dot org.

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Speaker 3: You are listening to Rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: We'll have some of your questions coming up right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. The website for the show

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Speaker 2: Let's go to Thurman in Winchester, Massachusetts. You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I guess good morning for you. For me, I

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Speaker 5: was thinking about, especially from Verismon where I've had some

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Speaker 5: I first I thought, I go AT and T, just

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Speaker 5: try out that network, But then I understand there are

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Speaker 5: things like pure Talk that use the AT and T network,

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Speaker 5: I'm I'm tempted to make the punge, but I just

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Speaker 5: wondering if you've had an opinions on these discount woild

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Speaker 1: Great question, and I will tell you this off the bat.

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Speaker 1: I trust one of these mv and o's to my mom,

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Speaker 9: And so it's stay Safe online dot org. We have

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Speaker 11: They're up against highly highly sophisticated organized crime in nation

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Speaker 11: Those are not usually set to, you know, to have

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Speaker 11: a default to be maybe the most private option, so.

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Speaker 9: You might not be comfortable when you start doing am

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Speaker 9: to those settings.

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Speaker 11: You might be sharing stuff that you don't feel comfortable sharing,

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Speaker 11: and so maybe dial those things to a level that

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Speaker 11: you feel more comfortable with, for example, making your friends

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Speaker 11: less private on Facebook.

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Speaker 1: Now, when you say that these aren't made private, you

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Speaker 1: know they're not the best interest of the consumer generally

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Speaker 1: when they're at their de faults. That's probably because these

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Speaker 1: companies want to collect as much information on us as

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Speaker 1: they can, right so that they can monetize it.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, because that their core.

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Speaker 11: Most social media companies are essentially advertising vehicles, and so

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Speaker 11: the more information they have on us, the more targeted

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Speaker 11: those ads can be, the more they can charge for

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Speaker 11: that advertising.

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Speaker 1: Now, the big, the big kind of flip side to

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Speaker 1: all of this I get from many many people when

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Speaker 1: I say you got to use good passwords, you got

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Speaker 1: to use multi factor, you got to update your software,

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Speaker 1: you got to do all this stuff. They say, look rich,

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Speaker 1: I got nothing to hide, They got nothing to worry about.

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Speaker 2: It's not a big deal, Like who wants to come

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Speaker 2: into my you know?

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Speaker 3: Uh so I was.

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Speaker 1: I got one of my accounts I used to make

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Speaker 1: like a Christmas card one year and that like, that

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Speaker 1: account was hacked, right, and so the password that I

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Speaker 1: used there, and my address and my phone number and

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Speaker 1: my everything is just out there on the web because

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Speaker 1: they were hacked. And so that's kind of like the

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Speaker 1: thing that I don't think people realize is that when

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Speaker 1: you share this information with one company, it can be

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Speaker 1: out there in a multitude of ways if that company

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Speaker 1: is packed right.

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Speaker 11: And a lot of these criminal organizations are creating massive

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Speaker 11: databases that where they they're trading in your data, just

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Speaker 11: like you know the data companies and the legitimate ones

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Speaker 11: in the business world. They're building these massive data warehouses

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Speaker 11: with a lot of information. So if your password has

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Speaker 11: already been compromised, you might think, well, I don't have

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Speaker 11: anything in that specific account that had the breach.

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Speaker 9: I don't have anything in their value, Like you said,

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Speaker 9: who cares.

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Speaker 11: The problem is they're going to take that password and

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Speaker 11: versions of it, you know, click it a little bit.

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Speaker 11: Using software. They can do this at scale really quickly,

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Speaker 11: and they're going to try that on every other account

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Speaker 11: out there, and they can do it in minutes using technology.

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Speaker 9: To do it.

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Speaker 11: Because these are businesses and time is money for them,

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Speaker 11: so they're going to use technology to their advantage, and

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Speaker 11: that's why it's so important not to use the same

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Speaker 11: password or similar password on multiple accounts and to use MFA.

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Speaker 11: The other thing that can happen. You might think, oh,

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Speaker 11: this doesn't matter to me, I don't have anything avalue

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Speaker 11: there when they take over one of your accounts.

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Speaker 9: If they have access to one of your accounts, they

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Speaker 9: can use that account to try and to harm to

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Speaker 9: somebody else.

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Speaker 11: Right, so we've all seen the Facebook instant message that

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Speaker 11: looks like it's from your Aunt Betty, but it's not

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Speaker 11: Harriet Betty or Aunt Betty had her Facebook account taken

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Speaker 11: over because she's probably using a weak password and no MFA.

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Speaker 11: So you don't want to be the launch pad for

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Speaker 11: somebody to go try and defraud other people. You also

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Speaker 11: don't want the Chinese coming into your house using your

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Speaker 11: router to lob an attack on your local power company.

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Speaker 2: And can you explain the concept of the dark web.

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Speaker 11: So basically, the current Internet was not designed to be

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Speaker 11: secure or private.

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Speaker 9: It was designed for the free and open flow of information.

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Speaker 11: And if they could build it all again today, they

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Speaker 11: would not build its own the way it's developed.

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Speaker 9: You need a special browser to get there.

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Speaker 11: What's on the dark Web is essentially marketplaces, mainly the

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Speaker 11: deal in data, credit card information, social security numbers that

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Speaker 11: are for sale, bank account credentials so somebody including your

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Speaker 11: bank balance so that somebody knows where they're you're.

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Speaker 9: Worth trying to deal from.

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Speaker 11: And also things like drugs, guns and humans, human trafficking.

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Speaker 11: Every bad, possible criminal thing that you could think of

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Speaker 11: to buy and sell is available on the dark club.

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Speaker 9: Unfortunately.

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Speaker 1: Wow, it sounds like we're up against a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff here, Lisa, But I like the couple of tenants

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Speaker 1: that you mentioned about, you know, keeping our stuff private

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: stuff that we need to stay up on, right, and

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Speaker 1: we need to stay aware of this stuff because I know,

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Speaker 1: I just I keep hearing in my mind over and

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Speaker 1: over people say, come on, they're not what do they

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Speaker 1: need to do with me? But when you build this

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Speaker 1: profile of someone, there's a lot you can do that

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Speaker 1: and it and the time and energy it takes to

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Speaker 1: dig out of that if something happens to you is

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Speaker 1: really just not worth it.

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Speaker 9: We need to think about.

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Speaker 11: Our loved ones too, So older folks, aging Americans, they

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Speaker 11: don't get defrauded as often, but when they do, the

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Speaker 11: dollar amounts are high.

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Speaker 9: The bad guys are going to go where.

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Speaker 11: The money is, right, why do I steal the bank

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Speaker 11: Because that's where a round the bank is, That's where

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Speaker 11: the money is.

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Speaker 9: And our aging loved.

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Speaker 11: Ones have accumulated their life savings and so when they

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Speaker 11: get defrauded, and it happens way too often, it's for

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Speaker 11: large dollar amounts. So I spend a lot of time

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Speaker 11: with trying to keep my mom safe online, for example.

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Speaker 9: And then younger people gen X.

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Speaker 11: Gen Y, they click a lot, they move really fast

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Speaker 11: through the technology and so they're actually more likely to

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Speaker 11: click on something malicious.

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Speaker 9: But the when they suffer.

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Speaker 11: A loss of their data or money, those losses are

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Speaker 11: much smaller. But they're moving pretty fast and sometimes not

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Speaker 11: quite paying enough attention.

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Speaker 1: Lisa Plagamaire, executive director at the National Cybersecurity Alliance. The

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Speaker 1: website staysafeonline dot org. H really really good information. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much for joining me today.

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Speaker 9: My pleasure.

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Speaker 1: All right, that just this stuff, And I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: since since I'm here and I get all the emails,

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Speaker 1: I know for a fact that this stuff happens on

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Speaker 1: a daily basis. People are getting hacked, they're getting scammed,

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Speaker 1: they're falling for tricks. Please tell your loved ones, Please

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Speaker 1: get educated on this stuff.

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Speaker 2: It really will make a difference.

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Speaker 1: Eighty to eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Welcome back

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Speaker 1: to Rich on tech. Rich Demiro here talking technology at

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Speaker 1: triple eight. Rich one O one eight eight eight seven

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: John in Palm Springs. John, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 12: I bought a new S twenty three phone, and when

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Speaker 12: they copied everything off of the old phone, I am

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Speaker 12: missing hundreds of photos. I still have the old phone

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Speaker 12: and they are missing there now as well. And so

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Speaker 12: I read that they are probably still there and I

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Speaker 12: can hire somebody to retrieve them.

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Speaker 13: But if true, I have no idea who that would be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, where do you store these photos? Are they just

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Speaker 1: on like your phone or they go to the cloud somewhere.

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Speaker 13: No, they're just on the phone. Unfortunately, I'm I am

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Speaker 13: the most illiterate tech guy in the world.

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Speaker 1: So okay, and you're sure you're not using because on

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Speaker 1: Samsung devices they like to send these to one drive.

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Speaker 2: Are you sure they're not sync to one drive in

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Speaker 2: some way.

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Speaker 13: Well they could be. I see one drive on my phone, okay,

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Speaker 13: but I never knew what it was. I didn't never even.

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Speaker 14: Clicked on it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well click on it and and uh, there's a

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Speaker 1: there's a there's a section of the Samsung phone in

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Speaker 1: the settings that is called I'm trying to look here,

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Speaker 1: accounts and backup and if you look there, let's see

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Speaker 1: backup data. So so in here it's it says where

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Speaker 1: these things are backed up. I'm trying to find this

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Speaker 1: while we talk live. I know it's tricky, but there's

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Speaker 1: a couple of places. A couple of places I would look.

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Speaker 1: Number one, I would on a website.

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Speaker 15: I would do use Google at all, I I guess, yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so if you have a Google account, I would

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Speaker 1: try going to photos dot Google dot com on a

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Speaker 1: website on your computer, so on a desktop browser, and

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Speaker 1: see and log in with your Google and see if

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Speaker 1: any of the photos made their way there. Then I

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Speaker 1: would go to one drive dot com again from a

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Speaker 1: computer and log in with either your Samsung account or

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Speaker 1: your usually it's linked to a Microsoft account if you

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Speaker 1: have that, and see if they're there. Otherwise, on your

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Speaker 1: old phone, I would go into the files app, and

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Speaker 1: there's a there's like an app on the old on

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Speaker 1: the Samsung that is lets you see all the files

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Speaker 1: on that phone. And so I would go in there

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Speaker 1: and look for one a folder that says camera, and

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Speaker 1: see if you can find them in there. Let's go

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Speaker 1: the line too melody is in Carl's Bad Melody You're

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Speaker 1: on with Rich.

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Speaker 16: Several years ago I retired and during my tenure as

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Speaker 16: a worker for forty some years, I had to use

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Speaker 16: I used the Microsoft Word program to do a lot

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Speaker 16: of documents and newsletters, et cetera. And those were on

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Speaker 16: my home computer. And so I've continued with a software.

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Speaker 16: But at some point, maybe about three or four years ago,

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Speaker 16: they changed it to a subscription program where I have

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Speaker 16: to pay sixty some bucks a year to continue to

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Speaker 16: use the software.

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Speaker 3: But sure, I no.

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Speaker 16: Longer have to do documents and newsletters, and I really don't.

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Speaker 17: Use it that much.

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Speaker 3: But yes, you don't want to pay that money.

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Speaker 16: Right, But will I be able to reference the documents

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Speaker 16: I have previously made with Words if I do not

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Speaker 16: have this subscription?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely? Absolutely. Now this used to be very complicated in

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Speaker 1: the past. It is not anymore. Thanks to so many

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Speaker 1: free tools out there, so you'll be just fine. You

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Speaker 1: can continue to make these documents in the word format

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Speaker 1: as much as you want, and there will be many

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Speaker 1: ways to access them later. The easiest way do you

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Speaker 1: have a Gmail or a Google account? Yeah, okay, easiest

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Speaker 1: way Google Docs. So take these.

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Speaker 2: You can actually do this right now if you want.

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Speaker 1: You can go to Google Drive, or you can go

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Speaker 1: to Google Docs and you can drag and drop one

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Speaker 1: of these files into the screen and it will put

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Speaker 1: it into Google Drive, Google Docs, and then you can

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Speaker 1: open it and Google will make it so that you

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Speaker 1: can edit that file, you can read that file, whatever

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Speaker 1: you need to do. It will convert it for you

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Speaker 1: on the fly, and so you'll be able to edit,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to read it, you'll be able to

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Speaker 1: access it. There will be no there will be no

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Speaker 1: issues here whatsoever. So Melody, you can continue to do this,

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Speaker 1: but I would recommend that there are many other ways

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Speaker 1: as well. If you have a Mac computer, you can

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Speaker 1: use pages. There are some free office suites online. There

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Speaker 1: are some popular ones like open office and things like that.

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Speaker 1: So I mean there's a lot out there, but I

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Speaker 1: think that Google Docs is the easiest that's the one

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Speaker 1: that I use, and I think that you're gonna find

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Speaker 1: it very very simple to just open these documents, edit

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Speaker 1: them right in your web browser and have no problem

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Speaker 1: with that whatsoever. Thanks for the call, Melodie, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Steve is in Glendale. Steve, you are on with Rich.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to the show. Hello Rich, Hello Steve. What's up?

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Speaker 13: So?

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Speaker 7: I got a Facebook business page. I'm a professional handy

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Speaker 7: man in Glendale, California, and I made a post and

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Speaker 7: I've gotten this message before I got a message, I

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Speaker 7: actually got four separate messages. Your Facebook page is expect

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Speaker 7: to be permally removed due to post the post violating

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Speaker 7: our trademark rights. Blah blah blah. You know it's going

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Speaker 7: to be removed, and then you know it's but it's from

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Speaker 7: it's at the top, it heads it's from Katie Estes

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00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,600
Speaker 7: and it shows this weird logo like support and I

679
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 7: think it's probably fishing and ships trying to skip and

680
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Speaker 7: I'm not. I'm I've learned not to click on strained blinks.

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Speaker 7: And it's from Facebook dot p.

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Speaker 1: R O okay, and it sounds like a website.

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Speaker 2: So how can I help? Did you get hacked.

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Speaker 7: Well, I mean, I have it. I'm just I'm just

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Speaker 7: should pay tention to that.

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Speaker 3: Okay, Okay, good question. Spam yep, yep.

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent ignores spam.

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Speaker 1: These are these are very I'm telling you, Steve, there

689
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Speaker 1: are so many scams happening with social media it is

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Speaker 1: it's almost become untenable to deal with all this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and especially if you have a business account, any sort

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Speaker 1: of Facebook page. So a couple of things. Number one,

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Speaker 1: these are notifications that they're sending you. This says, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're you're violating our terms and conditions, and they seem

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Speaker 1: scary because you're running a business. You might be getting

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Speaker 1: some clients from this Facebook page, right, and so you

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00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 1: don't want your page to go away. And so what

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00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 1: they want you to do is see this notification, click

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00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: that notification without thinking, and then and either log in

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00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: or somehow do something that will either take over your account,

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Speaker 1: hijack your account, or you know, otherwise steal your personal information.

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Speaker 1: So you can safely ignore these, I can guarantee you

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Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of the time, ninety nine point nine

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Speaker 1: if there's something truly amiss with your Facebook account, Facebook

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00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:24,160
Speaker 1: will get in touch with you through a legitimate means,

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00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: which is probably through some sort of pop up notification

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Speaker 1: in the app or an email.

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Speaker 2: So believe me, I do a lot of things.

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Speaker 1: On my Facebook page, Facebook dot com, slash rich on tech.

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00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: I see these things all the time. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of scam artists also that post on your page, so

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00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:43,640
Speaker 1: when you comment something, they may comment and say, hey,

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00:35:43,719 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: we can help with that, and those are scam artists

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00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: as well. Those I would block, but really these are

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Speaker 1: mostly bots. But it's a good lesson to learn. And

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Speaker 1: the thing that I would do is make sure if

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Speaker 1: you have a Facebook account, two things I would do.

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Speaker 1: Number one, set up two factor authentication, and this means

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Speaker 1: that you need a separate code to log in once

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Speaker 1: you log in.

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Speaker 3: With your password.

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Speaker 1: So let's say you fell for one of those notifications,

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Speaker 1: you logged in with your password, they got it, they

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Speaker 1: immediately try to hijack your account. They wouldn't be able

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Speaker 1: to because there would be a secondary code that is

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Speaker 1: texted to your phone and that would make it so

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Speaker 1: that they wouldn't be able to get in. The other

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Speaker 1: thing to do if you have a Facebook business account

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Speaker 1: is to get an admin on that account, someone you

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Speaker 1: trust that is not you, and that way, if there's

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Speaker 1: ever a problem with your Facebook account, because these are

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Speaker 1: usually linked to a personal Facebook account, that way that

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Speaker 1: other person will be able to help you get back in.

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Speaker 1: And if you have a personal Facebook account, there's other

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Speaker 1: others some excuse me, there's some other things you can do,

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00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,040
Speaker 1: which is called trusted contacts. You can set those up

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Speaker 1: to help you regain access to your Facebook account. And

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Speaker 1: if you have a problem with your Facebook and it

739
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Speaker 1: is hacked, the best place to go is Facebook dot com,

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Speaker 1: slash hacked, Facebook dot slash hacked.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for the call. My name is Rich d'miro.

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Speaker 1: You can follow me online at rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: website for the show richon Tech dot tv. More rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech come in your way right after this. Welcome

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00:37:14,920 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 3: Rich Demiro here.

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Speaker 1: Hanging out with you, talking technology, the website for the

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Speaker 1: show rich on Tech dot TV. There you can find

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Speaker 1: me on x on Instagram, and on Facebook and my email.

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Speaker 1: Just click the email icon to send me a message.

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00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: That's what Jessica did. She says, my daughter just sent

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Speaker 1: me something on Disney Plus slash Hulu now cracking down

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Speaker 1: on sharing. My daughter is a college student out of

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Speaker 1: state and uses our account. Will this be an issue

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Speaker 1: like Netflix? And will they offer an added upgrade to

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00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:51,839
Speaker 1: be able to add her to the account or will

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00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: she need her own account. We are having to upgrade

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00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,800
Speaker 1: our Netflix account so she can continue using it. Thanks

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00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:02,160
Speaker 1: for any insight to this, Jessica. Well, Jessica, My overall

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Speaker 1: advice is to continue sharing your account until they somehow

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Speaker 1: block or restrict it.

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Speaker 3: So.

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Speaker 1: Disney Plus and Hulu have both updated their subscriber agreements

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Speaker 1: to ban account sharing for new subscribers. This happened earlier

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Speaker 1: this year, and for existing subscribers it just started around

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Speaker 1: mid March. Now, that does not mean that they are

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Speaker 1: enforcing this across everyone's account just yet. Disney Plus says

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Speaker 1: starting in the summer, they will introduce new features to

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Speaker 1: allow account sharers to start their own subscriptions or add

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Speaker 1: individuals outside of their household foreign additional fee, just like

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Speaker 1: what you noticed on Netflix. I think Netflix charges seven

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Speaker 1: to ninety nine to convert someone on your account to

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Speaker 1: their own account, but preserving all of their.

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Speaker 2: Watch history and things like that. Why are they doing this?

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Speaker 1: Well, Netflix sort of started this and they said enough

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Speaker 1: is enough.

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Speaker 2: No more sharing accounts.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, when they turned off the account

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Speaker 1: sharing on Netflix, they turned on a lot of money

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Speaker 1: because a lot more people said, Okay, fine, I will subscribe.

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Speaker 1: I will pay my own money to do this. And

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00:39:07,360 --> 00:39:10,440
Speaker 1: it's not a ton of money, but across a whole

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Speaker 1: bunch of millions of subscribers, that does add up to

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Speaker 1: a lot for Netflix, and for the average person, Okay, fine,

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Speaker 1: for eight bucks a month, I'll get my own account whatever,

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00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,279
Speaker 1: and the free ride is over. I've said this many,

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Speaker 1: many times. These companies all started out letting us do

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00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,759
Speaker 1: all kinds of things with our accounts and not really

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Speaker 1: caring about this. But now that the money has slowed down,

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Speaker 1: they want to increase that revenue, and so Disney's doing this.

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Speaker 2: Netflix did it.

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00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,319
Speaker 1: A lot of the other streaming services will end up

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Speaker 1: doing this as well. But again my advice is just

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Speaker 1: to continue sharing until you're forced to not share. Now,

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00:39:45,440 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 1: there's lots of signals on how they figure out if

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Speaker 1: someone is indeed sharing their account.

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00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,160
Speaker 2: They might look at your IP address.

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Speaker 1: They might look at how many devices you have on

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Speaker 1: your account where those devices typically access your account, whether

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Speaker 1: that device is a.

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Speaker 2: TV or a tablet, Because if it's a TV.

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Speaker 1: You know, they're thinking, Okay, how many TVs does this

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Speaker 1: person have across the US. But if it's a tablet,

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00:40:08,640 --> 00:40:11,840
Speaker 1: they might understand, Okay, this tablet does travel to different cities,

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Speaker 1: and this phone travels to different cities. Now, with your

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Speaker 1: daughter in college students, I do think that's a bit

807
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Speaker 1: of a tricky area because college students, you know, they're

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Speaker 1: sort of in the household, but they're not watching in

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Speaker 1: the household. So maybe if they access this on a

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Speaker 1: device that's an iPad or a tablet that they bring

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Speaker 1: home once in a while and access that on their

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Speaker 1: home Wi Fi network, they might allow them to continue sharing.

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00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,360
Speaker 1: But again, I would continue to it, doing it until.

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Speaker 2: You can't anymore.

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Speaker 1: But as we know, Netflix came down on this really fast,

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Speaker 1: and it was very swift when they made that change.

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Speaker 3: So thanks for the question, Jessica, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Next up, June says, Hey, Rich, I volunteered to be

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Speaker 1: the DJ for a party event, and I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: a free software or an app I can assign a

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Speaker 1: key on the keyboard that will play a sound effect,

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Speaker 1: for example, a drum roll, a bell, ring, a gong, etc.

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Speaker 1: I'm using a Mac I plan to use VLC media

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Speaker 1: player and load all the sound effects and just double

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Speaker 1: click to play them.

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Speaker 2: But maybe you have a better suggestion. Thanks very much,

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Speaker 2: Best June.

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Speaker 3: June, great question.

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Speaker 2: What you want is called a soundboard.

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Speaker 1: This is something that many people in the audio industry

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Speaker 1: are familiar with. It's what DJs use, it's what radio

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Speaker 1: stations use. We use one here and it's just a

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Speaker 1: great audio production thing to have. So it's a little

834
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Speaker 1: piece of software that makes a board that almost looks

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Speaker 1: like a bunch of squares. Each one of those squares

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Speaker 1: is loaded up with a certain sound or maybe a song.

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Speaker 1: And what's nice about these sound board applications is that

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Speaker 1: they let you do different things. Not only can you

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Speaker 1: trigger these sounds with different keystrokes and also external devices,

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Speaker 1: but you can also do different things like start the

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Speaker 1: sound but stop it immediately, or just solve it out

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Speaker 1: or fade it in, or you can you know, rapid

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Speaker 1: fire that sound.

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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of different options.

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Speaker 1: So if you want the paid app that does this,

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Speaker 1: the company I like that makes a lot of great

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00:42:09,440 --> 00:42:12,560
Speaker 1: little handy apps like this is called Rogue Amiba and

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00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 1: their app is called Farrago fa r r Ago and

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00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,279
Speaker 1: that's going to be a really nice supported app, but

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Speaker 1: it's gonna cost some money. You'll get a free trial,

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Speaker 1: so I would say definitely try the free trial and

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00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: see if it works for you.

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00:42:26,320 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: If you like it, you can pay for it.

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00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:31,200
Speaker 1: But as you know, there are always alternatives to everything.

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00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: So the two alternatives I have not tested, but they

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00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: are available for free.

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00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: One is called.

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Speaker 1: Sound show s o U n D Show sound Show

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00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:46,800
Speaker 1: and this is a free tool for Windows, Mac, Os, Linux,

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Speaker 1: and Android.

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Speaker 3: Now I say free.

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00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:51,000
Speaker 2: It is a name your own price download.

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00:42:51,120 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 1: So a lot of these independent developers will allow you

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Speaker 1: to download stuff for free, but you know they ask, hey,

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Speaker 1: do you mind paying just something? You can support them

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00:42:59,360 --> 00:43:02,279
Speaker 1: with any that you like, And that one seems to

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Speaker 1: have all of the features that you need.

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Speaker 2: And it does work with Mac.

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00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: The other one is called soundplant soundplant dot.

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Speaker 2: Org and again this is a free download. You can

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Speaker 2: download it for free.

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00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 1: It works on Mac and Windows, and it looks like

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00:43:18,120 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: it was last updated in April twenty twenty three, so

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00:43:20,920 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: it's pretty recent. But again, these are the type of

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00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,120
Speaker 1: apps that you need. So I just gave you three

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00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:27,000
Speaker 1: good examples.

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00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 2: I think it's so fun to do this.

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00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: I used to do this show that you're listening to

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00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: off of a road mixer that had sort of a

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00:43:35,320 --> 00:43:37,879
Speaker 1: soundboard built into it. So I had a couple of

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Speaker 1: if you ever listened to the show we're talking you know,

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Speaker 1: four years ago, if you ever listened to my old

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Speaker 1: old podcast. I used to have a couple of main things,

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Speaker 3: For our show.

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Speaker 1: One of them actually drove people nuts, and whenever I

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Speaker 1: did a question like this, like an email question, we

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Speaker 1: would have the sound of a keyboard clocking, and it

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Speaker 1: really were bothered by the fact that I would have

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Speaker 1: that sound because it threw them off.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for the question, June, appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: E says, I have a couple of spectrum technicians over

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Speaker 1: at my house and they mentioned something about a high

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Speaker 1: split update.

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Speaker 2: Do you happen to know anything about that?

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Speaker 1: Had to look up the answer to this one because

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Speaker 1: I'm not really sure what the high split update is,

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Speaker 1: but E, the good news is it sounds like the

901
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Speaker 1: internet in your area is about to get a whole

902
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Speaker 1: lot faster. High split moves the return spectrum allocation higher

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Speaker 1: to around two hundred and four megahertz, giving more bandwidth

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Speaker 1: to the upstream for more speed. This is normally combined

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Speaker 1: with the one point two gigahertz extended spectrum doxis for

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Speaker 1: the downstream to offer much higher upstream and downstream data rates.

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Speaker 2: So what does that all mean?

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Speaker 1: In Layman's terms, It sounds like your internet is going

909
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Speaker 1: to get faster in your area, especially the upstream, which

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Speaker 1: means when you're uploading stuff back to the network that

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Speaker 1: will be faster, and that's an important thing for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people if they're working from home like myself,

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Speaker 1: I'm always uploading large files and sending them to the cloud. Typically,

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Speaker 1: when you're looking at Internet, they're only advertising the download speeds.

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Speaker 1: That's important for most people, and they're usually pretty fast,

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Speaker 1: but they kind of hide the upload speeds, especially with cable,

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Speaker 1: because they're usually much slower. Fiber will typically have upload

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Speaker 1: and download speeds that are similar or even the same,

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Speaker 1: but with cable Internet typically the upload speed is much

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Speaker 1: slower than the download speed. But starting April tenth, it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a lot easier to see key details

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Speaker 1: about an internet service provider's plan because they have to

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Speaker 1: have a new label called Broadband Facts.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it is modeled after Nutrition Facts.

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Speaker 1: It tells you the name of the plan, how much

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Speaker 1: it costs every month, including any introductory pricing plans, and

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Speaker 1: also any monthly fees you might have to pay, any

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Speaker 1: discounts you might be eligible for, plus the speeds provided

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Speaker 1: with the plan upload, download, and the latency. They'll also

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Speaker 1: tell you how much data you get included in your

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Speaker 1: monthly pricing plan, and the network management policy, which is

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Speaker 1: if they reserve the right to throttle you, and the

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Speaker 1: privacy policy how they share all that information they are

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Speaker 1: collecting on you. Again, this is mandated by the FCC.

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Speaker 1: It starts on April tenth. You are listening to Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology at triple eight

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Speaker 1: Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. This is a show where

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Speaker 1: I talk about the tech stuff I think you should

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Speaker 1: know about. So you'll find that I don't talk about

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Speaker 1: all the tech stuff. I don't answer all the tech questions.

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Speaker 1: It's really consumer focused. It's the everyday user. If you're

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Speaker 1: not a tech person, this show is perfect for you

945
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Speaker 1: because it helps you understand what you're up against. So

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Speaker 1: much technology in this world. I'm helping you understand it.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media. I'm at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech on Instagram, where I hang out a lot.

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Speaker 1: Facebook X. Let's go to Ellie. Ellie is in your Belinda, Ellie,

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich.

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Speaker 4: Hi, Good afternoon, Rich. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I am doing fantastic. How about you?

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Speaker 4: So far, so good? But the day is young?

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Speaker 3: Uh?

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Speaker 15: I like that?

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Speaker 3: Outlook? All right, what can I help you with?

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Speaker 1: All Right?

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Speaker 4: I have a problem. I live in a two story home,

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Speaker 4: and I replaced my router that was provided by the

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Speaker 4: cable company Spectrum because the signal was just interrupted. I

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Speaker 4: also live next to the mountains. I live in the

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Speaker 4: home of President Nixon the city.

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Speaker 2: So I'm President Nixon's home.

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Speaker 4: Yes, the library, and yes, yes he was born here.

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Speaker 2: Correct, Oh my gosh, Okay, sweet.

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Speaker 4: So I had an interruption the signal because I'm really

967
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Speaker 4: close to the mountains and I have a two story property.

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Speaker 4: So I replaced the router from the Spectrum company, the

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Speaker 4: cable company, and I bought my own.

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Speaker 3: Okay, and would you get I got.

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Speaker 4: This one from this company called the l NKSYS link sys. Okay, yes,

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Speaker 4: And it gave me two towers to put one in

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Speaker 4: the you know, above and one below the levels, and

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Speaker 4: I still get interruption, and so I'm wondering what I

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Speaker 4: can do to change that because when my kids come

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Speaker 4: over and they're using their WiFi and stuff like that,

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Speaker 4: they don't get the signal. And I don't know what

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Speaker 4: I can do to change that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, what so number one, the mountains don't have

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Speaker 1: anything to do with your signal, so that is not

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Speaker 1: causing the issue. What's causing the issue is the material

982
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Speaker 1: of this home. So I'm guessing this is an older

983
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Speaker 1: home and it has probably thick walls that are really

984
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Speaker 1: tough to get this signal through. That's what I'm guessing.

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Speaker 1: It also sounds like it's pretty large if it is

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Speaker 1: a former president's home, So that is the problem. You've

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Speaker 1: got a lot of space and you've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of challenges for a Wi Fi signal.

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Speaker 4: That is being it was in the president's home. It's

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Speaker 4: said he's the city, he was born here.

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Speaker 2: Oh, he was born there.

992
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 4: Okay, but it is an older home and there is

993
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Speaker 4: a lot of bricks involved.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there you go, that's the issue.

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00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:16,320
Speaker 3: Okay, Yes, that is the issue.

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Speaker 1: So you you sort of halfway solve this issue by

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Speaker 1: going with the Linksys system. It sounds like you have

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Speaker 1: a mesh system, but that is what you need here,

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Speaker 1: and you it sounds like you may need do you

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Speaker 1: know how many square feet this house is?

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Speaker 4: Well, the lot is is big, but the house itself

1002
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Speaker 4: is thirty two hundred square Okay.

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Speaker 2: That's that's pretty large.

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Speaker 1: So I would recommend are.

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Speaker 2: You trying to get internet on the lot or just

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Speaker 2: in the house.

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Speaker 4: Well, I already have it in the house, but it's

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Speaker 4: still an interruption, that's signal.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 1: So here's what I would do. You need a mesh system,

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Speaker 1: the system that you have already. I would go online

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Speaker 1: and look up the name of it and see if

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Speaker 1: it is a mesh system that you can expand with

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Speaker 1: more what are called access points. Let me explain what

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Speaker 1: a mesh system is. So typical internet you get from

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Speaker 1: Spectrum is just a router that sits below your TV

1017
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Speaker 1: and it just stays there, and that's basically it. It sends

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Speaker 1: out the signal. It does not reach very far because

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Speaker 1: it's just the walls and everything else.

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Speaker 2: Kind of mess with it.

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Speaker 1: So what most people are upgrading now to these days

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Speaker 1: is called a mesh system, and a mesh system is

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Speaker 1: kind of like think about the home base under your

1024
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Speaker 1: TV sends out the signal to all these little access

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Speaker 1: points around your house, and they all talk to each

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Speaker 1: other to kind of make sure that the signal completely

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Speaker 1: blankets every corner of your home. And with two of

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Speaker 1: these and I'm not sure links is you know, I

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Speaker 1: think the companies that I typically recommend for this are

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Speaker 1: either ORB RBI or ero E E r O. Those

1031
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Speaker 1: are two of the best, and so I would look

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Speaker 1: into maybe getting one of those systems. And you want

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Speaker 1: probably three access points, so that would that would be

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Speaker 1: three of these little devices that you would put around

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Speaker 1: your house, and you know, I think that that's probably

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Speaker 1: gonna solve. The other thing you can do if you

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Speaker 1: really want to get this solved, is you know, you

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Speaker 1: can hire someone to wire an Ethernet cable from the

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Speaker 1: home base system, you know, buy your TV or wherever

1040
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Speaker 1: your your internet comes into your house, and then you

1041
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Speaker 1: can wire that to another room that is pretty far

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00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: away and you can plug one of the access points

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Speaker 1: into that and that way it's going to get a

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Speaker 1: nice strong signal that is actually like a really good signal,

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Speaker 1: and it's gonna put that out through your house as well,

1046
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:45,319
Speaker 1: But that's gonna be a lot more expensive because you

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Speaker 1: are getting someone to come to the house and drill

1048
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Speaker 1: and all that good stuff. So I would say you

1049
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Speaker 1: could probably solve this problem with a better mesh system

1050
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:56,880
Speaker 1: that has three points to it. So again, look up

1051
00:51:56,920 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: and see if the mesh system that you have will

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00:51:59,800 --> 00:52:03,120
Speaker 1: allow a third access point. If it does, I would

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Speaker 1: get that third access point, and I would also look

1054
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Speaker 1: at where you're placing these. So with Internet, you really

1055
00:52:08,360 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: want to place the main signal in kind of the

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Speaker 1: center of the house and also up off the floor

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Speaker 1: and not obstructed by anything. And then the other two

1058
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Speaker 1: you want to put in different areas that are not

1059
00:52:22,160 --> 00:52:24,919
Speaker 1: too far away but far enough where it can still

1060
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Speaker 1: get the signal and put it in that area of

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00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:29,640
Speaker 1: the house, but also reach the third one and put

1062
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Speaker 1: the signal there as well. So if they're unobstructed, that

1063
00:52:33,440 --> 00:52:35,719
Speaker 1: would be ideal. Like if it's up like a staircase

1064
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 1: that you can see something like that, that would be ideal.

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00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:42,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, Wi Fi is it's tricky. It's not the

1066
00:52:42,960 --> 00:52:46,280
Speaker 1: signal we are really stretching this signal to its maximum

1067
00:52:46,280 --> 00:52:48,960
Speaker 1: capacity at this point. It was really not intended to

1068
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Speaker 1: do all the things that we're doing with it. There

1069
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: is a new standard coming up called Wi Fi seven.

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00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 1: It is very much emerging. I don't know if you

1071
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:58,799
Speaker 1: need to upgrade to that just yet because a lot

1072
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 1: of devices don't take advantace that just yet. But a

1073
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,640
Speaker 1: lot of these problems hopefully will be solved with Wi

1074
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:08,399
Speaker 1: Fi seven that handles this stuff a little bit better.

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00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,799
Speaker 1: All right, Thanks for the question.

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Speaker 2: Melody are Ellie and or Belinda.

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Speaker 1: I thought it was odd that you lived in the

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Speaker 1: President's house, but I get it orball innda okay president

1079
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Speaker 1: from there.

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Speaker 2: I do have a warning though for you.

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00:53:22,840 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 1: If you got gift cards over the holidays, check the

1082
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:31,120
Speaker 1: balance immediately. This happened to us and it's quite scary.

1083
00:53:31,160 --> 00:53:33,000
Speaker 1: It's happening to a lot of people based on the

1084
00:53:33,000 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 1: comments on my Instagram and Facebook page. But basically what

1085
00:53:36,640 --> 00:53:40,320
Speaker 1: happens is scam artists go to the stores, they write

1086
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: down the numbers from gift cards, so like somehow open

1087
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: up the back of them, write down the number, and

1088
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Speaker 1: then they'll record that number, keep it at home, and

1089
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Speaker 1: then I guess. They check on a daily basis to

1090
00:53:51,160 --> 00:53:53,960
Speaker 1: see if any money got charged up onto that card,

1091
00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:56,640
Speaker 1: and as soon as it does, they drain the funds.

1092
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 2: So what happens when you get gift cards? Right, you

1093
00:53:59,320 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 2: give them, you buy I'm.

1094
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,279
Speaker 1: At the store, You hold on to them for a week,

1095
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: You give it to a person at a birthday party

1096
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,719
Speaker 1: or the holidays, that person gets it, they hold on

1097
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Speaker 1: to it for a couple of weeks. So, as you

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Speaker 1: can see, there's a lot of time here for the

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Speaker 1: scam artists to do their work. And so I've noticed

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Speaker 1: that a lot of registers they will look at the cards,

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Speaker 1: they will visually inspect them to make sure that they

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Speaker 1: have not been tampered with, but it doesn't always catch them.

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Speaker 1: And so what you need to do if you have

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Speaker 1: a gift card that you got over the holidays, Number one,

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Speaker 1: check the balance and make sure that it is valid,

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Speaker 1: because if it's not, the quicker you do this, the

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Speaker 1: more of a chance you might have of recovering those funds.

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Speaker 1: The problem is gift cards are pretty much treated as cash.

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Speaker 1: But if you have the receipt and you've got your information,

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Speaker 1: some people say they are successful in getting the money

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Speaker 1: back but this is a very very big issue that

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Speaker 1: again it happened to us, and you know, it's just

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Speaker 1: one of those things.

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Speaker 2: Where there are so many gift cards.

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Speaker 1: Gift cards are almost their own currency, and it's just

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Speaker 1: it's very simple for these scams artist to do this apparently,

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Speaker 1: and people buy these carts. They don't look at the back,

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Speaker 1: they don't notice that numbers are scratched off, and he reported,

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Speaker 1: and they put the money on it and it's gone.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Demiro here talking technology, hanging out with you at

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Speaker 1: Triple eight Rich one oh one eight eight eight seven.

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Speaker 3: Four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now, Titanya Jordan, author and founder of Parenting

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Speaker 1: in a Tech World and Bark Technology's Chief parent Officer.

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Speaker 10: Welcome to the show, Titanya, Hi, thank you so much

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Speaker 10: for having me.

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Speaker 2: I should say, welcome back to the show. You were

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Speaker 2: one of the early guests last year, so thanks for

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Speaker 2: joining me again. Uh so you post all about child

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Speaker 2: and teen safety online, So first off, tell me what

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Speaker 2: Bark is all about, the company that you work for.

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Speaker 10: Sure, So Bark launched the safest smartphone for kids within

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Speaker 10: the past year, which is incredible and what's so incredible

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Speaker 10: about it is that it has our tech baked into

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Speaker 10: the smartphone. And so in twenty fifteen, Bark launched as

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Speaker 10: an AI based software solution that alerted parents and caregivers

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Speaker 10: to dangers happening in their children's social media, text and email.

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Speaker 10: So we started with an app, and then we moved

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Speaker 10: to a smartphone.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Now, now when parents think about you know, like

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Speaker 1: I get this question, like, how do I monitor what

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Speaker 1: my kids are doing on their phone?

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Speaker 2: Right? So what can Bark do?

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Speaker 1: And I know with iOS and Android things are a

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Speaker 1: little bit different, right, like what you can search and

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Speaker 1: what you can just get? Can you explain the difference?

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Speaker 1: Like what if a parent has if a kid has

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Speaker 1: an iPhone, which of course a lot of kids want

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Speaker 1: the iPhone?

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Speaker 2: Like what can parents monitor on that?

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Speaker 10: Ooh great question? So yeah, I will say, if you're

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Speaker 10: listening to this and you have not yet bought your

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Speaker 10: child a smartphone, please avoid the iPhone. That's the equivalent

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Speaker 10: of giving your child a Ferrari when they turned sixteen

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Speaker 10: instead of a very sensible Honda or Toyota. Apple is

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Speaker 10: great for adults who need privacy, but it's very cumbersome

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Speaker 10: for parents to try to manage that. Said, Bark can

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Speaker 10: monitor your children's iPhones and iPads and Apple watches to

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Speaker 10: an extent, whether it's text, message, email, social media, camera, roll, video,

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Speaker 10: all kinds of things, we can monitor it. I will

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Speaker 10: say one of the most popular apps that children eventually

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Speaker 10: want is Snapchat, and Bark isn't able to really monitor

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Speaker 10: Snapchat on an iPhone, not because of Bark's limitations, because

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Speaker 10: Snapchat has decided it doesn't want to open its API

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Speaker 10: to a platform that could help keep kids safer on

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Speaker 10: the platform. The good news is that with Android phones

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Speaker 10: and the Bark smartphone, we can connect to and monitor Snapchat,

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Speaker 10: which is just one more reason why androids and the

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Speaker 10: Bark phone are a better option for parents.

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Speaker 1: My wife works with teens, and she was telling me

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Speaker 1: that Snapchat is everything. I mean, text messaging is not

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Speaker 1: even They don't even care anymore, Like I thought it

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Speaker 1: was all about, you know, for adults, this whole blue, bubble,

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Speaker 1: green bubble I message thing.

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Speaker 2: But for teens it is all about Snapchat.

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Speaker 1: And I think it's because of I'm guessing the fleeting

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Speaker 1: nature of the chats, which.

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Speaker 2: I'm laughing, but it's really serious.

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Speaker 1: It's like they you know, they like it because things disappear, right,

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Speaker 1: It's very serious.

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Speaker 10: They do like it because things apparently disappear. But you know,

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Speaker 10: one thing that we've really got to get across to

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Speaker 10: everybody that uses tech is that anything you do online,

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Speaker 10: even if the platform tells you it disappears, doesn't actually disappear.

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Speaker 10: It lives on a server somewhere. You know, if you

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Speaker 10: recycle your phone to get a new phone, like, there's

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Speaker 10: still data that lives on that phone even if you

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Speaker 10: wiped it clean. So it's important to get that message across. Also,

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Speaker 10: you know, kids love Snapchat not only because it has

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Speaker 10: purported disappearing messages, but it also has for my eyes only,

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Speaker 10: so if a parent does go into the app to

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Speaker 10: try to see what's going on, they might not be

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Speaker 10: able to access certain things that the child has hidden

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Speaker 10: in the my eyes Only vault. Snapchat also has snap maps,

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Speaker 10: which essentially gives anyone that you're connected to your real

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Speaker 10: time location, which is not a problem if your child

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Speaker 10: is only connected to three of their friends that they

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Speaker 10: know and who are good people. It's a bigger problem

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Speaker 10: if your kid has two hundred contacts and they only

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Speaker 10: know twenty of them.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting one too.

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Speaker 1: What do you think is the most pressing kind of

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Speaker 1: situation affecting teens and children right now when it comes

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Speaker 1: to technology?

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Speaker 10: Ooh, that's uh, we need a lot more where we start.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right.

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Speaker 10: Overall, it's the fact that parents and caregivers and ed

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Speaker 10: and physicians and legislators currently cannot help protect kids digitally

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Speaker 10: like they can in real life with seat belts and

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Speaker 10: sunscreens and healthy diets, et cetera. There's a world of

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Speaker 10: danger living deep in children's digital signal, and it is

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Speaker 10: harming them, not at low rates, but at frequent rates.

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Speaker 10: And it's the worst of the worst, whether it's exposure

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Speaker 10: to extreme violence, graphic sexual content, suicidal ideation, disordered eating,

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Speaker 10: you name it. Kids are encountering it at a much

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Speaker 10: younger age, at a much more frequent rate, and parents who

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Speaker 10: care about them have no idea. So that's that's the problem,

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Speaker 10: and it's not getting better.

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Speaker 1: Do we have a solution or do you know.

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Speaker 2: What what is the solution?

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Speaker 1: Because parents, you know, they want, like you said, we

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Speaker 1: do all these things for our kids, you know, teach

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Speaker 1: them how to you know, walk and ride their bikes safely,

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Speaker 1: and all this stuff, But when it comes to the

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Speaker 1: phones and tablets, most of the kids are actually more

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Speaker 1: advanced than the parents.

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Speaker 10: They are, and that's why it's a multifaceted approach. While

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Speaker 10: the Bark app and the Bark smartphone are one key

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Speaker 10: component to it right because at least we're giving you

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Speaker 10: insights and helping you help your child have a healthier

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Speaker 10: relationship with tech, it's not the total solution. It starts

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Speaker 10: with education and awareness. As parents and caregivers, we need

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Speaker 10: to know what is happening and the rate at which

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Speaker 10: it's happening. We need to have multiple, candid conversations with

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Speaker 10: our children much earlier than we might think, at a

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Speaker 10: more frequent rate, because it's all about that relationship that

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Speaker 10: you have with your child will help you navigate these

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Speaker 10: rocky waters as they grow up. So using tech like Bark,

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Speaker 10: having that conversation and those relationships, understanding you know, just

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Speaker 10: the nuances, and then advocating for change. Right now, the

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Speaker 10: laws aren't set up to protect children from the harms

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Speaker 10: that social media causes them, and so reaching out to

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Speaker 10: your local legislator to advocate for change and reform that

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Speaker 10: will hold social media companies more accountable. I mean just

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Speaker 10: over the past year, social media has generated over eleven

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Speaker 10: billion dollars in revenue off of minors children under the

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Speaker 10: age of eighteen, So they do not have a vested

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Speaker 10: interest in minimizing the amount of time children are spending

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Speaker 10: on their platforms.

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Speaker 2: It starts with us, Wow, that's a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: Okay, you posted something the other day about incognito mode.

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Speaker 1: People think that they're protected or private. Tell me what

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Speaker 1: we need to know about incognito mode.

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Speaker 10: Essentially, children are using incognito mode because they think it's

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Speaker 10: completely anonymous, when in fact, this goes back to the

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Speaker 10: Snapchat conversation we just had that information lives somewhere. Just

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Speaker 10: because your parent can't get on that computer and see

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Speaker 10: your browser history. The internet service provider, the websites and

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Speaker 10: apps that you visited, they know where you went, and

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Speaker 10: if needed, that information can be shared with your parent

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Speaker 10: or let's say, employer when you get older. So it's

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Speaker 10: an important and misunderstood concept that does get abused. Certainly,

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Speaker 10: it's a very cool aspect if you're trying to, you know,

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Speaker 10: hide search history when you're trying to shop for a

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Speaker 10: present for somebody, but it's obviously used for more nefarious purposes.

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Speaker 1: What's your advice to parents about the safety tools that

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Speaker 1: are built into some of these products?

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Speaker 10: Oh my gosh, well cut me off at any time,

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Speaker 10: but here we go, lightning round. Don't give your kid unfettered,

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Speaker 10: unmonitored access to the internet. Keep connected tech and common

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Speaker 10: areas at the home, not in their bedrooms. Don't let

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Speaker 10: them access it overnight. Don't let your child have access

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Speaker 10: to things that you have not spent time on yourself.

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Speaker 10: Make sure that you just take a like one minute

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Speaker 10: literally to google whatever your child can access, plus the

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Speaker 10: term parental controls and see what free built in options

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Speaker 10: you have right at your disposal that you might not

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Speaker 10: even know about. And then finally, just talk to your kids.

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Speaker 10: Let them know that they are loved unconditionally and they

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Speaker 10: can talk to you about anything and you won't freak out.

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Speaker 1: T Tanya Jordan, author and founder of Parenting in a

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Speaker 1: Tech World and Bark Technologies Chief Parent Officer. Please follow

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Speaker 1: Titanya on Instagram. T t a n Ia Jordan on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: She posts great rules about all this stuff that you

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Speaker 1: need to know. At least it'll get you thinking. At

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Speaker 1: least it'll remind you that you have to do this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I know it's tough as a parent, Believe me. It

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Speaker 1: is so easy to hand our kids our phone or

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Speaker 1: their phone or let them play these games for a

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Speaker 1: half an hour, an hour and it just continues to

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Speaker 1: go more. Rich On Tech, come in your way right

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Speaker 1: after this. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich Demiro

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Speaker 1: You can check out my stories. Let's go to Terry

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Speaker 1: in Seal Beach. Terry, you're on with Rich?

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Speaker 5: Hi, Rich, how are you?

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Speaker 2: I am doing fantastic.

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Speaker 3: How are you well.

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Speaker 6: I'm getting ready to go out of the country for

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Speaker 6: a couple of weeks, and obviously I can't use an

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Speaker 6: e SIM on my phone. I have to actually physically

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Speaker 6: swap out sim through each country I go to. And

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Speaker 6: I'm just wondering, is there a way, even if I'm

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Speaker 6: using a foreign SIM that I can still text and

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Speaker 6: receive in sentex the folks.

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Speaker 2: Back here, is this an iPhone or a different type

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Speaker 2: of phone?

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Speaker 6: No, it's a it's a Google Pixel five A five G,

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Speaker 6: which is not you know, I heard your recommendation a

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01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:40,919
Speaker 6: long time ago about using a SIMS. Unfortunately I can't

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Speaker 6: use an SIM on this phone.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, that might have been before. Is that before

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Speaker 1: the SIM started on those yes? Okay, all right, So

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01:05:48,160 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 1: you've got so you basically have a carrier here in

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Speaker 1: the US, like a T Mobile, Verizon, whatever it is,

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01:05:53,480 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: and you're going to pop that SIM card out, and

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Speaker 1: then you're going to pop in a SIM card for

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01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 1: the country that you are in. Correct, Okay, your text

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01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:06,840
Speaker 1: messages from the other SIM will not still get delivered

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01:06:06,840 --> 01:06:09,560
Speaker 1: to that phone because they are dependent on that SIM card,

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01:06:10,280 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 1: and the I'm trying to think if there's a solution.

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01:06:14,040 --> 01:06:17,960
Speaker 1: The only solution I can think of is sometimes these

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Speaker 1: carriers have an app, like a Verizon Messages or a

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Speaker 1: T Mobile Digits that will deliver the messages digitally to

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Speaker 1: your phone, But that is carrier dependent, and I don't

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01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:31,320
Speaker 1: know if you have the SIM card in there or

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Speaker 1: out of there, if that would still work.

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Speaker 3: Like, like, I.

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Speaker 1: Want to be able to check my text messages on

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01:06:36,920 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 1: a different device, and it's really tricky to be able

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Speaker 1: to do that. So I think It's one of those

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Speaker 1: things where once that SIM card is out, it's just

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01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,919
Speaker 1: that those texts are not going to come through on there.

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Speaker 6: Let me ask you this. I have a backup phone

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01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,080
Speaker 6: that I take with me because I learned the hard way.

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01:06:54,280 --> 01:06:57,480
Speaker 6: If you drop a phone on a remote island, Yeah,

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01:06:57,520 --> 01:06:59,120
Speaker 6: and it cracks, you're out of luck.

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01:06:59,240 --> 01:06:59,439
Speaker 18: Yep.

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01:06:59,600 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 6: But you can still use a backup phone via Wi Fi.

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01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:05,960
Speaker 6: So I was just wondering if I bring my backup

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01:07:06,000 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 6: phone with my US domestic SIM in it, will I

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01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:11,919
Speaker 6: be able to text by a Wi Fi?

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01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:13,040
Speaker 2: Oh yeah?

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01:07:13,080 --> 01:07:13,360
Speaker 3: Does that?

1350
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:15,280
Speaker 2: Does that phone have Wi Fi calling on it?

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01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:15,840
Speaker 4: Oh?

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01:07:15,920 --> 01:07:17,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, turn on the wife. So here's what you do.

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01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: Turn on the Wi Fi call, put the take the

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01:07:20,600 --> 01:07:22,880
Speaker 1: SIM out, put it in that phone. It will activate.

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01:07:23,720 --> 01:07:25,840
Speaker 1: You know, usually it's pretty automatic. It just switches over

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01:07:25,880 --> 01:07:28,240
Speaker 1: if you if you pop the SIM in there, uh,

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01:07:28,320 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 1: it will activate. Once that's activated, your old phone will

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01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: have no service, you know. Now you can use that

1359
01:07:33,320 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 1: on your trip. But this old phone, this other phone,

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01:07:36,800 --> 01:07:39,280
Speaker 1: you will turn on Wi Fi calling and then once

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01:07:39,280 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: you're over in the other country, just make sure your

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Speaker 1: roaming is off and uh it as long as this

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01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: carrier supports Wi Fi calling, your text will come through

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01:07:47,800 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 1: and your phone calls will come through on Wi Fi calling.

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Speaker 2: Now here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: I learned this actually from a friend when I was

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01:07:53,800 --> 01:07:56,960
Speaker 1: in Japan, because I had my phone off and I

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01:07:57,000 --> 01:07:58,280
Speaker 1: was like, oh, yeah, I've got my I don't want

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01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:00,440
Speaker 1: to use my US carrier. He's like, dude, He's like,

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01:08:00,440 --> 01:08:01,919
Speaker 1: why don't you just turn on your Wi Fi calling.

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01:08:02,000 --> 01:08:04,120
Speaker 1: I said, well, text messages won't come through. He goes, yeah,

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01:08:04,120 --> 01:08:06,320
Speaker 1: they will, and sure enough they came through as soon

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01:08:06,360 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: as I activated that Wi Fi calling on that but

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01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,800
Speaker 1: kept the roaming off. So I want to report back though, Terry,

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Speaker 1: when you get back, you got it all right, good luck,

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01:08:15,640 --> 01:08:17,920
Speaker 1: have fun. And it sounds like a nice place you're

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01:08:17,920 --> 01:08:18,200
Speaker 1: going to.

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Speaker 6: If it's a it's called Fiji.

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01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:21,919
Speaker 2: Oh okay, well, enjoy Fiji.

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01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 6: It's actually even warmer than southern California right now.

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Speaker 1: I've had water from there and it's it's pretty tasty.

1382
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:32,320
Speaker 1: So I imagine the whole island is even better. Thanks

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01:08:32,400 --> 01:08:34,439
Speaker 1: for the call today, triple eight rich one on one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: You know, the Fiji water is so good. Even my kids.

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01:08:41,160 --> 01:08:43,280
Speaker 1: My kids are nine to twelve, and even they know

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01:08:43,360 --> 01:08:45,280
Speaker 1: the quality of Fiji water. When they're in the store

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01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 1: and I'm like, look, you can pick out any water

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01:08:46,880 --> 01:08:49,599
Speaker 1: bottle you want. They're like, Dad, we want Fiji. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what kind of kids am I raising that they're drinking

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Speaker 1: Fiji water? When I was a kid, I drank out

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Speaker 1: of the hose right and it was cold and delicious,

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01:08:57,439 --> 01:09:01,080
Speaker 1: And you know what Fiji water is very is very similar.

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Speaker 2: I guess you know you find things at CS.

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01:09:05,160 --> 01:09:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a recommendation of a product that

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01:09:07,320 --> 01:09:09,880
Speaker 1: I really found there and I've been using ever since.

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01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:12,679
Speaker 1: It's called the Gator Grip. This thing is so simple,

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01:09:12,800 --> 01:09:16,519
Speaker 1: it's so easy. It's literally a almost like a clothes

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01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 1: pin for your phone, and it has a very simple functionality.

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01:09:20,560 --> 01:09:22,400
Speaker 1: You put this thing on your phone and you can

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01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,439
Speaker 1: now prop up your phone so you can watch videos

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01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,360
Speaker 1: on it. It's like fifteen bucks rich on tech dot

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01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,160
Speaker 1: TV slash Shop if you want the link to that.

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01:09:31,920 --> 01:09:33,840
Speaker 1: I love when I find little things like this that

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01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 1: I actually use.

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Speaker 3: Triple A.

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Speaker 2: Rich one on one is the phone number eight eight

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Speaker 2: eight seven four.

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Speaker 1: To two four one zero one. This is the show

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01:09:43,640 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 1: where I talk about the tech stuff I think you

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01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:47,880
Speaker 1: should know about. It's also the place where I answer

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01:09:48,120 --> 01:09:49,440
Speaker 1: your tech questions.

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01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 2: Gina in Venice. You're on with Rich.

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01:09:53,040 --> 01:09:58,000
Speaker 19: So I'm wondering. I'm an Apple person, I have across

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01:09:58,800 --> 01:10:01,920
Speaker 19: the AU platform, and I'm wondering if there's a way

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01:10:02,560 --> 01:10:08,000
Speaker 19: to think applications that I have like to sink Gmail

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01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:12,080
Speaker 19: across all applications. So when I i'd wather it a

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01:10:12,120 --> 01:10:16,760
Speaker 19: message or email and on my iPhone and delete it,

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01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:22,280
Speaker 19: it's all also deleted on my Mac or my iPad

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01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:23,599
Speaker 19: or whatever.

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01:10:24,760 --> 01:10:25,000
Speaker 3: Yes.

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01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:27,000
Speaker 2: Yes, So there's a couple of ways you can do this.

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01:10:28,400 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: If you download, like specifically for Gmail, if you download

1424
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:35,800
Speaker 1: the Gmail app, you can install that on your various devices,

1425
01:10:35,880 --> 01:10:38,360
Speaker 1: and if you delete a message on one device, whether

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01:10:38,400 --> 01:10:40,559
Speaker 1: it's the web, whether it's the iPhone, whether it's the iPad,

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,280
Speaker 1: it will delete on all the other devices as well,

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01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: if you're using the Apple Mail app, as long as

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01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:51,120
Speaker 1: you set up the email using kind of like their flow,

1430
01:10:51,160 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 1: which if you haven't done this in a while, like

1431
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,120
Speaker 1: if you set it up a long time ago, you

1432
01:10:55,200 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: might have. You might have set it up as what's

1433
01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:00,840
Speaker 1: called pop three. And if you're setting up is pop three,

1434
01:11:00,960 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 1: that means that the email is kind of downloaded to

1435
01:11:03,439 --> 01:11:06,280
Speaker 1: your device and everything happens locally, so you want to

1436
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,880
Speaker 1: set it up as what's called imap imap, and when

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01:11:09,880 --> 01:11:12,439
Speaker 1: you make a change there, it is reflected on the server,

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01:11:12,560 --> 01:11:15,800
Speaker 1: which means it'll be reflected anywhere else. So if it's

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01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,200
Speaker 1: not deleting, Like let's say you've got the mail app

1440
01:11:18,240 --> 01:11:20,479
Speaker 1: on your phone, you delete an email from Gmail and

1441
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:23,080
Speaker 1: it doesn't delete, then that means I would go in.

1442
01:11:23,160 --> 01:11:26,439
Speaker 1: I would delete my entire email account from the mail

1443
01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: app and set it up fresh, and your your email

1444
01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:31,439
Speaker 1: will be safe because it's it's going to be on

1445
01:11:31,479 --> 01:11:34,559
Speaker 1: the server from Gmail. Yes, yeah, I think the Gmail

1446
01:11:34,560 --> 01:11:36,240
Speaker 1: app is the easiest way to go. That's what I

1447
01:11:36,360 --> 01:11:38,440
Speaker 1: use because it does work across everything.

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01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 19: Perfect and I learned stuff. And I have one teenie quick.

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Speaker 2: Question famous last words on this show, Gina.

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01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:48,000
Speaker 6: I know.

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01:11:50,760 --> 01:11:56,599
Speaker 19: When you click the box trust this device, yes, does it?

1452
01:11:58,200 --> 01:11:58,439
Speaker 3: Yes?

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01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:01,000
Speaker 1: You should only click that box when you are attaching

1454
01:12:01,040 --> 01:12:04,519
Speaker 1: the device a trust the device to your computer or

1455
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 1: like if you see that message when you are plugging

1456
01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:10,160
Speaker 1: into like an outlet at the airport, run as far

1457
01:12:10,160 --> 01:12:12,400
Speaker 1: as you can, because that is why they put that there.

1458
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 1: That is only for your phone to your computer, and

1459
01:12:17,560 --> 01:12:20,280
Speaker 1: that is because it means that you can transfer data

1460
01:12:20,320 --> 01:12:22,800
Speaker 1: between those two things. If you see that message anywhere else,

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01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 1: if you're at a library, public computer, you do not

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01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: want to do that.

1463
01:12:26,600 --> 01:12:27,960
Speaker 2: You don't want to trust that device.

1464
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:31,400
Speaker 1: Your device can still charge off of that computer or

1465
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:34,759
Speaker 1: that outlet, but it will not send data. So trust

1466
01:12:34,760 --> 01:12:37,840
Speaker 1: this device is Take that very seriously when you see it.

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01:12:37,880 --> 01:12:39,160
Speaker 1: That's there for a reason.

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01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:41,719
Speaker 19: All right, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Rich.

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01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:46,040
Speaker 19: I really appreciate your program and all the information you provide.

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01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 1: Well, Gina, I appreciate you listening. You are the best

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01:12:49,080 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: part of the show.

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01:12:50,160 --> 01:12:50,800
Speaker 2: Thanks so much.

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01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: Speaking of being out and about and traveling, if you're

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01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 1: a nerd like me, the first thing you do when

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01:12:56,360 --> 01:12:59,040
Speaker 1: you get to any new place, whether it's a hotel

1477
01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: room or or you know you're traveling in an airport,

1478
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,439
Speaker 1: you want to download something. I'm always doing a speed test,

1479
01:13:05,479 --> 01:13:07,240
Speaker 1: so I wanted to share just the app that I

1480
01:13:07,320 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: really like that does this easily and fast, and I

1481
01:13:10,120 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 1: kind of like just the animations on it. It's called

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01:13:12,880 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: Meteor meteo R. It's available for iOS and Android and

1483
01:13:18,360 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 1: all you have to do is download the app and

1484
01:13:20,520 --> 01:13:22,960
Speaker 1: you'll see a big button that says speed test and

1485
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:25,000
Speaker 1: you can do the speed test. And what I like

1486
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,479
Speaker 1: about it is it shows you both the ping, the

1487
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:31,120
Speaker 1: download and the upload, and when it's done with the test,

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01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 1: it will actually show you some apps and how those

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01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,160
Speaker 1: apps are expected to perform.

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01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 2: Based on this speed test. And the neat thing is.

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01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,000
Speaker 1: You can select the apps that you use the most,

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01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,320
Speaker 1: so you can see if the things that you do

1493
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:45,800
Speaker 1: will work. Now, I will tell you, having done many

1494
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:48,960
Speaker 1: many speed tests over the years, internet speeds out and

1495
01:13:49,000 --> 01:13:52,080
Speaker 1: about on cellular and Wi Fi have gotten way better

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01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:53,120
Speaker 1: than they ever have been.

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01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 3: So I think for ninety nine percent of things you want.

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01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:57,720
Speaker 1: To do, you're going to find the speed that you

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01:13:57,800 --> 01:14:00,479
Speaker 1: need just about anywhere you are, unless you're trying to

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Speaker 1: download a movie.

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01:14:01,479 --> 01:14:04,320
Speaker 2: Welcome back to another hour of Rich on Tech.

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01:14:04,439 --> 01:14:06,479
Speaker 1: This is the show where I talk about the tech

1503
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:09,080
Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the

1504
01:14:09,240 --> 01:14:13,599
Speaker 1: place where I answer your questions about technology. My name

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01:14:13,640 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: is rich Demiro. The website for the show Richontech dot tv.

1506
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 1: If you want to get in touch with the show,

1507
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:23,759
Speaker 1: you can tap the email icon that'll send a message

1508
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:26,439
Speaker 1: right to my screen. And yes, you send a lot

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01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,000
Speaker 1: of them. Thank you for that. I do appreciate it.

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01:14:29,320 --> 01:14:31,840
Speaker 1: Let's get to the first question this hour. It comes

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01:14:31,840 --> 01:14:34,720
Speaker 1: from Chris. Chris says, Hey, Rich, I listened to your

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01:14:34,800 --> 01:14:37,519
Speaker 1: radio show on one oh four to three radio when

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01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:40,639
Speaker 1: I can in Caerville, Texas. I would like to buy

1514
01:14:40,680 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 1: my handicap brother and Android pad so he can play

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01:14:44,120 --> 01:14:47,160
Speaker 1: Solitaire and maybe a few other easy games. We would

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01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 1: like him to also be able to get emails and

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01:14:49,240 --> 01:14:52,080
Speaker 1: so we can zoom with him. As the six siblings

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01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:55,080
Speaker 1: are scattered all over the country, I can't tell if

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01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: any of the pads come with games. I really don't

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01:14:57,400 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 1: want to have to subscribe to anything at all possible.

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01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:03,080
Speaker 1: I think if he can download game apps from the internet,

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01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:05,639
Speaker 1: but once it's downloaded, will he need to be hooked

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01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:05,960
Speaker 1: to the.

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01:15:05,840 --> 01:15:06,799
Speaker 2: Internet to play?

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01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: There are restrictions in the group home that he lives in.

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01:15:10,240 --> 01:15:12,759
Speaker 1: Thanks for any input you can offer, Chris.

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Speaker 2: Well, Chris, it really depends on the game.

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01:15:15,600 --> 01:15:18,000
Speaker 1: So most of these tablets do not come with built

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01:15:18,040 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 1: in games. You may find that some of them do,

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01:15:20,960 --> 01:15:24,120
Speaker 1: but I think typically tablets just come kind of without

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01:15:24,160 --> 01:15:26,640
Speaker 1: anything installed on them, and you install the apps that

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01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:30,400
Speaker 1: you want, so you probably will need internet access at

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01:15:30,439 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 1: least for the initial setup. That's the way it works

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01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 1: with most of the tablets that I've set up, and

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01:15:35,400 --> 01:15:39,280
Speaker 1: you'll probably need internet access at least to download the games.

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01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:39,639
Speaker 2: The first time.

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01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:43,280
Speaker 1: But if you search in Google Play, you will notice

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01:15:43,320 --> 01:15:47,240
Speaker 1: that some games are marked offline play. So if you

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01:15:47,320 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 1: go into Google Play, if you have an Android phone

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01:15:49,760 --> 01:15:54,080
Speaker 1: and just go ahead and search offline games, and you

1541
01:15:54,120 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 1: can search for that, and you will see a whole

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01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:58,679
Speaker 1: bunch of games come up. And if you tap into

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01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 1: one of those games, it says about this game, and

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01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: there's a couple of little kind of boxes underneath this

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01:16:05,200 --> 01:16:09,920
Speaker 1: one says Strategy Simulation Casual offline, So that tells you

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01:16:09,960 --> 01:16:12,800
Speaker 1: that this game works offline. It also tells you up

1547
01:16:12,880 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 1: at the top of the listing if it's available for phone,

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01:16:16,080 --> 01:16:19,160
Speaker 1: chromebook and tablet, and so you can see which games

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01:16:19,200 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 1: will work on the different devices.

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01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,280
Speaker 2: If you tap offline again, you can see a.

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01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:26,519
Speaker 1: Whole list of games that are offline games, and you'll

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01:16:26,520 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 1: find a whole bunch of them.

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01:16:27,680 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 2: That is probably the best way to do it.

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01:16:29,640 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: Set up the tablet, download the games at your place,

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01:16:32,800 --> 01:16:34,760
Speaker 1: and then hand it over to him. Now, when it

1556
01:16:34,800 --> 01:16:37,640
Speaker 1: comes to tablets, you didn't ask for any recommendations, but

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01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 1: I'll give you a few that I like. I think

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01:16:40,120 --> 01:16:42,400
Speaker 1: it depends, of course, how much you want to spend.

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01:16:42,720 --> 01:16:46,680
Speaker 1: I know that the Amazon Fire tablets are always very inexpensive,

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01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 1: and so people are drawn to them. The thing to

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01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:52,439
Speaker 1: know about that is that not every game, not every

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01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,559
Speaker 1: app is available, and you do not have access to

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01:16:55,600 --> 01:16:58,759
Speaker 1: Google Play, at least not easily on the Fire tablet.

1564
01:16:58,880 --> 01:17:01,960
Speaker 1: So if you want Google Play games, that's something that

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01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 1: you would probably want a different tablet for.

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01:17:03,960 --> 01:17:04,879
Speaker 2: So what do I recommend?

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01:17:05,240 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 1: The one plus Pad is a really nice tablet that

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01:17:08,560 --> 01:17:11,320
Speaker 1: starts at four hundred and seventy nine dollars. It often

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01:17:11,360 --> 01:17:13,240
Speaker 1: goes on sale, so I would definitely look for that

1570
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:17,120
Speaker 1: at a cheaper price. But that is a fantastic combination

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01:17:17,320 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 1: of really high end specs and a great price, so

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01:17:20,800 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 1: I do like that one. The other one, if you

1573
01:17:23,439 --> 01:17:25,960
Speaker 1: want to go on the cheaper end, is the Nokia

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01:17:26,120 --> 01:17:29,280
Speaker 1: T ten. Now, this is a small tablet, it's just

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01:17:29,320 --> 01:17:32,920
Speaker 1: about eight inches, but it's a very inexpensive price. So

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01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 1: it's about one hundred and twenty nine ninety nine, and

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01:17:36,360 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 1: maybe you might even be able to find that one

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01:17:38,200 --> 01:17:40,920
Speaker 1: for cheaper. It doesn't have the best screen, it doesn't

1579
01:17:40,920 --> 01:17:42,439
Speaker 1: have the best specs, but I.

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01:17:42,360 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 3: Have tested this.

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01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,280
Speaker 2: It's easy to hold, it's fine for basic things.

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01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:48,519
Speaker 1: You know, some of the games might be a little

1583
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:51,040
Speaker 1: sluggish on it, but that is another option. If you

1584
01:17:51,080 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: want something that's going to be the best combination of

1585
01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,680
Speaker 1: price and performance and features, I think you go with

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01:17:56,720 --> 01:18:01,000
Speaker 1: a Galaxy tab S nine FE and that starts at

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01:18:01,040 --> 01:18:02,519
Speaker 1: three hundred and eighty nine dollars.

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01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,679
Speaker 2: That is from Samsung. It is great. It's water resistant,

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01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:07,240
Speaker 2: it's dust resistant, it's.

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01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,799
Speaker 1: Got a nice big screen, it's got an spen included,

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01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:12,519
Speaker 1: it's got a nice long lasting battery. That is a

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01:18:12,560 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: really solid tablet. My only downside of that it is

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01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,519
Speaker 1: a little bit on the heavier side. But those are

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01:18:18,600 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 1: some great solutions. And thank you for listening in Texas.

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01:18:23,160 --> 01:18:26,360
Speaker 1: Next up, Tony says I have an iPhone fourteen plus

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01:18:26,520 --> 01:18:30,519
Speaker 1: limited warranty ending very soon. I currently pay fourteen dollars

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01:18:30,600 --> 01:18:34,080
Speaker 1: a month for Assurion with Verizon. At what point is

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01:18:34,200 --> 01:18:37,519
Speaker 1: insurance protection no longer worth it? And is there better

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01:18:37,600 --> 01:18:42,160
Speaker 1: insurance protection elsewhere? Thanks for all the wonderful information you provide, Tony.

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01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 1: Oh no, Tony, you're gonna make me kick a bee's

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01:18:44,840 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 1: nest here with your question, I am probably.

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01:18:47,080 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 2: Gonna be very controversial in my answer, but I am.

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01:18:50,120 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 1: Not a huge fan of these extended warranty programs.

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01:18:53,680 --> 01:18:54,679
Speaker 3: I never have been.

1605
01:18:55,240 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 2: And I get it.

1606
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:58,479
Speaker 3: Retailers, the carriers.

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01:18:58,280 --> 01:19:00,840
Speaker 1: The phone companies, they all make a lot of money

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01:19:00,840 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 1: off of this. What are they making money off of.

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01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,720
Speaker 1: They're making money off of fear. Fear that you're gonna

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01:19:05,800 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 1: drop your phone, and fear that you're gonna break your phone,

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01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:10,400
Speaker 1: and fear that you're gonna not have the money to

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01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:12,080
Speaker 1: replace it or repair it.

1613
01:19:12,400 --> 01:19:14,680
Speaker 2: But in many instances, and I will tell you this,

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01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 2: I just don't.

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01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:17,840
Speaker 1: Think that the insurance is worth it. Let's just do

1616
01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:21,599
Speaker 1: simple math. So you're talking fourteen dollars a month times

1617
01:19:21,680 --> 01:19:25,000
Speaker 1: twelve months, that's one hundred and sixty eight dollars you're

1618
01:19:25,000 --> 01:19:28,360
Speaker 1: paying on top of your expensive smartphone. And by the way,

1619
01:19:28,479 --> 01:19:31,720
Speaker 1: that does not include any deductibles. And so when you

1620
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 1: go to get your screen repaired or if it's a

1621
01:19:33,840 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 1: bigger repair, it's gonna cost even more money. So now

1622
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:39,680
Speaker 1: you're talking just for one year. Let's just say you're

1623
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 1: up to two hundred dollars. So how much would that repair.

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01:19:42,720 --> 01:19:46,640
Speaker 1: Be if you got one repair at full price and

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01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,080
Speaker 1: you went to someone in the mall that replaces the screen,

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01:19:49,240 --> 01:19:50,760
Speaker 1: or if you went to the Apple store and got

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01:19:50,760 --> 01:19:53,640
Speaker 1: the screen replaced, you know it might be cheaper than that.

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01:19:53,720 --> 01:19:55,840
Speaker 2: Let's see how much does Apple charge hold on?

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01:19:56,240 --> 01:20:00,559
Speaker 1: Okay, so checking the Apple Support website, it is to

1630
01:20:00,600 --> 01:20:03,160
Speaker 1: get a screen repair if you're out of warranty.

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01:20:03,200 --> 01:20:04,880
Speaker 2: Now keep in mind this is from Apple. They're going

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01:20:04,960 --> 01:20:05,719
Speaker 2: to charge the most.

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01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 1: You can go to a third party repair facility that

1634
01:20:08,360 --> 01:20:11,200
Speaker 1: may charge less, but it's three hundred and twenty nine

1635
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:13,720
Speaker 1: dollars if you have no coverage on your phone. Now,

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01:20:13,800 --> 01:20:16,000
Speaker 1: if you have an Apple Care Plus plan, it is

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01:20:16,080 --> 01:20:16,759
Speaker 1: twenty nine.

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01:20:16,640 --> 01:20:19,320
Speaker 2: Dollars to get that repair. That sounds a lot better.

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01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:22,400
Speaker 1: But how much is the Apple Care Plus Well, for

1640
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:25,120
Speaker 1: two years, it is one hundred and seventy nine dollars,

1641
01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:27,760
Speaker 1: So do the math. Two years one hundred and seventy

1642
01:20:27,840 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 1: nine dollars plus the twenty nine. Now you're up to

1643
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,000
Speaker 1: two hundred and ten dollars for that screen repair. So

1644
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:35,760
Speaker 1: just under that three hundred and twenty nine dollars cost. Now,

1645
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:40,320
Speaker 1: I will tell you I have tested hundreds of phones.

1646
01:20:40,120 --> 01:20:43,519
Speaker 2: Over the years okay, and I bring them everywhere.

1647
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: I have them in my car, they fall out of

1648
01:20:46,080 --> 01:20:52,120
Speaker 1: my pants pocket whatever. I have broken, maybe maybe two

1649
01:20:52,320 --> 01:20:55,559
Speaker 1: or three screens in my entire lifetime. Now, if you

1650
01:20:55,680 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: have a good case on your phone and a good

1651
01:20:58,320 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: screen protector on your phone, ninety nine percent of the

1652
01:21:01,360 --> 01:21:04,360
Speaker 1: time your phone is going to be protected anyway. And

1653
01:21:04,400 --> 01:21:06,840
Speaker 1: what does that leave Well, that leaves theft. So if

1654
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:09,320
Speaker 1: your phone is stolen and you don't have it, now

1655
01:21:09,360 --> 01:21:10,720
Speaker 1: you're paying even more for.

1656
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:12,160
Speaker 2: Your coverage for your insurance.

1657
01:21:12,160 --> 01:21:16,040
Speaker 1: So I feel like my advice is always to take

1658
01:21:16,040 --> 01:21:18,519
Speaker 1: that fourteen dollars a month, put it in a separate

1659
01:21:18,640 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 1: savings account, and before you know it, you will be

1660
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,680
Speaker 1: self insured against anything that happens to your phone. And

1661
01:21:24,720 --> 01:21:26,519
Speaker 1: by the way, you may even save up enough money

1662
01:21:26,520 --> 01:21:28,080
Speaker 1: to buy a new phone completely.

1663
01:21:28,600 --> 01:21:30,320
Speaker 2: So that is my thought.

1664
01:21:30,479 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: If you feel better paying that fourteen dollars a month

1665
01:21:32,960 --> 01:21:35,680
Speaker 1: for that insurance plan, by all means, go ahead and

1666
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 1: do it. I'm just giving you my perspective on this,

1667
01:21:38,280 --> 01:21:40,720
Speaker 1: and I will tell you over the years I have

1668
01:21:40,920 --> 01:21:43,639
Speaker 1: had to you know, since I don't buy the Apple

1669
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:47,880
Speaker 1: Care on my laptop computers either, I have had to

1670
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:51,519
Speaker 1: repair my laptop computer twice, and both times the repair

1671
01:21:51,600 --> 01:21:54,160
Speaker 1: is worse. Six hundred dollars, which is a lot. Probably

1672
01:21:54,160 --> 01:21:56,839
Speaker 1: would have been cheaper with Apple Care, but that's twice

1673
01:21:57,000 --> 01:21:58,840
Speaker 1: in probably fifteen years that.

1674
01:21:58,840 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 2: I've had Mac.

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01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:02,320
Speaker 1: So you know, you got to do the math on

1676
01:22:02,360 --> 01:22:04,799
Speaker 1: these things. If you feel good having it, go ahead.

1677
01:22:04,840 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 1: But my feeling is that you're paying a lot for

1678
01:22:07,520 --> 01:22:08,000
Speaker 1: something that.

1679
01:22:07,960 --> 01:22:08,760
Speaker 2: You may not use.

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01:22:09,200 --> 01:22:11,559
Speaker 1: One more quick one here, Jennifer says, Hey, Rich, do

1681
01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,200
Speaker 1: you know if Amazon does anything with the how is

1682
01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:17,920
Speaker 1: your delivery responses after each delivery? I hope to reward

1683
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:20,800
Speaker 1: the drivers who manage to deliver my packages to my

1684
01:22:20,960 --> 01:22:25,080
Speaker 1: door rather than to my neighbors. I've been diligently responding

1685
01:22:25,160 --> 01:22:27,960
Speaker 1: each time, but wonder if it's worth the effort. I'm

1686
01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:30,479
Speaker 1: a devoted follower. I've learned so much from you over

1687
01:22:30,520 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 1: the years. Thank you for providing interesting, useful information in

1688
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 1: easy to understand terms. Jennifer in Laguna Hills, California. Jennifer,

1689
01:22:39,200 --> 01:22:41,679
Speaker 1: thanks for the kind words. I did ask Amazon about

1690
01:22:41,720 --> 01:22:44,600
Speaker 1: this and they did say, long story short, this is

1691
01:22:44,640 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 1: a very important mechanism for our delivery service partners to assess.

1692
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:50,080
Speaker 2: Their driver's performance.

1693
01:22:50,120 --> 01:22:53,480
Speaker 1: It's also the best way for customers to show their appreciation.

1694
01:22:53,880 --> 01:22:56,880
Speaker 1: So let your listener know that those responses are important

1695
01:22:56,920 --> 01:22:59,840
Speaker 1: and are linked to the driver who delivered their packages,

1696
01:23:00,160 --> 01:23:01,120
Speaker 1: not their neighbors.

1697
01:23:01,360 --> 01:23:02,400
Speaker 2: Well, there you go, Jennifer.

1698
01:23:02,439 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 1: It sounds like every time you leave a good review,

1699
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:06,360
Speaker 1: it is doing good things for that driver.

1700
01:23:06,720 --> 01:23:07,360
Speaker 3: Keep them coming.

1701
01:23:07,840 --> 01:23:08,800
Speaker 1: My name is rich Dmiro.

1702
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:10,160
Speaker 3: The website for the show.

1703
01:23:10,160 --> 01:23:13,680
Speaker 2: Rich on Tech dot TV more rich on Tech come

1704
01:23:13,760 --> 01:23:14,280
Speaker 2: your way.

1705
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:15,040
Speaker 3: Right after this.

1706
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:26,519
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging

1707
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at Triple eight Rich one

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01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:33,000
Speaker 1: O one eighty eight seven four to two four one

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01:23:33,320 --> 01:23:37,840
Speaker 1: zero one. Marshall and Risita, you're on with Rich I.

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01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:38,840
Speaker 14: Shi in the Jersey It.

1711
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:40,679
Speaker 2: Hey, how's it going.

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01:23:40,840 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 14: Hanging in there?

1713
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:41,920
Speaker 20: I hope you doing on?

1714
01:23:42,439 --> 01:23:44,639
Speaker 14: I twitched over from that note twenty Ultra I had

1715
01:23:44,640 --> 01:23:46,720
Speaker 14: that you saw me and Amazon Fresh. I have a

1716
01:23:46,800 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 14: twenty four. I'm sorry I didn't know twenty Now we've

1717
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:51,360
Speaker 14: got the twenty three, but you know that it doesn't

1718
01:23:51,360 --> 01:23:53,759
Speaker 14: have a standal my memory. I got a five twelve

1719
01:23:54,479 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 14: memory when I bought the phone. Because they doubled your memory.

1720
01:23:57,920 --> 01:24:01,040
Speaker 18: Tell them whoever you talk to the jam come to

1721
01:24:01,080 --> 01:24:03,640
Speaker 18: put the expandable memory back in because they did this

1722
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,800
Speaker 18: back in the five or six senteries, and I don't

1723
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:10,519
Speaker 18: know if you remember, Oh yeah, Marshall, they put it

1724
01:24:10,560 --> 01:24:12,680
Speaker 18: back in and on the seven or something like that

1725
01:24:12,720 --> 01:24:14,280
Speaker 18: because people can brained, yep.

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01:24:14,280 --> 01:24:15,680
Speaker 2: And then they took it away.

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01:24:16,360 --> 01:24:18,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, here's the thing.

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01:24:18,720 --> 01:24:21,880
Speaker 1: People love the expandable memory. But these phones are getting

1729
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:25,000
Speaker 1: to the place where they have the phonemakers want no

1730
01:24:25,160 --> 01:24:27,040
Speaker 1: ports whatsoever.

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01:24:27,280 --> 01:24:30,080
Speaker 20: I need a good success from your part. I want

1732
01:24:30,080 --> 01:24:33,040
Speaker 20: a tangible thing. I could put it, take it like,

1733
01:24:33,600 --> 01:24:35,760
Speaker 20: you know, because if I put the micro c car

1734
01:24:35,840 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 20: once I filled it up, you know, I could take

1735
01:24:37,560 --> 01:24:39,080
Speaker 20: it out and put a fresh one in, sure, but

1736
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:40,559
Speaker 20: take it with me and then.

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01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:41,880
Speaker 18: Whatever I want to do with that car.

1738
01:24:42,280 --> 01:24:44,040
Speaker 17: I don't want to put myself up in the cloud.

1739
01:24:44,080 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 20: I don't want to put it onto a laptop.

1740
01:24:46,200 --> 01:24:48,200
Speaker 17: And like I want something I could take and put

1741
01:24:48,280 --> 01:24:51,360
Speaker 17: into the you know, plug into the phone, download all

1742
01:24:51,360 --> 01:24:53,400
Speaker 17: the stuff from you know, the pictures and videos. However,

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Speaker 17: I have put into something candile that I can put

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Speaker 17: you know, Terry Ren with me because it's got five

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Speaker 17: twelve told memory on it, so it probably needs to

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Speaker 17: be considered something large to you know, you know, not

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Speaker 17: physical arts, but like you know, data largs.

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Speaker 3: That's what it is.

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Speaker 1: Well, the good news is, look, the good news is

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Speaker 1: with these phones with the USBC, you could plug any

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Speaker 1: drive into them. Just get a hard drive if you

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01:25:15,600 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 1: want to do it that way, that's the cheapest. If

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Speaker 1: you want something small, get a flash drive. And the

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Speaker 1: phone actually has an app built in called my File.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what it's called here files my files. So

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Speaker 1: if you go into the my files app, if you

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Speaker 1: plug in a hard drive or a flash drive, it's

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Speaker 1: going to show up under storage and you could just

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Speaker 1: go ahead and copy and paste all the stuff that

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Speaker 1: you want from your phone into that drive. And I'm

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Speaker 1: sure there's some apps that can help you do that

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01:25:45,200 --> 01:25:46,800
Speaker 1: as well, but it's it's built into the phone.

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Speaker 2: It's very simple to do it that way. If you

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Speaker 2: don't want to go to the cloud.

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Speaker 1: The drives that I recommend, if you want to just

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Speaker 1: get a regular hard drive, just go on Amazon search

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Speaker 1: you know hard drive Western Digital and you can get

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Speaker 1: like a probably a two terabyte drive for like sixty bucks.

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Speaker 1: At this point. Make sure it's USBC. But if you

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Speaker 1: want to get a flash drive, PNY has what's called

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Speaker 1: the duo link and this is a USB three point

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Speaker 1: two C drive USBC. Plug it into the bottom. They

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Speaker 1: make it in one twenty eight gigabytes or two fifty six.

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Speaker 1: One twenty eight gigabytes is twenty bucks. Two fifty six

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Speaker 1: is twenty five dollars. That's that's a pretty good value

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Speaker 1: if you want to get sand disk. They make some

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01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:35,480
Speaker 1: products that are USB flash drives under the I expand

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01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:41,200
Speaker 1: name and same thing. You can get these things very cheap.

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Speaker 1: Just look for USBC there. They're kind of dropping the

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Speaker 1: I expand. It looks like so it's uh. They call

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Speaker 1: it the Ultra dual drive. Go and USBC. You can

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01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: get it all the way up to a terabyte. Okay,

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01:26:55,000 --> 01:26:57,160
Speaker 1: so one terabyte is going to be one hundred and

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Speaker 1: nine to ninety nine. You said your phone. I think

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Speaker 1: you said it was two fifty six or five twelve

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Speaker 1: thirty six ninety nine for a five hundred and twelve

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01:27:08,160 --> 01:27:12,360
Speaker 1: gigabyte drive flash drive. This thing is tiny. It's it'll

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01:27:12,360 --> 01:27:15,559
Speaker 1: fit on your keychain. So go ahead, you can get

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01:27:15,600 --> 01:27:19,000
Speaker 1: that and sync all of your photos, videos, files, whatever

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Speaker 1: you want. Marshall, And yes, I remember you. We met

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Speaker 1: outside the Amazon Fresh store and I think it was

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Speaker 1: Woodland Hills. Maybe when it was first opening. You showed

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Speaker 1: me your phone and you said, Rich, you made me

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01:27:30,439 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: get this. And when people say that to me, I'm

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01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:35,840
Speaker 1: always like hesitant. I'm like, do you like it? And

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Speaker 1: you said yes, Thanks for the call today, eighty eight

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Speaker 1: rich one on one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. You can also watch the segments that

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Speaker 1: lot of stuff you can do. Listen to the podcast.

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Speaker 2: I should say, Katie is in.

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Speaker 1: La Century City, Century City, Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 21: If we change carriers on our cell phones from one

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Speaker 21: to another, from AT and T to something else, can

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Speaker 21: we keep our phone numbers the way they are?

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Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: This is called yeah, This is called poorting out a

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01:28:46,800 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 1: phone number and basically all the cellular all the cellular

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01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:55,360
Speaker 1: companies use a system that allows them to grab the

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Speaker 1: phone number from your old account bring it to the

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Speaker 1: new account. Now, how easy that is can sometimes be

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01:29:00,920 --> 01:29:02,720
Speaker 1: a little tricky. So the thing you need to know

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Speaker 1: about porting a phone number out number one, do not

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01:29:06,160 --> 01:29:09,280
Speaker 1: cancel your old service. That is the number one thing

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01:29:09,320 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: to know. So you need to have your old service active,

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01:29:14,560 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 1: and you have to also kind of set up that

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Speaker 1: service for the port out, And with AT and T

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01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: specifically you can Basically you need a pin you need

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01:29:24,000 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 1: your account, You need your account information very perfectly for

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01:29:28,280 --> 01:29:30,759
Speaker 1: the new carrier to be able to grab that phone number.

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Speaker 1: And with AT and T you need to get a

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Speaker 1: special pin code because phone numbers are our lives, and

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01:29:37,920 --> 01:29:39,519
Speaker 1: so you don't want to just be able to have

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Speaker 1: a stranger take your phone number from you. And so

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Speaker 1: these cellular carriers have gotten pretty like strict about porting out.

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Speaker 1: They want to let you do it easily, but they

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Speaker 1: also want to make sure you are who you say

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Speaker 1: you are, and so you basically need to get a

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01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:59,040
Speaker 1: pin number with AT and T so that you can

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01:29:59,080 --> 01:30:01,960
Speaker 1: give that special pin number to the new provider and

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01:30:02,120 --> 01:30:04,679
Speaker 1: get them and that way they can grab that phone number.

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01:30:04,720 --> 01:30:08,200
Speaker 1: So on AT and T you can dial from your

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01:30:08,200 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 1: phone star Port p O R T and you can

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01:30:12,400 --> 01:30:15,120
Speaker 1: get a number transfer pin sent to you via your

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01:30:15,120 --> 01:30:18,559
Speaker 1: text message. You'll need your account passcode to generate that,

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01:30:18,880 --> 01:30:20,680
Speaker 1: so just keep in mind you will need some of

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01:30:20,720 --> 01:30:24,240
Speaker 1: that information. If you have the AT and T app,

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01:30:24,479 --> 01:30:28,000
Speaker 1: you can go into the people and Permissions and it

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01:30:28,040 --> 01:30:31,400
Speaker 1: says transfer port transfer phone number and you have to

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Speaker 1: request a PIN there and it will display on the

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01:30:33,880 --> 01:30:35,800
Speaker 1: screen and that pin number is what's going to get

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01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:39,280
Speaker 1: that new carrier the ability to grab your phone number.

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01:30:39,360 --> 01:30:42,680
Speaker 1: So it's you know, porting is not tough, but you

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01:30:42,760 --> 01:30:45,160
Speaker 1: do need to have all of your information in a

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01:30:45,200 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: line and also some of these code numbers before you

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01:30:49,040 --> 01:30:51,200
Speaker 1: can allow that port to happen. And that's for a

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01:30:51,240 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 1: reason because again people do these things where they steal

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01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:58,080
Speaker 1: your number and then they can get your codes for

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01:30:58,240 --> 01:31:01,720
Speaker 1: logging into various websites, you know, the two factor authentication

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01:31:01,840 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 1: codes and or they you know, there's a lot they

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01:31:04,439 --> 01:31:06,160
Speaker 1: can do a lot of damage they can do. So

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Speaker 1: that is the way to do it, Katie, And just yeah,

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Speaker 1: make sure you don't and by the way, once you

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01:31:12,479 --> 01:31:15,160
Speaker 1: once that number is transferred to the new service, it's

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Speaker 1: automatically canceled at your old provider. So once that number

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Speaker 1: is pulled out of your account and you have it

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01:31:20,680 --> 01:31:24,560
Speaker 1: with your new service, your old service will be disconnected automatically.

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Speaker 1: There's usually nothing you have to do after that. It

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01:31:26,960 --> 01:31:30,400
Speaker 1: should automatically disconnect. Thanks for the call, Katie. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you heard good things about me. You must have been

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Speaker 1: talking to my family now.

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Speaker 3: As you know, it is.

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Speaker 1: My goal to make this show as useful as possible.

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Speaker 1: That's why I do a mix of things. I talk

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

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Speaker 1: That includes the news of the week. That includes reviews,

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Speaker 1: that's tips, that's useful apps, And a big part of

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Speaker 1: all of this is my website, rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: You might know that I do have a job as

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Speaker 1: a TV reporter in Los Angeles for ktlaight Channel five,

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Speaker 1: So of course I have my articles on there as

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Speaker 1: well on the website, and I have my TV segments.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to the website rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv, not only can you follow me on social media.

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Speaker 1: You can find my email address there. You'll always see

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Speaker 3: Of like this show. It's the best way to keep

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Speaker 2: I will send out one to two emails per week.

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Speaker 3: One of them is my main newsletter.

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Speaker 1: And get all the links to everything I mentioned. Plus,

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Speaker 1: like I said, you could watch my latest TV segment.

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Speaker 1: So I've got all the episodes lined up in.

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Speaker 2: A wiki for the radio show What's Going On?

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Speaker 1: Rich tamiro here rich on Tech, Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 1: Joining me now is Jose Brionez. He runs a website

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01:32:55,640 --> 01:33:00,800
Speaker 1: called Dumb phone Finder. He is a digital minimal Jose,

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01:33:00,960 --> 01:33:01,719
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

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01:33:02,640 --> 01:33:03,760
Speaker 15: Thank you for having me. Rich.

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01:33:04,000 --> 01:33:07,880
Speaker 1: You embraced digital minimalism a couple of years ago.

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01:33:08,400 --> 01:33:10,800
Speaker 3: Tell me why and what that journey's been like.

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Speaker 22: So for me, I think the idea is that I

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01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:18,720
Speaker 22: was spending too much time online and that's because I

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01:33:18,760 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 22: went from one environment to another. So I got out

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Speaker 22: of college, I went to university, and I had a

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Speaker 22: very structure life, going to school, going to work hours,

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Speaker 22: and then going home. But then I went out of

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Speaker 22: that structure life to the life that I had to

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01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:39,160
Speaker 22: build myself, and I found myself spending too much of

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Speaker 22: that lifetime online.

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Speaker 15: So when I got my first.

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Speaker 22: Job, I was spending roughly about twelve to thirteen hours

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Speaker 22: online work and leisure altogether, and I did not want

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Speaker 22: to do that. So I started to find alternatives in

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Speaker 22: my life that will allow me to live what I

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Speaker 22: call a better life, a more balanced life, and interact

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01:34:01,160 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 22: with technology but not be overcome by it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so the first thing you did in this journey,

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Speaker 1: I assume was get rid of the smartphone.

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Speaker 3: What tell me about that aspect you switched.

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Speaker 1: What did you try to do, Like, what was your

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Speaker 1: goal in Did you try to reduce your time on

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01:34:15,960 --> 01:34:17,759
Speaker 1: the smartphone or just get rid of it all together?

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Speaker 22: So I think at first I was trying to keep

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Speaker 22: my smartphone and use the tools that are with it,

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Speaker 22: so screen time or other you know, kind of like

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Speaker 22: little hacks. But at some point in time I realized

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Speaker 22: that I am not a smartphone person. If I have

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Speaker 22: something available and I have the technology available to me.

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Speaker 15: I want to use it. If I have a smartphone

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Speaker 15: in my hands, I want.

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Speaker 3: To use it.

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Speaker 15: I want to get the most out of it.

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Speaker 22: So taking that and going to a simpler phone at

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01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:47,479
Speaker 22: the time, I tried a Life phone too, which has

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Speaker 22: been my device for the past four years, and it

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Speaker 22: had enough.

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Speaker 15: It had enough things that I liked.

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Speaker 22: I liked the company, and it wasn't perfect, but it

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Speaker 22: had the things that I wanted and appreciate it, and

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Speaker 22: I started to look for alternative ways to do all

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Speaker 22: of the other smart things that I had become accustomed to.

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Speaker 1: And real quick I have tested the light phone. It's

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01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:13,559
Speaker 1: basically a Kindle like a Kindle screen on a phone.

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Speaker 1: It's really small, it's very minimalistic. It's not a color

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Speaker 1: screen as far as I know. The one I tested

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Speaker 1: wasn't and it's very basic. I mean I had a

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Speaker 1: couple of functions on it. I can't remember everything it did,

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Speaker 1: but you know, you could text on it, you can

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Speaker 1: make phone calls, and I believe Verizon for a while

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Speaker 1: was allowing you to add it as a secondary line,

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Speaker 1: so theoretically you could have your smartphone during the week

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Speaker 1: and then your light phone on the weekends or nights

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01:35:37,360 --> 01:35:40,160
Speaker 1: when you go out to dinner. What has been the

1960
01:35:40,160 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 1: biggest challenge in transitioning away from a smartphone.

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Speaker 22: I think the biggest challenge for me is that you

1962
01:35:45,520 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 22: have to relearn how to operate in the twenty first

1963
01:35:48,080 --> 01:35:50,800
Speaker 22: century but with twentieth century principles.

1964
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Speaker 15: So when you go to a.

1965
01:35:52,200 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 22: Restaurant and they have a QR code, you need to ask, hey,

1966
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:58,040
Speaker 22: can I get a paper menu? Or when you go

1967
01:35:58,200 --> 01:36:01,759
Speaker 22: to the airport and instead of having the QR code

1968
01:36:01,800 --> 01:36:04,720
Speaker 22: ready for you to use and board your plane, you

1969
01:36:04,840 --> 01:36:07,320
Speaker 22: have to be mindful of printing it at home or

1970
01:36:07,360 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 22: going to the kiosk and talking to somebody so that

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01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:13,400
Speaker 22: you can get those things. And of course navigating that's

1972
01:36:13,439 --> 01:36:15,560
Speaker 22: a new thing, right Like you know GPS, so we

1973
01:36:15,600 --> 01:36:17,760
Speaker 22: don't have the bulky ones anymore, so you kind of

1974
01:36:17,760 --> 01:36:20,120
Speaker 22: have to go back a couple of years and say, Okay,

1975
01:36:20,120 --> 01:36:22,519
Speaker 22: I'm going to bring this bulky GPS on my car

1976
01:36:22,640 --> 01:36:25,760
Speaker 22: instead of having my phone with Android auto and everything

1977
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:30,559
Speaker 22: really nicely laid out. It's difficult in the beginning because

1978
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,360
Speaker 22: we're used to all of this convenience, but over time

1979
01:36:33,439 --> 01:36:37,200
Speaker 22: you start finding and you start asking more questions, and

1980
01:36:37,240 --> 01:36:39,400
Speaker 22: you find the alternatives that you need to find for

1981
01:36:39,479 --> 01:36:41,320
Speaker 22: the things that you need to do, and you live

1982
01:36:41,360 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 22: a normal life as normal as it is. It's definitely

1983
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:47,920
Speaker 22: simpler and less convenient. But for me at least, it

1984
01:36:47,920 --> 01:36:52,680
Speaker 22: has been quite a improvement in my personal life, my relationships,

1985
01:36:52,680 --> 01:36:53,599
Speaker 22: and my work as well.

1986
01:36:54,200 --> 01:36:55,960
Speaker 2: What have the improvement's been.

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Speaker 22: I think the main improvement is that I can have

1988
01:36:59,800 --> 01:37:03,280
Speaker 22: a conversation with my wife and not be distracted by

1989
01:37:03,280 --> 01:37:07,680
Speaker 22: the notifications on my phone because I'm not deeply attracted

1990
01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:08,760
Speaker 22: to it anymore.

1991
01:37:09,320 --> 01:37:10,960
Speaker 15: Even when we go on a trip.

1992
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 22: I do have a smartphone that I keep for international

1993
01:37:13,800 --> 01:37:17,760
Speaker 22: trips because when I'm international, I don't know the language,

1994
01:37:18,120 --> 01:37:19,680
Speaker 22: you know, I may not be able to figure it

1995
01:37:19,680 --> 01:37:21,519
Speaker 22: out all the things that I have figured out here

1996
01:37:21,720 --> 01:37:25,640
Speaker 22: in my local context. But even when we go international,

1997
01:37:25,960 --> 01:37:29,200
Speaker 22: I'm definitely more present, more available, you know. In my

1998
01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:31,840
Speaker 22: personal relationships, I can go to a place and not

1999
01:37:31,920 --> 01:37:35,320
Speaker 22: take my phone and I don't feel wow, oh my gosh,

2000
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 22: like what's going on in the world out there, because

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01:37:37,400 --> 01:37:39,000
Speaker 22: I get to cherish the experiences.

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01:37:39,320 --> 01:37:40,000
Speaker 15: When it comes to.

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01:37:40,000 --> 01:37:43,559
Speaker 22: Work, I finish work quite faster, you know, just because

2004
01:37:43,640 --> 01:37:45,720
Speaker 22: I don't have a lot of distractions pinging me or

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01:37:45,840 --> 01:37:49,040
Speaker 22: grabbing my attention. You kind of remain more focused in

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01:37:49,160 --> 01:37:51,080
Speaker 22: your work and you do it faster, and then you

2007
01:37:51,160 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 22: get more time for relaxation and other activities that I want.

2008
01:37:54,200 --> 01:37:55,880
Speaker 3: Do you ever feel like you're missing out?

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01:37:56,120 --> 01:37:58,479
Speaker 22: I do miss out, but I think that's a mindset

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01:37:58,479 --> 01:38:00,920
Speaker 22: that you have to accept. I did not start this

2011
01:38:01,160 --> 01:38:04,439
Speaker 22: in order to have the niceties of the twenty first

2012
01:38:04,439 --> 01:38:07,839
Speaker 22: century and the principles of the twentieth century and then

2013
01:38:07,960 --> 01:38:10,320
Speaker 22: you know, kind of like interact back and forth between them.

2014
01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:13,920
Speaker 22: I started this as a lifestyle change. I wanted my

2015
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:16,680
Speaker 22: lifestyle to change. I wanted to start interacting more with

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01:38:16,920 --> 01:38:20,200
Speaker 22: print media. I wanted to kind of have a little

2017
01:38:20,240 --> 01:38:23,400
Speaker 22: bit more of a slower life. So, yes, I am

2018
01:38:23,439 --> 01:38:26,120
Speaker 22: missing out, but I'm okay with that. I have accepted that,

2019
01:38:26,600 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 22: and that's one of the hardest parts.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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01:38:28,720 --> 01:38:30,960
Speaker 22: I've missed out on a couple parties that my friends

2022
01:38:31,080 --> 01:38:33,920
Speaker 22: organized because I'm not in the group message or I

2023
01:38:33,920 --> 01:38:37,000
Speaker 22: don't have that app that everybody has. I missed out

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01:38:37,000 --> 01:38:41,000
Speaker 22: on quote unquote posts that are important. And one time

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01:38:41,120 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 22: I did miss out on some email communication that was

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01:38:43,680 --> 01:38:47,280
Speaker 22: pretty prompt. It wasn't a super emergency because This is

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01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:50,280
Speaker 22: something that I tell everybody. If it's a true emergency,

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01:38:50,840 --> 01:38:56,120
Speaker 22: somebody will find you somehow someway. They will call you,

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01:38:56,240 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 22: they will get your coworker, they will try to find

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Speaker 22: your family member.

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01:39:00,360 --> 01:39:02,680
Speaker 15: Because when it's a real emergency, they will do that.

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Speaker 3: You run a website called dumbphones dot org. Tell me

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01:39:06,040 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 3: about the website and what that helps people do.

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Speaker 22: So about three years ago I started this website and

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01:39:13,080 --> 01:39:16,880
Speaker 22: the animus or the idea was to help people find

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Speaker 22: their perfect phone.

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Speaker 15: When people hear dumb phones, they usually.

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01:39:20,760 --> 01:39:23,240
Speaker 22: Think, oh, it's an old flip phone, it doesn't have

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01:39:23,280 --> 01:39:26,439
Speaker 22: any capabilities, but actually they do.

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Speaker 15: It's just that, you know, it's not in the media

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01:39:29,160 --> 01:39:29,679
Speaker 15: as much.

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01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:32,599
Speaker 22: You don't get the shiny new announcement from Samsung or

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01:39:32,720 --> 01:39:36,040
Speaker 22: Apple out there. So if you go to the dumbphone Finder,

2044
01:39:36,160 --> 01:39:39,000
Speaker 22: you can find the perfect phone for you. So the

2045
01:39:39,000 --> 01:39:41,720
Speaker 22: website just runs different filters and you can explore it

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01:39:41,960 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 22: and it has a lot of other useful resources for

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01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:45,799
Speaker 22: people to start the journey.

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Speaker 1: What's a dumb phone run these days? And do you

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01:39:49,680 --> 01:39:50,479
Speaker 1: have a top pick?

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01:39:51,320 --> 01:39:51,519
Speaker 15: Yes?

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Speaker 22: I do have three top picks, and they all range

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01:39:55,000 --> 01:39:58,760
Speaker 22: from different price points. I think most people associate the

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01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:01,519
Speaker 22: sub one hundred dollars, but they can go all the

2054
01:40:01,560 --> 01:40:04,040
Speaker 22: way to three hundred dollars, like the light phone. You know,

2055
01:40:04,360 --> 01:40:06,920
Speaker 22: the light phone is more of a minimal device, you know,

2056
01:40:07,000 --> 01:40:09,799
Speaker 22: something that you really want for a lifestyle change.

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01:40:10,479 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 15: The CATS twenty two.

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01:40:11,960 --> 01:40:16,679
Speaker 22: Flip is more of the smarter device. You can still

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01:40:16,720 --> 01:40:19,400
Speaker 22: have apps and you know, all of the nice city

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01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:22,559
Speaker 22: and convenience of the world. That one runs you about

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01:40:22,600 --> 01:40:25,920
Speaker 22: seventy nine to one hundred dollars, depending on the condition.

2062
01:40:26,360 --> 01:40:29,320
Speaker 22: You can get them on Amazon. And then something more

2063
01:40:29,520 --> 01:40:32,120
Speaker 22: like in the middle will be a Nokia. You know,

2064
01:40:32,200 --> 01:40:35,040
Speaker 22: there's still Nokia devices out there. The twenty seven to

2065
01:40:35,080 --> 01:40:38,160
Speaker 22: eighty can run you eighty bucks or so, and there's

2066
01:40:38,280 --> 01:40:40,680
Speaker 22: everything in between. You know, different companies are coming out

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01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:43,840
Speaker 22: with different concepts, and I'm really excited about the space

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01:40:43,920 --> 01:40:45,599
Speaker 22: growing in the next few years.

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Speaker 1: If I'm not ready to give up my smartphone and

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01:40:47,960 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to get a dumb phone, give me

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01:40:51,360 --> 01:40:55,559
Speaker 1: a tip to sort of be more intentional and have

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01:40:55,680 --> 01:40:56,400
Speaker 1: less screen time.

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Speaker 15: I'll give you two quick tips.

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Speaker 22: The first one is give your screen time password to

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01:41:02,360 --> 01:41:05,720
Speaker 22: someone else. So that's one of the biggest things that

2076
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:08,519
Speaker 22: has helped me whenever I go, you know, and I

2077
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:11,360
Speaker 22: have to use my smartphone for whatever reason. My wife

2078
01:41:11,360 --> 01:41:13,760
Speaker 22: has set up the screen time passcode, so if I

2079
01:41:13,800 --> 01:41:16,320
Speaker 22: try to bypass it, I can't because I don't know

2080
01:41:16,360 --> 01:41:18,439
Speaker 22: the passcode, And if I really want to do it,

2081
01:41:18,479 --> 01:41:20,840
Speaker 22: I'll have to factor you reset, and I really doubt

2082
01:41:20,920 --> 01:41:24,719
Speaker 22: you're going to do that. The second one is find

2083
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,120
Speaker 22: an app that works for you. There's one that is

2084
01:41:27,160 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 22: called unpluck with a queue or Brick, which is the

2085
01:41:31,560 --> 01:41:32,280
Speaker 22: Brick app.

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01:41:32,680 --> 01:41:35,640
Speaker 15: They both lock you down with physical devices.

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01:41:35,760 --> 01:41:39,320
Speaker 22: You tap the physical device and it blocks everything from

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01:41:39,400 --> 01:41:42,599
Speaker 22: your smartphone, and if you tap it again, you have

2089
01:41:42,680 --> 01:41:44,719
Speaker 22: access to it again, so you can leave it at home.

2090
01:41:44,800 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 22: You can have a relaxed day. You come back, you

2091
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:48,759
Speaker 22: may not need to have to check email. You tap

2092
01:41:48,920 --> 01:41:50,920
Speaker 22: and then you have access to all of the things again.

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01:41:51,160 --> 01:41:52,639
Speaker 3: All right, Jose, this has been great.

2094
01:41:53,080 --> 01:41:55,080
Speaker 2: Tell folks how to find you online.

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01:41:55,360 --> 01:41:57,200
Speaker 22: So the best way is to go to the don't

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01:41:57,200 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 22: phone Finder Downphones dot org is my website where I

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01:42:01,000 --> 01:42:03,439
Speaker 22: run all the things for digital minimalism. I also have

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01:42:03,520 --> 01:42:07,240
Speaker 22: a personal website at Jose Brionez dot org and you

2099
01:42:07,240 --> 01:42:09,720
Speaker 22: can find email and different ways in there to contact me.

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Speaker 1: My special thanks to Jose who really got me thinking.

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01:42:13,120 --> 01:42:16,519
Speaker 2: Could I even go a day without my smartphone? No email,

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01:42:16,640 --> 01:42:20,320
Speaker 2: no Instagram, no maps, no photos. I'm not sure I

2103
01:42:20,320 --> 01:42:22,360
Speaker 2: could do it. More rich on Tech coming your way

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01:42:22,600 --> 01:42:23,240
Speaker 2: right after this.

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01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 3: Welcome back to rich on Tech.

2106
01:42:25,600 --> 01:42:28,680
Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you, talking technology.

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01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:30,880
Speaker 3: It is time for the feedback segment.

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Speaker 1: These are the emails, the comments and the questions I

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01:42:33,800 --> 01:42:36,640
Speaker 1: get from you. If you'd like to submit yours, just

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Speaker 1: go to the website richon Tech dot TV. First up

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01:42:41,080 --> 01:42:46,400
Speaker 1: is Gwendolyn. She says, Hi, Rich, I trusted the Mohu antenna, However.

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01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:47,800
Speaker 3: It didn't make a difference on my TV.

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01:42:48,320 --> 01:42:50,760
Speaker 1: I also talked to a representative as I went through

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01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 1: his instructions, yet I was informed that I would have

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01:42:53,960 --> 01:42:57,880
Speaker 1: to pay return postage to return the antenna that was

2116
01:42:57,880 --> 01:43:01,120
Speaker 1: not explicit in the box or upon receiving my payment.

2117
01:43:01,640 --> 01:43:03,679
Speaker 1: I want my money that I paid for the antenna

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01:43:03,840 --> 01:43:05,080
Speaker 1: returned in full.

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01:43:05,520 --> 01:43:07,800
Speaker 3: Gwendolyn, I am sorry this happened to you.

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01:43:08,280 --> 01:43:11,680
Speaker 1: I love the Mohu antenna, but antennas are finicky. They

2121
01:43:11,720 --> 01:43:14,639
Speaker 1: don't always work, they don't always get every channel, depending

2122
01:43:14,640 --> 01:43:19,040
Speaker 1: on a wide variety of variables in your case doesn't

2123
01:43:19,040 --> 01:43:21,719
Speaker 1: sound like it worked out. But here is the lesson

2124
01:43:21,880 --> 01:43:26,240
Speaker 1: learned from this situation, and I do this myself anytime

2125
01:43:26,280 --> 01:43:28,799
Speaker 1: I shop at a store that is not Amazon. Amazon

2126
01:43:28,840 --> 01:43:34,200
Speaker 1: makes returns very simple and easy, but many other retailers don't,

2127
01:43:34,439 --> 01:43:37,879
Speaker 1: and so we've come to enjoy this Amazon return policy.

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01:43:38,400 --> 01:43:40,360
Speaker 3: But when you shop at a different store, it may

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01:43:40,400 --> 01:43:40,920
Speaker 3: be different.

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01:43:41,479 --> 01:43:45,280
Speaker 1: And so what I always do is before I shop anywhere,

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01:43:45,320 --> 01:43:48,200
Speaker 1: whether it is a bricks and mortar store or an

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01:43:48,240 --> 01:43:51,880
Speaker 1: online retailer that's not Amazon, I will always check to

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01:43:51,960 --> 01:43:55,200
Speaker 1: see what the return policy is. Sometimes you have to

2134
01:43:55,240 --> 01:43:58,000
Speaker 1: search in the tiny print down at the bottom of

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01:43:58,040 --> 01:44:00,840
Speaker 1: the website, but if I'm at a retail I will

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01:44:00,880 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 1: literally ask before the cashier rings me up. I will say, hey,

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01:44:04,360 --> 01:44:07,479
Speaker 1: what's your return policy, even if it's a storelike best

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01:44:07,479 --> 01:44:11,400
Speaker 1: Buy where I've purchased stuff before, because these retailers are

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01:44:11,520 --> 01:44:14,599
Speaker 1: changing things rapidly. So I'm sorry this didn't work out

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01:44:14,640 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 1: for you. I'm sorry that you lost some money on

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01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:20,040
Speaker 1: the transaction. But hopefully we can all use this as

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01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:23,719
Speaker 1: a learning process to remember to ask or to look

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01:44:23,720 --> 01:44:27,040
Speaker 1: for that return policy before we purchase from a website

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01:44:27,080 --> 01:44:28,200
Speaker 1: we are unfamiliar with.

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01:44:28,400 --> 01:44:29,800
Speaker 3: Thanks for the email Gwendolen.

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01:44:30,200 --> 01:44:32,280
Speaker 1: Next up, Tony says, just want to let you know

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01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:35,280
Speaker 1: Samsung is trying to pull a fast one. If you

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01:44:35,320 --> 01:44:37,920
Speaker 1: go to their website and search twenty twenty five, you'll

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01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:41,720
Speaker 1: see that their AI is free only until the end

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01:44:41,800 --> 01:44:44,320
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, but when you click on the

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01:44:44,360 --> 01:44:47,240
Speaker 1: actual S twenty four by page, it is not there.

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01:44:47,720 --> 01:44:49,000
Speaker 3: I just want to mention this to you.

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01:44:49,160 --> 01:44:53,080
Speaker 1: I heard only one tech YouTuber talking about this. I

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01:44:53,120 --> 01:44:56,679
Speaker 1: hope this cautions anyone looking to buy the S twenty four.

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01:44:57,320 --> 01:45:01,599
Speaker 1: I hope that Apple doesn't follow suit. Tony, thanks for this. Yeah,

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01:45:01,600 --> 01:45:04,000
Speaker 1: I did see something about this going around. So what

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01:45:04,040 --> 01:45:07,240
Speaker 1: you're talking about is the AI functionality on the Galaxy

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01:45:07,360 --> 01:45:12,280
Speaker 1: S twenty four, which Samsung has, you know, Live Translate,

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01:45:12,439 --> 01:45:15,280
Speaker 1: They've got the photo editing features, and I think what

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01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:19,880
Speaker 1: they're doing is just protecting themselves moving forward, so in

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01:45:19,960 --> 01:45:22,080
Speaker 1: case they want to end up charging for some of

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01:45:22,080 --> 01:45:25,720
Speaker 1: this functionality or limiting that functionality as we go down

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01:45:25,760 --> 01:45:28,320
Speaker 1: the line. But I don't think that's the case here

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01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:31,920
Speaker 1: because we just recently saw a rollout of a lot

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01:45:31,920 --> 01:45:35,840
Speaker 1: of these features on the S twenty three, and so

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01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:39,280
Speaker 1: you know, users of the older Samsung phones are now

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01:45:39,320 --> 01:45:43,679
Speaker 1: getting these great AI features for free. We're seeing Google

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01:45:43,720 --> 01:45:46,320
Speaker 1: do something similar. They said the Pixel eight wasn't going

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01:45:46,360 --> 01:45:49,360
Speaker 1: to get some of these AI features, and that's getting

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01:45:49,400 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 1: them now. So I think these companies are in a

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01:45:52,600 --> 01:45:56,160
Speaker 1: race with these AI features and they're becoming very competitive

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01:45:56,200 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 1: about it. So again, I think that Samsung just wants

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01:45:59,240 --> 01:46:01,160
Speaker 1: to kind of reserve the right to get rid of

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01:46:01,160 --> 01:46:03,800
Speaker 1: some of these eventually or change the way they offer them.

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Speaker 1: But I don't really see that happening, because they said

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Speaker 1: they want to get the AI features in the hands

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Speaker 1: of over one hundred million Samsung users by the end

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Speaker 1: of this year, so that's probably part of the plan.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for the comment, Tony. Next up, Gary says changing

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Speaker 1: my credit card number did not work for me. I

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Speaker 1: did that with Bank of America and the bank had

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Speaker 1: an unpublished policy of routing charges for subscriptions to the

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Speaker 1: new number. I had to dispute it and change banks. Gary,

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Speaker 1: this is an interesting one. So we were talking about

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Speaker 1: this on the radio show a while back. But yes,

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Speaker 1: this is when you have your card number hacked or

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Speaker 1: changed and all of a sudden you notice your subscriptions

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Speaker 1: continue to charge and I don't know what the back

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Speaker 1: end system is, but somehow there's some level of trust

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Speaker 1: between these major banks and reoccurring subscription retailers like a

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Speaker 1: Disney Plus or an Apple Music or a Spotify. Somehow

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Speaker 1: they actually just transfer those numbers over and your subscription.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't miss a beat.

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Speaker 1: Now that's convenient, but sometimes you want that fresh start,

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Speaker 1: and you know, if your number gets compromised or if

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Speaker 1: you switch cards, you're like, okay, fine, I won't have

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Speaker 1: to deal with all these cancelations and changes. But then

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Speaker 1: you realize, so I noticed, if you go inside your

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Speaker 1: app on at least on some of them, it will

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Speaker 1: give you a list of all of the recurring charges

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Speaker 1: that are on your account, And I guess that's kind

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Speaker 1: of the basis for what they end up sharing that

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Speaker 1: number with. Next up, Christy says hi, I have never

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Speaker 1: used rice to dry out any of my devices. Instead,

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Speaker 1: I always save those little packets of silica gel that

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Speaker 1: come in nearly everything and store them in a large

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Speaker 1: sealed Mason jar. Whenever anything gets unexpectedly wet, I dry

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Speaker 1: it off and stuff it into that jarro packets, and

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Speaker 1: within twenty four hours at most it's dry.

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Speaker 3: I've saved earbuds.

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Speaker 1: That my husband has dropped in the pool more than once.

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Speaker 1: Bonus keep the packets out of the landfill. Thanks Christy.

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Speaker 1: Well that is a great idea. Wow, I never thought

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Speaker 1: about doing that because we just tossed those little silica

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Speaker 1: packets in the trash. Next up, Dan, this is a

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Speaker 1: long one. Hi Rich, love the podcast. I've been listening

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Speaker 1: since the first episode. Very helpful. I wanted to say

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Speaker 1: that I agree with you when you said you kind

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Speaker 1: of wish you had gone with an OLED TV. I

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Speaker 1: had an eleven year old forty six inch Samsung led

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Speaker 1: TV that went great.

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Speaker 3: For Christmas, I bought a fifty five inch High Sense

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Speaker 3: U eight K. I was really unhappy.

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Speaker 1: Cable looked horrible in the morning, some channels, the people's

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01:48:41,760 --> 01:48:45,400
Speaker 1: lips looked purple. No amount of playing with the settings helped.

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Speaker 1: I returned it and went with a Sony x nine

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Speaker 1: to y L another LED. Things are slightly better, but

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Speaker 1: not normal. Streaming looks good, but live TV is bad.

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Speaker 1: I've learned my mistake with the High Sense. I was

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Speaker 1: putting the brightness too high in trying to make live

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Speaker 1: TV better. Keep the brightness way down helps. All right,

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Speaker 1: I'm not good with Terminology, but OLED definitely has the

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Speaker 1: best color.

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Speaker 3: I would agree with that, Dan.

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Speaker 1: I think that OLED overall has the best color my TV.

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Speaker 1: I ended up going a little bit cheaper at the end,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna go O LED. I went with LED

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Speaker 1: Micro Led and at first we were really stunned at

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Speaker 1: the picture, like it was vastly different than our old TV.

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Speaker 1: But then after a couple of weeks we got used

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Speaker 1: to it and now I've really grown to love.

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Speaker 3: My new TV.

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01:49:29,840 --> 01:49:32,240
Speaker 1: And that says I teach at the high school level,

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01:49:32,240 --> 01:49:35,120
Speaker 1: and kids bully for everything, not just iPhones.

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Speaker 3: All the anti bullying rhetoric does nothing.

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Speaker 1: It's just so difficult to be around them as everything

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01:49:40,720 --> 01:49:43,000
Speaker 1: is driven by their social media and what others think

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Speaker 1: of them.

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Speaker 3: They are so addicted to their phones.

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Speaker 1: That is all they think about constantly, and they cannot

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Speaker 1: stop a net And I.

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent believe this.

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Speaker 1: I think that the phones are the most amazing thing

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Speaker 1: ever invented, but at the same time, they are really

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Speaker 1: not very good in a lot of situations. Kids are

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Speaker 1: very much addicted to these things, so are adults. And

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Speaker 1: you know, the tech companies and the social media companies,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's in their best benefit to have us

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Speaker 1: stare at these things as much as humanly possible. And

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Speaker 1: then you add in all the challenges on TikTok and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that, and I agree. I think you're referring

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Speaker 1: to the green versus blue bubble situation. But yeah, it's bad,

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Speaker 1: and I don't know where we're going to go from here,

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Speaker 1: Steven says, Hi, Rich, enjoy your show KFI on Saturdays.

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Speaker 1: I'm a seventy three year old San Diego retired non

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Speaker 1: techie but learning from you every time I listen. I

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Speaker 1: will probably never afford to buy a new EV. I

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Speaker 1: would especially worry about buying a used DV because of

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Speaker 1: the concern of the expensive battery dying on me.

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Speaker 3: That would be my luck.

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Speaker 1: I would like you to consider having an EV car

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Speaker 1: battery expert on your show explaining the pros and cons

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Speaker 1: of buying a used EV, especially that.

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Speaker 3: Used evs for sale will be increasing forward.

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Speaker 1: As it stands now, the only car I would consider

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Speaker 1: if I were in the market for a new car

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Speaker 1: and I could afford it, would be a hybrids Steven, Steven,

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Speaker 1: that's a great idea, because yes, we are going to

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Speaker 1: start to see a lot of evs on the market

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Speaker 1: that are used, and what is the deal with the battery.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure now I will tell you with mine.

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Speaker 1: When I first got it, I was very concerned about

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Speaker 1: the battery, and I actually purchased my car to not lease,

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Speaker 1: so I was very concerned about the longevity of the battery.

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Speaker 1: And now, of course I got lazy and I'm just

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Speaker 1: charging it whenever I feel like it, with no real plan.

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Speaker 1: So I'm not sure what the effect is on my battery.

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Speaker 1: I have noticed that it has gone down in mileage

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Speaker 1: over the years, but I kind of feel like, you

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Speaker 1: know what, I guess the next person is gonna have

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01:51:34,560 --> 01:51:37,080
Speaker 1: to deal with that, or hopefully one day I can

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01:51:37,080 --> 01:51:38,760
Speaker 1: give this car to my kid and he'll just have

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01:51:38,840 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 1: like a range of five miles on it. Well, if

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Speaker 1: you can believe it, that's gonna do it. For this

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Speaker 1: episode of the show. You can find links to everything

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Speaker 1: I mentioned on my website. Just go to rich on

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01:51:47,360 --> 01:51:50,839
Speaker 1: tech dot tv. You can find me on social media.

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01:51:50,960 --> 01:51:53,720
Speaker 1: I am at rich on Tech. Thank you so much

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01:51:53,760 --> 01:51:55,760
Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend

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Speaker 1: your time.

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Speaker 3: I do appreciate you spending it right here with me.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible. My name

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01:52:01,960 --> 01:52:04,360
Speaker 3: is rich DeMuro. I will talk to rail sick