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Speaker 2: Good morning, wage. It's nice to talk to you, and

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Speaker 2: thanks a lot for your help with all the text

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Speaker 2: I have a question, you know, I make a lot

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Speaker 1: Definitely do that number one. If it doesn't have that,

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Speaker 1: Henry in Glendora. Henry your question, Yes, thank you.

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Speaker 4: For taking my call. I'll call them because I have

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. We used to have when I was

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Speaker 4: But sorry about that. Yeah, I'm trying to find some

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Speaker 1: What what year are we in, Henry? Come on Windows seven?

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Speaker 1: When when was the end of life on that?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. It still works for me.

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Speaker 1: Oh my, that's wild. Okay, So you're looking for some

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Speaker 4: Basically, Yes, I wanted to rip it in and possibly away.

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm going to give you. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: Because I've gotten this question before from folks, and I've

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Speaker 1: So the first one is Exact Audio Copy. Exact Audio Copy,

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Speaker 1: that's a good ripping program. It's maybe the one you're

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Speaker 1: Good look, Henry, you got quite the project ahead of you.

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Speaker 1: Tim listener Tim emailed and said he's been trying out

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Speaker 1: Are you there, Yeah? Sure, Hey, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: I know this took a while for us to get coordinated,

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Speaker 5: Well, unfortunately, Calwater decided to replace all the main waters,

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, so you've you've tested out. You've got a

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Speaker 1: What's your What's what's the one that you I guess

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Speaker 5: Well, the Apple beats got pretty terrible rating. The earpads

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Speaker 5: for me. My ear didn't even fit inside. Oh wow,

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Speaker 5: that's it, and I know it's cancelation was minimal at best. Okay,

431
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 5: so we go from there to what was next on

432
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Speaker 5: your list after that? In terms of what I tested for,

433
00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:19,880
Speaker 5: I was looking for mostly noise cancelation, not active or passive,

434
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,920
Speaker 5: but basically the combined. In other words, that did not differentiate.

435
00:23:26,400 --> 00:23:29,360
Speaker 5: And I was looking for call quality and Bluetooth capability.

436
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Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe just go through some of your findings.

437
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're not a you know, a professional reviewer

438
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:39,680
Speaker 1: per se, but you've done some pretty good research. Did

439
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,359
Speaker 1: you buy all of these and then return them when

440
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Speaker 1: you were done with them or what?

441
00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:47,160
Speaker 5: And yes, I actually did all except for two of them.

442
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Speaker 1: Okay, Oh so that's I'm assuming the ones that you

443
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Speaker 1: didn't return are the best ones.

444
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Speaker 5: Yeah, with a caveat that. The Apple AirPods Max, which

445
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:03,199
Speaker 5: your headphones were, Yes, the problem with them is that

446
00:24:03,240 --> 00:24:04,040
Speaker 5: they're very heavy.

447
00:24:05,280 --> 00:24:07,840
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm and yes, I would say they're heavier than

448
00:24:07,880 --> 00:24:10,320
Speaker 1: other headphones. I wouldn't say they're very heavy because I've

449
00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,160
Speaker 1: used them. They're just heavier than other headphones out there.

450
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Speaker 1: But they're still I mean, they're still pretty comfortable over time,

451
00:24:17,560 --> 00:24:19,440
Speaker 1: I would say, yeah.

452
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Speaker 5: I mean, it gets it's all relative. Maybe I have

453
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Speaker 5: a soft head. I don't know, but yeah, wearing a

454
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,120
Speaker 5: mad hours a day was not tenable, Okay, wasn't It

455
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Speaker 5: wasn't an option Okay.

456
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Speaker 1: So but they but they you found that they had

457
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Speaker 1: great noise cancelation, but just not the cafer wasn't all

458
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Speaker 1: there for you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they were amazing and Apple is rumored to actually

460
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Speaker 5: come out with a lighter version of those in twenty

461
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Speaker 5: twenty seven.

462
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Speaker 1: Oh well, then let's just wait until then to finish this.

463
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: Just kidding. Okay, okay, what about the Sony's because those

464
00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:57,760
Speaker 1: are are quite popular. You know, you've you tested the

465
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Speaker 1: XM fours now they're up to six. What did you

466
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Speaker 1: find there?

467
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:08,080
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Sony's were good, but they weren't great. And

468
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Speaker 5: one of the biggest problems with the Sony's is the

469
00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,720
Speaker 5: controls were awful. They basically I couldn't get.

470
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Speaker 1: Them to work because it's all touch, right, isn't it

471
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Speaker 1: a lot of like touch controls all.

472
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Speaker 5: Touch and it gets it just didn't like my touch.

473
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, also, this is the thing, like I find

474
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Speaker 1: that these these controls that are not necessarily like easy

475
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,879
Speaker 1: to find or do quickly is not the best because

476
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Speaker 1: you have to you almost have to like get a

477
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Speaker 1: PhD in the control touch situation to figure out like,

478
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Speaker 1: oh I want to raise the volume my swiping, am

479
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:41,320
Speaker 1: I going up am I tapping? So I like the

480
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Speaker 1: physical buttons if possible, but I know everything's changing to

481
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Speaker 1: digital and touch stuff. So okay, So the Sony's, I'm

482
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Speaker 1: looking at the ratings you gave me. The Sony's got

483
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Speaker 1: a nine out of ten for noise cancelation, a seven

484
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Speaker 1: for comfort. AirPods Max you gave a ten for noise canceling,

485
00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,040
Speaker 1: a nine for comfort, but you said they were very heavy.

486
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Speaker 1: What else do we have here? The Bows Quiet Comfort,

487
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Speaker 1: I mean those are very popular. What did you find?

488
00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: They have a regular and an Ultra. What'd you find

489
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Speaker 1: with those?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, the Regular, both quiet comforts. I gave them a

491
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Speaker 5: noise cancelation of eight and a comfort rating of seven.

492
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Speaker 5: The Ultra was not much.

493
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Speaker 1: Better than those in the set of the price or.

494
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Speaker 5: What two hundred and twenty dollars more just wasn't worth it.

495
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Speaker 1: But the people, I mean the Bows, I had those

496
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,840
Speaker 1: for a very long time. Very popular. Obviously they have

497
00:26:35,880 --> 00:26:38,360
Speaker 1: the marketing behind them, so people see them a lot.

498
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Speaker 1: What did you choose as your tops?

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Speaker 5: Well, unfortunately the Apple AirPods Pro three wasn't available when

500
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 5: I did my test, so I did end up choosing

501
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,440
Speaker 5: the Bow's Quiet Comfort and then I bought the error

502
00:26:57,520 --> 00:27:02,320
Speaker 5: Pridz Pro three and I love them both, but for

503
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:06,439
Speaker 5: different reasons. The both quite comfort when I'm on a

504
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:11,919
Speaker 5: telephone call with someone, they can literally hear the drop

505
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 5: of a of a pencil or a pen in the background.

506
00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:21,160
Speaker 5: And they were awful. But I'm on my AirPods Pro

507
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,800
Speaker 5: three right now, and I'm sure you you couldn't hear

508
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 5: that little noise I just made.

509
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 1: No, it's that they have. I mean, it's actually quite

510
00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:34,719
Speaker 1: interesting because people on their iPhone in general, because iPhone

511
00:27:34,760 --> 00:27:38,080
Speaker 1: has this feature that's like, uh, if you swipe down

512
00:27:38,119 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 1: from the upper right hand corner and you're in your headphones,

513
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,640
Speaker 1: it'll say like clear call or something like that, and

514
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: it's really good, like it's uncannily good and so really

515
00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:54,400
Speaker 1: good noise isolation. Yes, uh so those so that's the one.

516
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:56,400
Speaker 1: So but these are two different. One of these are

517
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: like headphones. One is earbuds. So do you use them

518
00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 1: for different So the earbuds, you don't mind.

519
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 5: You know, I love the earbuds, especially on phone calls.

520
00:28:08,119 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 5: You aren't going to believe this. When I'm running my blender,

521
00:28:12,240 --> 00:28:14,080
Speaker 5: I'll put the earbuds in and then I'll put the

522
00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 5: quiet comfort EarPods on top of them.

523
00:28:15,880 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I want two bunch now. Is this

524
00:28:17,640 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: because of the tonightis or what?

525
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:22,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's mostly because the tonight is because that blender

526
00:28:22,440 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 5: has a real high pitched sound and it'll trigger it.

527
00:28:25,040 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 5: And if it triggers it them s with me for

528
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:27,080
Speaker 5: a day.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow. Okay, interesting, Well, I will say, and I've

530
00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:33,360
Speaker 1: and I've talked to Apple about this too. The actual

531
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:37,040
Speaker 1: the earbuds that seal up your ears actually function as

532
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: hearing protection as well.

533
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,720
Speaker 5: So that is airing protection and hearing aids.

534
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,280
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, so that's.

535
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,360
Speaker 5: The other thing. And I did get them, by the way,

536
00:28:46,360 --> 00:28:50,160
Speaker 5: at Costco and saved about sixty dollars because Costco also

537
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 5: gives you a two year Apple Care.

538
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:52,680
Speaker 6: Wow.

539
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 5: So, and I would recommend that for the earbuds because

540
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:01,760
Speaker 5: they're they're easily lost and easily damaged. You know, it's

541
00:29:01,800 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 5: it's so worth it.

542
00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: If you lose one. If you lose one, you will

543
00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:08,360
Speaker 1: they replace it for with that Apple Care for free

544
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:08,560
Speaker 1: or not.

545
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:09,760
Speaker 5: That's what they say.

546
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 6: Yeah.

547
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:13,960
Speaker 1: Wow, that's that's good damage. Okay, that's pretty incredible. Actually,

548
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:17,479
Speaker 1: all right, well, Tim, thanks so much for calling in

549
00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 1: and sharing your your thoughts on all these headphones. Really

550
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I know it took a while to get

551
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,320
Speaker 1: to but it sounds like the AirPods Pro three are

552
00:29:24,320 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: a winner. The Bows quiet comfort. Did you say the

553
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,600
Speaker 1: Ultra are the regular ones? Where your top the regular ones?

554
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: It's very little different save the money. Okay, there you

555
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:37,320
Speaker 1: have it now we know, Thank you, Tim, appreciate it. Wow,

556
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 1: there you go. You know I try all these things

557
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: as well, and I will say the AirPods are tough

558
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: to beat. They really really are. I know a lot

559
00:29:45,480 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: of people like those. Sony's the XM six is. I

560
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: have not tested them yet, but it's on my list.

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Speaker 1: Eight and eight rich one O one eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: the Week A pet tracker. Coming up next. Gadget of

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Speaker 1: the Week this week is the Life three sixty pet

565
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Speaker 1: GPS tracker. Got it right here in my hands. It

566
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Speaker 1: is tiny. Now you probably know Life three sixty. They

567
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:17,600
Speaker 1: recently purchased Tile, So this is a company that is

568
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:22,320
Speaker 1: known for tracking people with their app. You know, families

569
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: love it. And then of course you have your items

570
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:27,320
Speaker 1: with the tile and now you've got pets with this

571
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,240
Speaker 1: GPS tracker, and what the difference is is that it

572
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: uses cellular GPS, Wi Fi and Bluetooth, so that means

573
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:39,520
Speaker 1: you get real time tracking of your pet and on

574
00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,120
Speaker 1: the same map that has things like your items and

575
00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:44,880
Speaker 1: also your family members, so it's like a one stop shop.

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00:30:45,320 --> 00:30:47,240
Speaker 1: And I love this because if you have something like

577
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:50,000
Speaker 1: an air tag on your pet, that's not going to

578
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:53,600
Speaker 1: give you necessarily real time updates of where your pet is,

579
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: especially if they go lost or missing, right, so you

580
00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: want that cellular connection. And in the past it's been

581
00:31:00,120 --> 00:31:02,800
Speaker 1: kind of expensive or the battery life hasn't been very good.

582
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,520
Speaker 1: But I think from what I've seen, this little tracker

583
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: is not only a great size, a great weight, but

584
00:31:09,320 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: it has the functionality you need, So I think that's

585
00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 1: really cool. Battery life up to fourteen days, then once

586
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,520
Speaker 1: that runs out, it's got this low power Bluetooth Reserve

587
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: mode that can give you tracking up to six months,

588
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: So if your pet did go missing, you'd have fourteen

589
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,800
Speaker 1: days to find them in real time, and then six

590
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:30,880
Speaker 1: months in that Bluetooth reserve modes. That Bluetooth Reserve is

591
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: kind of like a traditional air tag or tile tracker,

592
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: and it's got all the features that you need. It

593
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,240
Speaker 1: is a great price too, by the way, fifty dollars

594
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:44,560
Speaker 1: plus either fifteen dollars a month or one hundred and

595
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a year because you do have to pay

596
00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: for that cellular tracking. So again brand new from Life

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00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 1: three sixty. It's called the Pet GPS Tracker. I think

598
00:31:53,640 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: this is a winner. Just be careful obviously, if you're

599
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,000
Speaker 1: putting this on your pet's neck, you know they still

600
00:31:58,080 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: might chew at it or something, so be careful because

601
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 1: it is a size that you know a larger pet

602
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:04,720
Speaker 1: might be able to chew or eat or something, so

603
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:06,920
Speaker 1: just you know, be aware of that. But if you

604
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: pop it off this little clip it has, you can

605
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: charge it up. There's a USB C. Why can I

606
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,920
Speaker 1: get this open? There we go. There's a USB C

607
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: plug on the back, so easy to charge. And again

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00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:21,240
Speaker 1: I think Life three sixty is doing a pretty good

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Speaker 8: Thirty seven ninety five a month. Yeah, which does not

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Speaker 8: include the iCloud.

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Speaker 1: Oh that does iCloud Yeah, Okay, I.

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Speaker 8: Have another subscription for iCloud Plus. Okay, that is is

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Speaker 8: that twenty nine ninety nine a month? And do I

651
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Speaker 8: really need that? Since his all that's being saved on

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Speaker 8: the I Cloud Plus, it's just what's on my iPad.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And like, well number one, you're doubled up right now,

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Speaker 1: beca because if you're paying thirty dollars for iCloud Plus,

655
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Speaker 1: that's that's I think that's more than two terabytes of storage,

656
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Speaker 1: isn't it.

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Speaker 8: I count iCloud plus.

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Speaker 1: I let's see United States. Hold on, I'm finding the

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Speaker 1: price here. If you're paying thirty dollars for iCloud plus,

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Speaker 1: that is six terabytes of online storage, okay. And if

661
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Speaker 1: you're paying for Apple one, that is two terabytes of iCloud.

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Speaker 1: So my feeling, if you want to have your stuff

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Speaker 1: stored in the cloud, cancel one of these. I personally

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Speaker 1: would cancel the iCloud plus for thirty dollars because Apple

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Speaker 1: one includes everything that Apple has to offer, plus two

666
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Speaker 1: terabytes of iCloud storage. So you're getting the music, you're

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Speaker 1: getting Apple TV, you're getting Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness, Apple

668
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Speaker 1: News plus plus that two terabytes of storage that you need.

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Speaker 1: And yes, you probably want to have that. If your

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Speaker 1: iPad is holding two terabytes, you probably want to have

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Speaker 1: that mirrored in the cloud so that all of your data, photos,

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Speaker 1: whatever you do on that iPad is going to be

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Speaker 1: mirrored in the cloud and backed up safely. But I'd

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Speaker 1: say cancel the iCloud Plus, stick with Apple one. Gary,

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Speaker 1: You're saving yourself thirty dollars a month. Good question. Eight

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Mark. Mark's been on hold for a while,

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Speaker 1: Mark and Woodlandhills. You're on with Rich Hi. Rich.

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Speaker 6: You know, before I started a family, like twenty five

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Speaker 6: years ago, I had a unique profession that took me to,

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Speaker 6: and I went to a website to click them all off,

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Speaker 6: fifty three of the nations. Oh wow, So I'm pretty

701
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Speaker 6: acquainted with travel, even though a lot of the developing

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Speaker 6: world off the tourist track and grid, as it were.

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Speaker 6: But you know, now it's a whole new world. You know,

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Speaker 6: we have Google features that can help you translate foreign

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Speaker 6: signs and foreign language to text, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 6: And I was wondering if you have any suggestions. I'm

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Speaker 6: not a complete luddite, but I guess I'm kind of

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Speaker 6: more in the Thomas Guide.

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Speaker 1: Hey, oh my gosh, the Thomas Guide. You gotta explain

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Speaker 1: what that is for people that aren't from La.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'm well, it's it was a fold out a

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Speaker 6: pig by page, very good map system for finding places.

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Speaker 6: They have them all over California, but predominantly it was

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Speaker 6: in Southland, you know, La. Orange County, that's a riverside county.

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Speaker 1: That's sort of like a thick book you would put

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Speaker 1: in your car, and it would like if you move

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Speaker 1: to La like I did, they would give you this

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Speaker 1: book like well, you had to buy it, but like

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Speaker 1: people would be like, hey, you got to get this book,

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Speaker 1: and you would flip through the pages, and the way

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Speaker 1: you got around was when you got to the edge

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Speaker 1: of one road on the page, it would say like okay,

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Speaker 1: now to continue, flip to like page you know, two

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Speaker 1: forty seven f and you go there and it was

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Speaker 1: like a grid system.

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Speaker 7: It was.

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Speaker 1: Thankfully we have Google Maps now. That's all I have.

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Speaker 6: Here's my challen sir.

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Speaker 1: Sure.

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Speaker 6: I know it's a whole different world now, and I

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Speaker 6: know that I've been looking up the TSA rules that

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Speaker 6: they change constantly. I'm worried about having my power bank

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Speaker 6: confiscated because most of them don't stamp on there what

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Speaker 6: what the wattage is, and I know you can only

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Speaker 6: have up to one hundred that sort of thing. I'm

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Speaker 6: also thinking about getting some smart luggage that has a

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Speaker 6: detachable battery so that they don't I wouldn't take it

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Speaker 6: away as well. I'm looking for password generating secure thumb drives,

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Speaker 6: and you know, I'm just you know, do you have

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Speaker 6: any suggestions any place I can go and kind of

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Speaker 6: get myself up up the snuff, because when you go

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Speaker 6: around and you stay in small family run hotels and

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Speaker 6: fiones and that sort of thing, I'd really love to

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Speaker 6: be able to pull that up and some off the

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Speaker 6: main drag sort of local restaurants, you know, because that's

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Speaker 6: the way to really eat you Italy. Yeahh never had

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Speaker 6: any bad never had any bad food in Italy, I

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Speaker 6: got to tell you.

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Speaker 1: No, I have never either. Yeah, and well, okay, so

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Speaker 1: let's let's break down. I mean we don't you know

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Speaker 1: some of the things you're talking about. I mean, like, look,

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Speaker 1: international travel has gotten so much easier because of technology.

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Speaker 1: So at the very least I would recommend not just

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Speaker 1: the translators. I mean, you could download Google Translate, Apple

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Speaker 1: Translate is built into every iPhone. Just make sure before

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Speaker 1: you go somewhere you download the language offline so that

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Speaker 1: it works great no matter what, whether you have a

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Speaker 1: connection or not. But AI, to me is probably the

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Speaker 1: better thing that's happening now when you travel. So when

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Speaker 1: I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago, I

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Speaker 1: was using Gemini AI and of course Chat GBT as well,

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Speaker 1: but the Gemini Live stuff where it can look through

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Speaker 1: your phone's camera and tell you what you're looking at

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Speaker 1: and translate it instantly. It is like having the world's

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Speaker 1: smartest person in your pocket at all times. So what

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Speaker 1: I was doing at the end of the day. You

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Speaker 1: don't even have to prompt these ais. Just take a

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Speaker 1: picture of something and just upload it and it will

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Speaker 1: say what you're looking at, and you know, it'll give

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Speaker 1: you the information. If it's a menu, it'll give your recommendations.

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Speaker 1: You can do it that way. But the live stuff

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Speaker 1: is really wild. So if you have an iPhone or Android,

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Speaker 1: just download the Google Gemini app and you'll see they

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Speaker 1: have this feature called Gemini Live and it's next to

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Speaker 1: the microphone. If you tap that, it looks like almost

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Speaker 1: like a waveform and with a little star next to it.

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Speaker 1: You tap that, it brings you into live mode. And

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Speaker 1: there's two ways of working with live mode. You can

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Speaker 1: either just talk to it like it's almost like a human,

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Speaker 1: but it's obviously AI voice. But better yet, you can

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Speaker 1: tap the video camera and now whatever you are looking

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Speaker 1: at through this video camera, the AI is also looking

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Speaker 1: at it with you. So imagine you have this person

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Speaker 1: with you that's super smart and they're looking at the

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Speaker 1: stuff that you're looking at, and you're like, hey, what

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Speaker 1: do you think of this? What do you think I'd

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Speaker 1: like on this menu? What is this sign saying? What's

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Speaker 1: that landmark in front of me. You can do all that,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it doesn't miss a beat. It's incredible

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Speaker 1: whether whatever whatever lang which the sign you're looking at

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Speaker 1: is in, it just knows and it figures it out.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's really mind blowing what this AI stuff

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Speaker 1: can do. So it's a great, great helper when you're

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Speaker 1: on your trip. The only thing I noticed is that

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Speaker 1: it may not be available in all areas, and so again,

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Speaker 1: if you have a VPN, it's great because when I

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Speaker 1: was in Japan, what I ended up doing was I

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Speaker 1: just had my VPN on the entire time and I

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Speaker 1: set it to the US so that I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to deal with the whole Google changing the results of

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Speaker 1: my search. I didn't have to deal with AI mode

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Speaker 1: not being available in certain places. I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if Gemini is available or not in Japan. I think

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Speaker 1: it is. But you don't have to worry about it

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Speaker 1: because if it sees as you're it looks as if

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Speaker 1: you're a US person, it's not going to skip a beat.

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Speaker 1: It's going to give you everything that you're used to

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Speaker 1: in the US, but just over in whatever country you're in.

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Speaker 1: So that's number one now, the power bank stuff. I

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Speaker 1: think if you're getting a power bank, that's I wouldn't

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Speaker 1: travel with something that's more than like twenty thousand million hours.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot, So I would just be careful with those.

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Speaker 1: You don't want something that's bigger and that's gonna be

814
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Speaker 1: too heavy anyway, and you're gonna be charging if you're

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Speaker 1: going through more than twenty thousand million hours, that's a

816
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Speaker 1: lot in a day. But I would say that this

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Speaker 1: smart luggage I would skip. I'm not really I'm not

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Speaker 1: really understanding why smart luggage is a thing.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Yes, put an air tag in your luggage, but why

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Speaker 1: is smart luggage? Why do you need a power bank

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Speaker 1: in your luggage? Like, it doesn't take much more work

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Speaker 1: to just have that power bank in your carry on

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Speaker 1: and just plug stuff into it. That would be my recommendation.

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Speaker 1: I think I got it all Mark. I'm not sure

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Speaker 1: what else. But oh, when it comes to the restaurants,

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Speaker 1: I will tell you have a few ways of finding restaurants,

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Speaker 1: but AI is really good at this now. And you

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Speaker 1: know I was using the AI on the phone to

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Speaker 1: find restaurants nearby. We found an amazing ram in place

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Speaker 1: thanks to the AI mode but also the way you

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Speaker 1: can do it is if you're at a desktop computer.

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Speaker 1: This is my new way of finding restaurants like nearby.

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Speaker 1: Just type in the name of your hotel. So let's

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Speaker 1: say you're in Tokyo. Let's say you're at the New

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Speaker 1: Rich Carlton in Tokyo, right, I know, very fancy, but

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Speaker 1: let's say you're there, and so I'm going on there.

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Speaker 1: I search that on my desktop and then what you

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Speaker 1: do is you see on the desktop computer on Google

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Speaker 1: Maps that says restaurants up at the top, and so

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Speaker 1: you can tap that and it now gives you all

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Speaker 1: the notable restaurants in the area. But you see there's

843
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Speaker 1: like a little toggle switch, so it shows walking. I

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Speaker 1: want to be able to walk within fifteen minutes. I

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Speaker 1: don't want to walk very far to go to a restaurant.

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Speaker 1: So now you can zoom in. You can see all

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Speaker 1: these restaurants that are within fifteen minutes of this hotel.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, that's not in a very good

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Speaker 1: location for restaurants. But then at the top you can

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Speaker 1: narrow down. So if you want something that's just going

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Speaker 1: to be great, you probably want to go with the

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00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: four point five rating cuisine. You can put whatever you

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Speaker 1: want there, all filters you can and you know, search

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Speaker 1: if you want something like let's say you just want ramen, right,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna tap ramen done, and now look at this.

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Speaker 1: I find a restaurant that is eleven minutes walking and

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Speaker 1: it's got great ratings for ramen done. Here's another one

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes walking, which is a little bit more, but

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Speaker 1: it's got a four point five one hundred and eighty

860
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Speaker 1: nine reviews. Okay, and here we go. If you want

861
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: to find the places that are the real you know,

862
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:31,279
Speaker 1: where tourists go or people go over and over, you

863
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,880
Speaker 1: look for those restaurants that have a couple thousand ratings

864
00:45:33,920 --> 00:45:37,360
Speaker 1: like here we Go, a fury Rapongi Hills Ramen restaurant's

865
00:45:37,400 --> 00:45:40,760
Speaker 1: got a four point five rating with nineteen hundred reviews.

866
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:45,239
Speaker 1: That place clearly people know about, now, Mark, you were saying,

867
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,520
Speaker 1: off the beaten path. Sometimes you know you want to

868
00:45:47,560 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: take a chance, other times you don't. But this place

869
00:45:49,400 --> 00:45:52,319
Speaker 1: is gonna be guaranteed. People clearly know about it. It's

870
00:45:52,320 --> 00:45:55,759
Speaker 1: on a bunch of lists, it looks excellent, and it's

871
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: it's like boom, I just found that in about ten

872
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,480
Speaker 1: ten seconds, and it's within walking distance from my hotel.

873
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: How far is it? Twelve minute walk? So that is

874
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: a fool proof way. I have used this method so

875
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:10,439
Speaker 1: many times to find great restaurants. It's all about those.

876
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 1: If you see on Google it's got a couple thousand reviews.

877
00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:16,839
Speaker 1: I'm not talking tourist traps because you want to make

878
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,320
Speaker 1: sure you get that rating four point five or higher.

879
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 1: If you want to do tourist traps, yeah, they might

880
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: have a lot of reviews, but they're not very good.

881
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,920
Speaker 1: The rating is not very high. So again, that's my

882
00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: foolproof method for finding great restaurants near my hotel. I

883
00:46:31,000 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 1: always want to walk because it's so much easier. Save money,

884
00:46:33,200 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 1: right save on the ubers, great question mark, Thanks for

885
00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,600
Speaker 1: the call today, appreciate it. Eighty eight eight rich one

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00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:41,879
Speaker 1: O one eight eight eight seven four to two four

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00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:45,200
Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about

888
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:48,520
Speaker 1: T Mobile. They're opening up their satellite texting to nine

889
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:52,680
Speaker 1: one one for free to anyone. Plus, we've got talk

890
00:46:52,840 --> 00:46:56,719
Speaker 1: about Sora. We've got c nets AI reporter joining us,

891
00:46:56,719 --> 00:47:00,279
Speaker 1: plus much more right here on rich on Tech, Stay

892
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: with us. Welcome back to rich On Tech. I'm laughing here.

893
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: By the way, Boba, I don't know if you know this.

894
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: This is my all time favorite song, mister Jones counting crows?

895
00:47:18,800 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 1: What what is your all time favorite?

896
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:23,600
Speaker 9: That's a trick one?

897
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: What's that that's a tricky one?

898
00:47:25,920 --> 00:47:26,280
Speaker 10: Answer?

899
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 1: Come on off the top of your head. If you

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00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,640
Speaker 1: had to pick one song, what's the song? Eric Sermon?

901
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 1: Just like music? Or Stevie wonder ass? Oh okay, chew

902
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:37,759
Speaker 1: one of those up for all right? What's that?

903
00:47:37,880 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 8: Yeah?

904
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: Let me tell you about Starlink and T Mobile. So

905
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 1: you know, Starlink and T Mobile have this like satellite

906
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: texting feature which if you have a high end T

907
00:47:47,480 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: Mobile plan you get it included and if you are

908
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:53,799
Speaker 1: anyone else you can pay ten dollars for it. And

909
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: it gives you text to nine one one, It gives

910
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:00,400
Speaker 1: you texting via satellite. It gives you data, limited data,

911
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 1: but still and it's a godsend. This thing is incredible.

912
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:07,520
Speaker 1: I've tested it. It's so fast, it's so easy. And

913
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:10,680
Speaker 1: now because T Mobile knows it's so good, they are

914
00:48:10,680 --> 00:48:14,239
Speaker 1: now offering text to nine one one by satellite for

915
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: free to any person that wants it. That as long

916
00:48:17,280 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: as you have a compatible phone. So this works in

917
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: the five hundred thousand square miles of US with no

918
00:48:22,480 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: traditional cell coverage, and you can send nine one one

919
00:48:25,800 --> 00:48:29,120
Speaker 1: text through T Satellite, So your phone basically connects to

920
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:33,000
Speaker 1: Starlink satellites. There's like six hundred of them, two hundred

921
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,520
Speaker 1: miles above the Earth. Yes, it's possible, and it's amazing

922
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:39,600
Speaker 1: and it's fast. No special setup, it's very simple. You

923
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 1: would just text nine one one if you ever needed

924
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: help when you're in the middle of nowhere and there's

925
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:48,400
Speaker 1: not traditional cellular connection. So again, anyone, even if you're

926
00:48:48,440 --> 00:48:50,759
Speaker 1: a non T mobile customer, you can enroll in this

927
00:48:50,840 --> 00:48:54,840
Speaker 1: for free at T Mobile's website, and I give you

928
00:48:54,880 --> 00:48:56,880
Speaker 1: the website, but it's such a long website that it's

929
00:48:56,920 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 1: kind of tricky to find, but I will link it

930
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 1: up on richontech dot T. Now you might be saying, rich,

931
00:49:01,800 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 1: I already have satellite texting. I've got an iPhone fourteen

932
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:07,560
Speaker 1: and up, or I've got a Google Pixel or I've

933
00:49:07,560 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: got an Apple Watch Ultra three or I've got a

934
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: Pixel Watch four. Yes, all of those devices have satellite texting,

935
00:49:14,920 --> 00:49:18,120
Speaker 1: and to some extent it's just for emergencies or it's

936
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:21,720
Speaker 1: for actual you can text anyone with the case of Apple,

937
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: but the difference is t mobiles is a lot faster

938
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:28,880
Speaker 1: and a lot easier, So it's it's much easier to

939
00:49:28,920 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: connect to the satellites and stay connected and send your messages.

940
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,760
Speaker 1: So in general, bottom line, if you've got an older iPhone,

941
00:49:35,760 --> 00:49:38,120
Speaker 1: you want to you know, you're always hiking something like that,

942
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: you want to have this text by nine to one one.

943
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 1: You know, the comfort of knowing that you can always

944
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:44,920
Speaker 1: get in touch with someone. I would get this for

945
00:49:45,000 --> 00:49:50,120
Speaker 1: free for sure. All right, bobo, what is this? This

946
00:49:50,200 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: is Stevie Wonder.

947
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:51,359
Speaker 4: Yah.

948
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:54,920
Speaker 1: Just the lyrics of the song are amazing. Okay, this

949
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: is Stevie Wonder ask yeah as oh as yeah as Okay, Yeah,

950
00:50:00,080 --> 00:50:03,120
Speaker 1: you say it too much. It sortes sound like yeah, okay,

951
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:04,280
Speaker 1: so we got that one.

952
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:08,880
Speaker 9: And then this is Eric Sherman just like music. The

953
00:50:08,920 --> 00:50:11,279
Speaker 9: reason why I love this song is because he describes

954
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:15,080
Speaker 9: what music is like, but he compares it to love

955
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:16,440
Speaker 9: and it's just so dope.

956
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:16,920
Speaker 6: I don't know.

957
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,240
Speaker 1: I didn't realize you were such such a sappy guy.

958
00:50:20,719 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: Actually I knew it. I knew that the.

959
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:27,760
Speaker 9: Hardcore that I put on the outside it's just a facadon.

960
00:50:28,080 --> 00:50:30,439
Speaker 1: Oh well, I like this song. Okay, I know both

961
00:50:30,520 --> 00:50:32,200
Speaker 1: these songs. This is great, all right. Now I'm gonna

962
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:35,279
Speaker 1: listen to the words of this song. So thank you. See,

963
00:50:35,280 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: I knew you had a couple of favorites. By the

964
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 1: way that Romen place that I happen to find walking distance,

965
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: it's clearly a thing because they have locations in the

966
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Speaker 1: US as well. So this a furry I don't know

967
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:49,319
Speaker 1: if I'm saying it right, af u R I coming

968
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: to coast to Mesa, Manhattan, so New York City, they

969
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: already have one in Brooklyn, Houston, Culver City, let's go, oh,

970
00:50:57,680 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: downtown LA and then Portland. Let's go. Let's go try it. Now,

971
00:51:01,760 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: we gotta try it. I mean, clearly it must be good.

972
00:51:03,600 --> 00:51:06,240
Speaker 1: But here's my point. So clearly I found that restaurant

973
00:51:06,239 --> 00:51:09,239
Speaker 1: in a couple of minutes, and it is a thing.

974
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: So it's like, if they have all these locations in

975
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,120
Speaker 1: the US, it must be so good that it's you know,

976
00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: transcended Japan.

977
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 9: So the best food that I had in Tokyo was

978
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:18,720
Speaker 9: actually Chinese food.

979
00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:22,080
Speaker 1: Well, where they dropped the atomic bomb was dropped in

980
00:51:22,080 --> 00:51:25,320
Speaker 1: what city? Really Hiroshima, Hiroshima.

981
00:51:25,400 --> 00:51:27,880
Speaker 9: Yeah, we took a cruise and it took us to

982
00:51:27,920 --> 00:51:30,640
Speaker 9: Hiroshima and it was a Chinese food restaurant and me

983
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 9: and my wife went in. It was it was our

984
00:51:32,320 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 9: honeymoon trip actually, and we went there. Best Chinese food

985
00:51:35,640 --> 00:51:38,920
Speaker 9: I ever had. Best McDonald's I ever had was in Tokyo.

986
00:51:39,080 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, and people laugh because you know, oh, don't go

987
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 1: to McDonald's when you go to a fig country. Always

988
00:51:44,400 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 1: go to McDonald's country. By the way, it's just better.

989
00:51:48,960 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 9: Way better.

990
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:53,520
Speaker 1: Taco bill blew me away everything. Ye, No, taco bill

991
00:51:53,600 --> 00:51:56,960
Speaker 1: was careful? What you dude? You just used two terms

992
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: to describe taco bell that I don't know. Taco bills

993
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:02,960
Speaker 1: fire and blew you away. I don't know about that.

994
00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 1: All right, Let's see, it's how long do we have.

995
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 1: We've got two minutes. Let's see. Let's go to ann

996
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:10,200
Speaker 1: in Orange County and you're on.

997
00:52:10,200 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 5: With Rich Hi.

998
00:52:11,560 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 11: Rich Hi. I would like to know is it safe

999
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 11: for me to go to pay bill on my bank

1000
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 11: and have all of my utilities and some donations with

1001
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,040
Speaker 11: drawn automatically each month?

1002
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 12: Uh?

1003
00:52:28,360 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 1: Donations? Fine? I think if you're doing a recurring donation,

1004
00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:35,600
Speaker 1: that's fine. I think the utility bills I don't like

1005
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,759
Speaker 1: to put on automatic payments. I don't like anything on

1006
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,480
Speaker 1: automatic payments. I know some some places force you to,

1007
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: but at the online services, but utility bills in particular.

1008
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:47,440
Speaker 1: Here's the reason why I don't like them automatic because

1009
00:52:47,880 --> 00:52:50,400
Speaker 1: they will take that money out and if there's a problem,

1010
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,759
Speaker 1: now you've got to fight to get your money back. Sokay,

1011
00:52:54,239 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: that's the only reason. And you know it's a small reason,

1012
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: but I think that, like for me, I would rather

1013
00:52:59,800 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: just command my money and where it's going, versus being

1014
00:53:03,600 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: on the receiving end of Oh, this this thing is

1015
00:53:06,520 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 1: already getting charged to me. I don't really you know,

1016
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:10,880
Speaker 1: now I going to call this company if there seems

1017
00:53:10,880 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: like there's an issue. Now, I will tell you I've

1018
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,279
Speaker 1: been paying utility bills for many years. I can't really

1019
00:53:16,280 --> 00:53:18,280
Speaker 1: tell you the last time I called up the electric

1020
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 1: company and said, hey, you owe me one hundred dollars.

1021
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:24,160
Speaker 1: This was wrong. So you'll probably be fine. But you know,

1022
00:53:24,239 --> 00:53:27,239
Speaker 1: it's just more of like a control factor. So that's

1023
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: really it. But I think it's safe. I just think

1024
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,800
Speaker 1: it's it's all over the place sometimes, especially with the

1025
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:35,880
Speaker 1: water and power bills that you know, at the end

1026
00:53:35,920 --> 00:53:39,000
Speaker 1: of the day, it's safe. Yes, but is it something

1027
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: i'd recommend. Probably not.

1028
00:53:42,000 --> 00:53:44,720
Speaker 11: Well, thank you so much. I really enjoy your show.

1029
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:46,879
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you, and I really enjoy the fact

1030
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: that you said that. I. You know, people when I

1031
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: get an email and you might think that I just

1032
00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,160
Speaker 1: take it for granted. I do not. When someone tells

1033
00:53:54,239 --> 00:53:56,560
Speaker 1: me they love what I'm doing or they appreciate it

1034
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,719
Speaker 1: it is. It means the world to me. Coming up,

1035
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: Caitlin shed Raw shed ro ROWI AI reporter CET is

1036
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,359
Speaker 1: going to break down Sora, what it is and why

1037
00:54:08,440 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: it's going viral. That's coming up next. Welcome back to

1038
00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: Rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you

1039
00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,759
Speaker 1: talking technology eight eight eight Rich one O one eight

1040
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Speaker 1: eight eight seven four two four one zero one. You

1041
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:25,520
Speaker 1: are not shy on the phone today. We will get

1042
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:27,440
Speaker 1: to more of your calls in just a moment. But

1043
00:54:27,560 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: first joining me Caitlin shed Rowie, c net's AI reporter,

1044
00:54:32,640 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: to talk about all things AI right now, especially Sora. Caitlin,

1045
00:54:38,000 --> 00:54:38,880
Speaker 1: welcome to the show.

1046
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 12: Thank you for having me.

1047
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:45,800
Speaker 1: So this week, uh, Sora was became available on Android,

1048
00:54:46,280 --> 00:54:51,239
Speaker 1: So explain what Sora is First off, so.

1049
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:54,960
Speaker 12: Sora is the sister app to Chat GPT. It's made

1050
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,560
Speaker 12: by the same parent company, open Ai. Soora is a

1051
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 12: social media app, and it's a lot like TikTok. You

1052
00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:05,319
Speaker 12: can scroll through an endless speed of videos and like

1053
00:55:05,400 --> 00:55:09,160
Speaker 12: and comments on different videos. But there's one big catch.

1054
00:55:09,520 --> 00:55:12,600
Speaker 12: Nothing you see on Sora is real. Every video is

1055
00:55:12,680 --> 00:55:15,959
Speaker 12: AI generated. It is truly what of a kind?

1056
00:55:16,600 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 1: Which is so wild because when we first covered this,

1057
00:55:19,080 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: when it came out for the iPhone and it was

1058
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 1: invite only, I was like, why would anyone ever scroll

1059
00:55:23,719 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: through a bunch of AI videos? And sure enough I

1060
00:55:26,960 --> 00:55:29,319
Speaker 1: find myself doing it, Like every time I open up

1061
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: uh Sora, I'm like, I get caught. For a couple

1062
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:33,520
Speaker 1: of minutes, I'm like, oh, these are really funny, Like

1063
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,279
Speaker 1: some of them are funny, some are unique, some you

1064
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: can't believe. Do you need an invite? I've read that

1065
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: you don't need an invite on Android anymore? Is that true?

1066
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 12: No, you no longer you need an invite code for

1067
00:55:44,880 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 12: iPhone Android no matter what device you have, Sora is

1068
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 12: open for business, and I've certainly been caught in that

1069
00:55:51,760 --> 00:55:55,359
Speaker 12: same cycle of just scrolling through Sora, and I think

1070
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,320
Speaker 12: part of the appeal is that you don't immediately notice

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Speaker 12: that all of the videos are a They're very realistic.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, so this is their video generator. I

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Speaker 1: know it's got. I mean, I think they had a

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Speaker 1: million downloads on iOS very quickly. I think I've read

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Speaker 1: somewhere they might have had five hundred thousand downloads on Android,

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Speaker 1: like instantly. So do you think people should download this

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Speaker 1: to try it out? I know there's that other aspect

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Speaker 1: of it, the cameo aspect, to explain that, which is

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Speaker 1: a little controversial, I would say, yeah.

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Speaker 12: So Sora's most popular feature is called cameo, and if

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Speaker 12: you are a Sora user, when you sign up, the

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Speaker 12: app will prompt you to record yourself, your face and

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Speaker 12: your voice saying a random string of words. And from

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Speaker 12: that recording, the Sora app can generate an AI version

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Speaker 12: of your likeness, and if you want to, you can

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Speaker 12: allow other Sora users to use your likeness and put

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Speaker 12: you in nearly any AI generated video. You do not

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Speaker 12: have to let people use your cameo, as it's called,

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Speaker 12: but a number of people have, including open Ai ceo

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Speaker 12: Sam Altman. It's how I was able to create an

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Speaker 12: AI video of him saying that Gemini is better than

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Speaker 12: chat GPT. Yeah, clearly that's not something he would say

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Speaker 12: in real life, but he lets people use his likeness

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Speaker 12: and you can do wild things like that if you

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Speaker 12: want to.

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Speaker 1: Now, we've heard so much about deep fakes and how

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Speaker 1: dangerous they are and how they're, you know, changing the

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Speaker 1: fabric of society. We don't know what to believe anymore.

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Speaker 1: And here comes this big company that has a lot

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Speaker 1: of money behind it and they say, you know what,

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Speaker 1: anyone can make a deep fake of themselves and by

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Speaker 1: the way, soa can your friends. So do we have

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Speaker 1: a problem with this or is this just the reality

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Speaker 1: of the future that we just have to give up

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Speaker 1: all semblances of like trust.

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Speaker 12: I hope that's not the case, but I will say

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Speaker 12: we had deep fakes before of AI. They were just

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Speaker 12: very expensive and costly and very hard to make. What

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Speaker 12: these AI video tools have done, in part is made

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Speaker 12: it a lot easier for anybody to make these AI videos.

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Speaker 12: And as these models have improved, they're getting more and

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Speaker 12: more realistic looking. So yes, there is a huge number

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Speaker 12: of experts and advocates and users who are very worried

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Speaker 12: about the ability for bad actors to take advantage of

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Speaker 12: these tools and create potentially illegal or abusive content or

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Speaker 12: spread misinformation.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know open ai when it first came out,

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Speaker 1: or the Sora app, it was sort of like a

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Speaker 1: free for all with the copyright stuff, and I saw, like,

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Speaker 1: you know, Jesus on there and like all these prominent

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Speaker 1: figures from the past saying things and doing things. Is

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Speaker 1: that still the case or have they clamped down on

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Speaker 1: some of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 12: Open ai has definitely reversed course with its initial sort

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Speaker 12: of policy, which was that if people didn't want their

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Speaker 12: likeness to be used, and not just likeness, but big

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Speaker 12: studios or entertainment companies, if they didn't want their protected

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Speaker 12: characters to be able to be featured in AI videos,

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Speaker 12: they had to opt out. That is not the case anymore,

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Speaker 12: which is good because that's not really how copyright law works.

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Speaker 12: So now we have some more guardrails in place to

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Speaker 12: sort of prevent how likenesses are used, especially for celebrities

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Speaker 12: and public figures.

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Speaker 10: You know.

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Speaker 12: One prominent example, in the first few weeks after the

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Speaker 12: Sora app came out, we learned that the estate of

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Speaker 12: civil rights leader Martin Luther King Junior had reached out

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Speaker 12: to open Ai because they were really concerned about the

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Speaker 12: number of inappropriate AI videos that were on the app.

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Speaker 12: So his estate and and Open Ai had come up

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Speaker 12: with a statement saying that they recognized this was a problem.

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Speaker 12: They temporarily paused the ability to make videos featuring Keg

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Speaker 12: and they had strengthened the guardrails behind the scenes to

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Speaker 12: sort of make it harder to make those kinds of videos.

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Speaker 12: And then a couple of weeks later we saw it

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Speaker 12: again with Brian Cranston, who you might know as an

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Speaker 12: actor from Breaking Bad. He and his actors' union sag

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Speaker 12: Afra reached out to open Ai again. They put out

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Speaker 12: another statement. So I think this is very much a

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Speaker 12: concern not only for anybody online, but especially for celebrities

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Speaker 12: and public figures.

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Speaker 1: Which is ironic because so many of the early adopters

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Speaker 1: of this app are prominent influencers and people like that,

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Speaker 1: and they're all doing it. And I think part of

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Speaker 1: it was that they got early access from Sora to like,

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Speaker 1: you know, kind of hype this thing up. What about

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Speaker 1: you know, you mentioned some prominent figures like Sam Altman

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Speaker 1: is on there. What about like Trump, Elon Musk's Jeff

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Speaker 1: are they can you generate videos of them? I have

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Speaker 1: not tried that, but those would be like you know,

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Speaker 1: powder keg.

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Speaker 12: It depends on how you word the prompt. So for example,

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Speaker 12: I tried to make a video of like me on

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Speaker 12: stage with Taylor Swift and the moment I put Taylor

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Speaker 12: Swift in that promp open AI kicked it back and said,

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Speaker 12: absolutely not.

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Speaker 13: You can't do that.

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Speaker 12: But like you said, there are some celebrities on the

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Speaker 12: app who let you use their likeness. So Mark Cuban

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Speaker 12: from Shark Tank, he's on the app and he's decided

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Speaker 12: to let people use his likeness. So if you scroll Sora,

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Speaker 12: you might see a number of videos featuring Mark Cuban,

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Speaker 12: which is.

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Speaker 3: Kind of wild.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's so, it's such a wild thing. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you cover this AI stuff for cnet. Give me some

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Speaker 1: thoughts on where we're at. I mean, we I always

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Speaker 1: tell people we're just at the beginning of this stuff.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, exactly, and this is the worst that these tools

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Speaker 12: will ever be. And we actually come a very long

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Speaker 12: way and a very short amount of time. Like it

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Speaker 12: literally wasn't until May of this year that we got

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Speaker 12: AI videos with sound, which for us, as like you know,

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Speaker 12: social media users, that seems really obvious, like we don't

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Speaker 12: want to listen to a video that doesn't have sound,

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Speaker 12: But for AI companies, adding that AI generated synchronized audio

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Speaker 12: to video is a very complex task, and Google was

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Speaker 12: the first to sort of come out with a model

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Speaker 12: that was able to do that. It's called VO three.

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Speaker 12: It's very popular. Sora was sort of the second or

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Speaker 12: third after Adobe, but also one of the bigger models

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Speaker 12: that was able to include sound. So we've come a

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Speaker 12: very long way in a short amount of time. So

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Speaker 12: I expect in the future what we're gonna see is

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Speaker 12: that these AI video models are gonna get better, meaning

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Speaker 12: that we're gonna be able to generate longer videos. Right now,

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Speaker 12: the sweet spot is sort of anywhere between five and

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Speaker 12: fifteen seconds. I think maybe in the next couple of

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Speaker 12: months we can maybe push that to thirty I think

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Speaker 12: we're also going to see some videos at a higher resolution.

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Speaker 12: There are some companies that offer the ability to natively

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Speaker 12: generate in four K, which is really appealing to professional

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Speaker 12: creators who want to use AI videos in their work.

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Speaker 12: And I think, yeah, I think we're going to see

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Speaker 12: a lot of improvements in the actual quality of these

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Speaker 12: videos in the future.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you mentioned a couple of competitors. If you've

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Speaker 1: heard of Sora and you want to try other things,

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Speaker 1: You've got the vo three from Google, You've got Firefly

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Speaker 1: from Adobe. How can people tell that a video is fake?

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Speaker 1: Because this is the problem we're running into now. I

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Speaker 1: know Soro, you know they put these little you know

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Speaker 1: what do they call it, like a like a water

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Speaker 1: mark that thank you Bobo, they put a watermark on it.

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Speaker 1: But my kid is like, but you can just use

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Speaker 1: a tool to remove that. So how do you tell?

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Speaker 1: How do you tell if something's fake?

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Speaker 12: I mean, the frustratingly honest answer is that you can't.

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Speaker 12: And nobody is happy with this answer. I'm not happy

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Speaker 12: with it, but it is the truth. It is very

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Speaker 12: hard to spot an AI generated video, but there are

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Speaker 12: some things you can look out for. Like you already mentioned,

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Speaker 12: watermarks are one of the biggest things you can look for.

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Speaker 12: There are water marks, but like you said, there are

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Speaker 12: also tools that you can use to get rid of

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Speaker 12: those watermarks, so that's not always a reliable method. Another

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Speaker 12: thing you can do is look at an image or

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Speaker 12: videos metadata, and I promise that's quicker and easier that

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Speaker 12: it sounds. There's a number of websites and apps and

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Speaker 12: tools that you can use that can very quickly scan

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Speaker 12: an image or a file and it can sort of

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Speaker 12: give you some insight into where that piece of content

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Speaker 12: came from. And for sour videos in particular, they have

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Speaker 12: signals in their video metadata that immediate disclose that this

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Speaker 12: was made by open AI and this was.

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Speaker 1: AI generated, right, But there's gonna be tools that you know,

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Speaker 1: can can remove all of those things in the few

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Speaker 1: I mean, if they're not already here. And then of

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Speaker 1: course you have you know, nefarious folks that are building

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Speaker 1: tools that don't abide by any of these rules or

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Speaker 1: laws or whatever. So we are in for it, that

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Speaker 1: is for sure. We are starting a very brave new

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Speaker 1: future path here. And I think it's exciting because it's

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Speaker 1: amazing what can be done. I mean, the Coca Cola ads,

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Speaker 1: you know, they're they're making AI ads of their you know,

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Speaker 1: Christmas ads. But yet at the same time you have

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Speaker 1: people faking Mark Cuban and faking Sam Altman. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's just our brains are not really wired to figure

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Speaker 1: all this stuff out, Caitlin, We're gonna leave it there.

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Speaker 1: Caitlin shed Rowy from seen at Artificial Intelligence Reporter Fantastic Conversation,

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Speaker 1: Go follow her find her work. Thanks for joining me today, Caitlin, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you. All right, coming up, we're gonna take some

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Speaker 1: more of your calls eighty eight rich one on one,

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Speaker 1: eighty eight seven four to two four one zero one,

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Speaker 1: and I'll tell you about the smart ring that records

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Speaker 1: your thoughts. Welcome back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro

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Speaker 1: here hanging out with you talking technology eight eight eight.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know if I should give out the number.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we can get any more calls at

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Speaker 1: this point. Eighty eight rich one on one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: go ahead, don't let it dissuade you. Always you always try.

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Speaker 1: I shared a quote in my newsletter this week. I'm

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Speaker 1: reading that book nineteen twenty nine about the stock market crash,

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Speaker 1: and the quote is from John Rascob. He said, go

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Speaker 1: ahead and do things, the bigger, the better. This is

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Speaker 1: the guy who uh backed the Empire State Building. Can

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Speaker 1: you imagine like building something one thousand feet high back

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Speaker 1: in the day, in like the twenties. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: mind boggling. So go ahead and do things. The bigger

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Speaker 1: the better. Let's go to Curtis and I've been waiting

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Speaker 1: for a while. Curtis in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. You're on

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Speaker 1: with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Rich, I've got a problem with my Samsung Android phone.

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Speaker 3: I locked myself out and I don't know if there's anything.

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Speaker 3: The only that I've heard so far is that I'll

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Speaker 3: just need to clean everything off the phone and get

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Speaker 3: rid of all my emails, my photos, my address, phone numbers,

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Speaker 3: and start over. And I was hoping there was something

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Speaker 3: that can be done. Besides that, I was missing around

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Speaker 3: on my computer trying to get into my computer, and

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Speaker 3: uh I was. I thought, well, maybe this would be easier.

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Speaker 3: It gave me some the possibility of using face. I thought, well,

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Speaker 3: maybe maybe I'll try face. Well, I put I type

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Speaker 3: face on the computer and next thing I know, I

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Speaker 3: locked my phone.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, so you have a Samsung phone and you

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Speaker 1: cannot remember what the pin well.

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Speaker 3: I don't I remember ever giving a Uh. It says

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Speaker 3: that you have to be at least a four letter

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Speaker 3: quote to get in there, and it has to have

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Speaker 3: at least one. Look here what it says there you

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Speaker 3: have to have a four characters including at least one

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Speaker 3: letter and four character.

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Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, four characters including one letter to unlock

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Speaker 1: your phone. Yeah, and that's on the screen of your

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Speaker 1: phone when you turn it on. Yeah, that's interesting because

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Speaker 1: most people do not choose that method to lock their phone.

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Speaker 1: It's usually a pin like it's usually four digits, maybe

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Speaker 1: six digits. But to have a letter too, that's uh.

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Speaker 3: And I never sat one up, you remember ever the

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Speaker 3: computer ever asking me to set up a pin for it.

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Speaker 1: Now, hold on, when you say computer, Well, I.

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Speaker 3: Was on my computer trying trying to get into Gmail

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Speaker 3: because I was having trouble with uh uh Chrome Google Chrome,

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Speaker 3: and uh because I can only see half a screen.

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Speaker 3: So I thought, well, i'll try I'll try this other one,

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Speaker 3: which turned out to be Gmail, and then Gmail kept

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Speaker 3: asking me, uh uh for I was getting in there fine.

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Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden, I asked me for I

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01:09:52,320 --> 01:09:54,519
Speaker 3: turned it out again and asked me for a password.

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Speaker 3: I put in the password that I had for it

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Speaker 3: and did it work? So, uh, I think I changed

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Speaker 3: it once and then and and that didn't work later,

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Speaker 3: so so I got frustrated. I thought, well, I'll just

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Speaker 3: try this. It says face, that's the ball, Okay, I

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Speaker 3: can use my face, And so I went in there

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Speaker 3: to set up for a face and next thing I know,

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Speaker 3: it's it barely. Uh okay, so let's let's make it

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Speaker 3: with my phone. And and then later on when I

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Speaker 3: went into my phone to uh to use it, it

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Speaker 3: was I was locked out and it says I need

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Speaker 3: this password.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So so right now, do you have access to

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Speaker 1: your computer or not?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got access to my computer.

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Speaker 1: Computer's fine. The phone is locked and you can't unlock it.

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Speaker 1: You don't. So if it's a Samsung phone, you go

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01:10:49,880 --> 01:10:52,240
Speaker 1: to the phone and you you go to unlock it,

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Speaker 1: and it just says no, it's and there's not.

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Speaker 3: I can get calls, people can call.

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Speaker 1: Me right, but it's not you're not unlocking the phone.

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Speaker 1: I can't call out right because you can't get in there,

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01:11:01,640 --> 01:11:03,800
Speaker 1: and you don't have a fingerprint on here, and you

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Speaker 1: don't now when you talk about your stuff, was any

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01:11:06,720 --> 01:11:15,840
Speaker 1: of it backed up? I not on my phone, so typically.

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Speaker 3: Thinks I got a card here to download my pictures,

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01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 3: and it was confusing on how to use it. So

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Speaker 3: I never got it. I never got it done.

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Speaker 1: Okay, a couple of things. So first off, typically when

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Speaker 1: your phone when you forget that. I'm looking at the

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01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 1: Samsung right now and it says set a pin. Remember

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01:11:37,080 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: this pin. If you forget it, you'll need to reset

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01:11:39,160 --> 01:11:42,200
Speaker 1: your phone and all data will be erased. So that

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Speaker 1: is typically what happens if you forget the pin to

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Speaker 1: your phone. Now, there could be a world where you

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Speaker 1: set up a remote unlock like a smart lock or

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Speaker 1: find my mobile, but I don't think you did that,

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Speaker 1: so that's not going to work. There really is not,

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Speaker 1: because all the data on these phones is encrypted now,

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01:12:00,760 --> 01:12:02,720
Speaker 1: there's really not a way to tap into it. And

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Speaker 1: the backup stuff. If your pictures weren't backed up to

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01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:08,479
Speaker 1: one drive, which you can check there because sometimes Samsung

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01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 1: does that. Your your emails should be backed up if

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Speaker 1: you're using Gmail, which just sounds like you are, so

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Speaker 1: those are going to be safe, in your documents and

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01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:18,400
Speaker 1: things like that. But really the photos are the things

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01:12:18,439 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 1: I'm concerned about. I would see if there's a you

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01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:26,360
Speaker 1: can try to go to, like a data doctor in

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01:12:26,400 --> 01:12:28,120
Speaker 1: your area and see if they can help you with

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01:12:28,200 --> 01:12:30,840
Speaker 1: this or a you break I fix if they have

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01:12:30,880 --> 01:12:33,879
Speaker 1: one near you see what they say. But typically, Curtis,

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Speaker 1: I'm sad to report that typically when you forget the

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Speaker 1: pin to your phone, it is really impossible to get

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Speaker 1: back into that device. Hopefully that is not the case here.

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Speaker 1: Good luck and keep me posted eight eight eight rich

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

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Speaker 1: four one zero one. The ring for AI voice notes.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you about it next. Welcome back to rich

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Speaker 1: on tech rich DeMuro here eight eight eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Coming up this hour, we've got Brand Putnam,

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Speaker 1: founder of Mirror later sold to uh Lululemon, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and now out with something new called Board. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like a high tech take on a family game night,

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01:13:19,160 --> 01:13:21,439
Speaker 1: you know, the board game. So we'll talk to Brand

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Speaker 1: about that. What else eight eight eight rich one on

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Speaker 1: one website, richon tech dot TV. All the show notes

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Speaker 1: are there. I want to tell you about this stream ring.

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Speaker 1: This is a two hundred and fifty dollars smart ring

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01:13:36,040 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 1: that you put on your finger, put a ring on it,

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01:13:38,880 --> 01:13:41,880
Speaker 1: and uh it lets you record your thoughts. So it

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01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 1: got a little button on it in a microphone, and

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01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:48,000
Speaker 1: you basically press the button and talk into it and

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Speaker 1: it uses AI to transcribe. It all goes back to

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Speaker 1: your phone doubles as a music controller. Two hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars gonna ship next year and this is from

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Speaker 1: two former Meta enginess. Basically, you know, it's just a

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01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 1: smart ring for notes, you know, using AI now personally,

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01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:10,519
Speaker 1: you know, I wish that it does not track anything

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01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: health related. So I think it's kind of weird that

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01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 1: there's no health aspect to this, because you're you're gonna

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01:14:15,320 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 1: wear this on your ring all the time. And also,

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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I already wear an

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01:14:19,320 --> 01:14:22,479
Speaker 1: Apple Watch and I use Whisper and Memos on there

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01:14:22,560 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: to take all my notes, and I love that it

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01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:29,280
Speaker 1: goes right to my email. So I don't know, we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I think everyone's trying right now to find new ways

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01:14:32,960 --> 01:14:37,040
Speaker 1: of computing that don't involve the phone, right like, don't

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01:14:37,080 --> 01:14:39,680
Speaker 1: involve the smartphone. And I just don't know if this

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01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,519
Speaker 1: is it. We'll see, but I've not tested it, so

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01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:45,280
Speaker 1: I can't really tell you. But it's just it's kind

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01:14:45,280 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 1: of an interesting take. iOS twenty six point one adds

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01:14:49,840 --> 01:14:52,880
Speaker 1: new liquid glass control. So if you downloaded iOS twenty

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01:14:52,920 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: six point one, I think you should because there's a

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01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:57,559
Speaker 1: lot of fixes in it. There is a new setting

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01:14:58,040 --> 01:15:01,880
Speaker 1: that can make liquid glass less liquidy. So if you're

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01:15:01,960 --> 01:15:05,160
Speaker 1: annoyed by how clear everything is, there's a transparency toggle,

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01:15:05,560 --> 01:15:08,560
Speaker 1: So go to settings once you download it, display brightness

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01:15:08,640 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 1: liquid glass, and you can switch from the traditional clear

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01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:15,559
Speaker 1: to a new tinted option. And tinted is less see through.

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01:15:16,200 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 1: Of course Apple had to say tinted instead of sea

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01:15:19,280 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 1: instead of you know, well, I guess opaque is a

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01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 1: little bit. That's a weird word, but you know what

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Speaker 1: I mean, Like they tinted sounds like it's still see through.

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Speaker 1: It's not really. They just don't want to admit that

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01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: not everyone likes liquid glass being see through because it's

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01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,400
Speaker 1: tough to see. It's it's cool looking, it's maybe not

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01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:41,120
Speaker 1: the most functionally visually that even makes sense. I don't

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01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:44,360
Speaker 1: know what else can you do camera setting. You could

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01:15:44,400 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 1: disable the lock screen swipe to open if you don't

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01:15:46,800 --> 01:15:52,719
Speaker 1: like that. And Airpod's live translation now supports more languages Italian, Chinese, Japanese,

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01:15:52,760 --> 01:15:57,040
Speaker 1: and Korean. Oh and the alarm is no longer a

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01:15:57,080 --> 01:16:00,080
Speaker 1: tap You swipe to disable the alarm. You know you

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01:16:00,120 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: don't like wake up in the middle of your alarm

1428
01:16:02,120 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 1: and just like tap it and then you sleep through

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01:16:04,120 --> 01:16:09,240
Speaker 1: your alarm. Let's go to let's see let's go to

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01:16:09,360 --> 01:16:12,160
Speaker 1: Don Don in Utah. You're on with Rich.

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01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:14,759
Speaker 3: I love you so much, Rich, you're the best.

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01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:17,640
Speaker 7: Grateful for your research you did ever wait for everybody?

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01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 10: Thank you the first question.

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01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:24,880
Speaker 1: Okay, sorry, I think we lost him there. Let's go

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01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: to Uh, let's go to Gina. Let's see line for

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01:16:31,600 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 1: Gina in Mission Vaho. Gina, you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 10: Oh, hi, Rich, Okay, do you need me to say

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01:16:40,400 --> 01:16:42,280
Speaker 10: this question or do you already have it?

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01:16:42,600 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: I don't read minds, Gina. I wish I did I do,

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01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 1: But the questions on the screen are like that number one.

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01:16:51,680 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 1: They never match it up to what people ask.

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01:16:54,360 --> 01:16:57,040
Speaker 10: Oh, okay, okay, I don't.

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01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:58,879
Speaker 1: Want to hear it, so let's hear what you got.

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Speaker 10: Okay. Now, this is just because I'm not very high TechEd.

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01:17:02,520 --> 01:17:05,600
Speaker 10: I was on a trip recently to Vermont, and I

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01:17:05,680 --> 01:17:09,040
Speaker 10: brought two Apple iPhones.

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Speaker 1: Uh oh, do we lose Gina too? Gina? What happened?

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01:17:20,640 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 1: What Bobo? What happened to Gina, Okay, what's happening here?

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01:17:24,680 --> 01:17:29,479
Speaker 1: Gina's gone okay, Uh, let's go to let's see who

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01:17:29,479 --> 01:17:33,559
Speaker 1: do we have here? Mark in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Mark,

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01:17:33,560 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 1: you're on with Rich? What is happening? This whole show

1453
01:17:35,840 --> 01:17:39,720
Speaker 1: just went down the tubes? Mark? Are you there?

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01:17:40,280 --> 01:17:40,880
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here.

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01:17:40,960 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: There you go, Please pop the slack here.

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Speaker 7: Okay, no pressure, huh Okay. What I wanted to ask

1457
01:17:48,120 --> 01:17:51,080
Speaker 7: was with the holidays and everything going on. I know

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01:17:51,800 --> 01:17:55,600
Speaker 7: I used Chrome browser and uh Safari browser, and I

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01:17:55,680 --> 01:17:58,160
Speaker 7: know us they used to have extensions that that you

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01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:02,280
Speaker 7: could use to compare, do comparative shopping, you know, all

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01:18:02,400 --> 01:18:05,600
Speaker 7: across the web. But then is AI also kind of

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01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 7: replacing that in some way. I'm just looking for something

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01:18:07,880 --> 01:18:10,519
Speaker 7: to be able to, you know, look at a certain

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01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:12,400
Speaker 7: look for a certain thing, and then say, okay, these

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01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:14,640
Speaker 7: ten places have it for this price. This is the

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Speaker 7: best price at the store.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. So here's the thing. It's a good question, and

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01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 1: it's such a tough one because there's so many things

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01:18:24,600 --> 01:18:26,800
Speaker 1: going on. Like, Okay, so you've got the basics like

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Speaker 1: Google shopping or Amazon, Yahoo shopping, right, So I just

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Speaker 1: did a quick comparison and I typed in this video

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Speaker 1: projector into Yahoo Shopping, and then I typed that same

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Speaker 1: thing into Google Shopping. And I will tell you that

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Speaker 1: I think Google Shopping definitely came up with better results.

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01:18:46,200 --> 01:18:48,320
Speaker 1: And if you've ever looked for a product on Google

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01:18:48,360 --> 01:18:52,000
Speaker 1: Shopping in general or on Google in general, I should say,

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01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:55,440
Speaker 1: you'll see when you look for a product, it'll sometimes

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01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:58,080
Speaker 1: come up on the side. Hold on, let me type

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01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:01,160
Speaker 1: this in again, It'll come up on the side with

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01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:03,640
Speaker 1: like pricing information. So I just looked up the x

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01:19:03,720 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: Jimmy mogo for projector, right, and I'm looking at the

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01:19:07,520 --> 01:19:10,559
Speaker 1: Google search results. It's got the traditional results. Then on

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01:19:10,600 --> 01:19:12,919
Speaker 1: the right side it notices that this is a product,

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01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:15,680
Speaker 1: and it's telling me all kinds of information typically four

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01:19:16,320 --> 01:19:18,880
Speaker 1: to seven ninety nine, and it's saying four ninety nine

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01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 1: at x Jimmy, which is their website, four ninety nine

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01:19:21,760 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 1: at Walmart, seven ninety nine at best Buy, and then

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01:19:24,080 --> 01:19:27,120
Speaker 1: I can tap compare prices, and this brings me into

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01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:30,519
Speaker 1: Google Shopping, and it doesn't go much further than that.

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01:19:30,560 --> 01:19:34,080
Speaker 1: You've got BNH Photo and a couple other places. But

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01:19:34,200 --> 01:19:37,720
Speaker 1: here's the thing. So I think that these tools are good,

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01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: and I think that what you really want is something

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01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:46,880
Speaker 1: to compare against the main websites, which is best Buy, Target, Walmart, Amazon,

1494
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,160
Speaker 1: you know, the main websites, and of course the retailer's

1495
01:19:50,240 --> 01:19:52,720
Speaker 1: own website, and then sometimes you have something like a

1496
01:19:52,800 --> 01:19:55,679
Speaker 1: Cohles will sell electronics and stuff like that. I think

1497
01:19:55,720 --> 01:19:59,719
Speaker 1: the easiest way to do it is the Google Shopping Results,

1498
01:20:00,120 --> 01:20:03,960
Speaker 1: but I'm not completely certain that all of Google's shopping

1499
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:07,560
Speaker 1: is organic. I think that some of it is sponsored.

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01:20:07,600 --> 01:20:09,800
Speaker 1: It's not going to have everything that you want on there.

1501
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,559
Speaker 1: There's also the Honey. I used to use this Honey

1502
01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:17,960
Speaker 1: shopping assistant, so they have If you install Honey on

1503
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:21,920
Speaker 1: your computer, this is from PayPal. It will pop up

1504
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,000
Speaker 1: when you're on like an Amazon result and say, hey,

1505
01:20:24,040 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 1: we found this product at a cheaper price somewhere else.

1506
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:29,679
Speaker 1: The thing that I'm concerned about is that you don't

1507
01:20:29,840 --> 01:20:32,240
Speaker 1: really want to be buying these products from a lot

1508
01:20:32,240 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 1: of random websites you haven't heard of that have really

1509
01:20:35,560 --> 01:20:38,640
Speaker 1: good prices. And I think that's what some of these trackers,

1510
01:20:38,960 --> 01:20:41,200
Speaker 1: these price trackers have done over the years, is that

1511
01:20:41,240 --> 01:20:43,280
Speaker 1: they just feed in a lot of nonsense that like,

1512
01:20:43,800 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: I don't really want to buy this from a random website.

1513
01:20:46,120 --> 01:20:48,519
Speaker 1: And I think that's the problem with why we don't

1514
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:50,880
Speaker 1: see a lot more of these online anymore, is because

1515
01:20:51,479 --> 01:20:53,479
Speaker 1: it's just I don't think people are using them. Like

1516
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:55,760
Speaker 1: if I have an Amazon Prime membership, I'm pretty much

1517
01:20:55,800 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 1: sticking to Prime. If I have a Walmart Plus, I'm

1518
01:20:58,000 --> 01:21:00,880
Speaker 1: probably buying from Walmart. I like best Buy, and I

1519
01:21:00,960 --> 01:21:03,519
Speaker 1: like the rewards program they have, I'm buying it best Buy.

1520
01:21:03,920 --> 01:21:05,920
Speaker 1: If I like Target, I've got Target three to sixty.

1521
01:21:05,920 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna stick there. And I think that just

1522
01:21:08,400 --> 01:21:12,760
Speaker 1: finding the price across those kind of major retailers is

1523
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:15,599
Speaker 1: what most people are doing anyway. And I hate to say,

1524
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:18,759
Speaker 1: but there's not a lot of change between those retailers,

1525
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 1: Like sometimes it's like the same exact price. So I

1526
01:21:21,520 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 1: think all of this is to say I don't have

1527
01:21:25,160 --> 01:21:28,679
Speaker 1: a place where I go to pop in a product

1528
01:21:28,720 --> 01:21:31,160
Speaker 1: and say this is going to give you the absolute

1529
01:21:31,160 --> 01:21:34,559
Speaker 1: best price. So that is kind of the end all

1530
01:21:35,000 --> 01:21:38,080
Speaker 1: this with this, you know, with shopping online, is that

1531
01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:40,479
Speaker 1: there's not necessarily a great place to pop in a

1532
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: product and get the best price. That's what I'm trying

1533
01:21:42,479 --> 01:21:45,960
Speaker 1: to tell you, Mark. What I would say is what

1534
01:21:46,000 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 1: I do This is what I tell people to do

1535
01:21:49,040 --> 01:21:51,240
Speaker 1: is if you have your your eye on something, Let's

1536
01:21:51,240 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: say you want the Apple Watch eleven, right, you type

1537
01:21:54,560 --> 01:21:56,960
Speaker 1: that into Google and then what I like to do

1538
01:21:57,120 --> 01:22:00,559
Speaker 1: is tap news. And what happens is all of these

1539
01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:04,360
Speaker 1: bloggers out there, because they get a commission on the

1540
01:22:04,400 --> 01:22:06,880
Speaker 1: prices that they're you know, posting, and the links to

1541
01:22:06,880 --> 01:22:10,200
Speaker 1: the affiliate links that they're posting, they're always blogging about

1542
01:22:10,240 --> 01:22:13,280
Speaker 1: the best price of things because it's in their best

1543
01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:15,600
Speaker 1: interest to have you find that when you search for

1544
01:22:15,640 --> 01:22:18,000
Speaker 1: it on Google. So I actually think that's usually the

1545
01:22:18,000 --> 01:22:19,519
Speaker 1: best way to do it is you could you can

1546
01:22:19,560 --> 01:22:23,000
Speaker 1: tap news, or you could even type in deal Apple

1547
01:22:23,080 --> 01:22:25,800
Speaker 1: Watch eleven deal, and it will give you the best

1548
01:22:25,800 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: deals on those because people are finding them and blogging

1549
01:22:29,600 --> 01:22:31,639
Speaker 1: about them. Or you can just leave out eleven, maybe

1550
01:22:31,680 --> 01:22:34,160
Speaker 1: just want an Apple Watch deal in general, and you

1551
01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:36,840
Speaker 1: can find them that way. So there's just there's so

1552
01:22:36,920 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 1: many ways of doing this. I can't tell you that

1553
01:22:40,520 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: there's one size fits all. I wish there was an

1554
01:22:42,560 --> 01:22:45,000
Speaker 1: extension that you can install on Chrome and it would

1555
01:22:45,000 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 1: pop up every single time there's a better price. I

1556
01:22:47,320 --> 01:22:49,840
Speaker 1: don't think there is, and I think that like you

1557
01:22:49,880 --> 01:22:52,920
Speaker 1: said AI is where a lot of people are starting

1558
01:22:53,000 --> 01:22:57,200
Speaker 1: their shopping searches nowadays, and you know, that's another way

1559
01:22:57,240 --> 01:22:59,360
Speaker 1: of doing it. But I think that there's just not

1560
01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,479
Speaker 1: one shop for everything, Like there used to be a

1561
01:23:02,560 --> 01:23:05,479
Speaker 1: lot of price crawlers out there on the web that

1562
01:23:05,520 --> 01:23:07,599
Speaker 1: you could pop a product into it it would compare

1563
01:23:07,640 --> 01:23:11,400
Speaker 1: against everything. I just don't think that those they exist, yes,

1564
01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:13,920
Speaker 1: but I don't think there's one that's like perfect that

1565
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:15,760
Speaker 1: I could recommend to you because I just don't think

1566
01:23:15,760 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: there is a perfect one out there, and I think

1567
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:20,760
Speaker 1: it really comes down to preferences of where you like

1568
01:23:20,800 --> 01:23:23,519
Speaker 1: to shop and how you like to buy things. A

1569
01:23:23,600 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: couple other products while we before we go to break here,

1570
01:23:27,120 --> 01:23:31,000
Speaker 1: there is one called save wise get savewise dot com

1571
01:23:31,280 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 1: so you can type in stores and help you get

1572
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:37,519
Speaker 1: offers from your credit card and things like that. The

1573
01:23:37,560 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 1: other one is card pointers that can help you find

1574
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 1: some of the credit card offers that you have and

1575
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:46,080
Speaker 1: that can help you save some money. And of course

1576
01:23:46,160 --> 01:23:48,320
Speaker 1: I like shop Back. We've talked about that on the show.

1577
01:23:48,360 --> 01:23:50,320
Speaker 1: They are a sponsor, so I do really like that

1578
01:23:50,360 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: because you can get shop money back there if you're

1579
01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: trying to do just comparison shopping on Amazon Camel Camel

1580
01:23:57,160 --> 01:24:00,719
Speaker 1: Camel is a great place to go. And then there's

1581
01:24:00,720 --> 01:24:03,800
Speaker 1: websites like slick Deals and deal News, which gives you

1582
01:24:04,160 --> 01:24:07,840
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of the best deals out there on things,

1583
01:24:07,840 --> 01:24:10,000
Speaker 1: but not necessarily a thing you're looking for, although you

1584
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:13,519
Speaker 1: can't type that in to the search bar. But Mark,

1585
01:24:13,600 --> 01:24:16,040
Speaker 1: I just threw a lot at the wall. There are

1586
01:24:16,160 --> 01:24:18,759
Speaker 1: so many ways of doing this. There's not one size

1587
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,760
Speaker 1: fits all when it comes to online shopping. That is

1588
01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:23,800
Speaker 1: what I've decided. Thanks for the call today, appreciate it.

1589
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 1: Apologies about the other callers. I'm not sure what happened there.

1590
01:24:26,720 --> 01:24:28,200
Speaker 1: If you want to call back, a hop on the

1591
01:24:28,240 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 1: phone eighty to eight Rich one on one back after this,

1592
01:24:34,439 --> 01:24:38,519
Speaker 1: come back to Rich on tech rich DeMuro here we

1593
01:24:38,600 --> 01:24:41,439
Speaker 1: got an email from Jim. He said you mentioned the

1594
01:24:41,479 --> 01:24:44,120
Speaker 1: new slider to turn off the alarm on iOS twenty

1595
01:24:44,160 --> 01:24:47,320
Speaker 1: six point one. He says he actually liked the button better.

1596
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:50,519
Speaker 1: Maybe you can mention for other people who might want

1597
01:24:50,520 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 1: to get the button back. This is how you do it.

1598
01:24:52,520 --> 01:24:57,639
Speaker 1: Go into Settings Accessibility touch and if you scroll all

1599
01:24:57,640 --> 01:24:59,840
Speaker 1: the way down to the bottom, it says prefer single

1600
01:25:00,120 --> 01:25:04,799
Speaker 1: touch actions and that'll get back the single touch alarm

1601
01:25:05,720 --> 01:25:08,519
Speaker 1: turnoff button. Okay, it's good to have options, Jim. I

1602
01:25:08,520 --> 01:25:11,680
Speaker 1: think here's what I think Apple is admitting with this

1603
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:15,960
Speaker 1: whole update is that it's like everything that they've changed,

1604
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:18,160
Speaker 1: they've given people the option to change back, which I

1605
01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,040
Speaker 1: think is great. I feel like that's kind of what

1606
01:25:20,120 --> 01:25:22,760
Speaker 1: Android has done forever, is give people options rather than

1607
01:25:22,800 --> 01:25:25,000
Speaker 1: just like an edict of here's how you do things,

1608
01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:27,479
Speaker 1: which is what iOS has been, you know, for a

1609
01:25:27,600 --> 01:25:30,479
Speaker 1: very long time. But I think they're getting to the

1610
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: point where they're giving people more options. I feel like

1611
01:25:32,840 --> 01:25:36,000
Speaker 1: with the last two updates, Apple has really kind of

1612
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:38,120
Speaker 1: taken the lead and like, hey, we'll let you do

1613
01:25:38,240 --> 01:25:39,720
Speaker 1: a lot of things that you want to do the

1614
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: way you want to do them within reason. You know,

1615
01:25:42,000 --> 01:25:44,080
Speaker 1: they still control a lot of the sandboxing and stuff,

1616
01:25:44,120 --> 01:25:46,600
Speaker 1: which I think is good for security and privacy, but

1617
01:25:46,720 --> 01:25:49,160
Speaker 1: they let you choose a lot of the things that

1618
01:25:49,200 --> 01:25:51,920
Speaker 1: you want to do and custom customize the phone in

1619
01:25:51,960 --> 01:25:54,000
Speaker 1: the way that you want to do it. So again,

1620
01:25:54,040 --> 01:25:57,679
Speaker 1: if you want that single touch alarm turnoff button back

1621
01:25:58,000 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 1: instead of the slider settings diessibility touch for fer single

1622
01:26:02,600 --> 01:26:06,240
Speaker 1: touch actions, it looks like we got Gina back in

1623
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:10,040
Speaker 1: mission via ho Gina, what's up? What happened? We got disconnected?

1624
01:26:10,479 --> 01:26:13,680
Speaker 10: Okay, I'll try to talk back here. Yeah, so I

1625
01:26:13,120 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 10: was in Lamont and trying to use my phones. I

1626
01:26:18,280 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 10: have two cell phones I brought. One is an iPhone eight,

1627
01:26:22,160 --> 01:26:30,120
Speaker 10: the others an iPhone XR Apple XR, and I noticed

1628
01:26:30,120 --> 01:26:34,040
Speaker 10: that the XR was able to work with it get

1629
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:36,799
Speaker 10: keep the internet connection from I guess from the hotel

1630
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 10: because I logged into the hotel internet connection. But anyway,

1631
01:26:40,280 --> 01:26:43,720
Speaker 10: when I was using it to find using maps to

1632
01:26:43,800 --> 01:26:47,519
Speaker 10: make plot courses when I got outside of the hotel,

1633
01:26:48,000 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 10: only the XR version would work for that. The other

1634
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:55,880
Speaker 10: phone that they eight had the message of no Internet.

1635
01:26:55,360 --> 01:26:59,240
Speaker 1: Connection when you were outside the hotel.

1636
01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:03,200
Speaker 10: Yeah, Like, I don't exactly win I noticed it. I

1637
01:27:03,200 --> 01:27:05,320
Speaker 10: mean I noticed it, but I mean because I was

1638
01:27:05,360 --> 01:27:08,439
Speaker 10: trying to use both phones because you know, the power

1639
01:27:08,479 --> 01:27:10,479
Speaker 10: I didn't have in case I ran out of power.

1640
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,479
Speaker 1: Matter were you on Wi Fi or cellular?

1641
01:27:13,640 --> 01:27:17,240
Speaker 10: Okay, those are the kind of question Okay, when you're out, Okay,

1642
01:27:17,320 --> 01:27:20,200
Speaker 10: when you this is ride the terminology may get me

1643
01:27:20,439 --> 01:27:25,000
Speaker 10: when I'm outside of a hotel if I plugged into

1644
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:28,479
Speaker 10: their internet and I want to leave the premises. Does

1645
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:31,120
Speaker 10: it automatically And this sounds dumb, it does that mean

1646
01:27:31,160 --> 01:27:32,240
Speaker 10: it's already on Wi Fi?

1647
01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:32,719
Speaker 5: I don't.

1648
01:27:32,880 --> 01:27:35,880
Speaker 1: Yeah, it depends, I mean so like So basically the

1649
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:39,519
Speaker 1: way the cellular works versus Wi Fi cellular connection is constant.

1650
01:27:39,600 --> 01:27:42,479
Speaker 1: Like your phone is always basically on a cellular connection.

1651
01:27:42,560 --> 01:27:45,200
Speaker 1: If it's an iPhone, right, if it's if it's a smartphone, right,

1652
01:27:45,880 --> 01:27:47,840
Speaker 1: it always has a cellular connection as long as it

1653
01:27:48,000 --> 01:27:51,760
Speaker 1: has one physically, right or I guess wirelessly, however you

1654
01:27:51,800 --> 01:27:53,760
Speaker 1: want to say it Wi Fi, if you think about

1655
01:27:53,800 --> 01:27:57,240
Speaker 1: it, it almost rides on top of the cellular connection, and

1656
01:27:57,320 --> 01:27:59,680
Speaker 1: so you can use Wi Fi by itself and turn

1657
01:27:59,720 --> 01:28:02,479
Speaker 1: off the cellular of course, but it's almost like your

1658
01:28:02,520 --> 01:28:04,760
Speaker 1: phone is always going to favor Wi Fi when it

1659
01:28:04,880 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 1: has it, because it uses less battery and it uses

1660
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,160
Speaker 1: less of the cellular data. It's just much more power efficient.

1661
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:14,200
Speaker 1: So once you connect, let's say you let's say you

1662
01:28:14,280 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 1: check into a Let's say you get off a plane,

1663
01:28:16,920 --> 01:28:18,600
Speaker 1: and from the time you get off the plane to

1664
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:20,880
Speaker 1: the time you ride to the hotel, your phone is

1665
01:28:20,880 --> 01:28:23,599
Speaker 1: probably on a cellular connection. Right soon as you get

1666
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:25,719
Speaker 1: to that hotel, you check into your room, you log

1667
01:28:25,760 --> 01:28:28,679
Speaker 1: into the Wi Fi that's that's provided by the hotel.

1668
01:28:29,120 --> 01:28:31,519
Speaker 1: Now your phone goes, oh cool, we've got this nice

1669
01:28:31,800 --> 01:28:35,000
Speaker 1: Wi Fi connection. We're going to use that because typically faster,

1670
01:28:35,200 --> 01:28:39,439
Speaker 1: more power efficient, uses less data from our cellular and

1671
01:28:39,520 --> 01:28:41,840
Speaker 1: it's just easier on the whole system. And so now

1672
01:28:41,840 --> 01:28:45,639
Speaker 1: we're going to default to that whenever we see that connection. Now,

1673
01:28:46,120 --> 01:28:50,320
Speaker 1: your phone manages it by itself, So if the Wi

1674
01:28:50,320 --> 01:28:52,920
Speaker 1: Fi is not strong, it's going to just default back

1675
01:28:52,920 --> 01:28:55,200
Speaker 1: to the cellular. When the Wi Fi works, it's going

1676
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 1: to take the cellular. When you're outside that hotel, let's

1677
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:01,200
Speaker 1: say you're laying out by the pool, it may have

1678
01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:03,720
Speaker 1: a Wi Fi connection if it's strong enough from the

1679
01:29:04,160 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 1: from the hotel, or it may not. But your phone's

1680
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:10,160
Speaker 1: going to kind of decide. And so the reason these

1681
01:29:10,160 --> 01:29:14,040
Speaker 1: two phones had a different connection or different ability is

1682
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:16,479
Speaker 1: probably comes down to the fact that they just have

1683
01:29:16,520 --> 01:29:19,960
Speaker 1: different hardware. And I'm guessing which phone had the better one,

1684
01:29:20,000 --> 01:29:24,639
Speaker 1: the XR the ten R well X working, Yeah, okay,

1685
01:29:24,680 --> 01:29:28,000
Speaker 1: because it's a new and it's a newer model. So

1686
01:29:28,080 --> 01:29:30,800
Speaker 1: I think just the iPhone eight just didn't have the

1687
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:35,799
Speaker 1: same strong connection because the specs of the hardware probably

1688
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,120
Speaker 1: were not as good or the tuning. I mean it

1689
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:40,880
Speaker 1: could be. I'm looking at the specs right now. Theoretically

1690
01:29:40,920 --> 01:29:44,680
Speaker 1: the specs are the same, but the hardware, the way

1691
01:29:44,720 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 1: it's designed, the way the antenna openings are all that

1692
01:29:48,040 --> 01:29:51,479
Speaker 1: stuff could just be more optimized on the ten are so.

1693
01:29:52,240 --> 01:29:54,120
Speaker 1: But I will tell you both of these phones, you know,

1694
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:57,680
Speaker 1: are out of service when it comes to support and software.

1695
01:29:58,040 --> 01:30:00,839
Speaker 1: So I would look into just you know, for security

1696
01:30:00,880 --> 01:30:03,599
Speaker 1: and things like that. I would look into upgrading at

1697
01:30:03,600 --> 01:30:05,559
Speaker 1: some point with a newer device.

1698
01:30:06,200 --> 01:30:08,800
Speaker 10: Okay, what newer device if I because I'm trying to

1699
01:30:08,840 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 10: save money, what would be a newer device that isn't

1700
01:30:11,280 --> 01:30:12,760
Speaker 10: so extent, like you know, I don't want to go

1701
01:30:12,800 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 10: to the top?

1702
01:30:13,439 --> 01:30:16,920
Speaker 1: Is like a iPhone sixteen E will be great? So, yes,

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01:30:17,439 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 1: sixteen E and that's that's typically five ninety nine. You

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Speaker 1: might find it cheaper during the holidays, maybe four ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: So I would watch for any sort of deals on that.

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Speaker 1: You might even get it for free on your from

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Speaker 1: your carrier. How long have you had your carrier?

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Speaker 10: Oh well I can't, I can't remember exactly, so few years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well you might go to them, they might give

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Speaker 1: you a free phone. The thing is, if you're not

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Speaker 1: changing carriers, like if you don't like let's say, of

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Speaker 1: AT and T, you don't want to switch, they may

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Speaker 1: give you a new phone and just say, hey, you

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Speaker 1: have to stick with us for another two years. If

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Speaker 1: you're completely happy with your service and everything you got,

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01:30:52,960 --> 01:30:54,800
Speaker 1: might as well take the free phone and you're paying

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Speaker 1: the same amount. This is rich on Tech. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we are going to talk about board, a new way

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Speaker 1: to have family game night. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Rich DeMuro here hanging out with you talking technology. The

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Speaker 1: website rich on tech dot TV. Everything I mentioned is

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Speaker 1: linked up on there. So if I mentioned something like

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Speaker 1: that Ramen place or you know, anything that I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: the reporters we talk to, the people, we talk to,

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Speaker 1: the products I mentioned. It's all on the website rich

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Speaker 1: on tech dot TV. This is episode one forty seven,

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Speaker 1: so you can easily find it there. Another thing, a

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Speaker 1: link your account in the Lift app. You get four

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Speaker 1: miles per dollar on prescheduled airport rides three miles on

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Speaker 1: lift black and black suv. Let's see, Okay, I was

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Speaker 1: looking for the what you get for a standard trip.

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Speaker 1: It's a dollar from Okay, so there you go. But

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Speaker 1: thousand bonus miles for linking and completing two rides within

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Speaker 1: thirty days. Anyway, lyft dot com slash United. I don't

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Speaker 1: know about you, but I fly United most of the time.

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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily take Lyft all the time. But you know,

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01:32:16,560 --> 01:32:19,240
Speaker 1: maybe this is the whole point of these partnerships is

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01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:21,720
Speaker 1: to get you to use their products. Right, so we'll

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01:32:21,760 --> 01:32:26,519
Speaker 1: say all right. Joining me now is Brent Putnam, founder

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01:32:26,640 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 1: of Mirror. This is a product that was a fitness

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01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,080
Speaker 1: Well she can explain it better, but I believe it

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01:32:32,080 --> 01:32:35,839
Speaker 1: was a fitness board, a fitness mirror that Lululemon purchased,

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01:32:35,880 --> 01:32:39,759
Speaker 1: and now she's working on something completely new to reinvent

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Speaker 1: family game night called bored. The website is boord dot fun,

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01:32:43,960 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 1: which I like the pun. There, Brin Putnam, thanks for

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Speaker 1: joining me today.

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Speaker 13: Thanks for having me rich.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so tell me quickly Mirror this was I've seen it.

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01:32:53,600 --> 01:32:55,200
Speaker 1: I saw it at the Lula Lemon store. It's like

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Speaker 1: a mirror that what you like work out in right,

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Speaker 1: like work out with Yeah.

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Speaker 14: It's an interactive fitness mirror where you could see yourself

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01:33:02,920 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 14: reflected and then a live instructor and it gave you

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01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 14: feedback on your form, your intensity via connected heart rate

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Speaker 14: monitor and weights. And we sold this a little Lemon

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Speaker 14: in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Amazing. So I mean that was life changing. I'm sure,

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Speaker 1: yeah it was.

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Speaker 14: It was an incredible outcome for the for the product

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Speaker 14: and the team.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Okay, so you did that. I mean my

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Speaker 1: family and I watched Shark Tank, so I mean we

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Speaker 1: love like all the different products and things. Were you

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Speaker 1: on that for that or No?

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Speaker 13: No, I would love to be on Shark Tank though

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Speaker 13: maybe with the next one.

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Speaker 1: Well, at this point, now you're not gonna be on

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Speaker 1: Sharks Tank for like your product. You're gonna be on

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Speaker 1: as one of the sharks because you know, one of

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Speaker 1: the guests people. Because now you've done so well. Okay,

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01:33:43,000 --> 01:33:46,080
Speaker 1: so now you're doing a new thing called Board. The

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Speaker 1: website is Board dot Fun and so it's kind of

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Speaker 1: like it looks to me like a digital reinvention of

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Speaker 1: the board game. So explain Yeah.

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Speaker 14: So Board is the first ever face to face game

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Speaker 14: console that blends the best of board games and video

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Speaker 14: games into one new platform. So how it works is

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Speaker 14: it's a twenty four inch touch screen and a beautiful

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01:34:09,200 --> 01:34:12,040
Speaker 14: wood frame that sits on your table. And we spent

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Speaker 14: two years training the screen to do something no other

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Speaker 14: screen can do, which is recognize physical pieces game pieces.

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Speaker 14: So when you put down a piece, it knows what

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Speaker 14: the piece is, where it is on the board, and

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Speaker 14: what orientation it's in in real time. So it's an

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Speaker 14: entirely new way of playing games that mixes physical pieces

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Speaker 14: with a digital screen.

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Speaker 1: Now how are you able to do that? What is

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01:34:34,080 --> 01:34:36,400
Speaker 1: there something in the piece or does the board just

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Speaker 1: feel the pressure of the piece.

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Speaker 13: So it's a couple components.

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Speaker 14: One, the piece has a unique capacitive signature on the

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Speaker 14: bottom and the base that the screen then recognizes. And

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Speaker 14: then we've trained our own AI models to run on

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Speaker 14: the device to recognize what the piece is and what

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Speaker 14: it's doing in real time. So we have a whole

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Speaker 14: team of sort of computer vision machine learning engineer that

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Speaker 14: are training these pieces to be recognizable by the screen.

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Speaker 1: And so what types of games are available to play

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Speaker 1: on the board.

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Speaker 14: So the board at launch has twelve games included. They

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Speaker 14: range from things like quick hit retro arcade games to

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Speaker 14: deep strategy games to everything in between. And they scale

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Speaker 14: from one player to many players.

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Speaker 13: Young children up to adults.

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Speaker 14: And the goals to get everyone sitting around the table, laughing, talking, collaborating,

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Speaker 14: working together around this shared experience.

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Speaker 1: Now it almost looks like when I'm looking at the website,

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Speaker 1: it almost reminds me of you know, those like arcade

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Speaker 1: games that are a console like where you sit like

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Speaker 1: a mispac man or something where two people sit on

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Speaker 1: either side. It's almost reminiscent of that has that occurred.

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Speaker 14: To you at all, the old sort of pizza pizza parlor,

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Speaker 14: tabletop arcade games which were so fun.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 14: Absolutely, I think there's a lot of sort of similarities

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Speaker 14: in terms of just bringing back kind of the fun

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Speaker 14: of sitting around this shared experience. So instead of you know,

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Speaker 14: being in a corner on your phone or your iPad

1823
01:36:09,600 --> 01:36:12,559
Speaker 14: or sitting with hyphones on network to someone on your

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01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:16,240
Speaker 14: PC or your TV, you're sitting together face to face.

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Speaker 13: Across the table.

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Speaker 1: Now you kind of touched upon something because we're seeing

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Speaker 1: this trend of people trying to be on screens less

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01:36:22,720 --> 01:36:26,040
Speaker 1: and be more present. And so I think, you know,

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Speaker 1: when you think about a classic board game that like

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01:36:28,240 --> 01:36:31,040
Speaker 1: kind of hits all those things, and here you are

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Speaker 1: coming out with a high tech version of that. So

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Speaker 1: do you think you get the same sort of disconnection

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Speaker 1: from the screen even though you're on a screen playing

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Speaker 1: these games?

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Speaker 13: Yeah, So board for me was really born out of

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01:36:45,120 --> 01:36:45,960
Speaker 13: personal need.

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Speaker 14: I have five kids, so I range from two and

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Speaker 14: eight and then up to three older step kids seventeen

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Speaker 14: nineteen twenty one. And we would try to play board games,

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Speaker 14: but we'd have to play something easy enough for the

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Speaker 14: littlest one to join, or we try to play video games,

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01:36:59,680 --> 01:37:02,400
Speaker 14: and the teenagers would smoke us because none of us

1843
01:37:02,439 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 14: were as good on sort of complicated modern controllers as

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Speaker 14: the young inins.

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Speaker 13: And so the question for me was, like, you know,

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01:37:10,120 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 13: is technology? Can technology be good? Here?

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01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:15,720
Speaker 14: Can we make the screen something that's helpful in facilitating

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01:37:15,880 --> 01:37:19,120
Speaker 14: interaction and connection rather than something that isolates us or

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01:37:19,200 --> 01:37:22,040
Speaker 14: makes us distracted? And so I think it's really about

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01:37:22,080 --> 01:37:24,479
Speaker 14: how the screen is used, and for us, the screen

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01:37:24,600 --> 01:37:28,080
Speaker 14: is there to make people talk and laugh, and work

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01:37:28,120 --> 01:37:30,240
Speaker 14: together rather than something that sort of takes you and

1853
01:37:30,240 --> 01:37:32,680
Speaker 14: puts you in you and your own physical bubble. So

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01:37:33,040 --> 01:37:35,600
Speaker 14: it's not anti tech. It's really about using tech to

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01:37:35,640 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 14: bring people together.

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01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:39,200
Speaker 1: And each one of these games, it looks like, has

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01:37:39,240 --> 01:37:43,200
Speaker 1: their own components, like physical components. Does that come with

1858
01:37:43,280 --> 01:37:45,880
Speaker 1: the board or do you purchase those separately?

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01:37:47,000 --> 01:37:49,400
Speaker 14: Yeah, so everything is included, so you get twelve games

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01:37:49,400 --> 01:37:52,439
Speaker 14: and each game has its own piece set. So Chop

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01:37:52,520 --> 01:37:55,200
Speaker 14: Chop is our cooperative cooking game, and you get knives

1862
01:37:55,200 --> 01:37:57,400
Speaker 14: and spoons and a little chef and a spice mill.

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01:37:57,920 --> 01:38:00,479
Speaker 13: Or the arcade games have robots and space ships.

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01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:04,360
Speaker 14: Or Spycraft is an adventure game with this spy kit

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01:38:04,439 --> 01:38:07,519
Speaker 14: that converts into a laser cutter and a safecracker, and

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01:38:07,560 --> 01:38:10,800
Speaker 14: that's all included for limited time at launch as part

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01:38:10,800 --> 01:38:10,960
Speaker 14: of the.

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01:38:10,960 --> 01:38:11,960
Speaker 13: Four ninety nine price.

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Speaker 1: And when it comes to this the durability of the board,

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01:38:16,200 --> 01:38:19,720
Speaker 1: because you are playing on this surface, is there like

1871
01:38:19,760 --> 01:38:23,320
Speaker 1: a screen protector, Like is it replaceable? Explain that because

1872
01:38:23,320 --> 01:38:24,880
Speaker 1: it's got to be very durable to be able to

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01:38:24,920 --> 01:38:27,320
Speaker 1: play the games on here, and it's a display as well.

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01:38:28,320 --> 01:38:31,320
Speaker 14: Yeah, So the device went through a ton of testing

1875
01:38:31,560 --> 01:38:35,240
Speaker 14: of being dropped from very high heights, being submerged in water,

1876
01:38:35,560 --> 01:38:38,400
Speaker 14: being scratched up thousands of times, and so we feel

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01:38:38,520 --> 01:38:42,000
Speaker 14: very good that it's incredibly durable, but it also comes with,

1878
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:44,519
Speaker 14: you know, when you're warranty and a lot of support

1879
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:45,599
Speaker 14: if you should see it.

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01:38:45,640 --> 01:38:48,839
Speaker 1: Is there a subscription? Do I pay monthly to access

1881
01:38:48,920 --> 01:38:51,639
Speaker 1: these games? And right now I'm assuming you're developing all

1882
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:54,920
Speaker 1: the games yourself. Is there going to be a third

1883
01:38:54,960 --> 01:38:58,200
Speaker 1: party sort of app store where developers can make things

1884
01:38:58,200 --> 01:38:59,280
Speaker 1: for this board?

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01:39:00,080 --> 01:39:02,439
Speaker 14: Yeah, so the twelve games are included with purchase. Then

1886
01:39:02,479 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 14: in early twenty twenty six, we roll out our game store,

1887
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:08,880
Speaker 14: where you can purchase additional games as well as expansion

1888
01:39:08,920 --> 01:39:10,599
Speaker 14: content for the games you already own.

1889
01:39:10,880 --> 01:39:12,480
Speaker 13: And we're really building a platform.

1890
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 14: So we have an SDK available today and developers are

1891
01:39:15,800 --> 01:39:19,760
Speaker 14: already building on our SDK new experiences that take advantage

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01:39:19,800 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 14: of this shared screen and the physical interaction. So we're

1893
01:39:24,000 --> 01:39:26,599
Speaker 14: really excited to see kind of what the next generation

1894
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:27,479
Speaker 14: of games brings.

1895
01:39:27,520 --> 01:39:29,880
Speaker 13: It could be reimagined.

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01:39:29,240 --> 01:39:33,719
Speaker 14: Classics like Chess or Monopoly brought to life on the board,

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01:39:34,000 --> 01:39:37,000
Speaker 14: or new native experience.

1898
01:39:36,560 --> 01:39:38,400
Speaker 13: As an IP that we haven't even imagined yet.

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Speaker 1: You've got a lot of competition in the game kind

1900
01:39:40,960 --> 01:39:44,519
Speaker 1: of space. You've got everything from Amazon, Luna, they just

1901
01:39:44,560 --> 01:39:47,439
Speaker 1: came out with free games on your TV for prime

1902
01:39:47,479 --> 01:39:50,920
Speaker 1: subscribers with no hardware, no additional hardware other than the

1903
01:39:50,960 --> 01:39:54,400
Speaker 1: firestick or whatever. You know, You've got the iPad, you've

1904
01:39:54,400 --> 01:39:59,160
Speaker 1: got Nintendo, you've got Xbox, you've got Roadblocks, you've got Minecraft,

1905
01:39:59,240 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 1: you've got PlayStation. How do you see this fitting into

1906
01:40:04,160 --> 01:40:06,200
Speaker 1: all that world of gaming?

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01:40:07,720 --> 01:40:10,640
Speaker 14: I think it's really about the face to face interaction

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01:40:10,920 --> 01:40:15,320
Speaker 14: that is unique to board and the physical digital combination.

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01:40:15,680 --> 01:40:19,360
Speaker 14: So it's just an incredibly fun and intuitive way to play.

1910
01:40:19,479 --> 01:40:21,920
Speaker 14: So just like swiping on mobile brought in a whole

1911
01:40:21,960 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 14: new world of gamers, or the swing of the remote

1912
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 14: and we unlocked new ways of playing, I think sort

1913
01:40:28,640 --> 01:40:32,320
Speaker 14: of pieces in screen interaction really enables everyone to be

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01:40:32,400 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 14: a gamer. So for us, I think it's about bringing

1915
01:40:35,320 --> 01:40:39,400
Speaker 14: everyone together for regardless of age or skill, and for

1916
01:40:39,439 --> 01:40:41,439
Speaker 14: an experience that's face to face, which I think is

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01:40:41,479 --> 01:40:43,920
Speaker 14: just really unique amongst our competitors.

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01:40:44,439 --> 01:40:48,920
Speaker 1: Again, it's board dot fun. The price is four ninety nine,

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Speaker 1: you get twelve games, got physical component and obviously a

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Speaker 1: hardware component to it. And a digital component brand. I'm

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Speaker 1: just curious for you as a entrepreneur. I mean, obviously

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Speaker 1: you found great success with your last product. I always

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Speaker 1: feel like it's it's tough. There's a lot of pressure

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Speaker 1: for the next product, you know, like this, like it's

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Speaker 1: feel that pressure and do you feel like you accomplish

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Speaker 1: something great with your next venture?

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Speaker 8: Here?

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Speaker 3: Sure?

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Speaker 14: I mean I think for me, you know, you want

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Speaker 14: to build something that people love, that has a lasting

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Speaker 14: impact on a lot of lives. And so I generally

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Speaker 14: am kind of someone who thinks the score takes care

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Speaker 14: of itself, So I don't think too much.

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Speaker 13: About the end condition.

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Speaker 14: It's more about just kind of waking up each day

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Speaker 14: and setting a really high bar for execution for me

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Speaker 14: and my team. And generally, I think if you deliver

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Speaker 14: great experiences, people will enjoy them and thinks will go well.

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Speaker 1: Any advice you got like less than a minute, any

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Speaker 1: advice for entrepreneurs out there? Someone has an idea. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you pretty much hit the pinnacle with your first product,

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Speaker 1: and you know, any advice for people that have something

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Speaker 1: that they want to do.

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Speaker 14: I had no technical experience mirror was my first job

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Speaker 14: with the team, and I think what you don't know

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Speaker 14: is actually your greatest gift and your greatest asset, because

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Speaker 14: you're brave and you see things that other people don't see.

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Speaker 14: So let what you don't know create a sense of

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Speaker 14: urgency and take the jump and give it a go.

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Speaker 1: All right, I love that advice. Brinn Putnam, founder of

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Speaker 1: Mirror and now boardboard dot Fun, Thanks so much for

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Speaker 1: joining me today. Thanks rach all right, really appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: All right, coming up, a couple more items of note

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Speaker 1: in the news world, and then we'll get to the feedback.

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Speaker 1: You are listening to rich on Tech. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, rich Demro. Here a couple items of

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Speaker 1: no before we open the feedback. First off, new research

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Speaker 1: shows that smart watches could help doctors spot heart problems early.

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Speaker 1: The doctors developed an AI algorithm that can detect structural

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Speaker 1: heart disease like weak heart muscles or damaged valves only

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Speaker 1: using a smart watches built in single lead ECG sensor.

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Speaker 1: We know that censors and hospitals have like twelve leads,

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Speaker 1: you know, they put those little things on you. This

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Speaker 1: is just using a smartwatch, and so they took a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of data, they fed it into an algorithm,

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Speaker 1: and then they tested it on a whole bunch of

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Speaker 1: patients and sure enough it worked. So researchers say this

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Speaker 1: could make heart screening more accessible basically your watch. It's

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Speaker 1: not a done deal, but it just goes to show

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Speaker 1: that with AI and this data that smart watches are collecting,

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Speaker 1: even basic data, it can really go far. And then

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Speaker 1: I want to just mention Google Google Pixel record sales

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Speaker 1: in the US. Pixel sales in the US, according to

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Speaker 1: Counterpoint Research, jumped twenty eight percent year over year in

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Speaker 1: September twenty twenty five. That's a new single month record

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Speaker 1: for Google. Google Sharing the six hundred dollars plus premium

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Speaker 1: smartphone market hit six point one percent, So it's still

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Speaker 1: pretty small compared to Apple and Samsung, but it was

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Speaker 1: just point oh one percent point no point one percent

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Speaker 1: three years ago. Why are people buying the Pixel? All

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Speaker 1: those Gemini AI ads you see, I mean, have you

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Speaker 1: seen them? They're all during the sports games. It's like

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Speaker 1: they compare the iPhone to vanilla ice cream. So people

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Speaker 1: are apparently it's resonating with folks. I know it does

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Speaker 1: every time I see when I go. Yeah, that's why

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Speaker 1: I love the pixel so much. Okay, let's open up

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Speaker 1: the feedbag. Kevin writes in I almost got caught by

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Speaker 1: a really convincing scam pretending to be from one password.

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Speaker 1: The email claim there was a security issue and asked

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Speaker 1: me to download an important update. It even looked real,

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Speaker 1: except it was sent to my old address. I realized

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Speaker 1: something was off, so instead of clicking the link, I

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Speaker 1: updated the app directly through one password itself. Turns out

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Speaker 1: the fake update would have installed malware. Ooh, good catch, Kevin.

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Speaker 1: Never click those links and emails. Always go directly to

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Speaker 1: the source. Joseph says, as a tip fear listeners, I

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Speaker 1: use the open vibe app to follow both blue Sky

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Speaker 1: and mastad On in one feed. I use mastadon for

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Speaker 1: tech people and blue sky for everyone else. Between the

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Speaker 1: two sources, I've completely replaced my old Twitter feed, no ads,

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Speaker 1: no tracking, and a clean chronological view. Great tip, Joseph,

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Speaker 1: open Vibe. I checked it out. I personally have not

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Speaker 1: been using any of the socials except Instagram and Facebook lately,

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Speaker 1: so but maybe one day I'll go back on I know.

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Speaker 1: Dan from Palmdale says, thanks for your info on iTunes

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Speaker 1: match in your latest newsletter. I've got a ton of

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Speaker 1: MP three's and CDs I'd love to listen to across

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Speaker 1: my devices. Twenty five dollars a year is an ideal,

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Speaker 1: but if it works, well, I'll try it. I wanted

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Speaker 1: to say, I enjoy everything you do. I see you,

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Speaker 1: I hear you, I read you. Keep up the good work.

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Speaker 1: Also random question, Bobo, you got to hear this. Do

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Speaker 1: you remember the wave radio station from the nineties. There

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Speaker 1: was a song with the lyrics it goes up, it

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Speaker 1: goes down, never touching the ground elevator with all the

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Speaker 1: ladies going uptown. I've been searching for it for years.

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Speaker 1: I do not know that song. Okay, well, maybe someone

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Speaker 1: listening at that rings a bell. But Google, you would think,

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Speaker 1: but I already searched it, couldn't find it. Uh if

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Speaker 1: you know how to sing it? Google picks up on

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Speaker 1: the melody. No I know, come on, sing it goes up,

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Speaker 1: it goes down, never touching the ground elevator with all

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Speaker 1: the ladies going up town. Daniel writes in about the

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Speaker 1: floating bubbles fix we mentioned a couple weeks ago. I

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Speaker 1: had the same messaging issue on my Samsung Galaxy z

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Speaker 1: flip seven. Great phone, by the way, Thanks for the

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Speaker 1: tip to turn off floating bubbles. I was wondering why

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Speaker 1: my messaging was so screwy and discombobulated. Thanks for the tip, Daniel.

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Speaker 1: That's what we are here for, and that's what I

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Speaker 1: love about this show. But Don from the Redlands another

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Speaker 1: Saturday and another newsletter from the tech Master. Keep it up.

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Speaker 1: It's a huge world to cover, but you always managed

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Speaker 1: to tackle what challenges us most. Okay, they butter me up.

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Speaker 1: Now here comes the bad part. Now, I was just kidding.

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Speaker 1: My wife's five year old Android phone stopped making sounds

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Speaker 1: for calls and texts. She didn't get any notifications and

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Speaker 1: later discovered eighteen unheard voicemails and a long list of

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Speaker 1: unread messages. We thought the phone was failing. We use

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Speaker 1: Consumer Cellular, which gets top marks in consumer reports. After

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Speaker 1: visiting a few locations, we finally found a target store

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Speaker 1: in Fontana with a real service counter. The young woman

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Speaker 1: there couldn't have been more helpful. She discovered do not

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Speaker 1: Disturb was turned on, which blocked all alerts, and she

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Speaker 1: even installed a new simcard to help update the phone system.

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Speaker 1: She ran diagnostics fixed everything and didn't charge a dime.

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Speaker 1: It's rare these days to get such genuine, no cost

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Speaker 1: help from someone who cares big for Consumer Cellular and

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Speaker 1: for us older folks. Don that story warms my heart. Yes,

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Speaker 1: there are still people out there that are doing amazing

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Speaker 1: things that are there to help people, and just they're

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Speaker 1: still out there and I love hearing that. So big

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Speaker 1: win for Consumer Cellular. Thank you Don for sharing that story.

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Speaker 1: Michael from Baltimore says, I came across your radio show

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Speaker 1: on my drive home from Baltimore. It was very helpful

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Speaker 1: and informative, much appreciated. Well, thank you, Michael. You know

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Speaker 1: I get a bunch of calls a week. We don't

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Speaker 1: necessarily talk about this, but this show does air in

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Speaker 1: various places across the country. Right, if you listen to LA,

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Speaker 1: you listen to New York City, you know it's there,

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Speaker 1: but there's all these other places that it airs, and

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Speaker 1: you know, we don't necessarily mention it. But I love

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Speaker 1: that because there's so many people out there and they

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Speaker 1: drive I call them drive bys, right, they just find

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Speaker 1: us and they say, oh my gosh, and we hope

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Speaker 1: that you stick with us, and we're available for live broadcasts. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna do it for this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: Oh if you want to submit to the feedback, just

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Speaker 1: go to the website rich on tech dot tv. There

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Speaker 1: you can also find links to everything I'll mentioned on

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Speaker 1: my show again rich on tech dot tv. This is

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Speaker 1: episode one forty seven. Everything is linked up there. You

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Speaker 1: can find me on social media. I mentioned that. Yes,

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Speaker 1: I am mostly on Instagram these days at rich on tech,

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Speaker 1: so definitely follow me there. Coming up next week, we've

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Speaker 1: got some great guests. Alison Johnson from the Verge is

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the one plus fifteen. Then we've

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Speaker 1: got Jamie Simonov, founder of Ring. He's got a brand

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Speaker 1: new book called Ding Dong. We are going to talk

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Speaker 1: to him about that. I can't wait. And we've got

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Speaker 1: Nyu Stern professor Vissant Dar talking about his new book

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Speaker 1: Thinking with Machines. Thank you so much for listening. There

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Speaker 1: are so many ways you can spend your time. I

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Speaker 1: do appreciate you spending it right here with me. Please

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Speaker 1: don't drive distracted, put the phone down. Thanks to everyone

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Speaker 1: who makes this show possible. My name is rich Dmiro.

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Speaker 1: I will talk to you real soon