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Speaker 1: A breakdown of Apple's announcements on iPhone twelve and home

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Speaker 1: pod Mini, the best deals on the iPhone twelve, a

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Speaker 1: helpful math app, plus your tech questions answered.

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 1: I'm Rich Damiro and this is Rich on Tech, the

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Speaker 1: podcast where I talk about the tech stuff I think

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Speaker 1: you should know about. It's also where I answer the

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Speaker 1: questions that you send me. In case you don't know

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Speaker 1: who I am. I'm the tech reporter at KTLA Channel

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Speaker 1: five in Los Angeles. Thanks so much for tuning me

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Speaker 1: in today. Hope you're having a great day. Can you

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Speaker 1: believe we've been doing this pandemic thing for this long.

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Speaker 1: It's my seven month work from home anniversary, seven months

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Speaker 1: in this little studio in my house that I set

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Speaker 1: up overnight thinking this would all be done in like

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Speaker 1: two or three weeks. I don't know what I was

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Speaker 1: thinking at the time, because now when I think back,

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Speaker 1: it's like, what did I think would change in two

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Speaker 1: or three weeks. There's been a lot of gadgets, lots

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Speaker 1: and lots of gadgets. It is really the time of

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Speaker 1: the year when just so many things come out. I've

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Speaker 1: been talking about a lot of them on this show

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Speaker 1: phones galore. So this week I've been playing with a

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Speaker 1: Pixel five, which I actually put my SIM card into

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Speaker 1: and I don't really do that for a lot of phones,

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Speaker 1: but I really wanted to see, like could I make

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Speaker 1: this my phone? And I think the answer is no. Sadly,

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Speaker 1: what else have I've been playing with the one plus

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Speaker 1: eight T so the Pixel five we talked about on

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Speaker 1: the show, it's kind of like the Pixel four A

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Speaker 1: four A five G. I'd actually recommend that phone, I

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Speaker 1: think for more people or most people, because it's got

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Speaker 1: a bigger screen and even though it doesn't have the

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Speaker 2: The other thing it doesn't have? Has a headphone. See,

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Speaker 2: this is weird.

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Speaker 1: It's got a bigger screen, it has a headphone jack,

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Speaker 1: but there's no wireless charging, and there there's no water resistance,

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Speaker 1: and then there's a little bit less RAM.

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Speaker 2: So it's just kind of a weird thing.

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Speaker 1: Like you would think the bigger phone would be more powerful, better,

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Speaker 2: So the Pixel five has been great. I like it.

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Speaker 1: I think it's nice, but it's tiny, tiny, tiny in

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Speaker 1: my hands. After going from the iPhone eleven Pro Max

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Speaker 1: and my wife looked at the pictures I took last

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Speaker 1: night at the beach, and she goes, Eh, what phone

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Speaker 1: did you use last night? I don't like those pictures,

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Speaker 1: so that's a bad sign if she doesn't like them.

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Speaker 1: And I feel like the pixel is frozen in time.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anything's changed on it in three years,

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Speaker 1: Like the camera just feels like the same exact camera

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Speaker 1: that we had three years ago, and so that's kind

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Speaker 1: of weird. But I do like the price, and I

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Speaker 1: think if you like small phones, when it comes to

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Speaker 1: Android phones, it's probably one of the best because it

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Speaker 1: I just have to hand it to the pixel. Out

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Speaker 1: There's just no thought. So if your kid is making

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Speaker 1: the first time, whether whereas you know the Samsung's and

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Speaker 1: the one pluses of the world, you got to take

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Speaker 1: So and in low light two the pixel is just

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Speaker 1: really really good. Although I just feel like I'm spoiled

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Speaker 1: This is a kind of a head scratcher because as

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Speaker 1: I was going through my meeting with them and kind

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Speaker 1: so there's no wireless charging on this one and there's

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Speaker 1: So it's like this weird kinda I don't know. But

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Speaker 1: But it's just I don't know. It's like and the

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Speaker 1: But it's a seven hundred and fifty dollars phone. It's

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we got lots of stuff to kind of

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Speaker 1: But I will say, out of the three sort of

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Speaker 1: So anyway, I think you're just depending on your preferences,

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Speaker 1: to talk about the big news of the week, and

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Speaker 1: that is the iPhone. Apple finally gave us the info

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Speaker 1: on the iPhone twelve, so I'll go over the iPhone

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Speaker 1: twelve and twelve Mini. Actually, you know, I'll probably just

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Speaker 1: do all four of them right now.

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Speaker 2: So there's four.

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Speaker 1: There's two main models, and then within those models, there's

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Speaker 1: else do you need to know about those phones? Oh,

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Speaker 1: it's got the ceramics shield, so this is like a

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Speaker 1: it only cracked four out of the ten times. It's

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Speaker 1: just you drop it once in a crack. That's all

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Speaker 2: What else?

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Speaker 1: It comes in four colors or five colors rather blue, green, black, white, red.

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Speaker 1: And again you've got the regular and the mini. So

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Speaker 1: really small to me. Pricing is six ninety nine, seven

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Speaker 2: Basically, it's it's just better.

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Speaker 1: Of course, it's faster, and oh it also has this

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Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the big brothers or sisters, the

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Speaker 1: iPhone twelve Pro and the iPhone twelve Pro Max. Now,

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Speaker 1: originally I thought these were the same phone, just different sizes.

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Speaker 1: But I did the Brian Tong's podcast Apple Bits XL

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Speaker 1: have that as well. Four colors here, Graphite silver, gold

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Speaker 1: was like, you're getting quadrupleed the storage, but for you know,

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Speaker 1: So finally it's one twenty eight based storage. My pick

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Speaker 1: which is my personal favorite. It's the one that I use.

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Speaker 1: It gives you access to your full credit report. In

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Speaker 1: addition to your score, it also alerts you about changes,

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Speaker 1: and it gives you up to date information because your

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Speaker 1: score is refreshed on.

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Speaker 2: A daily basis.

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Speaker 1: It also gives you a credit analysis plus a look

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Speaker 1: at the credit cards that you'll likely get approved for,

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Speaker 1: so I like the wallet Hub the best out of

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Speaker 1: all three of these, but they all, like I said,

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Speaker 1: I mean, they all offer sort of different things. I

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Speaker 1: would not sign up for all of them because you

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Speaker 1: don't want your information out there, you know, as much

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Speaker 1: as possible. Now, if you just want your credit report, Melba,

449
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Speaker 1: like you were mentioning, you can just go to Annualcreditreport

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Speaker 1: dot com that is run by the three major agencies.

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Speaker 1: And I believe, like you know, the law kind of

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Speaker 1: makes this. They have to do this. This was a

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Speaker 1: law that they passed. But oh wow, look at this

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Speaker 1: during the times. Sorry, just eight before this show, so

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Speaker 1: I'm like breathing heavy in this mic.

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Speaker 2: Sorry about that.

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Speaker 1: During these times of COVID nineteen, accessing your credit, assessing

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Speaker 1: accessing your credit is important. That's why Equifox, Experience, and

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Speaker 1: TransUnion are now offering weekly online reports. So and Melbur

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Speaker 1: you said to write in, I would just go on

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Speaker 1: the website. Make sure you go to the right website,

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Speaker 1: Annualcreditreport dot com, and you can request your free credit

463
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Speaker 1: reports and it takes just a minute, and you put

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Speaker 1: in your information and you will get what you need

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Speaker 1: and you can kind of look through those. But again,

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Speaker 1: I would also, i you know, sign up for one

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Speaker 1: of the other ones as well. The websites and those

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Speaker 1: are a good way to kind of keep tabs on things.

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Speaker 1: But good question. Let's move on to another Apple announcement,

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Speaker 1: HomePod Mini. This was not really a surprise if you

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Speaker 1: were following the rumors, but you know, a couple of

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Speaker 1: years ago, Apple launched a HomePod, which was a very

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Speaker 1: expensive speaker for the home. I don't even know if

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Speaker 1: i'd call it a smart speaker because it was really

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Speaker 1: just a music speaker that had Siri and then you know,

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Speaker 1: eventually got some podcasts and stuff like that. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it was supposed to be smart, but it just Apple

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Speaker 1: does not really do a lot with the smart home

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Speaker 1: right now.

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Speaker 2: They're trying, I know.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, the HomePod Mini is three point three inches tall.

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Speaker 1: It's small, and the best thing about it is the

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Speaker 1: price ninety nine dollars. It'll be available in white and

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Speaker 1: space gray, and it does work with various services, Apple Music, podcasts,

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Speaker 1: radio stations from iHeartRadio radio dot Com, tune in, also

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Speaker 1: Pandora and Amazon Music coming soon.

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Speaker 2: So what does that tell you?

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Speaker 1: It shows that Apple is actually trying to work with

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Speaker 1: some of these third party services instead of just pushing

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Speaker 1: everyone to Apple Music, which was basically what the first

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Speaker 1: one did. Well, now you can use these other services.

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Speaker 1: But did you notice there is one big thing missing

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Speaker 1: That is Spotify and Apple. Apple has a lot of friends,

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Speaker 1: but they also have a lot of enemies, Spotify being

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Speaker 1: one of them, what is epic with Fortnite being another one.

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Speaker 1: Google their sort of frenemies. With Amazon they've cozied up to.

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Speaker 1: There's a long time when you could not buy Apple

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Speaker 1: stuff officially on Amazon. Then they sort of came to

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Speaker 1: terms and now you can, so that's good.

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Speaker 2: Who else.

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Speaker 1: Microsoft they're good friends with. They've actually really cozied up

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Speaker 1: to Microsoft. They probably don't see them as a really

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Speaker 1: big challenger because they don't have any phone or search

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Speaker 1: engine or anything like that.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, the HomePod Mini looks p cool.

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Speaker 1: I think it's probably going to be one of the

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Speaker 1: hottest gifts this holiday season because it's so simple. Oh,

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Speaker 1: this person has an iPhone, I can buy them a

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Speaker 1: home Pod Mini for ninety nine bucks and maybe discounted

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Speaker 1: a little bit over the holidays. You know, these companies

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Speaker 1: work in a little bit of like you know, a

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Speaker 1: little bit of room. It's like when you get your coffee,

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Speaker 1: you know, they say, oh.

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Speaker 2: Do you want a little room for cream?

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Speaker 1: Sure, and they always leave a ton of room for

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Speaker 1: some reason. How much cream do people put in their coffee?

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Speaker 1: But it's kind of like the pricing on these gadgets,

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Speaker 1: especially during the holidays.

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Speaker 2: They leave a little room for the cream, and that cream.

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Speaker 1: Is the discounts they know that are inevitably going to

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Speaker 1: happen over the holidays, and so they still make their profits,

522
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Speaker 1: but you feel like you're getting a better deal even

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Speaker 1: though they kind of had the idea that these things

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Speaker 1: might be discounted. That's kind of what I see with now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Apple's going to discount the HomePod Mini.

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Speaker 1: I think the third party retailers will, like the best

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Speaker 1: buys of the world. You'll go in there for you

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Speaker 1: know something, and oh you can you can bundle a

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Speaker 1: home Pod Mini for an extra eighty nine bucks. I

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Speaker 1: think that'll be the price, by the way, not anything

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Speaker 1: less than that. What else, It's got some interesting little

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Speaker 1: features that are going to either you know, be out

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Speaker 1: of the gate or eventually coming. But it'll work with

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Speaker 1: Apple devices, so you can pick up an incoming call

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Speaker 1: on it, listen to music on the Mac or.

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Speaker 2: Use your Apple TV with them.

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Speaker 1: You can also listen to music on the iPhone and

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Speaker 1: then bring your device close to the Mini and it'll

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Speaker 1: hand off the music without missing a beat.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of cool. This is kind of neat too.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna when you hold your iPhone near your home potter,

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Speaker 1: if it's close to it, your iPhone will show personalized

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Speaker 1: listening suggestions without even having to unlock your phone. That's

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Speaker 1: actually a really cool thing because when I come home.

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Speaker 1: When I used to come home from work before I

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Speaker 1: just you know, stayed home all the time, there was

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Speaker 1: a cool thing where, you know, I would always just

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Speaker 1: turn on the same music every day when I came

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Speaker 1: home on Sono's and it was a whole big thing.

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Speaker 1: You'd have to unlock your phone, you got to open

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Speaker 1: the so nosapp, you have to group the speakers, and

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Speaker 1: then you gotta, you know, pick the music you want.

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Speaker 1: And this seems a lot easier. Then they have this

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Speaker 1: intercom feature, which is really cool. You basically say something.

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00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:06,240
Speaker 1: You can send an intercom message from one home pod

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Speaker 1: to another that's in a different room or multiple rooms,

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00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,920
Speaker 1: and the voice plays on the various speakers. It also

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Speaker 1: works on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay, so if

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Speaker 1: you want even yeah like AirPods, Like if your kid

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Speaker 1: has the AirPods in, you can say dinner's ready and

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00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: it will broadcast every one of your things, no matter

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Speaker 1: where your family is. That's really cool. Then there's ambient sounds.

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00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:33,239
Speaker 1: They've got rain, fireplace stream and more. And you can

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Speaker 1: set a sleep timer so they stop playing. Automatically Find

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Speaker 1: my helps you locate your missing iPhone, iPad, iPod, touch

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Speaker 1: and all your good stuff.

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Speaker 2: My kids do that all the time.

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Speaker 1: They will ask their iPad where the other one is,

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Speaker 1: which I don't even know you could do that, but

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Speaker 1: they say, hey, where's you know, the other iPad and

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00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: it'll chime. Then you've got web search results from HomePod

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00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:56,320
Speaker 1: Mini can be sent to your iPhone for easy viewing

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Speaker 1: musical arms and that kind of reminds me of like

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Speaker 1: Google Assistant. I still think the Google Assistant is probably

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Speaker 1: a better thing, but so many people have iPhones. This

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Speaker 1: is going to be a real no brainer for that ecosystem.

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Speaker 1: HomePod Mini, like I said, white and Space gray, ninety

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Speaker 1: nine bucks. It'll be available on November sixteenth. Let's get

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Speaker 1: to another question. Uh, Marcia or is it Marcia?

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Speaker 2: Marcia? Is it Marcia or Marcia? I've been a longtime

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Speaker 2: fan of the show. I have a question.

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Speaker 1: My mom, who's in her seventies, lives alone and has

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Speaker 1: been having some issues with balance, especially stepping in and

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Speaker 1: out of the bathtub.

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Speaker 2: I was thinking of buying either a few.

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Speaker 1: Apple Home Pods, oh, look at that, Google Nests or

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Speaker 1: Amazon Echoes to place around her house. I'm looking for

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Speaker 1: devices she could use to voice activate, calling a family

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Speaker 1: member if she fell, or nine one one if needed.

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Speaker 2: I know you're probably going to.

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Speaker 1: Suggest the Apple Watch for fall detection, but I'm looking

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Speaker 1: for something else, as she doesn't always have her watch,

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Speaker 1: she might not have her iPhone nearby to U Siri.

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Speaker 1: Which product might think better? Do you might think be better?

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00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 1: Is there another solution that you might recommend. I would

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Speaker 1: recommend Alexa because Alexa has a feature called call for Help,

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00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: which is specifically for sort of emergencies. It's not gonna

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Speaker 1: call nine one. None of these things will call nine

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Speaker 1: one one, at least not right now. But Alexa does

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Speaker 1: have a call for help feature that you set a

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Speaker 1: person like a family member as the emergency contact and

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00:29:32,440 --> 00:29:36,040
Speaker 1: it will call that person. So again, cannot call nine

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Speaker 1: one one. That is not right now in the cards,

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00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:42,719
Speaker 1: I don't think. But you can do this emergency contact,

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00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 1: which is call for help. And that's kind of a

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00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,320
Speaker 1: natural thing to say. If you did fall and you

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00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,120
Speaker 1: couldn't get up, you would just say a call for

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Speaker 1: help and you know, call a family member. And so

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Speaker 1: I think that's probably your best bet. And if you

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Speaker 1: really want to outfit your mom's house, you've got you know.

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Speaker 1: The Echo Dot was nineteen dollars over Prime Day and

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Speaker 1: so you can. I paid thirty on a non Prime day.

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Speaker 1: I think it retails for fifty, but don't ever pay that,

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Speaker 1: especially during the holidays. They give out these things like candy.

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00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,360
Speaker 1: But yeah, just buy a couple Echo Dots and put

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Speaker 1: them around and make sure you set up that future.

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00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: I actually have a video on how to do it

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Speaker 1: on YouTube. If you just google how to set up

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Speaker 1: the new Alexa call for help feature rich DeMuro or

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Speaker 1: rich on Tech, it will come up and show you

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Speaker 1: how to do that. It's pretty simple. I've tested it

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Speaker 1: out here. It also texts them as well, and so.

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Speaker 2: Wait does it text them?

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Speaker 1: It's been a while since I did the video, but

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Speaker 1: I think it does text them and that's uh, that's

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Speaker 1: part of it.

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Speaker 2: Do I have it? You know that.

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Speaker 1: Alexa emergency contact Now.

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Speaker 2: That's so that's what that's how it works for help.

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Speaker 1: It's a brand new and potentially life saving feature, but

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Speaker 1: you have to set it up first.

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Speaker 3: Here's how calling your emergency contact now.

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Speaker 1: To start the name use this feature. And it's not

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Speaker 1: a text message. It does send a text message. Yep, okay,

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00:31:03,640 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 1: so it does. So, yeah, that's that's what I would do.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think that's going to be the easiest

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Speaker 1: way to do it. And again, like I said, it's

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Speaker 1: so inexpensive and simple that that's that's the way to go.

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Speaker 2: Good question.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I should mention, by the way, depending on when

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Speaker 1: you listen to this, I will be doing a panel

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Speaker 1: for KRO, which is an organization focused on advancing sort

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Speaker 1: of the quality of the lives of seniors. So it's

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00:31:31,720 --> 00:31:34,360
Speaker 1: all about doing stuff for seniors. And I will be

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00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 1: speaking at their symposium this year, which is virtual on

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00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,160
Speaker 1: October twenty fourth, and it's totally free this year because

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00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: it is virtual.

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Speaker 2: Last year it was.

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Speaker 1: A big event, a big, big event in gosh Long

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Speaker 1: Beach and it was great. A lot of people came

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00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:50,800
Speaker 1: up to me afterwards. We talked about robots and all

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Speaker 1: this stuff. So I'm leading this on Zoom and I'll

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Speaker 1: be going through all this stuff so exactly what I

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Speaker 1: just did in that question. My symposium thing is called

655
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Speaker 1: Innovative Ways to Stay Connected. So I'm gonna look at robots,

656
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:06,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at Alex, I'm gonna look at all

657
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:10,920
Speaker 1: the Amazon Show, all those things that you know, the

658
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Speaker 1: HomePod everything. I gotta add the HomePod Mini to my

659
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 1: presentation now because that's brand new. But I'm gonna talk

660
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Speaker 1: about all that stuff and all the apps and all

661
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: the video chatting stuff and Zoom and so if you

662
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Speaker 1: are curious for your family members or yourself.

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Speaker 2: You you know, tune in and it's free.

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Speaker 1: You just have to sign up before so oh, registration

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Speaker 1: closes on October twenty second.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, check it out.

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Speaker 1: It's a kro dot org k e I r O

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Speaker 1: dot org. Of course I will link it up in

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Speaker 1: the show notes. All right, this is a really neat

670
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Speaker 1: app that I did a segment on KTLA about and

671
00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: I did it on my Facebook page and my Instagram

672
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: and my YouTube. My YouTube is really sad because I don't.

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Speaker 1: I've never I've never gotten followers on YouTube, Like I've

674
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Speaker 1: never tried.

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Speaker 2: To build that.

676
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Speaker 1: So it's really funny to me that, like I can

677
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Speaker 1: post the same exact video to YouTube and get three

678
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Speaker 1: hundred views that I can post to Instagram or Facebook

679
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:10,920
Speaker 1: and get you know, tens of thousands of views, and

680
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: so it's just kind of funny. But I've never I

681
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: don't advertise my YouTube. I just put it out there people.

682
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Speaker 2: That find it.

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Speaker 1: Sure, it's great, and it has been growing over the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: I may have twenty thousand followers there, so that's cool,

685
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: but I don't. It's not a thing like I don't

686
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,000
Speaker 1: have a relationship with those people. It's not like I'm

687
00:33:27,000 --> 00:33:29,400
Speaker 1: sitting there like a YouTuber like doing a video every week.

688
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: You know, maybe one day, but not right now.

689
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Speaker 1: And so you know, my primary focus is TV because

690
00:33:35,560 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's my job. The social media stuff

691
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: is just fun and I love it because I can

692
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:43,440
Speaker 1: interact with people in a real time basis and so,

693
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:45,720
Speaker 1: you know, and I have grown a following on Facebook

694
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Speaker 1: and Instagram. But anyway, I digress. The photo math is

695
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Speaker 1: a video or an app that solves math problems. And

696
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,640
Speaker 1: this is really cool because I know kids can cheat

697
00:33:57,720 --> 00:34:00,440
Speaker 1: with it. Don't worry about your kids cheating, worry about

698
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: how this can teach them how to do the math

699
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Speaker 1: problems that you may have problems with, or you may

700
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Speaker 1: have an issue with, or you need some help figuring

701
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:11,280
Speaker 1: them out. But it's really neat. It uses AI to

702
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,480
Speaker 1: snap a picture. You snap a picture of it with

703
00:34:13,560 --> 00:34:17,040
Speaker 1: your phone and instantly it, you know, figures out what

704
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,360
Speaker 1: the problem is and it shows you, step by step

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Speaker 1: how to solve it. Now there is a caveat here.

706
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: The step by step stuff is just okay. If you

707
00:34:25,280 --> 00:34:28,040
Speaker 1: don't pay, it's like pretty simple. But if you pay,

708
00:34:28,280 --> 00:34:31,000
Speaker 1: which is anywhere from ten dollars a month to sixty

709
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: bucks for the year, obviously you you know, you pay

710
00:34:33,719 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 1: less depending on how much an advance you pay, but

711
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: or how much you prepay, I should say, but it's

712
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,560
Speaker 1: really really cool to watch the I sign up for

713
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: the Plus as a you know, free trial, and it's

714
00:34:45,280 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: just so cool to watch the animations because it brings

715
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Speaker 1: back the concepts of math that I have forgotten.

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Speaker 2: And I explained this in the video.

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Speaker 1: But you know, if you had to do something like,

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Speaker 1: you know four fourteen divided by two, You could figure

719
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,640
Speaker 1: that out in you know, two seconds in your head

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Speaker 1: that that's two oh seven.

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Speaker 2: Right. Let me just let me just make sure that

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Speaker 2: I got that right, because I don't want to.

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Speaker 1: Four to fourteen DIVI two, Yeah is two oh seven, Okay,

724
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Speaker 1: just making sure I don't want to say that. And

725
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:15,319
Speaker 1: then it's like, Rich, what are you talking about? But

726
00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: this will show you how to do it. Remember long division,

727
00:35:19,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: like you have to write all these like I forgot

728
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: how to do that until this app showed me. The

729
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: app does all kinds of problems, from algebra to basic math.

730
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Speaker 1: It does common core, which I know in California is

731
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,120
Speaker 1: a big deal. I don't really get it because that's

732
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 1: not how I was raised, but it somehow is the

733
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Speaker 1: weird way they do math nowadays. This solves one point

734
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Speaker 1: five billion math problems monthly, and it's not new. Don't say, Rich,

735
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,160
Speaker 1: I can't believe you're telling me about apps that have

736
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: been around forever.

737
00:35:50,080 --> 00:35:51,239
Speaker 2: You know nothing.

738
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Speaker 1: I'm smarter than the tech guy. Yeah, I get those emails,

739
00:35:56,040 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: but this isn't. Look I'm just telling you something when

740
00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:00,520
Speaker 1: I looked it up in my email. Yes, I had

741
00:36:00,520 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: downloaded this app like years ago, but you know, there's

742
00:36:04,320 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: always new people coming on board the rich On tech train,

743
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,880
Speaker 1: so I want to bring you guys on board and

744
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 1: tell you what's going on. And even if you weren't

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00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: following me five years ago when I first might have

746
00:36:12,480 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: mentioned this. Anyway, It's called Photomath. It's available for iOS

747
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:16,160
Speaker 1: and Android.

748
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:19,040
Speaker 2: Check it out. It is really really cool.

749
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Speaker 1: Gail asks, is it best to turn off my home

750
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:30,319
Speaker 1: PC when I'm not using it? I usually only use

751
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:32,480
Speaker 1: for a few hours in the morning, turn it off

752
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:34,319
Speaker 1: and go to work. I have a desktop Windows ten

753
00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 1: PC with an external backup hard drive. What do you suggest, thanks, Gail. Well, Gail,

754
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Speaker 1: first off, you get a star.

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00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:43,879
Speaker 2: You know what.

756
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,520
Speaker 1: One of these days, one of these days, I will

757
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:52,200
Speaker 1: remember what these sounds are assigned to on my soundboard.

758
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,920
Speaker 1: My friend Balb Brian would be so ashamed of me

759
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,839
Speaker 1: if he ever heard this podcast. And thankfully he does

760
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:02,320
Speaker 1: not tune in because he's not interested in anything I

761
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:05,840
Speaker 1: do professionally. But he, you know, he does sound for

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00:37:05,840 --> 00:37:08,640
Speaker 1: the Adam Kroller Show, and he, you know, has a

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00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 1: million sounds at his disposal and his whole thing. I

764
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:12,520
Speaker 1: mean he's made a living on the fact that he

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00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:15,799
Speaker 1: comes up with these really good sounds very fast, and

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Speaker 1: I can't even get four sounds right. There we go, So, Gail,

767
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:22,920
Speaker 1: you get the gold star for using an external backup

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00:37:22,960 --> 00:37:23,399
Speaker 1: hard drive.

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Speaker 2: I love that you're backing up your computer.

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00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 1: But when it comes to turning off your computer every day,

771
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,600
Speaker 1: I would say, no way. You don't want to turn

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00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: off your computer every day. These computers are meant to

773
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 1: stay on, especially at desktop. It can stay on forever

774
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: until you need to restart it for a software update.

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00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:42,359
Speaker 1: It's not I think that the power use is negligible,

776
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: and I think that the bigger thing you should be

777
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: concerned about is the majority of times that a hard

778
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: drive is going to fail is upon startup. So if

779
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: you're doing that every day, not very good. So I

780
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: would leave it on. Make sure you check your settings

781
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,239
Speaker 1: in the energy panel, and make sure that you have

782
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: your you know, hard drive go to sleep, and your

783
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:05,840
Speaker 1: computer monitor and all that stuff go off after a

784
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 1: certain amount of time of non use or you know,

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00:38:09,120 --> 00:38:10,799
Speaker 1: go to sleep after a certain amount of time of

786
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: unused or non use, and that I think is a

787
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 1: better way, and you can let me know. I mean

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Speaker 1: maybe that's my answer. Now, you know, maybe you have

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00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,960
Speaker 1: a better answer. But I don't ever turn off my laptop.

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Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever turned it off in you know,

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00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:26,719
Speaker 1: in ten years. I've had different laptops. But I'm just

792
00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,719
Speaker 1: saying I don't ever power it down. The only time

793
00:38:28,760 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: I power it down is if I'm going on vacation

794
00:38:31,120 --> 00:38:33,759
Speaker 1: and I'm leaving it home, I will power it down.

795
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: And so I think you should do that too. But otherwise,

796
00:38:36,040 --> 00:38:39,560
Speaker 1: now leave your computer on during the week and it

797
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:44,600
Speaker 1: should be just fine. Now on Google, you can hum

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00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:48,640
Speaker 1: to search. Google introduce a new feature that lets you hum, whistle,

799
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,920
Speaker 1: or sing a melody to the Google app, which will

800
00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,960
Speaker 1: then figure out the song. That's kind of cool. Let's see.

801
00:38:55,160 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 1: Let's see if I can do this. I have my

802
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,320
Speaker 1: phone right here with Google Assistant.

803
00:38:58,400 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 2: Let's try it.

804
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 3: M m mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmmm.

805
00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: Okay, that did not work at all. Okay, what what's

806
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: another song? Oh, let's try another one.

807
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: Here we go.

808
00:39:17,160 --> 00:39:23,280
Speaker 3: Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

809
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,840
Speaker 1: Oh okay, I see what's happening here. You have to

810
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:29,400
Speaker 1: see that's a problem.

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Speaker 2: Let's try this. There we go.

812
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:40,240
Speaker 3: Mm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm mmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmm mm hmmmmmmmmmmm.

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00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: Okay, we're waiting there. Okay, it did not get that.

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00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:50,919
Speaker 1: Okay, So here's how you have to do it, because

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Speaker 1: that that was the first time I've ever done that.

816
00:39:52,920 --> 00:39:55,359
Speaker 1: You have to tap the voice search and then start

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Speaker 1: humming and it will recognize that you're making some sort

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Speaker 1: of noise and then it will say, do you want

819
00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,879
Speaker 1: to search a song? You tap that little button there

820
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:06,759
Speaker 1: and then you start humming more. You got to sing

821
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 1: for ten to fifteen seconds. According to this Variety article,

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Speaker 1: it did not work. It said los manyati los minyatas,

823
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Speaker 1: which I mean I assumed that you figured out I

824
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Speaker 1: was singing Happy Birthday. Let me try another one. Ready,

825
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Speaker 1: I'll do We're other world.

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Speaker 3: M mmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Speaker 2: Oh look at that, it got it.

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Speaker 1: We are the world USA for Africa twenty three percent match.

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Speaker 2: Good job Google.

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Speaker 1: That is amazing. Now I think that's cool. But I mean,

831
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Speaker 1: this has been around for a long time. Have you

832
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Speaker 1: ever heard of an app called SoundHound? Now, I know

833
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Speaker 1: that Shazam captured the popular attention, but SoundHound was always

834
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:06,880
Speaker 1: out there, and SoundHound was I always thought better than Shazam. Shazam,

835
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Speaker 1: by the way, was purchased by Apple and it's now

836
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: built into iOS fourteen. But I always thought SoundHound was

837
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Speaker 1: cool because it had a slight edge over Shazam. And

838
00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:22,120
Speaker 1: the thing about Shazam that's a little bit different that

839
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,560
Speaker 1: you might not know is that Shazam has to be

840
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:27,239
Speaker 1: sort of programmed to listen to these songs, like to

841
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:32,920
Speaker 1: understand these songs, whereas SoundHound you could hum something and

842
00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 1: it would figure it out. And so anyway, I think

843
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: Shazam has to be fingerprinted. That's the word, right, Like

844
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Speaker 1: the song has to be fingerprinted for it to be recognized.

845
00:41:43,239 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 1: But anyway, it's still cool that it's built into Google.

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00:41:46,719 --> 00:41:48,960
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't think Google bought this, but.

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Speaker 2: That's it. There you go.

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Speaker 1: Features currently available in English on iOS and in more

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Speaker 1: than twenty languages on Android. Humm to search is also

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00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,880
Speaker 1: available through Google Assistant, which is what I just tried.

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00:42:01,360 --> 00:42:04,440
Speaker 2: But pretty neat one more way to search Google. They

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00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 2: are so smart. Let's see.

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Speaker 1: Matthew says, good afternoon, Oh, good afternoon, Rich. I'm in

854
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:17,720
Speaker 1: the process of buying a new home. I know, during

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00:42:18,000 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: a pandemic. That's crazy. My wife and I are trying

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00:42:20,640 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: to think of Prime day deals. Oh I'm a little

857
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: late on this. That will serve me well in the

858
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: coming months as we transition from an apartment to an

859
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:30,560
Speaker 1: actual home. We saw that the Ring Alarm fourteen piece

860
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:33,600
Speaker 1: kit second generation with Echo Dot is on sale, which

861
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:35,320
Speaker 1: seems like a great deal. Do you know if this

862
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 1: is their newest model or if they plan to update it.

863
00:42:37,719 --> 00:42:39,440
Speaker 1: Should I wait for a new system or pull the

864
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 1: trigger on this one? Ring seems like a great system.

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Speaker 1: I am excited to add the always Home drone to

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Speaker 1: the system when it launches next year. Really love the

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Speaker 1: podcast in your enthusiasm during this dark year, Matt, Well,

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Speaker 1: thank you, Matt. I do try to stay enthusiastic, but

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Speaker 1: I'll be honest, some days it is really tough. You know,

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Speaker 1: Like some days I wake up and I feel like

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Speaker 1: I can take on the world. Other days I wake

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Speaker 1: up and I just want to crawl under a rock.

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Speaker 1: So I'm like, is this really still happening? So if

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Speaker 1: that's happening to you, I think that is perfectly normal.

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Speaker 1: Now I am a little bit more enthusiastic than the

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Speaker 1: next guy or the next person.

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Speaker 2: In general.

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Speaker 1: I've always been like that, you know, I kind of

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Speaker 1: roll out of bed with a spring in my step,

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Speaker 1: and you know, just kind of like see things a

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Speaker 1: little bit more positively than some people. But this has

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Speaker 1: been a true, true test of my positivity and enthusiasm.

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Speaker 1: Believe you me, matt On to your answer, I would say, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: one hundred percent, get the Ring Alarm. I was actually

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Speaker 1: thinking of transitioning to this myself. When I look at

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Speaker 1: the landscape of security out there, I think that Ring

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Speaker 1: has the most momentum behind them. When you look at

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Speaker 1: the gadgets that they have in their arsenal, there is

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Speaker 1: so much to choose from. They are continuing to evolve.

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Speaker 1: I know some people don't like them because they're owned

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Speaker 1: by Amazon, but don't let that distract you or deter you.

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Speaker 1: I think that the Ring Alarm system, this second gen,

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Speaker 1: which has not been out for too long, maybe a

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Speaker 1: year or two, is amazing. They've got the video doorbells down,

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Speaker 1: they invented that genre. They've got smart lighting, They've got

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Speaker 1: you know, the I mean, just so much stuff, what

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Speaker 1: else everything? I mean, they really just have so many things,

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Speaker 1: security cameras, So I think at one point I am

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Speaker 1: going to I will eventually switch over everything in my

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Speaker 1: house to Ring, just because I feel like they they've

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Speaker 1: got it going on, and I think that that's kind

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Speaker 1: of like where I want to be. Whereas the security

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Speaker 1: provider that I'm currently with, it's like it's been great,

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Speaker 1: but it's kind of like it's it's a little bit tired.

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Speaker 1: And so I think that Ring is exciting, and it's

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Speaker 1: just a matter of like sort of money. It's like

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Speaker 1: I have to decide one day to to kind of

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Speaker 1: you know, spend the money and all this stuff which

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Speaker 1: I need. The new alarm system, I need, you know,

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Speaker 1: new cameras, everything.

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Speaker 2: You gotta get all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But they have so many great cameras that stick up cams,

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. Look at this, and even with your

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Speaker 1: alarm system, you've got a flood and free sensor, smoke

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Speaker 1: and carbon dioxide listener, panic button, motion detector, the I mean,

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Speaker 1: you also have that little sensor for your mailbox.

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Speaker 2: You've got the stick up camp. You got so much

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Speaker 2: going on.

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Speaker 1: So yes, I would one hundred percent, and thank you

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Speaker 1: for your kind words and good luck with the new house.

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Speaker 2: It is a blessing. It is amazing.

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Speaker 1: It is so cool to have your own house because

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Speaker 1: you can actually do stuff that you never wanted to

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Speaker 1: do in your apartment, even though I'm still scared to

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Speaker 1: put a hole in my wall.

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Speaker 2: Oh what a fun show? Oh no, is that it already? Ah?

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Speaker 2: Why do these Why does.

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Speaker 1: This music always have to come up so fast? That

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Speaker 1: Dan cal v says, I have been listening to this

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Speaker 1: podcast for quite a while. I'm an it tech support geek.

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Speaker 1: I support the servers, workstations, printers, networks, iPhones and iPads

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Speaker 1: at work. Whenever Rich reads a tech question, I often

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Speaker 1: have a solution. It's not always the same solution, but

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Speaker 1: it's nice to hear other ideas. My solutions often involved

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Speaker 1: making changes to the registry, editing or deleting files the

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Speaker 1: average person should not touch. This show does a great

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Speaker 1: job of announcing software and gadgets that will be released soon.

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Speaker 1: His reviews helped me decide whether or not to purchase

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Speaker 1: a particular item. Keep up the great work, Dan in

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Speaker 1: Roland Heights. Dan, You're awesome. Thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: that review. Thanks for listening to the show, and please

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Speaker 1: you just kidding. You can find me at rich on Tech.

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Speaker 1: is rich Demiro. Thanks so much for listening, watching Stay Safe.

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