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Speaker 3: Hi, Rich, thank you for taking my call. I have

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Speaker 3: And so what we were looking for my uncle was

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Speaker 8: So we have our Class three ambulance in partnership with AMR.

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Speaker 8: Cutter last fall for the soccer so we were really

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Speaker 8: excited to be featured there as well.

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Speaker 1: If you could name the truck, there was a green

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Speaker 1: version on display school buses, delivery trucks, utility trucks and

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Speaker 1: even concrete mixing trucks. But these fleets need to be charged,

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Speaker 1: which is where enviro charge comes in. Here's Michelle Brown.

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Speaker 1: We have the ev power pod.

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Speaker 9: It is an off grid DCFC, so a direct current

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Speaker 9: fast charger for fleets, utilities and municipalities.

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Speaker 1: Where the grid is.

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Speaker 9: Challenged to keep up with the charging infrastructure. For these fleets.

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Speaker 9: We have a solution that's powered by renewable propane.

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Speaker 1: So all these trucks need to be charged, and they're

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Speaker 1: like heavy duty.

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Speaker 9: Charging, yes, absolutely, and they need a fast charge, so

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Speaker 9: they need a direct current. You can do level two,

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Speaker 9: which is kind of charging overnight in the yard, but

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Speaker 9: a lot of these trucks, especially going in and out

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Speaker 9: of the ports, they need to charge sometime during the

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Speaker 9: day and they can't sit for hours and wait for

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Speaker 9: a charge.

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Speaker 1: And so your solution is what, how's it work.

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Speaker 9: It's a we're fuel agnostics, so we can use pretty

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Speaker 9: much renewal propane, natural gas, any sort of fuel. And

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Speaker 9: we're also charge agnostics, so we can use any type

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Speaker 9: of charger that the customer prefers for.

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Speaker 1: Us to use. And the idea is you can put

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Speaker 1: this anywhere.

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Speaker 9: Absolutely it's completely grid free mobile and wherever you need

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Speaker 9: a charge, even if you're waiting for your infrastructure, you

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Speaker 9: can use this solution until your infrastructure is in place,

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Speaker 9: and then we can move it to the next yard,

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Speaker 9: next customer, next location.

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Speaker 1: Fermata Energy is working on a way to help ev

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Speaker 1: owners make money off of their vehicles by selling back

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Speaker 1: energy to the grid during peak times. George Miller explains.

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Speaker 4: So here we are a bi directional charging company. We

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Speaker 4: do vehicle to grid services, and we have a bidirectional

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Speaker 4: charger here. We have been charging on the Nissan Leaf

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Speaker 4: with for the last three years. On a Nissan Leaf

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Speaker 4: we can make between twenty five hundred up to about

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Speaker 4: eight thousand dollars per year using just the battery when

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Speaker 4: you're not using it as a car. So that is

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Speaker 4: called vehicle to grid services, capable on this vehicle now

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Speaker 4: and capable on many more vehicles coming soon.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so hold on explain that in layman's terms, what

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Speaker 1: does that mean? If my car's parked, it's making money

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Speaker 1: for who.

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Speaker 4: It makes money for you. So your car is parked

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Speaker 4: and the utility says, hey, we need energy at this

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Speaker 4: specific time, this two hour window in the afternoon in

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Speaker 4: the summertime, if you can push power out into the

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Speaker 4: grid because you're not using your vehicle at that time.

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Speaker 4: They'll give you a check at the end of the

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Speaker 4: summer as a part of a demand response program, and

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Speaker 4: then you can recharge your vehicle and it actually runs

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Speaker 4: the meter backwards, so you're not even paying for that

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Speaker 4: electricity twice.

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Speaker 1: So do you think we're going to see more people

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Speaker 1: making money off of their evs in the future.

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Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: It's been a concept thought about for the last twenty

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Speaker 4: years since the original GM EV one. It's taken a

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Speaker 4: long time to get automakers, utilities at charger makers, and

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Speaker 4: vehicle owners to all come together, and we're now just

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Speaker 4: getting chargers that are certified. We should have a residential

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Speaker 4: solution here in probably two to three months for chargers.

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Speaker 4: So right now it's been commercial, but we should have

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Speaker 4: a residential offering later this year.

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Speaker 1: And how much can I make with my car?

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Speaker 4: You can make between two to eight thousand dollars, It's

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Speaker 4: entirely dependent upon where you live and what the utility

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Speaker 4: has enabled. Actually, in San Diego you can make twelve

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Speaker 4: thousand a year. Michael Marsal is president of excel lifts.

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Speaker 4: So you've been doing electric forklifts for how many years?

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Speaker 5: Five years now, that's when the development started.

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Speaker 1: What have you learned in those five years.

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Speaker 10: Well, we have learned that the infrastructure has been the

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Speaker 10: toughest thing for the ports and shipyards. Getting the energy

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Speaker 10: manufacturer and the forkliffs have actually.

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Speaker 5: Been the easy things to do.

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Speaker 10: It's getting the ports in state of California to support

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Speaker 10: the electric infrastructure for charging the big equipment.

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Speaker 1: And so how do you solve that.

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Speaker 10: We're working with all the local air resource districts to

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Speaker 10: help get more funding to help subsidize the cost for

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Speaker 10: our customers.

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Speaker 1: And so what's the benefit of the electric forklift?

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Speaker 5: Basically, it helps our climate.

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Speaker 10: You know, we get rid of all the toxins that

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Speaker 10: you see in all the ports and shipyards in California.

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Speaker 10: So we're moving towards the twenty thirty mandate by the

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Speaker 10: state of California to have all the ports and shipyards

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Speaker 10: zero mission.

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Speaker 1: And what about other states?

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Speaker 10: We're the other states. There's a few of them that

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Speaker 10: are starting to go that way. For instance, like Michigan

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Speaker 10: is actually starting to go that way. Oregon and Washington

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Speaker 10: are starting to lean that way. Because you typically the

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Speaker 10: other states follow California's. Whatever California does, it rolls out there.

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Speaker 10: Eventually Florida is also looking at doing it, and actually

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Speaker 10: Texas is doing it as well. They bought product from

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Speaker 10: US as well.

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Speaker 1: Finally I got inside the Nicola fuel sell EV truck

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Speaker 1: with engineer Ash Mackie. Keep in mind driving down the

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Speaker 1: road while we recorded this interview, Notice how quiet it is.

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Speaker 11: So right now you are in one of our beta

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Speaker 11: builds for the fuel cell EV truck, which is of

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Speaker 11: course we're coming in production in Q four of twenty

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Speaker 11: twenty three.

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Speaker 1: What's the benefit of hydrogen fuel cell?

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Speaker 11: We see hydrogen as the future when it comes to

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Speaker 11: the zero emission. There is abundant of hydrogen.

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's the.

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Speaker 12: Most available.

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Speaker 11: Source of energy there is, so and then detail pipe

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Speaker 11: at the end it comes out of the zero mission

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Speaker 11: is really water. It's going to be as close to

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Speaker 11: parity to diesel when it comes to range. So with

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Speaker 11: our truck here, we're looking at coming off the gate

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Speaker 11: with five hundred miles.

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Speaker 1: But does it take a long time to refuel like electric?

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Speaker 11: Oh no, absolutely, that's one of the differentiators. So we

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Speaker 11: are looking to refuel this truck. We have seventy kilogram

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Speaker 11: capacity in our trucks in less than twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: Is there safety concern with hydrogen? Oh, there is not

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Speaker 1: at all.

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Speaker 11: Not when it comes to the commercialization and how we

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Speaker 11: put it into the truck. We do crash testing for

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Speaker 11: the side saddle tanks. We do rollovers, and then the

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Speaker 11: tanks themselves. They go through penetration with bullets to see

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Speaker 11: exactly how much we could really damage the tanks if

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Speaker 11: we can even heat, they have to stand almost one

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Speaker 11: thousand c for two hours, and then there's venting systems.

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Speaker 5: The minute the system.

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Speaker 11: React to a crash, there's valves that would immediately dissipate

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Speaker 11: all the hydrogen, so there's no any change of inflammables

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Speaker 11: to happen to the truck.

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Speaker 1: If you want to see my video from ACT Expo,

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Speaker 1: just go to rich on Tech dot tv more rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech coming up. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich Tomuro here talking technology with you at Triple A

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

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Speaker 1: two for one zero one. By the way, you just

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Speaker 1: heard about the Clean Truck Expo. If you want to

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Speaker 1: see a little video of just how quiet those trucks

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Speaker 1: are in real life. Go to my Instagram at rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech. I posted a reels last night and it's

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Speaker 1: it's pretty wild just how quiet these trucks are because

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Speaker 1: you're so You're so used to these big diesel trucks

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Speaker 1: being loud. So if you want to hear what they're

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Speaker 1: trying to do for the future, you can see see

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Speaker 1: that there and hear it. Colleen writes in I listened

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Speaker 1: to you on KFI and watch you on KTLA. Colleen

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Speaker 1: in Tampa, Thank you. Colleen. Janet writes in, Hey, rich

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Speaker 1: someone hacked my account, my Facebook account and used my

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Speaker 1: photo and my account to sell tickets. I contacted Facebook online.

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Speaker 1: I'm getting blocked from getting into my account. I tried

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Speaker 1: a phone number, but the response was not answering calls

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Speaker 1: at this time. Do I write a letter to Mark Zuckerberg?

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Janet Janet. I don't think Mark is replying

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Speaker 1: to letters right now due to accounts being hacked. So

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Speaker 1: I think the place to go is Facebook dot com

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Speaker 1: slash hacked. As far as I know, there is not

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Speaker 1: a phone number that you can contact Facebook at to

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Speaker 1: get help with that. The best thing that I know

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Speaker 1: of is to go to Facebook dot com slash hacked.

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Speaker 1: You follow the instructions there. I know it's tedious, it's

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Speaker 1: time consuming, it's annoying, but that is the best way

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Speaker 1: to get a hacked Facebook account back. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: if you don't want your Facebook account hacked, set up

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Speaker 1: two factor authentication. That is the best way to do it.

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Speaker 1: Every single person I talk to that gets their Facebook

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Speaker 1: account hacked is in one of several ways. Number one,

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Speaker 1: they log in to a phishing email that says, hey,

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Speaker 1: log into this page and it's through their Facebook account,

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Speaker 1: and they just gave away their account information, or they

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Speaker 1: don't have two factor authentication on and they don't get

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Speaker 1: that secondary code, and once the hackers get in, it's

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Speaker 1: a pain to get your account back. Let's go to

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Speaker 1: Jim in Punta Gordo, Florida. Jim, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, Hey, Rich, congratulations, I'm taking over the chair.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. It's a different chair, but I did take over.

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Speaker 13: So we got from the chair Leo.

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Speaker 1: Leo keeps his chair.

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Speaker 13: Yeah, I live on and prosperous.

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Speaker 1: I say thanks.

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Speaker 13: I've got a couple of questions. One of a simple questions.

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Speaker 13: The other one gets a little more complicated. The simple one.

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Speaker 13: It drives me crazy. It's I go into Google and

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Speaker 13: I search, let's say rich on Tech, and I again

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Speaker 13: a woman's voice that says, you know, rich on Tech

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Speaker 13: is on the afternoon Saturday, Sunday, and I can't find

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Speaker 13: anywhere to shut her off. I've looked and looked.

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Speaker 1: And look, is this on a phone or on your

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Speaker 1: computer on that iPhone? Okay, on your iPhone? Okay, that

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Speaker 1: sounds like that is an accessibility feature. It's reading. Now

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Speaker 1: are you well, are you using the app? What are

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Speaker 1: you using to search?

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Speaker 13: Well?

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Speaker 14: Just Google?

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Speaker 1: So Google app? Yeah, because there's different ways of searching

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Speaker 1: on your phone, so on your Google app. It's interesting

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Speaker 1: that it's it's okay, So there's a setting on your

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Speaker 1: Google app. If you go and tap your profile on

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Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, it says read aloud and

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Speaker 1: so turn that off and that should take care of that.

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Speaker 13: Well, okay, I've been looking everywhere that I do not

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Speaker 13: look for. Okay, the Google app is just going to

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Speaker 13: settings and.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, there's two settings. There's a read aloud setting

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Speaker 1: and then if you go into your Voice and Assistant settings,

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Speaker 1: there's a setting that says spoken results, and mine is

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Speaker 1: toggled on. It says results will be read aloud to you,

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Speaker 1: so you can turn that off as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: well this is what I do, Jim. Okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks for the question, and thanks for listening down in Florida.

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Speaker 1: There phone lines are open at triple eight rich one

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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two,

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Speaker 1: four to one zero one. I just wanted to mention

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Speaker 1: quickly this whole AI thing. I mean, this entire show

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Speaker 1: could be about AI. Well, actually, I don't think I've

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Speaker 1: tied to mention AI, so let's not do that. Let's

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Speaker 1: come back after the break and talk about AI. In Hollywood.

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Speaker 1: We've got a big strike going on here and AI

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Speaker 1: is a part of it, so we'll talk about that.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to rich on tech rich damiro here rich

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Speaker 1: my gosh, wow, that was a while ago. Okay, So

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Speaker 1: most of the people listening to that song, or many

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Speaker 1: to Sarah in Ventura. Sarah, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 15: Hi, Hi, Hi, I actually have the question one the plot.

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Speaker 15: This is not what I had asked originally, But do

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Speaker 15: you have a suggestion for a portable radio that has

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Speaker 15: n AA and Internet? And that's the regular radio? Whenever

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Speaker 15: I go something, I can't go any place. I have

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Speaker 15: to stay at home with my non portable radio. Do

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Speaker 15: you have a suggestion for a radio that gets Internet?

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Speaker 1: And the a radio that gets internet? There used to

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Speaker 1: be one that did, but gosh, I'm trying to think

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Speaker 1: of I mean, what about a smartphone? Do you want

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Speaker 1: something that's powered? I mean, what are you trying to

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Speaker 1: do exactly?

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Speaker 15: Be able to go out of the house and take

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Speaker 15: a walk in a park and not have to worry

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Speaker 15: about the weather, be able to get internet.

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Speaker 14: Showed?

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Speaker 1: What what about a smartphone for that?

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Speaker 3: I I don't I would.

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Speaker 10: Like to just have a radio.

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Speaker 1: Oh I don't. I'm trying to think off the top

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Speaker 1: of my head of a radio that would get the

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Speaker 1: Internet without being a smart device, and I really can't

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Speaker 1: think of one. There may be something out there, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not really I mean, a smartphone has sort of

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Speaker 1: taken over that streaming world, so I really don't know

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Speaker 1: of a device that would do that. There was a device.

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Speaker 1: I actually kind of forgot about this device, but it

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Speaker 1: was like I was it a squeeze box? Yeah? There,

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Speaker 1: it was Logitech's Squeezebox radio. This was this was kind

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Speaker 1: of like back in the day. I guess they still

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Speaker 1: make this, No, but this was a little radio that

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Speaker 1: you could put in your house and it would tune

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Speaker 1: in the you know, any sort of Internet stream and

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Speaker 1: just a wide variety of streams and it was like everything.

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Speaker 1: But that they haven't made that a long time. That

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Speaker 1: was by Logitech, but it says discontinued by manufacturer. That

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Speaker 1: was the last thing that I remember. But as far

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Speaker 1: as as far as a mobile device, I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: better off with just a pocket radio. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: get a radio that picks up regular over the air

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Speaker 1: radio stations. I don't know if it would get the

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Speaker 1: I think you said the NAA like the weather report

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Speaker 1: from I think that's what you're talking about there, but

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. I think that. Yeah, like just an

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Speaker 1: FM tuner, just a standard walkman or something like that

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Speaker 1: would be your best your best bet in that circumstance

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Speaker 1: because the streaming is not going to work without the Internet.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean a smartphone is really what everyone's using.

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Speaker 1: But if you don't want to do that, that's you know,

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Speaker 1: that's not going to work. Thanks for the question, appreciate that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about AI because this is something that I

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Speaker 1: know I could make the entire show about AI. It

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Speaker 1: has really taken such a commanding role in not just

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Speaker 1: the tech world, but the entire world, and everyone's trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out how this is going to affect them,

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Speaker 1: how it's going to affect their company, their bottom line,

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Speaker 1: and the world at large. Because if you think that

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Speaker 1: the Internet and coming up with turn papers, well no,

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Speaker 1: there's going to be a lot more that AI is

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Speaker 1: whether it's optimization, efficiency, all that stuff. AI is going

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Speaker 1: to be great for that, but it's also going to

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Speaker 1: be used in bad ways as well. And we're talking war,

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Speaker 1: we're talking theft, we're talking crime, we're talking cybercrime. There's

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Speaker 1: so many ways that this can be optimized. But the

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Speaker 1: thing I want to talk about right now is this

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Speaker 1: whole Hollywood strike. So I know that this is very

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Speaker 1: highly WOULD centric because I'm based in Los Angeles and

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Speaker 1: the strike literally, you know, happens outside the front doors

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Speaker 1: of you know where I work. But this is something

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Speaker 1: that affects you because if you've probably noticed that a

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Speaker 1: lot of your TV shows are already in rerun, especially

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Speaker 1: the late night shows, it's going to take a little

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Speaker 1: longer to trickle down to other things. But some of

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Speaker 1: those shows are just stopping, you know, they're they're just

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Speaker 1: not making new episodes right now. But one of the

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Speaker 1: things that the writers obviously a laundry list of things

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Speaker 1: it's probably not happening in a huge way just yet,

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Speaker 1: but I see the potential, and I see the potential

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Speaker 1: in a couple different ways. Number One, the writers don't

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Speaker 1: want to be the polisher upper of something that AI writes.

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Speaker 1: So let's say you're a writer, this studio comes to

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Speaker 1: you and they say, hey, can you polish up this script? Well,

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Speaker 1: it out of our AI machine. It just came up

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Speaker 1: with this new action adventure movie or romantic comedy, and

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Speaker 1: we need you to kind of, you know, make sure

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Speaker 1: proper ways. And so, by the way, that polisher upper

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Speaker 1: job is a lot less expensive than the person who

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Speaker 1: and make sure it looks good and sounds good. So

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Speaker 1: they don't want to be playing second fiddle to AI.

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Speaker 1: I understand that. But the reality is, at some point

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a force in Hollywood because

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Speaker 1: think about it. AI can write things like trivia questions

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Speaker 1: and think about this idea and this is not my

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Speaker 1: of percolating. Is that let's say you're writing a screenplay

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Speaker 1: would read the book and come up with the screenplay. Well,

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Speaker 1: what if you just fed that book into AI and

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Speaker 1: it can pop out the screenplay instantly, or you know,

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Speaker 1: matter of minutes and now you just need someone to

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Speaker 1: with that. Or what if you have a franchise right

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Speaker 1: back to the Future. You feed it all of the

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Speaker 1: Back to the Future movies and you say, now, right

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Speaker 1: the Future four based on one, two, and three, Or hey,

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Speaker 1: write me a new Home alone based on all these movies,

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Speaker 1: or a new Jurassic Park or a new Marvel movie.

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Speaker 1: I mean, these are things that it could do because software,

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Speaker 1: it's not the only thing that they're picketing about, but

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Speaker 1: of want to figure out, like where does AI live

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Speaker 1: in Hollywood? Can it write scripts? Can it write stuff?

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Speaker 1: Do we have to polish this up? And so I

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Speaker 1: going to give up all the rights to AI right

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Speaker 1: off the bat here because we're so early into AI.

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Speaker 1: But it's one of those things that is definitely a

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Speaker 1: The White House this week had a big summit to

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Speaker 1: talk about AI. So it lasted roughly two hours. They

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Speaker 1: had the President there, he stopped by, the Vice President

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Speaker 1: stopped by. Then they had leaders from Google, Microsoft, Open AI,

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Speaker 1: and also Anthropic, which is another startup. I believe that

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Speaker 1: to chat GPT. Yeah, so they all got in the

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Speaker 1: room and kind of talked about this stuff. Biden said,

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Speaker 1: what you're doing has enormous potential and enormous danger. I

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Speaker 1: it's going to be used. I mean, we see how

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Speaker 1: But about someone who's just writing this stuff in their

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Speaker 1: interesting because you had the Federal Trade Commission chairperson Lena Kahan.

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Speaker 1: I would agree with that. We just kind of let

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Speaker 1: them do their thing. And then ten years later we

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Speaker 1: all said, wait a second, hold on, what about the

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Speaker 1: privacy implications of this? What about the security implications of this?

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Speaker 1: What about the copyright implications? What about all these things

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Speaker 1: that we didn't sort of think of when these first happened.

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Speaker 1: And she said, now we have another option here with

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Speaker 1: the bat. And I think that that's probably smart, because

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Speaker 1: AI is going to be way more impactful than a Google,

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Speaker 1: or than a YouTube, than a Twitter, than a Facebook.

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Speaker 1: This stuff has far reaching implications that we are just

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Speaker 1: I don't think anyone does at this point. I think

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Speaker 1: But the bottom line is that we can't let this

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Speaker 1: just sort of happen in the way that we let

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Speaker 1: other things happen. We need to all come together and

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Speaker 1: figure out what is going to be right and what's

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Speaker 1: going to be best. And believe me, what's right and

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Speaker 1: Woo and it's wild. I mean, I love watching this

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Speaker 1: develop and the things people are doing with it. But man,

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Speaker 1: I don't know where it's going to go. I don't

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Speaker 1: think anyone does. All Right, coming up on the show,

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Speaker 1: we're going to talk to the founder and CEO of

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Speaker 1: a company called Farmer's Fridge. This is a company that's

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Speaker 1: putting fresh food in more places. I tested it out.

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Speaker 1: I tried out a solid it was delicious. We're going

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Speaker 1: to do that. Plus Apple and Google coming together. You

876
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: rarely hear this. They're coming together to make air tags safer.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that, plus your questions at eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight rich one oh one. You're listening to rich on Tech.

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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 at triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: to one zero one.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Micah has a suggestion for a radio. Uh from our

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Speaker 1: last caller, Micah, what's the radio?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, there's an Ocean Digital radio. It's a WRDSH twenty

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Speaker 16: three F that is a battery powered FM and bluetooth

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Speaker 16: has Bluetooth on it and Wi Fi radio. But her

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Speaker 16: issue is she's gonna need Wi Fi and that's the problem.

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Speaker 16: You can't move, you know, you can't get a you know,

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Speaker 16: a Wi Fi signal world your Wi Fi radio without

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Speaker 16: having Wi Fi.

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Speaker 1: But this will get the FM signal though, right, the FM.

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Speaker 2: Signal you can get there's no oh okay, yeah, but

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Speaker 2: if she wants a good Wi Fi radio, the one

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Speaker 2: to get, the one that I'm listening to you on

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Speaker 2: now is the Sea Crane Wi Fi radio.

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Speaker 16: But it's not portable, it's got to be plugged in.

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Speaker 16: But it's absolutely amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So we've got a couple of a couple of ways,

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Speaker 1: but not exactly what she wants. I mean, I don't

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Speaker 1: I don't think what she wants exists as far as

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Speaker 1: I know. I mean, you can't pick up a streaming

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Speaker 1: signal over Wi Fi and then if you've got the

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Speaker 1: the NOAA signal, I you know, I just don't think

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Speaker 1: that that that combo is out there. But I do

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Speaker 1: like this, uh, this little ocean digital. This reminds me

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Speaker 1: of man, this is bringing it way back. But my

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Speaker 1: grandma used to sit at the kitchen table and listen

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Speaker 1: to a tiny portable radio like this, and you know,

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Speaker 1: didn't have the screen like the color screen, that's for sure,

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Speaker 1: but it was just a little tiny and it had

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Speaker 1: the antenna on it. And she used to every morning

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Speaker 1: when I woke up, she would be there at the

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Speaker 1: table listening to this radio.

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Speaker 16: My grandma too, exactly the same way. In fact, I

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Speaker 16: still have that radio.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, we'll keep that one.

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Speaker 16: It's great and rich. Just so you know, this is

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Speaker 16: Mike your main man. We've been in touch about travel,

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Speaker 16: so if anything comes up with that, I'm your guy.

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Speaker 1: Awesome. I figured that, I thought when I saw Micah

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Speaker 1: and Main and I thought that, well, thanks for the

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Speaker 1: Ocean Digital recommendation. I like that. And the Sea Crane stuff.

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Speaker 1: I think that stuff i've heard. Yeah, let's see how

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Speaker 1: expensive those are, these little am I mean they've got

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Speaker 1: pocket radios, emergency radios. Yeah, I mean some of these

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Speaker 1: things are a little expensive. But yeah, the pocket radio

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Speaker 1: is seventy bucks, so that's not too bad. And this

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Speaker 1: has the weather emergency radio on it as well. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: Sea Crane definitely has some stuff. I remember I used

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Speaker 1: to listen to a podcast they advertised Seacrane on there

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Speaker 1: a lot, so that's a good suggestion. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich On location here at Crypto dot Com Arena formerly

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Speaker 1: Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles. Joining me now is

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Speaker 1: Luke Saunders. He is the founder and CEO of Farmers

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Speaker 1: Fridge and we're here because they've got three Farmers Fridge

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Speaker 1: locations here. Thanks for joining me, Yeah, thank you so

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Speaker 1: much for having me. All right, so let's talk about

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Speaker 1: Farmer's Fridge. I first saw this at LAX Los Angeles Airport,

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Speaker 1: and it's a vending machine filled with healthy foods like

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Speaker 1: fresh salads. And I was a little skeptical, I'll be honest,

943
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Speaker 1: but I ended up getting one on my way out,

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Speaker 1: and then I got one on my way home, so

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Speaker 1: it worked and the salads are fresh. You've got locations

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Speaker 1: all across the nation. Can you tell me how you

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Speaker 1: describe what Farmer's Fridge is.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, So, Farmers Fridge is a fresh food company. We

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Speaker 17: make fresh food every single day in a centralized kitchen,

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Speaker 17: and then we distribute that through a network of automated

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Speaker 17: smart fridges and in retail locreations across the country.

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Speaker 1: And really the idea is very simple.

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Speaker 17: How do you make fresh, healthy food as accessible as

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Speaker 17: it came Amar.

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Speaker 1: How did you come up with the idea for this company?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, so I came up with it because I was

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Speaker 17: a traveling salesman. I was driving one thousand miles a week.

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Speaker 17: I was flying all the time, and one of the

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Speaker 17: biggest problems I had was trying to figure out what

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Speaker 17: I was going to have for lunch every day, and

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Speaker 17: how to have something that wasn't just fast food or

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Speaker 17: some kind of snack from a gas station. And I

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Speaker 17: realized you could make fresh food at scale and get

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Speaker 17: it to more people. You just had to get it

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Speaker 17: to the faster. And really the idea was if I

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Speaker 17: built the entire business model around the concept of making

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Speaker 17: real fresh food getting into people quickly, I could solve

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Speaker 17: the problem. And then I backed into the idea for

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Speaker 17: the vending machine because something like one hundred million people

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Speaker 17: a day in the United States actually visit a vending

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Speaker 17: machine to buy something, so clearly it's a very convenient

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Speaker 17: way to get food and get it to more places.

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Speaker 17: There's about eight million vending machines in the US, so

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Speaker 17: that helped to just make it more convenient, more accessible,

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Speaker 17: and lower the cost to serve fresh food.

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Speaker 1: And so where was your first location, and how many

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Speaker 1: locations do you have now and in what types of

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Speaker 1: places are these smart fridges in?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, So when I got started, I thought the best

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Speaker 17: part of the idea was we were only going to

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Speaker 17: take up twelve square feet and I could go pretty

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Speaker 17: much anywhere and in a lot of places restaurants couldn't go.

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Speaker 17: But it turns out that a lot of people were

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Speaker 17: very skeptical about the idea of installing of any machine

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Speaker 17: full of fresh food in their office building or the

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Speaker 17: lobby of the hospital or something like that. So we

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Speaker 17: ended up in a food court in downtown Chicago. It

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Speaker 17: was objectively the worst food court in Chicago, but it

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Speaker 17: was the only place that would take us, and we

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Speaker 17: had one location, and it was really just to get

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Speaker 17: people to try the food, get some feedback on the concept,

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Speaker 17: and from there we've grown it now to over a

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Speaker 17: thousand locations across the country. We're in major retail stores

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Speaker 17: across the country, and also have about six hundred and

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Speaker 17: fifty fridges that we operate in hospitals, universities, airports, even

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Speaker 17: places like this arenas.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about making this food. It's got to

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Speaker 1: be fresh. You make it in Chicago, but somehow it

999
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Speaker 1: makes its way to Los Angeles and it still tastes fresh.

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Speaker 1: So how do you do that?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, So when I started, at the very beginning, I

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Speaker 17: was making the food, I was delivering the food. I

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Speaker 17: was building the fridges, and we still do things pretty

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Speaker 17: much the same way. So I would actually drive down

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Speaker 17: to the produce terminal in the morning, get the freshest

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Speaker 17: product I could get it in, chop it up, put

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Speaker 17: it in the jar, and get it to that fridge.

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Speaker 17: So we have just continued to do that business model,

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Speaker 17: but now we just do it tens of thousands of

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Speaker 17: times a day. So we get whole ingredients in, we

1011
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Speaker 17: make dressings from scratch. We're literally cutting up whole heads

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Speaker 17: of lettuce and mixing avocados to make our fresh in

1013
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Speaker 17: house squacamole, and so the whole business is designed to

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Speaker 17: facilitate having that be our process and then get it

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Speaker 17: to people quickly. A huge component that's made it scalable

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Speaker 17: as we built a lot of technology in terms of

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Speaker 17: where to send all of the food that we're making,

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Speaker 17: but also like how to get fees back from customers

1019
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Speaker 17: if things aren't fresh and improve that, or we can

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Speaker 17: lock a fridge if it goes out of temperature remotely,

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Speaker 17: so all of that has made it so that it's scalable.

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Speaker 17: But the idea is exactly the same as it was

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Speaker 17: at the beginning. You'd get a whole ingredient in make

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Speaker 17: a dressing from scratch. It's going to taste good. You

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Speaker 17: said to get it to people quickly so they have

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Speaker 17: enough time to buy it before it goes bad.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the food that's in this fridge.

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Speaker 1: So these salads are served in sort of plastic jars.

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Speaker 17: Is that what you'd call them, Yeah, it's a plastic jar.

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Speaker 17: So the idea at the beginning, I was actually trying

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Speaker 17: to figure out what kind of packaging to use that

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Speaker 17: would help reinforce freshness, and my brother in law actually

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Speaker 17: recommended these mason jar salads he had seen on Pinterest,

1034
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Speaker 17: and so I initially thought it was a crazy idea,

1035
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Speaker 17: but once I started testing with them, it just looks

1036
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Speaker 17: so beautiful. It actually helps keep the food fresh because

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Speaker 17: you can layer ingredients, so we put like wet and

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Speaker 17: acidic ingredients on the bottom, things like lettuce on the top.

1039
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Speaker 17: So that allows you to have a higher quality meal

1040
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Speaker 17: that lasts long, younger and it really just shows really

1041
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Speaker 17: well in the machine because what we found. I tried

1042
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Speaker 17: so many different ways to tell customers our food was

1043
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Speaker 17: fresh at the beginning, and over and over again. What

1044
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Speaker 17: we heard when we'd actually talk to the potential customers

1045
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Speaker 17: or people that were intimidated by the vending machine is

1046
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Speaker 17: I'm looking at your food and I want to see

1047
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Speaker 17: that that food looks fresh, and you can tell, like

1048
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Speaker 17: the greens are not wilted, they're not brown, things are

1049
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Speaker 17: clearly handmade. And we were getting that kind of feedback constantly,

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Speaker 17: So that's a big part of why we packaged it

1051
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Speaker 17: that way.

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Speaker 1: And so in the machine, I see all types of

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Speaker 1: different salads. You've got wraps, you've got hard boiled eggs

1054
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Speaker 1: in there. Like you said, chips and guac. What's some

1055
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Speaker 1: of your top sellers.

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Speaker 17: So actually the chips and guac is a top seller,

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Speaker 17: which makes a lot of sense for us because we

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Speaker 17: actually are making that Guacamolean house. We're adding pe go

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Speaker 17: to the top. There's no preservatives, nothing, and then it's

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Speaker 17: only I have a few days shelf life. So you

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Speaker 17: cannot buy a product like that anywhere else. And I

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Speaker 17: think the average price is for the Caesar salad is

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Speaker 17: one of my personal favorites. It's just a very high

1064
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Speaker 17: quality caesar salad with chicken. But the idea is to

1065
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Speaker 17: have twenty five skews and have every single one of

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Speaker 17: those be something that you're like, Wow, that was great,

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Speaker 17: I'll buy it again.

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Speaker 1: And what type of price point are we talking?

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Speaker 17: So the products range in price from three dollars all

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Speaker 17: the way up to about ten dollars on the high end.

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Speaker 17: Our average item is about six fifty. You can also

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Speaker 17: get a discount if you're using our app. There's a

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00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,520
Speaker 17: loyalty program, but then we also offer twenty five percent

1074
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Speaker 17: off at the airport. So on average, our average ticket

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Speaker 17: is actually lower than McDonald's.

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Speaker 1: So tell me about the tech that helps you get

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Speaker 1: these salads in these machines.

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Speaker 17: Yeah, So the core technology for Farmer's Fridge is really

1079
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Speaker 17: about inventory management, so we can see in real time

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Speaker 17: what's in every single fridge across the country. And then

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Speaker 17: every day we're making tens of thousands of meals, and

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Speaker 17: so the idea is we don't actually know where they're

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Speaker 17: going until the end of the day because that gives

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Speaker 17: us as much time during the day to get the

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Speaker 17: sales data from the fridges and then a cost function

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Speaker 17: algorithm runs. So essentially it's looking at what's the inventory

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Speaker 17: in the network, how many products did you produce, and

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Speaker 17: things like the weather or tsa checkpoint traffic to say

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Speaker 17: this is where we think you should send everything to

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Speaker 17: maximize the profitability and reduce the amount of unsold inventory

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Speaker 17: the next day. So imagine like we kind of get

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Speaker 17: that report and everybody snaps into action. We're picking and

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Speaker 17: packing the food, putting it onto trucks and getting it out.

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Speaker 1: To the fridges.

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Speaker 17: And over the last year we've even invested in pushing

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Speaker 17: that prediction downstream. So what that means is we make

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Speaker 17: it once at our initial production facility, but then we'll

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Speaker 17: make it multiple points along the way. So when a

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Speaker 17: driver gets to the airport, let's say a flight got

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Speaker 17: in late and a bunch of people were hungry, bought

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Speaker 17: ten salads. His drivers app he actually carries an iPad

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Speaker 17: with him, will tell him here's where you should actually

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Speaker 17: take this item from this fridge on your route and

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Speaker 17: put it into this fridge on your route, and it's

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Speaker 17: giving them all that feedback in real time. So from

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Speaker 17: start to finish, the whole technology process is about how

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Speaker 17: do you make fresh food scalable? And really that's about

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Speaker 17: inventory management.

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Speaker 1: The one question I had was when I bought my

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Speaker 1: salad and I took it on my flight, how long

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Speaker 1: do I have to eat this? How long can I

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Speaker 1: keep this salad out of the fridge and still consume

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Speaker 1: it safely?

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Speaker 17: Yeah, so, I mean, obviously I recommend eating the salad

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Speaker 17: when you get out of the fridge for just taste

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Speaker 17: and quality, because it's cold and it's crisp. But generally speaking,

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Speaker 17: the guidelines for fresh food or you want to keep

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Speaker 17: it under forty degrees. If it's over forty degrees after

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Speaker 17: four hours, you definitely want to throw it away. Us

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Speaker 17: For example, the fridge actually if it goes above forty

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Speaker 17: degrees for more than an hour will shut down.

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Speaker 1: You cannot buy anything.

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Speaker 17: So but in general, if you're a consumer, you're on

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Speaker 17: your flight, you have before our flight, you bought that salad,

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Speaker 17: you should still eat it. Is my recommendation.

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Speaker 1: What's the goal of all this, what's the goal of

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Speaker 1: Farmer's Fridge. The goal is really simple.

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Speaker 17: Farmer's Fridge wants to make fresh, healthy food as accessible

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Speaker 17: as a candy bar. And what that means is you

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Speaker 17: should anytime you see a candy bar, have the option

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Speaker 17: to also get a salad, not because you shouldn't have

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Speaker 17: a candy bar, but just because we're going to give

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Speaker 17: people the option. We don't even want you to think

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Speaker 17: about this as healthy food. It's just something that's convenient

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Speaker 17: and affordable and tastes good, and so you want to

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Speaker 17: buy more of it, and so until we're kind of

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Speaker 17: everywhere and that's true, we're gonna keep going.

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Speaker 1: Luke Sanders from farmers Fridge dot com. Thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today. Thank you so much for having me.

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Speaker 1: Appreciating on coming up more of your phone calls at

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Speaker 1: triple eight rich one O one you are listening to

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

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Speaker 1: DeMuro here hanging with you talking technology at Triple A

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Speaker 1: rich one O one eight eight eight seven four to

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Uh, don't forget. You can

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Speaker 1: follow me on social media at rich on Tech. I'm

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00:56:53,160 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: on Instagram, I'm on Facebook, I'm on Twitter, and you

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Speaker 1: can always go to the website rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Courtney in Huntington Beach. Courtney, you're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich Hi.

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Speaker 18: Rich, I used to have a Nokia thirty three ten

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00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:07,719
Speaker 18: dumb phone, and I had to get rid of it

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Speaker 18: since they did away with three G service. I've had

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Speaker 18: an iPhone for the last year, and I'm ready to

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Speaker 18: go back to a dumb phone and was hoping you

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Speaker 18: could give me some recommendations.

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Speaker 1: You're going back to a dumb phone after being on

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Speaker 1: a smartphone?

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Speaker 18: Why I am getting sucked into the vortex of technology?

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Speaker 1: Uh, I hear you. I am. You know what it's

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Speaker 1: I am the same way. I mean, I've made a

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Speaker 1: living on it. But with that said, I will tell

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Speaker 1: you when I am done with this show, usually around

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Speaker 1: two o'clock in the afternoons, I literally go on this.

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Speaker 1: I have this like I can't explain it, Like I

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Speaker 1: feel like I need to have no phone for like

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Speaker 1: the next twenty four hours because I've been now doing

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Speaker 1: tech stuff for six days in a row. Right, So

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Speaker 1: I understand where you're coming from, and I think there

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Speaker 1: are some solutions to this, and I was looking at

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Speaker 1: this for myself actually, So a couple things. Number One,

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Speaker 1: you had the Nokia, the very famous thirty three ten

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Speaker 1: that was a very very famous, you know, dumb phone.

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Speaker 1: Nokia is a good place to start Now I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to give you specific models because there's so many,

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Speaker 1: but I will tell you you're not going to get five

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Speaker 1: G on these phones, but you will get four G

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Speaker 1: and so these phones will be supported. So the first thing,

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Speaker 1: since you said you have an iPhone, what I would

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Speaker 1: suggest is consider maybe taking a tiptoe away from the smartphone.

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Speaker 1: And maybe that means getting an Apple Watch. And I

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Speaker 1: know that may sound like it's going to bring you

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Speaker 1: more into this world, but hear me out. So you

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Speaker 1: get the Apple Watch with cellular. You have that on

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Speaker 1: your wrist, and when you are fed up with the

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Speaker 1: endless scrolling and the social media and all of these

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Speaker 1: different things that we are sucked into on our phones,

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Speaker 1: you put the phone away, you turn it off, and

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Speaker 1: you put it in a drawer. And now you've got

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Speaker 1: your phone on your wrist. So you can still get calls,

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Speaker 1: you can still get texts, but you're not going to

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Speaker 1: be scrolling Instagram. You're not going to be distracted because

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Speaker 1: there's only so much you can do on that tiny

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Speaker 1: Apple Watch. Now, it's not as drastic as going with

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Speaker 1: a dumb phone, but it's kind of a nice middle ground.

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Speaker 1: The thing that you miss in that situation is a camera,

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Speaker 1: and that's really what it comes down to for me,

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Speaker 1: is that I would like to have a camera with

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Speaker 1: me because well, the journalist in me wants that, and

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Speaker 1: just in general I want that. So if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to go the Apple Watch route, and I think

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Speaker 1: that's a nice way to do it if you want to.

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Speaker 1: You know, like sometimes when I just want to focus

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Speaker 1: on my kids, let's say I'm at like their basketball

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Speaker 1: game or something like that, I will just keep the

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Speaker 1: phone in the car and just have the Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: and just try to It doesn't happen very often, believe me,

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Speaker 1: but that's kind of one method that I'll use to

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Speaker 1: focus the other thing. Nokia is a good brand. Alcaatel

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Speaker 1: is another brand, alca Tel alcatl and they make a

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Speaker 1: flip phone that is pretty basic. I have the older

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Speaker 1: version of this, it's the Flip three. Now they're up

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Speaker 1: to the Flip four, but this will work as well. Now, again,

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Speaker 1: you can go to all these things, but it's definitely

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Speaker 1: going to be a problem after being on the iPhone

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Speaker 1: for a year. Maybe you'll love it. I don't know,

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Speaker 1: but Nokia and Alcatel are the two places to start.

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Speaker 1: Now there are some other options. There's something called the

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Speaker 1: light Phone, and I've tested this. It's pretty much a

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Speaker 1: Kindle screen, so it's got an e ink display. It's

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Speaker 1: very small, it's very compact. There's no camera on it

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Speaker 1: as far as I remember, and it's just a very

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Speaker 1: simple device. The only problem on this device is really

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Speaker 1: going to be texting. It's definitely not the best experience

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Speaker 1: for texting, but then again, maybe you want to get

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Speaker 1: away from texting by having one of these. Now, the

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Speaker 1: light Phone is not cheap, so the Nokia and the

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Speaker 1: alcatl options those are going to be. You can find

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Speaker 1: stuff sub one hundred bucks, no problem. The light Phone,

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Speaker 1: as far as I remember, is a couple hundred dollars.

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Speaker 1: So let's see how much is this thing? North American model? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: three hundred dollars unlocked, So that's considerably more expensive. And

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Speaker 1: at that price, I think that's why one of these

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Speaker 1: this has been a little bit tougher of a sell

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Speaker 1: for people, because you're looking at this phone and you're like,

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Speaker 1: why is this so expensive?

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Speaker 12: Why is this?

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Speaker 1: What makes this three hundred dollars? Now, there's another brand

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Speaker 1: I just found on Amazon called the u. It looks

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Speaker 1: like it's called Punked p U n KT and this

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Speaker 1: phone is actually three hundred and ninety nine dollars. But

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Speaker 1: this looks like a really nice option. It's got Wi Fi,

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Speaker 1: it's unlocked. It's a four g minimalist mobile phone. It's

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Speaker 1: got two gigs a RAM, sixteen gigs storage, and a

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Speaker 1: pretty large battery. It comes in blue and black, and

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Speaker 1: it looks this looks like the phone that I would like. Now,

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Speaker 1: the problem with the light phone is that it's all screen,

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Speaker 1: so you're dialing the numbers on the screen and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. The Punked phone, that's how I'm saying it right,

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Speaker 1: actually has buttons on it, which I think are better

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Speaker 1: in that case. And this looks like it was created

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Speaker 1: just for that minimalist lifestyle. And so oh now look

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Speaker 1: at this. Siri was listening on my watch the whole time. See,

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Speaker 1: this is the problem with technology. Siri just kind of

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Speaker 1: jumps in and gives her two cents on things. But

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Speaker 1: those are the brands that I would look for. I

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Speaker 1: think that all three of those, or all four of

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Speaker 1: those are going to be good options. But I think

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Speaker 1: don't discount the Apple Watch. I know that the Apple

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Speaker 1: Watch seems like it would make you more enmeshed in

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Speaker 1: this whole iPhone Apple world. But I actually think it's

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Speaker 1: it's kind of like a secret way of being disconnected

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Speaker 1: but still connected. And by the way, all of these devices,

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Speaker 1: or many of these devices that you get, like the

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Speaker 1: light phone and the punk phone, you may be able

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Speaker 1: to add those as a number share on your account.

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Speaker 1: So maybe talk to your carrier about a number share device.

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Speaker 1: Because I was surprised since I was just looking at

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Speaker 1: this for my carrier and I didn't realize, but you

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Speaker 1: could have up to five devices as number sharing. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was just the iPhone and the Apple Watch. No,

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Speaker 1: it turns out if I wanted to, I could numbers

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Speaker 1: share with the light phone as well. And that means

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Speaker 1: that your same phone number will ring all phones. Now,

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Speaker 1: your mileage may vary depending on your carrier, but those

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Speaker 1: are you know, something to ask the question, just to

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Speaker 1: see if that's a possibility, and go into your carrier

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Speaker 1: store and just tell them what you're thinking and see

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Speaker 1: what they say. They may say, Oh, we've got this

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Speaker 1: alcatl that you can add to your account for you know,

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Speaker 1: five bucks a month and that will share your phone number.

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Speaker 1: See what they say, Great, question, Courtney. It's something that

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Speaker 1: I think about very very often, because, believe me, I

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Speaker 1: love being connected, but sometimes I just really enjoy being disconnected.

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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you it's not easy. It could be

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Speaker 1: tricky sometimes to do that because you just feel like

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Speaker 1: you're missing out. All Right, Before we go to break here,

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Speaker 1: I want to tell you about this because I was

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Speaker 1: just talking about cell phones. Check your cell phone bill.

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Speaker 1: I tweeted about this last week because I was going

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Speaker 1: through my bill and sometimes i'll actually download like the

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Speaker 1: PDF of my bill, and I noticed that I was

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Speaker 1: being charged for my wife's Apple Watch that I disconnected

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Speaker 1: three months ago. So she went from a cellular Apple

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Speaker 1: Watch to a regular Apple Watch, a non cellular and

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Speaker 1: I called up the carrier and I said, hey, can

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Speaker 1: you cancel this line. I don't know if I called

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Speaker 1: or I chatted. I couldn't really remember. Actually, I think

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Speaker 1: I chatted with them online and they said, okay, we'll

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Speaker 1: disconnect it. Well, my bill went down somehow, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how, but sure enough I was still being charged.

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Speaker 1: Now it wasn't a ton of money, it was only

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01:04:45,040 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 1: like ten bucks a month whatever, but still I was

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Speaker 1: paying for something that physically didn't even work, like her

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01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:53,880
Speaker 1: watch had no cellular connectivity. And so I asked the

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01:04:53,920 --> 01:04:55,680
Speaker 1: customer service person, I said, can you tell me the

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01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:59,640
Speaker 1: last time that her watch actually used any data for

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01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:01,840
Speaker 1: this ten dollars a month that I'm paying? And they said, well,

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01:05:01,880 --> 01:05:03,400
Speaker 1: it was about three months ago. I said, yeah, that's

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01:05:03,400 --> 01:05:05,960
Speaker 1: what I called to cancel this thing. Now, I will

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01:05:06,000 --> 01:05:09,080
Speaker 1: say the carrier was very nice. I remained calm. I

1312
01:05:09,240 --> 01:05:12,680
Speaker 1: was not mean. I was not, you know, accusing them

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01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:14,520
Speaker 1: of doing something wrong. I mean, there was just some

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01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,480
Speaker 1: sort of miscommunication. And in fact, I thought I was

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01:05:17,560 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: pretty pretty uh in the wrong for not noticing that

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01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:24,920
Speaker 1: my bill was, you know, something I was getting. I

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01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 1: was paying for something I didn't even have, Like how

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Speaker 1: did I miss that for three months? So what they

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01:05:30,200 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 1: did was I said, and I always say, I always

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Speaker 1: try to be very nice to these customer service folks.

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Speaker 1: I said, look, can you make a one time exception?

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Speaker 1: Can you give me a credit? And they said, sure,

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01:05:38,720 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 1: you know what, We're going to give you a six

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Speaker 1: month credit, and we're going to give you extra five

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01:05:42,680 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 1: bucks on top of that. So it pays to check

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01:05:45,000 --> 01:05:48,040
Speaker 1: your physical bills. Believe me, you never know when you

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01:05:48,120 --> 01:05:50,320
Speaker 1: might find a mistake and be nice when you call

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01:05:50,440 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 1: in to ask for a correction. I think these companies

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01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:54,520
Speaker 1: have a lot of money they can they can give

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01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:57,080
Speaker 1: you that sixty dollars credit. All right, more calls Triple

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Speaker 1: eight Rich one on one, let's hear from you. Welcome

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01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:04,800
Speaker 1: back to rich on tech Rich Demiro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: link that you're looking for something that I mentioned, or

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Speaker 1: it all in there. Just go to rich on tech

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Speaker 1: dot tv and hit the podcast icon. All right. Phone

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Speaker 1: lines are open at Triple eight rich one O one

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven four to two four one zero one.

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Speaker 1: That's what Dale and Oceanside. Did he dial that number

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Speaker 1: and now he's on Dale?

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Speaker 12: Welcome, Hi, good afternoon, Rich Thank you for taking my call.

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01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:51,880
Speaker 1: Thanks for calling in. What's going on?

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Speaker 12: I have a question about casting from an Android phone

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01:06:55,680 --> 01:07:00,560
Speaker 12: to a to new smart TVs. I used to be

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01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 12: able to go to like my brother or sister's house

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01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,040
Speaker 12: and just put whatever I want on my screen and

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01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:09,120
Speaker 12: just you know, if it was an app, I would

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01:07:09,160 --> 01:07:11,560
Speaker 12: hit the little button that indicates to cast to the

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Speaker 12: TV and it's easy. Or I would go into the

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01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,120
Speaker 12: Google Home app and hit the little button that says cast,

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01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:19,360
Speaker 12: and that way I could do anything on my screen.

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01:07:20,760 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 12: But the little in the last month, and I know

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Speaker 12: because I did this some months ago, the last month,

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01:07:26,280 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 12: the little button where it says cast to the TV

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01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:33,080
Speaker 12: is gone from like all my apps except for YouTube.

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01:07:33,200 --> 01:07:37,240
Speaker 12: YouTube casts very easily, and the button that says cast

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01:07:37,360 --> 01:07:39,439
Speaker 12: in the Google Home app is gone.

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Speaker 3: And I don't know if that's.

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01:07:40,600 --> 01:07:44,080
Speaker 12: Because they're they're redoing the Google Home app right now.

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Speaker 1: What are your thoughts, HM, Well, my initial thought is

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Speaker 1: I actually think that YouTube is I think that none

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01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:55,920
Speaker 1: of the casting is working. I think that YouTube is

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01:07:55,960 --> 01:07:59,520
Speaker 1: going around and doing something a little bit differently. I

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01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:03,080
Speaker 1: think that it's connecting with the TV kind of on

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01:08:03,160 --> 01:08:05,400
Speaker 1: the back end and not using cast. I think you're

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01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:07,840
Speaker 1: using it as a controller. I think that's just my theory.

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01:08:08,880 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 1: But now when it comes to Google Home, so a

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01:08:12,200 --> 01:08:13,800
Speaker 1: couple things what kind of phone are using? Are you

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Speaker 1: using a Pixel or a Samsung? What are you using?

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01:08:16,240 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 12: It's a Galaxy two plus, okay, So.

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01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:21,599
Speaker 1: Because there used to be well on the pixel, there's

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01:08:21,640 --> 01:08:23,600
Speaker 1: an option to I don't have my Samsung with me.

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01:08:23,640 --> 01:08:25,960
Speaker 1: I've got the Pixel here, but you know, there's an

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Speaker 1: option to just cast the screen right from the quick tiles.

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Speaker 1: Does the Samsung have that?

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01:08:31,920 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 5: You know?

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01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:34,800
Speaker 12: I don't know where would I find it.

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Speaker 1: So when you swipe down from the top of the

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01:08:37,120 --> 01:08:39,600
Speaker 1: screen and you swipe down again, you get all the

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Speaker 1: tiles I say, like Internet, Bluetooth, flashlight, all those kind

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Speaker 1: of airplane mode. So if you swipe through those on

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01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,000
Speaker 1: the pixel, I see one that says screen cast, and

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Speaker 1: that's the way to just cast anything on your screen.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of what you were talking about inside the

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01:08:55,439 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 1: Google Home app. But that's just another way of finding it.

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01:08:58,320 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: So and you may have to edit your tiles to

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01:09:00,640 --> 01:09:02,840
Speaker 1: see if Samsung offers that one. I'm not sure that

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Speaker 1: they do. That may be a pixel thing. But that's

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Speaker 1: number one, okay, So that's number one. Number two. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the Home app has changed every single time I've opened

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01:09:12,360 --> 01:09:15,080
Speaker 1: it in the past, like three weeks. Every time I

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01:09:15,160 --> 01:09:17,519
Speaker 1: open it, it's doing something differently, So I'm I don't

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Speaker 1: know if that feature is still in there or why

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01:09:19,640 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 1: they you know, everything, look, even when I go into

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01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 1: it says settings have moved to the settings to have

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01:09:25,360 --> 01:09:27,639
Speaker 1: so And this morning it was like, do you want

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01:09:27,680 --> 01:09:30,800
Speaker 1: to update all of your items and do you want

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01:09:30,840 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 1: to choose your favorites? I was like, wait, what, hold on?

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01:09:33,400 --> 01:09:36,120
Speaker 1: Hold on? Now they call these things automations that used

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01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:39,280
Speaker 1: to be my routines. So I'm I'm still learning that

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01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:41,679
Speaker 1: app and all the new stuff it's doing, because clearly

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Speaker 1: it is really really changed. So when it comes to

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Speaker 1: the actual casting on the apps have I mean usually

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Speaker 1: if you're on the Wi Fi and the TV's on

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Speaker 1: the same Wi Fi, it's the app is the icon

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Speaker 1: is going to show up, the little cast icon and

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Speaker 1: you're saying, that's not happening anymore.

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Speaker 3: I just can't.

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Speaker 12: I can't seem to find it anymore. Used to be

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Speaker 12: in the upper right hand corner, and I just don't,

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Speaker 12: you know, the only one I'm trying to cast is

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Speaker 12: ABO max and that's the one that's supposed to be

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Speaker 12: easily castable, and I just don't see it. But I

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Speaker 12: didn't know if that was maybe tied in or if

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Speaker 12: that's just me.

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think now have have the

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Speaker 1: the TV that you're trying to do this on, has

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01:10:25,280 --> 01:10:28,120
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi connection changed? Because it all goes it

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01:10:28,200 --> 01:10:29,840
Speaker 1: has to be on the same Wi Fi network for

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Speaker 1: that button to show up.

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Speaker 12: It's on the same wife.

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01:10:33,920 --> 01:10:35,559
Speaker 1: It is one dent on the same Wi Fi. Okay,

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01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:40,799
Speaker 1: so what about now you're using, uh is the cast

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01:10:41,160 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 1: baked into the TV or is it a chrome cast device?

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01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:45,760
Speaker 3: You know?

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01:10:45,960 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 12: I have a Chrome cast and I brought it down

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01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,360
Speaker 12: here to use it, but then I realized the TV

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01:10:51,479 --> 01:10:54,679
Speaker 12: would just accept the casting without the chrome cast. Okay,

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01:10:54,840 --> 01:10:56,479
Speaker 12: so I don't need I don't need the chrome. It's

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01:10:56,520 --> 01:10:57,719
Speaker 12: it's a really new TV.

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01:10:57,960 --> 01:10:59,800
Speaker 1: Okay, it's a really new TV. So a couple things.

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Speaker 1: Are we sure that the Wi Fi did not get

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01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:05,519
Speaker 1: disconnected on that TV? Because can you access other Wi

1440
01:11:05,640 --> 01:11:06,920
Speaker 1: Fi enabled things on there?

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01:11:11,280 --> 01:11:12,800
Speaker 12: I'd have to figure out how to test that. I

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01:11:12,840 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 12: get that. Okay, that's a thought. I'll investigate that.

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01:11:15,040 --> 01:11:17,240
Speaker 1: So that's that's my initial thought, is that you know,

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01:11:17,600 --> 01:11:21,519
Speaker 1: like I have a TV in the office that I

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01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:23,640
Speaker 1: went to cast something and it wasn't working, and I

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01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:25,920
Speaker 1: was like, why isn't this working? And I realized I

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01:11:26,040 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: had turned the Wi Fi off for privacy reasons, because

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01:11:29,439 --> 01:11:31,640
Speaker 1: a lot of these new TVs they send all the

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01:11:31,720 --> 01:11:34,400
Speaker 1: data back to the manufacturer and they scan what you're

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01:11:34,439 --> 01:11:37,080
Speaker 1: watching and they send it back. So if you don't

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01:11:37,120 --> 01:11:39,640
Speaker 1: want that happening, you know, you just turned the Wi

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01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,559
Speaker 1: Fi off. And so I realized that I had turned

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01:11:41,560 --> 01:11:43,640
Speaker 1: that off, and now I turned it back on and

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01:11:43,720 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 1: the little cast button showed up. So a couple of

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01:11:46,200 --> 01:11:48,800
Speaker 1: things that I would do to troubleshoot, and I, you know,

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01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:51,080
Speaker 1: I think that the main thing is to make sure

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01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:53,559
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi is on the same networks on both

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01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 1: of these devices. Obviously you said that's happening. If it's

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01:11:57,479 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 1: a device that's connected to the TV, like a Chrome CA,

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01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,160
Speaker 1: I just unplug it, plug it back in and maybe

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01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 1: that will force the connection again. Otherwise, if it's the TV,

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:08,640
Speaker 1: check to see if the Wi Fi is on. But

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01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:12,720
Speaker 1: in general, Wi Fi the Wi Fi network has to

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01:12:12,760 --> 01:12:16,160
Speaker 1: be the same if you're casting something, and it's just

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01:12:16,240 --> 01:12:20,599
Speaker 1: one of those things where it shows up natively inside

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01:12:20,640 --> 01:12:23,639
Speaker 1: the app when it recognizes that it can connect to something.

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01:12:24,040 --> 01:12:27,800
Speaker 1: So if you're not seeing that cast icon inside different apps.

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01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:30,719
Speaker 1: I would also open up Netflix because that's the easiest

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01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,160
Speaker 1: to kind of see if the cast icon shows up there.

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01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:36,680
Speaker 1: I would open up that one and see. So you

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01:12:36,760 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 1: said it works on YouTube, which means there's some sort

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01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:41,679
Speaker 1: of life happening and there's some sort of connection happening

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01:12:41,760 --> 01:12:46,120
Speaker 1: between these two devices. But YouTube is Google. Cast is Google,

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01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:49,800
Speaker 1: so it's a little bit trickier because Google has some

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01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:54,120
Speaker 1: ways of making that connection more so than other apps

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01:12:54,160 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 1: that may just be using the cast framework there. So

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01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,360
Speaker 1: those are my suggestions, Dale, I think you're going to

1478
01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:03,479
Speaker 1: get this to work, maybe restart both devices as well

1479
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,160
Speaker 1: and see if they come back up. And also maybe

1480
01:13:06,200 --> 01:13:08,680
Speaker 1: on that TV, get rid of any like forget any

1481
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 1: Wi Fi networks that it may have been connected to

1482
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 1: in the past that could be confusing it as well.

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01:13:14,000 --> 01:13:17,120
Speaker 1: But Google casts a great thing when it works, and

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01:13:17,200 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 1: it's one of those things that you don't realize how

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01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:23,880
Speaker 1: good it is until, Like we bring a Chrome cast

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01:13:23,960 --> 01:13:26,760
Speaker 1: to hotels, and not every hotel lets you do it,

1487
01:13:26,880 --> 01:13:29,000
Speaker 1: but you can just pop the Chrome cast into the

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01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,800
Speaker 1: back of the TV and cast anything. It's a little

1489
01:13:31,840 --> 01:13:34,080
Speaker 1: tricky because they do have to be on the same

1490
01:13:34,160 --> 01:13:36,240
Speaker 1: Wi Fi network. And I had some I'm trying to

1491
01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 1: think how I got around that last time, but it

1492
01:13:38,439 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: was a little tricky because you can't necessarily use the

1493
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:45,120
Speaker 1: Wi Fi that the hotel provides. I think I make

1494
01:13:45,160 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 1: my phone a hotspot. I think I did that. But

1495
01:13:47,560 --> 01:13:49,559
Speaker 1: the other thing is that a lot of these TVs.

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01:13:49,640 --> 01:13:51,479
Speaker 1: You go to these hotels now and they just have

1497
01:13:51,640 --> 01:13:54,839
Speaker 1: casting built in, like it's just a thing. You connect

1498
01:13:54,880 --> 01:13:57,320
Speaker 1: to the hotel Wi Fi, you say what room number

1499
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:00,240
Speaker 1: you're in, and wow. Especially the I think was the

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01:14:00,320 --> 01:14:04,599
Speaker 1: Hyatt hotels that do this and it just has the casting.

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01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,479
Speaker 1: But I've seen it in different brands, so it's a

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01:14:07,520 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 1: great thing when it works and it's fun. Oh, speaking

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Speaker 1: of Netflix, did you know that you can download your

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Speaker 1: entire viewing history. Dwight Silverman in the Houston Chronicle talks

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Speaker 1: about this. We had him on the show last week.

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Speaker 1: This is really interesting. I was not aware of this

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Speaker 1: until I read his column, and yes, you can download

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Speaker 1: all of your personal data and he downloaded his. I

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Speaker 1: downloaded mine over yesterday and you can see everything, everything

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Speaker 1: you've watched, everything everyone on your account has watched. You

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Speaker 1: can see every single device that is logged into your account.

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Speaker 1: When they log in what they're doing when they're doing it,

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Speaker 1: and it's pretty thorough. I was going through some of

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01:14:56,320 --> 01:14:58,559
Speaker 1: the files. There's a bunch of files. It's not it's

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01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 1: not a large file, but it's just a lot of

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01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:03,680
Speaker 1: little files. So to do this, you can go to

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Speaker 1: Netflix dot com, slash account, slash get my info. And

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Speaker 1: there's no reason to do this except just for fun.

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01:15:11,800 --> 01:15:13,240
Speaker 1: This is not like I'm not telling you this like

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Speaker 1: you should go snooping on all the people that are

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01:15:14,960 --> 01:15:16,920
Speaker 1: sharing your account. It's just kind of fun to see

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01:15:17,600 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 1: all the information that they're collecting because you kind of

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01:15:19,760 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 1: forget about this. And the reason why they're doing this

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01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:26,519
Speaker 1: is because, well A, I think they're mandated by you know,

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Speaker 1: all these you know, freedom of like the thing where

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01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:33,479
Speaker 1: you can download your Google data all this stuff. But

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Speaker 1: I think they're also kind of flexing a little bit

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01:15:35,800 --> 01:15:38,719
Speaker 1: because they're saying, yeah, we know every single IP address

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01:15:38,880 --> 01:15:41,320
Speaker 1: that's using your account, we know which device is using it,

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01:15:41,439 --> 01:15:44,160
Speaker 1: we know who's the profile, and yeah, we're going to

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Speaker 1: use this information once we start cracking down onsload password freeloaders.

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Speaker 1: So once you request your info, it's not instant, but

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01:15:52,160 --> 01:15:55,080
Speaker 1: they'll email you when it's ready and you can see

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01:15:55,120 --> 01:15:57,799
Speaker 1: your full viewing activity. It shows you everything that's happening

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01:15:57,840 --> 01:16:00,920
Speaker 1: on there, and then you've got the which shows you

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01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:04,760
Speaker 1: all the hardware. But as Dwight explains, the creepiest file

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01:16:04,840 --> 01:16:08,040
Speaker 1: on the batch is the one called clickstream. This literally

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01:16:08,200 --> 01:16:10,960
Speaker 1: shows you all of the actions taken by users on

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01:16:11,080 --> 01:16:14,280
Speaker 1: your account. You can see when someone looks at episode titles,

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01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:17,720
Speaker 1: read the description of a movie, or clicked playback, and

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01:16:18,280 --> 01:16:21,080
Speaker 1: it's like a it's like a play by play of

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01:16:21,240 --> 01:16:24,040
Speaker 1: exactly what they do on Netflix. It even says something

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01:16:24,200 --> 01:16:27,240
Speaker 1: like this trailer for this show auto played on their

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01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 1: home screen.

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Speaker 14: So it is.

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01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:31,519
Speaker 1: It is quite thorough. If you want to download your

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01:16:31,640 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: Netflix data again, just go to Netflix dot com, slash account,

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01:16:37,240 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 1: slash get my info and uh yeah, it's pretty eye opening,

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01:16:42,000 --> 01:16:44,479
Speaker 1: kind of fun just to see all the info that

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01:16:44,560 --> 01:16:47,320
Speaker 1: they're collecting on you. All right, coming up, we're going

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Speaker 1: to talk about Apple and Google teaming up to prevent

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Speaker 1: unwanted tracking with air tags and other trackers and Airbnb.

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Speaker 1: tell you the new feature that is coming back that'll

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Speaker 1: Coming up later in the show, we're gonna talk to

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Speaker 1: Josh auerback. He is the COO of Aura Free. This

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01:18:01,320 --> 01:18:04,040
Speaker 1: is one of my favorite gadgets of the past couple

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Speaker 1: of years. And talking to Josh for a reason, because

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Speaker 1: Mother's Day is coming up, and if you're looking for

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Speaker 1: something that would be the perfect gift, not just for mom,

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01:18:13,439 --> 01:18:15,960
Speaker 1: this works for any family member, but it's such a

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01:18:16,040 --> 01:18:20,320
Speaker 1: great way to send your digital pictures to their frame

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Speaker 1: in their home. It's really cool. So we'll talk about

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Speaker 1: that in some of the new features there. Okay, let's

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Speaker 1: get to Ryan in La Ryan you're on with Rich Hi.

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Speaker 14: Rich, Hi, thank you for taking my call. I've been

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01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:37,720
Speaker 14: a long time viewer and now listener. Oh thanks, And

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01:18:38,000 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 14: I had a good question for you.

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01:18:40,680 --> 01:18:41,040
Speaker 10: What is it?

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01:18:42,240 --> 01:18:42,280
Speaker 1: So?

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01:18:42,800 --> 01:18:45,920
Speaker 14: I just recently rebuilt my computer and I did a

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01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:49,439
Speaker 14: motherboard change and a TPU change and GPU and everything,

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:53,680
Speaker 14: and I now have the remaining stuffs from like my

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01:18:53,880 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 14: last computer, and I've been recommended by using constantly that

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01:18:57,479 --> 01:19:01,360
Speaker 14: old computer for maybe sending up with server inside my

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01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:02,720
Speaker 14: house or like what would be a good use for

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01:19:02,920 --> 01:19:04,400
Speaker 14: a remaining computer like that?

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01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think that the well, I mean,

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01:19:08,320 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 1: do you need a server? Because so is this a

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01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:12,439
Speaker 1: full computer, like ready to go, like it still works

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01:19:12,479 --> 01:19:12,920
Speaker 1: and everything.

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01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,680
Speaker 14: I would just need a case. That would be the

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:17,400
Speaker 14: main thing I'd be missing, is just a case to

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01:19:17,520 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 14: keep it in.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And I imagine since you're building these things, this

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01:19:20,800 --> 01:19:22,599
Speaker 1: is still a pretty good computer.

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Speaker 14: Yeah, it's it's a decent computer. I just it definitely

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01:19:26,720 --> 01:19:31,000
Speaker 14: could do most anything I would recommend it like doing

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01:19:31,040 --> 01:19:33,680
Speaker 14: like maybe cryptocurrency or but like I wasn't sure what

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01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 14: would be a great use for something like that.

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01:19:35,560 --> 01:19:37,920
Speaker 1: I mean, look, so once you have a computer that

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01:19:38,200 --> 01:19:41,519
Speaker 1: is no longer necessary, my thing is that I will

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01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,479
Speaker 1: typically give it to a family member that needs it.

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01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:47,679
Speaker 1: That's kind of like the number one. Now that's referring

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01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:51,400
Speaker 1: to laptops usually, so typically I'll replace my laptop every

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01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:54,080
Speaker 1: three years or so, and I will give the old

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01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:56,639
Speaker 1: one to, you know, either my kid or my mom

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01:19:56,800 --> 01:19:59,559
Speaker 1: or my dad or anyone. I've given them to all

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01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:02,000
Speaker 1: of my FAMI family members at this point, so that's

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01:20:02,200 --> 01:20:04,680
Speaker 1: that's number one. Now, this is a desktop, This is

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01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 1: a larger computer, so that may not be something that

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01:20:08,120 --> 01:20:10,120
Speaker 1: they want per se. I mean unless they have a

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01:20:10,360 --> 01:20:14,439
Speaker 1: desktop setup or whatever. But the other thing you could

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01:20:14,439 --> 01:20:17,000
Speaker 1: do if you you know, you talked about making a server.

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01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 1: I think that the bottom line is do you need

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01:20:19,000 --> 01:20:22,320
Speaker 1: the server? And I think that in this day and age,

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01:20:22,360 --> 01:20:25,320
Speaker 1: it's good to have that in your home. I would

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01:20:25,360 --> 01:20:28,480
Speaker 1: be concerned about how much power this computer is consuming

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01:20:28,680 --> 01:20:30,439
Speaker 1: to to just run a server that you may or

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01:20:30,520 --> 01:20:32,800
Speaker 1: may not need, So that's kind of the consideration there.

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01:20:34,880 --> 01:20:37,360
Speaker 1: But in general, if you were using it as a server,

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01:20:37,479 --> 01:20:39,639
Speaker 1: it'd be good to sort of back up anything that's

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01:20:39,640 --> 01:20:42,599
Speaker 1: in the cloud, So whether it's Google Photos, whether it's uh,

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01:20:43,120 --> 01:20:45,200
Speaker 1: you know, anything that you're storing online, you can have

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01:20:45,360 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 1: it back up to that device. Otherwise, people, you know,

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01:20:49,080 --> 01:20:50,920
Speaker 1: you can run sort of a plex server on it

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01:20:51,120 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 1: or something like that to serve up your video and

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01:20:53,120 --> 01:20:57,280
Speaker 1: audio if you're doing that. But personally, I think that

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01:20:57,400 --> 01:21:00,519
Speaker 1: it's unless you absolutely one need this thing to be

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01:21:00,560 --> 01:21:03,680
Speaker 1: a server, I would probably find another use for it.

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01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: And I know you're proud of this machine because you

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01:21:06,000 --> 01:21:09,920
Speaker 1: built it, so I would try to place this with

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01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 1: someone that could really use it. So whether that's a

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01:21:11,880 --> 01:21:15,599
Speaker 1: family member or I would say something like a charity,

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01:21:15,800 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 1: like a school, maybe set this up for them. I

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01:21:18,880 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of charities and schools out there

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01:21:21,360 --> 01:21:25,040
Speaker 1: that could use this and do that. Maybe a you know,

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01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 1: a church, religious organization that could use it, So that

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01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:32,760
Speaker 1: would be probably a great use of it. Otherwise, I mean,

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01:21:32,800 --> 01:21:35,559
Speaker 1: you're not going to recycle this thing because it sounds

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01:21:35,600 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 1: like it's a really good device. So if you don't

1646
01:21:38,880 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: want to donate it and you want to make money

1647
01:21:40,680 --> 01:21:42,120
Speaker 1: off of it, maybe you could just use one of

1648
01:21:42,200 --> 01:21:45,080
Speaker 1: these sites like a you know, a Facebook marketplace or

1649
01:21:45,080 --> 01:21:47,880
Speaker 1: a let go that or offer up that you could

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01:21:48,320 --> 01:21:50,600
Speaker 1: sell this thing, but of course you'd want to have

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01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:52,920
Speaker 1: all your personal information off of there. But since you're

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01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 1: building computers, I'm pretty sure you know how to delete

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01:21:55,600 --> 01:21:58,599
Speaker 1: the information off of this thing. But that those are

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01:21:58,680 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: my options for an an old computer. In fact, it's

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01:22:01,320 --> 01:22:04,120
Speaker 1: funny Ryan that you asked this question because I have

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01:22:04,439 --> 01:22:07,360
Speaker 1: an old laptop. So I just got a new laptop.

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01:22:07,439 --> 01:22:09,720
Speaker 1: I gave my old one to my kid and then

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01:22:09,840 --> 01:22:12,080
Speaker 1: his old one, which is still perfectly fine except for

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01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:14,519
Speaker 1: the battery. I've been trying to figure out a use

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01:22:14,600 --> 01:22:16,559
Speaker 1: for it, and I've been wondering if I should set

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01:22:16,600 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 1: it up as a server or I'm not sure.

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Speaker 5: So it's a.

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01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: Laptop, which doesn't necessarily make the best server in my opinion,

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01:22:24,360 --> 01:22:26,000
Speaker 1: but I do need to back up some things, so

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01:22:26,080 --> 01:22:29,040
Speaker 1: I was thinking that that's what I might use it for.

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01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:32,880
Speaker 1: So but otherwise, the other thing is I mentioned this

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01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:35,840
Speaker 1: on the show, but Chrome os flex turns an older

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01:22:35,920 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 1: computer into something that's more like a chromebook, so you

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01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 1: could look into something like that. So there are a

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01:22:41,800 --> 01:22:45,280
Speaker 1: lot of ways to do this, and just depends. Since

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01:22:45,320 --> 01:22:47,840
Speaker 1: this is a big, powerful computer, you might want to

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01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,560
Speaker 1: place it in the hands of someone that knows the

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01:22:50,840 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 1: power of that computer and can do something good with it.

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Speaker 1: So great question. Thanks so much for calling in today, Ryan,

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01:22:57,040 --> 01:23:01,639
Speaker 1: appreciate you watching me on KTLA. Apple and Google teaming

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01:23:01,760 --> 01:23:06,920
Speaker 1: up to address unwanted tracking with devices like air tags.

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01:23:07,439 --> 01:23:11,080
Speaker 1: So this is a new proposal that they are putting

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01:23:11,120 --> 01:23:15,200
Speaker 1: out there to the industry to build into iOS and

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01:23:15,560 --> 01:23:19,200
Speaker 1: Android a set of standards that would be able to

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01:23:19,680 --> 01:23:24,679
Speaker 1: use and alert users about all of these different trackers

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01:23:24,720 --> 01:23:26,760
Speaker 1: out there. So, whether it's a Samsung, whether it's a

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01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: Tile Chipolo, Ufi Security, Pebbleby haven't even heard of that one,

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01:23:32,240 --> 01:23:35,160
Speaker 1: all of these devices, if they were near you, your

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01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,400
Speaker 1: phone would alert you, and you know, not just instantly,

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01:23:38,479 --> 01:23:41,160
Speaker 1: but after a while of it tracking you. So the

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Speaker 1: problem is with these air tags, they're so popular. If

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Speaker 1: you have an iPhone, it tells you that there's an

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01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: unwanted one yearby do you have an Android, it doesn't

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01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,599
Speaker 1: tell you that. So now these two companies are working

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01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: together hopefully by the end of the year, no matter

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01:23:53,280 --> 01:23:56,200
Speaker 1: which air tag is on you by accident or you know,

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01:23:56,240 --> 01:23:59,240
Speaker 1: if someone's using it for stalking, your phone would alert you.

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01:24:00,000 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: Smart Thanks Apple and Google for working together on this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Rich on Tech coming up, Aura Frames

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01:24:06,080 --> 01:24:10,920
Speaker 1: up next. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro

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01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:13,480
Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for my next guest because Aura Frames is

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Speaker 1: one of my favorite gadgets, and every time I mention

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01:25:00,360 --> 01:25:03,680
Speaker 1: on TV, people say, Rich this is the best thing

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Speaker 1: I've ever purchased. It's so easy. It's a digital frame

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01:25:06,880 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 1: that you can display your pictures on. But it's super

1715
01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:12,439
Speaker 1: easy to get your pictures on the frame because you

1716
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,760
Speaker 1: can send them right from your phone, via email or

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01:25:15,960 --> 01:25:19,680
Speaker 1: using the app. So let's bring up Josh hourback here.

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01:25:20,280 --> 01:25:23,080
Speaker 1: Coo of Aura frames. Josh, thanks for joining me.

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01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:25,639
Speaker 19: It's my pleasure. It's my pleasure.

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01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:29,439
Speaker 1: Okay. So how do you describe what Aura frames are?

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01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:31,920
Speaker 1: I described it in my way, but you describe it

1722
01:25:32,000 --> 01:25:32,360
Speaker 1: your way.

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01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 19: Yeah, and I thought your way was terrific when I

1724
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:41,280
Speaker 19: think about it. Aura is a really good Wi Fi

1725
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:45,960
Speaker 19: connected digital picture frame, and so you can take each

1726
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:49,880
Speaker 19: of those in part. But I think for people who

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01:25:50,479 --> 01:25:54,160
Speaker 19: have a lot of pictures around their house in you know,

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01:25:54,680 --> 01:25:57,880
Speaker 19: old fashioned printed photos. So the first part is it's

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01:25:57,880 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 19: a digital picture frame. Those have been around for twenty

1730
01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:05,040
Speaker 19: something years, right. The second is that it's Wi Fi connected,

1731
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:07,800
Speaker 19: so that it connects to the Internet and you can

1732
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:10,960
Speaker 19: add photos to it from anywhere in the world, and

1733
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:13,560
Speaker 19: those have been around maybe for ten years. And the

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01:26:13,640 --> 01:26:16,760
Speaker 19: third is that it's really good, right, And we pay

1735
01:26:16,760 --> 01:26:20,000
Speaker 19: a lot attention to the little details, the picture quality

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01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,160
Speaker 19: and the quality of the groom itself, and so that's

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01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 19: what that's what's important to us.

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01:26:25,479 --> 01:26:28,759
Speaker 1: So if you remember now you said that digital frames

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01:26:28,800 --> 01:26:30,320
Speaker 1: have been around for I think you said, do you

1740
01:26:30,360 --> 01:26:31,960
Speaker 1: say twenty years, but it's been a while.

1741
01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:34,600
Speaker 19: Yeah, yeah, I think they came out in the in

1742
01:26:34,680 --> 01:26:35,559
Speaker 19: the nineteen nineties.

1743
01:26:35,760 --> 01:26:38,919
Speaker 1: So I remember when everyone got one of these, including myself.

1744
01:26:39,040 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 1: We gifted our in laws and my mom one of

1745
01:26:42,960 --> 01:26:46,000
Speaker 1: these frames. And here's how it worked. You would load

1746
01:26:46,120 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 1: up the frame by putting pictures on like a USB

1747
01:26:48,600 --> 01:26:50,519
Speaker 1: drive and then pop that into the back of the frame.

1748
01:26:50,920 --> 01:26:52,880
Speaker 1: And I can guarantee you that I have millions of

1749
01:26:52,920 --> 01:26:55,360
Speaker 1: these frames that were sold back in the day. They

1750
01:26:55,400 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 1: were updated exactly once when they were gifted, and you

1751
01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:00,040
Speaker 1: never had new pictures, and that's where.

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01:27:01,680 --> 01:27:04,720
Speaker 19: Exactly and I think I had won myself. I had

1753
01:27:04,800 --> 01:27:07,839
Speaker 19: a standalone I think it was a Kodak digital camera

1754
01:27:08,080 --> 01:27:10,600
Speaker 19: in the very late nineties, and I had one of

1755
01:27:10,680 --> 01:27:13,639
Speaker 19: those frames that used I think it was a compact

1756
01:27:13,760 --> 01:27:18,240
Speaker 19: flash card whatever those were called way back. Yeah, and uh,

1757
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:20,799
Speaker 19: And you're exactly right, and they were. They were actually

1758
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 19: a pretty big business for a very brief moment in time,

1759
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 19: and then they all got dusty and the pictures got stale,

1760
01:27:29,240 --> 01:27:30,800
Speaker 19: and they all got thrown out.

1761
01:27:30,920 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 5: Right.

1762
01:27:31,280 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 19: There was a there was a boom and then a

1763
01:27:33,160 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 19: bus in this sector. And I think what really changed,

1764
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:42,880
Speaker 19: obviously the technology got better and the image quality got better,

1765
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 19: but what really mattered was the advent of ubiquitous.

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01:27:46,439 --> 01:27:49,439
Speaker 1: Wi Fi mm hm. And so these Aura frames, you've

1767
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 1: got several different models, you know, they're all digital, they

1768
01:27:52,280 --> 01:27:55,439
Speaker 1: all have different kind of features, but the main thing

1769
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 1: is the ease of which you can get photos to

1770
01:27:58,439 --> 01:28:02,120
Speaker 1: these frames. And so, for instance, my in laws we

1771
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:05,720
Speaker 1: gifted them one, and I can have the app on

1772
01:28:05,840 --> 01:28:08,280
Speaker 1: my phone that displays you know that I can send

1773
01:28:08,400 --> 01:28:11,720
Speaker 1: photos to their frame. But also my sister in law

1774
01:28:11,800 --> 01:28:13,360
Speaker 1: and brother in law can have the app on their

1775
01:28:13,439 --> 01:28:17,040
Speaker 1: phone and also send pictures to this frame. And I've

1776
01:28:17,120 --> 01:28:19,679
Speaker 1: noticed it's almost like a little friendly competition of whenever

1777
01:28:19,760 --> 01:28:22,120
Speaker 1: I get a notification that says that they send pictures,

1778
01:28:22,160 --> 01:28:24,720
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, I should send some pictures now. Do

1779
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: you find that happens with people?

1780
01:28:26,479 --> 01:28:28,720
Speaker 14: Yeah, and that the.

1781
01:28:30,320 --> 01:28:34,800
Speaker 19: Business itself. One of the things that I love most

1782
01:28:34,920 --> 01:28:38,320
Speaker 19: about it is that you very often find that someone

1783
01:28:38,479 --> 01:28:43,160
Speaker 19: will buy one for, you know, their parents one year,

1784
01:28:43,400 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 19: for the holidays or for Mother's Day, and they'll start

1785
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 19: sending pictures and then they realize, you know, the their

1786
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:56,880
Speaker 19: siblings have started to add pictures to it. But then

1787
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:58,920
Speaker 19: they go and buy one for their in laws and

1788
01:28:59,040 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 19: then the siblings I want for their in laws. Yeah,

1789
01:29:02,360 --> 01:29:05,840
Speaker 19: it just goes out from you know, from family to family,

1790
01:29:05,880 --> 01:29:08,920
Speaker 19: and we have cases, I think the biggest where it

1791
01:29:09,000 --> 01:29:12,360
Speaker 19: had gone across a hundred families, going from in lost

1792
01:29:12,439 --> 01:29:18,439
Speaker 19: and lost and laws. You know, these crazy excitement that

1793
01:29:18,479 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 19: people have for this product. Again, you know, as you said,

1794
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 19: you can add photos to it from anywhere and people

1795
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:26,040
Speaker 19: just love that.

1796
01:29:26,880 --> 01:29:28,960
Speaker 1: And you don't, you know, if you're thinking like, ah,

1797
01:29:29,040 --> 01:29:30,840
Speaker 1: that's too complicated, I'm not going to be able to

1798
01:29:30,920 --> 01:29:33,080
Speaker 1: use an app to send them. I mean, at the base,

1799
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:36,360
Speaker 1: you can send them through email. So this each frame

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01:29:36,439 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 1: has sort of like a personalized email address that you

1801
01:29:39,400 --> 01:29:41,880
Speaker 1: can just send the photo to that email address and

1802
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:43,160
Speaker 1: it will show up on that frame.

1803
01:29:43,360 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 12: Correct, that's right, that's right.

1804
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:50,360
Speaker 19: And for people who think this is somewhat exotic or different,

1805
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:54,280
Speaker 19: it is very simple to use. And that's part I

1806
01:29:54,360 --> 01:29:57,600
Speaker 19: think of why the product has become so popular is

1807
01:29:57,680 --> 01:30:01,200
Speaker 19: that whether you're sending a picture to it from your

1808
01:30:01,240 --> 01:30:06,040
Speaker 19: phone via email or you use the app, it's extremely

1809
01:30:06,120 --> 01:30:10,400
Speaker 19: easy to send pictures to it. And the difference is,

1810
01:30:10,560 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 19: you know, if you send a photo to someone in

1811
01:30:13,600 --> 01:30:16,400
Speaker 19: a text message or I message. They'll see it once, right,

1812
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 19: maybe it'll scroll back to it, but it almost immediately

1813
01:30:19,840 --> 01:30:23,120
Speaker 19: disappears from the screen. And if you send it to

1814
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 19: their Aura, they can see it every day. And that's magic,

1815
01:30:27,160 --> 01:30:32,320
Speaker 19: particularly with parents' grandparents, those kinds of things where people

1816
01:30:32,520 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 19: get these pictures and they really would treasure them if

1817
01:30:35,160 --> 01:30:38,679
Speaker 19: they could treasure them, and that's what that's what Aura does.

1818
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:40,759
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of fun too. When you're on vacation,

1819
01:30:40,960 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 1: you can send a photo directly to the frame, like

1820
01:30:43,320 --> 01:30:44,680
Speaker 1: we did that. We were in Hawaii a couple of

1821
01:30:44,720 --> 01:30:47,799
Speaker 1: weeks ago and we were sending pictures from our vacation

1822
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,640
Speaker 1: right to the frame. Instead of text messaging, we just

1823
01:30:50,720 --> 01:30:52,240
Speaker 1: sent them to the frame. And it's kind of fun

1824
01:30:52,280 --> 01:30:54,560
Speaker 1: because you know that our in laws are sitting in

1825
01:30:54,600 --> 01:30:56,120
Speaker 1: their kitchen all of a sudden they see this new

1826
01:30:56,160 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 1: picture pop up and like, oh, that's cool, that's brand new.

1827
01:30:59,080 --> 01:31:02,280
Speaker 1: Let's talk about some of the new features. No, sure,

1828
01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:04,800
Speaker 1: let's talk about some of the new features. So you've

1829
01:31:04,840 --> 01:31:08,120
Speaker 1: got this colorizer feature which will take a black and

1830
01:31:08,240 --> 01:31:11,800
Speaker 1: white or a sepia image and colorize it.

1831
01:31:12,920 --> 01:31:15,200
Speaker 19: That's right, that's right, and it's very easy to do

1832
01:31:15,439 --> 01:31:18,320
Speaker 19: so I was using this actually earlier today. I had

1833
01:31:18,320 --> 01:31:23,000
Speaker 19: a picture of one of my aunts and it was

1834
01:31:23,040 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 19: in black and white. It was taken back in the forties,

1835
01:31:25,560 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 19: and I did sort of the most simple thing, which

1836
01:31:29,479 --> 01:31:31,920
Speaker 19: is that I took a picture of the picture. Right,

1837
01:31:32,040 --> 01:31:33,960
Speaker 19: It couldn't be much easier. I take a picture of

1838
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,120
Speaker 19: the picture with my phone and then you see three

1839
01:31:36,160 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 19: little circles in the corner and you just tap on

1840
01:31:40,320 --> 01:31:43,479
Speaker 19: that and say colorized, and it adds just a little

1841
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:46,400
Speaker 19: bit of color to the picture. And it's a nice

1842
01:31:47,560 --> 01:31:51,320
Speaker 19: It makes it seem a little bit more alive. I

1843
01:31:51,640 --> 01:31:52,280
Speaker 19: really enjoy it.

1844
01:31:52,840 --> 01:31:56,240
Speaker 1: What about this feature that restores old photos? So tell

1845
01:31:56,280 --> 01:31:57,400
Speaker 1: me about that. Is that similar?

1846
01:31:57,760 --> 01:32:01,120
Speaker 19: Yeah, yes, same kind of thing. And you'll have a

1847
01:32:01,560 --> 01:32:04,160
Speaker 19: picture that has a tear in it or a scratch

1848
01:32:04,280 --> 01:32:07,760
Speaker 19: something like that, and this just applies the you know

1849
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:10,599
Speaker 19: a little bit of retouching to get rid of those

1850
01:32:10,760 --> 01:32:11,640
Speaker 19: kinds of scratches.

1851
01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:11,840
Speaker 3: You know.

1852
01:32:12,320 --> 01:32:15,639
Speaker 19: So much of what we do at AURA, we try

1853
01:32:15,800 --> 01:32:22,640
Speaker 19: to use some high technology, some you know, fancy algorithm

1854
01:32:22,720 --> 01:32:24,880
Speaker 19: behind the scenes, but we want it to be very

1855
01:32:25,000 --> 01:32:28,880
Speaker 19: easy to use and essentially to make the technology aspect

1856
01:32:29,000 --> 01:32:31,479
Speaker 19: of it disappear. And this works exactly the same way

1857
01:32:31,479 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 19: about it.

1858
01:32:32,000 --> 01:32:32,840
Speaker 14: It's just one tap.

1859
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:35,360
Speaker 19: It makes your photo look a little bit better of

1860
01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 19: the you know, the end goal essentially is to let

1861
01:32:38,640 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 19: you enjoy your photos a little bit better than you

1862
01:32:42,600 --> 01:32:44,240
Speaker 19: would have been able to otherwise.

1863
01:32:44,680 --> 01:32:46,679
Speaker 1: And I love the idea. I never really thought about

1864
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:48,840
Speaker 1: scanning the photos from the app because I just think

1865
01:32:48,880 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 1: about adding them for my camera role. But yeah, there's

1866
01:32:51,240 --> 01:32:53,519
Speaker 1: a little scanner icon in the upper right hand corner

1867
01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: when you say add photos. And so if you're at

1868
01:32:56,040 --> 01:32:58,920
Speaker 1: say your grandma's house or your family member's house, you

1869
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:01,000
Speaker 1: can and you see a that you want that's on

1870
01:33:01,040 --> 01:33:03,040
Speaker 1: their wall, that you want on your frame, just take

1871
01:33:03,080 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 1: a scan of it and add it's your own frame,

1872
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:05,639
Speaker 1: which is kind of cool too.

1873
01:33:06,640 --> 01:33:06,840
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1874
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:10,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, And that's a very very common use case, and

1875
01:33:10,520 --> 01:33:12,280
Speaker 19: it's a way you don't have to go through a

1876
01:33:12,360 --> 01:33:15,599
Speaker 19: lot of effort and the qualities you leave the quality

1877
01:33:15,680 --> 01:33:18,120
Speaker 19: is fine. And again what it brings to you is

1878
01:33:18,400 --> 01:33:20,479
Speaker 19: is the smile that you get from seeing that picture.

1879
01:33:20,520 --> 01:33:20,760
Speaker 14: Again.

1880
01:33:21,080 --> 01:33:24,320
Speaker 1: So the top selling frame is the Carver Matt and

1881
01:33:24,560 --> 01:33:28,519
Speaker 1: this is regularly one eighty. Right now it's one fifty

1882
01:33:28,680 --> 01:33:31,200
Speaker 1: for a Mother's Day deal. Then you've got the Mason

1883
01:33:31,479 --> 01:33:34,240
Speaker 1: which is one eighty, which is a nine inch screen.

1884
01:33:34,600 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 1: And then you've got the Mason Lux which is the

1885
01:33:37,280 --> 01:33:39,799
Speaker 1: highest photo clarity, so that has a two K display

1886
01:33:40,400 --> 01:33:42,880
Speaker 1: that's two twenty nine. But I think most people will

1887
01:33:42,880 --> 01:33:45,200
Speaker 1: be happy with any of these, obviously, whatever's in their

1888
01:33:45,200 --> 01:33:49,280
Speaker 1: price range. I also notice that, and I also.

1889
01:33:49,160 --> 01:33:51,640
Speaker 19: Know that you guys are We focus a lot on

1890
01:33:52,400 --> 01:33:55,400
Speaker 19: image quality, and so whichever one you buy, you're going

1891
01:33:55,439 --> 01:33:56,160
Speaker 19: to be happy with the.

1892
01:33:56,160 --> 01:33:57,240
Speaker 14: Way the pictures look on it.

1893
01:33:57,560 --> 01:33:59,240
Speaker 1: And I noticed last time I was in Costco, I

1894
01:33:59,360 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 1: saw them in there, and I thought that was pretty neat.

1895
01:34:02,120 --> 01:34:05,840
Speaker 19: Yes, yeah, we've got a great partnership with Costco, and

1896
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:10,679
Speaker 19: you know, it's a terrific product for that for that's

1897
01:34:10,720 --> 01:34:11,240
Speaker 19: kind of store.

1898
01:34:11,640 --> 01:34:14,160
Speaker 1: All right, Josh, anything else you want to add before

1899
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:14,840
Speaker 1: we head out here.

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01:34:16,040 --> 01:34:19,160
Speaker 19: No, I mean, I think this is a terrific gift

1901
01:34:19,320 --> 01:34:22,880
Speaker 19: for Mother's Day. People really love it, and I think

1902
01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:24,920
Speaker 19: that's what makes my job so rewarding.

1903
01:34:25,360 --> 01:34:28,680
Speaker 1: All right, Josh auerback from Aura Frames. I'll put a

1904
01:34:28,760 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 1: link on my website at richon tech dot TV. Thanks

1905
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:35,000
Speaker 1: so much for joining me today, Josh, appreciate it.

1906
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:37,040
Speaker 19: Thank you, Rich Bye.

1907
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:41,599
Speaker 1: Okay, these frames, I mean it's just such a great gift.

1908
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:44,479
Speaker 1: So if you're looking for something for Mother's Day, I mean,

1909
01:34:44,520 --> 01:34:46,960
Speaker 1: this is one of those things, or any day. I mean, honestly,

1910
01:34:47,040 --> 01:34:49,599
Speaker 1: these things. Every time I talk about this thing on TV,

1911
01:34:49,760 --> 01:34:52,479
Speaker 1: people just go wild over it because it's something that

1912
01:34:52,560 --> 01:34:54,640
Speaker 1: you kind of remember from back in the day, like

1913
01:34:54,760 --> 01:34:57,320
Speaker 1: we all had this digital frame. But once you get

1914
01:34:57,360 --> 01:35:00,360
Speaker 1: that ease of Wi Fi, it is really really nice.

1915
01:35:00,360 --> 01:35:02,560
Speaker 1: And I think Aura what sets them apart from some

1916
01:35:02,640 --> 01:35:04,519
Speaker 1: of the other frames that I've tested is really just

1917
01:35:04,640 --> 01:35:08,000
Speaker 1: the quality of not only the frame, but also the

1918
01:35:09,320 --> 01:35:11,760
Speaker 1: app and the way that you get your information to

1919
01:35:11,920 --> 01:35:14,200
Speaker 1: that frame. So again I'll put a link to Aura

1920
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:17,920
Speaker 1: Frames on my website. Rich on Tech dot TV. All right,

1921
01:35:17,960 --> 01:35:19,920
Speaker 1: coming up, I can't believe it. We're gonna close out.

1922
01:35:19,880 --> 01:35:20,559
Speaker 5: The show.

1923
01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:24,040
Speaker 1: Eight to eight rich one, oh one, if we can

1924
01:35:24,120 --> 01:35:26,280
Speaker 1: sneak in one more question here, but otherwise I'll tell

1925
01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:28,599
Speaker 1: you some more things happening in the tech world coming

1926
01:35:28,680 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: up after this. Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich

1927
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:40,560
Speaker 1: Demiro here talking technology with you. If you can believe it,

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Speaker 1: it's the end of the show. I can't believe it.

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Speaker 1: It's three hours and it goes too fast. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how that happens. There's just so many tech things

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Speaker 1: to talk about every week, and of course your questions,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get through some of the things

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Speaker 1: I wanted to tell you about this week. Airbnb, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about them. They are introducing over fifty new features

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Speaker 1: based on feedback. Airbnb sort of started out as this

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Speaker 1: darling and then there's been sort of a backlash because

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Speaker 1: people complain that it's just as expensive as staying at

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Speaker 1: a hotel. The list of things you have to do

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Speaker 1: when you check out are just too much, and all

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Speaker 1: the fees and all that kind of stuff has just

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Speaker 1: gotten kind of out of control. And so Airbnb obviously

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Speaker 1: knows that travel is ticking up and there's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a lot of options out there, so they want to

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Speaker 1: compete once again. So they've got these fifty different features

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Speaker 1: and upgrades that address some of these pain points. But

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Speaker 1: the main one is really the new feature called rooms

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Speaker 1: Airbnb Rooms, and Airbnb is saying that this is going

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Speaker 1: to make travel a lot cheaper, a lot more affordable.

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Speaker 1: They say eighty percent of private rooms are under one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars a night, with an average rate of sixty

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Speaker 1: seven dollars a night, and so they're pitching kind of

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Speaker 1: like back to the basics, Like Airbnb started out as

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Speaker 1: people renting rooms in their homes, and they're saying, look,

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Speaker 1: this is still a great way to travel and a

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Speaker 1: very inexpensive way to travel, and so we get it.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of scary to stay with a random person,

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Speaker 1: but they're trying to make it more approachable, and so

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Speaker 1: they have this new thing called the host Passport, and

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Speaker 1: the host passport lets you get to know the person

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Speaker 1: that you're staying with, and so they have all kinds

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Speaker 1: of fun things on there, like what they like to do,

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Speaker 1: fun facts, where they went to school, what they do

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Speaker 1: for work. There's larger pictures so you can get an

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Speaker 1: idea of who this person is before you stay with them.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying you're staying in their room. I

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Speaker 1: mean it's a private room in their home. But they

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Speaker 1: also have filters that let you see, does this private

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Speaker 1: room have a bathroom? Does this private room have a

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Speaker 1: lock on the door. So again, I mean, look, there's

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Speaker 1: a time and a place for everything. And I think

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Speaker 1: that some people will say, no way, I'll never do that,

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Speaker 1: But there's a lot of people that will say yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's kind of fun. And I was looking at some

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Speaker 1: of the listings and some of these people, you know,

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Speaker 1: they like one of the people was like an executive

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Speaker 1: at uber, you know, and it's like they're they've rented

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Speaker 1: for like years and it's like, Okay, well, I'd feel

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Speaker 1: comfortable staying with them. But again, it depends on your

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Speaker 1: level of for with this kind of stuff. Some of

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Speaker 1: the other improvements total price, you can see what the

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Speaker 1: price is with fees before taxes, the checkout, you can

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Speaker 1: see the checkout instructions before you book, because sometimes these

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Speaker 1: checkout instructions could be I always joke like, you know,

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Speaker 1: can you please organize my photo collection before you check out?

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Speaker 1: It's like that seems a little unreasonable. You can also

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Speaker 1: see if people are getting low ratings for unreasonable chores,

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Speaker 1: you'll be removed from Airbnb, and then if you stay

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Speaker 1: over three months, the service fee will be a lot cheaper.

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Speaker 1: And then they also have this new dedicated twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven support team which can give you priority access

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Speaker 1: when you're on a trip, so if you need help

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Speaker 1: while you're on the trip, you can get someone more easily.

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Speaker 1: So Airbnb doing a bunch of stuff there on your iPhone.

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Speaker 1: This week, you probably saw this Rapid Security Response update. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is brand new. So this is if you know

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Speaker 1: about the iPhone updates, they can be a chore. They

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Speaker 1: can take a really long time to install. So now

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Speaker 1: they have this thing with iOS sixteen called Rapid Security

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Speaker 1: Response Security Response. These are updates that address pressing issues

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone, like security issues that are pretty major,

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Speaker 1: but you can install them very rapidly and quickly and

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Speaker 1: without a major restart most of the time. Now, this

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Speaker 1: week's did require a restart, but in the future they

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Speaker 1: may not, so these are much more smaller updates. You'll

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Speaker 1: know because it'll say Rapid Security Response and it will

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Speaker 1: also not have to reboot most of the time, so

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Speaker 1: you should feel comfortable installing these. You'll know that it's

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Speaker 1: a rapid response when it has the letter A at

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Speaker 1: the end, so or I'm not sure if it's just

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Speaker 1: a letter A or if it's going to be a

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Speaker 1: letter at the end of it. So you'll know that

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Speaker 1: it's a rapid response when it has a letter. But

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Speaker 1: go ahead and install it. It's safe. That's what that's

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Speaker 1: all about. Meanwhile, in Google, you might start noticing blue

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Speaker 1: checks blue check marks next to a sender's name is

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Speaker 1: This is to signify that the sender is verified, and

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Speaker 1: so I think this is pretty smart. With all all

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Speaker 1: the phishing emails out there. You'll probably notice this if

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Speaker 1: you open up an email and it comes from a

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Speaker 1: big brand like Amazon. I also noticed it for a

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Speaker 1: financial website. It will have a blue check mark. You

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Speaker 1: can hover over the blue check mark to make sure

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Speaker 1: that that is a legitimate sender. You're also going to

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Speaker 1: have this enabled on personal Google accounts soon, so that's

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Speaker 1: a smart thing, So look for that blue check mark.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here. I'm getting to the feedback section. Now,

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Speaker 1: let's get to Dave. Dave says, hey, Rich, I love

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Speaker 1: the show. You're doing a wonderful job. I'm addicted and

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Speaker 1: your topics each week are terrific. Well, thank you, Dave.

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Speaker 1: Last week you had a caller with questions about adding

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Speaker 1: Android Auto to an older vehicle. This is what I

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Speaker 1: used in my twenty twelve Toyota Prius and it works great.

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Speaker 1: It's all wireless, except the head unit needs some power.

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Speaker 1: It's plugged into the RCA jack to get the sound

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Speaker 1: out into the car radio. Hence the two wires on

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Speaker 1: the left side, and he sent a little picture. The

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Speaker 1: mount is the CD slot, which of course I don't use,

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Speaker 1: and it's totally stable. The company is car Pride from China.

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Speaker 1: The service and shipping were excellent. I highly recommend I've

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Speaker 1: had no issues so far. Why replace the entire radio

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Speaker 1: if it's not needed? Thanks Dave, Dave, thanks for the feedback.

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Speaker 1: That's excellent. It looks like a good installation. I like it,

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Speaker 1: and I love how you have it mounted on top

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Speaker 1: of the CD player because you don't need that. Let's

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Speaker 1: see here. Hey, rich Dan says, I heard your thoughts

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Speaker 1: about the ring dash cam. I have one that I

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Speaker 1: pre ordered at a discount, but I haven't hooked it up.

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Speaker 1: I'm not thrilled about paying six dollars a month. All

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Speaker 1: these subscriptions add up. I can't afford a subscription for everything.

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Speaker 1: Your comment on the battery drain has me thinking I

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Speaker 1: only drive fifteen minutes to and from work. I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: that maybe not enough time to charge my vehicle battery.

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Speaker 1: I have an outdoor wireless wisecam that lasts about three

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Speaker 1: months on the battery. I've been wishing for that in

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Speaker 1: a dash cam. Where I parked there is Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: so the camera can alert me when I'm home. And

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Speaker 1: maybe that's not the perfect solution, but if the camera

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Speaker 1: would keep recorded events on a memory card until we

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Speaker 1: get back to Wi Fi, then that would be a

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Speaker 1: I'd love Thanks for the info, Dan. Yeah, I have

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Speaker 1: a feeling that Wise could really do a good dash

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Speaker 1: cam because Wyse is a very smart company, and I

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Speaker 1: think that's a great solution. Instead of paying that subscription,

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Speaker 1: they would just record continuously on a loop. Then when

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Speaker 1: you get to your Wi Fi, the camera would go

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Speaker 1: ahead and upload those clips to the cloud. So Wyse

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Speaker 1: has done some great things over the years. Very very

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Speaker 1: good company. I love them. Thanks for the feedback, all right,

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Speaker 1: if you have feedback for the show, Hello at rich

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Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. All right, I'm Rich Demiro. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna do it for this episode, can you believe it?

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Speaker 1: Next week, I'm headed to Google Io. We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: new foldable phones, probably plans for AI and much more.

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Speaker 1: So be sure to check out the show next week

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Speaker 1: when I give you the whole update from Google Io.

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Speaker 1: You can find me on social media. I am at

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Speaker 1: Rich on tech the website, rich on tech dot TV.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget to check it out for everything I mentioned here,

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Speaker 1: plus the TV segments. My name is rich Demiro. Thanks

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Speaker 1: so much for listening. There are so many you can

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Speaker 1: spend your time. I do appreciate you spending it right

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Speaker 1: here with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show possible.

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Speaker 1: I'll talk to you real soon.