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Speaker 1: Plus your tech questions answered. What's going on. I'm Rich

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Speaker 1: Demiro and this is Rich on Tech. This is the

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Speaker 1: gonna talk to swan dot COM's CEO, Corey Clipston. He's

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Speaker 1: cryptocurrency market. I went to the Bitcoin Day this week,

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Speaker 1: Then later in the show, we've got Consumer Reports Suki

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Speaker 1: Golatti to talk permission Slip. This is their tool to

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Speaker 1: Suki will join us a little bit later in the show. Well,

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Speaker 1: it is fall, it is spooky time, it's pumpkin patch time.

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Speaker 1: do the tradition. On Instagram, by the way, I was

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Speaker 1: And so if you look at that, it's actually Halloween writing.

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Speaker 1: So if you go to my Instagram at rich On

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Speaker 1: It's funny too whenever I go to these events, I've

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Speaker 1: and then the Kindlescribe starts at four hundred dollars. Keep

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Speaker 5: Hi, Hi, Rich, I need some help in regard to telephones.

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Speaker 5: All I have now is a landline. I'm a senior citizen,

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Speaker 5: means I need oversized numbers, letters, markings on it. My

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Speaker 5: a mobile phone, an iPhone what I referred to as

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Speaker 5: make some suggestion emergencies and businesses. I don't need any colors, music, lights, whistles,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you just want a simple phone that you

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Speaker 6: Exactly.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, the website that I would check out is, well,

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Speaker 1: Saw that the Great Sea Sun Assistive Tech conference, and

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Speaker 1: And what I like about this is that they specifically

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Speaker 2: That You're gonna have to get online?

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Speaker 1: Typically, so you got to tell the caregiver to to

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Speaker 1: check out blind shell dot com. Okay, got that, so

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Speaker 1: blindshell dot com the other website. Now, you can also

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Speaker 1: walk into like a you know, a consumer cellular kind

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Speaker 1: of place if you want to get a phone from them,

441
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Speaker 1: or just go into like a Verizon store and see

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Speaker 1: what's your You don't have a carrier at all.

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Speaker 7: Huh, I don't have a carrier, okay.

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Speaker 1: So what I would do is look for, you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe one of the carriers, whoever your your caregiver's carrier is,

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Speaker 1: maybe walk into their store and they typically sell a

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Speaker 1: couple of flip phones. You can even go into a

448
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Speaker 1: Walmart and and just see, like what flip phones they

449
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Speaker 1: have with big numbers. That's all I think you need

450
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Speaker 1: at this point is just a flip phone with big numbers,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. Okay, So and that's it, and then

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Speaker 1: just get it activated, get it on a plan. It

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Speaker 1: doesn't sound like you need a lot of minutes, so

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Speaker 1: you can get it on a plan that's maybe prepaid

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Speaker 1: for the whole year at once or monthly whatever you need,

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Speaker 1: but you don't need like a big unlimited plan from

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Speaker 1: something like a AT and T or Verizon, because it's

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Speaker 1: just going to be wasteful. So get something maybe that's

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Speaker 1: you know, even pre paid, but that you know, those

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Speaker 1: those those will work for you. And I think the

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Speaker 1: other website that I like if you want to look

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Speaker 1: for phones that are just simple is Dumbwireless dot Com

463
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Speaker 1: did a story with them. It's a couple in Los

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Speaker 1: Angeles that's trying to, you know, help spread the word

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Speaker 1: about these simple phones. And they've got a bunch on

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Speaker 1: their website that at least can give you some ideas

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Speaker 1: for the simple phones and you might end up purchasing one.

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Speaker 1: So again, Dumb Wireless Consumer Cellular, check them out, blind

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Speaker 1: Shell check them out, and maybe just go into a

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Speaker 1: Walmart pick up a flip phone and just prepay it

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Speaker 1: for the year and that'll be perfect if you ever

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Speaker 1: need it in the event of emergency or if your

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Speaker 1: phone goes out. Thanks for the call, Stephanie, do appreciate it,

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Speaker 1: Mike writes in Let's see, I bought a Wi Fi

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Speaker 1: extender antenna and now it's installed, but I don't know

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Speaker 1: how to set it up.

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Speaker 2: With all the ring and r low equipment that I have.

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Speaker 1: My question is how to find someone to help me out,

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Speaker 1: But I'm not even sure what to search home Wi Fi.

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Speaker 2: Home security CCTV.

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Speaker 1: I live near Santa Clarita and Palmdale on a large property,

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Speaker 1: so extended Wi Fi is important to set up my

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Speaker 1: security cameras.

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Speaker 2: Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: So, Mike, I would just search on Yelp for home

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Speaker 1: network installation. So Yelp will have a great amount of

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Speaker 1: people that do this stuff. Home network installation. You can

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Speaker 1: search home automation. You can search TV mounting, a lot

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Speaker 1: of those folks will do it as well, and security systems,

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Speaker 1: so any of those searches will yield someone in your area.

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Speaker 1: When it comes to selecting someone, what I like to

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Speaker 1: do is not only look for nice reviews, but also

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Speaker 1: call maybe the top two people that you decide on

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Speaker 1: and just get a feel for them. So if they

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Speaker 1: are nice to you on the phone, if they have

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Speaker 1: time for you on the phone, if they answer your

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Speaker 1: questions in a nice manner, then they will probably be

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Speaker 1: nice when you actually need them to install this, and

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Speaker 1: also afterwards if you have any problems with them, if.

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Speaker 2: They're short with you. If they tell you, hey, can

501
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Speaker 2: you send me a text?

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Speaker 1: Whatever? Make this quick? You probably don't want to do

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Speaker 1: business with them. So again, just search for those things.

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Speaker 1: You might even just search for exactly what you're trying

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Speaker 1: to do, ring cameras or r low cameras and put

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Speaker 1: that into Yelp and see what happens there. But those

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Speaker 1: are the way to do it, and that should be

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Speaker 1: what you need.

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Speaker 2: Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Lori writes in from Canal Fulton, Ohio. What's the next

511
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Speaker 1: best Apple phone? After the twelve Mini? I prefer smaller phones,

512
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Speaker 1: probably because I started with a BlackBerry. Any recommendations, Well, Laurie,

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Speaker 1: what about the iPhone thirteen Mini? So if you go

514
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Speaker 1: to Apple's website, they do not continue to sell the

515
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:03,719
Speaker 1: previous phones after the original the new phones are out.

516
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Speaker 1: They only have a selection of them. So if you

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Speaker 1: go to Apple dot com and you look at the

518
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Speaker 1: phones that they sell after they release the new iPhone,

519
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,640
Speaker 1: they typically discontinue certain old phones. So right now they're

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Speaker 1: selling the iPhone sixteen Pro, the iPhone sixteen, the iPhone fifteen,

521
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Speaker 1: the iPhone fourteen, and the iPhone se. So my advice

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Speaker 1: is go to a third party website get the iPhone

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Speaker 1: thirteen Mini. So this phone was released about three years ago,

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Speaker 1: which means is not gonna be the newest, not gonna

525
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Speaker 1: be the best, but it's gonna be an upgrade over

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Speaker 1: the twelve Mini, and I would say it probably has

527
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Speaker 1: about three years of software updates left, so you can

528
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Speaker 1: get this right now, and then what I would do is,

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Speaker 1: you know, just use that for the next couple of

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Speaker 1: years until it's discontinued. Now, there's a difference between a

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Speaker 1: phone being discontinued software wise and hardware wise, So theoretically

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Speaker 1: the iPhone or I guess currently the iPhone thirteen Mini

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Speaker 1: is discontinued. Apple's no longer actively making new phones, they're

534
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Speaker 1: not manufacturing those anymore, but they're still supporting it with

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Speaker 1: software updates. So that means that you could get this

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Speaker 1: phone today and you'll still be security wise and software

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Speaker 1: wise fine for the next couple of years. Apple doesn't

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Speaker 1: publish the amount of years they support the iPhones, but

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Speaker 1: they will tell you when the iPhones are supported through

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Speaker 1: the new updates of iOS. So if we look at

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Speaker 1: the iOS eighteen right now, they are supporting phones all

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Speaker 1: the way back to the iPhone ten R, the eleven,

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Speaker 1: the twelve, the thirteen. So if we extrapolate, the thirteen

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Speaker 1: is still one two three models ahead of the oldest phone,

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Speaker 1: which means they usually drop off one one year every time.

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Speaker 1: We're talking three more years of software updates, I would say.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 1: I looked up on Amazon. It's about three hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty dollars refurbished. So iPhone thirteen many perfect. It'll be

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Speaker 1: a great solution for your iPhone twelve Mini. Nice replacement

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Speaker 1: for that. And then what you can do is you

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Speaker 1: can buy the iPhone S when the three or two

553
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: years is up. Whenever you're done with this iPhone thirteen Mini,

554
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Speaker 1: then you can go with the iPhone se which is.

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Speaker 2: Expected to come out.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if you go to MacRumors Buyer's Guide Buyer's

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Speaker 1: Guide dot MacRumors dot com, this is an excellent website.

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00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,320
Speaker 1: This will tell you the cycle of the phone. So

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Speaker 1: right now, just to give you some perspective, iPhone sixteen

560
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Speaker 1: pro says buy now in large green, and it's only

561
00:26:30,359 --> 00:26:31,680
Speaker 1: been out for thirty six days.

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Speaker 2: That's it.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe I only had this for thirty six

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Speaker 1: days and I actually got it two weeks early, so

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Speaker 1: I've had this for a little bit longer. So iPhone S,

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Speaker 1: on the other hand, has been out ready nine hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty six days. The average is seven hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty five days. This is what I love about the Internet.

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Speaker 1: There's someone that sits there and tracks this stuff, so

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Speaker 1: you don't have to and I don't have to. So again,

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Speaker 1: buyer's guidet, MacRumors dot com. It's uh, they are rumoring

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Speaker 1: that the iPhone S will be updated pretty much any

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Speaker 1: day now, so we can expect this. Uh it's supposedly

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Speaker 1: in the spring, but we can expect this just any

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Speaker 1: moment now. iPhone se So again, that's the that's the

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Speaker 1: one i'd wait for. Is for your replacement for this

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00:27:15,119 --> 00:27:15,520
Speaker 1: other one?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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

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Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one. The website for

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Speaker 1: the show rich on tech dot tv. If you want

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Speaker 1: show notes, just hit the light bulb icon. If you

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Speaker 1: want to get in touch with me, just hit the

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Speaker 1: contact button. Coming up, I'm gonna tell you about the

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Speaker 1: new iPad Mini. Speaking of which, iPad Mini, let's see

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Speaker 1: how long that went?

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Speaker 2: Can I find that real quick? Oh, it's only been us.

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Speaker 1: Twenty seven days since they had a new one, but

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Speaker 1: now it's available very soon. I will tell you what

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Speaker 1: the iPad Mini has and what it doesn't have, coming.

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Speaker 2: Up right here on rich On Tech. Let's see here.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to uh Morgan, who wrote in from Thousand Oaks. Hey,

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Speaker 1: rich I'm moving to a twenty three hundred square foot

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Speaker 1: house and a five acre ranch surrounded by avocado trees,

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Speaker 1: which means lots of coyotes. I want to get tracking

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Speaker 1: callers from my two indoor kiddies in case they get out.

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Speaker 1: There are so many options, I'm having difficulty deciding. Any

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Speaker 1: advice would be greatly appreciated. I'm a huge fan and

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Speaker 1: trust your advice for keeping my kiddy safe.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so Morgan, Okay, good.

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say, I'm glad these are not outdoor

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00:28:27,840 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: cats because with coyotes not good, not a good mix.

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00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: So and even if they get out, you got to

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Speaker 1: keep them inside. You don't want these cats outside. So

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00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: couple ways you can do this. So, just to give

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Speaker 1: you a basis of understanding, there are a couple things

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Speaker 1: going on here. There are callers for pets that have

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Speaker 1: GPS built in.

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00:28:47,480 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 2: Now that is going to give you the absolute best.

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Speaker 1: Precision location every second that this cat is moving anywhere

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00:28:55,440 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: they go, because that is actually going to have a

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Speaker 1: cellular connection on it along with GP. Yes, that is

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Speaker 1: going to be the most precise. It's also going to

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Speaker 1: be the most expensive because they typically come with a

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Speaker 1: monthly monitoring fee and the battery life is going to

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Speaker 1: be the absolute worst out of all of the solutions.

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Speaker 1: So I would say, at the very least, probably don't

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Speaker 1: do that because it's probably not the best case scenario.

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Speaker 1: So you're going to be charging this thing all the time,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna be paying a monthly fee. And again you

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Speaker 1: mentioned that these are indoor cats, so this is only

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Speaker 1: if they get out you want an idea, but on

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Speaker 1: the flip side, you get the best location tracking. So

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Speaker 1: the two brands that are probably the tops for this

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00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: are one called Tractive tr ac Tive and then Whistle Whistle.

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Speaker 1: I've actually done a story with Whistle and their stuff

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00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:49,680
Speaker 1: is great. They mostly market it towards dogs, so if

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Speaker 1: you'd probably want their smallest one, I would check to

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Speaker 1: see what the weight limits are or what the suggested

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Speaker 1: weight is, but there typically we did this story with

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Speaker 1: a small dog and that was one of the issues

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Speaker 1: is that the tracker is a little bit big, so

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Speaker 1: but again that's gonna be the most precise. The thing is,

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Speaker 1: the battery life is gonna be really bad. So I mean,

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Speaker 1: once these things are on full GPS, you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: about two days of battery life before this goes dead,

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Speaker 1: which means if your cat got out and you didn't

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Speaker 1: find them within two days, that's it.

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Speaker 2: That collers one hundred percent useless.

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Speaker 1: So you can extend that time by creating sort of

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Speaker 1: like a geofence around your house, which means the caller,

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00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:29,080
Speaker 1: if it's in the area that you set for that geofence,

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00:30:29,200 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 1: will not use GPS, which means it's not going to

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00:30:31,920 --> 00:30:34,960
Speaker 1: use the battery up. It's gonna use Wi Fi around

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Speaker 1: the house, which uses much less power. Now, the two

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Speaker 1: other ways you can do this is with a tracking

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Speaker 1: device like a tile or an air tag or a

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Speaker 1: Google tracker or a Samsung tracker. Let me go through

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00:30:47,440 --> 00:30:50,480
Speaker 1: those real quick. So an air tag obviously is probably

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Speaker 1: the most popular way people do this. You get an

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Speaker 1: air tag collar on Amazon. You put the air tag

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Speaker 1: on your cat cat gets outside. Anyone who has an

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Speaker 1: iPhone nearby which Remember, you are in this big area,

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Speaker 1: five acre ranch. There's not gonna be a lot of

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Speaker 1: iPhones on that five acre ranch, so the chances of

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Speaker 1: getting an update on where your cat is located in

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Speaker 1: that area is going to be tricky. But the neat

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Speaker 1: thing that the air tags have with the new iPhones

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Speaker 1: is precision location. So if you are getting close, if

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Speaker 1: you walk around your yard, your iPhone will tell you

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Speaker 1: how close you are to your cat. So yesterday I

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Speaker 1: left my phone somewhere around my house. I did not

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Speaker 1: know where it was. I went on my Apple Watch

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Speaker 1: I used to find my feature and it directed me

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Speaker 1: to my phone which was sitting on the car seat

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Speaker 1: outside in my car, and it said, Okay, your phone

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Speaker 1: is thirty nine feet away, it's forty feet away, it's

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Speaker 1: forty it's twenty feet away, it's ten feet away, it's

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Speaker 1: five feet away. Okay, you're right there, and then you

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Speaker 1: can ring it. Same thing with an air tag, you

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Speaker 1: can use that to kind of get to the general location,

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Speaker 1: and then you can ring it to see where your

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Speaker 1: cat is. When it comes to tile, they don't have

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Speaker 1: the precision finding, but they do have a very wide

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Speaker 1: long rain for the tile tracker which is anywhere anywhere

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Speaker 1: from three hundred and fifty to five I think it's

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Speaker 1: up to five hundred feet, and so you can get

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Speaker 1: a tile tracker hanging on your cat. Again, it's going

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Speaker 1: to use all the other TILE users in the area

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Speaker 1: to find it, but there's probably not going to be many,

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Speaker 1: so you're going to be relying on your phone to

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Speaker 1: help you find it. But the good news is you

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Speaker 1: can ring it from far away and still find it

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Speaker 1: because it's got that long tracking. Now, if I was

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Speaker 1: going to do something, if you have a Samsung phone,

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Speaker 1: I'd probably go with a Samsung specific tracker. They call

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Speaker 1: them smart tags, I think, and are smart things, and

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Speaker 1: those are going to be great because they also have

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Speaker 1: the precision finding. So again my recommendation, if you've got

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Speaker 1: an iPhone, probably go with an air tag. If you've

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Speaker 1: got Samsung, go with their specific Samsung tag. And if

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Speaker 1: you don't have one of those phones, you got a

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Speaker 1: random Android phone, maybe go.

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Speaker 2: With the tile.

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Speaker 1: But I think this specific GPS tracking callers are going

696
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Speaker 1: to be the most expensive solution and they're also going

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Speaker 1: to be the best if your cat ever went missing.

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Speaker 1: But it's also the most headaches because you're paying every month,

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Speaker 1: and you're charging this thing all the time, which may

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Speaker 1: not sound like a big deal right now, but I

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Speaker 1: guarantee this eighty to eight. Rich one on one, thanks

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Speaker 1: for the call or the email from Thousand Oaks. If

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Speaker 1: you want to get your email in, go to rich

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Speaker 1: on Tech dot tv, hit the website, hit contact there,

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Speaker 1: and that's where you can find it. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you about the iPad Mini coming up. iPad Mini has

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Speaker 1: a brand new chip, it's got some new features, it's

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Speaker 1: got the same price tag. But there's one thing in

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Speaker 1: particular I don't like about what Apple did not improve.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain coming up right here on rich on Tech.

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

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Speaker 1: out with you talking technology on a beautiful fall weekend.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully it's nice where you are. The weather is uh.

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Speaker 1: This is like the perfect time of the year. It

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Speaker 1: just really is. I Spring and fall are just two

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Speaker 1: of my favorites. Rich on Tech dot tv is the

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Speaker 1: website to go to. Let's see. You can hit the

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Speaker 1: light bulb if you want links to anything I mentioned.

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Speaker 1: I keep great show notes. This is show number ninety four,

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Speaker 1: so you can go in there and check out anything

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Speaker 1: that I mentioned. You can hit contact if you want

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Speaker 1: to get in touch with me, which many of you do.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I love about this show. You know,

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

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Speaker 1: know about. You know, I cover this stuff, and there's

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Speaker 1: so much more to it.

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Speaker 2: It's not just me.

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Speaker 1: This is really like a community because I've got you listening,

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Speaker 1: and you're also writing back to me saying, hey, Rich,

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Speaker 1: let's mention this mention that. So I got a lot

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Speaker 1: of emails about the question about the senior citizen who

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Speaker 1: wanted just a simple phone for emergency. Stand Ward says, hey, Rich.

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Speaker 1: Target sells consumer cellular prepaid plans. I've been with them

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Speaker 1: four years. That's a record for me. Walmart has straight talk.

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Speaker 1: I didn't care for them, only lasted two weeks for me.

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Speaker 1: Let's see here. Thank you, stan Ward. Then we've got

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Speaker 1: Randy said app Rich. Apple sells refurbished phones on their site.

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Speaker 1: You can also get them from gazelle dot com. I

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Speaker 1: buy mine and get a significant discount. The phones come

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Speaker 1: packaged in a white box like new. You might see

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Speaker 1: a spot or two, like a mild scratch, but the

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Speaker 1: phone is brand new and worth the huge discount. They

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Speaker 1: have Samsung and Google as well. I personally never buy

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Speaker 1: new and I own the phone, so you can sell

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Speaker 1: your old phone back to them. Randy, computer technical surgeon

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Speaker 1: and computer angels. Wow, Randy sounds like he knows what

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Speaker 1: he's doing. And yes, I one hundred percent agree, Randy,

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Speaker 1: buy your stuff refurbished because you will save money. The

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Speaker 1: problem is, we as Americans, are so in love with

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Speaker 1: the finance plans and the installment plans that when you

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Speaker 1: tell someone, hey, you could buy this phone out right

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00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: for six hundred bucks on Gazelle, or you can walk

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Speaker 1: into your AT and T store and pay thirty dollars

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Speaker 1: a month for the next three years, nine times out

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Speaker 1: of ten people want to pay thirty dollars a month

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Speaker 1: for the next three years. Don't ask me why. That's

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Speaker 1: not the way I am. That's not what I like

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Speaker 1: to do. But I think buying the phone is great,

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Speaker 1: and you made a great point. At the end, you

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Speaker 1: own the phone, and you can sell your old phone

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Speaker 1: back to them with a lot of these products, you know,

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Speaker 1: installment upgrade plan things. You got to give the phone

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Speaker 1: back to get your new phone. And so it's eighteen

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Speaker 1: and T and Verizon they get to capture that. You know,

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Speaker 1: it might be one hundred or two or two hundred

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Speaker 1: dollars spread, but times millions of customers. They are really

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Speaker 1: making out on all these installment plans that pretend to

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Speaker 1: be zero percent or whatever, zero for thirty six months,

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Speaker 1: but really at the end of the day, you're paying

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Speaker 1: more for your plan, and you're also paying more when

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Speaker 1: you give up that phone and give up that one

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Speaker 1: hundred to two hundred dollars that you may get the

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Speaker 1: spread between what they're going to resell it for and

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Speaker 1: what you could have sold it for on your own.

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Speaker 1: So highly recommended, Randy, I love your system. Gazell dot

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Speaker 1: Com is great. Swapa is also a good one. That's

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Speaker 1: a very popular site for buying things like phones and

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. So just be sure that you're getting

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Speaker 1: it from a respectable site, because you know, some of

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Speaker 1: these phones, you want to make sure that they're they're

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Speaker 1: on the up and up, and by going to a

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Speaker 1: Gazell dot com or a Swapa they typically are, and

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Speaker 1: of course of Apple's webs as well. Let's see Nika

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Speaker 1: in Torren says Rich I've used track phone for twenty years.

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Speaker 1: It's perfect. Verizon owns it, so no reception problems. Home

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Speaker 1: Shopping Network in QBC sell with an entire year of service.

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Speaker 1: I have a nice latest model Samsung, but for the

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Speaker 1: woman who called a flip phone, will cost less than

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Speaker 1: forty dollars with a year service plan after this nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine every three months ideal for an emergency phone.

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Speaker 1: Love your show, great suggest in Nica. That is a

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Speaker 1: good way to do it. I love having it the

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Speaker 1: whole year in advance, right, very very simple. And Ralph

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Speaker 1: in Van Buren Township, Michigan writes in to say there

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Speaker 1: is a flip phone with features for the elderly. It's

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Speaker 1: called the Jitterbug. It's a flip cell phone and camera

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Speaker 1: with large number buttons.

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Speaker 2: The Jitterbug.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, isn't the Jitterbug? Is that its own brand? Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's through Lively, Oh, best Buy. I bought this company, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Jitterbug from best Buy. Great great suggestions. As you can see,

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Speaker 1: there are many many options out there. The other thing

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Speaker 1: you can do if you have like a regular Samsung phone,

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Speaker 1: and you've got a person that you helped take care

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Speaker 1: of or that has a phone and just thinks they're

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Speaker 1: way too complicated. Samsung has what's called easy Mode, and

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Speaker 1: if you are helping an elderly person with their phone

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Speaker 1: or someone who's not so tech savvy, turn on easy Mode.

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Speaker 1: It makes the Samsung any Samsung phone so much easier, It.

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Speaker 2: Makes all of the.

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Speaker 1: Display screen size much bigger, it simplifies everything.

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Speaker 2: It's just so much easier.

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Speaker 1: So easy Mode on the Samsung devices is like a

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Speaker 1: hidden kind of gem. If you're using any Samsung device

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Speaker 1: with a person that needs help, Let's go to let's

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Speaker 1: see Oscar in Winchester, California.

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Speaker 2: Oscar. You're on with rich Y.

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Speaker 3: Rich Hi. I got a simple question. Last week. You

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Speaker 3: were talking about the switching from Verizon to Google Messages

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Speaker 3: and you mentioned that it's best if we do an

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Speaker 3: SMS backup before doing it. So I was looking on

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Speaker 3: Google Play for an SMS backup and I found SMS

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Speaker 3: backup restore, but I was looking for one that didn't

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Speaker 3: have Some of them just said it had a lot

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Speaker 3: of options, but some of them said with ads and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. I was looking for a name that

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Speaker 3: was just looked like it was generic, just do a

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Speaker 3: backup and restore, and I downloaded one that that SMS

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Speaker 3: backup and restore but in setting it up, it asked

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Speaker 3: for some stuff which was normal, I think, like excuse

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Speaker 3: me that access access to messages, uh, calls storage. But

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Speaker 3: when I got stubbed when danced me for ability to

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Speaker 3: make calls and that I you know, I got out

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Speaker 3: to the program then just set up.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well the so great question.

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Speaker 1: And this is something that is very simple on the

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Speaker 1: Android side of things, which is what you're using, and

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Speaker 1: it's this is the only backup SMS backup that I

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Speaker 1: recommend on the Android side of things, because this is

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Speaker 1: the one that I've been using pretty much forever.

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Speaker 2: It's gone through it's changed hands over the years.

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Speaker 1: But the specific name of the program, like you noticed,

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Speaker 1: is SMS Backup and Restore and the company that makes

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Speaker 1: it is sync Tech pty Ltd sink Tech.

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Speaker 2: That's the one that I like, and that's the one

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Speaker 2: that I use. Now, you are right.

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Speaker 1: It does ask for a couple of permissions, but it's

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Speaker 1: mostly for the things that it needs to do, and

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Speaker 1: typically it asks if you want to back up your

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Speaker 1: messages and your phone calls, and then it asks where

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Speaker 1: do you want to store your calls and messages? So

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Speaker 1: you can configure this thing to run on Google Drive

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Speaker 1: or drop Box, or you can just keep it on

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Speaker 1: your phone and then you can schedule a recurring backup

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Speaker 1: as well. And so what I think what you got

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Speaker 1: tripped up on was why did it ask for access

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Speaker 1: to the phone. The reason for that is to access

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Speaker 1: the phone logs. Now, I don't think you need to

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Speaker 1: back up your phone logs unless you had, you know,

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Speaker 1: business or something where you needed that information, so you

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Speaker 1: can safely turn that off.

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Speaker 2: And this is a trusted app.

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Speaker 1: It's been around for a very long time and I

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Speaker 1: do trust it, So even if you had access to

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Speaker 1: your call logs, I mean, look, here's here's the thing

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Speaker 1: that we have to think about in general, is this

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Speaker 1: app has accessed to your text messages. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of information, personal information in text messages. So when you're

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Speaker 1: choosing a backup app, you do want something that is

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00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,040
Speaker 1: trusted because it does have full access to a lot

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00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 1: of data. So what I like about this is that

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00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:10,200
Speaker 1: it's putting it into your own places. So it's putting

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00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:12,520
Speaker 1: it into Google Drive, it's putting into Dropbox, One Drive,

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00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:15,160
Speaker 1: or your phone. It's not putting it to its own cloud.

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00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,680
Speaker 1: So I think that that's going to be Okay, I

876
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: think that this is a way to go. I think

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00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 1: that you should do this for sure if you have

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00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 1: an Android phone, and it's it's very simple to do.

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00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:28,759
Speaker 1: So a great question, Oscar, go with that app and

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00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: I think you'll be fine. Get those messages backed up.

881
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,839
Speaker 1: I did get some emails from folks that we're going

882
00:42:33,920 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: through that changeover Verizon, you know, as you know.

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00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 2: Is getting rid of their messages.

884
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 1: Plus in just a couple of weeks, November seventh, I believe,

885
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: is the date where that app will stop working, and

886
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 1: so everyone's switching over, and everyone was asking, you know,

887
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:50,239
Speaker 1: what should I switch to? Google Messages is the app

888
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,680
Speaker 1: that I recommend because it does have support for rcs,

889
00:42:53,120 --> 00:42:56,880
Speaker 1: which means your messages to Android other Android phones and

890
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: more importantly iPhones are going to be much much improved,

891
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: especially photos and videos.

892
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 2: But some people did have issues and they didn't.

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00:43:05,080 --> 00:43:07,319
Speaker 1: Make a backup and they lost all of their text

894
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: messages in the switchover.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how, but you know, it's software. It

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00:43:10,880 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 2: can happen.

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00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: There could be a hiccup, So please back up your

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00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:15,560
Speaker 1: messages if they're important for me.

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Speaker 2: I don't care. I don't need my messages backed up

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00:43:17,800 --> 00:43:18,000
Speaker 2: to me.

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00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:21,520
Speaker 1: Text messages are fleeting, and I don't really need them

902
00:43:21,600 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: backed up because it's mostly like, hey, i'm outside, okay,

903
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:25,840
Speaker 1: I'll come down and get you, or Hey, your pizzas here,

904
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:28,800
Speaker 1: whatever it is. I'm not like sitting there having, you know,

905
00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:31,359
Speaker 1: things that I want to remember forever on my text

906
00:43:31,360 --> 00:43:34,400
Speaker 1: message conversations. I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but that's the

907
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,839
Speaker 1: way I feel right now. On the Android side of things, again,

908
00:43:39,040 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: just do a backup SMS, backup and restore.

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00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:42,120
Speaker 2: I'll put the link in the show note.

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00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:44,560
Speaker 1: On the iPhone side of things, it's a little bit

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00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 1: trickier because Apple backs up your text messages, but they

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00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:50,480
Speaker 1: don't give you really a way to access those. But

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Speaker 1: if you want a way to access them, I like

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Speaker 1: an app called imazing I the letter I mazing mzing.

915
00:43:57,840 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: The website is the letter imzing dot com. You will

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Speaker 1: have to pay for that. It is not free software.

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

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Speaker 1: seven four two four one zero one. I see the

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Speaker 1: calls on the board. We will get to those. Plus

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Speaker 1: more of your emails at richon tech dot tv. Hit

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Speaker 1: contact to send me an email. Plus Netflix just had

922
00:44:20,800 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 1: their earnings report and uh, not only are they adding

923
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 1: more subscribers, there's some interesting takeaways.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what they're doing next coming up right

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Speaker 2: here on rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I did promise two stories, so let's probably get through

928
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Speaker 1: these Apple new iPad Mini so iPad Mini you know

929
00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:50,480
Speaker 1: and love same thing, basically, just a couple of upgrades,

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00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: new chips, so it's going to be faster. It's got

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Speaker 1: the A seventeen pro. Obviously, it's built for Apple Intelligence,

932
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Speaker 1: which is their new AI that's coming soon, coming very soon. Actually,

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Speaker 1: let's see the rumor mill has it by the end

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Speaker 1: of the month, because well, actually it's not a rumor

935
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: anymore because this Apple iPad announcement said the first phase

936
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Speaker 1: of AI will be coming by the end of the month.

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Speaker 1: So end of October now comes with double the storage,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight gigs instead of the old

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00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,160
Speaker 1: sixty four for the same price. So apparently it's faster,

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00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: better graphics, it's got the AI features like the writing tools,

941
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,640
Speaker 1: improved SERI more down the line, it's got faster Wi

942
00:45:28,760 --> 00:45:33,600
Speaker 1: Fi so Wi Fi six e, which probably your router

943
00:45:33,719 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: does not handle. So that's not really that exciting unless

944
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: you have a router that's Wi Fi sixty enabled. It's

945
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:42,799
Speaker 1: got five G support on the cellular if you buy

946
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:46,560
Speaker 1: the cellular version. No more physical simcard, it's e SIM only.

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00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 1: Cameras are improved. Now supports the Apple Pencil Pro. It's

948
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: got a couple of new colors, including blue and purple.

949
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,799
Speaker 1: Comes in the standard. I think it's starlight, and let's

950
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:00,839
Speaker 1: the other one space gray. It's got an eight point

951
00:46:00,920 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 1: three inch screen. The USB C port is faster. It's

952
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: got well I think I had lightning on the old one.

953
00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: Now it's USBC. It's got ten gigabits data transfer, so

954
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,200
Speaker 1: faster than before if you're transferring big files off this thing.

955
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,879
Speaker 1: But the screen, Let's talk about the screen real quick.

956
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,360
Speaker 1: That's the thing I'm disappointed at. It's got an eight

957
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:21,920
Speaker 1: point three inch screen that doesn't seem to be improved

958
00:46:21,960 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 1: from before. And I will tell you an experience. I

959
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:25,840
Speaker 1: bought the iPad Mini because I wanted to use it

960
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,799
Speaker 1: as my in flight kind of entertainment, and I could

961
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Speaker 1: not deal with the screen because it just wasn't very clear,

962
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,160
Speaker 1: and I'm very used to the clear screen. The retina

963
00:46:34,239 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 1: display on the iPhone, and I don't think this iPad

964
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: Mini has it, so I'm gonna have to see. I'm

965
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 1: gonna have to go into the store and check it

966
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:44,120
Speaker 1: out when it launches. But that's my feeling right now

967
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,200
Speaker 1: is that if you want the clearest iPad screen, and

968
00:46:47,320 --> 00:46:48,719
Speaker 1: this is not cheap by the way, this is five

969
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,000
Speaker 1: hundred dollars. So if you want kind of like a

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Speaker 1: better screen, you gotta go with a better iPad. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to let's see here, Let's go to Sarah in

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Speaker 1: a studio city. Sorry, you're on with Rich?

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Speaker 4: Hi Rich. I'm so glad I held on because I

974
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Speaker 4: love your advice and I have some two questions I

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Speaker 4: really need help with. Okay, So the California fast tech scam,

976
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Speaker 4: I don't know if you've heard about it.

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Speaker 8: A lot of people were talking.

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00:47:11,719 --> 00:47:14,600
Speaker 4: About it on the neighborhood app. I got that text

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00:47:14,840 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 4: and unfortunately I clicked it, but nothing opened up. I

980
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Speaker 4: didn't let it go so long that it opened up.

981
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 3: I caught it.

982
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:23,719
Speaker 4: I was like, oh no, that's that might be wrong,

983
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:26,200
Speaker 4: and I closed it and you know, it went away,

984
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,359
Speaker 4: and then I blocked and reported the text. But yes,

985
00:47:29,719 --> 00:47:32,400
Speaker 4: my phone has been not really acting funny. But I

986
00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 4: got kicked out of my Instagram and had to log

987
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 4: back in and had a problem doing that, And that's

988
00:47:38,239 --> 00:47:39,800
Speaker 4: really the only thing that's happened weird. But I'm a

989
00:47:39,800 --> 00:47:42,640
Speaker 4: little nervous. Is there anything I should do? Or really

990
00:47:42,719 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 4: I want to know what can they do if they

991
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 4: did get in my phone?

992
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so number one, you got to follow me

993
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 1: on Instagram, Sarah, because I did post about this yesterday

994
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 1: and it was so when I get a bunch of

995
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:56,919
Speaker 1: emails from people about things. And by the way, this scam,

996
00:47:57,000 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: this toll scam has been going on for a while.

997
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:05,080
Speaker 1: Better Business Bureau wrote about this thing. Let's see, they

998
00:48:05,160 --> 00:48:09,680
Speaker 1: wrote about this thing back in August, so they were talking.

999
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:12,240
Speaker 1: They sent out the warning and Better Business Bureau. Actually,

1000
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:14,480
Speaker 1: it's kind of like me, where a bunch of people

1001
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: email me and tell me about something, then I'll write

1002
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: about it. Better Business Bureau has this thing called Scam Tracker,

1003
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: so all people around the US are like writing in

1004
00:48:22,840 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 1: and saying how they got scammed or the scams that

1005
00:48:24,800 --> 00:48:27,359
Speaker 1: they've encountered, and then it kind of bubbles to the top,

1006
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:29,400
Speaker 1: and Better Business Bureau will right about the ones that

1007
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:30,440
Speaker 1: they see over and over.

1008
00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: This was clearly one of them.

1009
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:35,000
Speaker 1: But anyway, so I got that email from people, a

1010
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: bunch of emails from people saying, rich, I'm getting these

1011
00:48:37,160 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: scam told scam things, and basically it says, California Fast Tracked,

1012
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: you have an outstanding toll balance to steer clear of

1013
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,080
Speaker 1: a late fee. Kindly settle your balance, and then it

1014
00:48:46,120 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 1: gives you a website. You clicked that website that and

1015
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: then did you put in any personal information?

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00:48:53,040 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 4: I didn't even let it go so far is to

1017
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,080
Speaker 4: open a website, so I wasn't sure where it was

1018
00:48:57,120 --> 00:48:57,520
Speaker 4: even going.

1019
00:48:57,600 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 3: I dropped it and closed the.

1020
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:01,160
Speaker 2: The page.

1021
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I click the websites. Do not do this

1022
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: at home, but I actually click the websites and I

1023
00:49:06,840 --> 00:49:09,239
Speaker 1: test them out to see exactly what the scam is.

1024
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: And in this one, of course, like most of them,

1025
00:49:11,520 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: they are trying to capture as much personal information as possible,

1026
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:17,120
Speaker 1: your payment method and anything else they can get from you.

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00:49:17,560 --> 00:49:18,879
Speaker 2: So it's good that you close it out.

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00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:22,600
Speaker 1: I don't think that the getting logged out of Instagram

1029
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: is related to this, So I think you're okay because

1030
00:49:25,560 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: you do not let this website go through. But just

1031
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: to be safe, what I would do on your iPhone

1032
00:49:31,280 --> 00:49:34,760
Speaker 1: is clear your browser, all the data on your browser,

1033
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:38,359
Speaker 1: so clear the cash, clear the any of the browsing history.

1034
00:49:38,400 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: So you can go on Safari to do that, go

1035
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:43,840
Speaker 1: into your settings and just clear out everything. And I

1036
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:45,120
Speaker 1: tell you how to do that real quick, but I

1037
00:49:45,160 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: got to look it up and see. But you can

1038
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: go on just just Google search Safari clear cash and cookies,

1039
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:53,320
Speaker 1: and that that should tell you how to do it.

1040
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 1: Clear history, cash and cookies from Safari. I'll put the

1041
00:49:57,520 --> 00:49:59,560
Speaker 1: link in the show notes as well. But once you

1042
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:02,160
Speaker 1: do that, restart your phone. Obviously you should be okay

1043
00:50:02,239 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: with that. But again, these kind of scams. There's another

1044
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: one going around right now with Amazon Prime. That's also

1045
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: on my Instagram at richon Tech, So check that one out.

1046
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 1: And so I kind of explain the anatomy of this scam,

1047
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: which you know, it doesn't use your real name. It

1048
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: tells you have to update your payment method to continue

1049
00:50:20,040 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: using Prime. It's got a link, and so of course

1050
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,520
Speaker 1: I did click the link, which I do not recommend

1051
00:50:24,560 --> 00:50:27,160
Speaker 1: you doing, but I did it to figure out how

1052
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: these things work. The email address on the email is

1053
00:50:30,640 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: not from Amazon, It's from some random email address. The

1054
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: sign in page on this Amazon Prime scam looks very realistic,

1055
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,440
Speaker 1: and so once you go through there, it'll capture your

1056
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,400
Speaker 1: login information. Then it brings you to a payment page.

1057
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: It'll capture your payment information, and then the icing on

1058
00:50:48,280 --> 00:50:50,640
Speaker 1: the cake is that it will say enter the one

1059
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: time password. We just sent you the one time code

1060
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 1: the two factor authentication. So because you just they just

1061
00:50:57,160 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: tried to log in with your Amazon account, you got

1062
00:50:59,200 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: that code text at your phone.

1063
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,600
Speaker 2: Now they ask you for that. It's a scam.

1064
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 1: And the California toll or any other toll authority does

1065
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 1: not ask for payment via text.

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Speaker 2: This is rich on Tech. Coming up, we're talking bitcoin.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk Bitcoin.

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00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:21,279
Speaker 1: Went to the LA Bitcoin Day this week and kind

1069
00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 1: of interesting to be in the same room with a

1070
00:51:23,120 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: lot of hardcore bitcoiners. Bitcoin, let's see, hovering over sixty

1071
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:32,800
Speaker 1: eight thousand dollars right now per coin, up eight percent

1072
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: this week. And you know, this was a gathering of

1073
00:51:36,640 --> 00:51:40,000
Speaker 1: folks discussing all the aspects of bitcoin, which they believe

1074
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:43,560
Speaker 1: is the future of money. So I spoke with Swan

1075
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: CEO Corey Clipston about the bitcoin market.

1076
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Speaker 2: What is the state of bitcoin in twenty twenty four.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, it's been an incredible year for bitcoin.

1078
00:51:53,760 --> 00:51:56,360
Speaker 10: A lot of legitimacy came in with black Rock and

1079
00:51:56,400 --> 00:51:58,960
Speaker 10: Fidelity and some of the other large Wall Street firms

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00:51:59,040 --> 00:52:02,760
Speaker 10: launching Bitcoin spot ETFs back in January, and then obviously

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Speaker 10: it's been a big topic in the presidential election cycle

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Speaker 10: and a lot more favorable attitudes of regulators and Congress,

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Speaker 10: which has been really cool.

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Speaker 9: It's been a nice tailwind.

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00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,480
Speaker 10: So we've seen the price go up from the thirties

1086
00:52:14,520 --> 00:52:16,719
Speaker 10: about this time last year and we're about sixty eight

1087
00:52:16,760 --> 00:52:20,200
Speaker 10: thousand dollars per bitcoin today, now very important. You can

1088
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:21,719
Speaker 10: buy a piece of a bitcoin, you don't have to

1089
00:52:21,719 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 10: buy a whole thing. Just making sure people know that.

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00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,359
Speaker 1: That is important to know because people see that large

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00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: number and think that's it. Explain in layman's terms what

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00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:34,759
Speaker 1: bitcoin is. If someone's watching or listening and they just

1093
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,239
Speaker 1: don't even really understand what bitcoin is, how do you

1094
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 1: explain that to them?

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00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:40,279
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think one of the easiest ways to think

1096
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:43,760
Speaker 10: about it is it's a new technology that has created

1097
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 10: a better form of money. And so all that you're

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00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,480
Speaker 10: seeing essentially with all of this hype cycles of you know,

1099
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 10: price goes really far up and then it crashes back down,

1100
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:53,160
Speaker 10: and then it goes up even more, and then it

1101
00:52:53,200 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 10: crashes back down.

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00:52:53,920 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 9: And this has been going on for the last fifteen years.

1103
00:52:56,480 --> 00:52:59,759
Speaker 10: Is just more and more people around the world understanding

1104
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:02,560
Speaker 10: what it is, and they're making a bet that they

1105
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 10: think it's going to be adopted by more people. But

1106
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 10: essentially it's just better monetary technology, better than gold and

1107
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,200
Speaker 10: better than paper dollars like fiat cash, like the US

1108
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:12,879
Speaker 10: dollar or the euro.

1109
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,160
Speaker 9: And so that's really what it is. It's an adoption story.

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00:53:16,719 --> 00:53:19,640
Speaker 1: So what makes it a better type of currency? Is

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00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 1: it the digital underpinnings of it.

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00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 10: So I think what it is is if it's outside

1113
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,040
Speaker 10: of any one person's control. That's the secret of bitcoin.

1114
00:53:29,080 --> 00:53:31,759
Speaker 10: It's actually decentralized. It means that you can't print more

1115
00:53:31,800 --> 00:53:33,680
Speaker 10: of it, so there can never be more than twenty

1116
00:53:33,719 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 10: one million bitcoins. They are subdivisible, so you have plenty

1117
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:41,640
Speaker 10: of bitcoin and kind of infinite subdivisibility, but you can't

1118
00:53:41,640 --> 00:53:44,200
Speaker 10: print more of it, unlike what we see with the dollar,

1119
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:47,560
Speaker 10: the euro and all these other fiat currencies. Fiat just

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00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:50,960
Speaker 10: means government controlled. They just print more of it. And essentially,

1121
00:53:51,000 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 10: when you print more dollars, that's a tax on everybody else.

1122
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:55,960
Speaker 10: So this is what we've kind of seen for the

1123
00:53:56,040 --> 00:53:58,640
Speaker 10: last one hundred years or so, is instead of having

1124
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 10: to pass attack to be able to spend more on government,

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00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 10: they just inflate the currency by printing more of it

1126
00:54:04,760 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 10: and that's what they spend.

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00:54:06,760 --> 00:54:09,200
Speaker 1: So you have some people that are sort of speculating

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00:54:09,280 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 1: on this and buying it for that reason. Some people

1129
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: want to make it the currency of the world. Do

1130
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: those two ideas work together, Yeah, they do.

1131
00:54:18,600 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 10: I mean, I think you need price discovery no matter what.

1132
00:54:20,960 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 10: So we welcome lots of traders in bitcoin. We focus

1133
00:54:24,640 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 10: on long term savings, investing for the future, kind of

1134
00:54:27,800 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 10: you know, seventh generation type stuff. So it's very much

1135
00:54:30,719 --> 00:54:33,480
Speaker 10: about accumulating and not a lot of active trading. But

1136
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 10: you can't have price discovery if you don't have a

1137
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 10: liquid market, and bitcoin has a very deep global twenty

1138
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,000
Speaker 10: four to seven liquid market, more than any other asset.

1139
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:45,359
Speaker 10: One of the interesting things we've seen over the last

1140
00:54:45,520 --> 00:54:47,879
Speaker 10: five years or so is it's actually that bell weather

1141
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 10: that tells you before the market opens or over the weekend,

1142
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:55,560
Speaker 10: what's going to happen with the markets that trade, you know,

1143
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 10: nine to five or nine thirty to four or whatever,

1144
00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 10: because bitcoin is something that they can actually sell or

1145
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:03,959
Speaker 10: where they can actually express their view that we're heading

1146
00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 10: into a bullish stretch.

1147
00:55:04,960 --> 00:55:06,560
Speaker 9: Or something like that. Bitcoin actually moves.

1148
00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 2: First, do you think the average person should get into bitcoin?

1149
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:10,520
Speaker 2: And why?

1150
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:11,279
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1151
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,640
Speaker 10: So, look, I think that buying bitcoin goes hand in

1152
00:55:14,719 --> 00:55:16,360
Speaker 10: hand with learning about bitcoin.

1153
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 9: So we always say the more you know, the more

1154
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:18,480
Speaker 9: you buy.

1155
00:55:18,600 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 10: So I always say start with education now if it

1156
00:55:21,840 --> 00:55:24,760
Speaker 10: helps you to pay more attention and have selective attention

1157
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 10: for bitcoin podcasts, bitcoin when they're talking about it on

1158
00:55:28,760 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 10: CNBC or whatever. To own a little bit, just go

1159
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:33,359
Speaker 10: buy one hundred dollars worth, go buy a thousand dollars worth,

1160
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 10: have it on an app, and just start following the price.

1161
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:38,800
Speaker 10: Then you'll start to follow the news. Then maybe you

1162
00:55:38,920 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 10: buy a book. Then maybe you talk to a friend

1163
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 10: who's into it, and you kind of go down the

1164
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:47,160
Speaker 10: rabbit hole, as we say, and you basically, like any

1165
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,719
Speaker 10: good investment, you should only buy what you know and

1166
00:55:50,840 --> 00:55:54,360
Speaker 10: what you understand. Otherwise, by definition, we humans are just

1167
00:55:54,560 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 10: very sort of prone to buy the shiny object and

1168
00:55:57,800 --> 00:56:00,840
Speaker 10: then sell when it gets scary. So unless you actually

1169
00:56:01,000 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 10: know what you're holding, and what you've bought and understand it.

1170
00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:07,839
Speaker 10: You'll basically buy high and sell low, which is not good.

1171
00:56:09,400 --> 00:56:12,080
Speaker 1: Have we seen a breakthrough moment for bitcoin or do

1172
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:14,200
Speaker 1: you think that's still on the horizon or will that

1173
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:14,879
Speaker 1: day ever come?

1174
00:56:14,960 --> 00:56:16,200
Speaker 2: And what do you think that looks like?

1175
00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:18,040
Speaker 9: Look, I think we've seen.

1176
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,719
Speaker 10: It's so funny if you kind of zoom out and

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00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,800
Speaker 10: you look at the last fifteen years since bitcoin launched

1178
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 10: in January of two thousand and nine, it didn't have

1179
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:29,120
Speaker 10: a price, and then it was trading for tens of

1180
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 10: thousands of coins per dollar, and now it's sixty eight

1181
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,640
Speaker 10: thousand dollars per bitcoin.

1182
00:56:33,840 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 9: So it is actually happening very rapidly.

1183
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:38,239
Speaker 10: And when we look back on this, you know, one

1184
00:56:38,320 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 10: hundred years, two hundred years from now, I think we'll say, wow,

1185
00:56:40,840 --> 00:56:44,080
Speaker 10: that was actually incredibly fast when you think about being

1186
00:56:44,120 --> 00:56:47,240
Speaker 10: able to add a new monetary asset for eight billion

1187
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:50,520
Speaker 10: humans around the world. Like I think sometimes people are

1188
00:56:50,640 --> 00:56:52,640
Speaker 10: very impatient and they want it to happen all at once.

1189
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 10: But by definition it is hard to understand, and there's

1190
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:57,400
Speaker 10: a lot of science and a lot of technology underpinning it,

1191
00:56:58,000 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 10: and it takes a pretty good knowledge of seven or

1192
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,640
Speaker 10: eight different disciplines to be able to understand bitcoin pretty well.

1193
00:57:04,760 --> 00:57:08,920
Speaker 10: You know, monetary theory, monetary history, cryptography, economics, finance, like

1194
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 10: so many different things you need to understand to in

1195
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 10: the rabbit hole goes ever deeper.

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00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,040
Speaker 1: When I hear that no one, no one person controls it,

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00:57:18,400 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: you know, and no government controls it. That tells me

1198
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 1: that governments may not like the idea of this is

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00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:24,960
Speaker 1: that proven to be the case.

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00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 10: So it depends on the government, and it depends on

1201
00:57:27,640 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 10: who it is in the government. So what we always

1202
00:57:29,440 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 10: like to say is governments are actually just made up

1203
00:57:31,240 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 10: of people. And there are a lot of huge fans

1204
00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 10: of bitcoin in the US government and in other governments

1205
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:38,560
Speaker 10: around the world. And then also if you think about

1206
00:57:38,600 --> 00:57:43,080
Speaker 10: governments and totality, some governments are more in control than others, right,

1207
00:57:43,160 --> 00:57:46,800
Speaker 10: so we have dollar hegemony. Dollars, the U is the

1208
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,440
Speaker 10: reserve currency of the world. There are a lot of

1209
00:57:48,480 --> 00:57:50,640
Speaker 10: countries around the world where that's not the case, and

1210
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:53,400
Speaker 10: they may actually prefer some other currency, and more.

1211
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 9: And more they're choosing to look at bitcoin.

1212
00:57:55,640 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 10: They're mining bitcoin for themselves, you know, with their own

1213
00:57:58,640 --> 00:58:01,640
Speaker 10: energy resources, or they're opting it as legal tender and

1214
00:58:01,760 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 10: it's just an alternative.

1215
00:58:03,800 --> 00:58:07,800
Speaker 1: Why is there so much lore around bitcoin and discussion

1216
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 1: and just in the news and everything.

1217
00:58:10,880 --> 00:58:15,920
Speaker 10: Why it's just the most fascinating thing that I think

1218
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 10: has happened for a lot of people. It just touches

1219
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 10: a lot of interesting buttons for them and kind of

1220
00:58:20,880 --> 00:58:22,480
Speaker 10: helps them see things in a different way.

1221
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,920
Speaker 9: I didn't set out on this path. I was like

1222
00:58:25,960 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 9: a startup guy.

1223
00:58:26,680 --> 00:58:28,560
Speaker 10: I used to work for big tech companies and was

1224
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:30,600
Speaker 10: a consultant in all this. But it just, you know,

1225
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:32,720
Speaker 10: it ticks something in my brain when I started to

1226
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,959
Speaker 10: learn about it back in twenty seventeen, and we often

1227
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:38,080
Speaker 10: refer to it as a mind virus, like it gets

1228
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 10: in there and it's really hard to think about anything

1229
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 10: else that has as much potential for positive impact in

1230
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 10: the world as bitcoin. I think it's the I think

1231
00:58:48,520 --> 00:58:50,440
Speaker 10: it's the one thing going on in the world that

1232
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 10: has the largest potential for positive change for humans.

1233
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 9: And that's why I focus on it.

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00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:58,680
Speaker 1: What is this week all about? What is the LA

1235
00:58:58,760 --> 00:59:01,400
Speaker 1: Bitcoin Week all about? What are the people doing here?

1236
00:59:01,720 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 2: What do they hope to learn?

1237
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:03,760
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1238
00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:07,240
Speaker 10: Absolutely, so it's definitely about learning. It's also about connecting.

1239
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 10: It's about just you know, people can Some people live

1240
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 10: in a city with a high concentration of bitcoiners, a

1241
00:59:14,320 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 10: lot of people don't, and so giving them an opportunity

1242
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 10: to come somewhere and connect with other people in real

1243
00:59:20,080 --> 00:59:24,480
Speaker 10: life instead of just seeing bitcoin people tweet on x

1244
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 10: It's just something that I think a lot of people

1245
00:59:26,840 --> 00:59:27,320
Speaker 10: really enjoy.

1246
00:59:27,400 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 9: So we have people in from all over the world

1247
00:59:28,880 --> 00:59:29,040
Speaker 9: for this.

1248
00:59:29,440 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 10: As we all know, there's a lot of noise in

1249
00:59:32,320 --> 00:59:34,520
Speaker 10: the space and around the space, whether it's all the

1250
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:35,640
Speaker 10: crypto stuff.

1251
00:59:35,400 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 9: You know, kind of the non bitcoin thing's going on,

1252
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:37,920
Speaker 9: and you know.

1253
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:39,840
Speaker 10: It's just really hard to figure out what's real and

1254
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 10: what's not, and so we try to be that voice

1255
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:44,960
Speaker 10: that provides pure signal and people can trust us because

1256
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:46,800
Speaker 10: we've done the homework and figured out what's true and

1257
00:59:46,840 --> 00:59:47,080
Speaker 10: what's not.

1258
00:59:47,280 --> 00:59:49,959
Speaker 2: We're ever going to find out who Satoshi is, we can.

1259
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 9: Talk about that.

1260
00:59:51,400 --> 00:59:53,960
Speaker 10: So, yeah, there was just a yet another attempt to

1261
00:59:54,360 --> 00:59:56,840
Speaker 10: see who Satoshi was. HBO did not get it right,

1262
00:59:56,960 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 10: but it was very good for marketing and promotion. I

1263
00:59:59,240 --> 01:00:03,280
Speaker 10: don't think we're ever going to know who the pseudonymous

1264
01:00:03,440 --> 01:00:06,480
Speaker 10: founder of bitcoin was. He went by Satoshi Nakamoto. I

1265
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:08,560
Speaker 10: think that is lost to history, and I think it's

1266
01:00:08,640 --> 01:00:11,080
Speaker 10: better that way. It's a great foundational myth, as you

1267
01:00:11,120 --> 01:00:13,840
Speaker 10: were saying, like one of those things that intrigues people

1268
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:17,080
Speaker 10: and gets them interested. Now, that is something that was

1269
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 10: a genius marketing stroke by the creator of bitcoin once again.

1270
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: That was Swan CEO Corey Clipston. And they help you

1271
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:28,720
Speaker 1: invest into bitcoin. So if you want to check out

1272
01:00:28,760 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 1: their website, it is Swan bitcoin dot com. And the

1273
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:35,520
Speaker 1: documentary he was referring to at the end there is

1274
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:37,920
Speaker 1: called Money Electric, The Bitcoin Mystery.

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01:00:38,000 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 2: I did watch it. It is on Max so if

1276
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:42,080
Speaker 2: you want to watch it.

1277
01:00:42,160 --> 01:00:45,400
Speaker 1: It's a new documentary about bitcoin, and the first half

1278
01:00:45,400 --> 01:00:48,480
Speaker 1: of the documentary really delves into what bitcoin is. The

1279
01:00:48,600 --> 01:00:51,440
Speaker 1: second half really tries to like nail down who created it.

1280
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:55,640
Speaker 1: It's obviously anonymous, and they try I don't know if

1281
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: they got it right. He didn't think they got it right.

1282
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,920
Speaker 1: I don't think they did there either, But still entertaining.

1283
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 1: Eighty eight rich one O one eight eight eight seven

1284
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: four to two four one zero one the website for

1285
01:01:06,520 --> 01:01:11,200
Speaker 1: the show Rich on tech dot Tv coming up, Netflix

1286
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:15,400
Speaker 1: adding continuing to add more subscribers. Tell you some of

1287
01:01:15,440 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 1: the details from their recent earnings report and what they're doing,

1288
01:01:20,360 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: what they're focusing on now, and how they're differentiating from YouTube.

1289
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:35,080
Speaker 1: Let's talk Netflix. Netflix is uh man. They are just

1290
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: continuing to kill it. Added five million subscribers in the

1291
01:01:41,320 --> 01:01:43,880
Speaker 1: last quarter, bring their total to two hundred and eighty

1292
01:01:43,960 --> 01:01:50,720
Speaker 1: two million paid subscribers globally. Members watch about two hours

1293
01:01:50,760 --> 01:01:56,439
Speaker 1: of Netflix per day on average. Live programming is where

1294
01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:59,440
Speaker 1: they are expanding. They see this as high value content.

1295
01:01:59,520 --> 01:02:02,280
Speaker 1: They've got that I don't know if it already happened.

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Speaker 1: The Mike Tyson, what's the other guy's name, Paul? What's

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Speaker 1: Jake Paul?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Boxing match out? Did that already happen? I don't remember.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: Okay, then they have NFL football on Christmas Day. Ads

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Speaker 1: supported tier is very popular. This is a trend we're

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Speaker 1: seeing across all streaming. Apparently fifty percent of new sign

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Speaker 1: ups are for the ads supported tier, which is so

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Speaker 1: interesting because when Netflix first started to remember it was

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Speaker 1: the anti ad company, you know, it was no ads,

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Speaker 1: And now people are signing up. They're saying, I'd rather

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Speaker 1: pay a little bit less and I'll deal with the ads.

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Speaker 1: They're facing out their basic plan almost everywhere. The basic

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Speaker 1: plan was their cheaper plan that had no ADS, but

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Speaker 1: they're focusing on, of course, the ads supported plan is

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Speaker 1: the low cost option games. They keep making these games.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who's playing them, but I guess people are.

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Speaker 1: But they make games based on Netflix shows. Squid Game

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Speaker 1: and Virgin River are popular or those are upcoming rather,

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Speaker 1: but they do have a couple of popular ones. How

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Speaker 1: are they differentiating from competitors like YouTube premium high budget

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Speaker 1: content and of course taken on the financial risk for creators.

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Speaker 1: So YouTube, anyone can do it. Anyone can make it,

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Speaker 1: takes a little bit of investment. You need a camera

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Speaker 1: and I need to set up. But Netflix is focusing

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Speaker 1: on premium, high budget stuff, which sometimes when you watch

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Speaker 1: it you wonder they're not okay, They're not going to

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Speaker 1: bundle with other streaming services, not interested in that. That

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Speaker 1: makes sense because Netflix is kind of an outlier. Everyone

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Speaker 1: else is like Peacock. It's like all these other ones.

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Speaker 1: You're like, ah, do I really need that? But so

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Speaker 1: you might bundle it. Disney of course obviously has a

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Speaker 1: lot of interest in bundling with their three brands that

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Speaker 1: they have, but Netflix does not have any interest in

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Speaker 1: that and they still see a lot of room for

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Speaker 1: growth less than ten percent of TV time. That they

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Speaker 1: still account for less than ten percent of TV time

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Speaker 1: even in their biggest markets. So just when you think

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Speaker 1: netflixes everything to them, they still have got ninety percent

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Speaker 1: of the market to capture.

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Speaker 4: There.

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Speaker 2: Let's go to uh Diego in San Diego Diego. You're

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Speaker 2: on the rich.

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Speaker 11: Hello, Hi, I have an iMac mom and Penham from

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Speaker 11: my daughter to my wife, and she's complaining about any

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Speaker 11: window that can't open. It tends to refresh itself when

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Speaker 11: she's typing looking for something, and we refresh itself every

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Speaker 11: nine to ten seconds. Only when you have a window open,

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Speaker 11: even a web browser or anything like that, we don't.

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Speaker 9: Know what it is.

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Speaker 2: So explain to me what's happening again.

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Speaker 11: Any windows you have open refresh itself. So as you're

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Speaker 11: looking for something in the search, a window up on

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Speaker 11: top and refresh itself. You have to reclick again to

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Speaker 11: that window so you can keep typing, and you got

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Speaker 11: to kind of beat the clock, which is nine or

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Speaker 11: ten seconds.

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Speaker 2: Are you Is this happening in a web browser.

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Speaker 11: In any window you open, even like text edit or

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Speaker 11: she's looking for a picture or a document usually uses

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Speaker 11: it for email and document writing.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 1: And it just so the window refreshes. Yeah, and is

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Speaker 1: it is it a screen thing or is it a

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Speaker 1: computer thing? Like it's does it look like the screen

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Speaker 1: is refreshing itself or does it look like the window

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Speaker 1: itself is doing something like software wise?

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Speaker 11: No, because I can close every window and just look

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Speaker 11: at the desktop of all this stuff on top of there,

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Speaker 11: and it's just okay.

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Speaker 2: So it stays okay.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Well, I would say it sounds like you've got something

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Speaker 1: running on this computer that is not agreeing with it,

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Speaker 1: and that's that's probably what's going on here. I would

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Speaker 1: say it's a graphics thing. But if it's if the

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Speaker 1: computer desktop just sits there and doesn't do anything while

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Speaker 1: you're just letting it sit idle, then it's probably not

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Speaker 1: a graphics thing. And so okay, So let's I'm still

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Speaker 1: trying to figure this out. You you open up let's

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Speaker 1: say a web browser, and you're sitting there using it,

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Speaker 1: and the screen just like the actual window just refreshes.

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Speaker 11: Yes, we'll be watching We watched something some Christmas but

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Speaker 11: I can watch it movie miracle or something, and it

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Speaker 11: kept annoyingly kept doing it every nine to ten seconds,

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Speaker 11: so we think the window out made a smaller and

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Speaker 11: it still did it, and it was funny. Just gave up.

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Speaker 11: We'll just repress itself. It doesn't have to be in

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Speaker 11: the window. It has to be next to browsers. It

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Speaker 11: doesn't on which he does a pretext, so your text

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Speaker 11: edit rewrite something there, it still transfer onto a war document.

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Speaker 11: And even that those two windows, the word document or

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Speaker 11: the text edit will refresh itself.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I think what I would do personally is

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Speaker 1: check to see what's going on in this computer, Like, uh,

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Speaker 1: there's so many things you got to do to see

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Speaker 1: what's going on here. So first off, is this computer

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Speaker 1: still supported software wise?

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Speaker 11: Well, it's an always him point six point eight. It's

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Speaker 11: pretty old.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's pretty So it's not getting active software updates? Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: So so if it's not, that's ten point six point eight.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, it's like snow Leopard. That's yeah, that's a

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Speaker 1: while ago. So if it's not getting any new updates,

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Speaker 1: what I would do is I personally just go you know,

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Speaker 1: number one, I'd probably start figuring out what the system,

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Speaker 1: what the situation is for a new machine at some point,

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Speaker 1: you know, budget whatever you need to do to get that.

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Speaker 1: But to get this thing to work again, I would

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Speaker 1: probably what I would do is just reinstall the operating

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Speaker 1: system the whole thing. Because this is an old computer anyway,

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Speaker 1: It's got a lot of little fragments and things on it,

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Speaker 1: so you can reinstall the entire operating system. That's probably

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Speaker 1: what I would do first. If you can't do that,

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Speaker 1: or you don't want to do that, I would probably

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Speaker 1: look through and get rid of any programs on this

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Speaker 1: computer that I don't recognize, don't need, don't know, restart it.

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Speaker 1: I would go into the login on the system settings

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Speaker 1: and see if there's anything in the login items that

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Speaker 1: are launching at startup. And that's probably the first thing

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Speaker 1: I would do, is look in that login items and

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Speaker 1: see if there's anything that's launching with the startup of

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Speaker 1: this computer. And that could be some sort of program

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Speaker 1: that's just not agreeing with it, and you can unclick

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Speaker 1: those and then of course restart your computer there.

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Speaker 2: And then you know, obviously you can't do the updates.

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Speaker 2: You can't do that, but if.

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Speaker 1: You're really a little bit more tech savvy, you can

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Speaker 1: start this thing up in like safe mode and see

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Speaker 1: if there's anything in there that you can delete or

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Speaker 1: get rid of. But I would personally just try to

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Speaker 1: get rid of anything on this computer that you don't need,

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Speaker 1: don't use, don't want, and then restart it and keep

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Speaker 1: doing those actions until this cleans itself up. And if

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Speaker 1: it doesn't, then you might have to take it to

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Speaker 1: some sort of like Mac place for them to take

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Speaker 1: a look at this a little bit more closely. But

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Speaker 1: good question, Diego. That is a frustrating issue to have.

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Speaker 1: But I think if you get rid of stuff on

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Speaker 1: that computer, hopefully that should work. There's another I like

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Speaker 1: called clean my Mac that might be a good thing

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Speaker 1: which you can run on there as well get rid

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Speaker 1: of some of the gunk that's uh clogging up that

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Speaker 1: old old computer. Eighty eight rich one O one eight

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

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you how Google flights is going cheap coming up,

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech eighty eight rich one

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

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Speaker 1: one zero one. I got a note from Don in

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Speaker 1: a provo Utah that he wants to share a great

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Speaker 1: site with me. Don.

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Speaker 2: What's the site?

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Speaker 3: Rich I love you so much.

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Speaker 7: I listened to you every week. It's a I look

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Speaker 7: forward to every week.

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Speaker 2: Thank you much, thank you.

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Speaker 7: I actually listened to maybe two or three times. But

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Speaker 7: I am actually met Madonna's twins twin rang, so I'm

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Speaker 7: living up to that. And then Delta dot com is

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Speaker 7: z e l d t a dot com is the

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Speaker 7: best website in the mo versus. There's a couple of

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Speaker 7: pages every single day. It's a safe place for young

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Speaker 7: people and everybody else to go, for everybody else to

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Speaker 7: go for a few minutes. It's like in one hundred

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Speaker 7: languages you can just translate instantly.

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Speaker 2: And what is this Delta dot com that takes me

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Speaker 2: towe an airline?

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Speaker 7: No, no, no, Zelta z zebra e l d t A.

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Speaker 7: It's actually just z LT Creations and Communications.

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Speaker 3: But that's the website.

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Speaker 7: Is z e l d t A dot com?

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Speaker 2: Zelta Okay, got it? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Interesting? Oh I see it's got It's got like a

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Speaker 1: whole bunch of stuff. Okay, well we'll see you. We'll

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Speaker 1: see if people like that. So uh yeah, I hope

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Speaker 1: so thanks.

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Speaker 7: I don't really have any money. I get your in

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Speaker 7: an assistance. I'm hoping I don't have bitcoin yet. I'm

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Speaker 7: hoping to get that soon. But I have like a

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Speaker 7: on that website, have a few places where you can

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Speaker 7: donate on Venmo or something.

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Speaker 3: But well, you're trying to get.

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Speaker 7: Money to activating my life body. I'm activating everybody's lightbody

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Speaker 7: around the world right now. Oh, travel throughout the multiverse

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Speaker 7: instantaneously everywhere, instant he and everything.

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? Exactly? What does that mean? Exactly?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 2: What like around the multiverse? You know the healing? What

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Speaker 2: does that mean?

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Speaker 7: Well? I invented uh anyway, I have the technology virtual

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Speaker 7: reality that's gonna actually help people travel throughout the multiverse.

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Speaker 7: And they can't have weapons if they can't go, do

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Speaker 7: they trust me?

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Speaker 3: I don't have weapons.

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Speaker 7: And also, like everybody can step on every sun and

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Speaker 7: every moon, every star, every planet in the multiverse and

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Speaker 7: from wherever they're at.

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Speaker 2: And is this in in like reality or in a

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Speaker 2: in a virtual reality?

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Speaker 7: Well it's gonna it's gonna be in virtual reality with

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Speaker 7: the goggles. That's the ultimate use of it.

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Speaker 2: So wow, Okay, everybody's like twin rays.

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Speaker 7: I'm connecting all twin rays together. They're gonna have like

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Speaker 7: everybody who can have their own planet. Every male female connections,

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Speaker 7: perfect connections.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well I like the idea of this. So what

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Speaker 2: just this is?

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Speaker 1: It's very peaceful. It sounds like in your multi diverse

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah yeah, Well.

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Speaker 7: You can read a couple of pages every day. It

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Speaker 7: goes back in twenty fourteen, been writing. My brother Paul

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Speaker 7: actually invented a bunch of companies. He started like a

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Speaker 7: citizen portal, dot Ai, Wow and Ancestry and like six

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Speaker 7: lard companies.

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Speaker 1: But and you're blogging every day. It looks like I'm

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Speaker 1: looking at twenty twenty four every day. What happened in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two? You only had nine posts? What happened there?

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Speaker 4: I know?

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01:12:28,760 --> 01:12:33,679
Speaker 7: Well it's been since like then. Uh, my brother Paul

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01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 7: actually he actually helped me edit the first three hundred pages,

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01:12:42,560 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 7: and then he quit and my sister helped me. She

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01:12:46,439 --> 01:12:50,400
Speaker 7: started like the Mormons mothers, like a couple of name mothers,

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01:12:50,439 --> 01:12:53,800
Speaker 7: and then stopped with that. But they started not talking

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01:12:53,800 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 7: about Mormons.

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01:12:54,720 --> 01:12:56,760
Speaker 1: Well, all I know about the Mormons right now is

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01:12:56,840 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 1: the Uh there's isn't there a show that everyone's watching,

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01:12:59,120 --> 01:13:01,160
Speaker 1: like this reality that people are watching?

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01:13:01,240 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 2: I don't know, Okay, TV. Oh so I'm sister wives.

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01:13:07,560 --> 01:13:10,599
Speaker 7: You helped me edit by myself the last couple of years.

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01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 7: Every single day, oh wow, every day. I ride every day.

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01:13:14,040 --> 01:13:16,040
Speaker 7: I can't see them, right, so I can't really drive

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01:13:16,400 --> 01:13:19,000
Speaker 7: ride a bicycle, but I can. I can ride every

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01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:20,320
Speaker 7: day in my home and that's what I do.

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01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,280
Speaker 2: All right. Well, don thanks for the suggestion. I'll take

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01:13:23,280 --> 01:13:23,559
Speaker 2: a look.

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01:13:23,800 --> 01:13:26,240
Speaker 1: You're prolific writer on that site, and I like your

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01:13:26,280 --> 01:13:28,920
Speaker 1: idea of the multiverse piece piece for everyone.

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01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:31,200
Speaker 2: That's a that's a great idea.

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01:13:31,320 --> 01:13:33,320
Speaker 1: So thanks for the call today, and do appreciate you

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01:13:33,400 --> 01:13:36,640
Speaker 1: listening to me, even if I don't understand everything you

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01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: were saying.

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01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 2: I you know, I I got, I got, I get

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01:13:39,520 --> 01:13:39,880
Speaker 2: the gist.

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01:13:40,600 --> 01:13:40,720
Speaker 9: Uh.

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01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:45,040
Speaker 1: Speaking of back to real life, Google flights now has

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01:13:45,840 --> 01:13:47,320
Speaker 1: a cheapest option.

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01:13:48,280 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 2: This is like, this is what I needed in college.

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01:13:50,600 --> 01:13:53,040
Speaker 1: Although flights were a lot cheaper back then than they

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01:13:53,080 --> 01:13:57,479
Speaker 1: are now, but so cheaper option. So Google, if you

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01:13:57,560 --> 01:13:59,960
Speaker 1: go to Google flights, you know that's my absolute favorite

1546
01:14:00,560 --> 01:14:03,960
Speaker 1: flight searching website. You go to flights dot Google dot com.

1547
01:14:04,680 --> 01:14:07,240
Speaker 1: You type in where you want to go, departure dates

1548
01:14:07,280 --> 01:14:08,959
Speaker 1: if you want, if you want to get that specific

1549
01:14:09,120 --> 01:14:11,120
Speaker 1: or just look at the calendar and see the dates

1550
01:14:11,160 --> 01:14:13,280
Speaker 1: in green, and it will tell you those are the

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01:14:13,320 --> 01:14:15,680
Speaker 1: best cheapest days. But if you need to go on

1552
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:18,639
Speaker 1: certain days but you want to get there cheaper, there's

1553
01:14:18,720 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 1: now a cheapest tab. This will show you the lowest

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01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:26,840
Speaker 1: airfare options, even if they're less convenient. So personally, you know,

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01:14:27,080 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 1: I'm of a certain age and I want to get

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01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 1: there on a direct flight and I don't want a

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01:14:32,000 --> 01:14:34,840
Speaker 1: lot of you know, fuss, and so that is what

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01:14:34,960 --> 01:14:37,680
Speaker 1: I prefer. But if you just want and that's not

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01:14:37,760 --> 01:14:40,439
Speaker 1: always the cheapest, If you want the cheapest fair and

1560
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:43,080
Speaker 1: maybe you have some extra time, maybe you don't care

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01:14:43,120 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 1: if you need a layover, Maybe you don't care if

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01:14:45,360 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 1: you fly to one airport and drive out of another.

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01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 1: Maybe you don't care about the third party booking site.

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01:14:51,880 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 1: These are all the expanded options that the cheapest tab

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01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,640
Speaker 1: takes into effect. Because most people you know, with with

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01:14:57,920 --> 01:15:00,439
Speaker 1: with these search engines, they want the best fare and

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01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:03,160
Speaker 1: the you know, the the easiest kind of a combination

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01:15:03,280 --> 01:15:05,560
Speaker 1: of convenience and fair. But this is like, no, you

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01:15:05,640 --> 01:15:08,600
Speaker 1: want cheapest, we will find you the absolute cheapest. So

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01:15:08,720 --> 01:15:12,520
Speaker 1: this might include a longer layover, this could include multiple airlines,

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01:15:12,880 --> 01:15:15,759
Speaker 1: It couldn't could include something. It's called a self transfer.

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01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:17,760
Speaker 1: I've never even heard of this until I read about

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01:15:17,800 --> 01:15:22,080
Speaker 1: this with Google. A self transfer works like this. You

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01:15:22,200 --> 01:15:25,719
Speaker 1: fly one airline to a city. As you're connecting city,

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01:15:26,040 --> 01:15:29,479
Speaker 1: you collect your luggage, and then you check in at

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01:15:29,520 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 1: another airline to connect continue your flight. I mean, and

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01:15:33,040 --> 01:15:34,880
Speaker 1: those are not you know, they're not sort of like

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01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 1: connected on your ticket. It's just like you booked them all.

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01:15:37,560 --> 01:15:40,800
Speaker 1: That's that's a wild way to go, but that's another

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01:15:40,880 --> 01:15:42,760
Speaker 1: way to do it anyway. So if you're looking for this,

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01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 1: if you want cheap, just look on Google Flights and

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01:15:46,400 --> 01:15:48,800
Speaker 1: check out the new cheapest tab. It is rolling out,

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01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:51,880
Speaker 1: so it may not be on there right away. It

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01:15:52,040 --> 01:15:53,680
Speaker 1: was not on there the last couple of times I

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01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 1: tried searching on there, which is pretty much every day.

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01:15:56,760 --> 01:15:59,800
Speaker 1: But if you're looking for the cheapest, absolute cheapest way

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01:15:59,840 --> 01:16:01,960
Speaker 1: to go. Oh and by the way, Google did throw

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01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:06,040
Speaker 1: in that right now is the cheapest time to book

1589
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 1: or the best time to book holiday flights, so that

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01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:13,360
Speaker 1: is right now in October. All right, there you go, cheapest.

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01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:15,599
Speaker 1: Let's see what else do we have here. We got

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01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:19,439
Speaker 1: so many emails from people. Let's see rich from New Jersey. Wait,

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01:16:19,800 --> 01:16:21,559
Speaker 1: is this me writing in What's What's happening?

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01:16:21,600 --> 01:16:25,440
Speaker 2: Here? Am I in? Am I in the Don's multiverse?

1595
01:16:25,520 --> 01:16:27,679
Speaker 2: Right now? I am coming from the future?

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01:16:27,800 --> 01:16:27,960
Speaker 4: Rich?

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01:16:28,439 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 2: No, I'm just kidding. This is not me, Rich, Rich

1598
01:16:30,760 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 2: here we go?

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01:16:31,920 --> 01:16:35,240
Speaker 1: Rich from New Jersey commented that he loves the show,

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01:16:35,439 --> 01:16:38,679
Speaker 1: writes in Hey, Rich, I have the great LG seventy

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01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:42,040
Speaker 1: seven inch TV with the Sonos Arc, the large subwoofer,

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01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:44,720
Speaker 1: and two so nos one rear speakers. When I bought

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01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:47,559
Speaker 1: all this, the salesperson never told me I wouldn't get

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01:16:47,600 --> 01:16:50,080
Speaker 1: at most with the ones. I found out I'd need

1605
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 1: the Sons fives for true at most. This really upsets

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01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:55,200
Speaker 1: me because I spent a lot of money. So my

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01:16:55,320 --> 01:16:57,599
Speaker 1: question is do I spend another thousand dollars to get

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01:16:57,640 --> 01:16:59,400
Speaker 1: the fives or is it not worth it?

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01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 2: What? I not that big of a difference. I'm considering

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01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:02,880
Speaker 2: just staying with the surround sound.

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01:17:02,920 --> 01:17:06,599
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts? Thanks and love your show. Well, Rich,

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01:17:06,680 --> 01:17:10,680
Speaker 1: here's the deal. You've got the ones. How much are

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01:17:10,720 --> 01:17:13,000
Speaker 1: those Sonos ones are?

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01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:13,599
Speaker 2: Okay?

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01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 7: Well?

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01:17:15,400 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 3: Two?

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01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,639
Speaker 1: Okay? Two pack is six hundred bucks. So two pack

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01:17:18,720 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 1: is six hundred bucks and you need the fives? For

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01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:26,000
Speaker 1: one thousand dollars, So maybe you sell the ones and

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01:17:26,200 --> 01:17:28,360
Speaker 1: just upgrade for the extra, you know, five hundred bucks,

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01:17:28,400 --> 01:17:31,759
Speaker 1: whatever it's gonna be. If you want the Dolbie Atmost,

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01:17:32,160 --> 01:17:33,120
Speaker 1: you've already gotten this far.

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01:17:33,280 --> 01:17:33,400
Speaker 4: Now.

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01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:35,760
Speaker 1: I don't know if you need the Dolby Atmost, but

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01:17:35,880 --> 01:17:39,320
Speaker 1: it is definitely People who have it love It is

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01:17:39,479 --> 01:17:43,360
Speaker 1: a very popular sound format. And if you're not familiar

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01:17:43,400 --> 01:17:46,599
Speaker 1: with what Atmost is, if you're familiar with regular surround sound,

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01:17:46,960 --> 01:17:49,519
Speaker 1: it's just stuff that's sort of like left and right right.

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01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,840
Speaker 1: At Most adds that sort of overhead and three D

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01:17:54,560 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 1: world around you. It's almost like basically spatial audio. So

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01:17:57,960 --> 01:18:00,800
Speaker 1: let's say there's like a helicopter to you might hear

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01:18:00,840 --> 01:18:03,120
Speaker 1: it left or right, you know, in the movie theater,

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01:18:03,600 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 1: this would be hear the helicopter coming from like the

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01:18:06,560 --> 01:18:11,200
Speaker 1: back left to the front, back right to the front left,

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01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 1: so it flies over you and Dobey Utmost would give

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:16,439
Speaker 1: you that, and so it's more realistic. It's kind of

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01:18:16,479 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 1: like it envelopes you in the sound. And I think

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01:18:19,520 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 1: that because you've already got rich sounds like you like

1639
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 1: nice stuff. You've got that nice LGTV that's big you've

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01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:29,439
Speaker 1: got the son nos ark, you've got the subwoofer, and

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01:18:29,640 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 1: you've got the sons rear.

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01:18:32,040 --> 01:18:32,400
Speaker 2: I don't know.

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01:18:33,120 --> 01:18:35,680
Speaker 1: I think I'm thinking you want to upgrade, but I

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01:18:35,760 --> 01:18:37,880
Speaker 1: know you said maybe not, just stick with the sround,

1645
01:18:37,920 --> 01:18:39,800
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I have just regular surround sound

1646
01:18:39,880 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 1: seems to be fine. But if you want to get that,

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01:18:42,280 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 1: then you know I would go for it. Go for it, Richard,

1648
01:18:45,240 --> 01:18:46,360
Speaker 1: you deserve it if you work hard.

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01:18:46,439 --> 01:18:46,800
Speaker 2: Go for it.

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01:18:47,560 --> 01:18:51,640
Speaker 1: Eric from a Bismarck, North Carolina, North Dakota, listens on

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01:18:51,720 --> 01:18:53,920
Speaker 1: Apple podcasts. He writes in hey, rich do you have

1652
01:18:53,960 --> 01:18:56,840
Speaker 1: a recommendation for the best USB cable to use car

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01:18:56,920 --> 01:19:00,960
Speaker 1: play with my iPhone pro Mac sixteen. I have a

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01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:04,040
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen niece on Rogue with USBA. I'm looking for

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01:19:04,080 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 1: a USBA to USBC. Many cables I've tried caused my

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01:19:07,200 --> 01:19:10,360
Speaker 1: vehicle to lose connection randomly or produce static. I prefer

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01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:12,559
Speaker 1: a straight cable if possible, but I'm open to using

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01:19:12,600 --> 01:19:14,720
Speaker 1: an adapter. I enjoy your show. I listen to the

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01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: podcast almost every week. Thank you, Eric, Do not use

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01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:22,280
Speaker 1: an adapter that will probably cause more problems. I noticed

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01:19:22,280 --> 01:19:24,200
Speaker 1: this with my wife's car when we got the new

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01:19:24,240 --> 01:19:27,280
Speaker 1: iPhone for her, she had an issue with the USBC

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01:19:27,479 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 1: with her CarPlay. I think that a lot of times

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01:19:30,479 --> 01:19:33,479
Speaker 1: these systems were not really they were engineered for one thing,

1665
01:19:33,520 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: and now we're kind of back ending in backing in

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01:19:36,560 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: some other things. So I did take about three tries

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01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:43,040
Speaker 1: with cables before I found when that worked with hers perfectly.

1668
01:19:43,680 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 1: So obviously the if Apple has an official cable on

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01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:50,120
Speaker 1: their website, that's probably a good way. That's going to

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:52,040
Speaker 1: be the most expensive. But I would just go on

1671
01:19:52,120 --> 01:19:54,240
Speaker 1: Amazon and search for an anchor cable and get that

1672
01:19:54,439 --> 01:19:59,400
Speaker 1: USB USBA to USB C and also check to make

1673
01:19:59,439 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 1: sure that you're the USB A connection on the car

1674
01:20:01,960 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 1: is not loose, like if that thing is coming out

1675
01:20:04,520 --> 01:20:07,160
Speaker 1: like it moves left right up down, because it's like

1676
01:20:07,200 --> 01:20:09,400
Speaker 1: an older car, maybe you've plugged in so many times,

1677
01:20:09,840 --> 01:20:11,360
Speaker 1: so if that's loose, I would bring it in to

1678
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:13,719
Speaker 1: get that kind of tightened up. That could be causing

1679
01:20:13,760 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 1: it as well. But I think any any high quality cable,

1680
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:18,519
Speaker 1: that's the main thing. It's got to be a high

1681
01:20:18,560 --> 01:20:20,920
Speaker 1: quality cable. So if you're buying one for a dollar

1682
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:24,800
Speaker 1: at the checkout at the convenience store, probably won't work

1683
01:20:24,840 --> 01:20:26,720
Speaker 1: as well. I mean it may, but it just may

1684
01:20:26,800 --> 01:20:28,840
Speaker 1: not with the newer cars. Sure, it's all, it's all

1685
01:20:28,920 --> 01:20:31,680
Speaker 1: pretty simple, but the older cars. For some reason, when

1686
01:20:31,760 --> 01:20:35,360
Speaker 1: this new iPhone came out with USBC from USBA, it

1687
01:20:35,439 --> 01:20:37,719
Speaker 1: got a little bit, you know, that connection just seems

1688
01:20:37,760 --> 01:20:40,360
Speaker 1: a little bit more finicky than the standard USBC to

1689
01:20:40,520 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: USBC or USBA to lightning.

1690
01:20:43,600 --> 01:20:44,120
Speaker 2: Good question.

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01:20:44,320 --> 01:20:48,679
Speaker 1: Thanks for emailing in, Eric from Bismarck, North Dakota, appreciate.

1692
01:20:48,800 --> 01:20:51,439
Speaker 1: Listen to the podcast out there. Rich on tech dot

1693
01:20:51,560 --> 01:20:53,439
Speaker 1: tv is the website. If you want to send me

1694
01:20:53,479 --> 01:20:56,120
Speaker 1: an email. The phone number is eighty to eight rich

1695
01:20:56,280 --> 01:20:58,639
Speaker 1: one on one eight eight eight seven four to two

1696
01:20:59,240 --> 01:21:00,800
Speaker 1: four one zero one.

1697
01:21:02,439 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 2: Coming up.

1698
01:21:03,560 --> 01:21:08,480
Speaker 1: Uh the FCC making it easier to cancel subscriptions.

1699
01:21:08,840 --> 01:21:10,000
Speaker 2: I'll explain coming up.

1700
01:21:14,200 --> 01:21:17,639
Speaker 1: Shanna's in Long Beach, California. Shanna, you're on with Rich

1701
01:21:18,680 --> 01:21:23,200
Speaker 1: Oh Hi hi, hi, So at work.

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01:21:23,280 --> 01:21:27,040
Speaker 8: I have a work iPhone and I was wondering, I

1703
01:21:27,160 --> 01:21:28,880
Speaker 8: know they tracked me and stuff. Not that I care.

1704
01:21:28,880 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 7: I'm not doing anything.

1705
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:32,599
Speaker 8: Wrong, but I'm just curious if what what's the tracking

1706
01:21:32,760 --> 01:21:36,360
Speaker 8: app that they use for? Like, and they're there, they

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01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:38,840
Speaker 8: can get into my phone, calls and text messages and

1708
01:21:38,920 --> 01:21:42,400
Speaker 8: emails and stuff like that. But like, is there like

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01:21:42,400 --> 01:21:44,640
Speaker 8: an app on my phone that I can see that

1710
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:45,800
Speaker 8: they use to track me?

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01:21:46,520 --> 01:21:47,920
Speaker 2: Well, how do you know they can get into all

1712
01:21:47,920 --> 01:21:48,639
Speaker 2: this stuff that they.

1713
01:21:48,600 --> 01:21:52,160
Speaker 7: Told you this, No, it's just kind of obvious.

1714
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:56,200
Speaker 1: Well, okay, I don't think it's that obvious because typically,

1715
01:21:56,720 --> 01:21:59,120
Speaker 1: especially on the iPhone, they are they are very much

1716
01:21:59,200 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 1: locked down to vice. Now, if it is a company

1717
01:22:03,120 --> 01:22:06,040
Speaker 1: issued device, they of course reserve the right to basically

1718
01:22:06,200 --> 01:22:08,880
Speaker 1: track anything that you do on that phone, but with

1719
01:22:09,080 --> 01:22:11,560
Speaker 1: respect to getting access to your messages and things like that,

1720
01:22:12,640 --> 01:22:15,559
Speaker 1: they don't typically have that. Now your emails, of course,

1721
01:22:16,040 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 1: but let me I mean, so, the main way that

1722
01:22:18,040 --> 01:22:21,320
Speaker 1: companies can track you on your iPhone specifically, this is

1723
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:24,759
Speaker 1: iPhone specific. Android obviously much easier because it's a different

1724
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:26,720
Speaker 1: operating system and there's things that they can do on

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01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:29,160
Speaker 1: there that they can't do on the iPhone. But there's

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01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:33,439
Speaker 1: typically what's called a VPN or an MDM profile. So

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01:22:34,200 --> 01:22:37,000
Speaker 1: this is this is a little app that they can

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01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,080
Speaker 1: have or a profile on your phone that basically gives

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01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:44,040
Speaker 1: them more access than typically allowed. So if you want

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01:22:44,040 --> 01:22:46,240
Speaker 1: to look for that on your phone, you can go

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01:22:46,479 --> 01:22:50,560
Speaker 1: into settings are you on iOS eighteen or before that?

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01:22:51,720 --> 01:22:53,439
Speaker 7: Oh it's an old phone. It's an iPhone five.

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01:22:53,760 --> 01:22:57,000
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, that's a that's a security risk in itself.

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01:22:58,040 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 1: That is I iPhone five. Wait a second, what kind

1735
01:23:01,439 --> 01:23:01,600
Speaker 1: of what?

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01:23:01,960 --> 01:23:02,000
Speaker 11: What?

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01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:06,519
Speaker 8: And it still works, it's still fast and takes the updates.

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01:23:06,560 --> 01:23:06,720
Speaker 4: I know.

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01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't see how there's no updates for the iPhone

1740
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:13,040
Speaker 1: five anymore. Oh hold on, let me let me see

1741
01:23:13,080 --> 01:23:14,760
Speaker 1: what's going on. Hold on, let me see end of

1742
01:23:15,920 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: iPhone five. Hold on, let me see. I'm looking up

1743
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,599
Speaker 1: the end of life date on this. Okay, iPhone five,

1744
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:25,120
Speaker 1: it's not even on my list. Oh there it is, Okay,

1745
01:23:25,600 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 1: iPhone five. This is a twelve year old phone September

1746
01:23:30,560 --> 01:23:35,439
Speaker 1: twenty first, twenty twelve, and it is eleven years ago.

1747
01:23:35,640 --> 01:23:41,360
Speaker 1: They stopped making it and then the software updates ended

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01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:42,160
Speaker 1: five years ago.

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01:23:42,840 --> 01:23:44,720
Speaker 2: What kind of company is this? Why are they giving

1750
01:23:44,720 --> 01:23:45,599
Speaker 2: you such an old phone?

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01:23:47,000 --> 01:23:47,200
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:23:47,320 --> 01:23:49,880
Speaker 8: No, it's it's a home health agency. I'm a registered nurse.

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01:23:49,920 --> 01:23:53,360
Speaker 8: I do home health, and I mean, if it works,

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01:23:53,800 --> 01:23:55,840
Speaker 8: I don't you know, there's no reason for them to buy,

1755
01:23:57,120 --> 01:23:58,559
Speaker 8: you know, new phone for all the nurses.

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01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,519
Speaker 1: Okay, interesting, all right, Well, so the main place to

1757
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:05,160
Speaker 1: look is general, is settings General, and then there's something

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01:24:05,280 --> 01:24:08,400
Speaker 1: that says VPN and device management. So if you go

1759
01:24:08,560 --> 01:24:11,799
Speaker 1: into there and there is a profile for your company,

1760
01:24:11,920 --> 01:24:15,160
Speaker 1: that's where they're tracking you. And so that's the little piece,

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01:24:15,280 --> 01:24:17,280
Speaker 1: the key piece of information that gives them the ability

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01:24:17,320 --> 01:24:21,320
Speaker 1: to track you in general. Like I always tell people,

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01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:24,599
Speaker 1: if you're using a company device, yes, they are probably

1764
01:24:24,640 --> 01:24:26,920
Speaker 1: tracking you in some sort of way. If you're on

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01:24:27,000 --> 01:24:29,560
Speaker 1: your company Wi Fi at work, yes, they're tracking you

1766
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,439
Speaker 1: in some sort of way. If you're driving a company car, yes,

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01:24:32,520 --> 01:24:34,559
Speaker 1: they're tracking you in some sort of way. If you're

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01:24:34,640 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: using company email, yes, they are tracking you in some

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01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,800
Speaker 1: sort of way. Now AI makes this stuff a whole

1770
01:24:39,880 --> 01:24:43,479
Speaker 1: lot easier because they're not necessarily looking at your phone

1771
01:24:43,680 --> 01:24:47,160
Speaker 1: or looking at your email, but they're using management software

1772
01:24:47,200 --> 01:24:50,040
Speaker 1: on the back end that will maybe alert them to

1773
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:52,240
Speaker 1: Let's say you're a home health nurse and you know

1774
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:54,599
Speaker 1: you go to the same five houses every day every week.

1775
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:56,640
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you start spending a lot of

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01:24:56,680 --> 01:24:59,680
Speaker 1: time in a different location. There is software that may

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01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:01,600
Speaker 1: tell hold on, you may want to look into this,

1778
01:25:01,920 --> 01:25:06,040
Speaker 1: and we're noticing that there's a variation in the pattern

1779
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:08,760
Speaker 1: and so that's really what these things are looking for.

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01:25:09,640 --> 01:25:11,280
Speaker 2: When it comes to email and things like that.

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01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:14,240
Speaker 1: They're looking for maybe keywords that you're talking about, you know,

1782
01:25:14,680 --> 01:25:18,080
Speaker 1: company secrets, whatever. But this, this is what these these

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01:25:18,160 --> 01:25:20,479
Speaker 1: software programs are doing. They're looking for things in a

1784
01:25:20,600 --> 01:25:23,599
Speaker 1: smart way. They're not just looking at every single thing

1785
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:25,759
Speaker 1: you do. I mean they are, but it's a computer

1786
01:25:25,920 --> 01:25:28,280
Speaker 1: most of the time, and if it needs to kind

1787
01:25:28,280 --> 01:25:30,680
Speaker 1: of kick that up to the bosses, then it will say, hey,

1788
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:32,680
Speaker 1: you may want to review these five things or this

1789
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:35,160
Speaker 1: website that this person keeps visiting or something like that.

1790
01:25:36,080 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 1: But in general, I would always just you know, be

1791
01:25:39,200 --> 01:25:42,000
Speaker 1: aware of that, especially if you're using a work VPN,

1792
01:25:42,400 --> 01:25:45,599
Speaker 1: especially if you're using a work issued computer. There are

1793
01:25:45,640 --> 01:25:49,080
Speaker 1: programs specifically on computers that they can pretty much watch

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01:25:49,160 --> 01:25:50,040
Speaker 1: your entire screen.

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01:25:50,160 --> 01:25:52,720
Speaker 2: Ask your kids they use them at school. Most of

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01:25:52,760 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 2: the schools have.

1797
01:25:53,479 --> 01:25:57,000
Speaker 1: This screen monitoring software built in where literally they can

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01:25:57,080 --> 01:26:01,160
Speaker 1: replay anything that happens on that screen any time, so

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01:26:01,280 --> 01:26:02,640
Speaker 1: that they you know, if a kid is sending a

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01:26:02,720 --> 01:26:04,880
Speaker 1: text or something through there, or an email they write it,

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01:26:05,200 --> 01:26:07,600
Speaker 1: they can just call up that screen later on and

1802
01:26:08,280 --> 01:26:10,200
Speaker 1: see exactly what they did and what they said. So

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01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:13,439
Speaker 1: this stuff happens, it's there, it's real, and you just

1804
01:26:13,520 --> 01:26:16,160
Speaker 1: have to be aware your your privacy is not your

1805
01:26:16,200 --> 01:26:18,240
Speaker 1: privacy when you're using a work device.

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01:26:18,760 --> 01:26:21,639
Speaker 2: Good question, Shanna. Thanks for the call today from Long Beach.

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01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:24,760
Speaker 1: Coming up, we are going to talk about an app

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01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,080
Speaker 1: speaking of privacy called Permission Slip.

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01:26:27,520 --> 01:26:28,800
Speaker 2: It's from Consumer.

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01:26:28,479 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 1: Reports and we're going to talk all about that coming

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01:26:31,160 --> 01:26:36,120
Speaker 1: up right here on Rich on Tech. All right. Joining

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Speaker 1: me now is Suki Galotti, Gilbert product manager for Permission Slip.

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01:26:42,840 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 1: This is an app from Consumer Reports that helps you

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01:26:45,800 --> 01:26:47,040
Speaker 1: reclaim your privacy.

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01:26:47,200 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 2: Suki, Welcome to the show.

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01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 4: Hi, Rich, Thanks for.

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01:26:50,120 --> 01:26:53,080
Speaker 1: Having me, so thanks for being here. Tell me, first off,

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01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:54,960
Speaker 1: what permission Slip is all about.

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01:26:56,120 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 12: Permission Slip is all about making it easy to exercise

1820
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:02,960
Speaker 12: your right to digital privacy by submitting data rights requests

1821
01:27:03,000 --> 01:27:06,000
Speaker 12: to companies on your behalf. So what that means is

1822
01:27:06,080 --> 01:27:09,280
Speaker 12: we tell companies to stop selling your personal information or

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01:27:09,400 --> 01:27:09,920
Speaker 12: to delete it.

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01:27:10,400 --> 01:27:12,639
Speaker 1: And so this, i imagine is something that's like very

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01:27:12,840 --> 01:27:16,280
Speaker 1: deep inside their terms and conditions or something like that.

1826
01:27:16,360 --> 01:27:18,320
Speaker 1: When you hand over your phone number or email and say,

1827
01:27:18,400 --> 01:27:19,840
Speaker 1: by the way, you can tell us not to sell this,

1828
01:27:19,960 --> 01:27:20,960
Speaker 1: but nobody ever does.

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01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:23,080
Speaker 4: Exactly.

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01:27:23,280 --> 01:27:26,719
Speaker 12: So this is, you know, so important because every search, click,

1831
01:27:26,800 --> 01:27:29,559
Speaker 12: and tap you make online it's tracked by these companies,

1832
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:32,120
Speaker 12: and submitting these requests is one of the very few

1833
01:27:32,160 --> 01:27:34,519
Speaker 12: things consumers have the power to do in the face

1834
01:27:34,600 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 12: of that. But as you mentioned, when we did research,

1835
01:27:37,320 --> 01:27:39,920
Speaker 12: we found that the links to exercise these rights are

1836
01:27:40,000 --> 01:27:42,439
Speaker 12: hidden deep in the privacy policies and they can be

1837
01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:43,800
Speaker 12: quite time consuming to find.

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01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,160
Speaker 1: And so, what kind of like what kind of companies

1839
01:27:47,240 --> 01:27:49,600
Speaker 1: do you work with with this app? I mean, I

1840
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:50,960
Speaker 1: know you don't well, I don't know do you work

1841
01:27:51,000 --> 01:27:53,680
Speaker 1: with them or do you like just you've figured out

1842
01:27:53,720 --> 01:27:55,599
Speaker 1: like how to delete the data from all these companies,

1843
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:57,400
Speaker 1: and like, explain to me how it works, Like I

1844
01:27:57,479 --> 01:27:58,519
Speaker 1: sign up on the app.

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01:27:58,320 --> 01:28:01,720
Speaker 12: And then what yes, So the way it works is

1846
01:28:01,800 --> 01:28:04,759
Speaker 12: we send what's called data rights request to these companies.

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01:28:05,160 --> 01:28:08,120
Speaker 12: Privacy law in the United States it's a big patchwork

1848
01:28:08,200 --> 01:28:11,800
Speaker 12: of it, and some states guarantee you the right to

1849
01:28:12,240 --> 01:28:14,760
Speaker 12: ask that companies stop selling or delete your data. But

1850
01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:18,720
Speaker 12: as you mentioned, exercising this right is difficult, and even

1851
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:22,120
Speaker 12: a step before exercising that right, there's this question you asked, Right,

1852
01:28:22,720 --> 01:28:25,559
Speaker 12: who do I tell this to? So Permission Slip has

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01:28:25,600 --> 01:28:28,400
Speaker 12: two sets of companies on the app, consumer facing companies

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01:28:28,479 --> 01:28:30,920
Speaker 12: and the data brokers. I'm going to talk about data

1855
01:28:30,960 --> 01:28:33,920
Speaker 12: brokers a little bit because these are companies who you

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01:28:34,000 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 12: don't know, but they know you. They know your address,

1857
01:28:37,760 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 12: they know your family, they know your voting registration records,

1858
01:28:41,600 --> 01:28:44,120
Speaker 12: and they sell all of that data for profit. So

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01:28:44,280 --> 01:28:47,560
Speaker 12: what Consumer Reports does is we talk to experts and

1860
01:28:47,680 --> 01:28:51,479
Speaker 12: we survey state data broker registries to get a list

1861
01:28:51,640 --> 01:28:55,160
Speaker 12: of the worst offenders and to understand which data brokers

1862
01:28:55,280 --> 01:28:59,160
Speaker 12: own other data brokers and put together Right now we

1863
01:28:59,200 --> 01:29:01,919
Speaker 12: have a list of over one hundred. We're constantly revisiting

1864
01:29:01,960 --> 01:29:05,040
Speaker 12: it and working to expand it. And we tell these

1865
01:29:05,120 --> 01:29:07,920
Speaker 12: companies that you want them to stop selling your data

1866
01:29:08,400 --> 01:29:10,679
Speaker 12: and to ask that they delete your data.

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01:29:12,080 --> 01:29:14,519
Speaker 1: Oh wow, okay, so and so now I know you

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01:29:14,600 --> 01:29:16,920
Speaker 1: have a new like a plus version like that. So

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01:29:17,040 --> 01:29:19,680
Speaker 1: permission Slip at its core is free. You can do

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01:29:19,800 --> 01:29:21,800
Speaker 1: all this, like a lot of these things for free.

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01:29:22,240 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: But now I know you have this new plus version,

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01:29:24,040 --> 01:29:26,479
Speaker 1: So explain what do I get with the plus? Is

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01:29:26,560 --> 01:29:27,759
Speaker 1: that the data broker stuff.

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01:29:28,800 --> 01:29:32,160
Speaker 12: Absolutely, So the short answer is that Permission Slip saves

1875
01:29:32,200 --> 01:29:35,439
Speaker 12: you time and permission Slip Plus saves you even more time,

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01:29:36,080 --> 01:29:39,000
Speaker 12: so the process to send a data rights request.

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01:29:38,880 --> 01:29:41,200
Speaker 9: Can can be involved.

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01:29:41,280 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 12: And so what permission Slip as its core free tier

1879
01:29:44,400 --> 01:29:47,160
Speaker 12: does is we've gone to all these websites for you,

1880
01:29:47,280 --> 01:29:50,720
Speaker 12: both consumer facing companies like home depot or ticketmaster as

1881
01:29:50,760 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 12: well as data brokers whose names you might not know,

1882
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 12: and we've gone to the website and we've extracted the

1883
01:29:57,200 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 12: link so that you can send those requests by yourself

1884
01:30:00,280 --> 01:30:03,040
Speaker 12: in one tap, and in many cases, even on the

1885
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:05,479
Speaker 12: free tier, we actually will send them for you. So

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01:30:05,680 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 12: if you download the apps, some of these companies have

1887
01:30:08,560 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 12: a lightning bolt by them and those are ones that

1888
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,200
Speaker 12: will you know, we will will put we have our

1889
01:30:13,240 --> 01:30:16,719
Speaker 12: team of data data concierges sending these sending these requests

1890
01:30:16,760 --> 01:30:19,280
Speaker 12: on your behalf, even on the free tier, but on

1891
01:30:19,400 --> 01:30:23,080
Speaker 12: the Plus tier, we will give you a much more

1892
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 12: powerful automation and more human support to send out requests

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01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:31,320
Speaker 12: to over one hundred data brokers within minutes. So it

1894
01:30:31,400 --> 01:30:34,120
Speaker 12: can save you really hours of effort. Because even with

1895
01:30:34,280 --> 01:30:36,840
Speaker 12: all the work permission slip has done to get it

1896
01:30:37,240 --> 01:30:39,400
Speaker 12: to be just one tap to send these requests, it's

1897
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 12: still it's still a lot of time to send them

1898
01:30:41,200 --> 01:30:44,439
Speaker 12: out one by one, and so we have collected a

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01:30:44,479 --> 01:30:46,640
Speaker 12: list of over one hundred data brokers, and once you

1900
01:30:46,720 --> 01:30:49,360
Speaker 12: subscribe for Plus, we'll we'll send those requests out. Our

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01:30:49,439 --> 01:30:52,800
Speaker 12: data con search team will monitor them, monitor for them,

1902
01:30:53,320 --> 01:30:55,000
Speaker 12: monitor them for you, and work behind the scenes to

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01:30:55,040 --> 01:30:56,679
Speaker 12: get as many of those fulfilled as possible.

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01:30:57,040 --> 01:30:58,840
Speaker 1: But just to be clear, if I you know, I

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01:30:58,880 --> 01:31:00,680
Speaker 1: don't need to sign up for Plus to get some

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01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:02,840
Speaker 1: benefits out of this app, because this app has been

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01:31:02,840 --> 01:31:05,880
Speaker 1: around for a long time before you introduce the Plus feature.

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01:31:06,760 --> 01:31:07,600
Speaker 2: Absolutely so.

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01:31:08,360 --> 01:31:11,680
Speaker 12: Permission slip is something that Consumer Reports built because we

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01:31:11,760 --> 01:31:17,120
Speaker 12: believe privacy is a fundamental right. And so when you downloaded,

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01:31:17,240 --> 01:31:19,920
Speaker 12: you can immediately put us to work to be sending

1912
01:31:20,000 --> 01:31:22,120
Speaker 12: privacy requests for you on the free tier as well.

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01:31:22,160 --> 01:31:24,519
Speaker 9: You'll just save more time if you send it for Plus.

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01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:26,719
Speaker 1: Okay, now, what kind of information are we talking about?

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01:31:26,800 --> 01:31:29,400
Speaker 1: What kind of personal information? Like do I have to

1916
01:31:29,560 --> 01:31:31,760
Speaker 1: put in like my social or anything like that to

1917
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 1: ask for them to take it down?

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01:31:35,040 --> 01:31:36,160
Speaker 8: You do not have to put in.

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01:31:36,240 --> 01:31:42,120
Speaker 12: Your social So we send we ask for your phone number,

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01:31:42,280 --> 01:31:45,000
Speaker 12: your address, and your email address. The reason that we

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01:31:45,080 --> 01:31:48,000
Speaker 12: ask for this information is because that is sort of

1922
01:31:48,200 --> 01:31:50,479
Speaker 12: the minimal set of information. A lot of these companies

1923
01:31:50,560 --> 01:31:53,599
Speaker 12: need to identify you within their records so that they

1924
01:31:53,720 --> 01:31:56,920
Speaker 12: can delete you. And we're always we practice the principle

1925
01:31:56,960 --> 01:31:59,840
Speaker 12: of data minimization, so we collect as little data from

1926
01:31:59,880 --> 01:32:02,720
Speaker 12: you as we can to ensure that these requests get

1927
01:32:02,760 --> 01:32:05,560
Speaker 12: fulfilled as effectively as possible. But in terms of what

1928
01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:08,960
Speaker 12: data these companies have about you, they absolutely could have

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01:32:09,240 --> 01:32:13,519
Speaker 12: you know your social Security number, your address, your purchase history,

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01:32:13,680 --> 01:32:15,760
Speaker 12: so that the data that they have can get can

1931
01:32:15,840 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 12: get quite invasive and intimate. But the data that we

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01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:21,360
Speaker 12: ask from you is for the purpose of them identifying

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01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:22,720
Speaker 12: you so they can they can delete it.

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Speaker 2: Got it?

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01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:27,240
Speaker 1: And then what's the benefit? How successful are you in

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01:32:27,360 --> 01:32:31,040
Speaker 1: these requests? And then what's the benefit of having less

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01:32:31,080 --> 01:32:35,559
Speaker 1: information about me out there? Great questions like why would

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01:32:35,560 --> 01:32:37,640
Speaker 1: I want not want ticket Master to be sharing my

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01:32:37,800 --> 01:32:38,479
Speaker 1: data or whatever?

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01:32:38,720 --> 01:32:42,040
Speaker 2: You know, explain that aspect absolutely so.

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Speaker 12: There are so many reasons that it is beneficial to

1942
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Speaker 12: have less of your data out there. The first, of course,

1943
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Speaker 12: is just you know, if you're someone who believes in

1944
01:32:50,640 --> 01:32:53,560
Speaker 12: privacy as a principle, there's principled reasons too, But a

1945
01:32:53,640 --> 01:32:56,120
Speaker 12: lot of those it's election season. A lot of those

1946
01:32:56,200 --> 01:32:59,320
Speaker 12: texts that you're getting from campaigns are because a data

1947
01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:02,760
Speaker 12: broker sold your phone number to a research group. That

1948
01:33:03,000 --> 01:33:06,280
Speaker 12: data breaches, which become more frequent, can have your financial

1949
01:33:06,560 --> 01:33:10,360
Speaker 12: data much more likely if it has been sold by

1950
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Speaker 12: one company to another. Of course, all kinds of marketing

1951
01:33:15,000 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 12: that you don't want can can hit your doorstep by.

1952
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Speaker 9: Your address being sold.

1953
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Speaker 12: So really concretely, you know a lot of these spam

1954
01:33:22,600 --> 01:33:25,519
Speaker 12: techs and emails that flood your phone and inbox are

1955
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Speaker 12: because your data has been sold or exchanged. And there's

1956
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Speaker 12: also much more insidious and kind of inscrutable ways that

1957
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Speaker 12: your your data is propagated that can result in all

1958
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Speaker 12: kinds of you know, little marketing efforts or invasions of

1959
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Speaker 12: privacy that you might not even be fully aware of

1960
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Speaker 12: on the day to day.

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting because the thing I get to kick

1962
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Speaker 1: back sometimes or the pushback people will be like, hey,

1963
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Speaker 1: you know, like I'm not doing anything wrong. I don't

1964
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Speaker 1: really care if my information's out there. At the very least,

1965
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Speaker 1: you may spend less money because you're being marketed to

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Speaker 1: less and like that's at like the very least, right,

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Speaker 1: And if all the other bad stuff is not a problem,

1968
01:34:02,360 --> 01:34:04,320
Speaker 1: Like you might just spend less money because they're not

1969
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Speaker 1: as good at getting you, you know, sold on on

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Speaker 1: products and services.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, totally.

1972
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Speaker 12: It's you know, it's not necessarily that you're doing something

1973
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Speaker 12: you don't want people to know about. But I think

1974
01:34:16,200 --> 01:34:19,800
Speaker 12: it's about the presumption by which you're kind of going

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01:34:19,880 --> 01:34:22,040
Speaker 12: through the world. Is the presumption that you're an open

1976
01:34:22,080 --> 01:34:24,519
Speaker 12: book for people to take what they know about you

1977
01:34:24,800 --> 01:34:27,840
Speaker 12: and use it to advance their own interests or do

1978
01:34:28,000 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 12: you want to be in control of what you're sharing

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Speaker 12: with who, when and why?

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Speaker 1: So do you think companies like literally you said they

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Speaker 1: have a list of like purchase history, Like do you

1982
01:34:35,960 --> 01:34:38,120
Speaker 1: think that that stuff is sold around too? Like I

1983
01:34:38,200 --> 01:34:40,720
Speaker 1: always wonder that with like my credit card or debit card,

1984
01:34:40,840 --> 01:34:43,360
Speaker 1: Like is my bank like telling people like what I'm

1985
01:34:43,400 --> 01:34:44,200
Speaker 1: buying online?

1986
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:48,280
Speaker 12: Yeah, I can't, you know, I don't. I can't speak

1987
01:34:48,320 --> 01:34:50,840
Speaker 12: so specifically whether your bank is, but I but I

1988
01:34:50,960 --> 01:34:55,679
Speaker 12: can tell you that this purchase history and basically everything

1989
01:34:55,760 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 12: you do is being tracked or sold on some level.

1990
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Speaker 12: You know, so rewards programs for you examples, many of

1991
01:35:01,080 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 12: those can be bought and sold as information about your

1992
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Speaker 12: purchase history.

1993
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:09,360
Speaker 2: That's why everyone has a rewards program. It's not to

1994
01:35:09,439 --> 01:35:10,080
Speaker 2: save me money.

1995
01:35:10,439 --> 01:35:13,040
Speaker 1: It's because I'm basically agreeing to Hey, you can have

1996
01:35:13,160 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 1: my entire everything I purchase at Target, everything I purchased

1997
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:18,280
Speaker 1: at you know, the grocery store. It's all on this

1998
01:35:18,520 --> 01:35:21,000
Speaker 1: list that I've somehow said, oh, yeah, you can take

1999
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Speaker 1: this information and market it as you please.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of you.

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01:35:26,280 --> 01:35:30,840
Speaker 12: Know, third parties that are offering to operationalize that reward

2002
01:35:30,960 --> 01:35:33,560
Speaker 12: service for a company. The company might who's running the

2003
01:35:33,600 --> 01:35:35,840
Speaker 12: reward service might not even know, but that that party

2004
01:35:35,920 --> 01:35:38,719
Speaker 12: who is running it for them is tracking your purchase

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01:35:38,840 --> 01:35:39,840
Speaker 12: history and selling it.

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Speaker 9: We also see a lot.

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01:35:42,200 --> 01:35:46,320
Speaker 12: Of you know, different companies that are selling your for example,

2008
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Speaker 12: your health data to insurance companies, which can result in

2009
01:35:50,160 --> 01:35:53,000
Speaker 12: changes in your rates. There's been a lot of recent

2010
01:35:53,080 --> 01:35:55,720
Speaker 12: news around, for example, right twenty three and meters and

2011
01:35:55,960 --> 01:35:58,080
Speaker 12: the different ways in which your genetic data can be

2012
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Speaker 12: sold to places that you might not want to see

2013
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Speaker 12: it sold.

2014
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Speaker 2: So scary scary stuff. We're gonna leave it there.

2015
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Speaker 1: Suki Galotti, Gilbert, thank you so much for joining me today.

2016
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:15,400
Speaker 1: From Consumer Reports. The website is permission slipcr dot com.

2017
01:36:15,560 --> 01:36:19,800
Speaker 1: Permission slipcr dot com. Download it, reclaim your data and

2018
01:36:20,600 --> 01:36:23,040
Speaker 1: reclaim your privacy. Thanks a lot for joining me today,

2019
01:36:23,479 --> 01:36:26,519
Speaker 1: Thanks for taking time. All right, coming up, we are

2020
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,120
Speaker 1: gonna open up. I could barely drag it in here.

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01:36:29,520 --> 01:36:33,120
Speaker 1: The feedbag it's so big this week, it doesn't even

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Speaker 1: fit in this room.

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01:36:34,760 --> 01:36:38,720
Speaker 2: What am I gonna do? Thanks for emailing. We'll have

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Speaker 2: that in just a moment.

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Speaker 11: Here.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to rich on Tech, rich DeMuro here hanging

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Speaker 1: out with you, talking technology. Want to get through maybe

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01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:55,400
Speaker 1: a couple more stories before I get into the feedbag,

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01:36:55,479 --> 01:36:58,240
Speaker 1: which is overflowing this week. But I want to tell

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Speaker 1: you about Android's new theft detection theft protection feature. If

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01:37:03,360 --> 01:37:05,839
Speaker 1: you have an Android phone, you have a new security

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Speaker 1: feature called theft detection lock. If someone grabs your phone

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01:37:10,320 --> 01:37:12,360
Speaker 1: out of your hand and tries to run away with it,

2034
01:37:12,640 --> 01:37:16,120
Speaker 1: or walk away with mostly run or like bike, or

2035
01:37:16,360 --> 01:37:19,040
Speaker 1: you know, just get away from you quickly, your phone

2036
01:37:19,160 --> 01:37:23,600
Speaker 1: is now going to use it it's accelerometer to understand

2037
01:37:23,720 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 1: that and say, oh, I think something bad is happening here.

2038
01:37:26,520 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 2: I'm gonna lock down this device. But it is not

2039
01:37:29,560 --> 01:37:31,840
Speaker 2: turned on by default, so you have to turn this on.

2040
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 2: So what I want you to do.

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01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:35,800
Speaker 1: If you have an Android phone running I believe it's

2042
01:37:35,840 --> 01:37:40,280
Speaker 1: Android ten and up, which is most modern phones, go

2043
01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:44,559
Speaker 1: into Settings, then search, look for Google, and then tap

2044
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:49,320
Speaker 1: all Services and then you'll see theft protection and then

2045
01:37:49,439 --> 01:37:54,839
Speaker 1: toggle on theft detection lock. So again, got settings, Google

2046
01:37:55,479 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 1: All Services. It's you'll see theft protection and toggle on

2047
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: theft detection in luck, I've got those instructions on my

2048
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:03,160
Speaker 1: newsletter this week.

2049
01:38:03,200 --> 01:38:05,000
Speaker 2: So go to the website Rich on tech dot TV.

2050
01:38:05,160 --> 01:38:05,879
Speaker 2: Hit the newsletter.

2051
01:38:06,240 --> 01:38:08,640
Speaker 1: It's the one that says theft protection on it, and

2052
01:38:09,120 --> 01:38:11,599
Speaker 1: turn that on for sure if someone ever grabs your phone.

2053
01:38:11,640 --> 01:38:14,720
Speaker 1: I thought about this, you know the other We talked

2054
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,479
Speaker 1: about this a while ago. Anyway, iPhone users also have

2055
01:38:17,560 --> 01:38:21,519
Speaker 1: a feature called Stolen Device Protection. So it's not the same,

2056
01:38:21,600 --> 01:38:23,800
Speaker 1: but it's similar, and so you can use that to

2057
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:25,960
Speaker 1: protect your device as well. So if you're an iPhone user,

2058
01:38:26,000 --> 01:38:29,160
Speaker 1: you probably want to enable that too. All right, let's

2059
01:38:29,200 --> 01:38:33,160
Speaker 1: open up the feedback. We've got a lot. First email

2060
01:38:33,200 --> 01:38:37,960
Speaker 1: from Gary in Orange, Connecticut says Rich, thanks for all

2061
01:38:38,000 --> 01:38:38,160
Speaker 1: you do.

2062
01:38:38,240 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 2: I love the show. I look forward to the newsletters.

2063
01:38:40,400 --> 01:38:43,120
Speaker 1: I've got my why security cameras set to send an

2064
01:38:43,160 --> 01:38:45,040
Speaker 1: alert to my phone when they detect motion, but the

2065
01:38:45,160 --> 01:38:48,200
Speaker 1: notification is just a normal one time tone. Is there

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01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:50,280
Speaker 1: a way to set up a notification that will continue

2067
01:38:50,320 --> 01:38:53,200
Speaker 1: to ring until I disarm it, similar to a regular alarm?

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Speaker 2: Gary?

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01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:57,880
Speaker 1: I assumed Gary was using an Android, but you know,

2070
01:38:58,160 --> 01:39:00,360
Speaker 1: I emailed him back and said, hey, are using Android

2071
01:39:00,439 --> 01:39:03,200
Speaker 1: or iPhone? But I just told them the solutions. But

2072
01:39:03,400 --> 01:39:05,840
Speaker 1: for Android, you can do a lot with your notifications

2073
01:39:05,880 --> 01:39:08,760
Speaker 1: pretty much anything you want. iPhone not so much. But

2074
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:13,400
Speaker 1: for Android, I've recommended two apps. First is called Buzzkill

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01:39:13,840 --> 01:39:16,760
Speaker 1: b u zz ki ll that will give you a

2076
01:39:16,960 --> 01:39:21,120
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of you know, you could do

2077
01:39:21,200 --> 01:39:24,040
Speaker 1: a lot with your notifications basically anything you want with them.

2078
01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:26,920
Speaker 1: And then the other one I like is called Glimpse Notifications,

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Speaker 1: and that's the one I used on my Samsung device

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01:39:29,360 --> 01:39:30,920
Speaker 1: when I wanted d screen to light up when I

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01:39:30,960 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 1: got a notification, And so that's there. On iPhone, i'd

2082
01:39:34,040 --> 01:39:36,840
Speaker 1: probably recommend just making like a really uploading your own

2083
01:39:37,479 --> 01:39:39,840
Speaker 1: ring tone that's really long and that will just keep

2084
01:39:39,920 --> 01:39:41,680
Speaker 1: going for like, I don't know, I don't know what

2085
01:39:41,800 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 1: the maximum ringtone sound is on an iPhone, but that's

2086
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:46,240
Speaker 1: what I would do if you're on iPhone and Gary

2087
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:48,799
Speaker 1: did follow up and say, let you know I installed

2088
01:39:48,800 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 1: buzzkill you recommended, did exactly what I needed to do.

2089
01:39:52,240 --> 01:39:54,200
Speaker 1: It was extremely easy to set up. Thanks for your

2090
01:39:54,280 --> 01:39:59,200
Speaker 1: personal response. It's great to have a resource. Thank you Gary.

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01:39:59,439 --> 01:40:00,560
Speaker 2: All right, do rites in.

2092
01:40:00,720 --> 01:40:03,000
Speaker 1: I continue to be amazed that the amount, variety and

2093
01:40:03,040 --> 01:40:06,080
Speaker 1: detail of information you provide. This week was particularly interesting

2094
01:40:06,640 --> 01:40:09,240
Speaker 1: had the massive AT and T Direct TV dish announcement

2095
01:40:10,000 --> 01:40:12,120
Speaker 1: massive outage involving AT and T oh this must have

2096
01:40:12,120 --> 01:40:14,959
Speaker 1: been from a couple weeks ago. My personal laptop malfunction,

2097
01:40:15,160 --> 01:40:18,439
Speaker 1: which was like catching fog to fix a plant power

2098
01:40:18,479 --> 01:40:21,000
Speaker 1: outage that affected my home tech setup. The Bank of

2099
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,160
Speaker 1: America glitch affected our church accounts. It's like trying to

2100
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:26,519
Speaker 1: drive at sixty five when everyone else is at ninety

2101
01:40:26,600 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 1: and weaving between lanes. There's no way to totally exist

2102
01:40:29,160 --> 01:40:32,880
Speaker 1: disconnected from this glitching world. Keep doing what you're doing. Rich,

2103
01:40:32,960 --> 01:40:36,559
Speaker 1: we all need you. Thanks Jim from Hollywood Hills Rights

2104
01:40:36,600 --> 01:40:39,479
Speaker 1: in Hey, Rich, I just remembered Henry Radio on Olympic

2105
01:40:39,520 --> 01:40:42,800
Speaker 1: Boulevard in West Los Angeles. Mostly hamgear, but a good

2106
01:40:42,880 --> 01:40:47,000
Speaker 1: source for large air insulated variable capacitors intended for high

2107
01:40:47,040 --> 01:40:50,880
Speaker 1: power transmitter final tuning. Also good for Tesla coils. There's

2108
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:53,320
Speaker 1: also Federated Electronics sort of like a Best Buy, but

2109
01:40:53,439 --> 01:40:56,240
Speaker 1: mostly TVs and high five gear. I still have my

2110
01:40:56,840 --> 01:40:59,559
Speaker 1: loud speaker system in my home and I don't need

2111
01:40:59,600 --> 01:41:03,240
Speaker 1: a sub. It has two huge oiled walnut enclosures with

2112
01:41:03,360 --> 01:41:08,720
Speaker 1: twelve inch passive radiator instead of adducted port. You're no

2113
01:41:08,840 --> 01:41:11,280
Speaker 1: Leola Port, no better or worse, just different. I listen

2114
01:41:11,280 --> 01:41:13,160
Speaker 1: to your show whenever I have the free time. Nowadays,

2115
01:41:13,200 --> 01:41:15,000
Speaker 1: computers are just a tool for me, not a toy.

2116
01:41:15,360 --> 01:41:18,560
Speaker 1: So enjoy hearing the sorts of problems other have the solutions.

2117
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:20,479
Speaker 1: Saves me a lot of time having to search on

2118
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:23,840
Speaker 1: the internet. Thanks Jim from Hollywood Hills. I lived near

2119
01:41:23,920 --> 01:41:26,400
Speaker 1: the Henry Radio on Olympic Boulevard and I passed it

2120
01:41:26,640 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 1: ten thousand times in my life. I never knew that

2121
01:41:29,040 --> 01:41:35,679
Speaker 1: that was an actual radio store. Interesting, Rudy, let's see here, Okay,

2122
01:41:35,840 --> 01:41:39,280
Speaker 1: let's go. Mike oh also wrote in Mike from Atlanta, Georgia.

2123
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:42,600
Speaker 1: He says, I remember going to ad raise for Electronics

2124
01:41:42,640 --> 01:41:45,080
Speaker 1: and Van Eyes. I loved it and Rogers Sound in

2125
01:41:45,160 --> 01:41:48,880
Speaker 1: Canoga Park. Bill from Cleveland says, Hey, great show.

2126
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:49,160
Speaker 2: Rich.

2127
01:41:49,240 --> 01:41:52,400
Speaker 1: You mentioned quite often the latest data stealing scams, apps

2128
01:41:52,479 --> 01:41:54,600
Speaker 1: and sites, but at the same time you tend to

2129
01:41:54,640 --> 01:41:57,320
Speaker 1: recommend products such as any Google product as a solution.

2130
01:41:58,080 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 1: Recently you spoke about alternatives to Verise and Plus and

2131
01:42:00,560 --> 01:42:04,400
Speaker 1: recommended Google Voice. Google products are aimed squarely at sucking

2132
01:42:04,479 --> 01:42:06,680
Speaker 1: up as much data as possible. We live in a

2133
01:42:06,720 --> 01:42:08,679
Speaker 1: world where we have almost no privacy, so the little

2134
01:42:08,760 --> 01:42:11,200
Speaker 1: we do have we should probably protect. Love the show,

2135
01:42:11,200 --> 01:42:13,839
Speaker 1: and it'd be great to recommend more privacy centered solutions

2136
01:42:13,880 --> 01:42:14,439
Speaker 1: in the future.

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Speaker 2: Bill, Thanks for that.

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01:42:15,680 --> 01:42:17,960
Speaker 1: I actually recommended Google Messages, not Google Voice, but I

2139
01:42:18,000 --> 01:42:19,000
Speaker 1: also like Google Voice.

2140
01:42:20,040 --> 01:42:20,200
Speaker 4: You know.

2141
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Speaker 1: Look, I do think I talk about privacy a lot

2142
01:42:22,400 --> 01:42:25,880
Speaker 1: and recommend that. But you gotta you know, if you're

2143
01:42:25,920 --> 01:42:28,040
Speaker 1: not paying for something, you are the product, and so

2144
01:42:28,200 --> 01:42:29,720
Speaker 1: you just have to understand that with some of these

2145
01:42:29,800 --> 01:42:31,400
Speaker 1: Google things. But I do I think I put a

2146
01:42:31,439 --> 01:42:35,240
Speaker 1: fair amount of work into the privacy stuff. Uh Don

2147
01:42:35,439 --> 01:42:38,320
Speaker 1: writes in thanks for the overview on budgeting apps. I

2148
01:42:38,439 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 1: paid for a year of Monarch money, but it can't

2149
01:42:40,360 --> 01:42:43,200
Speaker 1: connect to my regional bank, so it lost its ability

2150
01:42:43,280 --> 01:42:45,880
Speaker 1: to connect to two investment accounts, which pretty much makes

2151
01:42:45,920 --> 01:42:48,040
Speaker 1: the service useless to me, so I won't be renewing.

2152
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Speaker 2: Empower's been pretty good, and.

2153
01:42:49,920 --> 01:42:52,760
Speaker 1: As a Fidelity customer, I'm using the full View program now,

2154
01:42:52,800 --> 01:42:55,120
Speaker 1: which I didn't know existed until you mentioned it. I

2155
01:42:55,200 --> 01:42:57,360
Speaker 1: think the edge goes to Empower because it links to

2156
01:42:57,439 --> 01:42:59,960
Speaker 1: more accounts and can pull in a zilo estimate automatic

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Speaker 1: rather than having to enter it manually in full View.

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Speaker 2: Keep up the great work.

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Speaker 1: James from Inverness, who listens on WXJB, says thanks so much.

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Speaker 1: I listen to your program every week and enjoy it.

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Speaker 1: When I can't listen live, I definitely listen to your

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Speaker 1: podcast and oh we got more. Andrew from San Diego

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Speaker 1: listens on the radio AM six forty on Saturday and

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Speaker 1: six hundred on Sunday in San Diego. Love your radio show.

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Speaker 1: You're so informative, friendly, easygoing and trustworthy for a novice

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Speaker 1: novice novice like me loved your show about all the

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Speaker 1: brick and mortar electronics stores that used to exist. And

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Speaker 1: Stephanie finally writes in hey, Rich, I was able to

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Speaker 1: shock someone recently with a tip you shared some time ago.

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Speaker 1: I showed a friend coworker how to exchange phone numbers

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Speaker 1: with our iPhones. Just by touching the two iPhones together.

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Speaker 1: He was freaking out. Thanks for all the tips to

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Speaker 1: keep my back pocket for times like this. And we

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Speaker 1: did get more emails about the electronics stores and things

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Speaker 1: like that, but I'm gonna have to hold those until

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Speaker 1: a later date. But apparently you like to talk about

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Speaker 1: the old days, so do I. That's gonna do it

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Speaker 1: for this episode of the show. You can find links

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Speaker 1: to everything I mentioned on my website. Just go to

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Speaker 1: richon tech dot TV hop on the newsletter. If you're

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Speaker 1: not there, you can find me on social media. I

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Speaker 1: am at rich on Tech. Coming up next week, got

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Speaker 1: a cool interview. Patrick O'Neill is going to join us.

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Speaker 1: He is an entrepreneur. Remember those oloclips, those little lenses

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Speaker 1: you would attach to your iPhone before they had the

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Speaker 1: ultra wide lens and all those telephoto lenses built into

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Speaker 1: the iPhone.

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Speaker 2: He invented those. He's going to be here to talk

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Speaker 2: about his latest creation.

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for listening. There are so many ways

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Speaker 1: you can spend your time. I do appreciate you spending

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Speaker 1: it right here with me. Thanks to everyone who.

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Speaker 2: Makes this show possible, including Adam filling in. I'm rich

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Speaker 2: Timiro talk to you soon.