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Speaker 1: Netflix raising prices, Netflix tests paid subscriptions, faster cellular internet

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Speaker 1: rolls out in a big way, Plus your tech questions answered?

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Speaker 1: What's going on? I'm Rich Demiro and this is Rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech, the podcast where I talk about the tech

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Speaker 1: stuff I think you should know about. It's also the

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Speaker 1: place where I answer the questions you send me what

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Speaker 1: is going on? I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Did I already say what's going on?

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Speaker 1: I think I did to What's going on in just

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Speaker 1: the span of thirty seconds. Welcome back to the show.

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Speaker 1: I know last week I was off. I was out

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Speaker 1: sick because of you know what. And the funny thing

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Speaker 1: is I didn't even have it. So, you know, everyone

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Speaker 1: thought that I would get sick at CEF in Las

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Speaker 1: Vegas and I would get you know, COVID, and I didn't.

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Speaker 1: I made it through just fine, and I come home

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Speaker 1: to my kid who has it and proceeds to infect

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Speaker 1: fifty percent of the house, not including myself or my

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Speaker 1: other kid. So my wife and one of my kids

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Speaker 1: had it and she got it pretty bad. So it

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Speaker 1: is a serious thing. I somehow escaped it. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure how, but I'll take that for now. But that's

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Speaker 1: why I wasn't here last week. And let me tell

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Speaker 1: you a scrambling for those COVID tests when you need

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Speaker 1: them the most. Oh my gosh, that was like the

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Speaker 1: trickiest thing. I'm going to talk about later in the

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Speaker 1: show my experience with that and the whole new website

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Speaker 1: that the government has, and we'll talk about that a

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Speaker 1: little bit. I know, I don't want to get too

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Speaker 1: much into that because I know it's a topic that

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Speaker 1: a we're kind of sick of hearing about and be

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Speaker 1: you know, everyone has their own thoughts on it, and

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into that whole section. All

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is that for us here it was real.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it was a solid week of realness and

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Speaker 1: the Demro house, so you know, it can happen to anyone, Okay.

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Speaker 1: So I asked on my Facebook page, let's see what

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Speaker 1: was the question that I asked here? I said, what

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Speaker 1: is your current favorite tech gadget besides your phone? And

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Speaker 1: the comments just coming in fast, all kinds. I'm getting

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Speaker 1: so many great ideas. Chair speaker, voice enhancing TV soundbar

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Speaker 1: my fitbit Amberly says, I'm not sure if this is

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Speaker 1: considered a gadget. But I love the Apple Watch I

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Speaker 1: got for Christmas. Jerry says, probably my Amazon Fire TV Box.

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Speaker 1: It's kept me sane while working from home the past

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Speaker 1: twenty one months. Alejandro says my Sony walkman. Oh wow,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe he's kidding. Let's see, Louis says,

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Speaker 1: my iPad, since it's faster than my Windows PC. Jordan

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Speaker 1: says his m one Mac Pro sixteen with monitor and

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Speaker 1: iPad sidecar. Wow, that's a pretty good setup. James says

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Speaker 1: his Bosh electric drill. Yeah. I hear the tim the

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Speaker 1: tool man Taylor in that one. Let's see what else.

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Speaker 1: Lynnette says, or kindle paper white signature reader. I've got

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Speaker 1: to start reading. I really fell off. I really fell

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Speaker 1: off the train. What do you call it? Fell off

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Speaker 1: the bus? I don't know, whatever you call it, but

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Speaker 1: I really fell off whatever you fall off these days,

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Speaker 1: I fell off. I was reading so well up until

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Speaker 1: about the holidays, and then it just kind of took

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Speaker 1: a nose dive. And I don't know why. I just

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Speaker 1: I was just like glued to my phone for some reason.

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Speaker 1: And so some of that comes with not having a

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Speaker 1: good book to read. I feel like if you're like

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Speaker 1: I finished a really good book and then I was

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Speaker 1: trying other books and they just weren't doing it for me.

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Speaker 1: So I just downloaded another book today I will see.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna like that one more. But it's

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Speaker 1: all about the good book, right, Like, if you are

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Speaker 1: starting to read a book and you get into it,

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Speaker 1: it should just be automatic. You shouldn't really have to

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Speaker 1: even think much about it. It should just work. And

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Speaker 1: so you know a good book when that happens, and

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Speaker 1: so it's kind of a natural thing. So if you're

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Speaker 1: like we just were so like screen centric and everything

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Speaker 1: should not be happening. It should be like a really

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Speaker 1: great experience where you can't put the book down, and

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember with the last book I read

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Speaker 1: let's see what Tommy said his fitbit or his eight

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Speaker 1: k TV. Wow. Let's see what else do we have.

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Speaker 1: Karen says the Volkswagen ID four electric car. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: a good one. Kelly says, my tile for my tortoise.

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Speaker 1: You gotta tile on your tortoise to keep track of

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Speaker 1: your tortoise. Huh. Stephanie, another vote for the Kindle, heather,

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Speaker 1: Cardo motorcycle helmet, Bluetooth. Okay, that's cool. Richard says the

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Speaker 1: heated steering wheel. Oh wow. Chris says my kindle. I

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Speaker 1: read at least twelve to fourteen hours a week. Ps.

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Speaker 1: I am a ninety year old. Wow, that's awesome. So

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Speaker 1: a lot of people with their kindles. I gotta say,

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Speaker 1: look at this. Irwin says my super fast iPad on wheels.

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Speaker 1: He's got a video of the self driving mode on

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Speaker 1: his Tesla. Anyway, if you want to get in on

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Speaker 1: the question what's your current favorite tech gadget besides your phone?

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Speaker 1: You can go to my Facebook page Facebook dot com

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Speaker 1: slash Rich on tech. All right, let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: first big story of the week. It's not that big

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Speaker 1: of a story because I mean, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: I feel like we've talked about this before with the

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Speaker 1: other streaming services when they raise prices. But Netflix is

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Speaker 1: raising prices once again a dollar to two dollars per

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Speaker 1: month depending on the plan. So this is the first

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Speaker 1: rate increase since it was about four hundred and forty

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Speaker 1: days since they announce the one before this, so just

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Speaker 1: over a year. And you know, it comes at a

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Speaker 1: just I mean, this is like their lifeline for a

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Speaker 1: lot of people. Is your is your Netflix? You know,

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Speaker 1: it's like this is the connection to the entertainment that

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Speaker 1: they need. And so Netflix, it's like one of these

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Speaker 1: things are at this point. Okay, so let's go over

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Speaker 1: the plans. I mean, at this point, you know you're

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Speaker 1: talking plans, so the Standard plan, which does not include

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Speaker 1: any sort of like HD streaming, is like nine to

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Speaker 1: Standard plan, which is like the middle plan, that's fifteen

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Speaker 1: forty nine a month. That's up from thirteen ninety nine

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Speaker 1: Then you go up to the Ultra HD, which is

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Speaker 1: the plan that I have, which gives you four K

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Speaker 1: They you know, I couldn't watch the show that I

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Speaker 1: And so that's going up by two dollars a month.

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Speaker 1: So if you look at that, that was seventeen ninety nine.

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Speaker 1: Now it's nineteen ninety nine a month. And I guess

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Speaker 1: the basic plan is nine ninety nine. It used to

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Speaker 1: be eight ninety nine. So here's the thing. This makes

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Speaker 1: Netflix really expensive when it comes to streaming services. Twenty

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Speaker 1: may say, Rich, that's fine. I mean, I watch so

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Speaker 1: much Netflix, it's not a big deal. Twenty dollars a

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Speaker 1: month is still a pretty good value for what I get,

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Speaker 1: and I would agree with that. A one movie ticket,

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Speaker 1: you know, in LA, could be seventeen ninety nine eighteen.

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Speaker 1: I haven't been in a while, but that's how much

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Speaker 1: So even though the prices are definitely in line with

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Speaker 1: it's really not that big of a deal. I think

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Speaker 1: the way that cable raise prices like clockwork. Every year

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Speaker 1: you get that little bill insert that said, oh, your

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Speaker 1: and raise rates. All right, let's get to the first

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Speaker 1: question of the show. Valerie says, which are the best

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Speaker 1: ad blockers? I keep getting pop ups about them? Are

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Speaker 1: they a scam? No, they're not a scam. You can

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Speaker 1: like the one called ad Guard, and so there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of ways you can install it. The easiest way

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Speaker 1: is to go into your connections under your Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: and it says like more and it's like your DNS

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Speaker 1: and you literally can just pop in I think it's

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Speaker 1: DNS dot adguard dot com and it will literally just

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Speaker 1: block all the ads on your phone, like at the

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Speaker 1: network level. It's pretty pretty simple. It's very clean. The

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Speaker 1: come across an AD on your phone, it's a whole

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Speaker 1: much do you want to charge, and you can go

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Speaker 1: from ninety nine cents a month to one hundred dollars

430
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Speaker 1: a month, which is that's a lot. I mean, one

431
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:39,639
Speaker 1: hundred bucks a month. That's like some serious, serious coin.

432
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:43,560
Speaker 1: Ninety nine cents is pretty good. I think that's a

433
00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:46,919
Speaker 1: nice number. You know, maybe like the sweet spot, I

434
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:49,080
Speaker 1: mean depends on the creator. You know. The thing is,

435
00:22:49,960 --> 00:22:51,720
Speaker 1: you know, by the time you know, you take out

436
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:54,760
Speaker 1: all these levies from these tech companies, you know, the

437
00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:57,919
Speaker 1: standard like thirty percent or whatever. You know, ninety nine

438
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:02,040
Speaker 1: cents becomes seventy cents, two dollars becomes you know, whatever

439
00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 1: that is in math. But one thing that's interesting about

440
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,880
Speaker 1: this is that Facebook has said they are not taking

441
00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,680
Speaker 1: any fees until twenty twenty three at the earliest. Now,

442
00:23:15,760 --> 00:23:18,800
Speaker 1: that sounds really far away, but we're already into January

443
00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:21,359
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, so that's really only eleven months.

444
00:23:21,760 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: But what they're trying to do is get people to

445
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: use this. They're trying to get people on board and

446
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:29,560
Speaker 1: also give these creators a little taste of the cast

447
00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:33,200
Speaker 1: that they can make on Instagram. Now a couple things

448
00:23:33,200 --> 00:23:35,080
Speaker 1: that you'll be able to do. So if you are

449
00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: if you subscribe to someone, you would get to see

450
00:23:38,920 --> 00:23:42,000
Speaker 1: live broadcasts that are exclusive to subscribers. Now, I think

451
00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:45,440
Speaker 1: this is brilliant for someone like me because let's say

452
00:23:45,440 --> 00:23:49,120
Speaker 1: that I took this tech show to Instagram, and you

453
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 1: know you've been texting me, you've been emailing me, and

454
00:23:51,440 --> 00:23:53,639
Speaker 1: I never answer your question. Well, let's say I do

455
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:59,280
Speaker 1: an exclusive show every week just for subscribers. The chances

456
00:23:59,359 --> 00:24:01,760
Speaker 1: of you getting your question answered are a lot better

457
00:24:01,800 --> 00:24:04,439
Speaker 1: because it's going to be much more intimate, much more exclusive.

458
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,239
Speaker 1: So that is just one example of a way that

459
00:24:07,280 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 1: this could work out in everyone's favor. And you pay

460
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 1: two bucks a month, it's not that much money or

461
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 1: whatever it would be, and you feel like you've gotten

462
00:24:13,720 --> 00:24:15,600
Speaker 1: your money's worth because now you have kind of a

463
00:24:15,640 --> 00:24:19,120
Speaker 1: personal tech tech help person. And that's just one way

464
00:24:19,119 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 1: of doing it. Subscriber stories, so you can do stories

465
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,960
Speaker 1: that are just for subscribers. And if you've ever used

466
00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: the feature on Instagram that lets you do su a

467
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 1: story just for your close friends, this is very similar,

468
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:37,600
Speaker 1: except it's just for subscribers. And the other one is

469
00:24:37,680 --> 00:24:40,280
Speaker 1: subscriber badges. And this is kind of like if you've

470
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: ever been on Facebook, if you've seen the badge it's

471
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:46,600
Speaker 1: called top top Fan. Maybe only I can see that,

472
00:24:46,760 --> 00:24:48,520
Speaker 1: but maybe you can see it too, if you're a

473
00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,840
Speaker 1: top fan of someone. But you will get a subscriber

474
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:56,359
Speaker 1: badge next to your comments and messages, so that me,

475
00:24:56,600 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: as a creator can see that you are a subscriber,

476
00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:01,480
Speaker 1: and I would scroll down the list and say, oh,

477
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,239
Speaker 1: let me let me throw them a bone, let me

478
00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,919
Speaker 1: answer their their message or their or reply to their comment,

479
00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:09,240
Speaker 1: because they're paying me a couple bucks a month. Now,

480
00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: I'm not saying I'm doing any of this. I'm just

481
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 1: saying in theory, this is how I see it working.

482
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,240
Speaker 1: And so that is right now being tested with just

483
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,879
Speaker 1: a handful of creators. But I think this has a

484
00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:22,199
Speaker 1: lot of power but here's the problem with all of

485
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:26,120
Speaker 1: these systems. So if you know anything about Patreon, they

486
00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,240
Speaker 1: kind of pioneered this idea of going direct to your

487
00:25:29,359 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: fan base, right to your subscribers. But the problem is

488
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,000
Speaker 1: there are now too many ways to do this. Twitter

489
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:38,880
Speaker 1: has their version, TikTok said they're going to do something

490
00:25:38,920 --> 00:25:42,159
Speaker 1: similar to this. Instagram has it, Facebook has it, and

491
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,240
Speaker 1: then there's a million and one other you know, like

492
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,800
Speaker 1: obviously only Fans was kind of they popularized it, but

493
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: for more adult reasons, and so this is kind of

494
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,920
Speaker 1: like if you imagine it's only fans, but for everyone,

495
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: and only fans I think even tried to pivot into

496
00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 1: being for everyone, but that name is just so synonymous

497
00:26:00,040 --> 00:26:02,520
Speaker 1: with adult content at this point that I think they're

498
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:05,920
Speaker 1: gonna have a really tough time getting you know, mainstream

499
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:10,840
Speaker 1: folks on there to be on that platform. But Instagram

500
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,359
Speaker 1: has a really good thing going and this could really

501
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: take off. But the other thing is, okay, so then

502
00:26:15,680 --> 00:26:18,600
Speaker 1: you have podcasts. You know, you could subscribe through Apple Podcasts,

503
00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:21,879
Speaker 1: so let you know, it's just there's too much going on,

504
00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:24,440
Speaker 1: and so what someone needs to do is figure out

505
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:27,680
Speaker 1: a platform that works with all of these that's universal.

506
00:26:27,880 --> 00:26:30,680
Speaker 1: Or on the flip side, you know, if I'm paying

507
00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,399
Speaker 1: three dollars a month, which doesn't seem to be a

508
00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: lot of money, but if I'm paying that for like

509
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: five people, or YouTube has it as well. So if

510
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: I'm paying that, let's say I'm paying the four I've seen.

511
00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:43,440
Speaker 1: Most of the people I've seen are like two ninety

512
00:26:43,480 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: nine a month or three ninety nine or four ninety

513
00:26:45,320 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: nine a month, which is fine, and it's it's a

514
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:49,719
Speaker 1: great number for a creator that you listen to their

515
00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:51,920
Speaker 1: podcast every day, or you love looking at their stuff

516
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 1: on Instagram, or you really learn from them. But when

517
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,200
Speaker 1: you start adding these up and you support three, four, five,

518
00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 1: six seven creators, I mean, and that could really add

519
00:27:01,560 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: up to a lot every month, and I think that's

520
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:05,439
Speaker 1: the biggest issue. So what I think would be a

521
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:09,600
Speaker 1: better system is sort of one monthly bucket that you

522
00:27:09,640 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 1: put your money into and that is distributed among all

523
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,680
Speaker 1: of the ways that you interact with people. So if

524
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: I look at your story on Instagram and you're a

525
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 1: creator and you're kind of in this system, then you

526
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 1: know a portion of my I mean, it's tough to explain,

527
00:27:24,320 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: but let's okay, let me just give you this example.

528
00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 1: Let's say I have Let's say I put in ten

529
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:33,040
Speaker 1: dollars a month into this little this bucket, okay, and

530
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: I look at, let's just make it really easy, ten

531
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,280
Speaker 1: different things that month. I look at a story from

532
00:27:39,320 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: you on Instagram, I listen to a podcast from someone

533
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:46,720
Speaker 1: else on Apple, I watch a YouTube video from someone else,

534
00:27:46,720 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: and I do ten different things. But all of those

535
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: ten things on the back end are somehow linked up

536
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: to this little bucket. And so at the end of

537
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,919
Speaker 1: the month, the bucket goes, Okay, what did Rich do

538
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,560
Speaker 1: this month? He looked at this person's story, He looked

539
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:01,679
Speaker 1: at that Facebook video, looked at that YouTube video, he

540
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:04,200
Speaker 1: listened to that podcast. We divided up. Every one of

541
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,760
Speaker 1: those people gets a dollar because he looked at ten

542
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: things and he gives ten dollars a month, and if

543
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 1: he looked at one thing that month, that one person

544
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,000
Speaker 1: would get his ten dollars. So that is a system

545
00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,720
Speaker 1: that I think would be really cool. Yes, it would

546
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: take a lot, and I guarantee it would never work

547
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,240
Speaker 1: because none of these main platforms are going to get

548
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:28,200
Speaker 1: in on something that is universal and you know, kind

549
00:28:28,200 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: of a Switzerland of payment systems. Now, if someone can

550
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,560
Speaker 1: get them on board, it would be amazing, It really

551
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: really would. And so that's where I see it being

552
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:41,360
Speaker 1: much easier because I love supporting people. You know, I

553
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:44,440
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts, I watch people on YouTube. But right

554
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:47,240
Speaker 1: now I'm not doing the individual subscriptions because it just

555
00:28:47,280 --> 00:28:49,760
Speaker 1: gets kind of messy, like why is this person more

556
00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: valuable to me than this person? Maybe one month I

557
00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:54,400
Speaker 1: watch a bunch of their stuff. The next month, I

558
00:28:54,400 --> 00:28:56,840
Speaker 1: don't watch any of their stuff, And so I'd rather

559
00:28:56,880 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 1: have my money directed to the places that it it

560
00:29:00,200 --> 00:29:02,680
Speaker 1: should go that month, right, because it's kind of like

561
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: you're directly rewarding for what you're looking at. So I

562
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 1: don't know, that's that's kind of my idea. I think

563
00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 1: that would be a really really cool way of doing it.

564
00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:13,400
Speaker 1: I just don't see it happening. And ten dollars a

565
00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:16,560
Speaker 1: month seems whatever you want. Let's say you're you're rolling

566
00:29:16,600 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 1: in it and you're saying, oh, a hundred bucks a month,

567
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: no big deal, and I'll divide that up between everyone.

568
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: I mean, it's just such a cool way of doing

569
00:29:21,960 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: it that I wish someone would come up with that.

570
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 1: But you know, these these platforms like to really silo

571
00:29:27,520 --> 00:29:30,760
Speaker 1: you and keep you kind of separate from everything else.

572
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,320
Speaker 1: And I think, you know, there's been a lot of

573
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,000
Speaker 1: talk about this Web three, and I think when that

574
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,280
Speaker 1: is being built, a lot of this stuff is going

575
00:29:39,360 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 1: to be much more decentralized and much more cryptocurrency based

576
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 1: and much more blockchain based. And I think we're going

577
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: to see a lot more opportunities to do stuff like

578
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: this versus right now where we are just looking at

579
00:29:51,760 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: big platforms like Facebook and Instagram and YouTube and you know,

580
00:29:58,720 --> 00:30:02,520
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts can trolling such a large swath of our

581
00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:05,000
Speaker 1: entertainment and the way that we do things, the way

582
00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: that we pay for things. But I think in the future,

583
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:10,320
Speaker 1: as the Web is being rewritten, we will see a

584
00:30:10,400 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: lot more of this stuff linking up on the back

585
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,200
Speaker 1: end because a lot more of it's going to be decentralized.

586
00:30:15,240 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: I at least hope that happens. All right, let's get

587
00:30:23,600 --> 00:30:27,600
Speaker 1: to the next question. This question comes from Chip in

588
00:30:27,720 --> 00:30:30,480
Speaker 1: Long Beach. Hey, Rich, I recently made the mistake of

589
00:30:30,560 --> 00:30:34,720
Speaker 1: purchasing the Apple AirTag thinking it would work with Samsung

590
00:30:34,840 --> 00:30:38,600
Speaker 1: Android phone as a true tracker. I found out it

591
00:30:38,640 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: does not function in that way. I want to purchase

592
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: a tracker for the purpose of monitoring my car if

593
00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:47,000
Speaker 1: it's ever stolen. What tracking device would you recommend for

594
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 1: this purpose? All right, well, I'm assuming you return the

595
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:53,920
Speaker 1: air tag. You probably could have activated the air tag

596
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,560
Speaker 1: with like an iPad. That would work if you have

597
00:30:57,600 --> 00:30:59,920
Speaker 1: an iPad, but if you have an Android, maybe you don't.

598
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:03,040
Speaker 1: So the thing I would probably recommend at this point

599
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: is a TILE tracker. And the reason I would recommend

600
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:10,680
Speaker 1: Tile is for two things. Number One, Tile is, you know,

601
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: they're like the number two out there, and so they're

602
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 1: going to be big and people know about them. And

603
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: I think their network is pretty good, especially with the

604
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:24,760
Speaker 1: acquisition that they were acquired by Life three sixty, which

605
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:28,080
Speaker 1: is installed on you know, thirty million phones, and so

606
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: that immediately is going to help this finding network grow.

607
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: Now I'm not sure that's happening just yet, but that's

608
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: the plan. And so Tile went from just being on

609
00:31:38,000 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: a bunch of different phones. I don't know how many

610
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: phones they had in their network, but now I mean,

611
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:45,240
Speaker 1: with thirty million phones, that's a pretty good number. And

612
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: so the way that these finding networks work is that

613
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 1: the phones anonymously sort of scan Bluetooth around them and

614
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,959
Speaker 1: when they see something, they report the location back to

615
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 1: the server, and then when you look for your item,

616
00:31:58,240 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: it says, oh, yeah, we know wh your item is.

617
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: It's right here. That would be probably the best one.

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00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:04,880
Speaker 1: Now you can go with another one. The other one

619
00:32:04,920 --> 00:32:10,480
Speaker 1: i'd recommend is probably from uh Tea Mobile and they

620
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 1: have a tracker I think it's called the sync up,

621
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: and that one would be good because it has it

622
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:17,200
Speaker 1: has real GPS built in, so you're always gonna get

623
00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: a true, actual location. But the problem is with that,

624
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to pay a monthly fee, and if

625
00:32:23,120 --> 00:32:25,920
Speaker 1: you don't have Tea Mobile, it's kind of complicated because

626
00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:28,600
Speaker 1: I think the monthly fee is more, But that would

627
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: be the way to go if you want something that's dedicated,

628
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,120
Speaker 1: and in the case of a car, you could probably

629
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:37,960
Speaker 1: figure out a way to keep this thing plugged in

630
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: to like a USB outlet in your car that just

631
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:42,840
Speaker 1: kind of keeps it powered up all the time, because

632
00:32:42,880 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 1: the downside of the GPS one is that it's not

633
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: gonna it's gonna lose its charge over a couple of days,

634
00:32:50,280 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: whereas the tile tracker is you know, one battery for

635
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,320
Speaker 1: a year, or something like that. And so the air

636
00:32:56,320 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: attack would be great if you could I think the

637
00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:01,120
Speaker 1: air attack would be the best if if you could

638
00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: somehow activate it on your account. And I think that

639
00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 1: you need to use an iPad to activate the air tag.

640
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: Let me see what Apple says here. So if you

641
00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: look at air tag, let's see iPad. So you can

642
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:23,360
Speaker 1: activate with iPhone iPad or an iPod touch. So if

643
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 1: you have anything any one of those things, you'd be

644
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:28,200
Speaker 1: able to do it. It's funny that you can't do

645
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: it with a Mac computer, which just doesn't really make sense.

646
00:33:31,320 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: But anyway, if you have one of those three things,

647
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: I think Find my Network is the biggest and the best.

648
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:39,600
Speaker 1: In fact, I had to use it yesterday. Now I

649
00:33:39,600 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: didn't have to go to the Find my I just

650
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: had to go to So there's it's kind of weird

651
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: because there's a find my Network and then there's just

652
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:49,840
Speaker 1: like kind of find my stuff. So I was looking

653
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: for my air pods yesterday. I was going out on

654
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,480
Speaker 1: a run and I'm telling you, I could not find

655
00:33:54,480 --> 00:33:56,240
Speaker 1: them for the life of me. I'm like, where did

656
00:33:56,280 --> 00:33:58,640
Speaker 1: they go? I was using them at work, I came home,

657
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: they were in my bag and they were just disappeared.

658
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,680
Speaker 1: They they had literally disappeared, and so I'm like, ah,

659
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:06,320
Speaker 1: I must have left them, or maybe they fell out

660
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 1: of my bag, or maybe I left them on my

661
00:34:07,640 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: desk at work. I'm like, oh, let me try to

662
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: find my and so I fire up Find My on

663
00:34:11,840 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: my phone and it's saying that the I can't hear

664
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:18,040
Speaker 1: the sound. You know, the AirPods play a sound you

665
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: can you can't hear it unless they're really really out

666
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: in the open. So I'm like, all right, so let

667
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:26,239
Speaker 1: me try the proximity finding, and so it says like, hey,

668
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:28,719
Speaker 1: we connected to your AirPods. They're here, and I'm like,

669
00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: there's no way, I'm looking everywhere for them. So it

670
00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: turns out that I kept doing like where it shows

671
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: you exactly where it is like proximity. It's like signals

672
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:40,760
Speaker 1: getting weaker, so it's like it's almost like a honing

673
00:34:40,840 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: device where it hone's right in. And so I'm standing

674
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 1: right in front of my kitchen table and it's saying

675
00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:49,160
Speaker 1: they're here, They're right here in front of you, and

676
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, they're not. I'm looking at my table

677
00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:54,280
Speaker 1: and my wife goes, oh, are they my backpack. Turns

678
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: out I took them out to put them on the

679
00:34:56,160 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: table to go running. She thought they were hers. She

680
00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,560
Speaker 1: just grabbed them, put them through them in her and

681
00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:02,560
Speaker 1: so she pulls two pairs of AirPods out of her

682
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,880
Speaker 1: bag and she says, oh, and I said, oh, my gosh,

683
00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:12,400
Speaker 1: that explains it. So anyway, it was a pretty good

684
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: use of the whole find my system. But that's really, uh,

685
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:17,880
Speaker 1: that's really the best one out there, I think. But

686
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: Tyle probably number two. All right, so let's talk about it.

687
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:24,600
Speaker 1: We want to talk about COVID stuff. Yeah, yeah, I

688
00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,160
Speaker 1: guess so's it's it's late enough into the show. So

689
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,520
Speaker 1: the COVID tests, I you know, of course, when you're

690
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 1: dealing with COVID in your house, the whole thing is

691
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,600
Speaker 1: like these COVID tests because you want to make sure

692
00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,360
Speaker 1: that everyone is clear and free and clear. And so

693
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:43,799
Speaker 1: a couple things. Number one, the US government came out

694
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: with their free COVID website, which if you're listening to

695
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:51,120
Speaker 1: this podcast, I'm assuming you're savvy enough that you've already

696
00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:53,400
Speaker 1: gone to this website and ordered your tests. If you

697
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: have not, I would recommend that you do, because if

698
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: you're like me. I was kind of making fun of

699
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,200
Speaker 1: the tests in the stores, saying, oh, come on, who

700
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,400
Speaker 1: needs all these? And sure enough, when you have a

701
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: COVID scare, you do need them, and so it really

702
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:08,600
Speaker 1: helps to have them. And I was making fun of

703
00:36:08,600 --> 00:36:11,040
Speaker 1: them six months ago saying, oh, look, they can't even

704
00:36:11,080 --> 00:36:13,120
Speaker 1: sell these things, and then you know, a couple weeks

705
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,680
Speaker 1: ago you couldn't even get them. So if you go

706
00:36:15,719 --> 00:36:19,760
Speaker 1: to COVID tests dot gov, you can get four free

707
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: at home COVID nineteen tests and they will ship free.

708
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,239
Speaker 1: There's a lot of bogus websites out there, so be

709
00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: sure you're going to the official one, which is COVID

710
00:36:29,120 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 1: tests dot gov. And you know it wouldn't be a

711
00:36:32,080 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: government website if it wasn't a little confusing. And I

712
00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: think it is a bit confusing because it's simple to use,

713
00:36:38,680 --> 00:36:41,080
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, But the website that it links

714
00:36:41,120 --> 00:36:45,479
Speaker 1: you to is USPS dot com. So when you click

715
00:36:45,520 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: the big link on the homepage of the of the

716
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:52,560
Speaker 1: main website, it brings you to this special dot USPS

717
00:36:52,640 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: dot com slash test kiss website, which is not ideal

718
00:36:56,200 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: because if you're looking to you know, scam people or

719
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:03,200
Speaker 1: mislead people. That now gives you two opportunities to do this,

720
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:07,800
Speaker 1: because you can slightly misspell the first url, and then

721
00:37:07,840 --> 00:37:10,000
Speaker 1: since it takes you to a completely different link to

722
00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:12,839
Speaker 1: actually order them, you can then misspell that one, and

723
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 1: now you're two clicks in and you can really mislead people.

724
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,759
Speaker 1: So I think most people probably got it right. I'm

725
00:37:18,760 --> 00:37:21,120
Speaker 1: sure there's an element of some people who are being

726
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: misled and bogus sites and this and that, but hopefully

727
00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: most people got this right. So I ordered mine pretty simple.

728
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 1: You put your address in. I know some people had

729
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: issues if they have an apartment that they live in.

730
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: Hopefully that's been fixed. But I thought this was pretty

731
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:40,719
Speaker 1: smart by the US government to kind of piggyback on

732
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:44,319
Speaker 1: USPS dot com because they have a database of all

733
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: the addresses in the US and so they can kind

734
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: of mark them as ordered or not. Obviously, they've got

735
00:37:50,280 --> 00:37:53,799
Speaker 1: the fulfillment down because of the post Office. So all

736
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:56,239
Speaker 1: I know is that these postal carriers are going to

737
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:59,239
Speaker 1: be delivering a lot of tests to people's houses in

738
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: the next couple of week weeks. It says about seven

739
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: to ten days to get them. Now, once you've done that,

740
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:05,759
Speaker 1: if you feel like that's not enough and you need

741
00:38:05,800 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 1: to get more tests. You can order them online, and

742
00:38:09,760 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: I think that's the easiest. I tried to. I made

743
00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:13,840
Speaker 1: the mistake of trying to go to a couple stores

744
00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 1: and you get like you get into the front door

745
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: and you're like, hey, do you have anything, like no,

746
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,440
Speaker 1: no COVID tests, and they point to like one thousand

747
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,560
Speaker 1: laser printed signs on the store door, and I'm like, oh, sorry, sorry,

748
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 1: sorry for asking, but you can use I ordered mine

749
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: from CVS dot com and Walmart dot com and they

750
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: both came in about three days. There's a certain amount

751
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,440
Speaker 1: that you can order. I ordered kind of the maximum

752
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 1: from both, so I had a bunch. And believe me,

753
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: you need them. If you're doing these tests every other

754
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:45,239
Speaker 1: day like we were for a while, it's like, you

755
00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: do need these tests. You need multiple tests. And so anyway,

756
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:51,680
Speaker 1: if you want to see some of these websites, it's

757
00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: funny because Wall Street Journal did an article about these

758
00:38:55,080 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 1: in stock websites. We've talked about them before for things

759
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:02,320
Speaker 1: like PlayStation five and XPO the new Xbox, and now

760
00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 1: they have they at one point were listing products like

761
00:39:05,719 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: you know, hand sanitizer, and lysol wipes, and now they're

762
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,720
Speaker 1: listing COVID tests. So websites like now in stock dot net,

763
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: zuler dot com, hotstock dot io, and Brickseek, which originally

764
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: started as a lego finding website, are now all showing

765
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:26,879
Speaker 1: links for COVID tests and whether they're in stock. Now,

766
00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:31,680
Speaker 1: I will tell you just in my experience, they're not

767
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,799
Speaker 1: the most accurate when it says they're in stock. You

768
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 1: can go to the Walgreen's website and they're actually not

769
00:39:37,520 --> 00:39:41,920
Speaker 1: in stock. But I did find the Walmart stuff. I

770
00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:44,800
Speaker 1: just kind of kept refreshing the page and it worked

771
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:47,040
Speaker 1: and I ordered them and they were on their way.

772
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,560
Speaker 1: And the same thing with the CVS ones that I ordered.

773
00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 1: So just if you need them, it's one of those

774
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: things that you know, you kind of I feel like

775
00:39:55,120 --> 00:39:57,279
Speaker 1: it's just easier than driving around. It really will just

776
00:39:57,280 --> 00:40:03,239
Speaker 1: save you kind of a little headache there. All right,

777
00:40:03,280 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: let's get to the next question. Let's see this comes

778
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:12,759
Speaker 1: from Let's see who is it Dennis. Dennis says, I

779
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: wonder if you can help me with a problem I'm

780
00:40:14,320 --> 00:40:17,359
Speaker 1: having concerning boost Mobile. Someone is telling me that they're

781
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: doing away with three g January first, twenty twenty two.

782
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:24,120
Speaker 1: But I have a four G boost Mobile phone. I

783
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:26,359
Speaker 1: called boost Mobile. They said, yes, three g's going away.

784
00:40:26,400 --> 00:40:28,080
Speaker 1: I need a new phone, but they will not answer

785
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: me whether four G will work on their existing network

786
00:40:31,160 --> 00:40:34,080
Speaker 1: after three G goes away. Do you have any information

787
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: on whether four G will continue to work or whether

788
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 1: I need to get a new phone. Are they just

789
00:40:37,760 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: trying to get me to buy a new phone with

790
00:40:39,120 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 1: five G? Thank you, Dennis. So here is the deal, Dennis.

791
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:48,000
Speaker 1: Boost Mobile used to run on the Sprint network, and

792
00:40:48,040 --> 00:40:51,839
Speaker 1: so Sprint had three G, they had four G they

793
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:53,920
Speaker 1: I believe did they had five G. I don't even

794
00:40:53,960 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: if they made it to five G by the time

795
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:58,200
Speaker 1: they were purchased. So Sprint was purchased by T Mobile.

796
00:40:58,640 --> 00:41:02,880
Speaker 1: T Mobile is slow but surely dismantling the Sprint network

797
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: to get folks over onto the T Mobile network. And

798
00:41:05,960 --> 00:41:10,520
Speaker 1: T Mobile has four G and five G. I'm not

799
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,719
Speaker 1: sure if T Mobile is shut down their three G yet.

800
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 1: But so what they're saying is it's a little confusing

801
00:41:16,200 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: because if you have one of these older handsets and

802
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:23,799
Speaker 1: they're shutting down three G, that means in June of

803
00:41:23,840 --> 00:41:29,040
Speaker 1: twenty sorry, in April of twenty twenty two. It looks

804
00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: like they're shutting down the three G and four G

805
00:41:33,800 --> 00:41:36,520
Speaker 1: on Sprint, So that means that anyone that's on those

806
00:41:36,520 --> 00:41:39,440
Speaker 1: networks needs to move over to a T Mobile network.

807
00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:41,960
Speaker 1: So I think that's what's happening with your phone. I

808
00:41:41,960 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: don't think they're misleading you, but it sounds like you

809
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 1: don't have that much You don't have that much time

810
00:41:48,840 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: left to get your phone switched over. So if I

811
00:41:53,120 --> 00:41:57,520
Speaker 1: were you, I would upgrade to get to get over

812
00:41:57,600 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: on the T Mobile network. That's really very confusing. But

813
00:42:01,440 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: the bottom line is, if you have a Boost Mobile

814
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:07,560
Speaker 1: phone that's a little bit old, three g's going away. Yes,

815
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: your phone supports four G, but four G is also

816
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,399
Speaker 1: going away because of the Sprint stuff. It's not going

817
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: away in general. Yes, if you had a T Mobile

818
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: phone T Mobile compatible phone, it would just go to

819
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,560
Speaker 1: four G. But since you probably have a Sprint phone

820
00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: from Boost Mobile, you're still in that Sprint network. When

821
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 1: three G goes away and then four G goes away,

822
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:29,440
Speaker 1: your phone's not gonna work. So they're trying to get

823
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: you onto T Mobile, which, yes, your phone will have

824
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,840
Speaker 1: four G and five G with T Mobile, but T

825
00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:38,200
Speaker 1: Mobile is not putting that away anytime soon, so I

826
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 1: would definitely get the upgrade. See what you're thinking, offer

827
00:42:40,719 --> 00:42:47,040
Speaker 1: you and move on. Okay, I tried something out that's

828
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: really really cool and this is Oh wait, I skipped

829
00:42:50,840 --> 00:42:53,600
Speaker 1: a story. Hold on, let's talk about Samsung's S twenty

830
00:42:53,600 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 1: one FE. This is their Fan Edition phone. I think

831
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,800
Speaker 1: I talked about it on the podcast from CS but

832
00:42:59,840 --> 00:43:02,160
Speaker 1: i'll I did get one to test, and so I'll

833
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,399
Speaker 1: just give you my thoughts on it. And it comes

834
00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:08,799
Speaker 1: at an interesting time because the new Samsung devices, the

835
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,880
Speaker 1: S twenty two's, are going to launch in February. That's

836
00:43:11,880 --> 00:43:14,560
Speaker 1: when they typically launch, and so I'm expecting that to happen.

837
00:43:15,920 --> 00:43:18,480
Speaker 1: But the S twenty one FE came out just a

838
00:43:18,480 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and this is called the Fan Edition.

839
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: The S twenty Fan Edition was very, very popular, and

840
00:43:24,880 --> 00:43:26,799
Speaker 1: so they came out this S twenty one FE, but

841
00:43:26,840 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: it was like way delayed for some reason. I'm not

842
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:32,160
Speaker 1: sure why. They never really gave an example. So this

843
00:43:32,200 --> 00:43:34,719
Speaker 1: is a phone that's sort of less expensive than a flagship,

844
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:37,040
Speaker 1: but it has all the essential features that you need.

845
00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:41,080
Speaker 1: And so I talked to Ben shown at nine to

846
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:43,480
Speaker 1: five Google. He's a senior editor. I love following him

847
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: on Twitter because he's always talking about Android stuff and

848
00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:49,520
Speaker 1: specifically mostly the Pixel and so I just love seeing

849
00:43:49,560 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: kind of his take on things. So I talked to

850
00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 1: him about this phone, and he thought it was a

851
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 1: great phone. I mean, I kind of thought it was

852
00:43:56,480 --> 00:43:58,040
Speaker 1: a great phone just using it. I was like, this

853
00:43:58,080 --> 00:44:01,320
Speaker 1: is a really nice little device. It's the perfect size,

854
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,160
Speaker 1: it's got a great screen, it's got all the features

855
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:06,800
Speaker 1: you need, like a fast processor. It's got a decent

856
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,239
Speaker 1: amount of memory. You know, I'm talking the RAM and

857
00:44:10,280 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: then the storage. It starts at I believe one twenty eight,

858
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:14,960
Speaker 1: so you've got plenty of storage there for most people.

859
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,080
Speaker 1: And it's got all of like the features that you need,

860
00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:20,960
Speaker 1: like the three cameras. It's got a good selfie camera.

861
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: It's made of you know, plastic instead of glass and metal,

862
00:44:25,080 --> 00:44:27,279
Speaker 1: so it's a little I mean, of course, I'm sure

863
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 1: there's some metal in there, but in the frame, but

864
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:32,920
Speaker 1: like the glass, the phone is plastic mostly, and so

865
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 1: it looks like a baby version of the S twenty

866
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: one Ultra. And it's just a really nice phone. And

867
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 1: Ben said the same thing. He said that this is

868
00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: a crowd pleasing phone. It's gonna get three years of

869
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,919
Speaker 1: major updates and other year of security updates. It's got

870
00:44:45,920 --> 00:44:48,839
Speaker 1: Android twelve built in, which is the latest Android. It's

871
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: got a wireless charging capability, comes in a bunch of

872
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,920
Speaker 1: fun colors like graphite, all of lavender and white. But

873
00:44:56,719 --> 00:44:59,719
Speaker 1: then we get to the price. And here's where it

874
00:44:59,760 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: gets kind of complicated, because this phone retails for six

875
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety nine dollars. Now out of the gate,

876
00:45:06,960 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 1: they were offering one hundred dollars discount. So let's just

877
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:11,480
Speaker 1: say that this phone is really five hundred and ninety

878
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 1: nine dollars, which puts it squarely in line with the

879
00:45:14,560 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: Pixel six. Now, the Pixel six, I would argue, takes

880
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,520
Speaker 1: better pictures, even though I haven't personally tested that phone.

881
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,120
Speaker 1: I've been testing the Pixel six Pro. But the Pixel

882
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 1: always takes great pictures. They're always a little bit ahead

883
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:31,360
Speaker 1: of Samsung. But I will say I think Samsung's cameras

884
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:33,239
Speaker 1: have come a really long way and they're doing a

885
00:45:33,239 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: great job. And I would almost argue I would actually

886
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: I will argue that Samsung software is more refined at

887
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:45,760
Speaker 1: this point. Now I get that Pixel software is much simpler,

888
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 1: and I do prefer the Pixel software over the Samsung software.

889
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,400
Speaker 1: But when it comes to like software updates and just

890
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 1: kind of you know, Samsung's been doing it a lot longer,

891
00:45:55,320 --> 00:45:57,840
Speaker 1: and so I feel like their side of things is

892
00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 1: just much more stable, right, They've been doing it for

893
00:46:00,200 --> 00:46:03,000
Speaker 1: a while, they know what they're doing. Their updates come

894
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 1: out like clockwork at this point, whereas on the Pixel

895
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: side of things, yeah, not so great. And I don't

896
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: understand what Google's problem is with these Pixel updates, but

897
00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:14,640
Speaker 1: they're just so like all over the place, and the

898
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 1: software is like, you know, kind of jittery sometimes, and

899
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,960
Speaker 1: it's like I just don't understand why by Google can't

900
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,920
Speaker 1: get this stuff right. They make Android, why they make

901
00:46:23,960 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: the Pixel, Why can't they make the pixel like so perfect?

902
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: So it really comes down to do you want the

903
00:46:28,920 --> 00:46:31,800
Speaker 1: Pixel that has a better camera or do you want

904
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:34,840
Speaker 1: the Samsung which has you know, kind of that Samsung

905
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:39,360
Speaker 1: brand appeal and kind of more accessories, a better ecosystem.

906
00:46:39,880 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 1: So it really comes down But the bottom line, I

907
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:44,279
Speaker 1: think for this phone, if the price is right for you,

908
00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:47,120
Speaker 1: So if you're purchasing this phone at a really good deal,

909
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: if you have a good trade in or if you

910
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,759
Speaker 1: like Samsung, it's gonna be a perfectly good phone. The

911
00:46:51,800 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 1: only caveat you need to know is that the new

912
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 1: S twenty two models are likely going to come out

913
00:46:56,880 --> 00:46:59,759
Speaker 1: in February. So if you're thinking of upgrading to those

914
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,080
Speaker 1: want the latest, greatest, you know, the new S twenty two,

915
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: like standard model, which I would compare this one against,

916
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 1: is probably going to be about two hundred dollars more

917
00:47:08,080 --> 00:47:10,359
Speaker 1: than this. Maybe it might start at like seven ninety nine,

918
00:47:10,440 --> 00:47:13,520
Speaker 1: eight ninety nine perhaps, so you know it's going to

919
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 1: be more expensive, but it's going to be a higher

920
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 1: end phone because it's going to be a flagship versus

921
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,839
Speaker 1: this fan edition. So that's kind of what you need

922
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:24,000
Speaker 1: to know about the S twenty one f E. It's

923
00:47:24,040 --> 00:47:26,720
Speaker 1: a great little phone. Like Ben said in his review,

924
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: it's a crowd pleasing device. It's just one of those

925
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: phones that's it's going to have a long lifetime with

926
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 1: the way that they sell Samsung devices, because people are

927
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 1: going to go into you know, T Mobile for the

928
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:39,960
Speaker 1: S twenty two and they're going to see this phone

929
00:47:40,000 --> 00:47:41,919
Speaker 1: that's a couple hundred bucks cheaper, and they say what's

930
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: the difference, and the person at T Mobile or Verizon

931
00:47:45,040 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: or eighteens's going to say not much, honestly, like you

932
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: might as well just get this one. So that's why

933
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,279
Speaker 1: I wanted to make sure I had this review out there,

934
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,719
Speaker 1: because I think that a lot of people are going

935
00:47:53,760 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: to purchase this phone. The one thing you do need

936
00:47:56,040 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: to know about it there is no micro SD card

937
00:47:58,840 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: slot like there was last year. All right. Next question

938
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: comes from Let's see Kathy says, if a picture is

939
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: sent to someone in Google Cloud, can it be deleted

940
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: forever or is it still in Google for someone to

941
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: run across. Interesting question. So, Kathy, I don't know if

942
00:48:26,200 --> 00:48:30,680
Speaker 1: you're talking about Google Photos or a photo that's just

943
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: opened on the web, on the Internet that's just out there.

944
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: But let's just say with Google Photos, let's say you

945
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,719
Speaker 1: sent or maybe through Google messaging. But let's say you

946
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:42,400
Speaker 1: have a picture in Google Photos and I delete that

947
00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: picture number one. It sits in my Google Photos for

948
00:48:44,840 --> 00:48:48,320
Speaker 1: thirty days until it's deleted out of my Google Photos.

949
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:50,480
Speaker 1: So if you look at and this is pretty standard

950
00:48:50,520 --> 00:48:53,040
Speaker 1: the way the iPhone works, the way Google Photos works.

951
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 1: When you delete something, it's not actually deleted immediately. It's

952
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 1: deleted in it's moved to a delete folder, and it

953
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 1: sits there for thirty days, a rolling thirty days, so

954
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:09,719
Speaker 1: on the thirtieth day or whatever, it will automatically self destruct. Now,

955
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: if you want to get rid of those things a

956
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,960
Speaker 1: little bit earlier, you can go and empty either the

957
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:18,560
Speaker 1: trash or the recently deleted or depending on how your

958
00:49:18,719 --> 00:49:23,120
Speaker 1: cloud program calls it. Now that's number one, So it's

959
00:49:23,160 --> 00:49:26,239
Speaker 1: gone for all intense purposes, it's gone. Now. Is it

960
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:29,160
Speaker 1: still on the Google server somewhere for at least a

961
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:33,480
Speaker 1: period of time? Yeah? Probably? Is it there forever? Probably not, so,

962
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,640
Speaker 1: I would imagine, and I'm not sure if this is

963
00:49:35,680 --> 00:49:38,279
Speaker 1: documented or not. I'm just kind of saying what I

964
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:42,400
Speaker 1: think how I think Google operates. I would imagine that

965
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:48,200
Speaker 1: once it's deleted from your trash inside Google Photos, it

966
00:49:48,239 --> 00:49:51,719
Speaker 1: then lingers on the Google Cloud for a period of time,

967
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:54,880
Speaker 1: let's say, like ninety days or something, just to you know,

968
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: make sure if there's any legal issues or if there's

969
00:49:57,719 --> 00:50:03,800
Speaker 1: any problems, or you know, probably mostly legal or even backups.

970
00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: If there's a backup of it. It just might take

971
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:09,840
Speaker 1: a little bit for all the deletion command to propagate

972
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: through everything, and it might be delayed for a reason.

973
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,400
Speaker 1: And so that's kind of the main answer that I

974
00:50:15,400 --> 00:50:18,600
Speaker 1: would give to that. Now, the second part of your

975
00:50:18,640 --> 00:50:20,840
Speaker 1: answer is is it still in Google for someone to

976
00:50:20,920 --> 00:50:23,920
Speaker 1: run across that part, I would say no, if the

977
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:27,040
Speaker 1: person running across it is just a regular person. Now,

978
00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:31,000
Speaker 1: if it's someone inside Google that either wants to find

979
00:50:31,000 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: this thing or needs to find it for some sort

980
00:50:33,360 --> 00:50:35,759
Speaker 1: of legal reason, yeah, they might still be able to

981
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,920
Speaker 1: access it even if it is deleted from you. So

982
00:50:39,080 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: I think that's pretty standard practice when it comes to

983
00:50:41,880 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 1: deleting anything online. Like they always say, when something is

984
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 1: put online, it's not truly ever gone. And I think

985
00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:53,080
Speaker 1: that that's, you know, a generalization, but that's the mindset

986
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:55,960
Speaker 1: that we should keep when we do put stuff online,

987
00:50:56,000 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 1: that it's not really going away ever. Now, I think

988
00:50:58,560 --> 00:51:02,440
Speaker 1: that's relying to the referring to the public Internet, Like

989
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: if you upload a picture to a website that's public, yeah,

990
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: that picture is going to be there forever because anyone

991
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: can download it and propagate it and continue to propagate

992
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: it forever. So that's that's the answer that I would

993
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:16,840
Speaker 1: give for that. All right, now, let's talk about this

994
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: cool feature that's rolling out at Hyatt Hotels. It's called

995
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:24,000
Speaker 1: room keys in Apple Wallet. And I'm not going to

996
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:25,560
Speaker 1: spend a whole bunch of time on this, but there's

997
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: only six hotels in America that do this, including the

998
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,880
Speaker 1: ANDAs Maui in Hawaii, a resort in Key West, the

999
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: Hyatt House in Chicago, the Hyatt House in Dallas, the

1000
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:40,080
Speaker 1: Hiatt Place in Silicon Valley, and the Hyatt Regency in

1001
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:42,239
Speaker 1: Long Beach. I went to the Higatt Regency in Long

1002
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: Beach to test this out, and yes, it's a key

1003
00:51:45,760 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: inside your Apple Wallet. Now you might be saying, rich,

1004
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:51,640
Speaker 1: I've done this before. I've used my phone as a

1005
00:51:51,760 --> 00:51:54,719
Speaker 1: key for a hotel room. It's kind of annoying, but

1006
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:59,160
Speaker 1: there is a major difference here. The major difference is

1007
00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:01,759
Speaker 1: that you do not need to do anything special with

1008
00:52:01,840 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: your phone once you download you know, of course, you

1009
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,319
Speaker 1: have to download the Hide app. You need to check

1010
00:52:06,320 --> 00:52:08,480
Speaker 1: in online and it will tell you when your key

1011
00:52:08,520 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 1: is ready and it puts it inside Apple walle But

1012
00:52:10,400 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: once that happens, there is nothing special you need to

1013
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 1: do except just hold your phone up to the door

1014
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,840
Speaker 1: to unlock it. You don't need to unlock your phone.

1015
00:52:19,160 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: You don't need to call up an app. You don't

1016
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:23,600
Speaker 1: need to call up the key nothing. They've programmed this

1017
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: so that when you go put your phone near the door,

1018
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:29,239
Speaker 1: the door talks to your phone and says, hey, can

1019
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,840
Speaker 1: you call up Rich's a hotel room key and unlock

1020
00:52:31,880 --> 00:52:34,720
Speaker 1: this door? And it does it, and it's brilliant. Happens

1021
00:52:34,719 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: in under three seconds and might even be quicker than

1022
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:39,720
Speaker 1: that might be a second. But the goal with Hyatt,

1023
00:52:39,760 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: they said they told me that the goal was under

1024
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: three seconds. And it's really fast. It's really easy, and

1025
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 1: it's different than the app because it's using NFC. The

1026
00:52:50,080 --> 00:52:52,560
Speaker 1: If you've ever used an app as your hotel room key,

1027
00:52:52,680 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: it is not fun. I've done it a bunch of

1028
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,560
Speaker 1: times because I wanted to try it and use it

1029
00:52:57,600 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 1: and feel like I was on the cutting edge. But

1030
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,239
Speaker 1: it's not a very good system because it is Bluetooth

1031
00:53:02,840 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: and you have to basically open up you have to

1032
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:08,000
Speaker 1: unlock your phone, you have to open up the app,

1033
00:53:08,040 --> 00:53:10,200
Speaker 1: and then you have to activate the key. And when

1034
00:53:10,200 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 1: it's activating the key, it's just basically firing out a

1035
00:53:12,920 --> 00:53:15,200
Speaker 1: Bluetooth signal at the door to say that you're in

1036
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,840
Speaker 1: front of it. Not a very good system. It still works,

1037
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,080
Speaker 1: and yeah, a lot of hotels are enabled with that.

1038
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: That's why this is so different because it is a

1039
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:28,480
Speaker 1: very specific technology. It is firing off NFC. Now. I

1040
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:31,160
Speaker 1: think that we are going to see this in use

1041
00:53:31,560 --> 00:53:34,640
Speaker 1: in so many places in the future. I mean, right now,

1042
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 1: I have a card key for my work that I

1043
00:53:36,480 --> 00:53:39,759
Speaker 1: use to open the door at work. It's a you know,

1044
00:53:39,760 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: it's an RFID key that is definitely going to replace

1045
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: by phones in the future, getting in and out of

1046
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 1: parking garages. I mean, all these things where you have

1047
00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,239
Speaker 1: some sort of plastic key card are all going to

1048
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,080
Speaker 1: replace by the phones. And I'm not just talking iPhone.

1049
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:56,400
Speaker 1: You know, this will happen with Android two. It just

1050
00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:59,600
Speaker 1: so happens that iPhone. You know, Apple is such a

1051
00:53:59,640 --> 00:54:03,319
Speaker 1: big brand and it has so many users that it's

1052
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 1: an easy sell right now. And so I asked Hyatt

1053
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: and said, hey, is this going to come to Android

1054
00:54:07,440 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 1: And they said, yeah, we'd love to, but it's not

1055
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,719
Speaker 1: right now because I'm not even sure that Google has

1056
00:54:11,719 --> 00:54:14,799
Speaker 1: the framework. I'm sure they do. Actually, I know they

1057
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: do because you can unlock BMW's with the Google walle

1058
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 1: as well, so or Google Digital Key or whatever so

1059
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 1: it's happening more and more. It just takes a lot

1060
00:54:25,000 --> 00:54:26,799
Speaker 1: to sort of program this stuff, but I will tell you,

1061
00:54:27,160 --> 00:54:30,360
Speaker 1: having tried it out, it is magical. It is amazing,

1062
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 1: and it's the first time I think that the phone

1063
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:38,839
Speaker 1: can truly replace a plastic hotel room key card. Previously,

1064
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:41,400
Speaker 1: if you were a nerd, if you were kind of

1065
00:54:41,440 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: on the cutting edge, you just wanted to prove it

1066
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Speaker 1: to yourself that you can use your phone as a

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00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: key for your hotel room. Yes, it works, and it

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00:54:47,760 --> 00:54:50,800
Speaker 1: will continue to work, but it's just not as smooth,

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00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 1: not as fast, not as seamless as it is when

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Speaker 1: your phone is programmed to do this. And I'm telling

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00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,120
Speaker 1: you it's so easy and magical that you just hold

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00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:02,200
Speaker 1: your phone near the door and it unlocks, and it's

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00:55:02,239 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: just so great because you don't have to do anything

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Speaker 1: in advance of bringing up that key. So good job.

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Speaker 1: If you happen to be at any one of those

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Speaker 1: high hotels, definitely definitely check it out, all right, Kyle says,

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, this is kind of works with what we were

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00:55:21,719 --> 00:55:26,040
Speaker 1: talking about. Kyle says. It was a credit card sized

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00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: device that is kept on your person and used to

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Speaker 1: keep hackers from stealing your credit card info. I know

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Speaker 1: it was quite a while ago. I know. Thanks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Kyle wants to know what that device was. The

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00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: only thing I can think of that you're talking about

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00:55:40,440 --> 00:55:45,120
Speaker 1: is a company called Silent Pocket, and so they do

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00:55:45,239 --> 00:55:49,560
Speaker 1: things called Faraday bags, and Faraday means that it's no

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00:55:49,760 --> 00:55:53,200
Speaker 1: signals can come into the bag, no signals can leave

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00:55:53,239 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: the bag. And so we did a story with these

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00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:59,560
Speaker 1: folks a while ago, and you know, their whole thing

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00:55:59,640 --> 00:56:02,200
Speaker 1: is that it blocks all everything in and out. You

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00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:06,120
Speaker 1: can block your cellular connection, r if ID, you can

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Speaker 1: satellite navigation, GPS, camera, weather, bluetooth, I mean everything you put.

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Speaker 1: You put your phone in this bag, and it is

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00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,319
Speaker 1: it is locked out. In fact, I still have the

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00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 1: bag that they gave me as a sample, and I

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00:56:19,719 --> 00:56:21,200
Speaker 1: put my phone in it the other day because I

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00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:24,400
Speaker 1: wanted just a total break from reality. And so I

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00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:26,319
Speaker 1: just threw my phone in this bag. And yeah, it

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00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:29,440
Speaker 1: didn't didn't do anything. It's just kind of it just

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00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 1: kind of it cuts off the signal. But the cool

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00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:35,040
Speaker 1: thing is it actually doesn't ruin your battery. And so

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00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: I asked the guy with a company, like, what's the

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00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:39,440
Speaker 1: deal with the battery doesn't drain it, And he said, no,

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00:56:40,120 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: the phone just kind of goes into a low you know,

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00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:45,200
Speaker 1: a low power mode or something that it you know,

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00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 1: it's not it's not constantly. Remember the old days of

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00:56:48,040 --> 00:56:50,240
Speaker 1: cell phones, if you had no signal, it would search

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00:56:50,239 --> 00:56:53,240
Speaker 1: and it would just literally drain your battery. That doesn't

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00:56:53,239 --> 00:56:55,200
Speaker 1: really happen anymore because phones have gotten a little bit

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00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: more sophisticated. And so when I put my phone in

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00:56:57,520 --> 00:57:01,040
Speaker 1: this pouch, it didn't really drain the battery. But that's

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00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,520
Speaker 1: what I think it is. The website is Silent Pocket,

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00:57:04,000 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 1: or the company is Silent Pocket, and the website is

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00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 1: sl and T sl and T. It looks like they

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00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:14,600
Speaker 1: kind of change their name from Silent Pocket to just

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00:57:14,719 --> 00:57:20,360
Speaker 1: Silent SLNT. And they have everything. They've got wallets, sleeves, bags,

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00:57:20,480 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: key key, fob guards, they've got all kinds of things.

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00:57:24,360 --> 00:57:27,640
Speaker 1: So if you want to protect, you know, protect your signal,

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00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: you can do it. All right, let's talk I guess

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Speaker 1: this is our final story. Let's talk about word All.

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Speaker 1: Have you played word all? Wordle is this word game

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00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:42,680
Speaker 1: that everyone seems to be playing overnight, And the whole

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00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:47,200
Speaker 1: thing about this word game wordle is that it was.

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00:57:47,360 --> 00:57:51,000
Speaker 1: It's just a simple online word game, and it became popular.

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00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:53,120
Speaker 1: I think the first mention was in the New York

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00:57:53,120 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 1: Times over Thanksgiving, and it kind of built from there.

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00:57:56,320 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 1: And the reason why it built is because everyone was

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00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 1: sharing these little cubes, these green and yellow cubes on

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00:58:02,920 --> 00:58:06,800
Speaker 1: their social media. And what that reveals. It's actually bragging.

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00:58:07,320 --> 00:58:10,840
Speaker 1: It's showing how it says wordle a number and then

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00:58:10,960 --> 00:58:13,160
Speaker 1: a number out of a number out of six. And

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00:58:13,240 --> 00:58:15,400
Speaker 1: so wordle is the name of the game. Two twelve

1132
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 1: means it's a two hundred and twelfth wordle. Five means

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00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,320
Speaker 1: that it's you got it in five out of six tries.

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00:58:21,840 --> 00:58:24,040
Speaker 1: And so it's a fun little game. Uh you know,

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00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,640
Speaker 1: I've been playing it on and off. But you guess five.

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00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:31,080
Speaker 1: You have six guesses, six chances to guess a five

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00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:35,040
Speaker 1: letter word. It's just one puzzle every single day. You know.

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00:58:35,040 --> 00:58:37,240
Speaker 1: If you like crosswords and other sort of puzzles, that's

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00:58:37,320 --> 00:58:39,160
Speaker 1: that's kind of what it is. And so when you

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00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: guess a word, the correct letters are highlighted. Green means

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00:58:42,840 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 1: the letters in the right spot, and yellow means a

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00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 1: letter is in the wrong is in the word, but

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00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: in the wrong spot, so you need to kind of

1144
00:58:49,120 --> 00:58:52,680
Speaker 1: figure out, you know, where, how to get those letters,

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00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:55,240
Speaker 1: you know, in the right places. This was created by

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00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,919
Speaker 1: a New York based software developer named Josh Wordle not

1147
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 1: not wordle Wa. This was a pet project. And the

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00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:06,200
Speaker 1: thing that's confusing about this game is that it's only

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00:59:06,240 --> 00:59:08,960
Speaker 1: available at this random website called power Language dot co

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00:59:09,160 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: dot uk slash Wordle and that's led a lot of

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00:59:11,680 --> 00:59:14,880
Speaker 1: people to try to download apps for this game, which

1152
00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: there are none. I mean, there's no official app and

1153
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: there's no need to pay to play, so you can

1154
00:59:18,880 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 1: just add a shortcut to your home screen in Safari

1155
00:59:22,000 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: if you want to just play this thing every day.

1156
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 1: So people are sharing it on social media. That's kind

1157
00:59:26,800 --> 00:59:29,240
Speaker 1: of the main thing is that's really what spread this virally,

1158
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:31,280
Speaker 1: is that you can share your results and people are like,

1159
00:59:31,320 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 1: what is that? And then they start playing, and then

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00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:34,560
Speaker 1: they get hooked and next thing you know, they're playing

1161
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: it too. Now semi spoiler alert, I'm going to give

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00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:39,439
Speaker 1: you a couple of words that you can start with

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00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: that really helps. So if you've ever watched Wheel of Fortune,

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00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: you know that the word rst or the letters rst

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00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:51,200
Speaker 1: lne are always the first letters that people guess when

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00:59:51,240 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: they go on Wheel of Fortune to solve the final puzzle.

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00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: And after a bunch of years, if you're old enough

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00:59:56,480 --> 00:59:59,720
Speaker 1: to remember, they now give you rst lne. That wasn't

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 1: he's a thing. But so many people when they get

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01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 1: to the final round just that R S t len E.

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01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,560
Speaker 1: And so now Wheel of Fortune gives you those and

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01:00:07,600 --> 01:00:10,640
Speaker 1: then you pick your extra whatever three or four letters,

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01:00:11,040 --> 01:00:12,880
Speaker 1: and so these are these are kind of the equivalent

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01:00:12,920 --> 01:00:15,400
Speaker 1: of R S T len E. And I got some

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01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 1: of these from Evan Bernholds. He's a Sunday crossword writer

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01:00:18,280 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 1: for the Washington Post. And also I talked to an

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01:00:22,920 --> 01:00:27,280
Speaker 1: expert in word games named Amanda Raftkin, and so she

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01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 1: shared some of these. So these are the tips from them.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people like to start with arise A R, I,

1180
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: S C because it gives you three different vowel vowels

1181
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:37,840
Speaker 1: and R and an S, which are all very common letters.

1182
01:00:38,320 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 1: Other hot words to start with include audi uh, how

1183
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 1: do you say it out to you? Out of you?

1184
01:00:44,440 --> 01:00:48,640
Speaker 1: It's a French word out you. I don't know how

1185
01:00:48,680 --> 01:00:52,200
Speaker 1: to say it, A D I e U and or

1186
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 1: is it a do? No? It's not a due and

1187
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:58,680
Speaker 1: then followed another word is front, so front is another one,

1188
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 1: and so all of those have a lot of common letters.

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01:01:01,000 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: So anyway, if you want to try wordle give it

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01:01:03,400 --> 01:01:05,640
Speaker 1: a try. I'll put the link on my website at

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