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Speaker 1: Well, the other day I shared a post that said,

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Speaker 1: that Joe asked me when I sent out my first newsletter,

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Speaker 1: So thank you Joe for the inspiration for the second newsletter,

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Speaker 1: I decided to go over the ways that I book

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Speaker 1: if you make that status two things. Number One, you

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Speaker 1: I start? I always start at flights dot Google dot com.

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Speaker 1: This is because Google has a ton of information about flights.

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Speaker 2: I don't even put in my dates.

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Speaker 1: Now, most of the time I can't travel on those

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Speaker 2: Kate, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 8: You know those travel tips you were given before were awesome.

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Speaker 8: three color options in real life they have black, gold, silver,

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Speaker 8: and then they also had all the nine sizes around

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Speaker 8: sizes five through thirteen. I believe, I mean, I think

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Speaker 8: they looked great, but it was more or less a

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Speaker 8: tease of what's to be coming. I'm sure that we're

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Speaker 8: going to hear a lot more very soon, and most

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Speaker 8: signs are pointing to this Galaxy Ring coming out in

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Speaker 8: the summertime.

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Speaker 1: And only for Samsung phones right as far as I heard,

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Speaker 1: it's not going to be for like other Androids or

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Speaker 1: even the iPhone right off the bat.

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Speaker 8: I don't believe so well, definitely not the iPhone. I

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Speaker 8: think you know, they're going to be integrating it with

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Speaker 8: their Galaxy Health app of it kind of like as

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Speaker 8: an alternative to the Galaxy Watch, which you can technically

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Speaker 8: use with other devices. But I think with all of

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Speaker 8: these manufacturers, and we can talk about it a little

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Speaker 8: bit more with you know, one plus and the one

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Speaker 8: plus Watch, but we're seeing more and more that you

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Speaker 8: want to stay within within these Android ecosystems, even you know,

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Speaker 8: brand to brand.

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Speaker 1: So which is so wild because Android's whole point was

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Speaker 1: that you didn't have to do that. But they've all

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Speaker 1: learned from Apple how apply things can be and how

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Speaker 1: sticky it is to have people stick in the same lane.

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Speaker 8: Seriously. But at the same time, I think, I think

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Speaker 8: seeing this smart ring come out is going to push

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Speaker 8: some other manufacturers to see if their customers would be

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Speaker 8: interested in a similar alternative. But of course there's also

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Speaker 8: brand of gnostic solutions like the RR ring that has

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Speaker 8: really made this smart ring category mainstream.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's great and I wore it for a while.

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Speaker 1: My wife actually got me one for my birthday. And

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Speaker 1: I have a rule, don't please don't buy me tech

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Speaker 1: like ever, because like I, you know, I test so

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Speaker 1: much of it.

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Speaker 2: You got me an or a ring.

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Speaker 1: I actually ended up returning it, but I did review

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Speaker 1: it and I loved wearing it, but it made me

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Speaker 1: really stressed out because whenever I got a bad score,

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Speaker 1: my day would be ruined. So if I had like

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Speaker 1: a you know, bad readiness score or whatever. And also

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Speaker 1: the chunkiness of the ring, Like I really do wish

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Speaker 1: that they can get these things like thinner, So we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Tell me about the bendable phone.

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Speaker 1: This is a Motorola concept phone that what's the point

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Speaker 1: of this thing?

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Speaker 8: So they're actually not even calling it a smartphone. It's

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Speaker 8: called the Motorola Adaptive Display concept. And I think that's

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Speaker 8: because in many ways it doesn't have a lot of

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Speaker 8: the normal smartphone features. It doesn't even have a camera

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Speaker 8: system built in. I mean, when's the last time we

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Speaker 8: saw a camera a phone with no camera.

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Speaker 2: It's been a while.

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Speaker 8: I think they're trying to showcase is that your single

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Speaker 8: quote unquote smartphone can be every type of device you

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Speaker 8: needed to be. So they first showed this concept off

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Speaker 8: at Lenovo Tech World. Lenovo is the Motorola parent company,

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Speaker 8: and that's what they gave us our first tease, showing

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Speaker 8: it as like a lifestyle device, think in the same

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Speaker 8: vein as the Motorol eraser. It's pitching you this, you know,

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Speaker 8: fashionable tech item, and I feel like that's been kind

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Speaker 8: of carried on to this adaptive display because what's cool

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Speaker 8: about it. You can bend it around your wrist and

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Speaker 8: wear it like a smart watch, and it takes this

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Speaker 8: you know, almost it is ridiculous look ridiculous looking, I

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Speaker 8: will say that much, but it eliminates the need almost

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Speaker 8: to have a smart watch and a smartphone. You can

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Speaker 8: just bend it around your wrist like a slap bracet

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Speaker 8: from the from the nineties and have your phone right there.

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Speaker 8: But they also demonstrated ways where it can bend like

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Speaker 8: a tent, bend backwards, and then also stand up on

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Speaker 8: its own. And I think what's cool about this compared

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Speaker 8: to some of the other smartphone concepts we've seen is

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Speaker 8: a lot of them are based on folding in, like

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Speaker 8: the Galaxy Z fold five and the Motorole Eraser as

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Speaker 8: I mentioned, but this one's all about bending out. I

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Speaker 8: think we're we're going to see something like this not

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Speaker 8: too far in the future.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's nice.

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Speaker 1: Look, I mean, I'm I don't think it's realistic right now,

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Speaker 1: but it's nice to see these manufacturers pushing the envelope

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Speaker 1: and trying new things, because if you look at the

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Speaker 1: iPhone from two thousand and seven to now, it really

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Speaker 1: hasn't changed very much. And everyone's waiting for Apple to

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Speaker 1: do something with the you know, foldable iPhone, which you

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Speaker 1: know we may see finally, but you know, you look

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Speaker 1: at these other companies like Samsung and OnePlus and Google,

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Speaker 1: even with the foldables and you know, the huahwehs of

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Speaker 1: the world, they're all trying new form factors and so

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Speaker 1: it's nice to see that we're getting this innovation. It

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Speaker 1: just has to get to a place where it's realistic.

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Speaker 1: And this phone that you're talking about, you know, I

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Speaker 1: saw it on your Instagram. You can find Kate by

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Speaker 1: the way at Kate kozych ko z u c h

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Speaker 1: on Instagram if you want to see what this looks like.

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Speaker 1: But it's it's a little big right now. So again

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Speaker 1: we'll see this evolve, all right. Tell me about the

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Speaker 1: transparent laptop. This was from Lenovo, another concept, and this

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Speaker 1: just looked like every movie the laptop I've ever seen

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Speaker 1: where it's like, you know, Mission Impossible style, right.

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Speaker 8: So it's a laptop that has a seventeen point three

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Speaker 8: inch micro led transparent display that lets you see right

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Speaker 8: through it to whatever's on the other side of the screen.

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Speaker 8: It also has these AI features built in that it

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Speaker 8: can read what's out beyond the screen and even let

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Speaker 8: you interact with it on your screen. I was doodling

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Speaker 8: with it at the show. It was pretty cool. So

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Speaker 8: I actually posted a video of it on TikTok and

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Speaker 8: it went viral, but a lot of comments were interesting.

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Speaker 8: It was about the privacy or like lack thereof with

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Speaker 8: a see through laptop. Lenovo told me there that hypothetically,

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Speaker 8: because we have to speak in hypotheticals with concept devices,

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Speaker 8: that there could be this type of polarizing filter on

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Speaker 8: the back that limits how much you can see if

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Speaker 8: you're looking in through the back, or perhaps a film

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Speaker 8: kind of like we saw on LG's transparent olel ed

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Speaker 8: TV that rolls up and down for optional privacy. So

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Speaker 8: I think it was kind of this type of device

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Speaker 8: came at this time to see it if people would

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Speaker 8: want that or if that would be a concern, and

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Speaker 8: I think it turns out it is. So if we

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Speaker 8: see a next iteration of this laptop, I'm calling it

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Speaker 8: now it's going to have some type of optional way

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Speaker 8: that people from the outside can't actually see through it.

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Speaker 2: What was the use case scenario?

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Speaker 8: So the way that I saw it best use was

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Speaker 8: it has this little camera on the bottom rear facing

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Speaker 8: part of the laptop. Most laptops the camera is you know,

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Speaker 8: selfie camera, so you can do video calls, but this

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Speaker 8: one was on the bottom facing outward, and we had

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Speaker 8: it pointed at a pot with flowers in it, and

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Speaker 8: they opened up this AI software that had a butterfly

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Speaker 8: flying and overlaid on this display that landed on a

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Speaker 8: spot on the flower perfectly as though it was like

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Speaker 8: in real life landing on that. So I think I

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Speaker 8: think there's you know, a huge design benefit to that,

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Speaker 8: and also for designers. They didn't confirm this to me necessarily,

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Speaker 8: but the track pad and keyboard of the laptop is

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Speaker 8: all a touch screen. It reminds me very much of

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Speaker 8: a whack home tablet that you use for drawing. You

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Speaker 8: could have your laptop screen looking out at you know

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Speaker 8: whatever it may be the flower pot in this example,

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Speaker 8: and you could start tracing it on your screen. If

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Speaker 8: you're a graphic designer, how cool is that, Like you

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Speaker 8: see it right in front of you. It's a built

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Speaker 8: in tracer. I think that that was probably my favorite

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Speaker 8: application of using it.

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Speaker 2: That is cool, and I just want I'll take a

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Speaker 2: transparent tablet one of these days. It's just cool.

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Speaker 1: It looks cool, and I definitely want like the edges

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Speaker 1: lit up, you know, so it's like it's like blue

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Speaker 1: on the edges or something. But it's just I love

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Speaker 1: all this stuff, Kate Kozych, We're gonna leave it there.

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Speaker 1: How can folks follow you online? And what do you

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Speaker 1: typically post about?

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Speaker 8: Oh yeah, I'd write all about you know, wearables, conceptual tech,

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Speaker 8: anything that's really trending online these days. I'm at social

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Speaker 8: media at Kate Kozych. Except on TikTok, i am Kate

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Speaker 8: underscore Kozych. Of course, I'm also at tomsguide dot com,

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Speaker 8: where you can find my stories and some more of

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Speaker 8: my MWC coverage.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, Kate Kozych, Managing editor, Tom's Guy, thanks so much

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Speaker 1: for joining me today to talk about Mobile World Congress. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, Triple eight Rich one O one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech coming your way right after this. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you talking technology at Triple eight Rich one oh

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Speaker 1: zero one. Let's go to John and Carl's bad. John,

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Speaker 1: You're on with Rich All Rich.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 9: I have a number of Google speakers throughout my home,

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Speaker 9: and whenever I tell it to play music on Pandora,

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Speaker 9: I get ads on Pandora and I know that there's

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Speaker 9: a I think there's a Pandora Plus.

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Speaker 5: It doesn't have ads, you.

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Speaker 9: Know, paid subscription, but I don't know how to get

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Speaker 9: that onto my Google Home That okay.

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Speaker 1: So you would actually go to so are you signed

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Speaker 1: up with Pandora? Yeah, okay, so you're signed up. So

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Speaker 1: I would go to the Pandora website and go there,

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Speaker 1: and you should see a thing for Pandora Plus and

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Speaker 1: it's five dollars a month for let's see what they

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Speaker 1: give you. Yeah, ad free, ten dollars a month is

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Speaker 1: a little bit more for let's see what do you

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Speaker 1: get for that? Make and share playlists okay? And unlimited skips. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I guess you get unlimited skips with both. But for

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Speaker 1: five bucks a month, it's pretty much what you need.

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Speaker 1: If you just want to get rid of the ads,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna pay five dollars a month. So just go

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Speaker 1: to pandora dot com, log in, and then click upgrade.

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Speaker 1: And once you upgrade, if you're not already linked up

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Speaker 1: to the count on your Google Home you just open

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Speaker 1: up the Google Home app and under the Google Home

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Speaker 1: app there should be some settings and usually under the

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Speaker 1: settings you can go to services and it says works

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Speaker 1: with Google, and there's a sorry, let's see music there

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Speaker 1: it is, and so you go to music and then

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Speaker 1: you will have your different music services. So it says,

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Speaker 1: you know, this works with everything, YouTube, Spotify, iHeart Apple Music, Pandora, Deezer,

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Speaker 1: and you just link up. If your Pandora is already

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Speaker 1: linked up, it's once you sign up for the Pandora Plus,

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Speaker 1: it's going to follow over. If you're not linked up,

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Speaker 1: then you will just link those up. You're gonna log

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Speaker 1: into your Pandora account and it will be ad free

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Speaker 1: the next time you do it. So that's the easiest way.

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Speaker 1: So once again, go to the website, upgrade to Pandora Plus,

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Speaker 1: put in your card number, all that good stuff, and

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Speaker 1: then go to the Google Home app and go into

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Speaker 1: your settings and then go under services it says music,

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Speaker 1: and that's where you're going to link up your Pandora.

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Speaker 1: It should already be linked up if you're already listening

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Speaker 1: to music on Pandora through there, it should just follow

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Speaker 1: follow through. But if you're not, then that's the way

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Speaker 1: you'll link it up with the new account. All right, John,

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Speaker 1: send me an email rich on tech dot tv and

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Speaker 1: let me know if that worked, Let's go to Jamie

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Speaker 1: in North Hollywood. Jamie, what's up?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 4: What's going on?

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Speaker 7: Rich?

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Speaker 10: How you doing?

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Speaker 2: I'm doing excellent.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing that Pandora is still a hit, and I

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Speaker 3: think I know why. It really is still good. That

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Speaker 3: algorithm just is very very good.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it is good. It is good.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I want to ask you. I want to ask

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Speaker 3: you about well. Actually, this morning I was ordering a

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Speaker 3: breakfast and I didn't couldn't understand why I couldn't delete

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Speaker 3: a credit card on my Apple wallet. But what that

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Speaker 3: wasn't really why I called. If you want to tackle

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Speaker 3: that too, that's cool. But I actually called because I

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Speaker 3: found this cool shortcut on my iPhone and I can't

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Speaker 3: put it on It's on my work phone. I can't

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Speaker 3: put it on a regular phone. But it's inaccessibility and

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Speaker 3: I double tapped the back of it and it brings

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Speaker 3: up the camera so I can bring up my camera

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Speaker 3: as quick as I possibly can.

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Speaker 1: That's that's built into the uh is does it have

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Speaker 1: to be a shortcut? I thought you can just go

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Speaker 1: into accessibility and do the triple tap on the back.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I wasn't sure about it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, if you go into let's see, I got to

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Speaker 1: find where this is. So if you go into accessibility

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Speaker 1: under settings, and there's usually a let's see, I gotta

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Speaker 1: I've got to find it. But it's inaccessibility.

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Speaker 3: I expect you to tackle it immediately because you know,

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Speaker 3: I know, you have your your your Google people to

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Speaker 3: you know, in your data rooms and your you know people,

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Speaker 3: people who have that knowledge in a blog or something.

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Speaker 2: But it's called backtap. That's that's what it's called.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to settings and then accessibility, it's

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Speaker 1: called and then touch, and then there's a thing called backtap.

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Speaker 1: And if you go into backtap, let's see here it's

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: Minds off.

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Speaker 1: I don't use this because I feel like I would

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Speaker 1: just be tapping my phone way too often. But you

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Speaker 1: can set a double tap or a triple tap. And

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Speaker 1: so with a double tap you can do really anything

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Speaker 1: you want. You could do an action button, you can

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Speaker 1: do app switcher, you can do camera control center, flashlight,

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Speaker 1: home lock rotation, lock screen notification center.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's so many things you can do. You

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Speaker 2: can activate Siri.

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Speaker 1: So let me do this. I'm gonna actually turn this

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Speaker 1: on while I'm talking to you. So I'm gonna turn

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Speaker 1: on camera and you can also set a triple tap

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Speaker 1: as well. So now I've set camera as my double tap.

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Speaker 1: So now I've got my phone in my hand. I

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Speaker 1: double tapped the back of my phone and oh, there

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Speaker 1: it goes. It launched the camera. It's actually not bad,

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Speaker 1: so that's kind of cool. So again, if you want

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Speaker 1: to turn this on, Jamie, go into Settings Accessibility and

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Speaker 1: then you'll go into touch and then backtap. It's all

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Speaker 1: the way down to the bottom. You can set a

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Speaker 1: double tap or a triple tap, and there you have it.

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Speaker 1: Good question. Thank you Jamie for calling today from North Hollywood.

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Speaker 2: Wow. See, I mean I knew that was possible.

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Speaker 1: I never actually tried it because I said, oh, I'll

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Speaker 1: never use this feature, But now that I know it's there,

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Speaker 1: I know it's like one more way to just activate

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Speaker 1: something quickly on your phone. So I woke up this

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Speaker 1: morning to a bunch of emails about a privacy alert

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Speaker 1: when it comes to the new journal app on the iPhone,

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Speaker 1: and I guess someone on Instagram, TikTok, whatever social media

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Speaker 1: posted alert. If you have an iPhone, this is important.

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Speaker 1: After downloading the latest update, there's a new feature called journaling,

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Speaker 1: and if you have your settings, the default is you

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Speaker 1: are discoverable by others. It's toggled on and it lets

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Speaker 1: anyone near you know your full name and exactly where

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Speaker 1: you're located. What Apple is letting anyone see exactly where

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Speaker 1: everyone else is located. Turn this toggle off. This is

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Speaker 1: messed up big time. Share with your friends if their iPhone.

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Speaker 1: Very scary stuff. So of course I go into the settings.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, really, Apple, I don't think they would do that.

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Speaker 1: So I go into the settings and I educate myself

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Speaker 1: on what this feature is all about. And I posted

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Speaker 1: this on my Instagram at richon Tech if you want

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Speaker 1: to read what I had to say. But the bottom

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Speaker 1: line is no, Apple is not sharing your full name

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Speaker 1: and they're not sharing your location with everyone. What they

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Speaker 1: are doing is they are using signals from the iPhones

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Speaker 1: around you. So when you are in a group setting

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Speaker 1: or you are out with friends and it notices that

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Speaker 1: your contacts are near you, it is using that to

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Speaker 1: help figure out what it should suggest for you to

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Speaker 1: journal about. It sounds scary, but it's not. It is

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Speaker 1: not saving this information, It is not uploading this information

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Speaker 1: to the cloud. Let me give you the best example.

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Speaker 1: Let's say you go to lunch every day at a

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Speaker 1: fast food restaurant by your work. Right when you go

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Speaker 1: to your journal app on the iPhone. Your iPhone's not

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Speaker 1: gonna say, hey, do you want to journal about that

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Speaker 1: whopper you ate for lunch today again for the third time. No,

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Speaker 1: because it doesn't make any sense. It's not unique. But

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Speaker 1: if they see that you went to a lunch and

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Speaker 1: there are a couple of friends around you with their

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Speaker 1: iPhones and it says, hey, do you want to journal

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Speaker 1: about that lunch that you had at this special place,

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Speaker 1: that's when it will put that in there. Yes, you

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Speaker 1: can turn this feature off. There is no privacy issue

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Speaker 1: here whatsoever. But if you want to turn it off,

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Speaker 1: at least you're educated about it. Check it out Instagram

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Speaker 1: at Richontech. All right, that wraps up our number one.

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Speaker 1: More of your calls at Triple eight rich one O

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

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

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Speaker 1: phone line for the show is triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. You can also email the website richon

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Speaker 1: Tech dot TV. Hit contact up at the top. You

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Speaker 1: can find me on social media. I am at rich

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Speaker 1: on tech, on Instagram, X and Facebook. Coming up this hour,

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Speaker 1: Leo Roberts of the Laptop Elf Project is going to

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Speaker 1: discuss how to make an old computer feel new again

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Speaker 1: with Chrome os Flex. This is a free operating system

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Speaker 1: from Google that pretty much turns your old computer into

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Speaker 1: a modern Chromebook. But we'll get all the details on

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Speaker 1: the pros and cons from Leo later in this hour.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of X, doctor Annie wrote on X Expedia

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Speaker 1: allows for sort by distance. It is definitely in sort

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Speaker 1: sort by price, sort by distance. Oh, I guess they

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Speaker 1: said hotels dot com still does it. Well, maybe the

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Speaker 1: app doesn't do it anymore, but I used to use

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Speaker 1: hotels dot Com for that feature. And yeah, Expedia, by

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Speaker 1: the way, they own a lot of stuff. This was

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Speaker 1: I believe this was spun off from Microsoft. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they're still owned by Microsoft, but they were started

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Speaker 1: by Microsoft back in the day. And here's what Expedia owns.

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Speaker 1: Expedia dot Com, Hotels dot Com, Vrbo, the airbnb competitor.

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Speaker 1: I did not realize that Travelocity, remember that one had

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Speaker 1: a little gnome guy hot Wire. I used to love

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00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: hot Wire that was a big competitive price line orbits

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Speaker 1: again brand from back in the day eBookers.

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard of that one. Cheap tickets.

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Speaker 1: I've heard of that. Car rentals dot Com have not

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Speaker 1: heard of that. Trevago too interesting. That's the you see that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's more geared towards the European market.

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00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 1: But I remember seeing ads in the US for that.

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Speaker 1: But I was trying to remember when you said Expedia.

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Speaker 1: I remembered another brand from back in the day, and

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Speaker 1: this is going to be a total blast from the past.

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Speaker 1: Microsoft in Karda, And if you're of a certain age,

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Speaker 1: this was a digital encyclopedia published by Microsoft. It came

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Speaker 1: on a CD ROM or a DVD and you bought

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Speaker 1: this thing and it had a bunch of articles about stuff,

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Speaker 1: and I think later it was online. But Microsoft in

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Speaker 1: Karda nineteen ninety three, according to UH Wikipedia nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: three to two thousand and nine. And this was like

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Speaker 1: the way you got information. It was like after the

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Speaker 1: World Book encyclopedia that was in your house, you went

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Speaker 1: to this, and then you went to Wikipedia. And now

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Speaker 1: you just don't. We don't seek out information anymore. We

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Speaker 1: just go to TikTok. I'm just kidding. Please do not

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Speaker 1: send me the angry emails. Yes, kids still can go

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Speaker 1: for information places you don't have to. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to send me the email. Just shortcut that. Eighty eight

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

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Speaker 1: two four one zero one. Steve writes in on email, Hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: I keep getting a notification to update my Google Chrome

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Speaker 1: browser from a company called hot Cleaner, and I'm wondering

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Speaker 1: if this is legit.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Steve. No, Steve, this is totally bogus.

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Speaker 1: I believe that this is a malware extension or some

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Speaker 1: kind of extension that you do not need. So if

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Speaker 1: you are seeing stuff on your Chrome web browser that

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Speaker 1: seems a little wonky, you can go through Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I just went to this website. Don't go to these

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Speaker 1: websites like I do. I go to test, but don't

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Speaker 1: do it. So what you want to do is you

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Speaker 1: want to go to your settings, and you want to

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Speaker 1: go to settings on Chrome, and that's in the upper

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Speaker 1: right hand corner. It looks like three little dots, and

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Speaker 1: then you want to go to extensions and then manage extensions,

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Speaker 1: and then once you're in here, it'll show you all

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Speaker 1: of your extensions, and I've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,

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Speaker 1: I've got sixteen extensions. If you do not recognize something

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Speaker 1: that is in there, or you're not using something that's

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Speaker 1: in there, remove it. If you don't want to remove

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Speaker 1: it completely right away, there is a little toggle switch

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Speaker 1: you can disable it, and that way it doesn't run.

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Speaker 1: So an extension on Chrome is kind of like a

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Speaker 1: little piece of helper software and it could be really useful.

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Speaker 1: You can add things like You're a read it later,

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Speaker 1: or a screenshotting tool, or something like honey that can

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Speaker 1: help you get better prices. But there are also malicious

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Speaker 1: ones or ones that pretend to be helpers but they're

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Speaker 1: really not. They hijack your browser and they try to

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Speaker 1: make it do things that you don't want it to do. Namely,

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Speaker 1: they will inject advertising on your web pages, or they

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Speaker 1: will change your default search engine to something that is

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Speaker 1: more beneficial to them. So again, if you want to

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Speaker 1: check your extensions on Chrome, go into settings three little

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Speaker 1: dots upper right hand corner. Extensions. Manage extensions, get rid

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Speaker 1: of any that you don't know, or don't use or

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Speaker 1: don't recognize. There is a new smart watch from one plus.

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Speaker 1: This is the one plus watch too. I am wearing

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Speaker 1: it as we speak. It is probably the new Android

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Speaker 1: smart watch to be. One plus made a smart watch

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Speaker 1: about three years ago. It was great, but it was

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Speaker 1: not full featured. It only ran their own operating system.

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Speaker 1: This one now runs a version of ware OS, which

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Speaker 1: is Google's you know, mobile operating system for watches. So

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Speaker 1: the cool thing about this is it looks like a

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Speaker 1: classic time piece. So if you like a nice big

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Speaker 1: screen that looks like an actual watch, not a square watch,

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Speaker 1: it looks like a watch. The basics are here. It's

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00:41:50,120 --> 00:41:52,399
Speaker 1: got a nice big screen, like I said, it's got

872
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:56,560
Speaker 1: good water resistance. It's got great fitness, sleep and stress tracking.

873
00:41:57,560 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: The unique aspect is how this battery can last up

874
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:03,759
Speaker 1: to one hundred hours. How does it do that? Well,

875
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: it's got a hybrid operating system. It's got two operating

876
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,040
Speaker 1: systems in salt. It's got that old one I told

877
00:42:09,120 --> 00:42:11,800
Speaker 1: you about. Not old, but it's got an operating system

878
00:42:11,840 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: that does the basics like the time, and then it's

879
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: got a more intensive processor and an operating system to

880
00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:23,680
Speaker 1: do the apps. So again, you can get up to

881
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,279
Speaker 1: twelve days of battery life on this thing if you

882
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: put it in power save mode, which gives you just

883
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: basic functionality. So if you put it into power Save,

884
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: you can just have the time on your watch and

885
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: some other basic features and you can go twelve days

886
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 1: without charging it. So the downsides to this watch. I

887
00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:43,880
Speaker 1: do think it's very snappy, it's well designed. I've really

888
00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: liked this thing, but one plus is only guaranteeing software

889
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:51,040
Speaker 1: update for two years on this watch when it's time

890
00:42:51,040 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: to recharge. Really excellent. One plus gets the award for

891
00:42:54,440 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: having the best smart watch charging adapter.

892
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,720
Speaker 2: Yet. It is a tiny little puck.

893
00:43:00,239 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: It's square, and the cool thing about it, and the

894
00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:04,960
Speaker 1: thing that they did that nobody else has done before,

895
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,359
Speaker 1: is that it is detachable, so you can use any

896
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: USBC cable to plug this thing in.

897
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 2: So what does that mean? All you have to do

898
00:43:12,200 --> 00:43:12,720
Speaker 2: is throw.

899
00:43:12,560 --> 00:43:15,520
Speaker 1: This tiny, little maybe one by one inch puck into

900
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,840
Speaker 1: your travel bag and when you get to where you

901
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 1: need to go, you can plug your standard USBC adapter

902
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: into this and charge your watch and it charges really

903
00:43:24,160 --> 00:43:26,520
Speaker 1: really fast. One plus has kind of made a name

904
00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,120
Speaker 1: for itself on fast charging. I averaged about three to

905
00:43:31,160 --> 00:43:33,319
Speaker 1: four days of battery life. Now you might be saying, rich,

906
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:35,640
Speaker 1: you just said this thing has one hundred hours or

907
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: twelve days, How are you only getting three to four hours. Well,

908
00:43:38,440 --> 00:43:40,640
Speaker 1: if you want to use this thing to its maximum,

909
00:43:40,640 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 1: you're going to get three to four days. Now, that's

910
00:43:42,640 --> 00:43:45,839
Speaker 1: still double what any other smart watch on the market does.

911
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:49,040
Speaker 1: Most smart watches are doing about a day, maybe a

912
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:51,319
Speaker 1: day and a half at the most. But if you

913
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,560
Speaker 1: want sort of all the use of this thing with

914
00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:57,719
Speaker 1: running and fitness and sleep tracking and music offline, all

915
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: those things, I'd say about three to four days.

916
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:00,880
Speaker 3: Now.

917
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:03,400
Speaker 1: The one thing I don't necessarily like is that OnePlus

918
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: has their own app. It's called o Health, and this

919
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:11,040
Speaker 1: is an app that they develop themselves and is their

920
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: fitness app. So it's their version of Fitbit. It's kind

921
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: of like on the iPhone you have to use you know,

922
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,160
Speaker 1: Apple's fitness app to an activity app to h to

923
00:44:19,280 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: use that with the Apple Watch.

924
00:44:20,360 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 2: Same thing here.

925
00:44:21,640 --> 00:44:23,640
Speaker 1: The cool thing is is that it does track a

926
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff, over one hundred activities with very impressive detail,

927
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 1: and it can get pretty specific.

928
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: There is like there's all.

929
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,359
Speaker 1: There's a reminder right now sorry, I've got to take

930
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: out the trash. There is all kinds of things like

931
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:41,880
Speaker 1: they have, like I mean stuff you can't like disc

932
00:44:42,000 --> 00:44:45,239
Speaker 1: throwing and whatever. You know, take whatever. You can track

933
00:44:45,280 --> 00:44:49,719
Speaker 1: anything you want. The watch faces are amazing. They gave

934
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: you so many great watch faces that you can that

935
00:44:52,880 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: you can customize. The main thing to know about the

936
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Speaker 1: watch faces if you put third party complications. So let's

937
00:44:59,160 --> 00:45:01,040
Speaker 1: say you have a favorite a like all trails, and

938
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Speaker 1: you want to have like some sort of complication on

939
00:45:03,520 --> 00:45:05,440
Speaker 1: your watch screen. A complication is kind of like a

940
00:45:05,480 --> 00:45:09,240
Speaker 1: little widget. You can't necessarily do that unless you really

941
00:45:09,280 --> 00:45:11,359
Speaker 1: want to cut down in your battery life. So the

942
00:45:11,400 --> 00:45:14,000
Speaker 1: watch faces to get the maximum battery life, you have

943
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: to use the ones they have, the complications they have,

944
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,400
Speaker 1: and a lot of stuff is covered like weather and

945
00:45:18,440 --> 00:45:20,480
Speaker 1: your battery life and your step count.

946
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,120
Speaker 2: They have a lot your heart rate.

947
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:24,319
Speaker 1: It's just if you want to get really fancy and

948
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:26,480
Speaker 1: you have a specific app like on the Apple Watch,

949
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 1: you can put any complication on there and your battery

950
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:31,160
Speaker 1: life is pretty much going to be the same. The

951
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:32,520
Speaker 1: thing is with this, it's going to be a little

952
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,520
Speaker 1: bit different. Downsides again, notifications can be slow to appear

953
00:45:36,560 --> 00:45:39,280
Speaker 1: when you raise your wrist. The screen can be dim

954
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:41,400
Speaker 1: and bright light, and I feel like the vibrations on

955
00:45:41,480 --> 00:45:44,280
Speaker 1: this thing are really weak compared to other smart watches,

956
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: especially the Apple Watch. I hate to keep comparing everything

957
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: to the Apple Watch, but it's kind of the gold

958
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: standard of wearables. And while I like how Apple is

959
00:45:53,560 --> 00:45:56,040
Speaker 1: a little bit more open with their ecosystem with their watch,

960
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,000
Speaker 1: you know, everyone's built around the Apple Watch as well,

961
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:00,879
Speaker 1: so it does a lot of stuff and there are

962
00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 1: many apps available for it. The other thing I wanted

963
00:46:04,960 --> 00:46:08,360
Speaker 1: to mention is that with the watch faces, they have

964
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:11,200
Speaker 1: a bunch of different ones. I think they're all fine.

965
00:46:11,320 --> 00:46:13,759
Speaker 1: I just think that, you know, the dim part in

966
00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: the in the bright light could be a little bit

967
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: leaves a little bit to be desired. Like sometimes when

968
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: I was on my run, I just wanted to glance

969
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:21,359
Speaker 1: at the watch and I'd have to like lance at

970
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:23,360
Speaker 1: it for a while, wait for it to come to

971
00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: life so I can actually see what's on there. But

972
00:46:25,640 --> 00:46:29,840
Speaker 1: I think overall this has already gotten its first software update.

973
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 1: This is a great watch, the one plus Watch two.

974
00:46:33,040 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 1: Once again, it's three hundred dollars. It's available on Monday,

975
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:41,319
Speaker 1: March days. I think it's Monday, March fourth. And if

976
00:46:41,360 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: you trade in any watch in any condition, they'll give

977
00:46:44,280 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 1: you fifty dollars off. There is no cellular version of

978
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,560
Speaker 1: this watch available. All right, rich on Tech dot TV.

979
00:46:50,600 --> 00:46:52,799
Speaker 1: If you want a link to the one plus watch.

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00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 1: More of your calls coming up. Triple eight Rich one

981
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Speaker 1: oh one. That's eight eight eight seven four to two

982
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Speaker 1: four one zero one. This is rich on Tech. Welcome

983
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

984
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:12,440
Speaker 1: with you. If you notice, it's an all eighties weekend

985
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,080
Speaker 1: here on the rich On Tech Show.

986
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Speaker 2: Hope you like it.

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00:47:15,840 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: If you're listening on the podcast, well just imagine all

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00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:21,879
Speaker 1: the eighties songs you know and love, and there they are.

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00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:26,960
Speaker 1: So we talked about the backtap feature on the iPhone

990
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: and it is also available on the Pixel and the Samsung.

991
00:47:31,520 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: So on the Pixel they call it quick Tap, and

992
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: you can find it under system and then gestures, so

993
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: System settings, System and then gestures and then it says

994
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:45,160
Speaker 1: quick tap to start actions and you can do all

995
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: kinds of things. This is the idea where you can

996
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: tap the back of your phone on iPhone. It's under

997
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,760
Speaker 1: Accessibility Pixel. It's sort of built in as a feature.

998
00:47:52,760 --> 00:47:54,920
Speaker 1: It's called quick Tap and then I don't even know

999
00:47:55,000 --> 00:47:57,080
Speaker 1: I had it. I have this turned on. It opens

1000
00:47:57,160 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 1: up my notesap and then on Samsung can get the feature,

1001
00:48:00,840 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: but you do need to download an app called Goodlock,

1002
00:48:04,080 --> 00:48:07,720
Speaker 1: which is kind of like their app for all things

1003
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: customization on the Samsung phone. So if you really want

1004
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 1: to customize your Samsung phone, download Goodlock and they have

1005
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: that is from Samsung, but they just don't bundle it

1006
00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: with the phone because it gives you, like, really a

1007
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:26,120
Speaker 1: lot of control over what your phone can do. Triple

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Speaker 1: eight rich one on one eight eight eight seven four

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Speaker 1: to two four one zero one. Everything that I mentioned here,

1010
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,879
Speaker 1: by the way, is on the show notes. You can

1011
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:37,160
Speaker 1: always find them by going to the website rich on

1012
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: tech dot tv and up at the top you can

1013
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: hit the big red banner that says heard it on

1014
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:45,920
Speaker 1: the radio.

1015
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,319
Speaker 2: Let's see, uh, let's see. Where are we going here?

1016
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 2: Andrew and Moore Park, Andrew, you got a question.

1017
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,239
Speaker 4: Yeah, Happy Saturday. Do you want your life to be

1018
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 4: more complicated?

1019
00:48:57,560 --> 00:48:57,759
Speaker 6: Never?

1020
00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:00,879
Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know anybody who does. I

1021
00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,919
Speaker 4: think the same twelve year old who's decided to put

1022
00:49:04,000 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 4: gray text on a light background at Apple is the

1023
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:09,880
Speaker 4: same person who might have decided to call things on

1024
00:49:10,040 --> 00:49:14,440
Speaker 4: watch complications. What's wrong with the word icons like everything else?

1025
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:19,040
Speaker 1: I agree, And I never even heard that term, honestly

1026
00:49:19,120 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 1: until Apple came out with the Apple Watch and they

1027
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:24,200
Speaker 1: called it a complication. And I'm like, ah, and of

1028
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: course I'm trying not to look stupid, so I'm like

1029
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,879
Speaker 1: not really asking, like wait what, But here's the thing.

1030
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:33,279
Speaker 1: So this is a watchmaking term. I think it originates

1031
00:49:33,480 --> 00:49:36,839
Speaker 1: from the old days of watches, like back in like

1032
00:49:37,120 --> 00:49:40,400
Speaker 1: it looks like almost like a French term. But anything

1033
00:49:40,440 --> 00:49:44,520
Speaker 1: that was adding increased complexity to a watch, like the

1034
00:49:44,600 --> 00:49:49,880
Speaker 1: date a stopwatch or moon phase indicator required additional gears, springs,

1035
00:49:49,880 --> 00:49:52,680
Speaker 1: and other intricate parts. And so that's why they called

1036
00:49:52,719 --> 00:49:53,640
Speaker 1: it a complication.

1037
00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 4: It makes sense.

1038
00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, but yeah, I agree. For nowadays, we don't really

1039
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: need that because to me, it was just.

1040
00:50:00,160 --> 00:50:01,560
Speaker 4: Can I put my covered wagon?

1041
00:50:03,640 --> 00:50:06,160
Speaker 1: Well, you look, Andrew, I'm not. I'm not here to

1042
00:50:06,480 --> 00:50:10,239
Speaker 1: change the entire watchmaking industry. But until they come up

1043
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: with a better term, I would call them what would

1044
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 1: you call it?

1045
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 4: Kons icon all the other icons on everything.

1046
00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: Else, But they're sort of interactive, so maybe it's like

1047
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:20,400
Speaker 1: a widget. How about widget?

1048
00:50:20,480 --> 00:50:23,280
Speaker 4: Well, so, so are the icons on your desktop PC,

1049
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:24,439
Speaker 4: Orn Mac?

1050
00:50:25,120 --> 00:50:27,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess in this case they're they're displaying real

1051
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:31,160
Speaker 1: time information. Thanks for the call, Andrew, appreciate it. I agree.

1052
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:32,799
Speaker 1: I mean, look, it's one of these things where at

1053
00:50:32,880 --> 00:50:36,120
Speaker 1: least we can explain what it is and now you

1054
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:39,080
Speaker 1: know so. But yes, we want things more simple, not

1055
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:45,160
Speaker 1: not more complicated. Jerry in a New Jersey adjacent Jerry, you're.

1056
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Speaker 11: On with Rich Hell really in Pennsylvania, but i'd probly

1057
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:50,919
Speaker 11: get your attention being a boy.

1058
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you did, because I'm like, what does New

1059
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: Jersey adjacent mean?

1060
00:50:54,600 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 2: But okay, you snuck in here? What's up?

1061
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Speaker 11: Anyhow? At my time, I listened to a podcast on

1062
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:07,800
Speaker 11: my Android phone using a third party app as opposed

1063
00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:13,000
Speaker 11: to the radio stations apps because mine is superior. And

1064
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Speaker 11: I used to listen to ky W and w PHT

1065
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:23,120
Speaker 11: here in Philadelphia. But since they're an all of these stations,

1066
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Speaker 11: they've changed the r L. I used to be able

1067
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Speaker 11: to go rate click on the web page and do

1068
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Speaker 11: a little inspect inspect and I used to be able

1069
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Speaker 11: to get the r L out, but apparently it's not

1070
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Speaker 11: there anymore, or they've changed it, or they've hidden it.

1071
00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 11: How can I find this?

1072
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,200
Speaker 1: Well, I have a feeling that they're doing this on purpose.

1073
00:51:44,480 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: And the reason is because back in the day, you know,

1074
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:51,920
Speaker 1: the signal would be streamed and it was pretty simple

1075
00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,040
Speaker 1: and it was just you know, it was just literally

1076
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Speaker 1: a streaming.

1077
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,120
Speaker 2: Signal of the station.

1078
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,800
Speaker 1: Now I have a feeling everything is much more on

1079
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,400
Speaker 1: the up and up because of ratings and because of

1080
00:52:04,680 --> 00:52:08,440
Speaker 1: digital numbers and so, and also the way that they

1081
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:10,280
Speaker 1: insert ads into these feeds.

1082
00:52:10,840 --> 00:52:12,320
Speaker 2: So that is my feeling.

1083
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,919
Speaker 1: And yeah, I was gonna say you might be able

1084
00:52:15,000 --> 00:52:18,920
Speaker 1: to find a stream by right clicking the website and

1085
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: seeing what the actual URL is for the streaming link,

1086
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: But like you said, you already tried that, and so

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Speaker 1: I think you're you're not gonna be able to get

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Speaker 1: this link unless you maybe contacted the radio station and

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Speaker 1: asked an engineer like, hey, a, is there a streaming

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Speaker 1: link front facing that the public can access? But I

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Speaker 1: think that's probably the answer. Most of these radio stations

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Speaker 1: have either gone to apps, or they have gone to

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Speaker 1: you know, a mega app, or they're on something like

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Speaker 1: tune in, So that is how they prefer their listeners

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Speaker 1: tune in if they're doing it digitally, I think for

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Speaker 1: reasons that I just mentioned, So I don't think that

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Speaker 1: you're gonna find it unless you find it on a

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Speaker 1: forum somewhere that someone else was able to figure out.

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Speaker 1: But I think that these streams are much more dynamic

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Speaker 1: than they ever were, And it's kind of funny. I

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Speaker 1: work for a radio organization, so maybe there's someone that

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Speaker 1: can answer it. But I understand back in the day, yes,

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Speaker 1: these were all very simple links that you would just

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Speaker 1: pop into any sort of player that could handle real

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Speaker 1: time streaming links and it would it would figure those out.

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Speaker 1: Nowadays it is all through the app. So Jerry, I

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Speaker 1: don't think I have a good answer for you, as

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Speaker 1: much as I love you because you're New Jersey adjacent

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Speaker 1: eight to eight rich one o one eight eight eight

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

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Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech.

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

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology at triple eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. Joining me now is Leo Roberts of

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Speaker 1: the Laptop Elf Project. Laptop Elf Project collects Windows and

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Speaker 1: Mac laptop, all kinds of smart devices, working and non working,

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Speaker 1: and they will actually refurbish them and then donate them

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Speaker 1: to teachers and nonprofits who help low income families and individuals.

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Speaker 1: And they have done all kinds of great stuff over

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Speaker 1: the years. Leo, thanks so much for joining me.

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Speaker 7: Well, it's a pleasure to be here. Rich thanks for

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Speaker 7: having me.

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Speaker 1: So what we're talking about today is one of the

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Speaker 1: things that you might do to a computer to make

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Speaker 1: an older computer feel new again, and that is installed

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Speaker 1: Chrome os flex.

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Speaker 2: So can you explain what Chrome os flex is?

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Speaker 12: Sure, it's basically a Linux operating system that can be

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Speaker 12: used on PCs and max.

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Speaker 7: It's designed to be fast, secure, and easy to manage.

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Speaker 12: In other words, it's turning your old computer into a

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Speaker 12: Chromebook which will be faster, more secure, and infinite updateable.

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Speaker 2: And what kind of devices can you install this on?

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Speaker 12: You can install this on both Mac and Windows PCs.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and you've done this now because we talked about this.

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Speaker 1: We've been talking about this for like a year. It's

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Speaker 1: been out for a while, your year and a half.

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Speaker 1: How is Yeah, how's it advanced? Like explained to me?

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Speaker 1: Because when it first came out. You said it was

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Speaker 1: a little rough around the edges.

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Speaker 7: Well, Number one, it's available on more devices, it's much

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Speaker 7: more universally appliable.

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Speaker 12: They have dramatically improved the installation process. It used to

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Speaker 12: be a little bit techy, and now they've made it very,

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Speaker 12: very simple to.

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Speaker 7: Install and use.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain that process a little bit, because if

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Speaker 1: someone's listening, they're thinking, Hmm, I've got an old laptop.

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Speaker 2: I wonder if I should do this. Explain what that

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Speaker 2: process might look like.

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Speaker 10: Sure.

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Speaker 12: Assuming you're using either Chrome Browser or Edge or Safari

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Speaker 12: on the on the Mac, you download as.

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Speaker 7: An extension, the Chromebook Recovery Utility.

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Speaker 12: That's an extension that you can get from the Google

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Speaker 12: Play Store or the Apple App Store. And when that

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Speaker 12: opens up, and you have previously a eight gigabyte or

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Speaker 12: a greater USB drive, you open up that utility and

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Speaker 12: it asks you to pick the model, and you pick

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Speaker 12: Chromos Flex and asks you to pick the version it's

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Speaker 12: you say Chromos Flex and click start and it will

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Speaker 12: begin constructing a USB key that you will use to

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Speaker 12: boot whatever computer you're trying to install it on, and

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Speaker 12: it guides you through that installation.

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Speaker 7: Shouldn't step by step.

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Speaker 12: The beauty about this is that once you've booted your

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Speaker 12: computer to that USB drive, you have a working, functional,

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Speaker 12: Chrome os Flex computer, so you can test it. You

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Speaker 12: can test all the features, you can make sure you

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Speaker 12: like it, and once you determine you've done that, then

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Speaker 12: you can click install and it will install on your computer.

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Speaker 1: So you can effectively run this operating system off the

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Speaker 1: USB drive to test it out, test, run it, see

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Speaker 1: if you like it, and then if you do, you

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Speaker 1: can actually install.

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Speaker 7: It now exactly and it makes no changes to your computer.

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Speaker 1: But just to be clear, once you do install it,

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Speaker 1: you will lose all everything that's on your computer before,

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Speaker 1: so you do have to get that stuff backed up.

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Speaker 12: If you have old stuff on your computer that you

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Speaker 12: want saved, you must do a backup because this will

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Speaker 12: completely wipe out your hard disk and install chromes Flex.

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Speaker 2: What kind of applications can you run on Chromos Flex?

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Speaker 12: Oh, there are so many. You have access to the

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Speaker 12: Chrome web Store. You can do things like photo editing

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Speaker 12: with the Pixel photo editor. You can also use Adobe

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Speaker 12: Express Online. You can use Google Docs where you can

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Speaker 12: do spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint presentations. You have access to Microsoft

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Speaker 12: Office Online, where you get word Excel and PowerPoint. There

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Speaker 12: are hundreds of online games you can play, and if

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Speaker 12: you're a little bit techy, you can actually install Linux

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Speaker 12: on your new computer new old computer and install all

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Speaker 12: the apps that you can install with Linux, and.

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Speaker 1: Of course it comes with all of the basic Google

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Speaker 1: apps like Chrome. Like the Chrome web browser is pretty

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Speaker 1: much there, so you can do anything you could do

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Speaker 1: on the web. Check your email, go to YouTube.

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Speaker 12: You can do absolutely anything you can do on the web,

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Speaker 12: and you can even do so work offline.

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Speaker 7: For example, if you're working in Google docs and online

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Speaker 7: and then you have your computer somewhere where you don't

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Speaker 7: have access, your recent documents will be available to you.

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Speaker 7: You can work offline, and once you're reconnected to the internet,

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Speaker 7: those documents will be added or modified.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you just can't install Windows apps because

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Speaker 1: it's not a Windows computer.

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Speaker 7: So not Windows apps.

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Speaker 12: But you will find that the Linux apps are almost

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Speaker 12: identical to the Windows apps. You can do Firefox, you

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Speaker 12: can do almost every app that's available.

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Speaker 7: For Windows is available for Linux. But that just takes

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Speaker 7: a little extra work and most likely won't be needed

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Speaker 7: by by most people.

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Speaker 1: So what about like hardware peripherals like let's say have

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Speaker 1: a scanner that I like to use with my old laptop, Like,

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Speaker 1: will that still work?

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Speaker 7: Almost for sure? However, these are the kind of things

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Speaker 7: you have to test. There's a list that.

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Speaker 12: Google publishes of approved models you can check to see

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Speaker 12: if your model is there. However, I have found dozens

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Speaker 12: of models that are not there and everything works perfectly.

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Speaker 12: They do not guarantee that peripherals will work, but I

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Speaker 12: have found absolutely no problems. The one problem that I

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Speaker 12: have found on Max is occasionally, depending on what Mac

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Speaker 12: model you're putting this on, sometimes the camera doesn't work.

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Speaker 2: Well, that's kind of a problem.

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Speaker 12: I mean, I guess, and of course if if you

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Speaker 12: find it that's the case, then you're not going and

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Speaker 12: you need the camera.

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Speaker 7: You're going to have to do something else.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what about an external camera? Would that work? Like

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Speaker 1: if you've plugged in a webcam?

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Speaker 7: Possibly?

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Speaker 2: Okay, possibly.

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Speaker 7: These are not guaranteed.

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Speaker 12: However, I have found that every peripheral I have plugged

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Speaker 12: in to, most of the ones I've built, have worked

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Speaker 12: just fine.

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Speaker 1: So you've done a lot of these installations. Does it

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Speaker 1: really make an old computer feel new again?

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Speaker 12: It's absolutely remarkable. It speeds up the computer. I'm going

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Speaker 12: to say immeasurably, but of course you can do benchmark

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Speaker 12: tsks to see it becomes much more snappy, much more responsive,

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Speaker 12: and you have a contemporary operating system.

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Speaker 2: And one that is free of viruses and malware most

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Speaker 2: of the time.

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Speaker 12: Right exactly, it's essentially impossible to get a virus on

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Speaker 12: one of these chrom os Flix systems. If somehow you

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Speaker 12: do something that messes up, or you don't like what's

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Speaker 12: going on, or it seems to have a problem, you

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Speaker 12: can do what's called a power wash. It wipes out

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Speaker 12: the everything on your computer and reinstalls it as a

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Speaker 12: new computer, so you're you're protected that way.

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Speaker 2: Man, they've really thought of everything with this.

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Speaker 7: They have, indeed, so.

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Speaker 12: I'm sorry when it first came out they did not

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Speaker 12: have the power wash capability, and now they do.

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Speaker 1: That's amazing. And so finally, just about thirty seconds here,

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Speaker 1: who do you recommend does this?

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Speaker 5: Like?

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Speaker 2: Who do you think this would be good for?

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Speaker 12: Anybody who can get on the internet and read an

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Speaker 12: email and click on a website can do this.

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Speaker 2: And if you have an old computer kind of laying

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Speaker 2: around that's not getting much use. I mean, this is

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Speaker 2: a great.

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Speaker 1: You know, gives it new life in a way that's simple, easy,

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Speaker 1: and you know you'll get some more use out of it.

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Speaker 2: And if you have a computer that you want to

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Speaker 2: give a loved one, maybe you want to do this

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Speaker 2: to it first.

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Speaker 1: All right, exactly right, Leo Roberts of the Laptop Elf Project.

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Speaker 1: You can find out more on their Facebook page. Just

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Speaker 1: go to facebook dot com slash the Laptop Elf Project

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Speaker 1: and you can learn how to you know, donate an

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Speaker 1: old computer to them if you don't need it anymore,

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Speaker 1: or if you want to make it work your own.

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Speaker 1: It's just a good website to know about, or if

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Speaker 1: you need a comput.

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Speaker 12: In addition, we take phones, tablets, monitors, all laptops, so

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Speaker 12: we really appreciate any donation your listeners have.

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Speaker 1: Awesome Leo Roberts, thanks so much for joining me today

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Speaker 1: of the Laptop Elf Project. Coming up more of your

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Speaker 1: calls at Triple eight rich one O one eight eight

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

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Speaker 1: always linked on my website, rich on Tech dot TV.

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Speaker 2: We'll be right back. Welcome back to rich on Tech.

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

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Speaker 1: Triple eight rich one O one. That's eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: seven four to two four one zero one. Google Maps

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Speaker 1: has a new feature called Glansible directions. This puts the

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Speaker 1: directions right on your lock screen. Now they've had some

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Speaker 1: implementations of this in the past, but this is a

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Speaker 1: more direct implementation. You can see your updated ETA and

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Speaker 1: your next turn info from the route overview when your

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Speaker 1: phone is open, but then when your phone is locked,

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Speaker 1: you'll be able to still see your directions. Now, Apple

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Speaker 1: Maps has done this for a long time, and the

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Speaker 1: way Google Maps has gotten around it is they've sent

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Speaker 1: notifications to your screen, but now it's integrated with the

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Speaker 1: live activities and so this will be much much better

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone side of things, and on Android it

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Speaker 1: will just show persistent notification with your directions. So this

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Speaker 1: works for walking, biking, and public transit. It updates automatically

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Speaker 1: if you take a different route, and it is rolling

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Speaker 1: out right now on Android and iOS. So basically this

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Speaker 1: makes it easier to follow your directions without unlocking your

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Speaker 1: phone every single time. So if you want to turn

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Speaker 1: this on, you have to turn it on it it's

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Speaker 1: not on by default for some odd reason. Open up

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Speaker 1: Google Maps I both iPhone or the Android, tap your

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Speaker 1: profile picture in the upper right hand corner and it

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Speaker 1: says Settings. You tap Settings and then under Navigation scroll

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Speaker 1: and you'll see it says glanceible directions while navigating, and

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Speaker 1: you can turn that on and it will show up.

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Speaker 1: It has not shown up on my iPhone just yet.

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Speaker 1: The setting has, but the actual glanceible has not. So

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Speaker 1: it is rolling out. So if you want to get

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Speaker 1: prepared for it, and when you next time you do

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Speaker 1: Google Maps directions, it will show up. You can turn

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Speaker 1: on that toggle and you'll be pleasantly surprised again. Maps, Settings, Navigation,

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Speaker 1: Glanceible Directions while navigating. Let's go to Robert in Data Point, California. Robert,

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Speaker 1: you're on with Rich.

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Speaker 6: Yes, thank you. I'm trying to update to a new

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Speaker 6: operating system for my Minimac. I'm running a Mahabi right

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Speaker 6: now and I need to go to Sonoma at least

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Speaker 6: and it tells me that one, I don't have enough room,

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Speaker 6: and I have an external hard drive Samsung a terrabyte.

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Speaker 6: But yet when if I try it, I can't seem

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Speaker 6: to It tells me I can't use that hard drive

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Speaker 6: for doing that.

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Speaker 2: It tells you you can't use the hard drive for

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Speaker 2: doing what to install the.

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Speaker 6: Outloading what I have on the computer so that I

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Speaker 6: have enough room to install Sonoma.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you want to move stuff to this hard drive?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I have photos on it. It seems to be automatic,

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Speaker 6: but because that's the majority of my memory, it is photos.

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Speaker 6: So I'm trying to find out why doesn't it Like,

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Speaker 6: why can't I just download the whole computer to my

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Speaker 6: terrabyte and then load it with all the new with

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Speaker 6: a new program.

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Speaker 2: You should be able to do. You know how this

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Speaker 2: hard hard drive is formatted?

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Speaker 3: No?

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Speaker 6: I don't, and I think that's the issue.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: One of the prompts I had that said you will

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Speaker 6: lose everything on your external hard drive if you try

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Speaker 6: to do it.

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Speaker 2: Yep, and that's what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: So first off, on your Mac, you can go you

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Speaker 1: can go onto your finder and select this hard drive

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Speaker 1: and you can do a command I to see how

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Speaker 1: that is formatted. Does it show up on your Mac

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Speaker 1: at all when.

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Speaker 2: You plug it in?

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Speaker 6: Yes, it does show that the external hard drive.

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Speaker 1: So it should read you know, most hard drives, but

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Speaker 1: it may not be able to write to this drive

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Speaker 1: if it's in a format that it doesn't like. So

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Speaker 1: there are some formats that were, you know, incompatible in

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Speaker 1: the past, but nowadays if you use a Mac OS,

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Speaker 1: if you're only are you only using this hard drive

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Speaker 1: with a Mac?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So there's a there's a utility on the Mac

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Speaker 2: called disc utility. Have you used that?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So do you know how to find that on

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Speaker 2: your Mac? No? Okay.

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Speaker 1: So if you press the uh the search icon in

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Speaker 1: the upper right hand corner, if you have that, or

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01:08:10,360 --> 01:08:12,880
Speaker 1: you can use command space bar to bring it up,

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Speaker 1: that'll bring up spotlight.

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Speaker 2: On the Mac.

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Speaker 1: You can type in disc utility and if you type

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Speaker 1: in disc utility, you should see this drive on the

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Speaker 1: left hand side of your computer screen and you can

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Speaker 1: select that drive and it will tell you how it is.

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Speaker 2: Format it.

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Speaker 1: Now, the format that I like, if you're only using

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Speaker 1: on a Mac OS is mac OS. I believe it's

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Speaker 1: extended journaled and so you format it like that. Now,

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Speaker 1: do you have stuff on this drive that you need?

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Speaker 11: Yes?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Well therein lies the issue because.

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Speaker 6: You can't Yeah, it's all photographs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't format that if you if you have that,

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Speaker 2: you know if you need to save those? Okay?

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Speaker 6: Is there another external hard drive. I could use it.

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Speaker 6: I could just plug and play to basically get me

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Speaker 6: out of the situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean any drive you can go on if

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Speaker 1: you know, you can go to best Buy or you know,

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Speaker 1: Staples and buy any hard drive and format it. You

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Speaker 1: can look for a Mac icon on the drive to

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Speaker 1: see because not all drives are formatted for Mac out

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Speaker 1: of the box. Most of them are formatted, you know.

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Speaker 1: It just depends on the drive. But you can go

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Speaker 1: get another hard drive and plug it in. If it

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Speaker 1: doesn't work, you can format it with this disc utility

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01:09:26,600 --> 01:09:29,000
Speaker 1: and you would just press Once it's in, you would

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Speaker 1: just do erase and it would say that you can,

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Speaker 1: you know, format it in the in the format that

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Speaker 1: would work on the Mac. So I'm trying. I wish

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Speaker 1: I had a drive to plug in it. It's like

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01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 1: over my in my bag and I can't run over there.

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Speaker 1: But I would walk you through it a little bit more.

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Speaker 2: But that's you.

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Speaker 1: Basically, another hard drive would solve this pretty simply. Hard

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Speaker 1: drives are about fifty nine bucks. You said this, you

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01:09:51,240 --> 01:09:54,479
Speaker 1: know you can easily copy stuff over you How are

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Speaker 1: you going to install the new operating system?

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Speaker 2: You just need to make room on your drive to.

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Speaker 6: Do that room, then I could just get to Sonoma

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Speaker 6: and you know, then you work your way up the

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Speaker 6: chain to get to the most current. And another issue

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Speaker 6: I have is, you know, I have that bug that

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Speaker 6: comes up that says your McAfee is expired, and.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, get rid of that, you can.

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Speaker 6: I can't. I've tried to encapsulate it and deny it

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Speaker 6: and I can't get rid of it.

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Speaker 1: Well, you might consider what you might consider doing is

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Speaker 1: just doing a full clean install of this entire operating system.

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01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,680
Speaker 1: And if you look up online, there's a especially if

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Speaker 1: you're having you know, if you're getting all these like

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01:10:34,600 --> 01:10:37,439
Speaker 1: error messages and stuff and like these little fragments of

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01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: old files, you might want to do a clean installation.

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Speaker 1: You could do what's called a internet recovery. So if

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Speaker 1: you look up clean installation of mac OS, you should

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01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:55,080
Speaker 1: get the mac Apple support that will tell you how

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01:10:55,120 --> 01:10:56,920
Speaker 1: to erase and reinstall mac OS.

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01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:58,360
Speaker 2: And there's a couple of ways of doing it.

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Speaker 1: Basically, your computer as a version of the operating system

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01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 1: on there that you can restore it from, or you

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,479
Speaker 1: can download it from the internet and do it that way.

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01:11:07,640 --> 01:11:10,200
Speaker 1: Or you can make what's called a bootable USB drive

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01:11:10,280 --> 01:11:12,240
Speaker 1: to do that, and the app I like for that,

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01:11:12,320 --> 01:11:14,720
Speaker 1: by the way, is called disk Drill that can help

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01:11:14,800 --> 01:11:18,040
Speaker 1: you do that. Giving you a lot of suggestions here,

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01:11:18,120 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 1: but the bottom line is if you can try to

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01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:22,840
Speaker 1: figure out how to get a new hard drive carry

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01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,080
Speaker 1: these files over to that hard drive to free up

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01:11:25,160 --> 01:11:27,840
Speaker 1: space on yours, you can do the upgrade that way.

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01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,080
Speaker 1: But I would recommend a clean install. That is what

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01:11:30,200 --> 01:11:32,840
Speaker 1: I think would be best for this computer, especially because

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01:11:32,840 --> 01:11:35,719
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's a little bit older. But again

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Speaker 1: disk Drill, and the other app I mentioned is called

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Speaker 1: disc Utility. You are listening to rich On Tech. Welcome

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Speaker 1: back to rich On Tech. Rich DeMuro here hanging out

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Speaker 1: with you, talking technology at Triple eight rich one oh

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

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Speaker 1: zero one. Coming up this hour, we're gonna talk about

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Speaker 1: chord cutting. We've got Richard Schneider, president and founder of

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Speaker 1: Antenna's Direct. This is a company that I featured many

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Speaker 1: many years ago on the Today Show many years ago,

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Speaker 1: and they've been making some really cool antennas ever since.

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Speaker 1: And uh yeah, we'll talk to Richard about the latest

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Speaker 1: trends in chord cutting. So if you're curious about the

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Speaker 1: latest with over the air, or you want to cut

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Speaker 1: the cord, or you just want to know about antenna's

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Speaker 1: in general.

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Speaker 2: We'll get some good info from him.

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Speaker 1: The website rich on tech dot tv. Go to the website.

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Speaker 1: kind of like this show. It's just the stuff I

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Speaker 1: think you should know. If you have a cheap video doorbell,

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Speaker 1: you might want to reconsider it. Consumer reports found that

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Speaker 1: these things have some pretty major security flaws. They were

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Speaker 1: sold at Amazon, Walmart, and other sites under brands like

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Speaker 1: Ekein and Tuck and the problem with these video doorbells

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Speaker 1: is that they can expose your home IP address and

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Speaker 1: your Wi Fi name of your home without encryption, which

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Speaker 1: allows other people to remotely access the video doorbell. I mean,

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Speaker 1: someone could take over the camera or even monitor your house.

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Speaker 1: They could see everyone that comes and goes. The devices

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Speaker 1: don't have an fcc ID number, which is legally required

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Speaker 1: to sell electronics in the US. One of these even

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Speaker 1: had Amazon's Choice badge on it. These were about thirty dollars.

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Speaker 1: These doorbells. They come from China, and they're just not

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Speaker 1: properly licensed. They are not properly secured. So here's what happens. Inevitably,

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Speaker 1: I get someone that comes up to me, Hey, rich

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01:14:30,200 --> 01:14:32,720
Speaker 1: I want a video doorbell. Which one should I get? Oh,

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Speaker 1: you should get something from Ring. You should get something

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Speaker 1: from Nest or maybe Whys, even though they've had their

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Speaker 1: own security issues. And then you go to the website,

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Speaker 1: you look at the price and you go, oh, I'm

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Speaker 1: not paying one hundred and thirty bucks for that. Look

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:47,720
Speaker 1: at this one for thirty dollars. It looks like the

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01:14:47,800 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 1: same looks like the same thing. And yes, you can

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Speaker 1: find something that looks like the same thing, but the

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Speaker 1: is the service going to be there? Is the support

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Speaker 1: going to be there. I've had two people come up

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Speaker 1: to me in the last coup weeks. They both came

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Speaker 1: to me with the same exact Instagram ad for a camera,

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01:15:06,680 --> 01:15:08,840
Speaker 1: a video camera, like a home security camera that was

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01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:12,280
Speaker 1: really cheap and I had never heard of the brand.

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Speaker 1: And both of them were like, Rich, I really want

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Speaker 1: to get this because there's no monthly fee and it's

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Speaker 1: really cheap. And I said, well, you can get it.

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Speaker 1: But I've been covering technology for years now. I've been

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Speaker 1: to every CS since twenty ten, and I've never seen

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Speaker 1: that brand at any event I've ever been at in

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01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:31,960
Speaker 1: my tech life. You can go with that brand, but

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01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,880
Speaker 1: what are you getting? I don't know because nobody's heard

1519
01:15:35,880 --> 01:15:40,960
Speaker 1: of this brand. And that's the issue with going with

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01:15:41,080 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 1: something that I've never heard of and I've never seen.

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01:15:43,280 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 2: You don't know what the security is going to be like.

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01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:48,160
Speaker 1: And the other telltale sign is when you go to

1523
01:15:48,240 --> 01:15:51,919
Speaker 1: the website and the website's got all kinds of countdown banners,

1524
01:15:52,439 --> 01:15:55,320
Speaker 1: it's got buy one, get one free, it's you have

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01:15:55,520 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 1: to act soon. If you see that stuff on a

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01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 1: website and it's an endless scroll website. You just keep

1527
01:16:02,320 --> 01:16:04,920
Speaker 1: scrolling and scrolling and scrolling, and it keeps trying to

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01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:08,360
Speaker 1: sell you on these products. It's probably not something I

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01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:12,200
Speaker 1: want to buy. You can take your chance, but as

1530
01:16:12,320 --> 01:16:16,439
Speaker 1: consumer reports found out, these things definitely have some issues,

1531
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:20,160
Speaker 1: so be careful go with the brands that tech folks

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01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:21,400
Speaker 1: like myself recommend.

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01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:23,360
Speaker 12: HP.

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01:16:24,080 --> 01:16:28,400
Speaker 1: They already sell a subscription ink service which I subscribe to,

1535
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,880
Speaker 1: by the way, pay like seven bucks a month, where

1536
01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:35,840
Speaker 1: I can get all the ink I need to print out.

1537
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:38,400
Speaker 1: I don't know how many pages it is, but you

1538
01:16:38,479 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 1: get roll over to It's kind of like those old

1539
01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: cell phone plans where you got a couple of minutes

1540
01:16:42,160 --> 01:16:43,680
Speaker 1: a month and then they would roll over to the

1541
01:16:43,760 --> 01:16:44,160
Speaker 1: next month.

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01:16:44,240 --> 01:16:47,639
Speaker 2: Remember those days. Well, HP does that with their ink plan.

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01:16:48,720 --> 01:16:50,400
Speaker 1: But what I like about the ink plan is that

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01:16:50,560 --> 01:16:52,400
Speaker 1: it's a lot cheaper than buying all the ink for

1545
01:16:52,479 --> 01:16:55,400
Speaker 1: these printers. If you add up all the four cartridges

1546
01:16:55,439 --> 01:16:58,240
Speaker 1: that I need for my ink printer, it's like fifty

1547
01:16:58,400 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 1: sixty you know, fifty bucks a peace. It's like two

1548
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:03,840
Speaker 1: hundred dollars for ink, and then you got to buy

1549
01:17:03,880 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 1: it and keep it in stock at your house, So

1550
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: you need an extra one. So this ink subscription plan

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01:17:09,760 --> 01:17:11,519
Speaker 1: has worked out pretty well because what they do is

1552
01:17:11,880 --> 01:17:14,479
Speaker 1: they your computer, your printer has to be connected to

1553
01:17:14,520 --> 01:17:16,360
Speaker 1: the internet. When your ink gets low, they send you

1554
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:19,280
Speaker 1: a new one before you need to replace it. So

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01:17:19,439 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 1: in my house right now, I have like a black ink,

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01:17:22,200 --> 01:17:25,120
Speaker 1: I've got a yellow, I've got a magenta. I don't

1557
01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:26,760
Speaker 1: know about blue. I don't maybe I just whatever the

1558
01:17:26,800 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 1: other color is, I don't. I guess I don't use

1559
01:17:28,280 --> 01:17:28,760
Speaker 1: it as much.

1560
01:17:29,200 --> 01:17:30,400
Speaker 2: But they're ready to go.

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01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:34,040
Speaker 1: And the black ink cartridge, by the way, is got

1562
01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,760
Speaker 1: so much ink in it that I've never seen a

1563
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 1: cartridge this much like loaded. So they give you a

1564
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:42,960
Speaker 1: cartridge that carries more ink than the typical one you

1565
01:17:43,040 --> 01:17:45,439
Speaker 1: might get at the store, which is also really nice.

1566
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 1: So I tell you this because HP has now launched

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01:17:50,160 --> 01:17:52,479
Speaker 1: an all in one printer subscription plan.

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01:17:53,439 --> 01:17:54,360
Speaker 2: And so what does this do.

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01:17:54,680 --> 01:17:57,880
Speaker 1: It provides you a monthly page allowance and it automatically

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01:17:57,920 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 1: ships your replacement in cartridges. The price runs from seven

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01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:06,719
Speaker 1: dollars a month for basic printers and thirty six dollars

1572
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 1: a month for multifunction printers and seven hundred pages. So

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01:18:11,200 --> 01:18:14,400
Speaker 1: there are pros and cons to this system, your printer

1574
01:18:14,520 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 1: must stay connected to the internet so HP can monitor

1575
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: your usage and ink levels.

1576
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:19,880
Speaker 2: Of course, okay, that's fine.

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01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:24,000
Speaker 1: After thirty days of a trial, you do have to

1578
01:18:24,120 --> 01:18:26,400
Speaker 1: have a certain amount of months where you keep this

1579
01:18:26,560 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: or else you have to pay a cancelation fee, and

1580
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:31,360
Speaker 1: if you cancel this, you have to return the printer

1581
01:18:31,479 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 1: all together, which is kind of going to be a

1582
01:18:33,160 --> 01:18:37,640
Speaker 1: pain to return a printer. On the plus side, the

1583
01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: plan does give you a next business day printer replacement

1584
01:18:41,040 --> 01:18:43,000
Speaker 1: if you have an issue, and you can upgrade to

1585
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 1: a new printer after two years. I can't say I

1586
01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:51,760
Speaker 1: recommend the printer rental plan, but if it works for

1587
01:18:51,880 --> 01:18:53,560
Speaker 1: you and you do the math and you think that

1588
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 1: this is something that just makes your life easier, I

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01:18:55,960 --> 01:18:58,040
Speaker 1: don't know. Maybe it's kind of nice to have. I

1590
01:18:58,080 --> 01:19:00,720
Speaker 1: guess it's good to have options. There's always going to

1591
01:19:00,720 --> 01:19:02,920
Speaker 1: be people that want to buy things and have them

1592
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: and you do it on their own.

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01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 2: That's fine.

1594
01:19:05,400 --> 01:19:07,679
Speaker 1: And yes, is it probably cheaper in the long term

1595
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,160
Speaker 1: to buy your own printer, use it as long as

1596
01:19:10,240 --> 01:19:13,439
Speaker 1: humanly possible, and buy your own refurbished ink. Yeah, probably,

1597
01:19:14,080 --> 01:19:16,640
Speaker 1: But if you just want that convenience and you know,

1598
01:19:16,840 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 1: maybe it's right off, maybe you have a startup, whatever,

1599
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: it might be easier.

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01:19:22,200 --> 01:19:23,960
Speaker 2: This is interesting Ford.

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01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 1: If you have a Ford electric vehicle, you can now

1602
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:33,960
Speaker 1: use the Tesla superchargers. They turned on this functionality this week,

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01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:37,479
Speaker 1: which is very exciting because the Mustang mach E is

1604
01:19:37,560 --> 01:19:40,800
Speaker 1: my favorite EV that's not the Tesla. I mean there's

1605
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:43,120
Speaker 1: other ones that I like, like the Lucid and the Rivian,

1606
01:19:43,479 --> 01:19:45,600
Speaker 1: but I think the Maki overall, when it comes to

1607
01:19:45,720 --> 01:19:51,720
Speaker 1: price and affordability and accessibility, it is everywhere, and so

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01:19:51,840 --> 01:19:55,320
Speaker 1: I think the Maki really really impressed me. But I've

1609
01:19:55,400 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: said this with all electric cars, I am not buying

1610
01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:01,080
Speaker 1: any electric car that does not work on Tesla's network

1611
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 1: because it can be a pain to charge these things

1612
01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:06,120
Speaker 1: and it's just not for me. You can argue me

1613
01:20:06,240 --> 01:20:08,600
Speaker 1: with that, but if you're on a road trip and

1614
01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:12,519
Speaker 1: you want fast, easy charging, you gotta go Tesla. Now,

1615
01:20:12,600 --> 01:20:15,240
Speaker 1: these other companies are going to work with Tesla. Ford

1616
01:20:15,360 --> 01:20:17,080
Speaker 1: is the first one, but all of them are pretty

1617
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 1: much going to do this. So if you have a

1618
01:20:20,080 --> 01:20:23,799
Speaker 1: Ford EV which is either the Machi or the Lightning,

1619
01:20:24,320 --> 01:20:26,840
Speaker 1: you can now charge at Tesla superchargers. You will need

1620
01:20:26,880 --> 01:20:31,400
Speaker 1: an adapter. You can get an adapter for free. This

1621
01:20:31,600 --> 01:20:34,640
Speaker 1: is a two hundred and thirty dollars value. The adapters

1622
01:20:34,680 --> 01:20:37,800
Speaker 1: are free right now until June thirtieth. So if you're

1623
01:20:37,840 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: listening to this and you have a Ford EV, go

1624
01:20:40,000 --> 01:20:42,400
Speaker 1: on the website, get the free adapter, put it in

1625
01:20:42,479 --> 01:20:45,320
Speaker 1: your trunk, and you can now charge at Tesla superchargers.

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01:20:45,960 --> 01:20:52,000
Speaker 1: The website Ford dot com Slash Fast Charging Adapter, Ford

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01:20:52,080 --> 01:20:58,000
Speaker 1: dot com Slash Fast Charging Adapter, and this adapter will

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01:20:58,080 --> 01:21:01,960
Speaker 1: work at Tesla super chargers. The charging is not free,

1629
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:04,160
Speaker 1: by the way, that as far as I know, it

1630
01:21:04,280 --> 01:21:08,360
Speaker 1: is not free to charge at a Tesla supercharger. Maybe

1631
01:21:08,439 --> 01:21:11,160
Speaker 1: if you have an older Tesla that it was grandfathered in,

1632
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:14,240
Speaker 1: but that's not the case. And I don't think Ford

1633
01:21:14,320 --> 01:21:17,000
Speaker 1: is giving any level of free charging away, but they

1634
01:21:17,040 --> 01:21:19,320
Speaker 1: are giving the charger away.

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01:21:19,640 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 2: So get the adapter if you have a Ford and

1636
01:21:23,000 --> 01:21:23,920
Speaker 2: that's pretty exciting.

1637
01:21:24,200 --> 01:21:26,840
Speaker 1: And next year's model years with a lot of these cars,

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01:21:27,080 --> 01:21:29,640
Speaker 1: the Tesla charger is going to be built into the car,

1639
01:21:29,760 --> 01:21:31,519
Speaker 1: so you don't need to have an adapter, but for

1640
01:21:31,640 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 1: now you need the adapter. And finally, Uber has launched

1641
01:21:36,600 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 1: its teen Rides feature. It is now available in California.

1642
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:43,160
Speaker 1: It's always been available, or it's been available in the

1643
01:21:43,320 --> 01:21:45,240
Speaker 1: forty nine other states for a while. It is now

1644
01:21:45,320 --> 01:21:49,080
Speaker 1: launching in California, so it's available in nationwide. This allows

1645
01:21:49,160 --> 01:21:52,000
Speaker 1: a parent to invite their team to have their own

1646
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:56,160
Speaker 1: Uber account, a teen Uber account, and they can request

1647
01:21:56,200 --> 01:21:58,960
Speaker 1: their own rides. This has got a bunch of safety

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01:21:59,000 --> 01:22:02,439
Speaker 1: features built in, so parents can always see driver details

1649
01:22:02,479 --> 01:22:04,479
Speaker 1: like their name, their vehicle info, and they can call

1650
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:08,680
Speaker 1: Uber the Uber Safety Line if necessary now the thing

1651
01:22:08,720 --> 01:22:10,519
Speaker 1: about the drive, or they could also track their kid

1652
01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:13,439
Speaker 1: on a map. This is for kids thirteen to seventeen.

1653
01:22:15,160 --> 01:22:18,639
Speaker 1: Uber told me that only eligible drivers with thorough background checks,

1654
01:22:18,680 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: which is the same background checks they do for regular drivers,

1655
01:22:22,040 --> 01:22:24,040
Speaker 1: but the difference here is that they have to have

1656
01:22:24,200 --> 01:22:26,880
Speaker 1: high ratings and they have to be experienced drivers before

1657
01:22:26,920 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 1: they can accept teens. And any driver has the ability

1658
01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:33,640
Speaker 1: to say I don't want to accept teens altogether. The

1659
01:22:33,840 --> 01:22:36,400
Speaker 1: teen has to give the driver has to put in

1660
01:22:36,479 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 1: a four digit code that the teen gives them when

1661
01:22:39,360 --> 01:22:42,320
Speaker 1: they get in the car, and there's also this ride

1662
01:22:42,439 --> 01:22:46,679
Speaker 1: audio recording feature. It is not mandatory, but I highly

1663
01:22:47,000 --> 01:22:50,280
Speaker 1: highly recommend that if your teen is taking Uber Rides.

1664
01:22:50,760 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 1: You turn that feature on, it records the entire ride.

1665
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: The recording of audio is stored on the teen's phone.

1666
01:22:56,840 --> 01:22:59,719
Speaker 1: If there's ever an issue, you can send that recording

1667
01:22:59,760 --> 01:23:03,439
Speaker 1: to Uber again Uber teen Rides. You can get details

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01:23:03,479 --> 01:23:07,200
Speaker 1: on that on my Instagram at rich on Tech. My

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01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: name is rich d'miro. You are listening to rich on

1670
01:23:09,800 --> 01:23:11,680
Speaker 1: Tech More show. Come in your way right after this.

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01:23:13,000 --> 01:23:17,559
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich Demiro here. Coming

1672
01:23:17,680 --> 01:23:21,320
Speaker 1: up next, Richard Schneider is going to join us. He's

1673
01:23:21,360 --> 01:23:24,800
Speaker 1: the president and founder of Antenna's Direct. He's going to

1674
01:23:24,840 --> 01:23:27,639
Speaker 1: talk about some of the latest trends in cord cutting

1675
01:23:28,320 --> 01:23:31,080
Speaker 1: and explain what it's like to go over the air

1676
01:23:32,280 --> 01:23:35,560
Speaker 1: in a world of streaming. All right, let's take a

1677
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:41,240
Speaker 1: look at some of the emails we have gotten. Debra says, help.

1678
01:23:41,360 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 1: The navigation systems used by the food companies Grubhub, Door Dash,

1679
01:23:45,520 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 1: Postmates and others are routed to an area that cannot

1680
01:23:48,080 --> 01:23:49,200
Speaker 1: be accessed.

1681
01:23:48,840 --> 01:23:50,240
Speaker 2: To my home accessed.

1682
01:23:50,840 --> 01:23:53,880
Speaker 1: Sometime around twenty twenty one, the navigation system changed. I've

1683
01:23:53,920 --> 01:23:56,560
Speaker 1: tried contacting Google Maps, but nothing has been done. What

1684
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:59,599
Speaker 1: do I need to do to get the navigation system corrected?

1685
01:23:59,640 --> 01:24:03,720
Speaker 1: For my home address. Well, I think I don't know

1686
01:24:03,760 --> 01:24:05,840
Speaker 1: how you contacted Google Maps, but I think you just

1687
01:24:05,920 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: need to change the marker on Google Maps. So I've

1688
01:24:09,200 --> 01:24:11,760
Speaker 1: done this a couple of times for different addresses, and

1689
01:24:12,080 --> 01:24:14,720
Speaker 1: it works. It just takes a little bit. So if

1690
01:24:14,760 --> 01:24:18,080
Speaker 1: you go into Google Maps and you search for your address,

1691
01:24:19,360 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 1: and once you find your address on Google Maps, you

1692
01:24:21,880 --> 01:24:25,519
Speaker 1: can scroll up and it says suggest an edit, and

1693
01:24:25,640 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 1: you tap that and it gives you a map with

1694
01:24:28,160 --> 01:24:31,040
Speaker 1: a whole bunch of options, and you can say fix

1695
01:24:31,080 --> 01:24:33,760
Speaker 1: an address, add or fix a road, and then you

1696
01:24:33,800 --> 01:24:36,280
Speaker 1: can add opinions. So I would say fix an address,

1697
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:40,360
Speaker 1: and then it says drag the map to the position

1698
01:24:40,560 --> 01:24:43,400
Speaker 1: the marker should be in. So Google Maps will show

1699
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 1: you where it thinks it should be going. But let's

1700
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:49,240
Speaker 1: say that's leading to like a backside or a different

1701
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:52,360
Speaker 1: road or a different entrance. You can drag that to

1702
01:24:52,479 --> 01:24:54,800
Speaker 1: where you need it to go. So let's say there

1703
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:56,599
Speaker 1: was two ways to get to your house. You might

1704
01:24:56,720 --> 01:24:59,439
Speaker 1: drag that marker to the front of it and then

1705
01:24:59,520 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: press next, and then it will show you if you'd

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01:25:04,120 --> 01:25:06,280
Speaker 1: submit that. Once you know, it'll show you all the

1707
01:25:06,360 --> 01:25:09,599
Speaker 1: information that you have, and you press submit. So I've

1708
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:11,519
Speaker 1: done this for a couple of different things and it

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01:25:11,640 --> 01:25:14,680
Speaker 1: does work. I actually submitted a one way street one

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01:25:14,760 --> 01:25:17,000
Speaker 1: time because Google Maps made me go down a one

1711
01:25:17,040 --> 01:25:20,720
Speaker 1: way street the wrong way and all these people are

1712
01:25:20,760 --> 01:25:22,559
Speaker 1: honking at me. I was like, yes, hi, I'm rich

1713
01:25:22,640 --> 01:25:25,120
Speaker 1: from TV. Good to see it too, and they're like, no,

1714
01:25:25,240 --> 01:25:27,879
Speaker 1: you're going the wrong way. I was like, oh, whoops,

1715
01:25:29,200 --> 01:25:31,240
Speaker 1: just kidding, but yeah, people were honking at me, and

1716
01:25:31,360 --> 01:25:32,800
Speaker 1: so I said, oh my gosh, I can't believe that

1717
01:25:32,880 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 1: Google sent me on a right turn down that street.

1718
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 1: And so I submitted the correction and within a couple

1719
01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:41,360
Speaker 1: of days. I don't know, maybe it took longer than that,

1720
01:25:41,439 --> 01:25:44,040
Speaker 1: but it was corrected. So, Deborah, I think that's the

1721
01:25:44,080 --> 01:25:46,000
Speaker 1: way to do it. All these companies use the same

1722
01:25:46,600 --> 01:25:49,680
Speaker 1: the same Google Maps data, so I think once you

1723
01:25:49,760 --> 01:25:51,719
Speaker 1: fix it there, it will be fixed in other places.

1724
01:25:53,080 --> 01:25:55,960
Speaker 1: Let's see Tim says, hey, I briefly heard you talk

1725
01:25:55,960 --> 01:25:58,920
Speaker 1: about using Wi Fi calling internationally. I have a Motorola

1726
01:25:59,360 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 1: with Wi Fi calling my cell provider's consumer cellular, and

1727
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:05,280
Speaker 1: when I call them, I get varying instructions. How does

1728
01:26:05,320 --> 01:26:08,240
Speaker 1: one use it without accruing charges? Do I want airplane mode.

1729
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:11,000
Speaker 1: While using it, I'll get a local simcard as well

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Speaker 1: for a second phone I travel with. I found your

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01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:16,400
Speaker 1: show recently on KXL in Portland, Oregon.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Tim. So Tim.

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Speaker 1: We talked about Wi Fi calling last week on the show,

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01:26:24,280 --> 01:26:28,400
Speaker 1: and after doing some more research, it's interesting I was

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01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 1: not aware that some of the companies will charge you

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01:26:31,120 --> 01:26:33,680
Speaker 1: for calling that is through Wi Fi calling, which is

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01:26:33,880 --> 01:26:36,840
Speaker 1: kind of news to me. So I think the way

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Speaker 1: most of them work is that here's what I typically

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01:26:40,640 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 1: do when I get to a different place. Let's say

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01:26:42,400 --> 01:26:44,880
Speaker 1: I wasn't using a third party SIM on my phone,

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01:26:44,880 --> 01:26:47,240
Speaker 1: which I always use most of the time, I would

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01:26:47,320 --> 01:26:50,439
Speaker 1: flip my phone into airplane mode. I would turn on

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01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,519
Speaker 1: the Wi Fi and find a network right at the

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01:26:52,560 --> 01:26:56,640
Speaker 1: hotel or out and about in town or whatever. And

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01:26:56,960 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 1: I would also make sure that my phone has Wi

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01:26:59,200 --> 01:27:02,519
Speaker 1: Fi calling turned on. And you probably want to activate

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01:27:02,560 --> 01:27:05,240
Speaker 1: this before you go on your trip, but you should

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01:27:05,240 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 1: be able to turn it on. So once Wi Fi

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01:27:08,439 --> 01:27:11,280
Speaker 1: calling is on, the main thing you want to do

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01:27:11,439 --> 01:27:13,639
Speaker 1: is make sure that your roaming is turned off. Now,

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01:27:13,880 --> 01:27:15,800
Speaker 1: every company is a little bit different, and it seems

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01:27:15,840 --> 01:27:19,920
Speaker 1: like Consumer Cellular in particularly in particular.

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01:27:21,040 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 4: They're not so.

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01:27:23,960 --> 01:27:25,759
Speaker 2: Forgiving when it comes to these calls.

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01:27:25,840 --> 01:27:28,519
Speaker 1: Some companies will treat the calls as if you are

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01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:32,559
Speaker 1: as long as you're not calling international numbers, they'll be fine.

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01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:35,760
Speaker 1: So let's say you're in Italy and you're calling the US.

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01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,040
Speaker 1: Since it's a US number, they will just build that

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01:27:38,200 --> 01:27:41,120
Speaker 1: as your normal typical call that you would make. But

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01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this Consumer Cellular and when you look

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01:27:43,760 --> 01:27:48,240
Speaker 1: at Wi Fi calling, it says does Wi Fi calling

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01:27:48,400 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 1: use minutes from my phone? And it says Wi Fi

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01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 1: calls are built the same as calls made over the

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01:27:54,080 --> 01:27:56,880
Speaker 1: cellular network. They do use minutes from your plan and

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01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:00,240
Speaker 1: will show usage. They will show in usage details. That's

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01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:05,200
Speaker 1: really interesting. So my advice is that I would if

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01:28:05,280 --> 01:28:07,720
Speaker 1: you have this in this particular instance, I would really

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01:28:07,760 --> 01:28:11,040
Speaker 1: I would call Consumer Cellular and ask them very specifically, say,

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01:28:11,080 --> 01:28:13,640
Speaker 1: if I'm in Italy on Wi Fi calling and I

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01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:17,000
Speaker 1: call a number in Italy, am I charged? And they

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01:28:17,080 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: may say, yes, you'll be charged an international call. If

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01:28:20,240 --> 01:28:21,960
Speaker 1: I call a number in the US, am I charge?

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01:28:22,000 --> 01:28:24,280
Speaker 1: And they say, well, it's charged against your minutes, but

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01:28:24,360 --> 01:28:26,120
Speaker 1: you have unlimited minutes, so it'll be fine.

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01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 2: It'll be free.

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01:28:27,560 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 1: So I would no matter what provider you have, I

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01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:32,840
Speaker 1: would make sure you understand how Wi Fi calling works

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01:28:32,880 --> 01:28:35,800
Speaker 1: before you activate it. But in my experience it works

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01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:39,320
Speaker 1: pretty well for you making calls and also getting your texts.

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01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:42,040
Speaker 2: But just check with them to make sure.

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01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:48,559
Speaker 1: Speaking of calls, Barbie flip phone coming out this summer.

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01:28:49,040 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 1: Pink Barbie flip phone coming out in summer twenty twenty

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01:28:53,160 --> 01:28:57,479
Speaker 1: four from HMD. This is HMD and Mattel are teaming up.

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01:28:58,040 --> 01:28:59,639
Speaker 1: Do we need a pink Barbie flip phone?

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01:28:59,680 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:00,720
Speaker 4: Why not?

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01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 1: Remember the Motorol eraser that was pink. That was a

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01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:08,000
Speaker 1: flip phone that was popular. Coming up next, we're going

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01:29:08,040 --> 01:29:10,960
Speaker 1: to talk cord cutting. You are listening to rich on Tech.

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01:29:11,520 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech. Rich DeMuro here talking technology.

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01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:20,680
Speaker 1: The website rich on tech dot tv. If you hear

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01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:22,800
Speaker 1: something mentioned that you want to link for, just go

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Speaker 1: right there to the big red banner at the top

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Speaker 1: and you can get the link. Coming up is the

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01:29:28,680 --> 01:29:31,360
Speaker 1: feedback segment. So if you heard me talk about something

1796
01:29:31,439 --> 01:29:33,200
Speaker 1: on the show you want to get your two cents in,

1797
01:29:33,760 --> 01:29:36,280
Speaker 1: go to the website rich on Tech dot tv, hit

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Speaker 1: contact and submit your comments right now. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: them right after this, but this is really exciting. A

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01:29:44,160 --> 01:29:48,360
Speaker 1: company is named Antenna's Direct. Richard Schneider is the president

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01:29:48,479 --> 01:29:53,120
Speaker 1: and founder. And it's ironic how much antennas have a

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01:29:53,200 --> 01:29:55,679
Speaker 1: place in our lives, with how much tech and streaming

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01:29:55,760 --> 01:29:59,160
Speaker 1: we have. But a lot of people like their antenna. Richard,

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01:29:59,160 --> 01:30:01,880
Speaker 1: thanks so much for joining me having me.

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Speaker 10: Uh yeah, a lot of people think the age of

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01:30:04,760 --> 01:30:09,640
Speaker 10: antennas are behind us, and uh, I'm myself and this

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01:30:09,760 --> 01:30:11,559
Speaker 10: company doesn't seem to think so though.

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01:30:11,960 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 2: No, So tell me tell me about Antenna's Direct, Like,

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01:30:14,280 --> 01:30:15,080
Speaker 2: what made you start this?

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Speaker 10: So actually it was a hobby that morphed into a business.

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01:30:19,720 --> 01:30:23,360
Speaker 10: So I was a hunk theater enthusiast and at the time,

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01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:27,599
Speaker 10: the only way to get high definition television was from

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01:30:27,640 --> 01:30:31,720
Speaker 10: an antenna. This actually pre preceded Blu ray, and the

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01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 10: cable and satellite companies had not caught up yet. But

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01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:39,760
Speaker 10: there was wonderful uncompressed loops of these pollinating plants and

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01:30:40,479 --> 01:30:44,519
Speaker 10: things in two thousand and three, and it was me

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01:30:44,640 --> 01:30:47,599
Speaker 10: and maybe four other people in the in my market

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01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:51,639
Speaker 10: that we're watching the HD broadcast, and the broadcast engineer

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01:30:51,720 --> 01:30:54,400
Speaker 10: at the local CBS affiliates said, you know the only

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01:30:54,479 --> 01:30:56,800
Speaker 10: form of broadcasting I know where I know all my

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01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:58,559
Speaker 10: viewers on a first name basis.

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01:30:58,840 --> 01:30:59,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so.

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01:31:01,439 --> 01:31:04,120
Speaker 10: We started making antennas for people in the home theater hobby.

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01:31:04,160 --> 01:31:06,880
Speaker 10: And I never thought it would actually amount to more

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01:31:06,920 --> 01:31:11,080
Speaker 10: than maybe twenty maybe twenty five antennas a month. And

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01:31:11,160 --> 01:31:13,280
Speaker 10: I was making them in my garage, and there were

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01:31:13,360 --> 01:31:16,880
Speaker 10: tuned to the frequencies on which the digital stations were broadcast,

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01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,280
Speaker 10: and the stuff you bought in the stores at the

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01:31:20,360 --> 01:31:24,240
Speaker 10: mass market really didn't work as well. And so what

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01:31:24,920 --> 01:31:30,000
Speaker 10: happened was people started telling the other limited fringe people

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01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,360
Speaker 10: on the home theater forums and it just started to

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01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 10: spiral exponentially, and we actually were.

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01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:37,800
Speaker 7: On the.

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01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:43,680
Speaker 10: Forbes five hundred list four years in a row as

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01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:46,880
Speaker 10: fastest growing company. And all this time we had no

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01:31:47,000 --> 01:31:51,080
Speaker 10: venture capital, no investors, nothing like that. They we're just

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01:31:51,160 --> 01:31:54,280
Speaker 10: doing it out of cash flow, just credit card sales

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01:31:54,360 --> 01:31:59,479
Speaker 10: on our website. And then around two thousand and six,

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01:32:01,240 --> 01:32:05,920
Speaker 10: there was a Gadgets for Guys segment on the Today

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01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:12,240
Speaker 10: Show and Riche de Muro was the presenter. That was

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01:32:12,360 --> 01:32:14,640
Speaker 10: man there, I don't remember, and there was.

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01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:18,280
Speaker 2: A it was a it was a picture frame antenna.

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01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:20,519
Speaker 10: Very good, very good.

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01:32:20,680 --> 01:32:23,400
Speaker 1: And so I was in the makeup room that morning

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01:32:23,560 --> 01:32:27,160
Speaker 1: at the Today Show and uh, the makeup person I

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01:32:27,280 --> 01:32:28,920
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, this is so exciting because the whole

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01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:31,280
Speaker 1: point was that they had just gone to HD and

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01:32:31,400 --> 01:32:32,880
Speaker 1: like they you know, it was all kind of new.

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01:32:33,560 --> 01:32:35,280
Speaker 1: And so the makeup person, I'm sitting there in the

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01:32:35,320 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: makeup chair and I said, Hey, I'm like, how came

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01:32:37,240 --> 01:32:39,160
Speaker 1: you're not watching your show in HD.

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01:32:39,280 --> 01:32:40,000
Speaker 2: She's like, what do you mean?

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01:32:40,439 --> 01:32:42,240
Speaker 1: And I said, well, you got to change the channel

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01:32:42,320 --> 01:32:44,439
Speaker 1: to like the FOURD dot one whatever it was in

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01:32:44,439 --> 01:32:46,160
Speaker 1: New York City. And she's like what And I go,

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01:32:46,280 --> 01:32:47,559
Speaker 1: can I do it? And I pick up the remote

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01:32:47,600 --> 01:32:50,080
Speaker 1: and I change it and the whole thing just was like,

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01:32:50,560 --> 01:32:53,200
Speaker 1: you know, popped into like clarity, and she was like

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01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 1: blown away and it was such a cool moment.

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01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:58,680
Speaker 2: So yeah, it stackers it.

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Speaker 10: It was the imagination that people who work in broadcasting

1862
01:33:03,120 --> 01:33:07,280
Speaker 10: are not aware that they actually broadcast. This is my

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01:33:07,760 --> 01:33:10,040
Speaker 10: This is my biggest challenge. It's not other I'm not

1864
01:33:10,120 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 10: worried about competing with other antenna companies. My biggest challenge

1865
01:33:14,120 --> 01:33:16,000
Speaker 10: is that about sweet thing, about seventy percent of the

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01:33:16,040 --> 01:33:21,320
Speaker 10: population is completely unaware that over the air digital broadcasting exists.

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01:33:21,640 --> 01:33:23,920
Speaker 10: And in a market like Los Angeles, you need one

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01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,800
Speaker 10: hundred and fifty plus channels, and a small market where

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01:33:26,800 --> 01:33:30,360
Speaker 10: I live, it's Saint Louis is about fifty seven channels,

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01:33:31,080 --> 01:33:36,120
Speaker 10: And it absolutely it frustrates me. We've we've done morning

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01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:40,720
Speaker 10: news shows and the reporter doesn't isn't isn't aware? And

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01:33:40,720 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 10: I'm literally having their transmitting power in the background. Yeah,

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01:33:44,720 --> 01:33:48,040
Speaker 10: and the morning reporter is like, really, I can I

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01:33:48,120 --> 01:33:50,400
Speaker 10: can get TV from an antenna? Well do you think

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01:33:50,439 --> 01:33:52,160
Speaker 10: that thousand foot tall thickies?

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01:33:52,960 --> 01:33:55,760
Speaker 2: So what let's what do you think? Okay?

1877
01:33:55,760 --> 01:33:58,680
Speaker 1: Because people think of antennas as they don't work. They

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01:33:59,000 --> 01:34:01,200
Speaker 1: the signal is fuzzy. See, you know it's tough to

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01:34:01,280 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: get these channels. What do you think people need to

1880
01:34:04,000 --> 01:34:05,360
Speaker 1: know about antennas today?

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01:34:06,479 --> 01:34:09,519
Speaker 10: Okay? So the picture quality is actually better than that

1882
01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:13,240
Speaker 10: a satellite or cable. There's little to no compression, and

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01:34:13,840 --> 01:34:16,480
Speaker 10: that's a technical word of how they have to squeeze

1884
01:34:16,600 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 10: the bits and bites down the pipeline. So if you

1885
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:23,000
Speaker 10: watch over the air versus cable or satellite or even streaming,

1886
01:34:23,080 --> 01:34:26,040
Speaker 10: if you switch back and forth, you'll notice it pops.

1887
01:34:26,200 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 10: It's just the vibrancy and the details greater over the ear.

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01:34:29,760 --> 01:34:33,320
Speaker 10: Now the challenge is the frequencies are a little bit

1889
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:36,080
Speaker 10: higher than they were in the old analog days, so

1890
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:40,880
Speaker 10: they don't penetrate building materials or hills as well, So

1891
01:34:41,280 --> 01:34:44,640
Speaker 10: you're going to be it'll be more reliable. If you

1892
01:34:44,720 --> 01:34:48,160
Speaker 10: can get an antenna near a window. Outdoors is always

1893
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:51,799
Speaker 10: the most reliable. And the good news is the science

1894
01:34:52,000 --> 01:34:55,880
Speaker 10: of antenna development has really advanced a lot in the

1895
01:34:56,000 --> 01:34:59,519
Speaker 10: last twenty years, and so antennas are you know, ten

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01:34:59,560 --> 01:35:01,559
Speaker 10: percent of the size they would have been in your

1897
01:35:01,560 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 10: grandparents day, and they're much more powerful. And then they're

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01:35:04,479 --> 01:35:07,200
Speaker 10: more aesthetics, so you don't really have to worry about

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01:35:07,240 --> 01:35:09,560
Speaker 10: having one in your house or on your roof. It

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01:35:09,600 --> 01:35:12,120
Speaker 10: won't it won't look like something from the I Love

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01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:13,439
Speaker 10: Losey days. Yeah.

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01:35:14,080 --> 01:35:16,519
Speaker 1: I'm always impressed when I plug an antenna in on

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01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:18,800
Speaker 1: a TV and a random room in my house and

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01:35:19,120 --> 01:35:21,799
Speaker 1: it does pull in like a majority of the channels

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01:35:22,400 --> 01:35:23,720
Speaker 1: and with great fidelity.

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01:35:25,240 --> 01:35:29,439
Speaker 10: Yeah, and and our system of broadcasting again, you know

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01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:32,000
Speaker 10: the good news and the bad news is, you know,

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01:35:33,000 --> 01:35:35,160
Speaker 10: if you want every channel, you just need to get

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01:35:35,200 --> 01:35:39,400
Speaker 10: it away from metallic objects or or you know, masonry

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01:35:39,680 --> 01:35:42,240
Speaker 10: structures or things like that. But it's really not that hard.

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01:35:42,439 --> 01:35:45,280
Speaker 10: A window you can you know, we've we required Mohu

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01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,840
Speaker 10: a few years ago and they invented an antennae just

1913
01:35:48,439 --> 01:35:50,599
Speaker 10: it just sticks in the in the window glass. It's

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01:35:50,640 --> 01:35:53,240
Speaker 10: a bin film antenna and it works great. So you

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01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:56,160
Speaker 10: don't really need to be a tech technical person to

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01:35:56,240 --> 01:35:59,280
Speaker 10: be able to get over the air. And but again

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01:35:59,320 --> 01:36:02,439
Speaker 10: the challenge a lot of people think it's illegal. And

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01:36:02,800 --> 01:36:06,240
Speaker 10: we have a problem in that our TikTok videos are

1919
01:36:06,560 --> 01:36:09,960
Speaker 10: constantly being taken down because people are reporting that we're

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01:36:10,400 --> 01:36:15,000
Speaker 10: that we were promoting illegal activities, piracy and and in

1921
01:36:15,120 --> 01:36:18,840
Speaker 10: the various activities, and it's really frustrating. We got our

1922
01:36:18,880 --> 01:36:22,479
Speaker 10: TikTok accounts suspended for over a month.

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01:36:23,520 --> 01:36:24,400
Speaker 2: That's wild.

1924
01:36:25,040 --> 01:36:27,760
Speaker 10: It's just really I'm trying to tell the story and

1925
01:36:28,840 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 10: not just that an attendance exists. That is, you're not

1926
01:36:31,280 --> 01:36:34,400
Speaker 10: breaking the law, there's no there's no catch.

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01:36:35,160 --> 01:36:36,240
Speaker 2: That's wild.

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01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:39,040
Speaker 1: It is that like okay, okay, well what about this

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01:36:39,240 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 1: ATSC three point zero have you?

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01:36:41,200 --> 01:36:42,000
Speaker 2: What's the deal with that?

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01:36:43,080 --> 01:36:45,320
Speaker 10: So I get to sit on the meetings we are

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01:36:45,840 --> 01:36:48,720
Speaker 10: I'm I'm a member of that of the it's called

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01:36:48,760 --> 01:36:52,479
Speaker 10: the Advanced Television Standards Committee, And uh, what's it's the

1934
01:36:52,600 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 10: new new format and what it's going to allow. It's

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01:36:56,080 --> 01:36:59,240
Speaker 10: it's what they call spectral efficient, meaning you can fit

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01:36:59,360 --> 01:37:04,880
Speaker 10: more bits of bytes through the same television channel six

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01:37:05,000 --> 01:37:09,200
Speaker 10: megahertz channel that a station broadcast. They can fit anywhere

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01:37:09,280 --> 01:37:11,920
Speaker 10: from you know, thirty to one hundred percent more data through,

1939
01:37:12,280 --> 01:37:15,320
Speaker 10: so that means they can broadcast in four K. They

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01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:19,200
Speaker 10: can provide metadata, you know. Uh, and it's IP based,

1941
01:37:19,640 --> 01:37:23,080
Speaker 10: so it's essentially over the year streaming. It's Internet broadcasting

1942
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:28,599
Speaker 10: using using odd IP broad broadcasting standards, and and there'll

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01:37:28,640 --> 01:37:31,920
Speaker 10: be all kinds of ways you could interact with the programming.

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Speaker 10: It can also allow yours TV to be addressed in

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Speaker 10: times of emergency, if there's a typhoon or a hurricane.

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Speaker 10: It can actually have the ability to wake up your

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Speaker 10: television for people who live in that in that in

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Speaker 10: the path of a tornado. Obviously, they're also going to

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Speaker 10: use geo targeting to probably narrow cast some marketing, so

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Speaker 10: you might see a different ad than your neighbor might

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Speaker 10: might see. That's interesting, yeah, and I you know, it

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Speaker 10: helps pay for the pre broadcasting is you might see

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Speaker 10: ads for pickup trucks, and your neighbors might might see

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Speaker 10: something for for lawnmowers. I don't know whatever your interests are,

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Speaker 10: so but but the being more spectful efficient means it

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Speaker 10: has the capacity for more channels and it will be

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Speaker 10: bi directional, so you can you can interact with your

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Speaker 10: programming and there will be ways of if you know,

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Speaker 10: interacting with the ads like you do essentially on the computer.

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Speaker 10: And uh, it's it's gonna have a lot of features,

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Speaker 10: uh that will be comparable to paid streaming.

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Speaker 1: Awesome, all right, Richard, I've got a run but final

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Speaker 1: piece of advice for consumers.

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Speaker 10: Well, it's not as difficult as you think. You dumber

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Speaker 10: people than you have figured this out.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 10: And the pitchure quality, you'll be shocked. It's going to

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Speaker 10: be better than pay television.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: Richard Schneider, President and founder of Antenna's Direct. Check them

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Speaker 1: out Antenna's Direct, find what works for you. You could

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Speaker 1: pop in your zip code, they'll recommend the best antenna

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Speaker 1: for you and grab that free over the air signal.

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Speaker 1: Don't always have to pay for streaming. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we are going to open up the feedback. You are

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

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Speaker 1: Bit of news this week that Apple canceled its electric

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Speaker 1: car project after a decade of work on it. This

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Speaker 1: is the project they never publicly announced, but apparently they

1980
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Speaker 1: were building an electric car for ten years and they

1981
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Speaker 1: spent many, many many dollars on this project, Project Titan.

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Speaker 1: Apparently they had almost two thousand people working on this.

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Speaker 1: But again none of this was ever mentioned by Apple.

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Speaker 1: So did it really happen. We don't know, but this

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Speaker 1: is the report out of Bloomberg that they are closing

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Speaker 1: down their work on their electric car project.

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Speaker 2: How sad.

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Speaker 1: So team members are going to shift their focus to

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Speaker 1: artificial intelligence. That makes a lot of sense. Why did

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Speaker 1: they not do this? Cooling ev demand, manufacturing issues, profitability concerns,

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Speaker 1: and times have changed. You know, it's tough when they

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Speaker 1: probably started this, if they ever started this, very skeptical.

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Speaker 1: You know, times are different. Now you've got some pretty

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Speaker 1: big players in the electric car world. I think Apple

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Speaker 1: could easily be up there, and I think they should

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Speaker 1: just buy Lucid and they can change that car to

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Speaker 1: the Apple car.

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Speaker 2: That's really what they want to build. Anyway. UFI has a.

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Speaker 1: New three hundred and sixty degree four K camera that

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Speaker 1: does not need Wi Fi or power outlets. This is

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Speaker 1: a two hundred and fifty dollars four K camera called

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Speaker 1: the Ufee four G LTE Cam S three P thirty

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Speaker 1: three hundred and sixty degree views seventy degree tilt. Can

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01:40:54,560 --> 01:40:57,320
Speaker 1: connect to LTE cellular networks instead of Wi Fi, so

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01:40:57,360 --> 01:40:59,400
Speaker 1: you can put it anywhere. It's got a solar panel

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01:40:59,439 --> 01:41:02,840
Speaker 1: so you can charge the battery anywhere it is, and

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01:41:03,560 --> 01:41:07,360
Speaker 1: uses AI to detect people. It's got Google and Alexa integration.

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Speaker 1: It can sort recordings locally for up to eight months

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Speaker 1: on a micro SD card. Now, uf has had some

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Speaker 1: privacy issues in the past, but it sounds like every

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Speaker 1: single security camera company at this point has I can't

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01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,599
Speaker 1: think of one that has not had an issue. They've

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01:41:22,640 --> 01:41:25,200
Speaker 1: all had their lapses. But it's kind of cool. If

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Speaker 1: you need a four G LTE camera on your property somewhere,

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Speaker 1: that's another option. I have not tested it, so I

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Speaker 1: can't vouch for it.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Schwalby says, Rich, can you tell me how to turn

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me how to turn off the microphone

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Speaker 1: on my iPhone? So sound and voices will not be

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Speaker 1: recorded while I'm videoing. I need to do an inspection,

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Speaker 1: and they don't want me to record their voices in

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Speaker 1: case they say something confidential. Your shows are awesome. I

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Speaker 1: watch you on TV and listen to your weekend shows,

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Speaker 1: and I check out the website. There is not a

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Speaker 1: way that I know of to turn off the microphone

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Speaker 1: while recording on the iPhone. Couple of options. You can

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Speaker 1: use a third party app that may give you that ability,

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Speaker 1: something like Film Micpro Camera. Plus there's a lot of

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Speaker 1: apps that can let you record on the iPhone. They

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Speaker 1: may give you the ability to turn off the sound

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Speaker 1: before you record it. You can also mute the sound

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Speaker 1: after the fact, so you can go into a video

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone and press edit and there's a little

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Speaker 1: like it looks like a speaker icon. You just tap

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01:42:26,120 --> 01:42:27,519
Speaker 1: that and that will mute the audio, and then you

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01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:30,840
Speaker 1: can save that video without the audio. Or you can

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01:42:30,880 --> 01:42:32,840
Speaker 1: get some kind of microphone that you can plug into

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Speaker 1: the phone and have that muted, and you know that

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Speaker 1: would mute the sound as well. Joe says a longtime listener,

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Speaker 1: I've consistently found value in your discussions. Today's topic on

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01:42:44,040 --> 01:42:48,400
Speaker 1: locating stream URLs particularly picked my interest. I thought it

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01:42:48,479 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 1: might be beneficial to share my personal setup with you

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Speaker 1: and your audience. I use an application called stream Writer

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01:42:54,080 --> 01:42:57,200
Speaker 1: on my Windows system for listening to streams and to

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01:42:57,320 --> 01:43:00,559
Speaker 1: capture the stream RL. I rely on the Bulk Media

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01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 1: Downloader extension on Chrome. This hope this information proves useful

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Speaker 1: to you as well as others.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Joe, Thanks Joe. Interesting.

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Speaker 1: Leo said he forgot to mention a couple things in

2051
01:43:14,720 --> 01:43:19,400
Speaker 1: his interview. This was about Chrome os flex installation is

2052
01:43:19,439 --> 01:43:22,160
Speaker 1: totally successful about eighty to ninety five percent of times.

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01:43:23,640 --> 01:43:25,800
Speaker 1: I was going to mention Chrome os Flex combined with

2054
01:43:25,840 --> 01:43:28,840
Speaker 1: an SSD, a solid state drive can really make an

2055
01:43:28,880 --> 01:43:33,599
Speaker 1: old machine fly as opposed to the disc based hard drive.

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Speaker 1: You may get calls from people who are trying to

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Speaker 1: install this on their Mac computer. I didn't make it

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01:43:38,920 --> 01:43:40,960
Speaker 1: clear that on a Mac you would first download the

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Speaker 1: Chrome browser and then use the Chromebook Recovery utility from

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Speaker 1: there out.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Leo.

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Speaker 1: Shane says, speaking of Wi Fi doorbells and security, it

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Speaker 1: applies to kids watches too. Parents should not buy Chinese

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Speaker 1: made connected kids watches because the server that allows the

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Speaker 1: watch to communicate with parent apps might not be safe,

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Speaker 1: and it connects to the manufacturer servers in China. The

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Speaker 1: best is to buy from US mobile operators offering kids

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Speaker 1: watches because they're certified in the US by mobile operators too.

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Speaker 1: All US mobile operators must use their own servers in

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Speaker 1: the US and make sure they're always secure due to

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Speaker 1: COPA and CCPA certification. I know this because I have

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Speaker 1: twenty years experience in connected wearables and my company provides

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Speaker 1: the back end platforms and servers to all mobile operators

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Speaker 1: in the US and Europe. Thank you, Shane. That's interesting. Wow,

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Speaker 1: good to know. Yes, look, I think a lot of this.

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Speaker 1: You know, you just have to be aware of security

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Speaker 1: issues when you're buying a third party product that may

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Speaker 1: not adhere to the same standards we have in the US.

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Speaker 1: Dawn Marie says, Hey, Rich, I watch you every day.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious why can't all phones have the SOS help

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Speaker 1: Why is it just for iPhones? I have a Samsung.

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Speaker 1: I feel it's important for everyone to have this option

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Speaker 1: for safety.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 1: Dawn is referring to the SOS emergence and see help

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01:45:00,880 --> 01:45:04,439
Speaker 1: over Satellite that the iPhone fourteen and fifteen have it

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01:45:04,680 --> 01:45:08,320
Speaker 1: looks like that feature is coming soon to Android. Just

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01:45:08,479 --> 01:45:11,240
Speaker 1: this week, some of the blogs found out that the

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Speaker 1: Pixel phones, it looks like they are getting that first.

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Speaker 1: It'll probably be a big feature on the new Pixel phones.

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Speaker 2: Let's see. Laurel says, thanks for your tech smart program.

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Speaker 1: I just saw your video clip on kron up here

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01:45:25,920 --> 01:45:29,040
Speaker 1: in San Francisco about subscribing to social media. I don't

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01:45:29,040 --> 01:45:31,719
Speaker 1: subscribe to any social media. There are too many whackos

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01:45:31,760 --> 01:45:33,920
Speaker 1: and bad guys out there on the Internet. And like

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01:45:34,000 --> 01:45:36,800
Speaker 1: a fool, I opened an email message from a person

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Speaker 1: unknown to me who turned out to be a hacker.

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Speaker 1: Yahoo is now trying to fix the email address of mine,

2100
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 1: which the hacker hacked. I'm eighty two years old. There

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01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:48,040
Speaker 1: was no internet, electronic devices, or television sets when I

2102
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Speaker 1: was growing up in the nineteen forties and nineteen fifties.

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Speaker 1: I'm beginning to think the world was a better place

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01:45:53,360 --> 01:45:55,720
Speaker 1: back then. Well, it's certainly a different place, and I

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01:45:55,720 --> 01:45:57,200
Speaker 1: thought TV came out in the fifties.

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Speaker 2: But I get it. I see what you're saying, Laurel.

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Speaker 2: I get it. The world has changed.

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Speaker 1: Not all of it's good, but UH get on TikTok

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01:46:05,120 --> 01:46:08,320
Speaker 1: and just check it out now as you kiddick, you

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Speaker 1: don't have to get on board with all this stuff,

2111
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Speaker 1: but I appreciate you watching and believe me. I sit

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Speaker 1: there on days and I sit there and say, wow,

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Speaker 1: things used to be different. I think many things are better.

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Speaker 1: In fact, Laurel, the fact that you can email me

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01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:23,160
Speaker 1: without sending a stamp or you know, buying a stamp

2116
01:46:23,240 --> 01:46:25,760
Speaker 1: for a couple, you know, sixty five cents whatever they are, Now,

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Speaker 1: that's a pretty amazing thing. You couldn't do that back

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Speaker 1: in the day. If you can believe it, that is

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Speaker 1: going to do it. For this episode of the show.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I mentioned all on

2121
01:46:34,520 --> 01:46:37,519
Speaker 1: my website. Just go to rich on tech dot tv

2122
01:46:37,720 --> 01:46:40,439
Speaker 1: for the show notes. You can find me on social

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Speaker 1: media twenty four to seven, Laurel, hide your ears. I

2124
01:46:43,280 --> 01:46:49,040
Speaker 1: am at rich on Tech, on Instagram, on x on Facebook, everywhere.

2125
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Speaker 1: Next week Rivian is on veiling their newest ev Will

2126
01:46:54,960 --> 01:46:58,280
Speaker 1: it be enough to save that company? Thanks so much

2127
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Speaker 1: for listening. There are so many ways you can spend

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01:47:00,240 --> 01:47:02,639
Speaker 1: your time. I do appreciate you spending it right here

2129
01:47:02,680 --> 01:47:06,000
Speaker 1: with me. Thanks to everyone who makes this show. Possible

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Speaker 1: Bobo Kim Bill. Everyone, my name is rich Demiro. I

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Speaker 1: will talk to you real soon